"Expert" On Polar Bears To Give Lecture At Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium - kdka.com

Melting ice has meant the bears must swim further and further to get to dry land, and because they're only capable of swimming 50 miles at a time, it has become a life and death situation.

"There have even been reports of them drowning because they can't find sea ice," said Kacprzyk.

Zoo patrons will get a chance to hear more about the plight of polar bears, which are down to just 20,000 worldwide, when Robert Buchanan, who isthe president and CEO of Polar Bears International, comes to town next Friday for a special reception and lecture.

As the zoo's own polar bear brothers swim nearby, Buchanan will talk about what can be done to keep the species from extinction, something that some experts predict could happen by the year 2040.

Flashback: Polar Bear Testimony Suppressed Due to 'Inconvenient' Truths | NewsBusters.org

Dr Mitchell Taylor has been researching the status and management of polar bears in Canada and around the Arctic Circle for 30 years, as both an academic and a government employee. More than once since 2006 he has made headlines by insisting that polar bear numbers, far from decreasing, are much higher than they were 30 years ago. Of the 19 different bear populations, almost all are increasing or at optimum levels, only two have for local reasons modestly declined.

American Thinker Blog: Pelosi funding accusation about mosque the same tactic used against warming skeptics

In his August 18 piece, Thomas Lifson mentions part of the logic behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi's call to investigate the funding of opposition against the Ground Zero mosque. When we also consider how the liberal left has aimed this ‘funding accusation' tactic with great success over a period of 15+ years at scientists skeptical of man-caused global warming, her otherwise bizarre suggestion sounds like something that should be no surprise.

Lobbyists pull in $17.7 million in first half of 2010 - JSOnline

The Forest County Potawatomi tribe led the way in 2010 with $1.1 million spent on lobbying in the first six months of the year - nearly twice as much as the next largest spender.

Among the tribe's priorities was supporting the global warming legislation - the focus of the most lobbying overall. Lobbyists spent 14,324 hours on companion global warming bills, which both ultimately failed to pass the Legislature in spite of a strong push from supporters including Gov. Jim Doyle.

Criminal Neglect Of Future Generations By Dr. Brian Moench

By every scientific measure greenhouse gases are heating the Earth rapidly and forcing us all to participate in a game of climate Russian roulette. In fact, Russia is one of this year's biggest losers. Temperatures 25 degrees hotter than normal, causing apocalyptic wildfires, have turned central and western Russia, including Moscow, into a ghoulish hell to rival J.R.R. Tolkien's Mordor. Death rates are double the norm from the heat and smoke, thousands have already died.
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This summer's events fit exactly the scientists' projections of more frequent and more intense extreme weather events due to global warming. Notwithstanding the Kool Aid being broadcast at Fox News, even "snowmageddon" fits into the models of a human caused climate crisis.
...Those same people seem to be unwilling to spend a fraction of that addressing what our best scientists say is a 98 in a 100 chance that CO2 is turning the climate into a global weapon of mass destruction.
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Dr. Brian Moench is President of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment. He can be reached at: drmoench@yahoo.com

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Pakistan's Foreign Minister Calls out Climate Change Skeptics | UN Dispatch

Climate change, with all its severity and unpredictability, has become a reality for 170 million Pakistanis. The present situation in Pakistan reconfirms our extreme vulnerability to the adverse impacts of climate change. It also complicates the reconstruction and rehabilitation scenario in Pakistan. Nature has made a graphic endorsement to strengthen the case for a fair and equitable outcome from the ongoing UNFCCC negotiations.

Cuccinelli Protest on Grounds at UVA - NBC29

Protestors, angry with the way Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has tried to make his case, rallied on grounds at the University of Virginia Friday afternoon.

Turnout was smaller than expected, as just a few people showed up. Organizers put the rally together to express the viewpoint of some students and faculty. They say the actions of Cuccinelli could have severe ramifications on the academic world.

White House web site has a disappearing Cap-and-Trade Act | Washington Examiner

Remember how firmly committed President Obama was to passing a cap-and-trade anti-global warming energy reform bill this year? You don't? Well, don't go looking around on the White House web site for evidence because it's been scrubbed, according to an energy and environment trade publication.
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The trade publication cited a firm that tracks web site changes to suggest that those pages on the White House web site were likely removed sometime around June 23

Climate change [scam] activist glues herself to desk in protest at RBS | Environment | The Guardian

The activist, apparently disguised as a banker, super-glued her hands to the front desk. A Climate Camp spokeswoman said: "She was arrested and an ambulance was called to facilitate removal."

Greens to Obama: Don't Forget the Climate [Scam] | Mother Jones

President Obama and his family are on Martha's Vineyard for vacation today, but green groups want to make sure he doesn’t forget his promises on climate change while he's enjoying the sunny shores. The Obamas were greeted with this two-page ad in today's Martha's Vineyard Gazette urging the president to defend the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to regulate planet-warming gases...

The Plum Line - VIDEO surfaces of Ron Johnson blaming climate change on "sunspot activity" [or something else]

[Ron Johnson, the Tea Party-backed candidate challenging Russ Feingold in Wisconsin] If you take a look at geologic time, we've had huge climate swings. We're sitting here in Wisconsin. Had it not been for climate swings, we'd be sitting on a two or three hundred foot thick glacier. Man wasn't around back then. So no, I absolutely do not believe that the science of man-caused climate change is proven. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I think it's far more likely that it's just sunspot activity, or something just in the geologic eons of time where we have changes in the climate.

The Middle Ages was an extremely warm period of time, too. It wasn't like there were tons of cars on the road. So it always strikes me as a little absurd for anybody to think, Okay, this is the sweet spot in geologic time for climate. And it's such a good place, that we have spent trillions of dollars, and do great harm to our economy, on a fool's errand. I don't think we can do anything about controlling what the climate is.

Every GOP New Hampshire Senate candidate is a global warming denier | Grist

Every single Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) is a global warming denier. Appearing at a debate hosted by the Seacoast Republican Women in Portsmouth, N.H. on Wednesday, the six candidates -- from millionaire businessmen Bill Binnie and Jim Bender to former attorney general Kelly Ayotte -- were unanimous in their denial of man-made climate change, despite the overwhelming scientific evidence and the obvious changes that have already hit New Hampshire

More from Judith Curry: She thinks RealClimate has "damaged their brand"; the IPCC was "getting pretty evangelical"

Judith Curry: On Antarctic sea ice, Climategate and skeptics | SciGuy | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

[Q] Yes, you've certainly been raked over pretty good by certain sites like Real Climate and Climate Progress.

[Curry] Oh yes. Those guys are directly involved in Climategate so that's not a huge surprise. (note: Joe Romm, of Climate Progress, was not directly involved in Climategate as his private e-mails were not published. Gavin Schmidt, of RealClimate, points out that he was the victim of a crime and not guilty of anything.)

[Q] Do you think those kinds of sites are helpful in trying to build public confidence in climate scientists?

[A] That's a tough one. Real Climate, I think they've damaged their brand. They started out doing something that people liked, but they've been too partisan in a scientific way. Their moderation hasn't been good. There was a lot of rudeness toward me on one thread that was actually encouraged by the moderators. I don't think that has served them well.
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[Curry] We really don't understand the potential or impact the blogosphere is having. I think it's big and growing. The sites that are growing in popularity are Watts Up With That, which really have huge traffic. I think there's a real interest in the subject...With the IPCC, and the expectation that scientists hew to the party line, it was getting pretty evangelical. When I speak up about maybe there's more uncertainty, some people regard that as heresy. That's not a good thing for either science or policy. We've got to lose that.

Good news for Al Gore?: Movie "The Switch" evidently features a six-year-old who still believes in the global warming hoax

Movie Review - 'The Switch' - Jennifer Aniston Stars in Tale of Fatherhood Mix-Up - NYTimes.com

The one break from formula is Sebastian’s character. A thoroughly likable, stubbornly opinionated child who cares about global warming and animal welfare, he is the rare male movie moppet who isn’t a sports or a video-game nut.

Review: The Switch Better Than Most Bad Jennifer Aniston Movies - E! Online

At age 6, Sebastian (cutie Thomas Robinson) engages in long, fatalistic monologues that are bound to get the child actor critical acclaim. His delivery is quite good—certainly more nuanced than Aniston's, whose mannered style is often endearing, if not trapped in the 1990s sitcom style that made her famous.

The problem with Sebastian's character isn't the actor; it's the script. Even in the realm of film comedy, no 6-year-old talks like this, and his dreary observations packed with three-syllable words grow old quickly. It's from the cheap, Family Guy school of comedy; fans of Stewie will love Sebastian.

13 US Senate candidates field questions at forum - The Herald Dispatch

SHENANDOAH JUNCTION, W.Va. (AP) — Several candidates running for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Robert C. Byrd say they would support a balanced budget amendment to bring federal spending under control.
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Responding to questions on the environment, [GOP candidate Mac Warner of Morgantown]  said he didn’t “buy into the global warming theory.”

“Yes, humans have some role but it is so small and the books have been cooked to show something otherwise,” he said.

Russia sets minimum carbon offset price - Aug 20 2010 - Breaking News - Envirotech Online

Russia has established a minimum price for carbon offsets under the environmental legislation of the Kyoto Protocol.
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Countries signed up to the Kyoto Protocol may not be bound by the environmental legislation for much longer, after an article in New Scientist stated that there are "big uncertainties" regarding its members' carbon emission results, suggesting it might be an ineffective means of preventing climate change.

THEATRE: Earthquakes in London

Despite what you might have read, this is a fairly simple story of a climate scientist bought off to keep his mouth shut about the effects of global warming, and his three estranged daughters and their partners desperately trying to find meaning in their very different lives.
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Mike Bartlett tackles climate change head-on, but as one audience member pointed out, this never felt ‘preachy’, principally, because the characters are so accessible. Jasmine (Jessica Raine) is a gobby, smart, self-destructive student – the complete opposite of sister Sarah (Lia Williams), a Lib Dem Minster for Energy and Environment in the new coalition government. Freya (Anna Madeley) a vaguely messianic mother-to-be, hassled by her young pupil Peter (Bryony Hannah) glimpses a dystopic future Britain in which her unborn daughter will suffer so much she will regret her own birth.

Top 10 things that are a bigger rip-off than James Milner's transfer to Manchester City - Goal.com

3) Carbon Tax

There are two ways I decide whether I want to talk to someone. First of all, I ask if they think Pippo Inzaghi is a legend. Secondly, I ask for their opinion on global warming. If the answer to (1) is no, and the reply to (2) is ‘global warming is man-made’ – the conversation ends there and then. The biggest scam of our generation has seen Al Gore become a billionaire through his investment in green energy companies, and the brain-washing scare-mongering is just another way of the elite consolidating their control of the world and filling their wallets. Fact: Global warming is down to the sun, not humans. Temperatures have fluctuated for thousands of years, and they have gone up and down relative with sunspots. Eight-hundred years ago, during the medieval warm period, it was far warmer than today. Was it all down to those horse and carriages polluting the planet?

These people think you're stupid: A bit of potential future warming pitched as catastrophe for people suffering in cold places

Russian heat wave dents hopes of climate winners | Reuters [climate propaganda]

OSLO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Russia's summer heat wave has dimmed prospects that northern countries will "win" from climate change thanks to factors such as longer crop-growing seasons or fewer deaths from winter cold, experts say.
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"There ought to be, coming out of this, a greater awareness that many hazards come with climate change," said Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
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"By and large, Canadians understand that there may be benefits but climate change is going to be bad," said Steven Guilbeault, of Canadian environmental group Equiterre. Extreme weather in 2010 "is going to help people understand the risks."
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Jay Gulledge, senior scientist at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, said predictions of climate "winners" and "losers" inevitably ignored many risks, for instance on Russia from Pakistan's floods.

"Does Russia 'win' if the Taliban and other hardline extremists step in to fill the void left by an ineffectual government and international aid response to the floods in Pakistan?" he asked in a blog.   [Get that?  Through a tortured chain of "logic", 7-Up bubbles get blamed for the potential rise of the Taliban.]

Reuters flashback - Mongolia winter kills herds, devastating the poorest

BEIJING, March 29 (Reuters) - A severe winter has left 4.5 million dead animals in stockyards across the Mongolian steppes, and many poor herders face the loss of all their property just before the important breeding season.

About a tenth of Mongolia's livestock may have perished, as deep snows cut off access to grazing and fodder.

Asian Killer Floods Magnified By Damaged Ecosystems - Science News - redOrbit

Changes in climate may be a partial cause to the record rainfall that is wreaking havoc in Asia, but environmental experts say the destruction of ecosystems is more directly at fault for the severity of killer floods.

The devastating floods are becoming worse because of several factors, including deforestation, conversion of wetlands into farmlands and urban centers and the clogging of natural drainage systems, experts warn.
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Red Constantino, head of the Institute for Climate and Sustainable Cities in Manila, said climate change is becoming a convenient way for Asian leaders to place blame elsewhere when natural disasters strike.

“When there is any big flooding it's become commonplace for climate change to be blamed when in fact many of the problems are fixable at the local level,” said Constantino.

Pakistanis should live away from flood areas: UN agency

The UN disaster prevention agency said Friday that communities should have been kept away from flood-exposed river banks in Pakistan, as it underlined the human hand in a string of catastrophes.

"If people had not settled on the river banks, definitely the disaster would have been less, because that is the main cause of the disaster," said Salvano Briceno, director of the UN's International Strategy for Disaster Reduction.

The ISDR also pointed to landslides in China, wildfires in Russia and drought in Niger as examples of how communities and towns were increasingly placed or left in harm's way.

Episcopal Life Online - OPINION

When I last wrote here, I titled the piece "Copenhagen: Jesus with a Bullhorn." I wrote about why international climate negotiations in Copenhagen mattered. And I suggested that if Jesus were here in the flesh today, he may well have greeted the negotiators at the airport with a bullhorn, exhorting them to develop a strong international treaty to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

China: Cold weather delays apple harvest in Jining Foreign Trading

Gansu province had experienced cold weather in April delaying the harvest season of Huaniu apples. “The weather did not suit so well in growing of Huianiu apples. It was too cold when the apple trees were in blossom and we have to wait for the good coloration before we start picking the apples,” says Jining Foreign Trading's international representative Mr.George Sun.

“The quantity of Huaniu apples is expected to decrease by 40% this year in some produce area. We are hoping to have these apples out in the market by first week of September. ” says Mr. Sun.

AFP: UN to get report on climate panel August 30

PARIS — A UN-requested review of the world's top panel of climate scientists, accused of flaws in a key assessment on global warming, will be unveiled on August 30, the investigating committee said on Friday.

The five-month probe into "the processes and procedures" of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is being conducted by the InterAcademy Council (IAC), gathering 15 leading science academies.

Its report will be handed to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri in New York on August 30, and will be followed by a press conference, according to a statement for the IAC by Britain's Royal Society.

350.org sets realistic climate goals on Environmental Expert

True, there may be a bit of an information overload surrounding climate change. But one new organization has made significant headway in making things a lot simpler. And its accomplishing this by viewing climate change through the lens of a magic number: 350.

Essentially, according to scientific consensus and a seminal report by Dr. James Hansen—perhaps the world’s most venerated climate change researcher—350 ppm (parts per million) is the safe upper limit for atmospheric carbon dioxide. So 350.org was launched to make that number a focal point of achievable, realistic action on climate change.  [Could we see a list of the names of the scientists who believe that 350ppm is the safe upper limit for atmospheric CO2?]

[Some sanity creeps into a typical AP global warming propaganda piece]

Salvano Briceno of the U.N.'s International Strategy for Disaster Reduction pointed to aggravating factors in the latest climate catastrophes: China's failure to stem deforestation, contributing to its deadly mudslides; Russia's poor forest management, feeding fires; and the settling of poor Pakistanis on flood plains and dry riverbeds in the densely populated country, squatters' turf that suddenly turned into torrents.

"The IPCC has already identified the influence of climate change in these disasters. That's clear," Briceno said. "But the main trend we need to look at is increasing vulnerability, the fact we have more people living in the wrong places, doing the wrong things."

Comments By Hans Schellnhuber On Climate Science « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

[Pielke, R.A. Sr., H.J. Schellnhuber, and D. Sahagian, 2003] “Research to-date has revealed the need to establish the limits to predictability within the Earth System. It has been shown that climate prediction needs to be treated as an initial value problem with chaotic behaviour. This perspective acknowledges that beyond some time period, our ability to provide reliable quantitative and detailed projections of climate must deteriorate to a level that no longer provides useful information to policymakers.”

These views present a much less certain view in the understanding of the climate system, and the ability to skillfully predict climate in the coming decades than has been presented by Hans in his Die Spiegel article.

TV weathercaster Paul Douglas continues to promote the greatest scientific fraud in history

Soggy Friday - Summer Rerun This Weekend | StarTribune.com

A Sea of Change: Ocean Acidification Threatening Coastal Waters. Every year 30% of all the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere is absorbed by the world's oceans. The end result: the oceans are now more acidic than ever before - changing the chemistry of seawater has implications for marine organisms, large and small. More from NOAA here.

* Thank God Global Warming Is A Hoax. Not sure, but I think this is tongue-in-cheek. After a summer like this the deniers are having a tougher time making their case. And it's not sunspots either. The amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth has diminished in the last 20-30 years, at the same time global temperatures have trended upward.

* The Truth: Still There, Still Inconvenient. The latest on "Climate-Gate" and the scientists whose e-mails were hacked late last year, all exonerated by the facts...

Flashback: AMS/NWA sponsored survey of TV weathercasters: 63% Believe Global Warming is Mostly Natural | Watts Up With That?

Just over one quarter (27%) agreed with the statement by a prominent TV weathercaster: “global warming is a scam.”
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Only one third of TV weathercasters believe that there is a scientific consensus on climate change.

In defence of [junk] science | COSMOS magazine

...this week the Australian Academy of Science took a stand against the misuse of the term 'uncertainty'. On Monday 16 August 2010, the Academy launched a 16-page booklet titled The Science of Climate Change: Questions and Answers.

The booklet is succinct, easy to read. It lets the public, educators and the media know that while scientists are not exactly sure how the future will pan out, they're pretty damn sure about a few things.

[From the booklet] We are very confident of several fundamental conclusions about climate change: that human activities since the industrial revolution have sharply increased greenhouse gas concentrations; that these added gases have a warming effect; and that the Earth’s surface has indeed warmed since the Industrial Revolution. Therefore, we are very confident that human-induced global warming is a real phenomenon.  [But what about the thousands of other factors?]

Oh, no!: What if some carbon dioxide got into our DRINKING WATER?

Not Under My Backyard: One German Town's Fight against CO2 Capture Technology - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

The next Chernobyl? A death blow to tourism? Poisoned drinking water? The residents of Beeskow, Germany worry that a planned CO2 storage facility under their town could end in disaster and are fighting the project. Europe, though, hopes the technology will drastically reduce emissions.

Carbonated Seltzer Water Tutorials » Carbon dioxide is the gas dissolved to prepare the carbonated drinks.

Carbonated drinks have become a part of our staple diet. The fizzy drink is loved by most and often when you are thirsty you would reach out for a carbonated soft drink. To create a carbonated drink the process that is involved is called as carbonation. The gas that is passed through water or the aqueous solution is carbon dioxide. Pressurized carbon dioxide is usually passed through the liquid to create the carbonated drink.

Carbonation is the process of dissolving carbon dioxide in water or an aqueous solution. The result of carbonation is formation of carbonic acid which has the chemical formula H2CO3. The process gives the fizz to carbonated water, beer, champagne etc.

CO2 blamed for both rain and lack of rain in Pakistan

AREDay in Aspen: U.S. military sold on threat posed by climate change | AspenTimes.com

Another panel member, Christine Todd Whitman, said the cataclysmic flooding besieging Pakistan demonstrates the connection between climate change and U.S. national security. While scientists are generally loathe to tie a specific weather event to climate change, it's different with the catastrophe in Pakistan. Extended drought made it difficult for the hardened soil to absorb rain. And the deluge came in epic proportion.

“On this one they're almost all coming together saying, ‘This is what we're talking about,'” said Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush.    [Who, specifically, are "they", and how does Whitman know what all of "them" think about CO2's alleged influence on this episode of flooding in Pakistan?]
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Some audience members expressed optimism that the military's acknowledgment of climate change as a problem would convince the global-warming deniers — as skeptics are labeled — to change their opinion.

More settled science: Our CO2 emissions are simultaneously making the world's plants bigger *and* smaller

Global Warming Prompts Plant Size Decrease - - Softpedia

According to experts, it would appear that the average size of plants tends to decrease in recent years, when compared to the mean sizes they had in past decades. The researchers believe that this effect may be attributed to global warming.

2009: Plants buy Earth more time as CO2 makes them grow - Times Online

TREES and plants are growing bigger and faster in response to the billions of tons of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by humans, scientists have found.

The American Spectator : Are We 'Rushing to Extinction'?

The following statement is one of the informational posters that's part of an area called "Climate Change." It is like other such claims I've seen numerous times in similar venues over the past several years. The poster is titled, "Rushing to Extinction," and has been part of the exhibit for at least two years that I know of.

Today, we are living through the sixth mass extinction of life in Earth's history. This is due in part to climate change triggered by the carbon dioxide we pump into the air as we burn fossil fuels for energy. The resulting greenhouse gases are altering the biosphere, which is causing the loss of plants and animals around the world. If we don't change our actions, we could condemn half of all species to extinction in a hundred years. That adds up to almost a million types of plants and animals that could disappear.

I urge you to read the statement again and consider what it says.

20 Aug - Huge Snowfalls in the Swiss Alps, Argentina & New Zealand

Switzerland’s two open glacier ski areas have seen remarkable August snowfalls with Saas Fee reporting 45cm of new snow on Sunday, with more falling since, including another 5cm yesterday.

Quadrant Online - Laputans in Retreat

As the federal and state parliaments begin to retreat from the ruinous policies of de-carbonisation to which they are currently still committed, such as renewable energy targets, attempts to turn coal-based power stations into gas-fired power stations, bio-char, and carbon dioxide reduction by command-and-control measures of one kind or another, there will be a need to find a scapegoat upon whom the burden of guilt can be laid. Such a scapegoat is ready at hand: the CSIRO, which has become so deeply corrupted by its thirty-year participation in this scam that its demise will be a welcome reminder that the wages of corruption are institutional disaster and disgrace.

Global warming measure sets off alarms - Daily Democrat Online

Billions of dollars could hinge on one part of Proposition 23. It says "no state agency shall propose, promulgate, or adopt any regulation implementing (AB 32) and any regulation adopted before the effective date of this measure shall be void and unenforceable until such time as suspension is lifted."

Environmentalists say that means potentially any one of the more than 60 rules and laws that the air board is counting on to meet the global warming target could be tossed out.

89.3 WFPL | State To Continue Contract With Climate Change [Scam] Consultant

Kentucky state government will continue a $200,000 contract it has with a Washington consultant on climate change. Last week, a legislative oversight panel rejected the contract because many members fear the consulting firm is biased against the coal industry. Governor Beshear disagrees, and said this week he supports Energy and Environment Secretary Len Peters’ decision to work with the center.

Head of turbine manufacturer meets with Willmar Utilities officials | West Central Tribune | Willmar, Minnesota

Utility officials have said they are satisfied overall with the turbines but have had concerns with outages caused by some operational problems, including lack of a cold weather package to heat the turbines during cold weather and the dislodging of a computer in the hub that stopped one turbine from turning in early July.

(Book Review) James Hansen’s “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity” (alarmism on steroids) — MasterResource

Now Dr. Hansen is no longer a scientist, but a politician. His goal is to build so much fear into the average American that he will choose this poorly thought out program. We would not even give his treatise second thought except for the obvious fact that many government officials will take what he says very seriously.

Climate Common Sense: Catastrophists say World Vegetation Declining.

Of course I am happy to see that the results they have obtained correspond exactly with a slight cooling trend worldwide over the last decade which has been documented by skeptics time and again. This analysis suffers from the garbage-in garbage-out problem in attempting to correlate plant growth with a faulty temperature record. As a former nurseryman I know how sensitive plant growth is to temperature and the satellite results are no surprise and seem to be tracking the real temperature record .

NC Media Watch: Prop 23 Update: Green Jobs Clocks for $250,000

We now know that the global warming data was a farce, with bad satellite information, hidden files of temperature declines, and computer code rampant with fudge factors. How can we believe a green jobs clock controlled by government con men (women)? So, what are we counting? We are going to be counting the heart beats of an environmental whacko, as he engages in green job wishful thinking.

C3: It's Official: NOAA Finds That Russian Heat Wave Was 100% Natural - CO2 Warming Not Even A Factor

Of course, an actual scientific finding like this crushes the hopes of liberal-left politicians, celebrities and the MSM reporters/pundits everywhere. They are so enamored with the global-warming meme, they literally blame any (every?) earthly condition on it. (Honestly, are leftists/liberals just more susceptible to mass group stupidity?)

Mass Exodus From Al Ron Gore’s Church Of Climatology

Just in the four influential countries named above, 55 million people have stopped believing the hoax.

We Have Been Conned - An Independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | Originals

The IPCC is a disgrace to science. In its desire to fit the square peg of science into the round hole of politics it has abandoned the "scientific method" and replaced it with a desperate search for data and other material that might support a specific hypothesis.

C3: Global Cooling Is Here, Pt. X: The Satellite Data - Are We Witnessing Unprecedented Ocean Cooling?

As the satellite data depicts below, Pacific Ocean temperatures are in a dramatic, accelerating free-fall. If this trend continues, we will be witnessing unprecedented ocean cooling, which will drive global temperatures and climate change.

Is Climatology A Thing Of The Past? « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

In a world they believed was cooling, climatologists found ways to explain why it was cooling. In a world they believe is warming, climatologists find ways to explain why it is warming. The fact that those beliefs are based on scientific data and theories means nothing more than current and past climate science have been scientifically feeling their ways through a very obscure dark. No sign any of us is any the wiser.

Wonk Room » Rep. Steve King Unloads On Climate Change Scientists: ‘Frauds’ Practicing ‘Modern Version Of The Rain Dance’

KING [R-IA]: They have not made that scientific case. I have always argued against the science. Some of our leadership have said “don’t argue the science.” They get pollsters in and coach us. I’m not very coachable…(laughing)…But I’ve said “you don’t ever give up a premise unless you happen to believe that they’re right.” And we should not concede the science of this. And they say, “you should just argue the economics, not the science.” Well, no. They were wrong on the science[...]

Mary Bono Mack, Steve Pougnet come out swinging in Congressional debate | mydesert.com | The Desert Sun

Though she touted her initial vote for the cap-and-trade measure, Bono Mack did not make clear last night whether she would continue to support the cap-and- trade legislation with the changes made since her vote. She spoke only in general terms, saying that she had the better green energy record of the two.

PhillyBurbs.com:  Heavy downpours help Russia's firefighters

Temperatures in Moscow fell from 32 degrees Celsius (nearly 90 degrees Fahrenheit) to 9 degrees Celsius (48 degrees Fahrenheit) in just two days.

Why Pakistan monsoons [allegedly] support evidence of global warming | Julian Hunt

Recent U.S. studies have also concluded that the mountain meteorology is changing but as a result of the aerosols emitted into the atmosphere from urban areas of South Asia.
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The reason for concern about changing enso is that depending on its periodic strength, it greatly affects magnitudes and locations of floods, droughts, hurricanes. Until about 2020-2030, these natural fluctuations are expected to be greater than man-made changes (as was pointed out by many scientists in the 1990s).

GLOBAL SYSTEM DYNAMICS AND POLICIES: Julian Hunt

Julian Hunt has been a Professor of Climate Modelling in the Department of Space & Climate Physics, and Earth Sciences, and Honorary Professor of Mathematics at University College London, since 1999.

Julian Hunt: Stay local to beat global warming - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent

Taken overall, and despite recent setbacks such as the demise of the US cap-and-trade bill, I am therefore increasingly optimistic that the tide is turning decisively in favour of tackling climate change, but that it will be the cumulative effect of sub-national actions which will prove crucial in determining the speed and effectiveness of responses to climate change.

U.N. Steps Up Pressure to Raise Funds for Pakistan - IPS ipsnews.net

But some are willing to look deeper than the immediate emergency. Billionaire philanthropist George Soros noted the donor fatigue "in responding to these disasters because there are too many of them…They are connected. There is climate change and it has a human cause." Soros said governments must act to help Pakistan but "must also do something about the root causes," including reducing fossil fuel emissions.

AccuWeather.com - Weather News | California's Year Without a Summer

It continues to be the summer that never came for many of the coastal areas of California.
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The average temperatures recorded at LAX in August are usually in the low-70s. However, the average temperature this month has been almost 6.5 degrees cooler. Only five days this month have been 70 degrees or hotter.

Camped down and ready to take on RBS - Scotsman.com News

A number of activists, who did not want to be named, said the aim of their protest was to harm RBS financially.

One said: "We want to make a big scene, cause RBS to lose money. You might be looking at what we've done to RBS before - getting in the building, locking ourselves in, superglueing ourselves together, disrupting them."
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Ms Swift, a charity worker, said activists did not intend to accept RBS's offer of a meeting, and said: "RBS is part of the problem, not the solution, there is no point in talking to them."

World Climate Report » The Great Russian Heat Wave of 2010 Part II

Armchair climate analysts can continue to sit back and speculate all they want, but according to folks who study climate dynamics for a living, there is little in the observational record that suggests that global warming had a role in this year’s heat wave in Russia. Nor does it support the inferences that such an event is “consistent” with climate change.

PlanetSKI | News | Swiss try to stop cows burping

It is not April 1st. The Swiss really are making an attempt to prevent their cows, and sheep for that matter, from burping as it is contributing to greenhouse gases and thus global warming.

Redford solicits donations for Boxer's re-election

He also took issue with an ad Fiorina ran during the California Republican primary that dismissed Boxer's view that global warming is a national security concern. Fiorina likened that concern to being worried about the weather.

Brazil Pledges $113 Mn to Fight Climate Change | Vamban News

Brasilia, Aug 20 (IANS/EFE) Brazil will allocate $113 million next year to fight climate change, an official said.

Branca Americano, environment ministry’s secretary for climate change, Thursday said a part of the money for National Fund on Climate Change will come from the oil sector.

Democrat Keeps Pelosi at Arm’s Length - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

Mr. Donnelly — who is trying to fight off a challenge from Republican Jackie Walorski – tries pretty hard to distance himself from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in his newest spot, touting his opposition to the climate change legislation the House passed last year in terms that would sound natural coming from a Republican.

In the ad, the narrator – who twice calls Mr. Donnelly independent – says that the congressman also “voted against Nancy Pelosi’s energy tax on Hoosier families.”

Moscow Journal - Moscow Weather Back to Normal After Fires, Heatwave - NYTimes.com

The number of acres burning in Russia’s central regions fell precipitously in the last 24 hours, Yelena Smirnyx, a spokeswoman for the Emergency Situations Ministry, said Thursday. Only about 20 acres continued to burn in the Moscow region, she said.
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Of course, when the subject is the weather someone is going to be unhappy about something, and sure enough at least one person could be found grumbling about the cooling temperatures, which could drop into the 40s by the weekend.

Twitter / David Roberts

It's amusing... sort of ... that the right is still viciously fighting #capandtrade long after the left surrendered on it.

Federal Election 2010 | CLIMATE SPECTATOR Q&A: Greg Hunt | Giles Parkinson, Election 2010 | Commentary | Business Spectator

[Q] Is it difficult for you to drive the climate change policy when the person in charge is a bit of a sceptic?

Diary of a Dying Planet | Rolling Stone Politics

From the devastating floods in Pakistan to the massive wildfires and deadly heat in Russia, which have conspired to fill the morgues in Moscow , we're now living in an era of Weather of Mass Destruction. And it has human fingerprints all over it.

Bar Refaeli’s special report on Better Place & why you should drive electric

As the world population grows (and it’s growing at the rhythm of the samba), it uses more and more energy that originates in oil and is warming up the Earth faster and faster. Some of the results include melting glaciers, hurricanes, floods, and damage to agriculture, flora, and fauna. Remember Hurricane Katrina? Then you’re starting to get it.

Flashback: Leonardo DiCaprio in Rome - Pictures - Zimbio

Leonardo DiCaprio, girlfriend Bar Refaeli, and his mother Irmalin arrive by private plane to Rome for dinner.

Earth's green carbon sink [allegedly] on the wane : Nature News

Along with the oceans, plants are doing us a great service by taking up about half of all fossil-fuel carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere, says Running. "This is the first indication that it might be slipping."
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Michael Crimmins, a climatologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, says that "this paper does a nice job" of highlighting areas of the planet where plant growth is limited by the availability of water, rather than by temperature. "I'm glad to finally see some global-scale evidence that a warmer world is not necessarily a greener world," he says.  [If you really believed this, why would it make you "glad"?]

Hillary Clinton blames CO2 for Russian forest fires

Interview With Anwar Iqbal of Dawn TV

[SECRETARY CLINTON] And for us, having gone through Katrina and seeing what’s happening around the world with the increase in the number of natural disasters and the extent of the damage that they’re causing, which some people believe is linked to global climate change, I think more than ever the United States both –

QUESTION: Do you believe so?

SECRETARY CLINTON: I think that there is a linkage. You can’t point to any particular disaster and say, “it was caused by.” But we are changing the climate of the world; we’ve seen that with the Russian forest fires, even the Russian Government that has been somewhat skeptical about climate change.

[Note the dates of these fires; which were caused by CO2?]: Top 10 Deadliest Wildfires – Juggle.com

1 United States 2,500 Peshtigo Fire, Wisconsin 1871
2 United States 453 Cloquet Fire, Minnesota 1918
3 United States 418 Hinckley Fire, Minnesota 1894
4 United States 250 Thumb Fire, Michigan 1881
5 Canada 250 Matheson Fire, Ontario 1916
6 Indonesia 240 Sumatra, Kalimantan 1997
7 France 230 Landes region 1949
8 China 213 Greater Hinggan, Heilongjiang 1987
9 Canada 160 Miramichi Fire, New Brunswick 1825
10 Brazil 110 1963 Paran Forest fires 1963

The Associated Press: Russian wildfires shrink as cold front advances

[3 days ago] More than 50 people have died in the wildfires across Russia

Minnesota: Too cold for buses that were supposed to fight global warming

Princeton Union Eagle - Students to get assigned bus seating in new school year

The main problem was a number of Minnesota Central’s buses were breaking down while en route during cold weather.... Carriveau said the break-down problem that some buses had last year was exclusive to the International buses with a design flaw in the engine combustion system that was meant to be more “green” as far as use of energy. Those buses are gone from the fleet here, Carriveau said.

Climate Camp (not) in the Media « Jamie Potter

While the camp is brimming with activists it seems to be lacking in media attention. This time last year newspapers and TV news stations couldn’t get enough of the camp, which then targeted Blackheath for incursions into the City of London. Today, the story is buried in the Guardian’s environment pages, which is surprising considering the attention lavished on Climate Camp last year, while both Sky and BBC neglect to grace the action with any coverage.

So why is there barely a ripple in the media this year?

Peace Corp cashing in on dying climate con

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 19, 2010 – In support of the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA), the Department of State will provide $1 million to fund Peace Corps volunteer efforts that increase rural access to energy, mitigate the effects of climate change, and support the use of renewable energy and energy efficient technologies in Central and South American communities.

Still Cooling: Sea Surface Temperatures thru August 18, 2010 « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) measured by the AMSR-E instrument on NASA’s Aqua satellite continue the fall which began several months ago. The following plot, updated through yesterday (August 18, 2010) reveals the global average SSTs continue to cool, while the Nino34 region of the tropical east Pacific remains well below normal, consistent with La Nina conditions.

C3: Wild Sea Level Predictions By Stefan Rahmstorf, The IPCC's Hysterical Sea Level Expert, Found To Be Wrong

Unfortunately for Stefan, the actual facts are always the proof that determines if model predictions have real-world value. The latest data, from the premier sea-level measuring program in the Pacific managed by the Aussies, totally shatters the Rahmstorf prediction that global warming is causing accelerated sea level rise trend. As the chart below indicates, there is no trend of sea level rise acceleration across the Pacific.

Jeffrey Flocken: Unnatural Disasters

As climate change progresses, the need for decision-makers to allot resources and capacity to animal and human emergency relief efforts is crucial. Governments should work with local communities to include animals in climate change related event planning and should allocate capacity to prepare for and respond to animals' needs prior to, during, and following climate change related events.

A perfect setup on climate fails to persuade | OregonLive.com

Perhaps the most stunning evidence involves carbon dioxide itself. While recent evidence from Hawaii shows steadily rising CO2 in the atmosphere, older measurements show a peak in the 1940s that was higher than the level observed today. That says that natural processes are regulating CO2 in our atmosphere, a concept with strong theoretical backing.

We certainly don't know everything there is to know about climate, but we do know that Orwellian pronouncements about a catastrophe are dangerous propaganda disguised as science.

Australian Voters Looking Beyond the Economy - NYTimes.com

Climate change — the cause that swept Labor to power in a landslide victory under Mr. Rudd in 2007 — is rarely mentioned by the candidates, with neither party willing to commit itself to an emissions trading plan or a carbon tax.

[If the science is so settled, why do we still need to spend all this money?]: NCSU gets $1.8M to predict climate change, hurricanes - Triangle Business Journal

The National Science Foundation has provided $10 million over five years to use climate data collected by satellites, ground-based sensors and physics-based simulations to gain a better understanding of climate change.

Amusing 1.5-minute video: Mainstream media folks seem surprised that there are "climate deniers" out there

My favorite part is believer Andrea Mitchell's smirk at the end of this video.

YouTube - MSNBC: Ron Johnson Suggests "Sunspots" to Blame for Global Warming

Blast from the past: A Public Library of Science article talks about the role of blogs in exposing the erroneous 2005 Ivory-billed Woodpecker rediscovery announcement

PLoS Biology: Ghost Bird – The Ivory-billed Woodpecker: Hopes, Dreams, and Reality

A new element at the interface between science and the public makes an important debut in Ghost Bird—the Internet blog. Tom Nelson, an electrical engineer from Minneapolis, Minnesota, began writing of his concerns about the quality of the evidence supporting rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker shortly after the science was first questioned. Under the banner “Ivory-bill Skeptic” dozens of individuals contributed important discussion of the scientific issues. Nelson is interviewed in the movie and comments that it is “important to get the science right.”

David Sibley echoes Nelson's comments and touts the value of the blog in providing an anonymous outlet for those interested. Most of the comments were posted anonymously out of fear of being criticized by colleagues for taking one stance or another. Although it must be noted that anonymity also eliminates responsibility. Other blogs (such as Ivory-bills Live ???! and an adjunct to the WorldTwitch blog called Peckergate) also joined the discussions of how science was working or not working and might have been used.

As I've written before, the Ivory-bill controversy contained a lot of the same elements of the global warming controversy--an absolutely lousy "body of evidence", ridiculous models, believers versus realists [who were allegedly evil/stupid/well-funded/nature-haters/etc] , bloggers vs mainstream media, appeals to authority, rubber-stamp peer-review, etc etc.

As I watch the global warming hoax crumble, I feel like I've "seen this movie before".

Huntington Beach, California in August: Record low water temperatures

SUPER SWIMMERS: Lifeguards land second place in national contest

On the first day of competition, D’Agostino said the water temperature was 61 degrees, which he said was a record low for this time of year.

“We knew it was going to be cold,” he said. “But we weren’t quite ready for it to be that cold.”

Swimming Pool Water Temperatures

The American Red Cross suggests that 78° F is appropriate for swimming. But, this temperature is ideal for competitive swimming and is quite chilly for regular swimming. Water at 78° F is ideal for competitive swimming as the cold water promotes heavier breathing and faster heartbeat in order to keep warm. Even for the most adventurous swimmers, 65° F is unbearably cold.

[Obama continues to overpromise and underdeliver]: Unfulfilled Promises on Clean Energy Technology?

White House removes $150 billion clean energy R&D investment pledge from Obama Administration website

Climate [Scam] on the Campaign Trail: 5 Races to Watch - Politics - The Atlantic

Here's a preview of five races in which environmental issues are playing a leading role...

Twitter / Andy Revkin [Even Revkin doesn't really believe that we have overwhelming evidence that carbon dioxide causes droughts]

Rare weather events + spotty old records + mix of influences = no statistically valid way to prove cause/effect.

[Funny stuff from Dave "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts: Both burning coal *and* not burning coal may bring on the apocalypse]: What if there’s much less coal than we think? | Grist

There's almost certainly enough coal left for us to do the atmosphere (and by extension, ourselves) serious damage. But the really epic crash may not be in the climate, it may be in human civilization, which is by now entirely dependent for its growth and complexity on relatively cheap, relatively abundant fossil fuels. The absence of extreme global warming will be of little comfort if we end up in a post-apocalyptic Mad Max hellscape.

WisPolitics.com: WisPolitics: Feingold rips Johnson on climate change comments, defends NYC mosque

Feingold said he is confident that there is a man-made element to climate change and says he wants to pass climate change legislation.

But he said he did not support a version passed by the House that seemed tilted against coal and had concerns about the effect it would have on ratepayers.

"We are going to need some kind of climate change legislation but not necessarily cap and trade," Feingold said.

NM Republicans are cool on global warming, climate change legislation « New Mexico Independent

Susana Martinez isn’t the only big-ticket candidate in New Mexico’s fall elections who questions whether human society is the root cause of global warming. The three Republicans running for Congress expressed opposition to climate change legislation and were generally hesitant to acknowledge that human activity is having important negative effects on the planet.

[Phil Plait thinks you're stupid--When we see changes in nature, we're supposed to conclude that CO2 is dangerous?] | Discover Magazine

But over the past few years — <sarcasm>coincidentally</sarcasm> the time when scientists say global warming is accelerating — the sea ice has thinned considerably.
...global warming also predicts changing currents, changing salinity, changing everything.

It’s a complex system that interacts with itself, and those are notoriously difficult to model. Positive feedback systems are exquisitely sensitive to small changes. That’s precisely why images like these are so disturbing: they are showing that the system is changing, and it’s the change itself that indicates trouble is brewing.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Aug 19th 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

A warmist wants to name natural disasters after skeptics, Hillary Clinton smuggled a climate weapon into Russia and the truth about the shameful satellite saga.

[Obama administration blows more money on the climate hoax]: Oregon winery carbon program gets USDA funds - Sustainable Business Oregon

A new $92,000 grant from the United States Department of Agriculture will evolve the Oregon Environmental Council’s Carbon Neutral Challenge by funding the development of long-term certifications for wineries that remain carbon neutral, and others that follow their lead.

More from Al Gore: Climate [swindle] bill failure costs the U.S. billions of dollars - The Hill's E2-Wire

Al Gore, who days ago called for mass demonstrations on climate change, is also arguing that the failure of Congress to pass a global warming bill is “already costing our nation billions of dollars.”

Al Fin: Pity the Fools Who Blindly Believe "The Science"

It is time for the people who are footing the bill to take their responsibilities of oversight seriously. At this time a relative handful of well-placed gatekeepers in government and private funding agencies and publications are given the power to decide what will be funded and what will be published -- and taken seriously by policy-makers and the public. This utterly top-down approach to the censorship of science has led to a situation of near-ubiquitous fraud and abuse -- especially in particular areas of science which have become politically enmeshed.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Reinsurance Innumeracy

A better conclusion from this report would be that climate change -- even under the most extreme scenarios -- might increase or decrease future Caribbean hurricane damage relative to GDP, or even have no discernible effect, but the policy options that make sense in this region are insensitive to these uncertainties.

YouTube - Malcolm Turnbull Addresses Wentworth Voters

[Around the 30-second mark, Turnbull says "...the greatest long-term challenge we face is that of climate change. There can be no question about that."]

German Shock Readings: Climate Interest Barometer Plummets

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. People reading this website and looking at opinion polls around the world know that the public is sick and tired of all the hype about so-called climate change.

The oil that saved your ungrateful life - JSOnline

Droughts were the real weather killers, but thanks to the green revolution in the 1970s, people are far less likely to starve amid droughts. That revolution depended on fertilizers made from oil, writes Goklany, and irrigation, largely driven by fossil-fueled pumps, overcomes drought.

Caribbean Storm Damage Costs May Rise 50% With Global Warming - BusinessWeek

Aug. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Climate change may add 50 percent to the storm damage costs incurred by some Caribbean nations over the next two decades, said Swiss Reinsurance Co., the world’s second-largest re-insurer. [Don't they have an enormous vested interest in selling this alarmist idea, since greater fear of future storm damage means higher insurance premiums today?]

California: Cool spring, mild summer impact crops

Farmers throughout California’s great Central Valley face a weather-related challenge that they haven’t seen in recent years — the cool, wet spring and subsequent lack of soaring summer temperatures have put virtually all crops behind by 10 days to two weeks.

Norway to pay 30 million dollars to save Indonesian forests

Norway agreed Thursday to advance 30 million dollars to Indonesia in the first installment of a planned billion-dollar scheme to cut the country's greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation.

After two days of talks in Jakarta, Norwegian officials said they were satisfied that Indonesia was making progress towards its promise to impose a two-year moratorium on deforestation starting in January 2011.

YouTube - MSNBC's Mitchell Shocked GOPers Are Challenging "Settled Science" of Gore's "Conventional Wisdom"

USTAR official says jury still out on climate change | The Salt Lake Tribune

Indeed, a representative of the Utah Science Technology and Research initiative (USTAR) agreed with members of the Interim Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment Committee Wednesday that the science remains uncertain about the need to curb carbon dioxide.

“I think the jury is still out on that,” said Alan Walker, echoing an opening remark of the committee co-chairman. “If you gather a group of scientists together, you are going to have a lot of differing opinions on that.”

The testimony echoed the views of several committee members, who questioned why so many resources are being invested into what they understand to be a non-problem.
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 “We have a mission,” [Michael O’Malley, USTAR spokesman] said, “to preserve and create jobs.”  [Wait, isn't this supposed to be about saving our grandchildren from CO2-induced hellfire?]

BBC News - Southern Sudan unveils plans for animal-shaped cities

The authorities in southern Sudan have unveiled a $10bn (£6.4bn) plan to rebuild the region's cities in the shapes of animals and fruit.

Invitation to join 350 EARTH: A global satellite art project | Grist

The pictures rolling in this summer from Pakistan, Russia, and Greenland make it abundantly clear that we're drowning, burning, and melting this earth -- all because we're pouring vast quantities of carbon into the atmosphere. As best we can tell right now, global warming is how human civilization runs itself on to the rocks -- but it's not too late (maybe) to change that outcome.

Carbon [Dioxide Scam] Grows on Trees as Kiwi Farmers Ditch Sheep - Bloomberg

New Zealand’s sheep farmers are flocking to a government carbon trading program that pays more to plant trees than sell wool and mutton.
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The nation’s carbon-trading project was expanded in July to require energy producers to pay for their emissions. By 2015, the system will include agriculture, forcing farmers to pay for emissions their cows and sheep make through belching.
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Federated Farmers’ Nicolson estimates 20 percent, or 2,800, sheep and beef farms could be replaced by carbon forests, harming communities that rely on livestock farming for jobs as shearers, mechanics and vets.

Great job promoting "peace", Al!

CNSNews.com - Islamic Bloc Blames ‘Global Warming’ for Pakistan Flooding

(CNSNews.com) – The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has blamed the flooding in Pakistan on “global warming,” even though scientists are generally wary of linking any single or series of weather events on climate change.
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“...The initial assessment suggests that the loss to economy may be to the tune of 1.3 percent of GDP.”

Climate Observations: On Liu and Curry (2010) “Accelerated Warming of the Southern Ocean and Its Impacts on the Hydrological Cycle and Sea Ice”

A question some might ask, why did Liu and Curry end the data in 1999? Dunno.
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The title of Liu and Curry (2010) “Accelerated Warming of the Southern Ocean and Its Impacts on the Hydrological Cycle and Sea Ice” contradicts the SST anomalies of the latitudes used in the paper. The SST anomalies are not warming. They are cooling and have been for more than a decade.

C3: Is Global Warming Drowning Islands of The Great Barrier Reef? Another Alarmist Prediction Gone Wrong Says Study

Much has been made of the demise of islands within Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The prediction by global warming alarmist scientists was that rising sea levels would overwhelm the islands, putting them beneath the waves forever. Like most alarmist predictions by the so-called climate scientists of the IPCC, they were wrong. This newest research revealed islands that actually increased in size, doing opposite of the predictions.

Hamilton and the green totalitarians | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Professor Clive Hamilton, the Gaian and former Greens candidate, has already suggested a ”suspension of democratic processes” to impose his green ideology. Yesterday he made clear his totalitarian instinct - or possibly just his ignorance - by citing Plato as his guide:

Activists: 1000 to protest against RBS | Edinburgh and East | STV News

Climate change activists believe up to 1000 people will protest against the Royal Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh on Thursday.

Around 200 of them have already gathered around the bank’s headquarters in Edinburgh, citing the bank’s "commitment to financing the fossil fuel industry", including loans to coal, oil and gas companies.

Were Warmist Scientists Set To Do Arctic Oil And Gas Exploration Under The Guise Of Arctic Research?

The German online Die Zeit reports here that a Canadian court has ruled in favour of the Inuit Indians, forbidding a planned Arctic expedition by Germany’s alarmist Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) in the Lancaster Sound. Reports show that the German expedition may have included Arctic oil and gas exploration.

Glenn Beck - Current Events & Politics - Al Gore: Hit the streets!

PAT: But you are telling me I shouldn't be using my SUV.

GLENN: Well, because you are telling me I shouldn't use my SUV.

PAT: That's because you're not saving the planet. The Earth has a fever, Glenn.

[Ranging far afield: "No Impact Man" suggests that if we get climate hoax legislation, we'll see less drug and alcohol abuse]

13. I am glad that we’ve come to see people rather than things as our most valuable resource and that, in embracing the respectful and loving principles of not wasting, we have learned not to waste youth in prisons but instead to get them help for their drug and alcohol addictions.

[How'd that work out?  In 1988, Gore suggested that Antarctica would be the fastest-warming place on Earth] | The New Republic

As greenhouse gases trap more heat in the Earth's atmosphere and temperatures climb, they are expected to climb fastest of all here in Antarctica, because any melting at the edge of the ice shelf is accompanied by a dramatic change in the albedo—reflectivity—of the surface exposed to sunlight. The increased absorption of the sun's rays by the ocean then magnifies the local warming trend, melting more ice at the margin and absorbing yet more radiation from the sun.
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Since the oceans of the world contain 50 times as much carbon dioxide as the atmosphere, even small changes in the temperature-sensitive mechanisms by which carbon dioxide is transferred back and fort between the oceans and the air can have profound implications.
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...scientists fear that if their predictions are correct, and temperatures at the poles increase far more rapidly than at the equator, then the very pattern of the world weather system might change.

- Bishop Hill blog - Standing on the shoulders of pygmies

Yes folks, it's a modelling study. Another one. From the paper's abstract, the researchers took output from the Hadley Centre's Unified Climate Model and pumped it into another model which purports to simulate how a variety of plants react to temperature changes. So even if the vegetation model works it still relies on the Hadley Centre model being something one can rely on. Is it just me that finds this all rather unconvincing. I mean is the Hadley Centre Unified Model something you'd want to bet the house on?

A Skeptic of Climate Alarmism Speaks: Does Walter Cunningham Have More of a Case than His Critics Contend? — MasterResource

Cunningham makes a number of worthy points that should not be dismissed by the political “mainstream” climate scientists such as Andrew Dessler at Texas A&M. Cunningham can find support from many sources, from pollsters to economists to physical scientists.

I was once a Green who believed in man-made global warming « JoNova

Since time immemorial people have been inventing or exaggerating scares to gain power. I used to think carbon dioxide posed a real threat, I used to be an active member of the Australian Greens. Then I discovered all the things we weren’t being told (like this and this), and how much money was involved and I was shocked.

There are many good people among the Greens who will be outraged when they realize how they have been used.

Tribute to tragic Met Office man - News - getreading - Reading Post

Tributes have been paid to a former Shinfield Met Office worker who drowned while holidaying in Canada.

Dr David Bennetts, 63, was fishing in the Chilliwack River in Fraser Valley when he is believed to have been dragged away by the current on Wednesday, August 4.

Royal Meteorological Society (RMS) member Dr Bennetts was on holiday with his wife Pauline. His son Tom said: “They had gone on a three-week tour of Canada in a hired camper van..."
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Dr Bennetts, who had a PhD in maths, began his career as an researcher and after retiring from the Met Office College, now based in Exeter, worked as research co-ordinator for Defra’s climate change programme.

Flashback: David Bennetts  | The Future of Weather

1. I do not believe that climate change threatens to overwhelm all societies. I believe that we are threatened by climate change but that e.g. Europe can adapt relatively easily. Societies that may well be overwhelmed are those that are currently under stress, e.g. in Africa and some parts of Asia. But we shall all need to take action if the effects are to be minimised.

Flashback: Met Office: Statement from the UK science community

We, members of the UK science community, have the utmost confidence in the observational evidence for global warming and the scientific basis for concluding that it is due primarily to human activities. The evidence and the science are deep and extensive. They come from decades of painstaking and meticulous research, by many thousands of scientists across the world who adhere to the highest levels of professional integrity.
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David Bennetts

612° in the shade « Don Surber

O’Sullivan is calling it Satellitegate.

I call it more BS from the government.

Agencies start refocusing on climate change [hoax]  - FederalTimes.com

Starting this year, top Forest Service managers are encountering an added yardstick in their performance evaluations: how well they are meeting benchmarks for confronting the effects of climate change in the national forests?

The standards will apply to some 80 Senior Executive Service members, said David Cleaves, the forest service's climate change adviser.

In addition, forest managers will be expected to monitor for the effects of climate change on watersheds and wildlife, set targets for reducing adverse environmental impacts from their operations, and have at least one employee serving as a point person for climate change issues, according to a scorecard released last month.
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From a medical standpoint, global warming poses "the single biggest threat to public health in the 21st century," Dr. George Luber, associate director for climate change at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told the audience at the Pew workshop.

C3: Brutal Facts: 58.8 Million Deaths Globally, Only 32,000 From Severe Weather - Climate Change Has Been Overblown By The Left

For the period of 2000 to 2008, deaths from all causes averaged 58 million per year, and those from severe weather events, 32,000 per year. This was a during a period when global climate change was supposedly dramatic and unprecedented, causing untold extreme death and destruction.

Yet, as a contrast, severe weather deaths averaged 485,000 per year during the 1920's, over 10 times higher than the present.

Dizzy Thinks: You're all in denial!

If someone ever asked me to describe irony in words I'd be hard pushed, but spotting it is so much easier. Thus it is that we now have two opposing political positions casually throwing the word "denier" around, and the side that started it is trying to use the same argument to dispute the term that it had previously errrr denied was valid.

Spotting these sort of hilarious contradictions in politics, rhetoric and argument really do make my day. It tickles me.

[Did alarmist Bob Park overreact to the gulf oil spill?] - Friday, May 28, 2010

Oil reaching the coastline from the catastrophe will devastate the environment for the lifetime of everyone reading this, but the effect of oil settling on thousands of square miles of ocean bottom is unknown.

Prince Charles urges British families to 'snub the bathtub' | Mail Online

His campaign website reads: 'Snub the tub. If everybody in a four-person family replaced one bath a week with a five-minute shower, you could save between £5 and £15 per year off your energy bill.'

However, the 61-year-old Prince might need to tackle his own family's washing habits before telling the rest of the country how to behave.
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A spokesman simply said: 'The Prince of Wales does the vast majority of the things on the list.' His other ideas for small steps to save the planet include 'loving your leftovers', holidaying closer to home and reusing 'what can't be recycled, such as paint tins'.
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The Prince's Jaguar, Audi and Range Rover cars run on biodiesel made from used cooking oil, while his 40- year-old Aston Martin uses bioethanol made entirely from wine.

Last year Charles, cut carbon emissions by 4 per cent at his four households and increased the use of renewable energy to 22 per cent.

Flashback: Prince Charles drops jet for yacht - World news - World environment - msnbc.com

Britain's Prince Charles, eschewing pollution-spewing jets, is touring the Caribbean on a 246-foot megayacht, complete with hot tub, gym and 24-member crew.

Flashback: The Prince of hypocrites: Charles embarks on 16,000 mile 'green' crusade... aboard a private jet | Mail Online

Prince Charles was accused of hypocrisy last night for using a private jet on an 'environmental' tour of South America.

The prince will travel to the region next month in a visit costing an estimated £300,000 as part of his crusade against global warming.

He will use a luxury airliner to transport himself, the Duchess of Cornwall and a 14-strong entourage to Chile, Brazil and Ecuador on a 16,400-mile round trip.

[Ecuador attempts to milk the global warming hoax for $3.6 billion in cash]

In the sentiment of contributing to global environmental health, the trust fund will rely on international donors and provide mechanisms for small donations from global citizens as well. The idea is that Ecuador will put in half of the land’s worth, about $3.6 billion, from its own pockets and will rely on the rest of the world to provide the rest.
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But, will they simply overturn the resolution that has made them instant environmental saints?

Church of Scotland opposes coal-fired power station | Ekklesia

One of the most senior Church of Scotland ministers has written to the Scottish Government urging it to consider carefully the impact plans for a new power station that will, the Kirk claims, undermine the Scottish Government’s plans to reduce Scotland’s carbon footprint.

California's choice: Build the future, or burn the planet - How the World Works - Salon.com

Voters in November will have an opportunity to ratify the decision to bet on a clean energy future, or shoot themselves in the foot and slip back into carbon-dioxide-stained past.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Schellnhuber in Der Spiegel

Remarkably, he ends the interview where so many arguments from climate scientists end up -- in a need to reform democracy to be less democratic:

Ultimately only democratic societies will be able to master this challenge, notwithstanding their torturous decision-marking processes. But to get there perhaps we'll need innovative refinement of our democratic institutions. I could imagine assigning 10 percent of all seats in parliament to ombudsmen who represent only the interests of future generations.

Who, I wonder will these forward-thinking ombudsmen actually be? I suspect Schellnhuber has some ideas.

Global Warming Side-Effect: More Truffles - Oregon - Northwest News Story - KTVZ Bend

Despite all the concerns about global warming, it makes sense that there have to be a few effects that aren’t all bad, and scientists at Oregon State University have identified one of them – nature’s aromatic miracle, the truffle.

Media Use Crazy Weather to Hype Global Warming, Despite Admissions Weather Isn't Climate

From Associated Press to national newspapers, coverage of floods, fires, droughts, sinkholes make 'case' for global warming alarmism.

Severe Winter Damages San Juan Olive Plantations | Olive Oil Times

The cold weather in San Juan, Argentina over the past several weeks is similar to that experienced in 2007- a year in which scores of olive groves, nearly 70 percent of the province’s total, were lost due to the drop in temperature. Olive oil businessmen have already made their first predictions and they are pessimistic to say the least. The olive trees of the province’s eastern zones already show signs of deterioration as frost often kills flowering buds and the fruits themselves. As a result, Argentinean producers with young plants are most likely to face crippling losses this winter.

Cold already snapping at Victoria - State News - Agribusiness and General - General - Stock & Land

The cold snap is yet to arrive but Wednesday's steady rain over inland Victoria led to the coldest day in years for some, according to WeatherZone.

How the greenshirts bashed Gay | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Miranda Devine describes how the lovely new greens destroyed a business, a planned pulp mill and the reputation of John Gay, since dumped as chairman of the Tasmanian timber company Gunns:

Climate Change: I’m Glad the Left Isn’t Really Serious About Science | MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory

While the inner circle may make the history books for cashing in on one of the biggest cons in political history; the small but determined rank and file of the warmers’ movement amounted to a shabby collection of green entrepreneurs, professional activists and con artists, professional artists looking for attention, corrupt politicians and bureaucrats, academics hoping to take advantage of funding opportunities, and some bored teenagers out for a Beavis and Butthead afternoon.

[The First Green President takes a fossil-fueled trip to an L.A. fundraiser; creates traffic havoc] - latimes.com

About 150 officers were positioned along the motorcade route, manning street closures and fixed posts, Albanese said.

In addition to rank-and-file officers, an undisclosed number of officers from the LAPD's elite Metropolitan Division assisted the Secret Service — a task the division performs whenever the president or other high-profile dignitaries come to Los Angeles.

[You funded part of this Crayola project, which saves nearly $200 per year in CO2 emissions for only $11.5 million in cash] | Solar Feeds News Network

Ten lucky children from across America were selected to be part of the “Crayola Green Team” and helped “plug in” the new solar facility during the ceremony.
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The project is expected to eliminate nearly 2,000 tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually, equivalent to planting 400 acres of pine forest each year.

A $1.5 million grant from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act helped fund a portion of the $11.5 million project. Allentown-based PPL Corp.(NYSE: PPL) and UGI Energy Services, Inc (NYSE: UGI) provided the rest of the funding and resources to design, build and operate the solar park.

Greenland Glacial Calving and Sea Level by Nils-Axel Mörner, Sea level specialist, Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics | Climate Realists

Recently, “a panel of leading geoscientists told the US Congress” that sea level is likely to rise by 7 metres within this century. What nonsense, we must say. Not only, is this against observational facts, it is also against physics.
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The view presented by the panel is another sad expression of IPCC propaganda. What they say is not founded in geoscientific knowledge and physical laws. The World is far too full of real problems that call for immediate consideration to waste time on wild exaggerations.

Nils-Axel Morner
(Sea level specialist from Sweden)
Paleogeophysics & Geodynamics

Julie Burchill: So the Prince of Green Hypocrites is going on tour. Thank God I'll be abroad - Julie Burchill, Columnists - The Independent

Green is the first socio-political movement in which every single leader and spokesperson is filthy rich.

We're still awaiting the apocalypse | NewsChief.com

The apocalypse is upon us now, we are warned, and much is therefore required - crush corporations, squeeze industrialism to puniness, transfer wealth from rich to poor countries. But hold on a minute. The apocalypse can't be found.
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The lesson here is that the real danger lurking behind warnings may be their falsity. It behooves us to very carefully examine such issues as cap-and-trade global warming remedies that one economist has said could do trillions more harm than good. It behooves us - myself included - to look both ways before crossing the street.

Scott Blakeman: Summer Blamed for Northeast Heat Wave

The hot temperatures and high humidity that have dominated the headlines in the Northeast this July and August, is attributable to one of the four seasons called summer, a leading climatologist revealed yesterday.

The climatologist, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to make obvious statements, said summer was also the culprit for the prevalence of skimpy attire worn by women on the streets of major northeastern cities.