As nations dither on climate change, big cities step up - KansasCity.com

“When there is a flood, a drought, torrential rains, those who show their face before the citizens and must offer a response are the mayors. So they are the ones who are most worried by the risks,” said Marta Delgado, the environmental secretary for Mexico City.
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“Copenhagen was a fiasco. There was no real outcome,” Kadir Topbas, the mayor of Istanbul, told his colleagues, who came from Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America. “The planet is giving us very bad signals.”

Snow In China Arrives 40 Days Early – 700 Heads Of Livestock Die

The snow was 40 days earlier than its usual arrival time and was the heaviest in 30 years. At least 700 heads of livestock are believed to have died in the storm.

Can We Blame Extreme Weather on Climate Change? - Climate Hoax Promoter Sharon Begley - Newsweek

The idea is to calculate how many times an extreme event should have occurred absent human interference, explains climate scientist Ben Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and the probability of the same extreme event in today’s greenhouse-forced atmosphere. Result: putting numbers on extreme weather.

In their biggest success, climate scientists led by Peter Stott of the British Met Office analyzed the 2003 European heat wave, when the mercury rose higher than at any time since the introduction of weather instruments (1851), and probably since at least 1500. After plugging in historical and paleo data, and working out climate patterns in a hypothetical world without a human-caused greenhouse effect, they conclude that our meddling was 75 percent to blame for the heat wave.

» Global Warming Nuisance Lawsuits Are Based on a Fatal Flaw - Big Government

There is more critical question: rather than a tobacco industry-style parallel to confuse the public about the causes of global warming, does it appear such a parallel was fabricated when none existed, which led the public to believe the IPCC has no legitimate opposition?

Again Record Cold | News | YLE Uutiset | yle.fi

Once again, a new record-low temperature for this winter was recorded Friday evening in Lapland. According to the Finnish Meteorological Institute the thermometer dipped to -34 degrees Celsius at Kevojärvi in the area of Utsjoki in the far north.

New congressman: 'I do know I'm a little nerdy' - WTKR

As late as the final week of August, nobody--not even Griffith's wife--thought he had a chance to unseat 14-term Democratic Rep. Rick Boucher in southwestern Virginia's rural, coal-mining 9th District.
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The campaign's turning point was Boucher's vote for the cap-and-trade energy bill aimed at reducing airborne carbon emissions. As Griffith crisscrossed the mountainous district in a beat-up, green Volkswagen Passat filled with child safety seats and missing its hubcaps, he sensed anger in the coal-mining region over Boucher's vote.

Climate: The Main Issues for Debate at the UN Climate Change Summit in Cancun - Ecocentric - TIME.com

Cap-and-trade in the U.S. was meant to generate money for climate finance, but that's dead, while Tea Party Republicans have the foreign aid budget squarely in their sights. Failure to deliver on climate finance, more than anything else, could sink the U.N. climate process.

What Exactly Are We Doing Here: After Copenhagen ended and I staggered home, I had one thought: the U.N. process was finished.
...If more progress isn't made at Cancun, this could be the last stand for the UNFCCC.

Big freeze will go on 'for weeks' - Telegraph

In Darlington, Rick Rayner, 45, took his daughter Grace sledging in Green Park. "I have never known snow to come so early," he said.

Skiers pack Sierra slopes after heavy snowfall | TahoeDailyTribune.com

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Skiers and snowboarders are packing the slopes in the Sierra Nevada to take advantage of what resort operators are calling the best early-season skiing conditions in decades.

Resorts are reporting midwinter conditions and some of the country's deepest base depths after a string of storms dumped up to 10 feet of snow over the week leading up to Thanksgiving Day.
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Some Tahoe-area resorts have reported up to 170 inches of snow so far, which is nearly half of their 400 inches of average snowfall.

California’s giant redwoods inconveniently respond to increased carbon dioxide | Watts Up With That?

Now that California voters have reaffirmed their commitment to CARB’s favorite AB32 law reducing CO2 emissions, I’m waiting for the inevitable lawsuit from the Sierra Club which will argue that reducing CO2 will hurt the giant redwoods. It is after all, what the Sierra Club does.

Die Zeit Takes Aim At The Skeptics In “The Abetters of Doubt”

The Climate-Berlin Wall surrounding Germany has been cracking for some time now, and crumbling with increasing speed. Die Zeit’s online smear The Abetters of Doubt takes aim at the skeptics, who have scaled the Wall and are exercising their right to free expression. They are hammering away at climate science dogmatism in Germany, much to the chagrin of the warministas.

NY Times finds a farmer who believes in the global warming hoax

An Almanac of Extreme Weather - NYTimes.com

My great-grandfather recognized that weather is never perfect for agriculture for an entire season; a full chapter of his memoir is dedicated to this observation. In his 60 years of farming he wrote that only one season, his final crop of 1937, had close to ideal weather. Like all other farmers of his time and ours, he learned to cope with significant, ill-timed fluctuations in temperature and precipitation.

On Global Warming, Start Small - NYTimes.com

Climate change is global, as emissions from one country enter the atmosphere and affect every other country. It is created by every form of economic activity, but its effects will not become critical for another generation.
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Bruce Usher, an executive in residence at Columbia Business School, is the former chief executive of a company that operates emission-reduction projects.

There are black days ahead for the ?carbon' industry - Telegraph

None of the lobbying has been more telling than a statement issued by 259 investment organisations, controlling "collective assets totalling over $15 trillion" – including major banks, insurance companies and pension funds. These are the bodies calling most stridently for "government action on climate change", because they are the ones who hope to make vast sums of money out of it. They are desperate for a treaty of the type they failed to get at Copenhagen – even more so since the collapse of the US cap and trade bill – because they see their chance of turning global warming into the most lucrative fruit machine in history dwindling by the month.

To Fight Climate Change, Clear the Air - NYTimes.com

From a political point of view, the most appealing greenhouse emissions to reduce are ozone and soot, because they contribute so much to local air pollution. After all, people everywhere care about the quality of the air they breathe and see — even if most of them are not yet very worried about global warming.

[Ignorant savages dancing in an attempt to influence the weather?]: Students strip for climate change [but fail to impress Robin Stobbs]

Robin Stobbs says:
November 27, 2010 at 11:56 am

What a bunch if ill-informed idiotic a**holes they are, thinking that their near-nudity display can, and will, change the course of a natural earth cycle! A bunch of retards lacking even the basics of scientific knowledge and integrity. Guess they had nothing more exciting to do in their tiny little lives!

Ed Miliband's speech to Labour's NPF | The Labour Party

And there’s a counterpart to this idea of not making promises you can’t meet in the short-term, and that’s being the people who talk about the long term issues our country faces even when it’s not the most popular thing to do.

That’s why I said climate change must be at the core of everything we do. Because I know that the way my kids will judge me is on this basis. Were you the last generation not to get it or the first generation to get it?

One scientist's hobby: recreating the ice age - BusinessWeek

Wild horses have returned to northern Siberia. So have musk oxen, hairy beasts that once shared this icy land with woolly mammoths and saber-toothed cats. Moose and reindeer are here, and may one day be joined by Canadian bison and deer.

Later, the predators will come -- Siberian tigers, wolves and maybe leopards.

Russian scientist Sergey Zimov is reintroducing these animals to the land where they once roamed in millions to demonstrate his theory that filling the vast emptiness of Siberia with grass-eating animals can slow global warming.
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Today he has 70 animals in the park. He wants thousands to restock Siberia. To bring 1,000 bison from North America would cost $1 million, Zimov says, a small price to pay.

"If permafrost melts, 100 gigatons of carbon will be released this century," he said. "What's $1 million? One regular grant."

Why I now deeply regret my last post – Telegraph Blogs

I’m more than happy to endure the inevitable claims from the various $7 an hour trolls who infest this blog that this represents some kind of crazed conspiracy theory. The facts speak for themselves: facts which you’ll find everywhere from books such as Christopher Booker’s The Real Global Warming Scam to blogs across the world from Jo Nova’s and Andrew Bolt’s in Australia, Lubos Motl’s in Czech Republic, Donna LaFramboise’s and ClimateAudit in Canada, P Gosselin’s in Germany, and, of course, in all the great US ones headed by Watts Up With That and Climate Depot.

These facts, it goes without saying, are very much on the side of us “sceptics” or “realists.” Every day, we take on the propagandists of the environmental movement and we win.

How do we know that other factors drove global warming just 10,000 years ago, but CO2 drove it in the late 1970s?

Scientists debate why mammoths went extinct - CTV News

CHERSKY, Russia — During the last Ice Age, shaggy mammoths, woolly rhinos and bison lumbered across northern Siberia. Then, about 10,000 years ago -- in the span of a geological heartbeat, or a few hundred years -- the last of them disappeared.
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No one knows for sure what set off global warming back then -- perhaps solar activity or a slight shift in the Earth's orbit.
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During the transition from the ice age to the modern climate, global temperatures rose 5 degrees Celsius, or 9 Fahrenheit. But in Siberia's northeast the temperature soared 7 degrees, or nearly 13F, in just three years, the elder Zimov said.
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Adrian Lister, of the paleontology department of London's Natural History Museum, said humans may have delivered the final blow, but rapid global warming was primarily responsible for the mammoth's extinction. It brought an abrupt change in vegetation that squeezed a dwindling number of mammoths into isolated pockets, where hunters could pick off the last herds, he said.

People "couldn't have done the whole job," he told AP Television News.

Adapting to climate change: Facing the consequences | The Economist

A fine-grained analysis of historical data from the United States by Wolfram Schlenker of Columbia University and Michael Roberts of North Carolina State University found such thresholds for maize (corn), soya and cotton, America’s largest crops by value. One extremely hot day, their model suggests, can cut annual productivity by 7%. Applying their findings to models of a world with unabated emissions, they found yield declines of 63-82% by the end of the century, with hefty drops even in the relatively clement first half.

This study, like many, made no provision for CO2 fertilisation.

Can environmentalism be saved from itself? - The Globe and Mail

Copenhagen was not a political breakdown. It was an intellectual breakdown so astonishing that future generations will marvel at our blind credulity. Copenhagen was a classic case of the emperor with no clothes.

Mercifully, nobody will pay attention to the climate conference at Cancun next week, where a much-reduced group of delegates will go through the motions. The delusional dream of global action to combat climate change is dead. Barack Obama’s cap-and-trade scheme is dead. Chicago’s carbon-trading market is dead. The European Union’s supposed reduction in carbon emissions has been exposed as a giant fraud. (The EU is actually responsible for 40 per cent more CO2 today than it was in 1990, if you count the goods and services it consumed as opposed to the ones that it produced.) Public interest in climate change has plunged, and the media have radically reduced their climate coverage.

The biggest loser is the environmental movement. For years, its activists neglected almost everything but climate change. They behaved as if they’d cornered the market on wisdom, truth and certainty, and they demonized anyone who dared to disagree. They got a fabulous free ride from politicians and the media, who parroted their claims like Sunday-school children reciting Scripture. No interest group in modern times has been so free from skepticism, scrutiny or simple accountability as the environmental establishment.

Horror summer fails to shift Russia climate scepticism

MOSCOW, Russia - Russia may have endured its hottest summer on record and battled deadly forest fires, but attitudes on climate change remain dominated by scepticism and even mired in conspiracy theories.

[Moscow forecast for Monday's Cancun climate hoax opening day: High of 4 degrees F, 20 degrees below normal and 46 degrees colder than five years ago]

Max Temperature 24 °F 50 °F (2005)

National Post article on the political death of the global warming hoax

Cooling climate change

While environmentalists usually finger North Americans as the worst laggards when it comes to imposing carbon limits, it's the shift in Western Europe away from Kyoto-style ideals that has been the most breathtaking. Spain, once heralded as the model for the future of green economies has proposed slashing subsidies to solar and wind power by 30%, and is expected to withdraw financial backing for renewable power plants after economists discovered, too late, that every megawatt of renewable power generated cost five Spanish jobs (Ontario, having cribbed Spain's model, is just now confronting its own electrical cost reckoning). Just 42% of Germans say they're concerned about global warming now, compared to 62% in 2006. And in Britain, the coalition Conservative-Liberal Democratic government has listed climate change initiatives as among the first items targeted for budget cuts.

Newsweek suggests that we *can't* all get rich by selling each other wind turbines?!

How to Balance Economy and Environment? - Newsweek

After the financial crisis, female leaders walk a fine line between economic recovery and green activism.
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Fast-forward to 2010: in the U.S., Barack Obama has shelved clean-energy legislation, focusing instead on health-care and jobs bills. In Europe, where last year’s Copenhagen climate talks were considered a failure, even Merkel is backpedaling on green pledges as Germany tries to shore up its industrial strength. Meanwhile, a flush China adds record numbers of gas guzzlers to its roads and invests in mammoth development projects that displace villages and mar the countryside, to the dismay of green activists.
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What a difference three years has made for Merkel. Under pressure from German industry, which is wary of competition from countries with fewer climate-protection rules, she’s now reversing the very goals she once trumpeted. In December 2008, she insisted, “We must ensure that our energy-intensive industry, which is driven by exports, is of course excluded from the [EU] emissions quotas.” She also has balked at the so-called 20/20/20 targets (which she once pushed as EU president), which call for a 20 percent cut in Europe’s emissions, 20 percent improvement in energy efficiency, and conversion to 20 percent renewable fuels by 2020. One way to achieve the targets is Europe’s carbon-credit scheme, which will require firms to pay to offset emissions starting in 2013. Merkel has demanded that German factories receive free carbon credits until 2020—a call that prompted other countries to follow suit, and muddied the project with accusations of national self-interest.

Layers and layers of fact-checking: Did anyone at the NY Times verify that this California school district actually gets 75% of its electricity from its solar panels?

In California, Carports That Can Generate Electricity - NYTimes.com

“I’ve gotten calls from Hawaii, from Canada, from all over California,” said John Cimino, the director of maintenance, operations and transportation for the Milpitas Unified School District, northeast of San Jose.
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The solar panels fulfill 75 percent of his district’s annual electricity needs during the school year, he said, and 100 percent of its summer needs.
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The estimated savings over the 20-year life of a generating contract can run from $12 million for a district like Milpitas (although savings last year were a much more modest $51,000) to $40 million for Antelope Valley.

2008: Milpitas Unified School District Partners With Chevron and Bank of America on 3.4MW Solar and Energy Efficiency Program Expected to Save $12 Million for Education

* Cost Savings - The program is designed to reduce the district's energy costs by more than 22 percent and will result in $12 million in savings for the district's general fund over the life of the solar power system, while providing positive cash flow and budget predictability through known energy costs.
* Clean Energy - By lowering the district's purchase of utility power, the solar project will reduce carbon emissions by an estimated 23,600 metric tons - equivalent to planting 270 acres of trees.
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Bank of America, through Banc of America Leasing Energy Services team, structured and provided financing for the project as part of its $20 billion environmental initiative. The California Solar Initiative and other incentives offset the overall cost of the program by $4.2 million.
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The Milpitas Unified School District is a high-achieving and growing K-12 district located in the heart of Silicon Valley. The student population, which is just under 10,000, is rich in ethnic and cultural diversity.

Record Early Skiing and Snow « Musings from the Chiefio

The point? Yeah, it’s a ‘weather is not climate’ moment, but it’s also a “this is not the Global Warming I was promised” moment too.

We’re supposed to be having record heat, loss of snow, later start to winters and earlier summers. What we’ve got is a record early open with snow heavy enough to ski upon, after a very late close of skiing last year.

Pielke Jr. on Trenberth’s Book Review | Watts Up With That?

Apparently, Dr. Kevin Trenberth can’t account for the facts in the book, The Climate Fix, and it’s a travesty that he can’t. – Anthony
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[Pielke Jr] Science magazine made the odd decision to choose Kevin Trenberth, a long-time and vocal critic of mine, who has repeatedly on the losing
sides of public debates over hurricanes and disasters, to review my book.

'Hypocrisy' of Huhne at the eco summit with personal Jacuzzi in each £240-a-night room | Mail Online

After a hard day at the negotiating table, what could be nicer than a soak in your personal double Jacuzzi with a view over the Caribbean?

Such luxury will greet Cabinet minister Chris Huhne – and 45 other British Government delegates – during international global warming talks in Mexico.

Mr Huhne, the Liberal Democrat Energy and Climate Change Secretary, will be enjoying the facilities of the £240-a-night Moon Palace Golf and Spa

Should he be tempted to use his hot tub, however, he will be doing the environment no favours. A typical double Jacuzzi generates 35 times more carbon dioxide than an ordinary bath – and 80 times more than a five-minute shower.
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The summit is part of a long process to get countries to sign up to legally binding cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that will prevent world temperatures rising more than 2C this century.

The vast majority of climate scientists say any increases above that will lead to floods and droughts.

Ed Miliband says 'I'm a socialist' as he admits he was tempted to join the student protesters | Mail Online

Ed Miliband declared himself an unabashed socialist yesterday and revealed he had been tempted to join the student protests.

Inconvenient Truth About Green Agenda - Fox News Video - FoxNews.com

Before climate conference, U.N. official admits it's about 'redistributing' wealth

Nepal suffers more intense cold waves; CO2 blamed

Helena Christensen calls for action on climate change - Telegraph

Climate change is like ‘groundhog day’ for poor people suffering floods and droughts [On any given day, in any given location, how do individual CO2 molecules decide whether to cause flooding or drought?  Do the molecules communicate with each other?] year after year as the temperature rises, Helena Christensen has said after visiting communities hit by extreme weather.
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The Terai region is the most productive in Nepal but in recent years the area has suffered erratic weather patterns with more intense cold waves in the winter, followed by heavy burst of rain and lengthy droughts.
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“Countries all over the world are drowning yet none of the powerful nations dare to be the first to throw in the lifesavers..."

U.S. Carbon Trading Goes Up in Smoke - BusinessWeek

Carbon jobs are dying, too: Last year JPMorgan Chase (JPM) acquired carbon brokerage EcoSecurities for $206 million. It has since cut staff and pulled out of projects. "There's not enough clarity to continue to be able to invest in the market robustly," EcoSecurities Chief Executive Officer Paul M. Kelly said at a conference in May.

Countries Pare Ambitions for Talks on Climate Change [Hoax Wealth Transfer] - WSJ.com

At a two-week United Nations climate conference in the Mexican resort city of Cancun, negotiators will focus not on the stick of mandatory emissions limits but on the carrot of tens of billions of dollars in subsidies from industrialized countries to help developing nations grow on a greener path.

Almost all growth in global greenhouse-gas emissions in coming years is expected to come from developing countries. The subsidies likely would, among other moves, help China build more-efficient coal-fired power plants, Brazil preserve forests, and an array of developing countries build wind farms and solar projects.

November storms kick off an early ski season in California - latimes.com

And it seems November storms have kicked off ski season early throughout the West. Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming opens Saturday with 10 feet of snow, the greatest amount for opening day in the resort's history. In Colorado, the Breckenridge and Keystone resorts also got enough snow this month to open some of their most popular runs in mid-November, the earliest time in the resorts' history.

BBC News - Met Office says 2010 'among hottest on record'

Professor John Christy, a climate sceptic from the University of Alabama in Hunstville, said global temperature had plunged in the past two weeks, so 2010 was likely to remain in second place.

He challenged the Met Office conviction that greenhouse gases were to blame for the warmth.

"The cause of the warmth is speculation. There are numerous feedbacks at work (many of which are poorly modelled if at all), and it seems to me unimaginative to conclude that greenhouse gases are the dominant cause," he said.

"There is no proof of such a cause in classical scientific sense - so we end up with a lot of opinions on the matter. Evidence is strong that centuries in the past 10,000 years were warmer than today without influences from human-related greenhouse gases."

San Diego has one of coldest November nights in years - SignOnSanDiego.com

The temperature fell to 43 degrees at Lindbergh Field at 4 a.m. today, tying the record for November 26th, which was set in 1884.

Thanksgiving cold breaks records across Calif. - Forbes.com

SAN FRANCISCO -- Californians are hoping for a warmer weekend after a Thanksgiving cold snap broke or tied cold-temperature records - some more than a century old - up and down the state.

The National Weather Service reports that San Francisco's low of 42 degrees on Thursday tied a record set back in 1892. Across the bay in Oakland, 36-degree daytime temperatures shattered the old record of 42.

Record low temps lead to power outages - Columbia Basin Herald: Latest News

MOSES LAKE - Early Wednesday temperatures broke records around the Columbia Basin region as temperatures measured well below the freezing mark.

Snow chaos as -7.8°C freeze grips Britain | The Sun |News

The Arctic blast is already the worst November weather in 17 years and experts now say it could last up to TWO WEEKS.

Now on npr.org: More complete BS from climate hoax promoter Bill McKibben

Foreign Policy: Making Progress In Mexico : NPR

Copenhagen, at least in winter, has a grim air — I remember the Ferris wheel at Tivoli Garden kept spinning throughout last December's U.N. climate summit, but the wind chill factor seemed discouraging. In a season for hunkering down, the damp squib of an outcome fit the mood. Cancun, where the next U.N. climate summit starts on Nov. 29, has a slightly different feel — "a margarita for the delegate from Denmark, senora!" — but drinks and sunshine won't be enough to lift the mood.
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The scientists have done their work by now. The planet is heating up in precisely the ways they predicted, albeit more quickly.  The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere edged past 390 parts per million (ppm) in the months since Copenhagen, far above the 350 ppm that researchers have set as the upper boundary for a planet that works the way we're used to.

Cancún must be about more than climate change | Wangari Maathai | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

If we are to help steer the world through this uncertainty, we must be clear that climate change, though important, is only one part of the puzzle. If we truly want to tackle climate change, poverty and conflict we need to think holistically. We need to, as Ban Ki-moon said at the launch of the UN global sustainability panel, "think big, connecting the dots between poverty, energy, food, water, environmental pressure and climate change".

Cancún climate summit: Rich accused of 'holding humanity hostage' | Environment | The Guardian

Tonight the first shots were fired in what are likely to be serious diplomatic clashes at the talks. In an interview with the Guardian, Bolivia's ambassador to the UN accused rich countries of "holding humanity hostage" and undermining the UN. "[Their] deliberate attempts to sideline democracy and justice in the climate debate will be viewed as reckless and immoral by future generations," he said. "I feel that Cancún will become a new Copenhagen if there is no shift in the next few days."

Connie Hedegaard, the European commissioner for climate action, warned journalists this week that if Cancún failed to move forward there would be a risk that some key parties would "start to simply lose interest in the international UN process". She said: "If Cancún delivers nothing, or not much, then the UN process is in danger."
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Huhne said: "If the world fails to stop emissions from continuing to climb by 2020, the prospects for the people on the planet are pretty bleak. Success from our point of view means getting closer to the legally binding deal we want."

IPCC Official: Spread the Wealth Around - By Chris Horner - Planet Gore - National Review Online

George Dvorsky, a director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, summarizes his preferred way forward as follows

Given the failure of Copenhagen, I’m inclined to believe that semi-annual conferences are not the way to go. Instead, I’d like to see the United Nations assemble an international and permanent emergency session that is parliamentary in nature (i.e. representative and accountable) and dedicated to debating and acting on the problem of anthropogenic climate change (a sub-parliament, if you will). The decisions of this governing board would be binding and impact on all the nations of the world.

With Son-of-Copenhagen kicking off Monday in Cancun, the coming two weeks should be rife with such outbursts as the Kyoto enterprise grinds ever closer to its inevitable, de facto collapse.

A 'Crazy Bad' Day for Pollution in Beijing - NYTimes.com

As a reporter for this newspaper, I enjoyed living in Beijing from 1997 to 2003, but “crazy bad” sometimes seemed like an apt description of air quality. On some days, we couldn’t see the ground from our 11th-floor apartment, and the sun in Beijing was often a glowing disk behind the pollution. My young son suffered bouts of asthma, bronchitis and pneumonia, problems that disappeared when we moved away.

Students strip for climate change [hoax] – - Macleans OnCampus

Students at the University of Guelph shed their clothing Wednesday to protest the Conservative government’s climate change policies. Specifically the students were objecting to Conservative Senators killing an NDP sponsored bill that would have set firm targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050.
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A video of the incident has been posted to You Tube.

Maybe some climate realists should post a similar video. (Not you. You.)

Williams sure won’t get to 100 metres at this rate | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

A new paper in the Geophysical Research Letters says sea level rises in the past decade caused by melting are so far no more than 1mm a year:
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Reader Steve asked for comment from the ABC’s science guru, Robyn Williams, who three years ago notoriously warned of sea level rises of up to 100 metres this century. Williams’ emailed response:

I think we’re all fine.

All contradictory info comes from foaming commies.

[But if you really believe this crap, why not do this all year?] - It’s Sell Nothing Day for one local bookstore

Tomorrow marks Buy Nothing Day in North America, and Greaves is closing the store’s doors for one day in hopes of raising people’s awareness about their consumer habits. “I think Buy Nothing Day is a really interesting concept and important to think about,” said Greaves, who has marked the day every year for the last 10 years.
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“We wanted to point out that consumerism is one of the causes of the ecological crisis ... 20 years ago, nobody worried about climate change,” said Lasn. “Today, everyone knows about climate change and the ominous tipping points on the horizon.

“We’re in denial about what is going on politically and ecologically and Buy Nothing Day is an attempt to break through that denial.”

"Experts" join climate debate | StarTribune.com

By the end of the half-hour radio chat, civility won out. More important for Abraham, consensus across the vast divide between a skeptic and a climate scientist had been reached.

"All right, all right," Judd said. "No matter what side you are on, most people agree that Earth is warming and we have to do something about it."

Review & Outlook: Al Gore's Ethanol Epiphany - WSJ.com

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703572404575634753486416076.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Mr. Gore's mea culpa underscores the degree to which ethanol has become a purely political machine: It serves no purpose other than re-electing incumbents and transferring wealth to farm states and ethanol producers. Nothing proves this better than the coincident trajectories of ethanol and Mr. Gore's career.

Tiny islands face change that is hard to believe in

Faaui Siale is sitting in her open-walled home, at the northern end of Tuvalu's atoll capital, Funafuti. Three generations live here, side by side on a sliver of coral sand barely 50 metres wide. 

Ocean waves thump the land to her left and a lagoon laps the shore on her right.
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But Siale, 60, is unconcerned. She does not accept that the sea level is rising. ''I believe there won't be any more floods, because of the covenant between Noah and the Lord God,'' she says, with her daughter-in-law interpreting. ''They made a promise during those days that there won't be another flood in the world.''

It is a belief shared by many of her compatriots. Recently, a survey conducted by the Tuvalu Christian Church found that nearly a third of the population did not believe in climate change, based on their interpretation of the Old Testament.
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Lusama, however, prefers an alternative interpretation of God's pledge to Noah. ''God is faithful to his covenant and He is not causing climate change and sea level rise,'' he says. ''It is human-induced, not divinely induced.''
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''Put simply, why should I die for the sake of luxury for others? That is injustice.''

Climate activists in Egypt use art to send message

Activists and scientists have warned that much of the Nile Delta, Egypt's agricultural lifeline, could disappear if sea levels rise, in addition to higher temperatures drying up the country's already limited water sources.

"The Nile Delta is one of the three most vulnerable places to climate change in the world," said Sarah Rafaat, a graphic designer and activist who organized the event.
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Among the participants were students Haggar Yasser and Reem Hemida, who heard about the event from their school principal. The agreed that their generation was going to have to deal with any effects of climate change and said they hoped world leaders would sit up and listen.

"They should know more about the world," said Yasser. "They should care more."

NYTimes lets facts intrude on alarmist narrative « Green Hell Blog

Unfortunately for the Times, Kaufman and Schultz, some editor (with an ironic sense of humor) inserted the following text into the middle of the story:

Like many other cities, Norfolk was built on filled-in marsh. Now that fill is settling and compacting. In addition, the city is in an area where significant natural sinking of land is occurring. The result is that Norfolk has experienced the highest relative increase in sea level on the East Coast — 14.5 inches since 1930, according to readings by the Sewells Point naval station here.

Remarkable quote from US climate hoax envoy Jonathan Pershing: Some countries saw the Copenhagen process as "a mechanism to redistribute global wealth"

Doesn't that quote in red (below) sound like something you might hear from a cousin-marrying, toothless, right-wing, Bristol-Palin-loving, gun-toting, evolution-denying, truck-driving, non-sandal-wearing, meat-eating, Watts Up With That-reading CO2-catastrophe-denier?

t r u t h o u t | Cancun Climate Summit: Time for a New Geopolitical Architecture

President Evo Morales, who some are pushing for the Nobel peace prize, recently organized a counter climate summit in Cochabamba. The Bolivian president declares that $300 billion a year is necessary to cope with global warming and is lobbying hard for the formation of an innovative international climate court.

There's been an escalating war of words between the U.S. and the so-called Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas, or ALBA, when it comes to climate change. Take, for example, US climate envoy Jonathan Pershing, who recently lambasted Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. The ALBA nations, Pershing claims, saw the Copenhagen process "not so much as a solution to climate change, but in fact as a mechanism to redistribute global wealth." Somewhat superciliously, Pershing added, "Well, surprise, surprise, surprise, the rest of the world doesn't want to do it that way."

COP 15 Bolivia rejects US blame game on Copenhagen and :: PEJ News :: Stories, Features, Opinion and Analysis :: Peace, Earth & Justice News

[January '10] Jonathan Pershing said: "Who were they? Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba. These are countries that are part of the ALBA group, a group that sees this process not so much as a solution to climate change, but in fact as a mechanism to redistribute global wealth. And they don't like the fact that this did not do that. It didn't do that, and they objected to that fact. Well, surprise, surprise, surprise, the rest of the world doesn't want to do it that way. But they couldn't get an agreement, because this group, this narrow group, was blocking it." Pershing says future talks should center around the world's largest polluters instead of trying to go through the UN process. He said, "It is.impossible to imagine a negotiation of enormous complexity where you have a table of 192 countries involved in all the detail."

Explaining Met Office Communications | Real Science

The flurry of news from The Met Office is confusing. In order to make it clear, I have summarized it below.

We originally thought that the past decade would warm quickly, but then natural variability caused by man-made pollution resulted in lower temperatures (as the models predicted.) But we have recently discovered that the natural man-made slow down in temperature is not as great as we originally didn’t predict.

Meanwhile, expect heavy snow this week caused by Chinese power plants which pump out too much CO2.

Even worse than expected: Will the Cancun climate hoax farce draw only 10% of the attendance of the Copenhagen climate hoax farce?

Cancun just a warm-up - Special Reports - Mail & Guardian Online

Suddenly, climate change treaties became a tired topic that no longer made the headlines or ignited the energy they had only a year before. An estimated 100 000 people attended the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen last year.

This year's host city, Cancun in Mexico, is expected to host only a tenth of that.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Nov. 25th 2010 « The Daily Bayonet

it’s time to don the gloves and touch some junk (science, that is).

Met Office : Natural Variability Caused Man Made Slowdown | Real Science

The Met Office agrees that the rate of warming has slowed – but it maintains that is due to natural variability.
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Global warming has slowed in the last decade, according to the Met Office, as the world pumps out so much pollution it is reflecting the sun’s rays and causing a cooling effect.

Met Office : Coal Fired Power Plants Cause Warming And Cooling (When Convenient) | Real Science

During periods when they believe the Earth’s temperature is warming, they blame the warming on CO2 from burning coal. During periods when the Earth is not warming, they blame it on sulfates from burning coal.

Now we are not even allowed to doubt? « JoNova

It’s Naomi Oreskes reasoning which is scary.

Some people just can’t think.

Naomi Oreskes “reasons” by Remarkable Parallels, which is as bogus a way of thinking as any tea-leaf-incantation that we thought we left behind in the caves. She thinks that because she can find parallels between Tobacco and Climate Sceptics, therefore sceptics are wrong about climate sensitivity due to a trace gas. Go figure why anyone struggles to analyse ice cores when they could have just done a google search?

I can find remarkable parallels between Lysenko and modern climate science, but I don’t bother writing a book on it. If I want answers about the climate I look at the data from the planet, not data about personalities.

A Message Without Resonance? Green Jobs Creation Slowed By Cheap Price of Dirty Energy | Age of Engagement | Big Think

"Green energy investment has been a central talking point of the Obama administration's job growth strategy," said Samuel Sherraden, a policy analyst at the New America Foundation, a nonpartisan research organization. "It was a little bit too ambitious given the size and depth of the recession and the small size of the renewable energy industry."

Sherraden said it was unwise for the administration to invest so heavily in green energy, at least if short-term job creation was the goal. He said green energy comes with "political and market uncertainty" that has overwhelmed its job creation potential....

...other administration officials acknowledge that it is likely to be years before the spending on green energy produces large numbers of jobs.

Adrian MacNair: The religious zealotry of climate change fanatics | Full Comment | National Post

The green fundamentalists who call for an immediate restructuring of post-industrialized civilization to cater to their theories are absurd individuals. They will shun you for disagreement, and even blacklist you for the audacity of unbelieving. I have met more humourless, fanatical, devoted environmentalist demagogues than I have of the religious equivalent.

Curiously, the punishment they promise unbelievers is death by flood, drought or starvation. It’s like reading the book of Revelation.

The best thing to do when somebody goes on about the Armageddon is to smile, nod approvingly, and change the subject. Otherwise you risk the possibility of being called a heretic and burned at the metaphorical stake.

I have a live and let live attitude. If you want to believe that glacial meltwater spells the doom of the planet, so be it. Just don’t force me to wear the uniform and march in the parades with you.

Ex-UN climate chief: Cancun won't bring success

De Boer said climate negotiators in Cancun should focus on "small steps" toward slowing climate change, warning that if there is another failure such as took place in Copenhagen last year, "no one will take us seriously anymore."

Top green investor slams proposed EU industrial gas ban - 26 Nov 2010 - News from BusinessGreen

One of the UK's top green investors has warned EU proposals to ban the import of UN-approved carbon credits derived from controversial industrial gas projects could have a catastrophic impact on investor confidence and undermine future investment in emission reduction and forestry projects.

Speaking at BusinessGreen's lecture evening yesterday, James Cameron, executive director and vice chairman of Climate Change Capital, argued the draft proposals released yesterday by the European Commission represented a "completely irrational trade ban" for the growing carbon [swindle] market.
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"We are still under threat that the carbon market will take away value of those who have invested to date, the very people we need to find [future investment], and they are not going turn up with the next $100m or $200m if they have lost a packet on some irrational political decision," he said. "The [sums required for low carbon investment] cannot be met without the very people who are about to lose money from a set of poor decisions made by the European Commission and the CDM executive board."

The folly of tilting at windmills | The Australian

Greens and other activists tend to condemn those who question the investment in renewable energy at the expense of other initiatives as climate science deniers. In cutting carbon, the best solutions are those that do the job cost-efficiently. High-cost token measures will destroy public support for real solutions.

The Volt’s Reason to Be - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Critics of the Chevy Volt rightfully point out that GM’s new plug-in hybrid is an overpriced Chevy Cruze, that it is not a revolution-in-the-making but a niche vehicle, and that it should stand on its merits without expensive taxpayer subsidies. But those critics also assume a rational world.
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This week, the EPA announced that the Volt will get an EPA MPG rating of 60 mpg, which will go a long way towards helping the company meet the government’s absurd 35 mpg average for all the vehicles the company makes. That is, since consumers prefer cars that get 21 mpg on average (53 percent of vehicles bought today are SUVs, after all), GM can throw in the Volt’s 60 mpg to goose up its fleet average and avoid millions in federal fines and public execution by the national media.

Green groups think you're stupid: In an effort to fight asthma, which worsens in the cold, we should spend $45 trillion trying to make it *cooler* outside

People with asthma should take extra precautions during the cold weather

26th November 2010 - With snow already covering parts of the UK and some of the lowest temperatures seen so far this year, people with asthma are being urged to take precautions against the chilly air.

Asthma UK says that for three quarters of the 5.4 million people with asthma, cold air is a trigger for their symptoms.

The charity says hospital admissions for asthma usually peak during periods of particularly cold weather. Breathing cold air into the lungs can trigger asthma attacks.

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

Environmental groups are licking their wounds, regrouping, and planning a strategic comeback with a new message after Tuesday’s elections delivered a crushing blow to their agenda.

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.
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The biggest pivot: Instead of media campaigns about saving the planet from global warming, look for public health pitches aimed at saving children from asthma, pregnant women from mercury poisoning, and small communities from the pollution of specific, local coal plants — such as thick, heavy coal ash.
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Heather Taylor, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund, gave a more visceral preview of the campaigns “You can’t find a mom or dad or who has treated a child with asthma who doesn’t have strong feelings about pollution. We’re going to take that message to America. When it comes to why we need clean air and the EPA, there’s no more heartbreaking visual than a child in an emergency room having an asthma attack.”

Proof at last: eating meat is not bad for the environment

It turns out that all those green claims that we could save the planet by foreswearing meat were BS. Unfortunately, in the process of exposing this fact, Simon Fairlie still recycles many modern-day eco-prejudices.

Jairam Ramesh now calls SUVs 'socially useless vehicles' - General news

New Delhi: Days after he termed use of sports utility vehicles (SUVs) in India as criminal, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh Thursday called them "socially useless vehicles".

"I have got very critical reactions for my statement on SUVs. The Wall Street journal in an article today called me buffoon. I think SUVs are socially useless vehicles," he said, during a conference on climate change here.

We're saved!: Panda poop to be burned in an effort to prevent hurricanes

InsideToronto Article: Zoo ponders plan to turn animal poop into power

Ershum's excrement - and that of his yet to be named mate - could be the first converted from poop to power at the Toronto Zoo thanks to two decisions by the its board yesterday.

The Toronto Zoo board, in its last meeting before the new board is named, approved staff to seek out a public-private partnership in order to bring two giant pandas - Ershum and his mate - to the zoo. It also approved the creation of a partnership to build a biogas facility that would turn animal waste into green power.
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The proposed project would see a consortium called Zoo Biogas Co. construct a 500 KW facility on 2.5 acres of zoo-managed land. The facility would be able to handle anywhere from 50 to 90 per cent of the zoo's animal waste and turn it into green energy. By turning poop into power, the zoo could reduce its yearly carbon dioxide emissions of 7,000 tonnes by a third. (Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, which contributes to climate change).

Statisticians slam “random” global warming hockey stick graph

Major doubts have been raised about the reliability of the historical temperature record by two US statisticians in a paper that has yet to be published but has already provoked a strong response from leading US climate scientists.

Introducing the Ultimate Climate Change FAQ | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The Guardian is setting out to create world's best layman-friendly guide to all aspects of climate change – and we need your help

World is warming quicker than thought in past decade, says Met Office | Environment | The Guardian

The Met Office's Dr Vicky Pope added that there were good explanations why warming had slowed over the past 10 years.

Heavy snow on the way as cold snap hits Lothians - Edinburgh Evening News

Robin Steel, forecaster for the Met Office in Scotland, said: "The weather shouldn't be too bad today but you can expect snowfall from this evening.
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"In my 20 years as a forecaster I've not known this much cold weather so early. Usually we see this kind of weather in January or February."

Cancún is indeed a nest of serpents – sitting in a vast, toxic rubbish dump | Luis Hernandez Navarro | Comment is free | The Guardian

Next week, Mexico hosts the UN convention on climate change in Cancún. It is ironic that such an important conference on the environment should take place in a country whose environment has been devastated, and in a city that exemplifies everything you should not do if you wish to protect the environment.

- Bishop Hill blog - Matt Ridley on Huhne

For a glimpse of a truly scary future dependent on volatile suppliers look no farther than Mr Huhne’s favoured approach, the dash for wind. Every wind turbine has a magnet made of a metal called neodymium. There are 2.5 tonnes of it in each of the behemoths that have just gone up to spoil my view in Northumberland. The mining and refining of neodymium is so dirty (involving repeated boiling in acid, with radioactive thorium as a waste product), that only one country does it: China. This year it flexed its trade muscles and briefly stopped exporting neodymium from its inner Mongolian mines. How’s that for dangerous reliance on a volatile foreign supply?

Climate Common Sense: Climate Change Scam Wins Dodgy Award

Henry Ergas of the Australian lists the front-runners for the Dodgy Awards , a tongue-in-cheek look at the abysmal record of those governing this fair land and their policies.

Opening up climate science can cut off the denialists | Science | guardian.co.uk

If we want people to respect the scientific community and understand its own confidence in its output, we have to also accept that it's not the individual scientists or skeptics who hold weight. We need to tear down the ivory towers of the past and remove the walls dividing the public and academia. Journals need to be open, and in complex cases, such as the evidence for climate change, we need to provide the skills and tools that people need to discover the answers for themselves. If we ask them to to accept our viewpoints just because we are the experts, we have already lost. We would be no different than anyone who stands on a pedestal and proclaims the truth.

Lawrence Solomon: Massive Canadian carbon sink disappears | Full Comment | National Post

The Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, a recipient since 2000 of $110-million in federal taxpayer funding, is shutting its doors after failing to convince federal and provincial governments to keep it afloat. The foundation describes itself as “Canada’s premier funder of university-based weather and climate research.”
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The foundation’s coup for the year, however, may have been “Integrated Climate Change Learning Resource for Grade 6.” Produced by Andrew Weaver at the University of Victoria, considered by many to be Canada’s most accomplished climate scientist, this work addressed what it saw as a pressing elementary school need – introducing children to the climate change imperative: “While global warming is the most significant environmental issue of our time, it receives little attention in the Canadian school system,” the foundation explained.

All told, the foundation supported over 200 major scientific initiatives through research grants totalling more than $117-million at 37 Canadian universities.

It will be sorely missed by its many grant recipients.

Rapid Response Team Collapses – Turns Their Charter Over To John Cook | Real Science

They lasted about four days, and never answered any of my questions...Just more BS from the usual group of suspects.

Hansen And Jones Need To Sharpen Up Their Maths | Real Science

Are Hansen and Jones both unaware that we are having a near record La Niña event, and that temperatures are plummeting?

These guys are supposed to be the world’s best climatologists, yet they seem to be out of touch with the fundamentals of both climate science and mathematics.

Warning Signs: Climate Change Idiocy and The Economist

So what is climate change policy really about? It is about how “we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth….” If this sounds like the usual communist claptrap, it is.

EU Referendum: The Lean machine

It is a totally reliable guide. When a climate summit is in the offing, the bullshit index goes off the scale. This time, it is the turn of Geoffrey Lean, who gets hammered in the comments.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Reality partially sets in: Gore 'depressed' & Pachauri thinks people could lose faith in UN

"We have to take a few steps forward or there are people who are going to lose faith in the U.N. system," Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N. panel of climate scientists.

"I'm a little depressed about Cancun," said Al Gore, the climate campaigner and former U.S. Vice President. "The problem is not going away, it's getting steadily worse."

Remember when it was warming, and they told us that coal-fired power stations were causing it? Now they tell us that coal-fired power stations have a *cooling* effect

Global warming has slowed because of pollution - Telegraph

Global warming has slowed in the last decade, according to the Met Office, as the world pumps out so much pollution it is reflecting the sun’s rays and causing a cooling effect.
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But in a new report the Met Office said the reduced rate of warming can be easily explained by a number of factors. And indeed the true rate of warming caused by man made greenhouse gases could be greater than ever.

One of the major factors is pollution over Asia, where the huge growth in coal-fired power stations mean aerosols like sulphur are being pumped into the air. This reflects sunlight, cooling the land surface temperature.

Dr Vicky Pope, Head of Climate Change Advice, said pollution may be causing a cooling effect.

Global warming is slowing down, say scientists | Mail Online

The rate at which global temperatures are rising has slowed in the past decade, scientists said today.

In a report published today, the Met Office said the recent decrease seen in the rate of warming was the result of natural variation in the weather and pollution.

Scientists say one of the major reasons for the decrease in global warming is the rise in heavy industry and pollutant 'aerosols', particularly in Asia.

EU Referendum: Talking the usual garbage

" ... while the UK is currently experiencing a cold snap and last year had the harshest winter for 30 years, the scientists said the evidence for man-made global warming had grown even stronger in the past year." Thus does Vicky Pope of the Met Office say that for global warming it was important to look at the global picture - which last year saw many parts of the world experience very warm temperatures even while the UK was gripped by snow and ice.

And she said: "We are starting to see changes in the climate even in the UK which we can link to global warming. We're seeing more heatwaves and seeing fewer of these cold winters."

Johann Hari: There won't be a bailout for the earth - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent

Why are the world’s governments bothering? Why are they jetting to Cancun next week to discuss what to do now about global warming? The vogue has passed. The fad has faded. Global warming is yesterday’s apocalypse. Didn’t somebody leak an email that showed it was all made up? Doesn’t it sometimes snow in the winter? Didn’t Al Gore get fat, or something?

The Reference Frame: Huge EU funds plan to corrupt Czech science and fabricate Czech alarmists

In other words, the EU will fund 150 people who will suddenly emerge out of the vacuum and who will spread lies about the climate and create the completely flawed impression that the Czech scientists have actually reached a conclusion that there is a global warming worth talking about. And you should have no doubt that the loyalty to the global warming lies is a key necessary condition for a person to be paid out of the grant.

Austrian Weather Service Scientist: COP16 “Usual International Climate Hype”

Even a moderate warmist like Böhm admits what the IPCC is all about.

C3: Researchers Detect Large Negative Feedback From Global Warming That's Unaccounted For In IPCC Climate Models

Terrestrial nature abhors positive feedbacks; that's why the climate is dominated by negative feedbacks. IPCC scientists hate natural negative feedbacks because they automatically reduce future global warming, and that's why the IPCC climate models either minimize negative feedbacks or entirely ignore them. Unfortunately for the IPCC Climategate scientists, the science research continues about natural climate feedbacks, which has now led to a new major negative feedback being identified in a new region of the world by peer-reviewed research.

Motes, beams and the University of East Anglia – Telegraph Blogs

Thanks to further research by Bishop Hill and the indefatigable David Holland – he who uses FOI requests like the US military uses drone strikes – we learn that the UEA paid no less than £300,000 for another of these “independent” inquiries, the Russell Review. And to judge by the latest revelations here and here the UEA is not about to acquire a reputation for fairness and scrupulous transparency any time soon.

Obviously, if Sir Edward Acton wants me to go into a bit more detail about the grotesque inadequacies of the Climatic Research Unit, why the University of East Anglia has become a standing joke, how the Climategate emails showed the scientists at the very heart of the IPCC to be untrustworthy, unreliable and entirely unfit to write the kind of reports on which governments around the world make their economic and environmental decisions,or why it is that Professor Phil Jones is more likely to find himself remembered for the Climategate scandal than he is to find himself mentioned in the same breath as Einstein, Newton or Watson and Crick, I should be more than happy to do so.

Ships and buoys made global warming look slower - environment - 26 November 2010 - New Scientist

Since the 1970s average global temperatures have risen by 0.16 °C per decade, but over the past decade they seemed to rise by only 0.09 °C, an apparent slowdown of 0.07 °C. John Kennedy and colleagues at the UK Met Office have now found that the real slowdown was smaller.

KUSI News Weather Sports San Diego - It's a chilly Thanksgiving for San Diego

SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The holiday season is off to a cold start, with record low temperatures and a frost advisory in effect tonight.

The daytime highs around San Diego County were low enough to break records yesterday. At Lindbergh Field, the high was 59 degrees, breaking the lowest recorded high of 60 degrees set in 1988. That makes yesterday the coolest Nov. 24 in San Diego since 1875, as far back as the records go.

In Escondido yesterday, the high temperature was 55 degrees, the lowest high on the date since recording began in 1900. It broke the 1985 record of 59 degrees.

Another IPCC Fantasy Gets Flushed Down The Toilet | Real Science

According to the new results, the annual world average sea level rise is about 1 millimeter, or about 0.04 of an inch.
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The low end of IPCC forecasts is about double that at 1.9 mm/year. Hansen has been talking about 30+ mm/year. Once again the experts demonstrate that they have no clue what they are talking about.

Remember the rule: Listen to the Bible-bangers when they agree with left-wingers; mock the Bible-Bangers when they don't

56 Faith Organizations Tell U.S. Senate To Save the Clean Air Act

In particular, the religious leaders noted that the effort by Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) to delay EPA controls on greenhouse gas emissions should be turned down.

Climate Deception Is A Crime Against Humanity?

It’s an admission that the world was deliberately deceived. They succeeded because they attacked those who dared to question. They got away with it because experts who knew about serious problems kept quiet. They got away with it because nobody added up the total cost and human impact. They’ve been allowed to “commit widespread and systematic violence against civilians,” therefore the climate deception is a crime against humanity.

Youth activists plan co-operation over protest at Cancún climate summit | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Reed Aronow of SustainUS said activists will lead a "series of creative actions and campaigns" in Cancun centered on getting both meaningful treaty text and climate change legislation in the United States.

Their biggest Cancun campaign, run in conjunction with the Energy Action Coalition, will be the grassroots Rapid Response Network. Organizers will enlist a crew of U.S.-based "climate responders" who will be called on to take action at home when big developments happen in Cancun.
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Their other tactics may ring a more familiar note. Among planned protests, youth activists, dressed as penguins, will hold signs that read, "Save the humans," in what they're calling the "March of the Penguins."

Copenhagen climate activists found guilty | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Two Danish activists who took part in the Copenhagen climate demonstrations last December have been found guilty of organising and instigating violence and vandalism, and have both been given four-month suspended sentences. One of the three judges in the case disagreed with the verdict.
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During a scuffle with police, Nyboe and Jonassen were filmed standing on a lorry shouting "push" into microphones. Over the course of the trial their supporters posted photographs of themselves holding signs reading: "I too shouted push!"

California faces cold Thanksgiving holiday

Los Angeles County health officials reminded residents Wednesday that shelters were available for people trying to escape the chill.

Chris Davies MEP: COLD WINTERS CHALLENGE GLOBAL WARMING

NASA reports that there has been no reduction in the global warming trend that began in the late 1970s.

Guardian Wants To Be A Real Boy | Real Science

HadCRUT just released their October numbers, and show nine out of ten months this year below 1998. Only March was a little warmer than 1998.
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UAH and RSS also show 2010 cooler than 1998. When you are saving the planet, sometimes you just have to make stuff up.

Small Islands Seek Quick Money Grab From Stupid Bankrupt Westerners | Real Science

NOAA tide gauges located on islands show an average rise rate of 1.22 mm per year, or less than five inches per century.
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I doubt that even the Aztecs were superstitious enough to believe that they had the power to change the sea through sacrifice. 21st century man may be the most superstitious group to ever occupy the planet.

Should we really be trying to make fuel more expensive in an attempt to make it colder outside?

Cold weather triggers heating payments | News | Inside Housing

Michelle Mitchell, charity director of Age UK, said: ‘The drop in excess winter deaths from the previous year seems to show that some progress has been made. However, it’s still unacceptable that in this day and age tens of thousands more older people die in this country every winter from the effects of the cold weather.

‘These are avoidable deaths due not just to the cold weather in itself but to the country’s inability to meet the challenge of dropping temperatures. Behind these shocking statistics lie deep-seated social issues, such as 3.5 million older people in fuel poverty and one in three over-60s living in houses which fail the decent home standard.’

Households are classified as ‘fuel poor’ when they spend a tenth or more of their income on energy bills. Age UK estimates that half of all fuel poverty is among the over 65s.

Negative NAO Bringing Cold Winters Back To Europe

Scandinavia is getting hit hard by extreme cold weather and snowfall, and central Europe is about to follow. Temperatures in northern Sweden have plummeted below the -30°C mark. I don’t know if any records have been broken – perhaps our Swedish readers can let us know.

My Fourth Query To The Climate Science Rapid Response Team | Real Science

Climate scientists have been quoted in the press saying that sea level rise rates have doubled, and that sea level rise rates are occurring near the high end of IPCC forecasts.

Yet NOAA tide gauge data shows little or no statistically significant change in the rate of sea level rise. It is nearly identical to what it was one hundred years ago.

Is there any reason to believe that tide gauges (like tree rings) are no longer producing accurate information?

- Bishop Hill blog - FOI and scientists

It has been said before, but let's just repeat it once more for the benefit of Griffiths, Corner and Bell: if a commercial company, in a listing prospectus, had done what Jones et al did in the Nature trick, the directors would have been jailed. It's very disappointing to see the Royal Statistical Society apparently condoning this sort of behaviour, and serious academics giving it the nod. You would have thought they placed a higher value on their reputations.

Q&A: Yvo de Boer, KPMG's special global adviser, climate change and sustainability

The shift has been fun and there is a huge enthusiasm on the business side to see new opportunities to save the climate and grow in a new way by doing so. Some see it as a threat while others view climate change as an opportunity.

No one sacked or demoted over Rudd's deadly insulation scheme | The Australian

NO politician or bureaucrat has been held responsible for Kevin Rudd's disastrous home insulation scheme.

The federal government confirmed this yesterday.

Even as police continue to investigate whether a series of house fires, some involving fatalities, were linked to the scheme, the government admitted no one had been sacked or demoted over the program, under which taxpayers funded the installation of insulation material in tens of thousands of homes.

BBC - RSPB call to help wild birds feed during cold weather

As cold weather heads into Lancashire, the RSPB is reminding us that birds need our help to endure the conditions.

During cold snaps, birds struggle to find the natural food they need and have to rely on us.

EU May Ban Some UN Offsets to Stop `Windfall' Profits - Bloomberg

The acceptance of credits from industrial-gas projects has been controversial for some time,” the commission said in a statement in Brussels today. “Certain gases have a very high global-warming potential, and abatement is very cheap. This can create huge financial rewards for project developers.”
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The EU emissions-trading program is a cornerstone of European efforts to tackle the heat waves, storms and floods tied to climate change.

Small islands seek 2011 deadline for climate [hoax] deal | Reuters

"In the case of climate, emergency requires speed," Dessima Williams of Grenada, who will chair the 42-nation Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) at the November 29 to December 10 talks in Cancun, Mexico, told Reuters.

"Anything that is not concluded in Cancun should not be put off into the indefinite future but could easily and should be referenced to South Africa," which will hold the next U.N. talks in late 2011, she said.

She said that AOSIS also reckoned that rich nations were slow in providing $30 billion in new aid for 2010-12, promised at last year's U.N. summit in Copenhagen.
... Some analysts fear a full deal may be years away..

Record cold in Finland

The Finnish Meteorological Institute is forecasting more cold weather. The frosty weather is expected to continue breaking low temperature records for this time of year.

The lowest early winter temperature so far was recorded at Muonio in north-western Lapland on Wednesday night: -30.9 degrees celsius.
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According to the Finnish Meteorological Institute, the next few days will be unseasonably cold, with temperatures this chilly nationwide seen only about once a decade. Some of the lows forecast for central regions have only been recorded once a century.

Medical examiner says 2 WA men died of hypothermia

SEATTLE -- The King County medical examiner's office says two men have died of hypothermia after being exposed to the cold.

An unusual cold snap has sent Western Washington temperatures plummeting in the past week.
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The temperature dropped to 14 degrees early Wednesday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, breaking the old record of 16 from 1985. Records have been kept at Sea-Tac since the 1940s.

Get ready, Metro Vancouver facing another snowfall warning

said no record minimums were set in B.C. on Tuesday. Vancouver's temperature was -9.5 C Tuesday morning, falling short of the record low -12.9, also set in 1985, making Tuesday the second coldest Nov. 23 low on record.

But Madryga noted that Tuesday's maximum high temperature reached only -3.2 C, which eclipsed the all-time coldest maximum for Nov. 23 in Vancouver, which was -1.9 C set in 1985.

Sound Politics: Global Warming Update (LV)

At what point will the "authorities" take enough of a break from their war on global warming to actually prepare for the actual climate that we actually have today?

Big chill begins with early snow - UK, Local & National - Belfasttelegraph.co.uk

The earliest widespread snowfall for 17 years looked to be taking hold after parts of the country were blanketed in white.

Up to 4ins (10cm) of snow settled in north-east Scotland and northern England overnight, with accumulations also reported in Wales and Northern Ireland.

BusinessDay - Insurer includes carbon tax in settlements

CONSUMERS who have insured their vehicles with Mutual & Federal can look forward to having the carbon emissions tax included in the settlement of their total loss claims on new motor vehicles.

First California carbon [swindle] trade at $11.50

The first trade in California carbon emissions allowances has taken place at $11.50 a tonne, according to the broker that handled the transaction. Bloomberg reports Spectron brokered the trade last week, a forward contract over California emissions trading allowances, offered by UK bank Barclays to US power company NRG Energy.

CCX CFI End of Day Summary

[At the dying Chicago Climate Hoax Exchange, offsets are still going for a nickel per ton]

Given that China does only half of the world's annual coal burning, James Hansen concludes that the Chinese believe in the global warming hoax

James Hansen Is Optimistic On Global Warming (Because of China, Not Us) – Red, Green, and Blue

“I have the impression,” he says in a recent email, “that Chinese leadership takes a long view, perhaps because of the long history of their culture, in contrast to the West with its short election cycles. At the same time China has the capacity to implement policy decisions rapidly. The leaders seem to seek the best technical information and do not brand as a hoax that which is inconvenient. This is not to say that fossil fuel interests have no power within China, but they do not rule the roost.”

China's net import of coal doubled in first half year - People's Daily Online

In the first half of 2010, China's coal imports continued last year's upward trend, staying above 10 million metric tons per month. Net imports were about 71 million metric tons, nearly double the increase during the same time last year.

In China, coal boom is fueling a clash between business, environmental goals; Burgeoning market leads to a dilemma, as ‘green’ countries are also leading exporters | Nation/World | The Bulletin

But in the last few years, long-distance international coal exports have been surging because of China’s galloping economy, which now burns half of the 6 billion tons of coal used globally each year.

'Critical Habitat' for Polar Bears Is Firmed Up by U.S. - NYTimes.com

A population of about 1,586 animals roam the ice and shores of the Beaufort Sea in the United States and Canada, said Rosa Meehan, the chief of the service’s Marine Mammals Management Program in Alaska. That group “is a very well-studied” population, she said, and there are indications that it is declining as fewer cubs and young bears survive.

The statistics are not robust enough for biologists to declare that this group’s population decline is certain, however.

A second population moves between the United States and Russia, occupying a wide area of the Chukchi Sea. Ms. Meehan said that a lack of data makes that population “far more enigmatic,” although the best estimate is that it includes 2,000 to 3,000 bears. Most of those captured and collared “have been in very good condition,” she said. “They are really fat.”

The Reykjavik Grapevine - News from Iceland / Artists Set Sights on Iceland for Ambitious Project

A global art project will also have an Icelandic portion, with the aims of painting a giant red polar bear on a glacier, and photographing it from a helicopter.

It's a crisis: Sierra Nevada ski resort reportedly receives less than nine feet of snow in five days

Dumping of snow delights Sierra ski resorts

RENO, Nev. ---- Ski resorts in the Sierra Nevada are reporting some of the biggest November snowfall totals in years, including one near Lake Tahoe that says it got nearly 9 feet over five days.

Report: Global warming threatens state's snowpack | Sacramento Business Journal

Date: Monday, June 11, 2001, 4:21pm PDT

Global warming could severely shrink the Sierra Nevada snowpack, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

New scientific research suggests that even conservative estimates of the effects on the state's snow patterns would be enough to deal a crucial blow to the state's economy. Snow that builds up in the Sierra during winter is a crucial source of water and electricity for the state.

Within a lifetime, Californians will begin to see a shift in precipitation that will bring less snow and more rain to the mountains, according to scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla.

“greater anticipated global warming” | Real Science

Temperatures are plummeting across the globe, but the models are heating up. They probably sense a threat to their funding with the new Congress, and are responding by generating even more nonsensical scenarios.

A green tax is still just another tax | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The Irish Govenment demonstrates that a “carbon tax” is, in the end, just another tax

EU Referendum: Climate?

How many bad winters in a row do you have to have before it ceases to be just weather and becomes climate?

Warmists hate not only humans, but the dogs that love them | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Humans must not only deny themselves children, but love on four legs. Dogs must go, too - turned into dinner, if need be.

So for whom or what are these warmists actually saving the planet?

Climate Common Sense: Solar power falters in Spain: Is this lights out?

The solar industry is bleating because the Spanish Government has cut solar rebates to meet EU debt reduction guidelines. With Ireland under the pump, Portugal and Spain are the next financial dominos to fall unless drastic action is taken. The Spanish experience should sound a warning to other governments going down the same path.

If we're already "sustainably" killing hundreds and hundreds of polar bears per year, do we all really need to radically change our lifestyles to save them from carbon dioxide?

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Announces Final Designation of Polar Bear Critical Habitat

“This critical habitat designation enables us to work with federal partners to ensure their actions within its boundaries do not harm polar bear populations,” said Tom Strickland, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks. “Nevertheless, the greatest threat to the polar bear is the melting of its sea ice habitat caused by human-induced climate change. We will continue to work toward comprehensive strategies for the long-term survival of this iconic species.”
...They are most abundant near the shore in shallow-water areas, and in other places where currents and ocean upwelling increases marine productivity and maintains some open water during the ice-covered season.

The bear facts about the polar bear hunt - thestar.com

"We harvest more polar bears in Nunavut than the rest of the world combined," said Drikus Gissing, Nunavut's head of wildlife management. "Our annual harvest is between 450 and 500 bears a year.

"For us to justify a level like that, we need to put a lot of emphasis on research. And we believe the harvest is sustainable. We believe we have a very good management system to support it."

Alaska governor to fight polar bear habitat designation

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell said in a statement Thursday that the state is considering its options, including a legal challenge, to oppose the classification. "This additional layer of regulatory burden will not only slow job creation and economic growth here and for our nation, but will also slow oil and gas exploration efforts," Parnell said in in the press release.

Edward Itta, mayor of the North Slope Borough, also expressed concern with the designation, saying he worries it could impact subsistence hunting, projects in some northern villages, and "routine North Slope oil and gas development. "What's most aggravating in all of this is that it won't save any sea ice, so it's not a real solution to the problem," Itta said in a statement.

[Note that the article above uses the bogus polar bear "photo" discussed here] | Watts Up With That?