Climate scientist calls for Hazelwood immediate closure | Indymedia Australia

http://indymedia.org.au/2010/11/07/climate-scientist-calls-for-hazelwood-immediate-closure

"One hundred million people will be flooded due to sea level rise before the end of the century, and that is not 100 million people in total but 100 million people every year subject to annual flooding from sea level rise for the very lowest estimate of sea level rise for any emission scenario." said David Karoly.

Hazelwood's share of that climate impact, Professor Karoly estimated as ten thousand people having to leave their homes every year. "What is Hazelwood's share? It is only small, only.01 per cent. That is a small number. That means that 10,000 people, the typical size of many country towns in Victoria, will be flooded annually; will have to leave their homes. "

NationalJournal.com - Green Groups Will Fight Smaller Battles - Saturday, November 6, 2010

http://mobile.nationaljournal.com/energy/green-groups-will-fight-smaller-battles-20101104

For the past three years, the nation's most influential green groups – among them the Environmental Defense Fund, Sierra Club, and Natural Resources Defense Council – joined forces in an estimated $300 million campaign to push the most ambitious environmental policy ever: enacting a cap-and-trade emissions law that would fundamentally transform the nation's energy economy.

New York's Bloomberg Urges Cities to Take Lead on Tackling Climate Change - Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-06/new-york-s-bloomberg-urges-cities-to-take-lead-on-tackling-climate-change.html

Bloomberg is founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP.

AFP: World mayors vow to fight climate change

"We need a variety of policies, programmes and projects with, and between, cities to succeed," Toronto mayor David Miller, the outgoing C40 chair, told the conference.
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Several Greenpeace activists unfurled a huge banner down the front of the convention centre hosting the meeting which said "nuclear is not the solution".

VOA | UN Panel Urges Measures to Raise Billions for Climate Change Mitigation | Environment | English

The U.N. Secretary-General's High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing has released its recommendations for how the international community can raise $100 billion a year by 2020 to offset the impact of global warming on developing countries. Among the recommendations, the panel is urging increasing the price of carbon emissions.

A message for global-warming alarmists (OneNewsNow.com)

An environmental expert at a national research and education organization says politicians received a strong message from voters in Tuesday's elections regarding global-warming alarmism and environmental extremism.

James Taylor, senior fellow at The Heartland Institute, explains that "the mandate that the voters did give congressmen was to oppose overreaching government, particularly regarding the global-warming issue, because the candidates who were most out in front of global-warming alarmism were the ones who were beaten back severely."

Clinging to his religion: Warmist scientist goes to the Arctic, finds that it's damn cold up there, but still claims that it's too warm

Scientist lives with endangered tribe to save disappearing language - CNN.com

London, England (CNN) -- As inhospitable environments go, it doesn't get much trickier than living near the Arctic Circle where the temperature can plummet to minus 40 degrees Celsius in the permanent winter darkness and the diet consists of walrus and whale blubber.
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Now, having spent almost 12 weeks adjusting to the freezing conditions and the language barriers, Leonard talks about his experiences there.

The cold has already taken its toll on the Apple Mac laptop he took out there. It has frozen and refuses to "boot up," but Leonard has managed to find an "ancient," PC that he is using to send emails.
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But Leonard says that apart from political pressure, the tribe faces a new and unprecedented threat to their culture from global warming.

"It is widely understood how global warming is threatening the natural environment but the Inughuit represent a bona fide example of how climate change impacts on local cultures.

"The threat of global warming to their traditional hunting life has left the Inughuit believing that their current settlements will not be here in 15 years' time, that people will relocate southwards, and will assimilate into a broader Inuit culture," wrote Leonard.

If we all spend a lot more time cursing a solar-powered TV remote now, will we have less kidney stones in 2050?

Philips Launches Econova LED TV With Solar-Powered Remote

What’s interesting is its remote control. The bundled remote is actually solar-powered. It requires no battery replacement. You will have to charge the remote by placing it on a sunlit area in your entertainment or living room. For instance, you can set it near a window, so you can get the most out of the sunlight. The remote is simple enough for basic use, although it doesn’t come with multi-device control.

Murkowski Takes Issue With Obama Over Emissions Policy - News - Talk Radio News Service: News, Politics, Media

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (I-Alaska) today criticized President Obama’s steady support for allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to begin regulating greenhouse gas emissions in 2011.

Murkowski, a Republican-turned-Independent who will likely serve a second term after launching a write-in campaign against Joe Miller, the man who defeated her in the GOP primary, said Obama should ask the Senate to vote on a bill she helped pass out of the Committee on Energy last year aimed at giving the U.S. energy independence without placing restrictions on emissions.

“There are a great number of things we can do to responsibly reduce our carbon emissions without burdening our economy with an unworkable cap-and-trade scheme or command-and-control regulation by the EPA,” Murkowski said. “If the president wants to start with the work the Energy Committee has already done, I would be happy to work with him. But I also believe we must first preempt the EPA from meddling in the work of Congress when it comes to setting climate policies.”

More USHCN Comedy in D.C. | Real Science

How cool is that? They were able to take the manufactured Lincoln rise in temperatures, and “fix” the record of a second station using the same data! They took a downwards temperature trend at Lincoln, flipped it upwards, and got a double global warming bonus from one roll of the dice.

And who would have thought that the weather is more than three degrees warmer just 70 km to the south of Lincoln? We are so lucky to have such clever scientists fixing the data for us.

Otherwise, we would have just assumed that Washington D.C. was getting cooler – like the thermometers say.

The Virginia Triangle | Real Science

These two stations are 120 miles apart. How is it that they both needed to be changed from a cooling trend to a steep warming trend after 1990?

- Bishop Hill blog - Sir John Beddington on FOI

The emphasis, which was added by me, is to point readers to the part of Sir John's evidence that was, ahem, questionable. As I'm sure many readers here know, UEA have been unable to come up with any agreements that would prevent them releasing data to other researchers. They were repeatedly able to release the data to their pals. So where did this idea come from that release was prevented by confidentiality concerns?

What is the Message of the Midterm Election? How About Dirty Money Well Spent? | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

As just one example, the energy industry spent $69.5 million on TV advertising attacking clean energy and climate change. That’s ten times the amount raised by environmental groups, much of it filled with distortions and outright lies.

[If you have $31 million, is that more than 1/10 of $70 million?]: Pollution debate outlasts Proposition 23 - MarketWatch

By the time the smoke cleared, however, the opponents to the measure raised more than $31 million, compared to about $11 million by the proponents, according to public campaign finance disclosures compiled by Maplight.org.

It's Not The Heat, It's The Humidity - How Global Warming Will Kill

A relatively small increase in average temperature will kill most of the human race just from the heat, not considering any of the theoretical changes to crops or sea level.

Washington Disconnect: SUV Sales Well Over 50 Percent of Market - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

As if to put a punctuation mark on how out-of-touch Washington is with the electorate, October vehicle sales released today reveal that SUV sales have now almost fully rebounded from their pre-recession numbers and now make up 53 percent of the market, with cars at just 47 percent. The numbers have flipped since last October as the economy recovers and customers return to bigger, more fuel-thirsty vehicles.
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At GM, the marked SUV sales rise spelled good news as the profitable vehicles will help the Detroit giant pay off its massive government loans. GM’s “hot vehicles include the Chevrolet Equinox, GMC Terrain and Cadillac SRX followed by the larger Buick Enclave, GMC Acadia and Chevrolet Traverse,” reported the News. “On the pickup side, the Chevrolet Silverado, Avalanche and GMC Sierra saw sales rise 9 percent for the month.” All are low-mileage SUVs.

Ancient Evidence That CO2 Does Not Control Climate | The Resilient Earth

The importance of CO2 has been constantly overestimated and all evidence of its impotence ignored by mainstream climate scientists. And despite assertions to the contrary, until the real causes for climate change are found we will not be able to predict future climate change.

RSS global temperature anomaly takes a dive | Watts Up With That?

The drop from July is significant, and very steep, losing more than half of the temperature anomaly since then.

Desperation: Robotic Twitter Bot spoofs “Climate Change Deniers” | Watts Up With That?

From Technology Review, a case of desperation. “Let the robot handle it”. I have to chuckle though, since the article cites John Cook’s “Skeptical Science” as an “appropriate scientific source”. Also amusing is “the rejoinders are culled from a university source whom Leck says he isn’t at liberty to divulge.” Well since he is in New South Wales, I’m thinking this just might be another Tim Lambert aka Deltoid production.

Canada environment minister resigns, to join CIBC - Yahoo! News

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice announced his resignation on Thursday, saying he will leave the high-profile government post for a senior position at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
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Prentice's resignation also comes after this week's Republican victories in U.S. midterm elections, which will likely stall any efforts by the White House to push through tighter climate change legislation.

Acid oceans and acid rain | The Rational Optimist…

Before I started looking into this, I assumed the evidence for damage from ocean acidification must be strong because that is what the media kept saying. I am amazed by what I have found. Make no mistake: there are lots of threats to the ecosystems of the ocean, from over-fishing to nutrient run-off, but acidification is way down the list. The attention is deflecting funds and action from greater threats. It is time scientists had the courage to admit this.

Are Polar Bears More than 'Threatened'? - NYTimes.com

As a longtime observer of a wide range of efforts to limit global warming, I see this as one of the least likely to succeed — and a bad match of tool and task — if the goal is, in fact, to limit warming, which would require global cuts in emissions.
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Coincidentally, newly published research on changing dietary habits of polar bears around the southern shores of Canada’s Hudson Bay reveals the species’ adaptability in the face of shifting climate patterns. The bears there have had to leave the sea ice behind, along with their normal diet of ringed seal pups, earlier in the year because of warming. But now they find themselves onshore just as vast flocks of snow geese are nesting, providing an abundant supply of eggs and birds.

Diminishing Returns From Multi-Decadal Global Climate Model Simulations « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Hopefully, the NSF (and other agencies) will soon realize that most of this funding is a waste of taxpayers money and could be better spent on other research uses in climate and elsewhere.

What Kids Should Really Learn in Science Class - Sharon Begley

For one thing, the brain stinks at distinguishing patterns from randomness (no wonder people can’t tell that the climate change now underway is not just another turn in the weather cycle).

Sharon Begley - Newsweek

Sharon Begley, widely known for her ability to break down complex scientific theories and write about them in simple prose, returned to Newsweek in March 2007 from the Wall Street Journal, where she wrote the "Science Journal" column for five years.
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Begley earned a B.A. from Yale University.

The failed presidency of Barack Obama, post-election edition | Angry, rabid warmist Joe Romm

And so the chances have dropped sharply of averting multiple catastrophes post-2040 -- widespread Dust-Bowlification; multi-feet sea level rise followed by a rise of 6 to 12+ inches a decade until the planet is ice free; massive species loss; the ocean turning into large, hot acidified dead zones; and ever-strengthening superstorms that bring devastation to country after country that equals or surpasses what happened to Moscow and Pakistan and Nashville and New Orleans.
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper ...

EPA policy chief [throws in the towel] - Robin Bravender - POLITICO.com

One of the Obama administration’s most aggressive officials on global warming regulations is stepping down from her post at the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Heinzerling gained fame in the environmental community for her role in helping to win a landmark 2007 U.S. Supreme Court case that gave EPA the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. At EPA, she’s played a leading role in crafting the agency’s controversial climate policies as Jackson’s senior climate policy attorney and then as the associate administrator of EPA’s Office of Policy.

“I think she’s probably the farthest left and most committed of anyone on the team, with the exception of Carol Browner,” on climate change, said an industry attorney familiar with the agency, referring to the former agency administrator and President Barack Obama’s energy and climate adviser.

Why being Green means never having to say you're sorry – Telegraph Blogs

And there you have it: the true voice of the Green movement – red in tooth and ideology. It’s not about easy fixes. It’s not about making things better. It’s about advancing the Marxist war on capitalism by other means. Thanks George, for reminding us where you stand.

Efforts to Rebrand “Global Warming” Continue Apace | The American Culture

Evidently the United Nations regards humanity as a threat to the Earth and its ecosystems, and the best way to handle any “threat” is to, well, “reduce” it—or, better still, “eliminate” it altogether.

One-eyed Clima-clops Just Won’t Stop

For two decades now, traditional science has been menaced by an overfunded, myopic monster named Climatology. This most recent member of the science club has never bothered to learn the club ‘rules’ and when confronted with puzzling data has chosen to create their own rules.

Bloomberg on Climate Change: “Most People Unfortunately Don’t Care” - Ecocentric - TIME.com

Bloomberg shared the stage at the Hong Kong Convention Center in a brief roundtable with (freshly ousted) Toronto mayor David Miller, Johannesburg major Amos Masondo, and Edward Yau, Hong Kong's Secretary for the Environment, to talk about how their respective cities have stepped up to the challenge of greening themselves. In his remarks, Bloomberg talked about how cities that got built up several decades ago — like New York and Hong Kong — share a unique dilemma that newer cities don't. In most places, the bulk of carbon emissions comes from transportation, and a lesser percentage comes from buildings. In New York and Hong Kong, it's just the opposite, so both cities are faced with challenge how retrofitting old buildings.

Figuring out how to get people involved, he said, was the task at hand. Bloomberg, who has made environmental issues a central theme of his office, has made slow but steady progress on his green initiative PlaNYC. When you talk about what emissions are going to do to the earth in 50 years, "most people unfortunately don't care," he said. He went on to say that it's more effective to frame the argument for improving policy in terms of how people's lives are affected today — and that goes as much for the air they're breathing as for the money in their pockets." Capitalism works," Bloomberg said. "When you build parks, they enhance property values. When you plant trees, they enhance property values."

Ice Not Disappearing At Mendenhall Glacier | Real Science

James Balog from The University Of Colorado set up a camera to capture ice loss at Mendenhall Glacier Alaska, and seems to have shown the opposite.

Australia’s Global Warming Efforts Have Been Successful | Real Science

Congratulations to the Australian government for having reversed global warming. Nature couldn’t have done it without the neurotic energy of clueless government officials.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Scam Targets Anti-Apartheid Environmentalists Concerned About Climate Change

The headline boomed “CLIMATE CHANGE AWARENESS FUND ($900.000.00)”. Even better, it was sent from the Nelson Mandela Foundation (nmf.unfccc12@att.net). Subject: Climate Change Awareness Fund.

It’s Official! There Will Not Be Any Climate Apocalypse! (For At Least Five Years) « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

In other words, the most pro-AGW politicians on Earth are pretty much convinced we are not facing the last chance to save the world, it’s not 99 months to the apocalypse, the 350ppm threshold in CO2 concentration can be crossed for several years in a row without any cause for panic. Etc etc.

I wonder if all of that will go in the Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC AR5?

American Thinker: The Green Bubble is about to Burst

The White House claims that the federal cash subsidy will create three hundred permanent jobs (at about $3 million per job!). The nature of the jobs is not specified, but one may assume that there will be much need for sweepers to remove dust and dirt from about 7,000 acres of solar mirrors. Not exactly "high-tech," is it?

An Election-Night Win For Domestic Energy Jobs | GlobalWarming.org

Draw up a map of the U.S. and shade in the regions that rely on energy jobs – places like Appalachia, the Rockies, western Gulf states, Alaska – and that’s where we saw some of the strongest anti-Obama sentiment succeeding on election day.
With few exceptions, the only Democratic congressional candidates who won in these areas were those able to distance themselves from President Obama’s energy policies – or to be more accurate, his anti-energy policies. In its first two years, the Obama administration has tried to slam the door shut on domestic production of coal, oil, and natural gas.
But now, many of the administration’s Congressional allies in this effort have gotten a pink slip from their constituents. Obama will soon have to contend with a Congress that sees increased supplies of affordable domestic energy - and the increased jobs that go with it - as things worth fighting for rather than against.
Most notably, costly global warming legislation proved to be political poison.

Global Warming Hysteria: Bobby Kennedy, Jr. Epitomizes the Term » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

Kennedy rants and raves about how the answer is democracy, but refuses to understand that democracy has rejected his brand of radical environmentalism. We’re all just stupid and misinformed by the propaganda of the fat cats, unlike wise progressives like him.

Kennedy clearly would impose his policy desires if he could, regardless of what the people actually think. And of course, he was notoriously (and typically, see Al Gore, James Cameron, etc.) hypocritical opposing a wind farm that would be visible from the family’s Cape Cod compound.

Other than being the son of a great man, I don’t think Kenedy brings very much to the party. But he does provide a pretty good illustration of what I mean by “global warming hysteria.”

Don't miss this - I'm a Denier - Minnesotans For Global Warming

It's a parody of "I'm a Believer" written by Neil Diamond and performed by the Monkees. This version was written by Elmer Beauregard and Brian D. Smith and performed by Elmer and the M4GW players.

This song is in honor of all the new Republican Freshman entering Congress and the Senate most of whom are Deniers and proud of it.

I think this is song may be our "Tour de Farce"

BBC Panorama production "What's Up With The Weather" (Part) | Climate Realists

If they conducted the experiment with a normal Atmosphere and added an increase of 1/625 CO2 there would be NO CHANGE! And yet we are investing billions into the "green" industry on the basis that an increase of "Man Made" CO2 changes the Atmosphere.

The Reference Frame: Tamino and man-made Arctic odds

Tamino's article is another flagrant example of the pseudoscientific nature of the climate disruption ideology.
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But one can't show - at any confidence level that would be OK from a scientific viewpoint - that there is an actual "climate disruption" going on. The climate is doing its business-as-usual, and so should the industrial societies. Meanwhile, the AGW crooks are likely to continue with their business-as-usual, too. For Tamino, it means to keep on writing demagogic articles about ill-defined concepts, using cherry-picked facts about the observed climate and employing all logical fallacies that can be useful to achieve an outcome with a particular sign.

The Great Beyond: Ocean pH dropping faster than expected

High latitude waters in the Arctic and Antarctic are particularly sensitive to pH changes, as cold waters absorb more gas than warm waters.

Why aren't any actual pH levels provided in this article?

Yet another predictable Obama administration green jobs fiasco: If we blow $535 million on a troubled solar company, how much bad weather will be prevented?

Fremont solar panel maker Solyndra scales back expansion plans - Inside Bay Area

Solyndra Inc., the high-flying solar panel maker once touted by President Barack Obama as a model for a green energy future, said Wednesday it has scuttled its factory expansion in Fremont, a move that will stop the company's plans to hire 1,000 workers.

Solyndra said it will also close an existing factory in the East Bay. That will leave the company with one Fremont factory, a new plant visible from Interstate 880.

The moves mean that instead of having 2,000 workers in Fremont, Solyndra will cap its work force at 1,000, which is about the current level. Solyndra also will, over the next several weeks, eliminate 155 to 175 jobs in Fremont. That includes 135 contract employees and 20 to 40 full-time workers, said David Miller, a Solyndra spokesman.

The company seeks to slash production costs amid fierce competition from rival manufacturers in China and the United States.
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The company's fortunes sparkled in September 2009, when the Obama administration announced $535 million in taxpayer loans to finance
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In December 2009, the company filed for an initial public offering of its stock expected to raise $300 million. In May, Obama toured the Solyndra facilities in Fremont.

The company's fortunes dimmed soon after. In June, Solyndra canceled its IPO, and the following month its chief executive officer, Chris Gronet, quit. Brian Harrison, a former Intel executive, took over as CEO.

"The company's problems raise questions about the federal government's wisdom in giving $535 million to a company with an unproven technology," Mehta said.

Laughable new peer-reviewed study typifies climate hoax junk science: After a bunch of completely unconvincing guessing and hand-waving, CO2 is annointed as the primary driver of warming

The Heat Was On: Atmospheric CO 2 Triggered a Global Warming Event 40 Million Years Ago: Scientific American

In a new study scientists used "paleothermometers" to gauge CO2 and temperatures that prevailed during a long-lived primordial global warming event, and found CO2 to be the culprit
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Atmospheric CO2 was the primary driver of a 400,000-year global warming event, known as the middle Eocene climatic optimum (MECO), according to a new study. The finding, which could help climatologists better understand the precise relationship between CO2 concentration and climate change today, is described in the November 5 issue of Science.
...In order to investigate the role of CO2 during this warming episode, researchers analyzed sediment taken from deep beneath the ocean floor off the eastern coast of Tasmania. The core contained a record of fossils that spanned the relevant time interval.

The researchers relied on two separate organic proxies, also called paleothermometers, to reconstruct changes in sea-surface temperature during the MECO. Both are based on variation—due to temperature change—in structural characteristics of the molecular remains of specific microorganisms. In other words, the team analyzed specific molecules in which certain variations are known to be reflective of temperature change.
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To figure out how much atmospheric CO2 increased during the MECO, the researchers reconstructed the changes in its concentration by determining the ratio of stable carbon isotopes in organic molecules called alkenones. Variation in the composition of these molecules, produced by algae, can serve as an indicator of atmospheric CO2. Isotopic proportions are also influenced by the growth rate of the algae, which is proportional to the available food and nutrients in the water. So the authors considered multiple scenarios to account for variations in nutrient availability, concluding that CO2 concentration increased by a factor of two to three during the MECO.

James Zachos, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who specializes in the time period and methodology used the study, said in an e-mail to Scientific American that apart from what may be an overestimation of the mean partial pressure of CO2, and the magnitude of its rise, "the data look reasonable."
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Currently, climatologists have a much better understanding of the role short-term feedbacks, such as changes in water vapor or sea ice. Incidentally, there were no glaciers at the time of the MECO, so Hoeben's group could look exclusively at the relationship between CO2 and temperature without having to account for the fact that changes in the amount of sea ice can increase temperature, too. "We've shown that if you include those long-term factors, then CO2 might very well be the leading factor for temperature increase, especially in a world without a major ice sheet," Houben says.
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The study does leave one big question outstanding: Where did all the MECO CO2 come from? This remains an area of speculation, Houben says, although scientists are fairly sure the source was not organic. However the CO2 got there, the takeaway from this study is simple: "In the past," Zachos says, "whenever atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rise, the climate warms."

Why doesn't this article ever tell us what CO2 levels were back then? According to this graph, they were about 3,000 ppm.

Why didn't positive feedbacks turn the Earth into a permanently uninhabitable fireball?

How do we know that the elevated CO2 levels weren't an effect of warmth driven by other factors, rather than the cause of the warmth?

How Republican Victories Might Start a Science War | The Atlantic Wire

...how about that extra divisive field of climate science? There, things could really change. Climate change activists are alarmed.

ThinkProgress » Karl Rove: ‘Climate Is Gone’

“Climate is gone,” said Rove, the keynote speaker on the opening day of a two-day shale-gas conference sponsored by Hart Energy Publishing L.L.P. And Rove told the trade show, “I don’t think you need to worry” the new Congress will consider proposed legislation to put the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing under federal rather than state regulation. The procedure, known as “fracking,” is responsible for the dramatic growth of shale-gas drilling in formations such as Pennsylvania’s vast Marcellus Shale.

NSF admits that the science isn't settled

NSF Releases Online, Multimedia Package Titled, "Clouds: The Wild Card of Climate Change" - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

As discussions about climate change continue, one critical factor about this phenomenon has remained largely unknown to the public: the important but enigmatic role of clouds in climate change. The role of clouds is important because at any given time about 70 percent of the Earth is covered by clouds. The role of clouds is enigmatic because clouds can exert opposing forces: Some types of clouds help cool the Earth and some types of clouds help warm it. Which effect will win out as our climate continues to change? So far, no one is certain.

Still Clueless in Australia « NoFrakkingConsensus

While majorities in several countries doubt that climate change is caused by human beings, and while roughly half the population tends to be right-of-center, in most newsrooms the climate skeptic perspective – and the conservative perspective – remains significantly underrepresented.

Climate Resistance » What? The Green Movement Got Something Wrong?!

For Chandrasekaran, subsistence existences are the expression of pure eco-virtue. And this is what the environmental movement gets terribly, terribly wrong.

UN Report ignores Earth Risk factor of rising CO2: GBA | Earth Saving Mission

God Believers Association (GBA), an NGO, which serves as a social platform for world peace apart from serving as awareness medium for removing violation of Global Climate Disorder to save the earth planet under the spirit of the Copenhagen Accord, has appreciated the UN annual flagship report on the state of the world.

Cosmo Theorist, Dr. Raj Baldev, who is also a Social Reformer and the Lead Man of GBA, said, that the UN has rightly pointed out the world against their constant failure to check the climate change in their annual Human Development Report (HDR), that there should be a proper balance between the two.

The science is settled: If you want to suppress Ontario crop yields, adding a little CO2 to the atmosphere is a truly lousy idea

Record yields for Ontario farmers | Canada | News | Toronto Sun

It could turn out to be the best harvest in history, both in yield per acre and total production, said Peter Johnson, a crop specialist with the Ontario Agriculture Ministry.

"Farmers with big crops will make money, this year, no question," he said.

While the final numbers aren't in, Johnson said the average soybean yield could hit a record 47 bushels an acre, well above the 40 bushels per acre long-term average.

Corn could top 160 bushels an acre -- another record.

Johnson said the only "problem" that producers have is running out of storage space.

Even warmist Bob Park is starting to sound less certain these days

What's New by Bob Park - Friday, October 15, 2010

Hal couldnt resist pissing on the APS Global Warming Statement, which he thinks is a scam. The APS statement uses the word "incontrovertible" to describe the evidence for or against global warming. Incontrovertible should be unacceptable to physicists. What sets physics apart from other ways of knowing is openness to revision if better information becomes available. Openness to new knowledge is the most important concept science can offer the world.

The UN thinks you're stupid: They suggest that a little extra warmth and some more atmospheric plant food may cause the price of wheat to more than double

Climate change is main barrier to development - United Nations - Telegraph

Climate change and destruction of the environment are the biggest threats to improving wealth and happiness around the world, according to a major United Nations report.
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The UN said that on one estimate, the adverse effects of climate change on grain yields would push prices up, more than doubling the price of wheat.

[Does this mean that the global warming scare is over?]: Obama Lets GM Execs Fly Private Jets Again - GM - Fox Nation

General Motors executives have been cleared for takeoff again.

The automaker has been given the go-ahead by the federal government to use chartered aircraft as early as Thursday to ferry managers on a "road show" promoting G.M.'s public stock offering, according to government and company officials who declined to be identified.

House Global Warming Committee Faces Uncertain Future Under Republicans | ecopolitology

House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming to be terminated or led by a climate skeptic.

Gibbs plugs renewable electricity standard - The Hill's E2-Wire

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said a renewable electricity standard could be an area of bipartisan energy cooperation now that President Obama has backed away from politically moribund bills to cap greenhouse-gas emissions.

Scientists hope to improve public communication on climate change - Purdue's Student Newspaper

Curry added a last posing thought by referring to the lack of willingness in the climate change community to steer away from groupthink.

“They are setting themselves up as second-rate scientists by not engaging,” Curry said. “By being so circular, there are missing the opportunity for input of other expertise in other scientific areas which are similar in some respects to (climate change).”

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Not the Last You Will See of "Climate" Oversight

Specifically, CEI's FOIA suit seeks documents and emails relating to NASA's temperature record, which NASA was forced to correct in response to criticism from a leading climate watchdog, Steve McIntyre. Those corrections destroyed NASA's stance that U.S. temperatures have been steadily rising in recent years and returned 1934, not 1998, to being the warmest year on record. NASA refuses to give CEI the computer file they used to make these changes, whose title includes "Steve" and "alternate cleaning."

CEI also seeks emails from NASA scientists using Real Climate.org on official time using official resources, often to advance what NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (its climate activist office) has decided is appropriate public advocacy.
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* NASA admits that it discovered 3,500 emails on Dr. Schmidt's NASA computer related to his work on RealClimate but won't produce them.

Hottest year ever update: More record cold in Australia

North-west Qld experiences record low temperatures - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Two north-west Queensland towns have recorded their coolest temperatures on record.

Croydon and Julia Creek both reached 25 degrees Celsius yesterday, 13 degrees below the November average, and breaking a 49-year-old record.

California's Climate Law Still in Jeopardy | Mother Jones

Environmentalists were quite relieved when California voters soundly rejected a ballot measure that would have delayed implementation of the state's landmark climate law—but perhaps they shouldn't be. While that ballot measure was shot down, another initiative, Proposition 26, snuck in—and it could very well undermine the climate law that citizens voted to protect.

The measure expands the definition of a "tax," and would require a two-thirds majority of the California's legislature to approve any new fee on companies or taxpayers instead of a simple majority. This, of course, would make it considerably harder to levy fees on things like pollution, alcohol, or tobacco.

Obama lukewarm on using EPA authority to rein in carbon emissions | Grist

Ahead of last December's Copenhagen summit, the Obama administration warned that if Congress did not act, the Environmental Protection Agency may regulate carbon.

Obama was non-committal on the idea Wednesday, saying that federal authorities were not "protective of their powers" but wanted to "make sure that the issue's being dealt with."

Putting the midterm elections in the context of the latest climate science (and life as we know it) | Grist

A series of "climate change Pearl Harbors" could trigger a political tipping point that convinces U.S. (and world) leaders to make mitigation efforts their top priority.

What the Election Means for Greens - By Chris Horner - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Cap-and-trade is now dead, having proven — as we predicted — to be the 1993 BTU tax redux. Members in the House voted on both measures on the assurance that the Senate would not leave them hanging, only to see their trust misplaced. As opposition grew more intense from the people — who were not at the table when their wealth was redistributed to various interests — the senators realized that they wanted to save jobs. Theirs, that is.

Combine these and we see that cap-and-trade’s ugly cousin, “green jobs,” is sure to be an obsession very soon. It also is sure to meet an unhappy fate.

California Climate Vote More about Protecting Investments | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

This process, known as rent-seeking (because it causes businesses to lobby for rules in their favor at the expense of others), is bad economics, bad for the consumer, and bad for the state of California.

Hiding The Decline In Washington DC | Real Science

The closest USHCN station to Washington is at Lincoln, Virginia. Since the mid-1990s, the thermometers say that Lincoln has cooled about three degrees (blue below) – while USHCN carefully adjusts the temperatures in the opposite direction.

Climate Research News » Ross McKitrick: The Case Against the Case Against Conventional Energy

The presentation is based on Canada, but many of the findings are universal. He makes the following points about the ‘green’ economy:

“The only people who want to push wind energy for its own sake are those who expect to profit from it.”

“Windmills don’t run on wind, they run on [government] subsidies.”

“Solar panels are not powered by sunlight, they are powered by taxpayers.”

“In other words, the green energy sector takes $2 worth of inputs and produces $1 worth of energy.”

“This is not wealth-creation, it is wealth destruction.”

“It is not job creation, since even more jobs have to be destroyed to fund the subsidies.”

And concludes:

Expose ulterior motives by asking: what are you really interested in?

Global Warming FOIA Suit Against NASA Heats Up Again - The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times

In court documents filed last night, the Competitive Enterprise Institute argues that NASA has gone out of its way to avoid turning over records that show the agency reverse-engineered temperature data to better make the case that the planet is becoming warmer.

Could you give up washing? | Environment | The Guardian

commentator Matthew Parris admitting he hadn't shampooed his hair for a decade

View Online - News

New research has found that the glaciers in Antarctica may contain nanoparticles of iron oxide which may be able to slow global warming.

Through the warming process causing glaciers and icebergs to melt, the iron oxide will be leached into the ocean and boost the growth of phytoplankton and as they photosynthesise they will remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere which could slow global warming.

Eco-nut Michael Bloomberg suggests that trace amounts of CO2 damage the drinking water and air

Mayor Michael Bloomberg Heads to Hong Kong For Climate Change [Hoax] Summit - DNAinfo.com

MANHATTAN — With the election over, Mayor Michael Bloomberg packed his bags and boarded a plan to Asia to lead an international summit on climate change.

Bloomberg left Wednesday night for Hong Kong, where he will gather with other members of the C40 Climate Leadership Group, an association of cities aimed at finding ways to reduce waste and carbon emissions, he said.
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"We've got to make sure that we all focus on the damage that we’re doing to the, drinking water and the air and the long-term climate change," Bloomberg told reporters before he left.

Flashback: Mayor Bloomberg Doesn’t Always Live by His Health Rules - NYTimes.com

But Mr. Bloomberg, 67, likes his popcorn so salty that it burns others’ lips. (At Gracie Mansion, the cooks deliver it to him with a salt shaker.) He sprinkles so much salt on his morning bagel “that it’s like a pretzel,” said the manager at Viand, a Greek diner near Mr. Bloomberg’s Upper East Side town house.

Not even pizza is spared a coat of sodium. When the mayor sat down to eat a slice at Denino’s Pizzeria Tavern on Staten Island recently, this reporter spotted him applying six dashes of salt to it.

A health tip sheet from the mayor’s office tells New Yorkers to “drink smart” by choosing water, even though Mr. Bloomberg has a three- to four-cup-a-day coffee habit.

“I can count on two hands the number of times I have seen him drink water,” said one dining companion,

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Nov. 4th 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

The week has been dominated with news of the US mid-term elections, but that doesn’t mean it’s been all quiet on the warming front. California rejected dope and abandoned hope, Al Gore was busted for being an idle idol and the green version of George Orwell’s Youth League is alive and well in England.

EU Referendum: We knew this

The climate scare is gradually falling apart. And with no US "cap and trade", there will be no money to sustain it. The scaremongers will move on to find more profitable causes.

The big problem now is to get through to the idiot politicians, to undo some of the damage they and their predecessors have done. That is going to be difficult. We still have legislation on the stocks, introduced on the assumption that BSE was going to cause a large-scale epidemic in humans. Getting legislators to claw back on legislation is one of the hardest tasks known to man.

The next hardest thing is to get those who supported the scare to admit to their stupidity. But the world does not work that way. The old scares are forgotten, and new ones forged. Nobody ever admits they are wrong. That way, we never learn the lessons and are always prey to the scaremongers, failing to recognise them as they employ the tools of their trade until it is too late.

Second order « the Air Vent

The most destructive enemy of humanity is not weather, it is poverty.

Climate Change Dispatch - End of the World as You KNOW It

The Nov 2, 2010 elections are the beginning of the end to the world as a lot of people KNOW it. The new Representative majority will appoint committee chairmen with a more balanced view on climate and real hearings will produce real evidence of this criminal fraud. House originated spending bills will slash funding of Executive Czars and run-away department heads, including the EPA.

More lunacy from eco-nut James Cameron: "Coral reefs can be killed off in the next 20 years"; "we are the comet"

Building a smarter planet? Look at James Cameron’s Avatar | VentureBeat

During the 12 years it took to make Avatar, Cameron wondered deeply about the environmental impact of his film. Humans, Cameron said, have to evolve into “techno indigenous people, not of the state, not of the nation, but of the planet.”

He added, “That hasn’t been done before and I don’t know how to do it. Maybe it’s one of the tipping point things in a good way. You notice now that solar energy is slowly starting to accelerate. I have to think that people of good conscience will prevail. Education is important. We have to challenge our leaders to be leaders, getting the public to buy into it. Right now, they are in denial mode because of the economy. That is natural. People have to pay mortgages.”
...he also intends to bring to light problems such as the fact that the coral reefs can be killed off in the next 20 years, simply by a 2-degree increase in the temperature of the ocean on a global level.

People have to realize that everything is connected, he said. People in Minnesota might actually like it if the temperature of the planet rises five degrees. But they won’t like it if they have to send their children to fight wars that arise because the temperature rise elsewhere causes droughts, mass migrations, dislocations and conflict. Cameron said that humans have to acknowledge a debt to the natural and that we are on a precipice.

“If we don’t take control of our role and stewardship of the planet,” he said. “Then the world we bequeath to our children and grandchildren is not going to be a livable place.”
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Cameron said he was also concerned that 70 percent of all species could be wiped out by global warming and other environmental impacts of mankind by the end of the century. He said that is as bad as the loss of species that occurred when the comet wiped out the dinosaurs.

“This time, we are the comet,” he said.

Great Barrier Reef, North Queensland, Australia

The Great Barrier Reef is around 18 million years of age in the north and 2 million Years old in the south

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Scientific American Poll: 81% think the IPCC is Corrupt, with Group-think & Political Agenda

'Scientific' American may regret taking their recent opinion poll on the state of Climate Science given the eye-opening results cast by their "scientifically literate" readership. With a total of 5190 respondents, a consensus of 81.3% think the IPCC is "a corrupt organization, prone to group-think, with a political agenda" and 75% think climate change is caused by solar variation or natural processes vs. 21% who think it is due to greenhouse gases from human activity. 65% think we should do nothing about climate change since "we are powerless to stop it," and the same percentage think science should stay out of the political process. When asked "How much would you be willing to pay to forestall the risk of catastrophic climate change?" 76.7% said "nothing."

Obama tries to pick up the pieces on climate and energy | Grist

Barack Obama is officially thinking small. After tossing the last shovelful of dirt on cap-and-trade yesterday as "just one way of skinning the cat," he ran through a list of what his energy options are now that Republicans have taken over the House: Electric vehicles, converting heavy trucks to natural gas, more energy efficient buildings, and maybe, just maybe, a renewable electricity standard.

More exceedingly stupid stuff from the UN: As growth in fossil fuel use has improved the human condition, they argue that more growth in fossil fuel use will harm the human condition

UN report warns of threat to human progress from climate change | Global development | The Guardian

"For human development to become truly sustainable, the close link between economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions needs to be severed," the UN said in its annual human development report (HDR).

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the HDR said the past two decades had seen "substantial progress" in human development despite the impact of the financial crisis, which had resulted in 34 million people losing their jobs and an additional 64 million people dropping below the $1.25 a day income poverty threshold.

"Most people are healthier, live longer, are more educated and have more access to goods and services. Even in countries facing adverse economic conditions, people's health and education have greatly improved."

$9 billion described as "peanuts": I wonder if this will inspire the new US House to cough up $100 billion annually in climate swindle money

Rich nations urged to develop climate [hoax] aid plan for Cancún | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Brazilian environment minister Izabella Teixeira says negotiators must show they can produce agreements to restore faith in climate talks
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But as Cancún approaches, even that fund has failed to take shape, India's environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, complained.

"The promised $30bn is nowhere in the sight. At best we can hope to get $8bn or $9bn which is just peanuts," Ramesh told reporters before leaving for Cancún.

Greens desperate to avoid blame - POLITICO.com Print View

Environmentalists are trying to stomp out the suggestion that they had anything to do with the tidal wave that washed away House Democrats in Tuesday's midterm elections.
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"It's very dangerous branding for them," said Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the free-market Competitive Enterprise Institute and a skeptic on global warming science. "There will never be another vote on a Btu tax in my lifetime for the reason of 1993. I suggest if cap and trade is similarly thought of, there will also never be a vote on cap and trade."

Indeed, directly after the cap-and-trade vote — which itself was delayed for an hour while Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) held the floor to decry the bill — House Republicans taunted Democrats with chants of "Btu, Btu."

President Barack Obama is already trying to distance himself from the Democrats' unsuccessful climate bill (a measure the White House celebrated at the time).

New Republican House Promises Investigation Of Global Warming Fraud

One of the first tasks of the new Republican-controlled House of Congress will be to launch a full investigation into the man-made global warming fraud, as the climate change con that threatens to tax and regulate the American middle class out of existence is exposed to what could prove terminal scrutiny.

Election Results Likely to Proliferate Climate-Related Lawsuits -- Study - NYTimes.com

According to figures from the law firm Arnold & Porter LLP cited in the report, as of October, there were 290 separate climate-linked lawsuits working their way through courts, many of them on appeal after having been dismissed earlier. The majority of the cases, 91, are direct challenges by companies and state governments to EPA efforts at regulating greenhouse gases.

Selling out their craft to the global warming cause | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Should journalists report the views of global warming sceptics - even just for balance?

A panel of “top” journalists and journalism academics, as chosen by the University of Technology Sydney’s far Left Centre of “Independent Journalism” and broadcast by the ABC, agree that on the whole the answer is ... no, or rarely.

Naturally, in accord with their commitment to debate, not one person on the panel is a sceptic, or challenges this group think.
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Warmist academic Anne Henderson-Sellers, who says she sets her students the homework of watching the propagandist An Inconvenient Truth and The Age of Stupid to inform themselves, demands to know why journalists didn’t describe Lord Monckton as a “fruitcake” so her hairdresser wouldn’t be so impressed. Chubb calls him a “clown”.

The real reason (climate) scientists don't want to release their code | John Graham-Cumming

1. When the scientist's results are invalidated later by others because the code was blatantly wrong (and they are retracting papers) (see story in the Nature article) they are going to look like much more of a fool. And, frankly, if they think their code is that bad one has to wonder how they can think their paper is worth publishing.
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It's tragic that there's a conflict between science and scientific careers. But I think you can put aside the high-minded arguments about the integrity of the scientific method, and see the real reason (climate) scientists don't want to release their code: management of a scientific career and fear of looking foolish.

Climate expert helps ease guilt | Noosa News | Local News in Noosa | Noosa News

Noosa-bound Professor Bob Carter has written a book on climate for all those feeling giddy and guilty after being “bashed about the head for the past 10 years” by the doomsayers of global warning.

Prof Carter will launch his book ‘Climate: The Counter Consensus’ at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Centre off Eumundi Road, Noosaville, at 3pm tomorrow.

Global Warming Denier Shimkus Hoping For Top Spot On Energy Committee | Progress Illinois

Perhaps the biggest ramification of the U.S. House switching to Republican control is the change in leadership of committee posts. Politico is reporting that following his re-election, U.S. Rep. John Shimkus is making a play for chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This is the same Illinois congressman who called the cap-and-trade legislation that passed the House last year "the largest assault on democracy and freedom in this country that I’ve ever experienced," so the development is a disturbing one.

GCMs Unable To Accurately Model 70% Of The Earth’s Surface | Real Science

But the IPCC still claims 98% confidence in their future outcomes.

We've been conned. The deal to save the natural world never happened | George Monbiot | Comment is free | The Guardian

The so-called summit in Japan won't stop anyone trashing the planet. Only economic risks seem to make governments act

Almost One Million km2 Of New Arctic Ice In The Past Four Days | Real Science

A new Manhattan of ice forms about every minute, in Holdren’s ice free winter.

To offset Obama's trip to India, how long must I leave my iPhone unplugged?

34 warships sent from US for Obama visit

He will also be protected by a fleet of 34 warships, including an aircraft carrier, which will patrol the sea lanes off the Mumbai coast during his two-day stay there beginning Saturday. The measure has been taken as Mumbai attack in 2008 took place from the sea.
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Obama is expected to fly by a helicopter -- Marine One -- from the city airport to the Indian Navy's helibase INS Shikra at Colaba in south Mumbai.

From there, he will drive down in Lincoln Continental -- the Presidential limousine -- to the nearby the Taj Hotel.

Two jets, armed with advanced communication and security systems, and a fleet of over 40 cars will be part of Obamas convoy.

Around 800 rooms have been booked for the President and his entourage in Taj Hotel and Hyatt.

London calls for green revolution - UPI.com

British Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne spoke to an audience at the London School of Economics on the importance of matching economic sustainability with environmental sustainability.
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He explained that a low-carbon economic model was a $5.1 trillion market.

"The next generation's prosperity will come from clean energy," he added. "It must be affordable. It must be secure. And it must be low-carbon."

MetOffice junk scientist: "a fraction of the carbon we put in the atmosphere will stay there *forever*, all else being equal"

2C climate target may need to change: UK scientist | Reuters

(Reuters) - A widely agreed international target to avoid dangerous global warming must take account of local impacts and may need to change, said the chief scientist at the MetOffice Hadley Center, Britain's biggest climate research center.

Julia Slingo said the target of limiting global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius (2C) may need adjusting to take into account research into local and regional effects, particularly on rainfall patterns, as climate science advances.
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Slingo added: "Temperature change in many respects is not the most dangerous part of climate change. The most dangerous part is arguably around the shift of regional rainfall patterns.
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"The greater understanding we have now ... is that a fraction of the carbon we put in the atmosphere will stay there forever, all else being equal.

"There's an irreversible nature to temperature, carbon dioxide and sea level rise which goes on for several centuries. That has to enter into our consideration of what's dangerous."

If George Bush was the incumbent President and behind by eight percentage points, would CNN describe him as "popular"?

CNN Poll: Obama popular in hypothetical 2012 election matchup - CNN.com

In a hypothetical 2012 matchup, Huckabee leads Obama 52 - 44 percent, while Romney has a 50-45 point advantage, which is within the poll's sampling error.

Climate Change Denial » FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE US MID-TERM ELECTIONS

Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence, climate change is actually a socially held belief like any other, that people adopt or reject according to the views of their peers and the people around them. Just as melting accelerates in the arctic, once believers became a minority there are powerful social feedbacks that diminish their influence further. People who accept the science start to keep their views to themselves. Those who are still unsure soon pick up the social cues that it is no longer appropriate for people like themselves to believe in climate change.
...there’s one thing of which we can be certain: that, when confronted with the clear and irrefutable evidence that they have been wrong about climate change, the American right will feel challenged, defensive and guilty.

New Energy Out[spends] Old in California - NYTimes.com

The pro-AB 32 forces were so persuaded that the law was good for California’s economy that they outspent the oil companies — $31.2 million compared with $10.6 million. That war chest paid for mass mailings, nearly three million telephone calls to voters and TV commercials that extolled the promise of green jobs and urged voters to reject the oil companies’ “job-killing dirty energy proposition.” About 3,000 volunteers took the case door to door.

How do we know that the "new" energy people were motivated by concern for the California economy, rather than by concern for their own wallets?  And wasn't this supposed to be about preventing bad weather in Bangladesh in 2050, not about making money off California residents right now?

2010 Russian Heat Wave Was Only 20% Caused by “Climate Change”, Says Academy Of Sciences

Note there is no mention in the Ria Novosti report of “man-made climate change” – only “climate change”. Since climate is always changing naturally, in sync with other cycles like ocean and solar cycles, evidence of a human greenhouse gas fingerprint as the cause would seem to be impossible to discern.

Transcript: The Reviews into the Climatic Research Unit’s E-mails at the University of East Anglia

Q115 Stephen Metcalfe: Obviously it is a serious allegation that there was a scientific fraud. Just taking that slightly wider, who do you believe should be responsible for looking at scientific frauds and investigating allegations of that sort?

Sir Muir Russell: It is difficult. I’m not sure it was fraud. Fraud implies that it was all deliberately set out to be done to conceal or to fabricate. I don’t think that’s the evidence of what people thought they were doing in 1990. Whether it should have taken 17 years for someone to spot it and whether, at the end of the day, the records weren’t right so that you could set it right is another question.

Eruption Of Laki – 1783 | Real Science

In 1783, the Laki volcano in Iceland erupted. Gases from the volcano killed most of the island’s livestock and as a result – one fourth of the human population starved to death.

Winter temperatures in the US dropped almost 10F and stayed below normal for several years.

Wonk Room » Half Of GOP Caucus Are Climate Zombies, Four Members Admit Science Is Real

There are no Republican freshmen, in the House or Senate, who admit the science is real.

NC Media Watch: Prop 23 Update: The Next Battle Front for AB 32

Graig is right the carbon wars are not over, Prop 23 was only one battle and not it is time to regroup and move forward to the next engagment. The blogs challenging the AGW premiss are gaining ground and continue to bring AGW flaws to the public's attention, including the new Republican House members who will be investigating the AGW hoax in 2011. Here is one example, a peer-reviewed paper published in Theoretical and Applied Climatology points out that there little empirical evidence for AGW, and that “At best, the empirical evidence for human impact on climate change…is based on correlational research.” One of the first principles of science is that “correlation does not equal causation,” but as this paper shows, the IPCC essentially equates correlation with causation without consideration of alternative theories that could potentially falsify the AGW theory.

I think that Mary Nichols bravado will be challenged in the Courts. Stay Tuned, the next AB32 battle is just down the road.

Election Exegesis: Cap-and-Trade Hurts  | GlobalWarming.org

“One of the clearest messages voters sent last night was a repudiation of cap-and-trade and other policies to raise energy prices,” said Myron Ebell, Director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment.

Extreme Weather In Colorado In 1949 | Real Science

CO2 levels were 310 ppm, well below Hansen’s safe level of 350 ppm. Temperatures dropped over 100 degrees in one day.

RealClimate: Science, narrative and heresy

[Rabid warmist Gavin Schmidt] A recent example of a potentially dramatic new finding was the Haigh et al paper on solar forcing. If true, it would turn almost all work on solar effects on climate on its head, and they had no obvious problem publishing in Nature. This idea of knowledge sitting on a knife edge ready to flip whenever some new observation or insight arrives, is the reason why science is so exciting and fascinating.

Changing Greenland - Viking Weather - National Geographic Magazine

As Greenland returns to the warm climate that allowed Vikings to colonize it in the Middle Ages, its isolated and dependent people dream of greener fields and pastures—and also of oil from ice-free waters.

NC Media Watch: Prop 23 Update: Prop. 23 battle marks new era in environmental politics

Read the whole article here. It is clear that the Pro Prop 23 forces were out gunned by wealthy elites. Elites who will grow richer and richer as the county class pays their carbon tax tributes to a scientific hoax. The general public has been bamboozled and will suffer under the boots of the elites worshiping at the altar of AGW. How sad for California!

Politics of climate science fuel talk | jconline.com | Journal and Courier

Panelist Andrew Revkin, creator of the blog "Dot Earth" and a former environmental reporter for The New York Times, said many climate scientists have to play a delicate balancing act when discussing their findings with policy makers.

"There is a hand-off process when scientists sit down with politicians. ... That's where you see spin get into the mix," he said.

"For the scientists, there is a sense of 'how do I push this?' Science is all about what is and the what ifs ... not telling you what to do."

Election Brings Global Warming to Forefront - NYTimes.com

Obama to Face New Foes in Global Warming Fight
By JOHN M. BRODER
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Thomas F. Steyer, a San Francisco hedge fund billionaire who served as co-chairman of the group that campaigned against the proposition, said the nation would follow California’s lead.

Twitter / Andy Revkin

Gavin @Realclimate pokes 'non-skeptic heretics' http://j.mp/RCnonskep even though he is 1 on some issues (tipping points) http://j.mp/dotTip

Twitter / Andy Revkin

Before http://j.mp/PurdClim tonite Prof. Leigh Raymond pushes notion RGGI will still spur cap-trade down line. For states: "Cap & Ka-Ching."

Wait a minute, this is about money now, not about saving my grandchildren from CO2-induced fiery dry floods?!

Hottest year ever update: Cold weather "shatters the dreams" of cotton farmers in India

Cotton price hit by cold weather | Deccan Chronicle | 2010-11-04

Adilabad, Nov. 3: The cold weather prevailing in Telangana has shattered the dreams of cotton farmers as far as cotton price is concerned. Cotton traders reduced prices to Rs 3,600 from Rs 4,300 offered in the initial days of cotton purchase.

The traders are offering not more than Rs 3,600 per quintal pf cotton on the pretext of high moisture content in cotton brought by farmers for sale. They attribute the prevailing cold weather conditions for the high moisture content.

Flashback: Bangladesh, India most at risk from climate change | WORLD News

Bangladesh and India are the countries most vulnerable to climate change, according to an index yesterday that rates the Nordic region least at risk.

- Bishop Hill blog - Nature Climate Change

I would have thought a wholehearted commitment might involve the authors of papers submitting data and code to the journal at the same time as they submit the manuscript. A commitment merely to ask authors after the event was, of course, behind most of the scandals over climate science data in the last ten years.

Will Nature Climate Change demand that code be available as well as data? Will they withdraw papers if authors refuse to release data and code? I can't say I'm confident.

Binding climate change deal is impossible after Barack Obama's election defeat, says John Prescott - Telegraph

Barack Obama's setback in the US mid-term elections has killed of any hope of securing a legally binding global climate change deal, John Prescott has said.
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After President Barack Obama's ''shellacking'' at the hands of Republican opponents in mid-term elections, there was no prospect of the US Congress approving legal requirements to cut greenhouse gas emissions, said Lord Prescott, who was a key UK negotiator at the Kyoto global warming conference in 1997.
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''I heard him after his election disaster. Now they are saying they don't want to be involved in any kind of legal agreement. So forget the legal agreement - you can't get it. That's the reality.

''The Americans can't deliver anyway and if they tried to get something through Congress, they couldn't get it anyway.''

He added: ''Let's have a voluntary agreement. Let's stop the clock. Instead of Kyoto having to be done by 2012, stop it for about five years, put in a voluntary agreement and a verification system.

- Bishop Hill blog - Report on the Purdue forum

Pielke Jnr also had some eminently quotable words:

When you think about the CIA, much like scientists, they're experts," he said. "We wouldn't be very happy if the CIA used their influence to support what country we should invade next and began tilting their findings to support it."

This must have been pretty persuasive for any undecideds in the audience - which was apparently a sell-out. The article quotes one student as saying

"You never know what's going on behind closed doors," he said. "It shows that we all have to be more aware of who we get our information from."

CapitalClimate: Political Climate: Elections Have Consequences; Cap and Trade, RIP

One of the consequences of the election of 2010 is that the average scientific IQ of Congress will be lower by several points. Courtesy of the Union of Concerned Scientists, here are some of the anti-scientific views coming soon to a Congress near you:

"With the possible exception of Tiger Woods, nothing has had a worse year than global warming. We have discovered that a good portion of the science used to justify "climate change" was a hoax perpetrated by leftist ideologues with an agenda."
—Todd Young, new congressperson from Indiana

"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." —Ron Johnson, new senator from Wisconsin

"I think we ought to take a look at whatever the group is that measures all this, the IPCC, they don't even believe the crap." —Steve Pearce, new congressperson from New Mexico

"It's a bigger issue, we need to watch 'em. Not only because it may or may not be true, but they're making up their facts to fit their conclusions. They've already caught 'em doing this." —Rand Paul, new senator from Kentucky

"There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth." —Roy Blunt, new senator from Missouri

Forbes.com - Confessions Of A Climate Crisis Skeptic

Some folks are incredulous about the title of my new book, Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax. How can I possibly doubt that global warming is real? Now, in the interest of full disclosure, I am obliged to concede that they are correct, and that such evidence truly does exist.

Yes, there is no doubt about it. The planet is experiencing a siege of abnormally high temperatures. This has now been going on for 15,000 to 18,000 years, a life-friendly period known as an interglacial cycle. During glacial ages that exist about 90% of the time, our Northern Hemisphere is mostly covered with ice up to several miles thick. Records of these alternating glacial and interglacial fluctuations reveal the near regularity of an electrocardiogram over many hundreds of thousands of years … beginning long before the man-made inventions of agriculture, smokestacks, SUVs and carbon offset trading scams.
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Larry Bell is a professor at the University of Houston and the author of Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax. The book will be released Jan. 1, 2011, and can be previewed at www.climateofcorruption.com .

American Thinker: The French Academy Lays an Egg

[S. Fred Singer] The august French Academy has spoken. After a cursory examination of the climate issue, a day of selected testimonies, and some internal discussion among admitted non-experts, their Oct. 28 report to the French science minister concluded that global warming is "real and anthropogenic." Too bad; this report will remain as a stain on the Academy's reputation for years to come -- once the true scientific facts gain acceptance.

How could the Academy reach such a conclusion? Simply by ignoring any contrary evidence -- all published in peer-reviewed journals and readily available.
... So it becomes clear that the French Academy's conclusion (that global warming is "real and anthropogenic") does not accord with observed facts.

An obvious question is why these facts were not publicized earlier. I can say only that any such claim of "no global warming in the 1980s and 1990s" would have been shouted down and discounted by the scientific community and the public. However, "Climategate" and the subsequent discovery of many errors and shortcomings by the IPCC have changed the situation drastically. It is now quite alright to express what might have been considered heretical opinions.

A profile of Dr. Judith Curry | Watts Up With That?

As one of the IPCC’s lead authors, Keith Shine was quoted at the time in a Reuters article, “We produce a draft, and then the policymakers go through it line by line and change the way it is presented. … It’s peculiar that they have the final say in what goes into a scientist’s report.”

Climate change had become not a scientific question but a tool to push for environmental reform.
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The question then naturally arises. What is Judith Curry sure about?

She pauses before giving an answer in three parts.

“Climate always changes,” she says.

“Carbon dioxide, all other things being equal, will contribute to a warmer planet.”

And lastly, “Whether in the coming century greenhouse gas will dominate natural variability remains to be seen.”

Asked what she is certain of, her most definitive answer is uncertainty itself.

Quote of the week – unbelievable hubris from CARB’s Mary Nichols | Watts Up With That?

“They didn’t know who they were messing with,” said Mary Nichols, when the first numbers came in from the polls.

A stormy forecast for climate change reporting › Opinion (ABC Environment)

Where did all the climate change stories go? "The [programmers] are against it because it loses ratings," says a senior BBC journalist. "The wave [of public interest] has gone. There is climate change fatigue. That is why I am not [reporting] it now."

Other journalists agree. Even reporters at The Guardian, which especially targets environmental reporting, complain that it's difficult to get a run. Another UK broadcast journalist said he was warned that putting climate change on prime time would risk losing a million viewers.
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The biggest hurdle mentioned by most journalists was the so-called 'Climategate', the controversy surrounding the publication of hundreds of hacked emails from the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK between influential climate scientists. It was a "defining moment in all our careers," according to an environment editor.
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Many journalists say the UEA email hacking, combined with the discovery of an error regarding the melting of the Himalayan glaciers in the 2007 report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), also proved they had failed to cast a critical enough eye on climate science and that they had been far too dismissive of sceptics.

Probably the most important reaction to the UEA hacking for journalists was in their own newsrooms, among their own editors who are the gatekeepers controlling if your work appears and how prominently. While some UK surveys show no dramatic loss of credibility for climate scientists with the public, here's how some senior journalists described what it was like in their newsrooms after hacking:

"dirty looks"
"sense of betrayal"
thought we'd "gone native"
"you told me the science was settled - and it isn't!"

"Climate-gate was extremely damaging in many ways. It gave the impression that journalists had been duped. I think in the end it was mountains out of mole-hills but it looked really bad," said a print journalist.
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Some say they wished they had engaged credible sceptics earlier.
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The forecast is grim. Around 4,000 reporters went to Copenhagen, Denmark; only 150 attended follow-up negotiations in Bonn, Germany, and some senior correspondents say they might not go to Cancun, Mexico, in December for the next UN climate change summit. Some believe climate change as a story is finished. New York Times blogger, Andy Revkin, says it is now turning into an energy and business story.

Hall Claims Science Panel, Vows 'Strong Oversight' on 'Climate Change, Scientific Integrity' - ScienceInsider

Representative Ralph Hall (R-TX) has staked his claim to the chairmanship of the House Science and Technology Committee with this statement on the election and his plans for next year:

"We must also conduct strong oversight over this Administration in key areas including climate change, scientific integrity, energy research and development (R&D), cybersecurity, and science education. Over the past few years the unprecedented growth of the Federal government and the creation of multiple new and duplicative programs occurred without having first assessed the effectiveness and success of existing programs..."

U.S. Ethanol Credit May Be Cut by House Republicans

Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- A Republican takeover of the House of Representatives and other election victories yesterday may mean that U.S. subsidies aiding ethanol producers will be cut after the party pledged to reduce government spending.

- Bishop Hill blog - House of Lords on climate change

I'll look at some of the silly things that were said in another post, but in the meantime, there was much fun to be had from comparing the subjects of the noble lords' contributions to the statements of interests with which most of them introduced their speeches.

Climate Cues From the Future House Speaker - NYTimes.com

Mr. Boehner fought bitterly against the cap-and-trade bill passed last year by the House, and on one memorable occasion appeared to scoff at the idea that climate change was anything to be concerned about.

Obama Drops Plan to Limit Global Warming Gases - ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/m/screen?id=12047092

Obama said he would look for other means of addressing global warming that don't ignore the science but will also not hurt the economy.

Reversing the direction of the positive feedback loop | Judith Curry

There has been a particularly toxic positive feedback loop between climate science and policy and politics, whose direction has arguably been reversed as result of Climategate.
... Once the UNFCCC treaty was a done deal, the IPCC and its scientific conclusions were set on a track to become a self fulfilling prophecy. The entire framing of the IPCC was designed around identifying sufficient evidence so that the human-induced greenhouse warming could be declared unequivocal, and so providing the rationale for developing the political will to implement and enforce carbon stabilization targets. National and international science programs were funded to support the IPCC objectives. What should have been a political debate about energy policy, environmental quality, and reducing vulnerability to weather and climate disasters, became a debate about the nuances of climate science, with climate scientists as the pawns and whipping boys.

So were the scientists innocent victims and pawns in all this? Were they just hardworking scientists doing their best to address the impossible expectations of the policy makers? Well, many of them were. However, at the heart of the IPCC is a cadre of scientists whose careers have been made by the IPCC. These scientists have used the IPCC to jump the normal meritocracy process by which scientists achieve influence over the politics of science and policy. Not only has this brought some relatively unknown, inexperienced and possibly dubious people into positions of influence, but these people become vested in protecting the IPCC, which has become central to their own career and legitimizes playing power politics with their expertise.
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When I refer to the IPCC dogma, it is the religious importance that the IPCC holds for this cadre of scientists; they will tolerate no dissent, and seek to trample and discredit anyone who challenges the IPCC. Who are these priests of the IPCC? Some are mid to late career middle ranking scientists who have done ok in terms of the academic meritocracy. Others were still graduate students when they were appointed as lead authors for the IPCC. These scientists have used to IPCC to gain a seat at the “big tables” where they can play power politics with the collective expertise of the IPCC, to obtain personal publicity, and to advance their careers. This advancement of their careers is done with the complicity of the professional societies and the institutions that fund science. Eager for the publicity, high impact journals such as Nature, Science, and PNAS frequently publish sensational but dubious papers that support the climate alarm narrative.
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Further, the institutions that support science use the publicity to argue for more funding to support climate research and its impacts. And the broader scientific community inadvertently becomes complicit in all this. While the IPCC priests loudly cry out against the heretical skeptical scientists and the dark influences of big oil and right wing ideology that are anti-science, we all join in bemoaning these dark forces that are fighting a war against science, and support the IPCC against its critics. The media also bought into this, by eliminating balance in favor of the IPCC dogma.

So do I think these priests of the IPCC are policy advocates? They are mainly concerned with preserving the importance of the IPCC, which has become central to their professional success, funding, and influence. Supporting the emissions and stabilization policies that they think logically follows from the science is part and parcel of this. Most don’t understand the policy process or the policy specifics; they view the policy as part an parcel of the IPCC dogma that must be protected and preserved at all cost, else their success, funding and influence will be in jeopardy.
....A year later, there has been some rather spectacular unraveling of the climate change juggernaut, although the high priests of the IPCC don’t quite realize it yet: the positive feedback at work, but in the opposite direction.

I along with much of the rest of the world viewed the IPCC as a group of highly meritorious scientists, working hard and digging deep to assess the science, all the while fighting against the dark forces of politics and big oil. The biggest shock from reading the emails was that the IPCC assessment process had a substantial element of schoolyard bullies, trying to insulate their shoddy science from outside scrutiny and attacks by skeptics, over concern with their press and media attention, discrediting skeptics, etc. Now the argument is rightly made that behavior of scientists is not relevant to the truth of science. However, when the assessment of the science rests largely on expert judgment, the behavior and credibility of the experts becomes a very important issue.