Where Will the G.O.P. Go Digging? - NYTimes.com

Climate science. Conservatives who question the consensus that climate change is manmade want to use various committees’ oversight powers to challenge its scientific underpinnings, many of which were reached by federally financed researchers. Mr. Issa has focused on the so-called Climategate scandal involving alleged manipulation of data by British scientists: “For me, settled science starts out with settled raw data,” Mr. Issa said. “If the raw data’s in doubt, then the idea that we have settled science doesn’t exist. I want settled science.”

Cancun Will Be A Schadenfreude Symphony « SOYLENT GREEN

So, let me get this straight. A bunch of gringo, elitist, professional activists are going to give impoverished Mexican Indians a couple pesos and some beans to protest the international Kleptocrats in $2,000 suits to make sure they extort trillions from the U.S. for “Climate Justice?” Yeah, that’s really going to lift those indigenous peoples out of poverty

First snowstorm of the season batters Minneapolis

Minneapolis has already declared a snow emergency in what will likely be the largest pre-Thanksgiving snowfall since 1991.

I Believe I Can Fly - [More idiocy from high-flying, mansion-dwelling Tom Friedman] - NYTimes.com

If you jump off the top of an 80-story building, for 79 floors you can think you’re flying. It’s the sudden stop at the end that tells you you’re not.
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Closer to home, America’s climate-deniers mounted an effective disinformation campaign that made “climate change” a four-letter word in the Republican Party. This undermined efforts to get a clean energy bill — the sort that might break our addiction to oil and take money away from the people our soldiers are fighting in the Middle East. And all of this happened in 2010, which is on track to be the Earth’s hottest year on record. So here’s the math: 98 climate scientists out of 100 will tell you that man’s continued carbon emissions pose the risk of disruptive climate change this century. Two out of 100 will tell you it doesn’t. And “conservatives” today tell you to bet on the two. If the climate-deniers are right — but we combat climate change anyway — we’ll have slightly higher energy prices but cleaner air, more renewable energy, a stronger dollar, more innovative industries and enemies with less money. If the deniers are wrong and we do nothing, your kids will meet the sudden stop at the end.

The climate change scare is dying, but do our MPs notice? - Telegraph

It appears that Chris Huhne, our Energy and Climate Change Secretary, is so obsessed with the half of his job relating to climate change that he can happily ignore the other half, to do with keeping the lights on. But Mr Huhne is far from alone. Not a single MP of any party has yet found the courage to mount a properly briefed challenge to all this lunacy. So what do we pay them for?

D-Day Invasion By Climate Realists Coming

They can slander Dr Singer all they want, and blame everything on industry. But that isn’t going to make the Richard Lindzens, Hal Lewises, Steve McIntyres, Jo Novas, Anthony Watts, Roy Spencers and the hundreds of free sceptic sites in the Internet go away. The sceptics are getting ready to storm the beaches Greenery in a climate science D Day.

The sceptic weeds are sprouting and growing around, faster than the eco-zealots will ever be able to pull them out. The nutty hypothesis of AGW is about to be suffocated in Germany. The eco-zealots ought not be so stupid to think they can stop this tsunami of science that is about to crush everything in its path. History shows it is impossible to continue this scam. Do everyone a favor, and give it up.

Of course the eco-zealots are welcome to show the public how sound their “science” really is. Come out and debate in front of everyone. Stop running and hiding. If the science is so sound, then why use all the authoritarian tactics?

Manhattan Is Still Above Water | Real Science

Excellent news. Despite predictions (made by the world’s most brilliant and respected climatologist) that Manhattan should be drowning already, webcam images from this morning show that Times Square is still barely hanging on.

Comparing CO2 in warm and cold periods in geologic history | Watts Up With That?

I recall a conversation I had with Dr. Bob Carter at a restaurant in Townsville, QLD after our public presentations there in June 2010 where he lamented the fact that many of the AGW proponents and many of his critics, “really don’t integrate the earth’s geologic timeline into their critical thinking”.

But he's not even a climatologist!: Left-wing journalist Andy Revkin has great respect for his own opinion on the climate hoax

'Cool' Climate Film Takes On 'Truth' - Revkin - NYTimes.com

I’m an energy and climate wonk.

wonk: Definition from Answers.com

An expert who studies a subject or issue thoroughly and excessively.

GISS : Fighting For #1 | Real Science

GISS is winning this battle by making up extrapolating temperatures across vast regions where they have no data (pink below) and then reporting global temperatures to within one one-hundredth of a degree.

American Thinker: The Renewable Electricity Standard Con

RES is heavily promoted by wind and solar interests using myths and half truths, such as:

* RES will reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), in 2008, the U.S. generated only 1.1% of its electricity from oil, generally on-site at refineries, etc. RES will do little to reduce U.S. oil dependency...

George F. Will - What's driving Obama's subsidies of Chevy's Volt?

Meretricious accounting and deceptive marketing are inevitable when government and its misnamed "private sector" accomplices foist state capitalism on an appalled country. But those who thought the ethanol debacle defined outer limits of government foolishness pertaining to automobiles were, alas, mistaken.

How the broadcasting regulator sidestepped An Inconvenient Truth

This story begins with Ofcom, the public authority that enforces broadcasting legislation in the UK, telling me that Al Gore’s film, An Inconvenient Truth (AIT) is not a ‘factual documentary’, and ends with them deciding that climate change - the subject of the film - is not a matter relating to current public policy. You may well wonder how this could have happened, and it will take some time to explain.

The great global warming scam just got worse | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

This global warming scare has been a picnic for alarmists, carpetbaggers and thieves. Meanwhile

American Thinker: Climatism

I was quite impressed with Climatism! This is a book most any skeptic should have as a handy reference to counteract Climatists' claims, from alleged fair-and-balanced origins of the IPCC and its questionable science assessments to how green technology will supposedly save the Earth from burning to a crisp.

American Thinker: High School Science and Cap and Trade Legislation

The now-failed American Power Act legislation proposed placing a cost on CO2 in the amount of $25 per ton.

Now, the total amount in dollar terms for the money to be raised from this cost on CO2 comes in at $88 billion per year.

Electrical Power generation produces one third of all CO2 emissions, so if that legislation was passed, government would be looking at raising around $260 billion each and every year.

That cost would have been passed down to every one of us in everything we do in the form of higher charges for the electricity we use at home, and in higher prices for everything else as other sectors pass on their increased charges for the electricity they use.

Can you see now why climate change legislation really was really just about the money?

Global Warming Could Lead to Vast Chocolate Shortage | Environment | AlterNet

One of climate change's potential victims is chocolate. Will the prospect of losing their favorite dessert finally get people to wake up?

Climategate, a year of comedy. « the Air Vent

I have news for everyone though, climategate was the tip of the iceberg and climategate II is coming soon. I don’t have any information different from anyone else on where, when or whom, what I have is a brain smart enough to openly analyze the evidence and the evidence says that climate science is far more corrupted than we have seen yet. We aren’t done with this trip. Cuccinelli’s suit against Mann to reveal the 12,000 emails he’s written are a perfect example. Everyone paying attention knows that Mann is 100% in for AGW at any cost. He would sell his grandma for a hockey stick (think tiljander), and he’s not alone!! That just makes it more entertaining. Those emails are probably so full of corrupt commentary that it would make cliamtegate look like a kid spilling his milk. Of course without the emails, there is no proof so it’s just one man’s opinion.

Uncertainty gets a seat at the “big table.” Part II | Climate Etc.

Just an FYI – Republicans will be inviting a witness for each panel. This is a change from the usual practice of one witness per hearing, regardless of the number of panels.

Good Essay From Reader “NoMoreGore” | Real Science

Like CAGW cultists, Jonestown cultists (and heaven’s Gate cultists, etc) were led by a prophet to believe they must destroy themselves to be free, or avoid impending doom.

Scotland 'risking a blackout' in a bid to go green - Scotsman.com

THE "lights could go out" over Scotland unless new power stations are built in the next two years to ward off a looming electricity crisis, the head of one of Scotland's most successful companies has warned Alex Salmond.

Stubborn Antarctic Ozone Hole refuses to change | Watts Up With That?

Maybe it is because the major catalyst isn’t CFC’s after all? See this story

Backdoor Cap & Trade | The Resilient Earth

Why are politicians so enamored with these Enronesque cap & trade schemes? Perhaps because they are driven by market forces too complicated to be understood by politicians or their constituents, or maybe because the name doesn't contain the word “tax.” The motivation for environmentalists is easier to discern—cap & trade, effectively enforced, strangles industry. As we said in The Energy Gap, there are rational ways to significantly reduce carbon emissions and they are side effects of enhancing energy security and reducing real pollution. As has been seen in Europe, and now in America, cap & trade is an unworkable idea no nation can afford, whether it comes at the national level or through the backdoor.

GE Buys Volts, Taxpayers Get Charged - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Why are taxpayers giving money to a $156 billion corporate fat cat? To save the planet, of course. GE makes “smart grid technology” where the company — along with utilities — stands to gain from Obama’s market-socialist plans that advance the electrification of the automobile. One piece of that electrification model is the Chevy Volt, a key reason the feds bailed out Government Motors with $50 billion in 2009. Subsidized infrastructure, subsidized cars, and now . . . subsidized alliances.

Hottest year ever update: Arctic Temperatures Below Normal | Real Science

This has been the coldest autumn in the high Arctic since 2004, after the coldest summer on record.

Hansen’s claim that it is the “hottest year ever” are based on his imaginary Arctic temperatures.

C2DC 2011, Japan : International Workshop on Climate Change Data Challenges

The C2DC workshop includes challenging topics like data preservation, data curation, long term access, metadata schemas, mark-up languages, multi-dimensional data modeling, data discovery, metadata management, harvesting, semantic interoperability, ontologies, data access, integration, provenance, storage, analysis, mining, exa-bytes systems, etc.

Twitter / Andy Revkin: Marc Roberts, fab eco-blog ...

Marc Roberts, fab eco-blogtoonist, finds a new use for all those unheeded climate reports:http://j.mp/InfoFlood #agw #climate

The American Spectator : Global Warming, Global Taxes

WASHINGTON -- Within 72 hours of the Tea Party's "shellacking" of Obama and Pelosi, Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary-General, called for global taxation of the American public -- an idea endorsed by a high-level official of the Obama administration. Ban must not have been watching television on Election Night, because he missed the voters' rejection of big government, higher taxes, and out of control spending. Or perhaps he did see the results and thought it best to get his $100 billion of "climate financing" fees on the agenda of the lame duck Congress.

Why The Global Cooling Story Is So Important…In The Anthropogenic Global Warming Debate « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

On the face of it, the whole debate about “global cooling in the 1970′s” is a matter of despair. If we can’t agree on what has happened less than 40 years ago, and is still remembered by many people, despite the avalanche of available snippets of information, a great deal of them accessible to all via the Internet…then what can we agree on? And what is the meaning of “history” at all??

Electric motorcycle, bicycle collide during eco-race

[caption] A cyclist lies injured after a crash with an electric vehicle (driven by Frank Loacker in red jacket, above) during a zero emissions race that stopped in Vancouver. The accident happened during a news conference to promote the race.

Green jobs cut despite government subsidy - Opinion - The Orange County Register

Despite the hype and tax money, Solyndra seems unable to compete with Chinese manufacturers, whose prices are lower. This is the latest bad news for the company touted by Mr. Schwarzenegger and President Barack Obama as one of the green industry's supposed shining lights. President Obama visited Solyndra in May, calling the operation "a testament to American ingenuity and dynamism."

But, truth be told, Solyndra is more of a testament to taxpayers' hard-earned money pledged to guarantee 73 percent of the cost of building its new facility. Closure of its older plant, located nearby, is a testament to the reality that, even if massively underwritten by taxpayers, renewable energy operations aren't certain to find a profitable niche in the open market.
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At the online blog GlobalEnergyMagazine, correspondent Dolores Fernandez wrote that Solyndra's announced closure "was delayed until after polls closed on congressional elections."

How to stop global warming - even if you don't believe in it - Washington Post

Mention "global warming" in a room full of average Americans, as I have done on several occasions, and you will find that they quickly align with one camp or the other. The idea that global warming is a hoax is no longer a fringe perception but a part of the Republican Party brand.

Even if climate scientists manage to convince some conservative skeptics that global warming poses an urgent threat, Republican leaders have backed themselves into a corner. [Why isn't it the Democratic leaders who are backed into a corner?] The issue has become so politically polarizing that it would be nearly impossible for them to retreat from their stance and to get behind legislation that is thought to concern global warming

2005 prediction: 50m environmental refugees by end of decade, UN warns | Environment | The Guardian

States urged to prepare for victims of climate change
· Natural disasters displace more people than wars
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* David Adam, environment correspondent
* The Guardian, Wednesday 12 October 2005
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Rising sea levels, desertification and shrinking freshwater supplies will create up to 50 million environmental refugees by the end of the decade, experts warn today. Janos Bogardi, director of the Institute for Environment and Human Security at the United Nations University in Bonn, said creeping environmental deterioration already displaced up to 10 million people a year, and the situation would get worse.
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"There are well-founded fears that the number of people fleeing untenable environmental conditions may grow exponentially as the world experiences the effects of climate change," Dr Bogardi said.

Breaking: People working in the climate hoax industry claim to still believe in the climate hoax

Climate Leaders Assess the Future | statesmanjournal.com | Statesman Journal

This fall, after Congress failed to pass a climate bill, I interviewed 65 professionals involved with climate issues to see how they would answer that question.

People involved with business, finance, faith, labor, national security, climate and energy advocacy, and social justice organizations working at local, state and national levels were interviewed. I also consulted with climate scientists as well as Congressional and Obama Administration staff members.
My head hurt after completing so many interviews in such a short time period. But the discomfort was worth it because I obtained an exceedingly rich set of perspectives.
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Finally, those interviewed said that remarkable advancements have been made in climate science, where there is now almost complete confidence that the Earth is warming beyond the normal range of variability, that human activities are the primary cause, and that we face grave danger if carbon emissions are not rapidly cut.

Diabolical CO2 strikes again: It allegedly makes seas rougher while reducing wind speeds

Oxfam's fantasy 'climate court' is both prescient and practical | John Vidal | Global development | guardian.co.uk

Over a thousand legal experts, politicians and economists gathered in Dhaka this week to explore routes to justice for the victims of climate criminals – and found that precedents exist
...this week has seen an extraordinary tribunal being held in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, with more than 1,200 people including British lawyers, politicians and economists, listening to the testimonies of villagers living at the frontline of climate change.
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The stories the tribunal heard were heartbreaking. Mamtaz, one of four plaintiffs, wanted to know who was legally responsible for her fisherman husband's death. She and others testified that the seas off Bangladesh are now rougher more often and that boats were capsized more frequently in the increasingly stormy weather. Barek Majhi, a fisherman, told the tribunal how his three trawlers had sunk and ruined his means of making a living.

Flashback: Study: More Global Warming, Less Wind Energy Potential (via @eurekalert @AIP_publishing)

American Institute of Physics PR: "A switch to wind energy will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions -- and reduce the global warming they cause. But there's a catch, says climate researcher Diandong Ren, a research scientist at the University of Texas at Austin in a paper appear in the AIP's Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy: rising temperatures decrease wind speeds, making for less power bang for the wind turbine buck.

Weekly Mulch: For Cancun Climate Summit, activists consider the long view | rabble.ca

Last year, climate activists put their faith in international leaders to make progress. This year, they believe that it’s up to them, as outside actors, to marshal a grassroots movement and pressure their leaders towards decreased carbon emissions.

Analysis: Obama climate rules face fight in Congress

But the lawmakers represent a bigger threat. "Congress doesn't give the EPA nearly as much deference as the courts do, and there are about to be a lot more Republicans and unenthusiastic Democrats," said Michael Gerrard, the director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School.

The uncertainty about the future of emissions policy could stall billions of dollars of investments in power plants and factories and prove to be a painful hurdle to longer-term growth when the economy begins to recover.

George Soros U.N. Panel Organizes $100 Billion Climate Change Shakedown Aimed Against U.S. | NetRight Daily

George Soros, the radical, far-left billionaire, with a long history of antipathy toward American interests, now sits on a United Nations (UN) panel charged with organizing a $100 billion wealth transfer from the developed world to the underdeveloped world in the name of environmentalism. News of his involvement here is buried away in a New York Times report but it should be the lead sentence.

Romm’s Readers Confess That Fear Of Global Warming Is Literally Ruining Their Lives | Real Science

I’m 25. My girlfriend and I have put our plans for children on hold. Until we see meaningful change. We consider the odds extremely low.
I can assure you it’s a heartbreaking choice.

Advice for a carbon-powered Congress | Grist

Another strong reason that RGGI has enjoyed continued bipartisan support is that some of those funds are helping beleaguered governors balance tight state budgets.

China's soaring emissions challenge climate split

Soaring greenhouse gas emissions in China and other emerging nations are eroding rich nations' historical responsibility for causing global warming, and this could complicate UN talks starting in Mexico this month.

Washington says an unfair "Berlin Wall" separates a group of 40 industrialized countries, which are expected to cut emissions sharply by 2020, from other countries led by China which are due only to slow the rise in their emissions by 2020.

Distinguished Speaker Van Jones Postpones Lecture | The Student Life

Jones was invited to participate in a brainstorming project in Santa Monica with former Vice President Al Gore.

Gores global-warming geeks - NYPOST.com

If someone ever demands you watch Gore's film, agree! -- on condition that your friend watch this optimistic, wised-up answer.

Breaking: Guy in Brazil dies from snake bite; CO2 blamed

How Brazil can speak for both rich and poor countries on climate change | Natalia Viana | Global development | guardian.co.uk

Seasonal rains fell a month later than usual, and the region went through the worst drought in the last century. The river Negro was 15m lower than it should be. "I had never seen it this low," he says.
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"In my community a guy died after being bitten by a snake. I am sure he would have been saved if he'd been transported by boat," said Cunha.

Another “Global Cooling in the 1970s” Avalanche (Laughter, It Will Bury Them) « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Funniest of the lot: from the Milwaukee Sentinel, Jan 20, 1979. By Dick West of United Press International:

“At the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science…the consensus seemed to be that, rather than experience either a warming trend or a cooling trend, we shall have both. Although not at the same time, fortunately.”

Global Warming Increases Hurricane Thresholds | Real Science

With temperatures in the Pacific Ocean heating up, hurricane creating thresholds have risen, according to a new study released today.

Obama Must Fire Climate Czar Carol Browner

“President Obama should fire Carol Browner for this manipulation of science,” said Myron Ebell, Director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment.

“President Obama has talked about the importance of ‘ensuring scientific data is not distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda,’ and claimed that his administration would ‘make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology,’” said Ebell. “Unless that’s dishonest rhetoric, President Obama must fire Browner for distorting and concealing scientific data to serve a political agenda.”

- Bishop Hill blog - Ciccerone circumspect

Many commentators have suggested that the Climategate story was blown up from nothing by a coalition of sceptics and media pundits. It's therefore interesting to see Ciccerone putting this argument to bed.

Climate Change Always Targets The Poor and Helpless | Real Science

Sea level may not have risen at all in California for 30 years, but apparently the evil water is pooling up around the small Pacific Island States.

(Send us money now, you dimwitted and gullible westerners.)

Why Worry? UN Says We Are Already Dead | Real Science

June 30, 1989

A senior environmental official at the United Nations, Noel Brown, says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000.

Are Climate Scientists Really As Clueless As They Claim? | Real Science

Are they really claiming that they don’t know about ENSO or the PDO?

The Environmental Movement’s Winter of Discontent - Newsweek

The “Climategate” data-manipulation scandal, though ultimately debunked, seems to have set back the cause. And Al Gore, once the global figurehead for the global-warming movement, has been largely quiet of late, appearing in headlines most recently for his divorce and a sexual misconduct allegation of which he was later cleared after a police investigation. Through a spokeswoman, Gore declined to comment for this story. Haxthausen worries that the general awareness and understanding of the science has “walked back” recently. Perhaps there needs to be more focus on how global warming could affect typical Americans, he says. “It’s become associated with polar bears and icons like that,” Haxthausen says. “That’s one piece, but humans are a species that’s going to be affected too, and people tend to care more about people than polar bears.”

Boulder researcher: Climate change could threaten wolverines - Boulder Daily Camera

"The results varied locally -- some states had a more rapid decline than others -- but in all of these regions, there was a very serious decline by the middle of the 21st century," Peacock said. "But in the best-case scenario, things actually looked really good."

'Natural disasters to cost USD 185bn yearly by end of century' - The Economic Times

WASHINGTON: Annual global losses from natural disasters could triple to a whopping USD 185 billion by the end of this century, according to a new report.

Climate change could add another USD 28-68 billion more in damages per year from tropical cyclones alone, said the report released today jointly by the World Bank and the United Nations .

Ondi Timoner on Bjorn Lomborg in ‘Cool It’ - Review - NYTimes.com

By the second half, however, Ms. Timoner has found her footing, and the film really digs in. Debunking claims made by “An Inconvenient Truth” and presenting alternative strategies, “Cool It” finally blossoms into an engrossing, brain-tickling picture as many of Al Gore’s meticulously graphed assertions are systematically — and persuasively — refuted. (I was intrigued to hear Mr. Lomborg say, for instance, that the polar-bear population is more endangered by hunters than melting ice.)

Judith Curry abandons [junk] science « Climate Progress

My one-time lecture-circuit companion, Dr. Judith Curry, Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech, has now taken the crown as the most debunked person on the science blogosphere, which is quite a feat considering the competition.

What should climate hawks do next? Fight for free birth control | Grist

For the moment, forget about carbon caps and start thinking about cervical caps -- and the Pill, IUDs, and Depo-Provera.
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It should be obvious why climate hawks need to care about making birth control widely accessible: fewer unwanted pregnancies will mean fewer unwanted births (not to mention fewer abortions), and, ultimately, fewer greenhouse gases.

[Maybe this explains why all trees aren't already extinct?]: World's forests can adapt to climate change, study says | Environment | The Guardian

According to a study of ancient rainforests, trees may be hardier than previously thought. Carlos Jaramillo, a scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), examined pollen from ancient plants trapped in rocks in Colombia and Venezuela. "There are many climactic models today suggesting that … if the temperature increases in the tropics by a couple of degrees, most of the forest is going to be extinct," he said. "What we found was the opposite to what we were expecting: we didn't find any extinction event [in plants] associated with the increase in temperature, we didn't find that the precipitation decreased."

Andrews on the dark heart of the Greens | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

What is at stake in the Greens ‘revolution’ is the heart and soul of western civilisation, built on the Judeo-Christian/Enlightenment synthesis that upholds the individual –with obligations and responsibilities to others, but ultimately judged on his or her own conscience and actions – as the possessor of an inherent dignity and inalienable rights. What is also at stake is the economic system that has resulted in the creation of wealth and prosperity for the most people in human history.

Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page

[Rush Limbaugh] I'm to blame! I'm the reason that the climate bill went to hell. It isn't Fox News. It's not the "narcissistic" Republicans. I did it. I've been working to tweet this kinda stuff since 1990. I've been calling global warming, man-made global warming a hoax. There's actually a better word for it. Fraud. It is a fraud, and RFK, Jr. and every one of the people promoting it are also part of a fraud.

He's a fraudster and they are part of the fraud. I do. You know Robert Kennedy Jr. did call this program once before, and I knew it was him but I didn't say it was him. I called him Robert. We talked to him about this. He had a smile on his face, I could hear when he was talking but Snerdley told me it was Robert Kennedy Jr. but I did not acknowledge he was Roberts Kennedy Jr. He was just "Robert from New York." He was nice on the phone. It mighta been the guy that called yesterday that kinda ticked me off. It might have been the second time he's called. Anyway, "Kennedy also blasted the media, which he said failed to adequately inform the public about climate change. The news media is dominated by 'extreme right-wing ideologues and Fox News and talk radio.'" There it is. He finally puts me in there but he puts me third in line.

Climate change declaration ahead of Cancun - UPI.com

But Tong said he was disappointed that the United States and the United Kingdom chose not to sign the declaration, instead opting for observer status.

U.S. economy could choke on Obama’s energy “chunks” | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

EPA’s march to regulate greenhouse gas emissions — overriding what should have been legislative provisions formulated by elected officials with regulations enacted by activist bureaucrats — is not only economically-harmful, but also irregular and perhaps illegal. Its recent activism has resulted in unilateral and arbitrary policymaking that affects virtually every U.S. business and consumer. Especially given our economy’s sluggish recovery, EPA’s costly proposed regulatory regime, and its accompanying expansion of the size and reach of the government, is the last thing we can afford.

Environmentalists 'exaggerated' threat to tropical rainforests from global warming | Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1328853/Environmentalists-exaggerated-threat-tropical-rainforests-global-warming.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

The threat to tropical rainforests from climate change may have been exaggerated by environmentalists, according to a new study.

Researchers have shown that the world's tropical forests thrived in the far distant past when temperatures were 3 to 5C warmer than today.

They believe that a wetter, warmer future may actually boost plants and animals living the tropics.

The findings, published in the respected journal Science, come from a study of pollen trapped in rocks during a natural period of global warming 56.3million years ago.

Question: Why isn't Schwarzenegger talking about CO2-induced fires these days?

California fire season was calm this year | ScrippsNews

The fall wildfire season is a rite of passage for California firefighters, but it never arrived this year on account of a wet spring, cool summer and damp fall.

There were, in fact, very few wildfires of note anywhere in California this year because of the unusual meteorological conditions known colloquially as crummy weather.

NewsHour Extra: Destructive Fires in Southern California Highlight Risks of Dry Season | November 18, 2008 | PBS

“Through global warming, we have now a fire season all year round,” Schwarzenegger said on the Sunday news program.

Leaking CO2 Storage Could Contaminate Drinking Water - Health News - redOrbit

Leaks from carbon dioxide injected deep underground to help fight climate change could bubble up into drinking water aquifers near the surface, driving up levels of contaminants in the water tenfold or more in some places, according to a study by Duke University scientists.

Based on a year-long analysis of core samples from four drinking water aquifers, "We found the potential for contamination is real, but there are ways to avoid or reduce the risk," says Robert B. Jackson, Nicholas Professor of Global Environmental Change and professor of biology at Duke.

Eco millionaire Dale Vince and his £750,000 electric sports car – part funded by the taxpayer - Telegraph

A multi-millionaire Green energy tycoon is driving a £750,000 electric sports car that has been partly funded by the taxpayer.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Nov 11th 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

Mayor Mike thinks NaCl or CO2 will kill you PDQ in NYC, a robber baron saved the whales and iPeople are the future.

In the Conservative Reading Room

Energy and Climate Wars: How Naïve Politicians, Green Ideologues, and Media Elites are Undermining the Truth About Energy and Climate by Peter C. Glover and Michael J. Economides ($24.95, Continuum, New York and London) address the ideological social agenda that is being driven more by myth than facts. I count both authors as friends and am frankly in awe of their individual and combined knowledge and insight regarding an issue that will determine whether the U.S. continues to rank among the great powers of the world or not. Right now the Obama administration is doing everything it can to destroy the coal mining industry, has stealthily shut down exploration and drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, and is spending billions of public dollars on the least effective forms of energy, solar and wind, despite the fact they represent about one percent of all the electricity the nation requires. Glover is a British writer and journalist specializing in political and energy analysis. Economides is a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston. He is the editor of Energy Tribune and what he does not know on the topic is probably not worth knowing.

GE to buy 25K electric fleet vehicles – This Just In - CNN.com Blogs

GE said Thursday it will buy 25,000 electric vehicles for its fleet through 2015 in the largest-ever purchase of electric cars.

Global Warming “is OUR Iraq War of lies and fear” | Real Science

I can’t do this anymore, this climate change hysteria. And I consider myself both progressive and a liberal too, so hear me out. I found out what “they” all agree on, they agree that the effects of CO2 are predicted to be anywhere from unstoppable warming, to no noticeable effects at all. No wonder they all agreed. And it’s been 24 years. We look like we WANT this climate hell to happen. We have been had folks. This is OUR Iraq War of lies and fear. I’m both embarrassed and ashamed for endorsing this CO2 mistake through two and a half decades of dire warnings of doom and Armageddon..

Withholding Evidence | Real Science

The people prosecuting the case for global warming are withholding evidence.

They know that temperatures are rising much slower than they forecast – “where the heck is global warming.” Hansen knows that the highway outside his office isn’t underwater.

They know that Antarctic sea ice is growing. They know that winters have seen a dramatic decline in temperature over the last decade. They know that sea level is barely rising, if at all. They know that the last decade has seen record winter snowfall. They know that there has not been an increase in hurricanes or tornadoes. They know that the hottest/driest years were in the 1930s. They know that sea level has been rising and glaciers melting for thousands of years.

Review & Outlook: Wind Jammers at the White House - WSJ.com

A Larry Summers memo exposes the high cost of energy corporate welfare.

New Insight Into Cloud-Aerosol Interactions Within The Climate System « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

This article presents yet another example of the diversity of human and natural climate forcings and feedbacks.

Climate Common Sense: Flexible Warmist Scientists Have An Each Way Bet- Can't Lose!

Climate modeler says models predicting global warming in the near future may be wrong and we will see 20 years of cooling before we are all toast. These models that may be wrong can't be of the "science is settled " variety otherwise the consensus of 99.99% of climate scientists would look pretty sillly which in fact they do.The chameleon Warmists always have a new model ready to meet inconvenient data changes like long-term cooling, conveniently ignoring the fact that the old models on which we were supposed to remodel the world are dust-binned to be removed by the alarmist version of Winston Smith. Whatever happens they will be able the say "the" model was right whether it cools or warms.

John Boehner to fly commercial as speaker - Simmi Aujla - POLITICO.com

“Over the last 20 years, I have flown back and forth to my district on commercial aircraft, and I am going to continue to do that,” he told reporters.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, took heat in 2007 when she started flying an Air Force jet that could go nonstop back to her congressional district in California.

CRC: Government 'carbon-jacking' will backfire | Process Engineering | The Engineer

London – As the dust settles following the Coalition Government’s decision to hijack the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency scheme – turning it into a carbon tax to help service the national debt – it is becoming clear that this is good environmental policy gone bad.

No cause for alarm - On Line Opinion - 11/11/2010

Despite alarmist propaganda there is much evidence to suggest that the ice sheets are in good health.

For example, one recent paper is entitled “A doubling in snow accumulation in the western Antarctic Peninsula since 1850” (Thomas et al. 2008).

Another reports that “The East Antarctic ice-sheet north of 81.60S increased in mass by 45 ± 7 billion metric tons per year from 1992 to 2003 … enough to slow sea-level rise by 0.12 ±0.002 millimetres per year” (Davis et al. 2005).

Wingham et al. (2006) wrote: “We show that 72 per cent of the Antarctic ice sheet is gaining 27 ± 29 Gt yr-1, a sink of ocean mass sufficient to lower global sea levels by 0.08 mm yr-1.”

Johannessen and colleagues analysed satellite data on the Greenland Ice Sheet from 1992 to 2003. They found an increase of 6.4 ± 0.2 centimetres per year in the vast interior areas above 1500 metres, in contrast to previous reports of high-elevation balance. Below 1500 metres, the elevation-change rate is -2.0 ± 0.9 cm/year.

Obamaville: Bribes to Buy Crap Cars and Pay Raises for Everyone!

So here we have a total hoax, mankind global warming, propelling the manufacturer of a worthless piece of crap car that nobody wants. Proof that nobody wants it is, it's gonna cost twice what a similarly price or manufactured gasoline car costs, and to get people in one, they're gonna have to reduce the price with incentives and give-backs and rebates and all that, basically bribe people to drive these pieces-of-crap cars that they really don't want

Caught: Soon-to-be ‘moderate’ GOP energy chairman now suggests no link between carbon dioxide, global warming | Raw Story

What's been little-noticed, however, is that Upton actually questioned the entire concept of global warming, not just what disbelieving conservatives referred to as "questionable science."

Speaking of cap-and-trade, a proposal whereby carbon polluters would pay for carbon credits (essentially the right to pollute) he said, "No matter what we did between now and 2050, it, it, there was no real science to verify that it would reduce the temperature rise that some predicted."

[Rabid warmist Joe Romm: Carbon dioxide causes wars]: Veterans Day, 2030 « Climate Progress

...It is a world with dozens of Darfurs and Pakistani mega-floods, of countless environmental refugees — hundreds of millions by the second half of this century — all clamoring to occupy the parts of the developed world that aren’t flooded or desertified.

Readership Doubled In October | Real Science

If we double every month, we will have more than one trillion readers in less than two years. Using the same math approach which Hansen uses to calculate future sea level and temperature.

Hansen To Finally Speak Out? | Real Science

After running the largest and longest running propaganda campaign in the history of the western world, alarmists are concerned that they haven’t gotten their message out.

I’m looking forward to hearing what Dr. Hansen thinks about the subject. To date, he has gone out of his way to avoid the press and remain politically neutral.

Climate [hoax]progress possible in Cancun, U.N. climate [scam] chief says | Grist

PARIS -- World climate talks resuming in Mexico shortly could recover lost momentum by crafting a deal on four big issues, including the outlines of a fund to muster hundreds of billions of dollars in aid, the U.N. climate chief said on Wednesday.

"Everything I see tells me that there is a deal to be done," said Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The Biggest Bang for the Climate-Change Buck? - NYTimes.com

The world is full of efforts and estimates toward reducing carbon emissions. A new paper by David Wheeler and Dan Hammer argues that the best bang for the climate change buck may lie in family planning and girls’ education: $1 million spent could save 250,000 tons of CO2.

[But why pay $4 per ton when you could pay a nickel per ton at the Chicago Climate Hoax Exchange?]

Hottest year ever update: Cold killed big numbers of Florida manatees, birds, and fish

Dolphin Deaths At Coast Investigated - News Story - WESH Orlando

Cold Weather During Winter Blamed For Increase
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Researchers concluded the only possible reason was our frigid winter season. Manatees, birds and fish died in big numbers due to the cold conditions.

Hottest year ever update: Pakistanis dread approaching winter

Shelterless flood-hit Pakistanis dread approaching winter

Islamabad, Nov 11 (IANS) Millions of flood-hit people across Pakistan, who suffer from loss of shelter, are having sleepless nights as the approaching harsh winter ushers in the biting cold.
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The affected people, living in miserable conditions since July, are now in a state of panic because winter is approaching and they don't have enough resources like clothing and shelter to keep the cold at bay.

Climate change consensus: Exposing the great 'catastrophe' myth | GORE LIED

So far impatient sceptics have witnessed few climate conspirators falling on their swords, with the biggest to date being Yvo De Boer, the UN’s climate chief. But more will soon follow as sustaining this outrageous international Ponzi scheme becomes ever more absurd in the face of mounting lawsuits. As the unstoppable collapse continues many more heads are sure to roll, many more casualties in the unpredicted ‘catastrophe’ of the earthquake that shook the climate house of cards.

$1.1bn wasted on solar power

MORE than $1 billion of taxpayers' money was wasted on subsidies for household solar roof panels that favoured the rich and did little to reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, a scathing review has found.

The review of the now scrapped federal government solar rebate scheme, conducted by ANU researchers Andrew Macintosh and Deb Wilkinson, also found the rebates did little to generate a solar manufacturing industry in Australia, instead sending hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars offshore.

A response to some credulous comments on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show

[Dr. Martin Hertzberg] Your reference last night to the investigations that "cleared" those involved in the climategate scandal ignores the fact that those investigations were complete "whitewashes" conducted by those same institutions who profited from the research contracts that the climategate scientists brought to their institutions. Those involved in the Parliamentary inquiry into the matter were similarly steeped in conflicts of interest. Those investigations are about as credible as a BP investigation of its explosion and oil spill in the Gulf.

Uncertainty gets a seat at the “big table” | Judith Curry - Climate Etc.

On Nov 17, the U.S. House of Representative’s Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Environment is holding a hearing on “Rational Discussion of Climate Change: the Science, the Evidence, the Response.”

I have been invited to present testimony for this hearing. I have been specifically asked by the minority (Republicans) to discuss how we can go about responding to the climate change issue in the face of uncertainty, dissent and disagreement.
...I am the sole invitee allowed by the minority party (the Republicans).

More warmists discover natural variability

The world could get colder over the next two decades - but still hotter in the long run, expert predicts | Mail Online

The world could get colder over the next two decades because of natural changes in the Earth's climate, a leading environmental scientist has warned.

Dr Mojib Latif, one of the world's top climate modellers, believes predictions of imminent global warming may be wrong and that the Earth could be heading for up to 20 years of cooler temperatures.
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'People will say this is global warming disappearing,' he told more than 1,500 climate scientists at the UN's World Climate conference in Geneva last week.
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Dr Latif, an author of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and climate physicist at the University of Kiel, Germany, is the latest scientist to question short term predictions of global warming.

His model forecasts that a natural cooling trend could dominate over the next decade - offsetting any rise in temperatures caused by humans...
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Risking the wrath of other climatologists, he said the NAO may have been responsible for some of the rapid rise in temperatures of the last three decades.

'But how much? The jury is still out,' he told the conference.
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The world's warmest year in recent history - 1998 - was caused by an unusually strong El Nino.

Vicky Pope of the Met Office said natural variability was as important as the long term warming trend when predicting climate change over the next few years.

'In many ways we know more about what will happen in the 2050s than next year,' she said.

Dr Pope also warned the conference that the dramatic Arctic ice loss in recent summers was partly a product of natural climate cycles - and not just caused by man-made global warming. Early reports suggest there has been less melting this year than in 2007 and 2008.

IPCC Climate Science Is Fundamentally Wrong: Carbon Footprint is All Wet

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) science deliberately kept public focus on warmer temperatures and blamed it all on radiative forcing due to CO2. They virtually ignore water in all its forms, partly because terms of reference directed them to only human causes and because any consideration of the role of water destroys the CO2 hypothesis.

Water explains many elements of weather as reflected in the response of plants and animals, but they even perverted that evidence.

Kiribati Was Half Submerged During WWII | Real Science

Kiribati is asking for “climate change mitigation funding” from stupid westerners this week, because sea level is rising there at a rate of six inches per century.

Below are some pictures showing what Kiribati looked like in the 1940s.

Merchants of Doubt - from 'safe' tobacco to global warming denialism. - UQ St Lucia

‘Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway have demonstrated what many of us had long suspected: that the ‘debate’ over the climate crisis - and many other environmental issues - was manufactured by the same people who brought you ‘safe’ cigarettes. Anyone concerned about the state of democracy in America should read this book.’
Former US Vice President Al Gore, author of An Inconvenient Truth

Another Bloody 11/11 for Current TV?

On November 11 for the past two years, Al Gore's Current TV has laid off a bunch of staffers. In 2008, 32 people were axed; 80 more were dismissed in 2009. With 11/11 upon us tomorrow, employees are getting nervous.

Cassini’s CIRS Reveals Saturn Is on a “Cosmic Dimmer Switch” | Watts Up With That?

Study suggests changes in Saturn’s emitted power are related to varying cloud cover.

Like a cosmic light bulb on a dimmer switch, Saturn emitted gradually less energy each year from 2005 to 2009, according to observations by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. But unlike an ordinary bulb, Saturn’s southern hemisphere consistently emitted more energy than its northern one. On top of that, energy levels changed with the seasons and differed from the last time a spacecraft visited in the early 1980s.

A Wind In Antarctica

Ed Caryl brings us his latest essay. We are aware that Antarctic sea ice has trended up over the last 30 years or so. Ed takes a look at some temperature plots from stations in Antarctica and compares them to the Southern Oscillation Index and wind. Forget the back seat! – CO2 is only riding the rear bumper of the climate science bus.

Branding of Dissenters Has Begun – Clearing The Path To A Climate Science Pogrom

What is it with these intolerant zealots who refuse to learn anything from history?

Right smack on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, German Parliamentarians, in a frontal assault, are now openly calling out and branding scientists for the crime of scientific dissent. These out-of-control Parliamentarians are demanding that the German government take a position against diseenting views in climate science.

What follows makes McCarthyism look like a treasure hunt. What a number of zealous German Parliamentarians are calling for borders on a call to launch a science pogrom.

The climate dogmatists are finding it increasingly difficult to cope with the growing scepticism and dissent now spreading in Germany and Europe, and want to stamp it out – and now.

The Reference Frame: Pogrom against German climate realists

In particular, will the government do its best to protect the life, assets, and dignity of the institutions and people who are being threatened and blackmailed by this letter? Will the German policemen shoot quickly enough to neutralize the green radicals once they switch from disgusting verbal attacks to physical attacks?

The German environmentalism has showed to be on the same path as the German national socialism in the late 1930s and it's time for the German Government to take notice of this inhuman and aggressive movement.

Hottest year ever update: Bumper snowfall allows Scottish ski resort to turn a £40,000 loss into a £730,000 profit

Winter white-out helps push ski resort back into the black - Herald Scotland | News | Home News

A Scottish ski resort has recorded a dramatic turnaround thanks to last season’s bumper snowfall, turning a £40,000 loss into a £730,000 profit.

The operator of the Cairngorm ski slopes made the huge profit just two years after it was saved from financial ruin by being taken into public ownership.

More than 21ft of snow fell cumulatively at the top of the resort during last winter, and a total of 145,007 skiers enjoyed the record-breaking season, which ran from November 2009 to Midsummer Day in June.

Report: Global Warming Issue From 2 Or 3 Years Ago May Still Be Problem | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

"Last year's federal budget included more than $200 million in funding for the Office of Personnel Management," Birdsall said. "Since nobody really knows what that is, we suggest that money perhaps be spent making sure the oceans don't turn into acid."

Thus far, the study has gained unanimous favor in the scientific community, which was admittedly surprised in 2008 and 2009 at how quickly a defining issue that will undoubtedly affect everyone on the planet became so heavily politicized and took a backseat to health care reform, the housing bubble, and replacing Jay Leno on The Tonight Show.

"Climate change is real, and we are killing our planet more every day," said climatologist Helen Marcus, who has made similar statements in interviews in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. "We need to make a serious effort to stop it, or, you know, we'll all die. There really isn't much else to say.

IPCC science: are you willing to take the risk? - Unleashed (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Half of these models are wrong! What other science happily promotes incorrect models and expects politicians to make decisions based on spurious outputs? And Lewandowsky suggests that IPCC climate science has the same precision as laser surgery!

Applying the same laser like precision of the climate models to eye surgery in 7 out of 15 cases IPCC climate scientists as laser surgeons would blind the left eye, while in 8 out of 15 cases they would blind the right.

Four ways to harvest solar heat from roads

In what the researchers admit would be the most costly option, asphalt roads could be replaced with roads made from clear-yet-durable electronic blocks. These would contain photovoltaic cells, LED lights and sensors, and could generate electricity, display changeable lane markings, and display illuminated warning messages. Idaho’s Solar Roadways has been working on just such a system, although according to Lee, a driveway made with the blocks cost US$100,000 to create. He believes that such technology may first show up in corporate parking lots, before decreased costs allow it to be used for public roads.

Denial and delay - RICHARD REID

Denying climate change – saying that human activities aren’t its main cause – is like coming upon a bullet-riddled corpse surrounded by cartridges and insisting there’s been no shooting.
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The proofs of climate change and its effects are all around us, sometimes in plain sight, sometimes on scientific record. Here is some of the stark evidence:
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Ocean wave heights have risen by more than 25 percent since the 1960’s.
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On the upper slopes of Mt. Everest, newly-melting ice is for the first time uncovering climbers’ trash, gear, and corpses, abandoned decades ago. [How did this stuff get covered with ice?]

Christie finds the Right’s kingmakers demand orthodoxy on climate change | Grist

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie brings the latest evidence that there's no room in the Right's top ranks for anything but suspicion of climate science.

CalPERS invests $500 million in green-energy fund - Capitol and California - fresnobee.com

CalPERS today said it has invested $500 million in a new green-energy fund.

The California Public Employees' Retirement System said the new investment will be spread among a broad group of companies that generate power from wind, solar and other renewable sources.

Rather than hire an external manager, CalPERS will manage the fund itself. The investments will mimic a climate-change investment index developed by investment bank HSBC.

The investment is in addition to about $2 billion CalPERS has committed to green-related investments in the past four years, said spokesman Clark McKinley.

The U.S. can escape the climate change [hoax] 'prisoners' dilemma' - The Hill's Congress Blog

At the Major Economies Forum, the United States should offer unconditional adaptation funding for the most vulnerable nations and invite China to reciprocate on other parts of the Copenhagen Accord. That would be a classic "tit-for-tat" strategy - and one that could go a long way toward slowing global climate change.

Earl C. Saxon, Ph.D., is a senior fellow for global climate change at AED. Lisa M. Schenck, J.S.D, is associate dean for academic affairs and professorial lecturer in law at the George Washington University Law School.

DailyTech - Tesla is Blowing Money Fast, Loses $35M USD

Company says it doesn't care about quarterly profitability

Tesla is sort of like hip-hop superstar of the auto world -- it's blowing through money like it could be dead tomorrow.

The company had plenty of promising news so far this year. In May it announced that Toyota invested in it and contracting it to help produce Toyota's upcoming electric RAV4 crossover SUV. The company also secured $226M USD in cash from a initial public offering of stock.

However, according to its latest earnings report it bled out $103M USD in only its first 3 quarters to date. Its latest loss -- for Q3 2010 -- was at $34.9M USD. That's disappointing considering that in Q3 2009 the company only lost only $4.6M USD, and was profitable for the first two quarters of 2009.

‘No climate talks in future if Cancun fails’ - Hindustan Times

“If there is no extension of Kyoto Protocol at Cancun (Mexico) developing countries would find it difficult to continue with the negotiations,” Ramesh said after a two-day ministerial dialogue on climate change technologies in Delhi, where the ministers failed to reach any consensus.

On Al Gore and maple sugar | Business | Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

Reasonable people can debate and discuss the reasons for the globe’s warming trend as demonstrated by such things as melting glaciers around the planet. But one thing that’s irrefutable - global warming is going to mess up the timing of New York State Maple Producers Association’s annual Maple Weekend, held in March.

According to new Cornell University research, maple syrup production in the Northeast is expected to slightly decline by 2100 and the time for tapping maple trees for their sap will move up by about a month.

Currently, maple tapping is about an eight-week window in late winter and early spring. By 2100, maple tapping will likely be closer to Christmas, according to Brian Chabot, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a co-author of a paper on climate changes and maple sugar production that appeared earlier this year in the journal Climate Change.

Shock News : Warming Has Made The Arctic Unrecognizable | Real Science

Glaciers have disappeared and fish are going extinct. Big oil knows that they are responsible for this 1922 Arctic disaster, yet they keep delivering gas to the gas station.

A simple solution would be to create green gas stations, where they have no gas. Greenies could fill up their Prius at those stations to avoid guilt and shame.

Measuring the meltdown : Nature News

With global warming hitting the Tibetan plateau hard, scientists gather to plan an international research campaign to understand and mitigate changes at the 'third pole'.

Tibet Climate

Undoubtedly, Tibet is one of the harshest places for human existence. Tibet weather is cool in summer, but excruciatingly cold in winter.
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In northern Tibet, the climate is not favorable with the average temperature is subzero and winter lasts from October through May or June.

More trouble in climate swindle land

Climate Change Capital in shareholder cash-call as HFC delays bite

Climate Change Capital (CCC) has tapped its investors for up to £4 million ($6.43 million) to shore up its regulatory capital position, as delays to carbon credit issuance from HFC23 Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects hit cash flows.

A letter from chairwoman Vivienne Cox to shareholders on 18 October, seen by Carbon Finance, warns that the suspension of certified emission reductions (CERs) from HFC projects “is having a significant impact on the company’s business”.

On behalf of its carbon funds, CCC manages the Zhejiang Juhua Co. HFC project, named ‘Panda’, which generates 4.8 million CERs/year, and the China Fluoro Technology Co. project, named ‘Polar’, with issuance of 4.2 million/year.

The CDM Executive Board has halted all CER issuance from HFC projects while an investigation is carried out into allegations of ‘gaming’ by operators to maximise the number of CERs they can generate. A decision is expected this month.

Climate hoax contributes to new dark age in Britain

Expensive green energy plunging Britain into darkness | Heliogenic Climate Change

Town halls are plunging our streets into darkness as they try to cut energy bills, damning research reveals.

Up to three-quarters of councils are planning to turn off street lamps or dim the lights in an attempt to save money and meet climate change targets, a poll has found. …

1979 flashback: Remember when global cooling was in fashion?

Steve Martin's Monologue

And I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was - an arctic region covered with ice.

YouTube - Steve Martin What I Believe

Incredible fiasco at Tesla: Why did the Obama administration "invest" $465 million of our money in a cash-burning company that makes expensive toys for rich people?

How much bad weather can you prevent by blowing $465 million on a company that's delivered 1300 cars ($357,000 per car delivered so far)?

Tesla Roadster Owner in Germany Logs 65,000 km in One Year - Business News - redOrbit

Tesla (TSLA) has already delivered about 1,300 cars to customers in at least 30 countries - from sweltering Singapore to Alaska, Canada and Russia.
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The Roadster consumes no gasoline whatsoever and therefore never requires expensive and time-consuming detours to the gas station - a major convenience when temperatures drop. Owners simply plug their Roadster into conventional outlets from the peace and warmth of their homes, and every morning the car is fully charged.
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The Tesla Roadster accelerates faster than most sports cars yet produces no emissions.

Flashback: Tesla Lands $465 Million Loan from Department of Energy for Model S Plant | ecopolitology

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced on Wednesday that the Department of Energy closed its $465 million loan with Tesla Motors, Inc. for the construction of two manufacturing facilities, one in southern California for the Model S electric sedan and one in Palo Alto, California, for electric powertrains.

Good Stuff? - Cars | Worldwatch Institute

In 2003, some 41 million new passenger vehicles rolled off the world’s assembly lines, five times as many as in 1950. The global passenger car fleet now exceeds 539 million vehicles, and is growing by as many as 9 million vehicles annually. Every day in 2003, some 11,000 more cars merged onto China’s roads alone—4 million new private cars during the year.

June 2010: Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Broke But Still Rich » Right Juris

The cash has run out for PayPal co-founder and Tesla owner Elon Musk. Broke and borrowing cash from friends, the billionaire is going through a messy divorce and recently told the press that all of his money is tied up in investments. I think they call that bad financial planning.
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“Broke” is how he describes his situation, even though he’s still technically a billionaire.

“About four months ago, I ran out of cash,” he said in a court filing.
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“Mr. Musk’s personal fortune is not just a matter of pride. A business is hanging in the balance. Tesla’s loan from the Energy Department requires Mr. Musk to hold at least 65 percent of Tesla. If he cashed out early, that loan would technically go into default.”

On top of that, a recent alleged romp with actress Talulah Riley has ruined his marriage and his wife is seeking a solid chunk of his assets. According to latest sources, she wants their house, child support, alimony, a cut of his holdings in Tesla and his rocket company, SpaceX, and to top it all off, $6 million in cash.

“Is that what I deserve?” she wrote in a recent blog. “I don’t know. Who exactly deserves that kind of wealth? But based on our life and history together, is that reasonable? I think so.”

Fair enough, he won’t even feel the pinch once he gets cash from Tesla’s upcoming IPO. Until then, the cash-poor billionaire is left borrowing money from rich friends. Apparently he needs $200,000 a month just to survive.

Serious in-flight fire in Boeing's new CO2-fighting plane

July 2010: Boeing's Dreamliner lands safely in Britain for the first time | Business | The Guardian

The 250-seater aircraft with Rolls-Royce and General Electric engines emits 20% less carbon dioxide than similar-sized planes
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Jonathan Counsell, British Airways' head of environment, said: "We are committed to addressing our impact on climate change. Adopting new technology is one of the ways in which we are reducing our greenhouse gas emissions.

Nov 9, 2010: Electrical fire forces emergency landing of 787 test plane | Seattle Times Newspaper

Flames were seen in the rear electrical/electronics bay, which is underneath the passenger cabin, said two people who were informed of the details.

"If this had happened at 25,000 feet, we might be talking about something much more serious," said a person close to the situation.
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But on the Dreamliner, most of the systems — including the hydraulic pumps that manipulate the flight-control surfaces, the brakes, cabin pressurization, engine-starting system and wing ice-protection system — are electrically operated.

Boeing touts this shift as saving energy and reducing the aircraft's mechanical complexity.

CO2 rising – the science of global warming | The Energy Collective

Carbon atoms with personality. That’s the interesting literary device biochemist Tyler Volk uses to illustrate the fantastic convolutions that define the many and varied pathways of the carbon cycle. ‘CO2 Rising‘ tracks the fate of atoms ‘Dave’, ‘Coalleen’, ‘Oiliver’ and others, as they wend their waythrough the Earth’s crust, oceans, biosphere and atmosphere – indeed, all of the reservoirs of carbon on the planet.

Eco-fatigue: Going green no longer red hot

Advertising Age: Has 'green' stopped giving? - Business - Going Green - msnbc.com

...this year hybrid sales are down 10 percent in a market up 10 percent.

And in politics, the brand with the stronger green positioning — the Democratic Party — was soundly thrashed at the polls last week. The economy was, of course, a far bigger factor than the environment. But Democrats in coal-producing and Midwest industrial states were targeted in ads for their support of alleged job-killing cap-and-trade legislation, which would limit and raise costs for carbon consumption.

GfK Roper Consulting in its September report found what it described as a dramatic increase in the percentage of U.S. consumers wary of environmentally friendly product alternatives. The share of consumers who think green products are too expensive rose eight points in two years to 61 percent, while those who believe they don't work as well jumped nine points to 33 percent and those who believe they're not even as better for the environment in the first place increased eight points to 38 percent.

What should be most concerning to marketers is that skepticism is on the rise after two years of more consumers having first-hand experience with a growing number of green products.

Many view "Cap and Trade" as an economic attack on the South

Stars & Bars: A Symbol as Divisive as the Civil War

Today, we see a different version of economic warfare on the South. Many view "Cap and Trade" as an economic attack on the South, as it presents hydro-power and Nuclear power as mute while demanding that all utilities switch to "green" energy. For the South, "green" energies of wind and solar are not viable, leaving only "switchgrass" which is not economically viable in a region that has the most efficient energy production in the Nation.

Fraudster Michael Mann: There's no uncertainty "that arctic sea ice will be gone in a few decades"

Fraudster Michael Mann: A Changing Climate Doesn’t Have a Political Agenda | Universe Today

The body of evidence for climate change is strong and convincing, and multiple lines of evidence [like what?] show the changes are caused largely by human activities. The consensus among scientists about the reality of the phenomenon is also convincing.
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“We have to make it clear that the ice sheets are not Republicans or Democrats – they don’t have a political agenda as they disappear,” said Michael Mann, a physicist at Pennsylvania State University, who has been at the recent forefront of climate research. “Certain facts cannot be denied. We have to find a way to steer the conversation to a good faith debate about what we can do about the problem, not this bad faith debate about the reality of it.”
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Mann said there has been a large, well funded campaign to manufacture misinformation about climate change, similar to how tobacco companies muddied the waters in the 1960’s on how smoking causes lung cancer and emphysema. It’s no secret that many climate change deniers have ties to the fossil fuel industry.

Mann referred specifically to an infamous memo sent out by GOP political consultant Frank Luntz in 2002 to President George Bush, “which basically said that if the public comes to understand the reality of this problem they will demand policy action to deal with it,” Mann said, “and so you need to manufacture doubt and controversy and uncertainty and cultivate a set of scientists who can act for advocates essentially for fossil fuel industry. And that is what is happened.”
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“There are legitimate uncertainties, but unfortunately the public discourse is so far removed from where the scientific discourse and controversies actually are, “Mann said. “There is not an uncertainty of the reality of climate change, that sea levels are going to rise, that arctic sea ice will be gone in a few decades or a whole lot of other areas, but we do have an uncertainty in our ability to project regional climate change.”
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“Every reconstruction reveals that the warming is indeed anomalous in a very long term context. Global temperatures are running the highest they have ever run. The twelve month running averages are warmer than they have ever been in documented history. There is no cooling of the globe and no decline to hide,” Mann said referring to the “Climategate” emails that were stolen from East Anglia climate research center and leaked just a few weeks before the Copenhagen climate summit in late 2009.

“Hackers stole thousands of emails –private correspondences between scientists,” said Mann, “and their words were cherry picked, taken out of context and distorted to make it sound like scientists were engaged in some sort of hoax.”
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Mann said the real crime was the illegal theft of private correspondence, in addition to the moral crime of intentionally distorting what scientists believe and think.
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“No doubt we are in for a period of months or even years where climate science is likely to be subject to the sort of politically motivated inquisition that we haven’t seen, frankly, since the 1950’s,” he said.

Hurricane Prediction Hokum | The Resilient Earth

When will the climate science set learn, you cannot perform experiments on computer code and proclaim it scientific evidence of anything. You might glean some insight but, in this case, they are working with models that already contain their own biases. What is surprising here is that the case the modeling results make in support of AGW influencing hurricanes is so weak.

[Note that this article doesn't even mention the global warming hoax]: Biden rolls out home energy efficiency program - Politics AP - MiamiHerald.com

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden on Tuesday unveiled a new federal program to make it easier for Americans to make their homes more energy efficient, saying it will help people save money and create new jobs for contractors.

Twitter / Left-winger Andy Revkin

"Worst environmental disaster not Gulf oil spill; it's oil that we DON'T spill, that we run through our engines as intended." Carl Safina

Climate Change Dispatch - The Proxy Crock Memos

These court whore Climatologists were well into their testimony when the honest scientists showed up and began dimming the lights and banging the gong. Derided as deniers and flat Earthers, the true scientists continued to find flaws in every warmist claim. And as great as any lie told by the warmist, is the claim that their opposition is an organized, carbon energy funded cabal.

Virtually every dollar of the $80 billion of taxpayer funds wasted on this fraud was spent on the warmist position. The scant funding provided by the energy producing companies is dwarfed by the massive sums they have wasted on carbon capture, sequester, reduction and alternative energy research.

“Dramatic Increase” in Climate Litigation - Deutsche Bank | GlobalWarming.org

The largest increase in litigation has been in the area of challenges to federal action, specifically industry challenges to proposed EPA efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

AccuWeather.com - Hunting, Not Global Warming, main problem for Polar Bears - Joe Bastardi Channel

Note to Dr. Mann: More Polar Bears today than back during the Ice Age Scare

Texas A&M Professor Misrepresents U.S. Emissions During Global Warming Debate - by James Taylor

“It was not surprising, given his prior misrepresentations about global warming, that Andy Dessler would cavalierly assert that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions are skyrocketing when in fact they are declining. Activists such as Dessler frequently lie about the facts when they think nobody will call them on it. What was surprising was that Dessler would publicly and aggressively accuse me of lying about the data when he either knew that I was right or was himself ignorant of these critically important facts,” Taylor explained.

Americans Migrating South To Escape Global Warming | Real Science

Americans are moving by the millions to hotter climates, in order to escape global warming in the north.

How Not to Be an Eco-Hypocrite - Newsweek

I don’t want to be an eco-hypocrite. If you think you don’t know what that means, trust me, you do.

Inconvenient nonsense infiltrates the classroom | Bob Carter - The Australian

Australia is rightly vigilant about preventing child abuse and guarding the freedom of the press. Why, then, are we so willing to tolerate the abuse of educational indoctrination of our children and the deliberate limitation on the scope of the media discussions they will be exposed to as adults?

Gore's movie and book are an embarrassment to US science and its many fine practitioners, a lot of whom know (but are often unable to state publicly) his crusade is mostly based on junk science.

If allowed in Australian schools at all, An Inconvenient Truth belongs not alongside Jane Austen and Tim Winton, nor with Charles Darwin and Richard Feynman, but with the works of authors such as Jules Verne and H. G. Wells in the science-fiction section of the library.

Meek, stupid leaders will be damned | The Daily Telegraph

The reason water was so scarce in the recent drought was not because of climate change - it was because our dams simply aren't big enough for a growing population. D'uh.

Prop 26 could neutralize defeat of Prop 23 | CAIVN

Californians have been hoodwinked … again. Prop 26, which won solidly on November 2, could undo the good work that citizens intended by defeating Prop 23, the anti-renewable resources initiative sponsored by Texas oil money.

Warmist Decade Ever : Winter Temperatures In Minnesota Dropping At 110 Degrees Per Century | Real Science

Over the past decade (2001-2010) Minnesota winter temperatures have been dropping at an impressive rate.

Environmentalists to bear it all for awareness - The Leader - News

Student environmentalists will soon prove their dedication to the environment by plunging into Lake Erie despite the recent chilling weather.

Fredonia's Campus Climate Challenge (CCC) is hosting its third annual Polar Bear Plunge on Nov. 14 at 1 p.m. at Wright Park in downtown Fredonia to increase awareness about climate change and habitat deprivation.
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Piche also mentioned that there will be a fire truck and ambulance on site for the event and students will be required to fill out liability waivers before going into the water.