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Expert says global warming could bring colder weather to Wales - Wales News - News - WalesOnlineOnce started, the cooling process could be rapid. The last glaciation 10,000 years ago – possibly caused by the Gulf Stream responding to the melting of North America’s ice sheet – took just 30 or 40 years to create glaciers on Ben Nevis and Snowdon.
“It is conceivable that we could have glaciers on Snowdon in the next 40 years,” added Dr Hubbard.
Miss India Nicole Faria is the new Miss Earth - The Times of IndiaFaria, who was a model before she won the Miss India title, holds the cause of environment close to her heart. Her profile lists her desire to help conserve fossil fuels and natural resources. "Once I get back to Bangalore next week, I want to start a campaign for the cycle rickshaw," she said. "It not only creates jobs for the jobless, but will cut down pollution. I want to do my bit for global warming. Bangalore has lovely weather and it pains me to see air conditioners being used in cars and at homes."
Can I keep warm and be green? | Environment | The ObserverIn the summer your home's daily rate of carbon dioxide emissions skips along at an average of 7.9kg. In the winter it weighs in at 16.32kg per day. Keeping the home fires burning is a costly business.
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It was all quite cosy until analysts, such as Nick Grant and Alan Clarke of the Sustainable Building Association (aecb.net), had a root around the issue of burning trees for heat. Their report, Biomass: A Burning Issue, pours cold water on the sustainable flames. They argue that trees are too valuable to burn, as trees absorb emissions even into old age, and that when they are given the chop they should be turned into furniture that locks in the carbon rather than burned (the combustion process was found to be similar to burning coal).
What happened to the 'warmest year on record': The truth is global warming has halted | Mail OnlineAfter the leak, Trenberth claimed he still believed the world was warming because of CO2, and that the 'travesty' was not the 'pause' but science's failure to explain it.
The question now emerging for climate scientists and policymakers alike is very simple. Just how long does a pause have to be before the thesis that the world is getting hotter because of human activity starts to collapse?
Nick Coleman: We still can learn from Will Steger | StarTribune.com"The U.S. is denying what's going on," Steger says. "The problem is climate change has gotten into the political arena. The science of climate change is almost as solid as the science of gravity, but denying it is so politicized that it's in the Republican platform. Well, the climate is going to keep changing, whatever we think."
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"I never thought I'd be out there talking about jobs," he says. "But we need conservatives to get on board with the effort to get a new economy going, an economy with clean energy and renewable resources. Maybe we should just all agree to put the climate debate on the shelf and talk about the economy first..."
Plodding Climate Talks Stepping up to Higher Level - ABC NewsIn one sign of the work facing them, only 170 words had been undisputed among the 1,300 on two pages of a key text on the "shared vision" of what the treaty nations want to accomplish. The disputed language was options proposed by various parties and placed within brackets.
Climate talks prepare to nibble at world-saving plans At climate talks in Copenhagen a year ago, delegates were galvanised by the scientific arguments for reaching an agreement to cut emissions. Their failure to do so has dissipated momentum and dimmed ambitions. Few heads of government are planning to be at Cancún, and the talk is of diplomatic deal-making rather than planet-saving. The UN's new chief climate negotiator, Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica, has little of the campaigning zeal of her predecessor, Yvo de Boer. Instead she is calling for a "tapestry of compromise".
Branson Says `Unbelievably Painful' Recession Ahead Without Clean Energy - BloombergBritish billionaire Richard Branson predicted an “unbelievably painful” recession if the world doesn’t move more quickly to a clean-energy economy.
“We are going to have the mother of all recessions if we don’t sort out our energy policy fast,” Branson said today at a conference in Cancun, Mexico, where United Nations-led negotiations for a new climate change treaty are taking place.
Oil prices as high as $200 a barrel and lack of government measures to encourage low-emissions energy sources, unemployment in the U.S. could reach 15 percent in five years “without any difficulty,” he said.
Wikileaks first climate cablesAnd than we see "that Pope Benedict had firmly established his "green" reputation", which "even if discreetly, is significant because the Vatican is often reluctant to appear to compromise its independence and moral authority by associating itself with particular lobbying efforts". Religion, at it's best.
What really strikes us is the fact that all this Copenhagen/Cancun stuff has nothing to do with the Climate, or saving the World. It's about political positioning, money, and plain old fascism cult promotion. But as referred before, this is only the tip of the iceberg. More is to come, and I wouldn't be surprised if we're going to be answered about who is behind Climategate, or Al Gore's Nobel nomination, or the facts behind all the IPCC mess. Stay tuned...
$260 for 1% | Heliogenic Climate Change“Germany has the most generous solar subsidy program in the world. In a November note to investors, Merrill Lynch estimated that the average German household pays $260 a year for solar subsidies. Solar power accounts for 1% of German electricity production.” “It Could Happen Here” (Cooler Heads Digest, 12/3/10)
Hamilton gets his proof: money is indeed corrupting the warming debate | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogBut WikiLeaks reveals that covert funding is what’s actually propping up the warmists, with the US bribing poor nations to get on the global warming bandwagon:
The Nissan Leaf that could be heading for an expensive fall - TelegraphA few months back, when I asked the Department for Transport how many electric cars were sold in Britain last year, they were conspicuously reluctant to give an answer. Hardly surprisingly, since the true figure, now revealed by another source, was apparently just 55.
Cancun climate conference: the warmists' last Mexican wave - TelegraphThe global warming scare may have been fun for the children while it lasted. But the time has come for the joke to be declared well and truly over.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Paper: Global Warming Decreases Hurricane Intensity A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres finds that global warming should cause hurricanes to be less intense, contrary to claims of the IPCC and Al Gore. The paper also finds that global warming would also tend to shift hurricanes toward the north and thus decrease strength upon landfall or thereby decrease the likelihood of landfall.
NSIDC Showing Global Ice Extent Above Normal | Real Science
Ministers at climate change conference flying to luxury beach resort - Telegraph ...a wind turbine has been erected outside the conference centre.
However Alejandra Serrana, an environmental lawyer in Cancun, said the turbine was put in so fast there was no time to get proper permission.
She said that 6,000 of the hotel rooms in the resort are illegal according to environmental law. Even the Moon Palace has built on protected forests without permission, she claimed. The lack of control has led to pollution of the sea and the beach has to be rebuilt every three years at a cost of £10 million because the sand is eroding so fast.
“Everybody is talking about climate change and the environment, but we can’t even get our own house in order,” she said.
Housewives and farmers “foresee” better than Goddess IxchelA lot of “weaving” and “creativity” from a moon goddess long gone from Mother Earth is now necessary to turn to, now that the mask is off the scam called man made Global Warming
“Blinded to Science” by David Rusak | The Walrus BlogSo how can all this resistance to the scientific consensus persist? With so much information on hand [like what, specifically?], shouldn’t we expect everyone to be persuaded by now?
Cattle killed in Kirkcaldy farm roof collapse | Edinburgh and East | STV News Many farm building roofs were struggling after being covered with snow as a result of the wintry conditions over the past week.
In a similar incident on Friday, the roof of a building at Over Finlarg Farm collapsed on top of 50 cattle. Tayside Fire and Rescue Service had to rescue the animals from underneath the roof, and two died.
Big freeze death toll 'on the rise'Seven people across the UK have died in accidents linked to the extreme weather conditions blanketing the country.
Sky News reported on a number of fatalities caused by the snow and ice, which has made many roads highly dangerous and badly disrupted British businesses this week.
AGU Climate [Hoax] Q&A Service - JournalistsBased on the success of last year's pilot program, the AGU and its cadré of climate scientists have once again committed to answering your questions. The pilot program was designed to answer climate science questions for 10 days during the Copenhagen Climate Negotiations (7-18 December, 2009). This year’s Climate Q & A Service will run over a three month period centered around the climate negotiations in Cancun (29 Nov. – 10 Dec. 2010).
The scientists have signed up for shifts, with 3-5 scientists in each time slot representing different areas of climate science expertise. During their designated shift, these scientists will staff a shared climate science email in-box and collaborate with each other using Email Center Pro Software to answer questions in a timely manner. Questions and answers will be archived by the AGU for post-project analysis and may be made available to the public at a future date.
Thoughts on Climate Change: James Hansen and Climate Change - on TVO Big Ideas, TODAY He gives detailed rebuttals to climate change deniers/skeptic claims, warns about being in the danger zone already, and explains the risk of reaching sudden points of irreversible change.
Conference Recap And My Big DisappointmentBut much to my dismay, the oil executives weren’t even there, and so I wasn’t able to close a disinformation for funding agreement. What crap! So I spoke to the gents at Science Sceptical, a German blog, and they also have to go without. So my dream of getting millions for doing this blog have completely vanished. All this blogging has been for nothing - fooled again by the warmists. When will I ever learn not to trust them?
AGW Defender Flowchart | Watts Up With That?So: here’s flowchart I created. It summarizes what I often see while reading pro-AGW/ACC and skeptic blogs, and the often amusing “comment debates” contained therein.
The Climate Apocalypse Industry | The Resilient EarthScience is never settled and consensus is an argument for fools made by the intellectually impaired. Claims of an impending climate apocalypse have no basis in science or history. They exists only to frighten the uninformed into compliance, into political subjugation under those who would remake the world in accordance with their own selfish desires. It is time to put the climate apocalypse industry out of business once and for all.
Twitter / Brad Johnson: One thing I always wonder ...One thing I always wonder about is where is all this fear-based messaging @revkin/leiserowitz say is so bad? one old EDF campaign?
Twitter / Albert Bates: #COP16 Pew/Yale: 600 milli ...#COP16 Pew/Yale: 600 million Chinese and 300 million Indians know of #climatechange but 93% don't think its a threat. FoxNews off hook. #ejn
As climate talks drag on, more ponder techno-fixes - USATODAY.comCANCUN, Mexico — Like the warming atmosphere above, a once-taboo idea hangs over the slow, frustrating U.N. talks to curb climate change: the idea to tinker with the atmosphere or the planet itself, pollute the skies to ward off the sun, fill the oceans with gas-eating plankton, do whatever it takes.
Edinburgh's Train Service Suffers As Temperatures Drop | EdinburghGuide.comTransport Minister Stewart Stevenson said yesterday that the "unprecedentledy low temperatures" on Thursday night and Friday morning had caused problems with train brakes, air systems for doors, and the chill was even causing the train diesel fuel to thicken.
Twitter / Linh Do: "#Climate change is not a ..."#Climate change is not a linear process, it is not something we have understood, it is a complex set of changes" - Pachauri #COP16
Gulf criminals freeze to death N Europeans - National Human Rights | Examiner.comWith death of the Gulf and Atlantic current, it is predicted that north European countries will be uninhabitable, creating mass migration south and overseas according to a Jeff Rense Program radio interview of Rick Hill on November 5.
According to Mr. Rense, we are witnessing a first wave of deaths by cold in a mass murder in the ongoing Gulf of Mexico "crime of the millennium."
Campaign Against Climate Change march: the fight goes on | Environment | guardian.co.ukTomorrow's march by the Campaign Against Climate Change takes place against a backdrop of financial hardship for the group, campaigner Phil Thornhill reveals
... "Since Copenhagen last year there has been a backlash," says Thornhill. "The climate change movement was never that enormous, it has always been a small amount of people making a lot of progress and lots of other people are now looking at the situation and saying, 'Hang on a second, we're not sure about this.'"
The emphasis will now shift, he believes, from "western do-gooders" (he corrects himself and says, "that's not fair really. People in the west who have the relative luxury and academic capacity for worrying about this sort of thing") to people in developing countries "where it's beginning to hit people who are going to get slaughtered by it. Literally slaughtered. And they are starting to get very upset about it. So it will be interesting to see how that plays out."
American Thinker: Wind Power Promoted, Even as Subsidies Dry Up and the World Nukes UpThere have been plenty of published reports that discredit the use of wind power for wide-scale production of power. Nevertheless, wind and solar power are received favorably by the public due to the propaganda that has been spewed by the media, extreme environmentalists and global warming alarmists.
But might wind and solar power be more aptly described as the flavors of the day?
Record Cold From Long Beach To Palm Beach | Real ScienceThat is 2,500 miles.
Hansen Wants to “Stabilise the climate” | Real ScienceThe courts should immediately issue a restraining order against ENSO, solar cycles, Malinkovitch cycles, volcanoes, asteroids, forest fires, other oceanic cycles, and butterflies flapping their wings.
The last global warming conference ever?Does not one of the great minds decoding next century's weather see the brain-splitting contradiction of holding a conference warning of the imminent threat of global warming in a venue that mainly exists because people fly there to get warmer? That's right, people spend money to fly to Cancun mainly because it's warmer there than where they live. In essence, Cancun is what the global warming crowd are, otherwise, warning us about.
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Even the press, whose Cancun presence is down considerably compared to Copenhagen, smells the decay of a cause.
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Could this be the last global warming conference? It's possible. The environmentalists and the activists have had a tin ear and a surplus of righteousness from the beginning. But there's something extravagantly out of key, even for them, in holding their great "Save the Planet" revival at Cancun -- up to now famous for Spring Break and as a hangout for louche Hollywood types and cleavage researchers. It signals they've lost the will to pretend. And with Japan having walked away from the whole idea of Kyoto, it's hard to see how they'll work up the steam for another holiday next year.
Americans for Prosperity unmasks UN climate change agenda in Cancun - National Christianity & Politics | Examiner.comPhillips rolled a video of some of the decadent activities going on at the Cancun global warming conference, and frankly, it looked more like a party on the backs of American taxpayers than a conference intended to solve any serious ecological issues. Something like this truly flies in the face of citizens when we are in such a deep recession with 10 percent unemployment.
Sir Richard Branson, Ted Turner, Lord Stern & more than 100 leaders launch the world climate summit on Environmental ExpertTomorrow, the most important and influential business, finance and government leaders in the climate change arena are coming together with more than 100 high-level speakers, and the largest coalition of financiers at the inaugural World Climate Summit, December 4-5, at The Ritz-Carlton, Cancun, Mexico, in parallel to the UNFCCC COP 16.
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The World Climate Summit is bringing more than 300 leading companies, financiers and government leaders to implement, scale and collaborate on bottom-up solutions to climate change to help reach regional and global 2020 targets. Participants will identify, initiate, and build out the business models, financing mechanisms, policies, projects, and practices needed for creating a global low-carbon economy.
Carbon-credits Market Could Collapse Absent Cancun DealRight now, carbon-credit prices are continuing to tumble for a variety of reasons. Analysts expect the trend to continue. And Al Gore's precious "Chicago Climate Exchange" recently went under, too. But even without Kyoto and the CDM it created, the danger posed by climate alarmists in governments and the UN is not over. The worst may be yet to come.
Phony Claims Infest Cancun Climate Conference - HUMAN EVENTSAt the United Nations climate confab in Cancun, Mexico, this week, the usual set of phony claims were once again trotted out to try to scare the world into submission.
Americans Fail The Climate Quiz : NPRFLATOW: Well, you know, it's interesting. As you say that, and reading through your survey, it seems that half the respondents still think scientists are in disagreement about the science when in fact there's very, very clear consensus on that. Why do you think they think there's such disagreement among scientists?
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FLATOW: There's also, you know, we talk about it a lot, but I don't ever see it showing up very much in the media, and that's about the issue of the coral dying. The oceans' corals are dying all over the world.
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FLATOW: And will you try to poll them? Do you think you can get through to them? We've been asking these new Republicans to come on SCIENCE FRIDAY and share their views with us, but they just don't seem to want to do that.
Mr. LEISEROWITZ: Yeah. I have no current plans to do so.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Cancún climate talks in danger of collapse over Kyoto continuation | World news | The GuardianThe UN climate talks in Cancún were in danger of collapse last night after many Latin American countries said that they would leave if a crucial negotiating document, due to be released tomorrow, did not continue to commit rich countries to emissions cuts under the Kyoto Protocol.
US embassy cables: EU raises 'creative accounting' with US over climate aid | Environment | guardian.co.uk(SBU) Hedegaard asked if the U.S. was prepared to move forward on Fast Start funding. She said some countries like Japan and the UK will press the inclusion of loan guarantees as part of the package and asked whether the U.S. will need to do any "creative accounting.
WikiLeaks: US Manipulated Climate Agreement | Mother JonesHidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage.
The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial "Copenhagen accord", the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009.
Jackson vows to maintain 'aggressive environmental agenda'BOSTON -- The Obama administration is committed to an "aggressive environmental agenda" that goes beyond what was achieved during the past four decades, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said today during a speech at Harvard University.
Jackson spoke during a conference that featured appearances by several leading lights of the environmental movement, including EPA's first administrator, Bill Ruckelshaus, and former Vice President Al Gore, who spoke to agency officials during an invitation-only luncheon.
Data availability in climate science: the case of Jones et al 1990 and Nature « Shub Niggurath ClimateIn the end the question remains to be asked: why believe that only sequence and crystallography data were items Nature mandated authors make available? Why else, but to exempt Jones from imaginary conditions – seeing as how narrow and well-suited for this purpose such a misreading and interpretation of Nature’s guidelines turns out to be. What is more, there is continued belief that data on the Chinese network of stations belongs to Jones, which he can choose at his personal discretion, unburdened by any scientific principles, whether to hand over such data at all, and whom to give it to. It is likely there are many in the climate establishment who feel this way. This should change – the three inquiries that looked into the science of the CRU were unanimous.
Testimony follow up | Climate Etc.Pursuant to my recent congressional testimony, I have received some follow up questions that were submitted by Members of the Committee.
Here are the questions:
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These are REALLY GOOD questions, with no easy answers. I am pondering how I am going to respond (response due Dec 10). In the mean time, I am opening this up for discussion, and hoping for some good ideas!
Gavin Schmidt’s CNN Mystery « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGEThis is the comment I have just left at the CNN website, in reply to Gavin Schmidt’s commentary titled “How to get scientists, policymakers to same page on climate change“. Replicated here for future reference ;-) – plus, I have added some hyperlinks
I am surprised by the topic of this commentary. Mr Schmidt has no experience and no qualification in the topic of climate policy, or of policy of any sort for that matters. Indeed, during the past few years Mr Schmidt’s forays outside of science have been a string of disasters, from the public debate lost against Michael Chrichton to an embarrassing situation regarding a data correction first identified by Steve McIntyre, to an unwise escapade in the direction of Feyerabend, not to mention a generally rather heavy hand in “controlling” the flow of comments at the Schmidt-moderated RealClimate website.
Why has Mr Schmidt been given space on CNN then, to talk about “how to get scientists, policymakers to same page on climate change“? What are we going to see next, a rocket scientist writing about how to deal with North Korea, or a livestock researcher arguing about how to design an effective EU milk policy, or an explosive expert lecturing about how to pacify Afghanistan?
Lawrence Solomon: Hockey stick coverup, a sequel | FP Comment | Financial PostTo encourage the university and others to obey the law, a state legislator is introducing two bills. The first, available here, would make public employees who violate public information laws subject to fines and firing. The second, soon to be introduced, would thwart future cover-ups by public officials by requiring that all documents created by any public official be categorized at the time of their creation as either subject to public information laws or exempt from them.
The Stern Review Scandal – IPCC Breaks 3 of Its Own Rules « NoFrakkingConsensusThe IPCC broke three of its own rules when it cited the Stern Review 26 times in 12 chapters.
WikiLeaks cables: Cancún climate talks doomed to fail, says EU president | Environment | The GuardianHerman van Rompuy dismisses Copenhagen climate summit as 'incredible disaster' and expects Cancún to be no better
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In public the EU is talking up the case for reviving climate change agreement hopes in Cancún, but last December Van Rompuy was dismissive and pessimistic, both about the Cancún negotiations and about the very format for the talks. "Van Rompuy said he has 'given up on Mexico'," the American reported, while his chief of staff, Van Daele, likened the Cancún talks to the repeat of a bad film and said: 'Who wants to see that horror movie again?' "
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Its All About the ScienceThe Mayans used to also cut the hearts out of living human beings as sacrifices to their gods, an apt metaphor for what the assembled UN delegates want to do to development and the world economy.
Michael Levi's Blog » Blog Archive » The Climategate DudIf my guess is right, it suggests that scientists communicators may need to spend more time simply convincing people that the world is warming, and less trying to make the case that it’s human caused.
Anesthetic gases contribute to global warming: Study"This ought to make anesthesiologists sit up and take notice. If all three compounds have equal therapeutic worth, there is every reason to choose the one with the lowest global warming potential", Nielsen said.
"The amount of gas needed for a single surgical procedure is not high, but each year surgery related anaesthetics affects the climate as much as would one million cars," says the study published in the December issue of the British Journal of Anesthesia.
Climate change: How to live with climate change | The EconomistNone of this will make climate change all right. It remains the craziest experiment mankind has ever conducted. Maybe in the long run it will be brought under control. For the foreseeable future, though, the mercury will continue to rise, and the human race must live with the problem as best it can.
Bangkok Post : Climate: Kyoto row rocks UN talksUN climate talks in Cancun ran into a fresh problem on Friday as a group of leftwing Latin American countries said a global deal had to be linked to a fresh round of commitments to the carbon-cutting Kyoto Protocol.
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Japan on Monday said it would not support a second commitment period beyond 2012 because it made "no sense" without a wider application. Canada and Russia are also reluctant to sign up for an extension, say delegates.
"When you find that on the other side of the table they say they want to go to the beach because they say there's nothing to do and they're just wasting their time then we in the ALBA group will not allow an action where these countries get away with this and make no commitment," Salerno said.
PRUDEN: Turn out the lights, the party's over - Washington TimesScams die hard, but eventually they die, and when they do, nobody wants to get close to the corpse. You can get all the hotel rooms you want this week in Cancun.
The global-warming caravan has moved on, bound for a destination in oblivion. The United Nations is hanging the usual lamb chop in the window this week in Mexico for the U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change, but the Washington guests are staying home. Nobody wants to get the smell of the corpse on their clothes.
FoxNews.com - Blam! Kapow! Climate Scientists in Verbal BrawlBlam! Kapow! Smack! The bell has rung for the latest round of climate talks, but the battle continues among climate scientists too, making only one thing truly clear -- the science of global warming simply isn't settled.
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But while governments try to push through an accord, the fighting over the science -- and the IPCC's role -- continues unabated. And the body blows seem as violent as ever.
"The corruption within the IPCC revealed by the Climategate scandal, the doctoring of data and the refusal to admit mistakes have so severely tainted the IPCC that it is no longer a credible agency," Don Easterbrook, a professor of geology at Western Washington University, declared in an interview with FoxNews.com. "Thus, it is no longer in a position to claim to speak for climate scientists."
Ouch. Former weather forecaster and climate-change blogger Anthony Watts isn't as outspoken as Easterbrook, but he agrees that the IPCC is failing.
"Recent sloppy work such as the 'Himalayan glaciers will melt by 2035' blunder, the questionable use of scientific citations in the last IPCC report, and the suspect business dealings of IPCC chairman Rajenda Pachauri have pretty much taken what most saw as a grade A scientific paper when first published and reduced it to a D minus today," Watts told FoxNews.com.
... "We've witnessed science make a sea change from intellectual curiosity to a role of active and impassioned advocacy," [Watts] told FoxNews.com. "The only way to return to the scientific method is to remove the huge amounts of funding associated with climate change, and to hire people to do studies that have no financial incentive to maintain further research. The current process is like a welfare system for on-board scientist."
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Neither the IPCC nor the U.N. returned FoxNews.com's requests for comment.
Europe Deaths From Deep Freeze Reach 40 : NPRAn Arctic chill killed a dozen people in Poland and snarled traffic and halted flights across Europe, freezing ducks in lakes and prompting animal lovers to open their cellars to shivering stray cats, officials said Friday
Twitter / Andy Revkin#Cop16 makes for strange encounters. Arch skeptic Monckton meets climate [bedwetter] @ClimateBrad: http://j.mp/skephawk Do I see forced smiles?
A Mediator at the Climate Bazaar - NYTimes.comI was engaged in a discussion with Monckton about his views of climate science and some disputes we’d had over stories I’d written when Brad Johnson, a climate blogger and editor at the liberal Center for American Progress, walked by – creating one of those volatile moments, as if matter and anti-matter had come a bit too close for comfort.
Twitter / Point CarbonEU cancels press conference as Mexico hauls in all chief negotiators. (will they look to defend against rumours of a secret text?)
Signs Of Climate Change Found In Grant Park « CBS Chicago – News, Sports, Weather, Traffic, and the Best of ChicagoDr. Douglas Stotz is a senior conservation ecologist at the Field Museum of Natural History. He says he’s still seeing in December, birds that used to leave by mid-November at the latest. [What date did they leave in the year 1206?]
So cold even the grit won't work | The Sun |NewsSUB-ZERO Arctic temperatures next week could cause gridlock by stopping salt clearing icy roads.
The deep-freeze fears were raised at crisis talks in Whitehall today amid warnings of food and fuel shortages.
Salt loses its effectiveness between -8C and -10C.
Northeast CO2 [Swindle] Auction Hovers At Lowest Allowed Price - WSJ.comThe most recent auction raised $46 million from the sale of 24.76 million allowances, representing 57% of allowances offered for sale.
Nov. 2010 UAH Global Temperature Update: +0.38 deg. C « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.The tropical tropospheric temperature anomaly for November continued its cooling trend, finally falling below the 1979-1998 average…but the global anomaly is still falling slowly:+0.38 deg. C for October, 2010.
Cancún climate change summit 'excludes poor countries' say activists | Environment | guardian.co.ukCancún climate change conference: pressure group UNfairplay finds that poorer nations have no access to translation of 'opaque' talks and cannot afford to send enough delegates
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The report found that Brazil sent 591, Indonesia 162, Nigeria 175 and South Africa 199. The UK and US sent 48 and 155 delegates respectively.
Cancún climate change summit: Waste-pickers [attempt to save our grandchildren from kidney stones]Millions of people worldwide make a meagre living by picking across rubbish dumps and salvaging scrap metal, cardboard and other recyclable materials. This week, they have demanded access to the world's rubbish, much of which is sent to incinerators – which they say denies them a living and increases emissions
Global warming TV series urges kids to 'stop Santa's runway melting' | Leo Hickman | Environment | guardian.co.ukCiTV's Mission: Green Santa asks children to make an eco-pledge – or else risk receiving no Christmas presents
A life in writing: Bill McKibben | Books | The GuardianMcKibben travels all the time and says his own carbon footprint is "crazily high".... In the past he has admitted wondering where he could store a year's supply of food, or whether he should buy a gun....McKibben is a Methodist Sunday school teacher. He met his wife, whom he married in 1988, while running a homeless shelter in the basement of his church in New York, and he wrote a book about the environmental message of the Book of Job. He sees faith communities around the world as essential allies in this new "crusade", and while to secular people his way of thinking about the stewardship of God's creation may seem quaint, his deep sense of responsibility lends an urgency that is, if you accept the basic facts of global warming, hard to resist.
Vox Popoli: The climate scam is deadThe so-called science was always fictional and fraudulent and the economic implications were clearly insane, so it's about time that the politics began to reflect those realities. As Europe enters what has started off as its coldest winter in 100 years and the global economy collapses into depression, it doesn't matter how much or how frantically the true believers in global warming wave their hands and agree to concoct new scientific consensuses. The Chicago air exchange has been vaporized and the science-scammers' gravy train is about to be buried under snow.
Remember this the next time the science fetishists tell you that a scientific consensus is something upon which you not only can, but must, rely.
EU Referendum: Prattling while the plebs freezeBut then, this isn't about science – it never has been. Like Dellers, we are gradually learning that the way to deal with it is to expose it for what it is – a series of mantras designed to support a belief system which in turn shores up a failed and increasingly oppressive power system, all sustained by fools and rent-seekers.
Small wonder that Prince Charles will waft through the snow today to open up the "climate change" gallery, with the BBC there to applaud, prattling while the plebs freeze.
BBC News - Global warming talks just hot air?"Hot weather always gives a good result," muses one veteran of countless United Nations climate conferences.
"Cold weather, like in Copenhagen, that is the problem."
EPW POLICY BEAT: FRIEDMAN’S FOLLY Dan Henninger, an exceedingly more clear-eyed and sensible columnist for the Wall Street Journal, incisively and concisely summed up Friedman’s moral blindness. “The New York Times’s Thomas Friedman asked yesterday: ‘What if China had a Wikileaker?’ The three-word answer: They’d execute him.”
Senator Inhofe: 'I Was Right and They Were Wrong' - NYTimes.comOn Thursday, he sent a videotaped message to a group of fellow skeptics gathered in Cancún to raise questions about both the science of global warming and the international process for trying to combat it.
Cancún climate change summit: the Zapatistas are coming | Environment | guardian.co.ukSnow irony
Vicky Pope, head of the climate predictions programme at the Met Office's Hadley Centre, was stuck at Gatwick airport this week, a victim of Britain's brutal cold snap. Ironically, she was on her way to Cancún to announce, together with the UN's World Meteorological Organisation, that 2010 had provisionally tied with 1998 as the hottest year on record. Scientists from the Noaaa and Nasa, the two other institutes that provide data on global temperatures were wisely staying put in the US, having already stated that it looked like being the hottest year ever.
Prince Charles defends 'climategate' scientists - TelegraphThe Prince of Wales has come out in support of the British scientists embroiled in the "Climategate" saga, describing their treatment as "appalling".
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During a speech at London's Science Museum to open a new £4.5 million Atmosphere gallery, the heir to the throne said "climate science has taken a battering of late".
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Prince Charles said: "I wanted to discuss with them the appalling treatment they had endured during the so-called Climategate row because, as they reminded me, the University of East Anglia is not a campaigning NGO, nor an industry lobby group.
"It is an academic institution working to understand precisely and dispassionately what is happening to our world; to separate the facts from the fiction and build the sum of human knowledge on the one issue that could very well balloon into the cause of our downfall."
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...the final review cleared the scientists of any dishonesty or exaggerating the extent of global warming.
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He has likened the failure to combat rising temperatures across the world to playing "Russian roulette with the future of our children".
The Prince said more and more people were listening to the "siren voices" of climate change sceptics who argued that the theory of man-made global warming was simply a "sinister attempt to undermine the capitalist system".
Hottest year ever update: At least 60 killed by cold snap across Europe - Emirates24|7At least 60 people have died across Europe during the current cold snap, as snow plagued transport in Britain on Friday and serious flooding prompted mass evacuations in the Balkans.
Seventeen people died in Central Europe in the last 24 hours from the cold, bringing the total this week to 45. A further 11 died in Russia, plus three in France and one in Germany, according to local authorities.
At least 30 people, mainly homeless men, have died in Poland in the past week, and temperatures dropped to minus 15 degrees Celsius (five degrees Fahrenheit) overnight.
Fuel Shortage Prompts Panic Buying Warning | UK News The Retail Motor Industry Independent Petrol Retailers Association says the big freeze is leading to "critical" shortages in places.
The East is worst affected with diesel supplies running low or even running out in some places.
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Seven thousand schools were forced to close on Thursday, twice as many as on Wednesday. It is hoped that more will be able to resume lessons today.
Meanwhile, two elderly people have been found dead in their gardens in the cold weather.
Cancun climate summit: Britain's salmon at risk from ocean acidification - TelegraphBritain’s famous salmon runs are in danger from ocean acidification caused by climate change, scientists have warned.
Oct. 2010: Record Salmon Run in British Columbia - NYTimes.comBritish Columbia’s Fraser River has seen a record run of sockeye salmon as an estimated 34 million fish have returned to the river this year, far above last year’s total of 1.5 million.
So what’s to talk about at Cancun now? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogSo Indian and China won’t sign a deal which restricts their emissions, and the US and Japan won’t sign one that won’t.
And still we hear this babble in Australia about an international deal being in the offing.
Andrew Kenny: A Year After Climategate, The Corruption Of Science Persists | Climate RealistsIt is a year since the so-called Climategate e-mails were leaked. Since then, we have had freezing winters in Europe and the US, and revelations of gross misrepresentations from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The lasting impression is of massive corruption of science.
For Russia, Global Warming Benefits 'Outweigh' Negatives | Business | The Moscow TimesGlobal warming in the next 40 years will allow Russian authorities to save on central heating, increase agricultural production and extend sea navigation in the north, a leading Russian climatologist told a Russian-German conference Wednesday.
FoxNews.com - As Delegates Meet in Cancun, Critics Say UN Is Wrong Venue for Climate Change DebateAs the United Nations meets for the umpteenth time this week -- this time in Cancun, Mexico -- in its ongoing effort to confront climate change, there is a growing chorus from both sides of the global warming debate that the world body's efforts have failed and that it is time to look for other ways to address the issue.
Sea Level Fantasy In Cancun | Real Science Tide gauges show much smaller numbers and even the questionable altimetry numbers have dropped well below 3.0 in the last five years. Even if it were true, it is less than one third of what is needed to reach one meter.
The Big Lies About Alaska | Real ScienceAlaska warmed several degrees in the late 1970s due to the PDO shift.
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Alaska “warming” has little or nothing to do with CO2, and it would be nice if certain “climate scientists” would quit lying about it.
Beautiful Summer In Antarctica | Real ScienceThe meteorological summer is into its third day, and Vostok, Antarctica is averaging -52F so far.
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This is far below normal. The cold is due to polar amplification of unprecedented warming during the hottest year ever.
American Thinker: Apocalypse Now! (Or Pretty Soon, Anyway) Now that the theory of man-made global warming has been unmasked as the fraud that it is, get ready for the next-generation justifications for global environmental control.
Breaking News: Worlds third largest economy bails on Kyoto II « JoNovaJapan is the third largest economy in the world. In absolute, unequivocal terms it has just announced it will not be extending the Kyoto agreement.
It’s hard to see how a carbon trading scheme can continue to grow when major emitters are pulling out.
Berlin faces record cold start to December - The LocalBerlin is set for the coldest start to December on record, the German Weather Service (DWD) said Wednesday, as freezing temperatures and snow continued to cause transport chaos across the country.
Global Warming Summit in Cancun Opens with Prayer to Pagan Goddess Ixchel | NewsBusters.orgthe executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change literally offered up a prayer to a pagan moon goddess on Monday during her opening statement at a UN climate conference convened in Cancun, Mexico.
SMH : “losing biodiversity faster than at any time in the fossil record” | Real ScienceGiven that the fossil record contains a tiny fraction of a percent of the land based life record, it is rather astonishing that anyone could make such a statement – but that is the norm for the day.
The only thing unprecedented is the rate at which people make up global warming BS.
#3 Is The New #1 | Real Science2010 is well behind 1998 and it would require a huge spike in temperatures to match 1998. All these people have left in their arsenal is disinformation.
And the Fraud Goes OnHell, all the evidence they need is right there by Al Gore in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, in which he points to a wall-size climate change chart behind him that shows 5 cycles of Global Warming over the last 450,000 years approximately 100,000 years apart and approximately 5,000-10,000 years long, with ice ages in between. But he's too damn dumb to understand what he's pointing to. His own evidence proves, beyond a reasonable doubt, that it's a natural cycle that was in full play long before there was Us, and that "our" Global Warming began about 12,000 years ago and peaked about 8,000 years ago.
Qatar and the 2022 World Cup - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review OnlineWell, at least we won’t have to hear any of that sappy stuff about how “green” the World Cup will be, unless Qatar has some secret plan we don’t know of yet to offset the energy required to air condition twelve outdoor stadiums:
Green madness and Gillard’s dithering will hike your power bills | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogSo the next time you hear a politician promising you more solar or wind power, be very, very afraid. And when Premier John Brumby promises to make Victoria the “solar capital of Australia”, now that this is a promise of suicidally high bills.
Storms Drown Out Markey Committee's Swan Song | ReutersA funereal feeling permeated the hearing room on a stormy day that kept people away from the global warming's committee's final act
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Robert Kennedy was the last of those witnesses. He and Markey—the only representative who returned to the hearing room after a break of more than an hour —vented their frustrations with Congress’s inability to pass climate legislation while engaging in a freewheeling, 45-minute conversation about why it’s imperative for America to be the world’s clean energy trailblazer.
SNOW and ice gripping the county is nothing compared to the mini-ice age heading our way, according to a county astronomer.Mr Norton, a development engineer of Thirsk Drive, North Hykeham, bases his predictions on sunspot activity.
Global Warming Apostle: Wealth Redistribution Via Climate PolicySocialist elitists usually have better message control than this, but at the same time they think everyone is under the spell of the “mainstream” media and their arrogance leads them to slip up every now and then and let a little truth slip out.
Though most Americans now understand the hoax of anthropogenic global warming is pure socialist bunk, we must never forget that the elitists remain committed to riding this vehicle for all it’s worth. We must not forget that a large number of people in our government have tried very hard to rip us off with their cap and trade global warming tax, and remain committed to doing so.
Editorial: GOP ready to battle EPA | republicans, new, administration - Opinion - The Orange County RegisterCongressional Republicans, emboldened by the party's midterm election victories, promise to force up-or-down votes on many economically harmful regulations planned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"We're not going to let EPA regulate what they've been unable to legislate," Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., told Politico.com. Upton, who hopes in the new Congress in January to become chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and other key Republicans will seek to block or effectively nullify controversial regulations.
Are we freezing because of global warming? - TelegraphClimate change could bring Britain ever more extreme weather, says Roger Highfield.
Wonk Room » Top Economics Textbook Gets Climate Science And Policy WrongA $15 tax on a ton of carbon is a $55 tax on a ton of carbon dioxide.
Extreme Cold Causes Deaths, States of Emergency - NYTimes.comFreezing temperatures and often-blinding snowfall killed 12 people and caused travel chaos across northern Europe on Thursday, while some of the worst floods in a century devastated parts of the Balkans. Airports closed or delayed flights across the Continent, and roads were coated in ice and snow. Authorities declared states of emergency in Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro. The cold claimed 10 lives in Poland, bringing the death toll there to 18, while two others died in Germany.
Rescue workers battle to save dozens of abandoned horses facing freeze agony - City News, National News - Herald.ie"And never leave pets in the car during winter as the cold weather is like a coffin, the car will act as fridge and it will only take minutes for the animal to freeze to death," said Ms Kerins.
Heavy snowfall blankets Russian Far EastVLADIVOSTOK, Russia, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Extremely cold weather has swept Russia's Far East, with storm warnings issued in Sakhalin, Kuril Islands, local media reported Friday.
Temperatures fell to minus 41 to 45 degrees Celsius, which is considered abnormal even for one of the coldest regions in the world.
AFP: Spotlight will return on climate change, says PachauriCANCUN, Mexico — 2010 has been an annus horribilis for climate change and his Nobel-winning scientists, but Rajendra Pachauri is confident that time will turn the tide.
"There are always ups and downs, and one just has to learn from them and live with them," the chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said on the sidelines of global climate talks. "I think this is only a kind of temporary blip."
Pachauri agreed that climate change had nearly fallen off the political map after the near-bustup at last year's Copenhagen summit -- and, he admitted, by flaws within his own organization.
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If the IPCC has been tarnished in 2010, the neutrality and objectiveness of the panel's work will restore luster, Pachauri argued.
CLIMATE CHANGE | A Delicate Dilemma: Disillusionment in Cancun | Twin Cities Daily Planet"We've got to stop thinking about climate change in the future tense and accept that it is happening at an unbearable level already," said Bill McKibben, a leading climate activist and founder of 350.org. "I saw a drowned polar bear the other day," said Ronald Jumeau from the Republic of Seychelles. "What are we doing? Something is wrong here. A natural swimmer is drowning."
Peter H. Gleick: The Science of Climate Change and Closing Doors in Congress1. The science of climate change is clear and convincing that climate change is happening, happening rapidly, and happening because of human activities.
Based on a combination of our understanding of basic laws, laboratory experiments, observations of nature, and mathematical and computer modeling, the science of climate change is compelling and strong.
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2. Despite continued efforts on the part of a small group of climate skeptics and deniers to mislead, misrepresent, and misuse the science, our understanding of human-caused climate change continues to strengthen and improve.
... I offer one example in my written testimony of the expected massive consequences of expected sea-level rise to populations and infrastructure along the California coast from research recently completed by the Pacific Institute for the State of California. The value of infrastructure at risk (including buildings, power plants, airports, roads, wastewater treatment plants, hospitals, schools, police stations, and much more) exceeds $100 billion, and many costs simply cannot be estimated economically. And this is just one small piece of the coming impacts for one small region of the country.
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If we act to slow climate change, and the impacts turn out to be less severe than we predict, we will still have reduced our emissions of pollutants, cut our economic dependence on fossil fuels from countries that fund extremism and terror, and boosted our economy with new green technologies and jobs.
Green decision makers urged to learn from the kids - 03 Dec 2010 - News from BusinessGreenGovernments and businesses have been urged to consult young people when making decisions on energy investments by a government advisory panel examining the "fairness" of long-term policy making.
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The group surveyed 299 people under the age of 21 and found 94 per cent thought offshore wind was the fairest energy technology, compared to 2.2 per cent for coal energy.
Chevy saves the planet for $4 per car? « Green Hell BlogWhat separates Chrysler and Ford from GM presently is that, cutting through all the nonsense, the Chevy Carbon Reduction program is little more than a $40 million wealth transfer from consumers via GM to anti-consumer radical environmentalists and their allies. The good news for GM is that when I get a new car in 2011, no one will need to worry about any emissions from a Chevy.
[Hottest year ever, Georgia edition]: Applicants Battle Cold For Govt. Help (WSB Radio) -- Despite the freezing temperatures, hundreds fought for a place in line in Marietta to apply for federal aid to help pay their heat and power bills this winter.
Only 30 people were being let in at a time at the assistance center in Marietta.
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"I never thought I would be in the line," Marshall said. "It's almost like being in a soup line during the great depression."
Cold And Snow In “Brennpunkt” – 28 Dead in Europe Due To ColdAll transportation in Germany has been paralyzed or disrupted. Many trains have been idled, and numerous flights have been cancelled. Passengers are stranded everywhere.
28 people have died in Europe as a result of the cold. Temperatures are forecast to plummet to -25°C in some areas as winter’s onslaught continues unabated.
The Weather Drives the ClimateDanish and International Climate Experts Agree that Clouds and not CO2 Govern the Climate.
American Thinker: The US's 'Little Shop of Horrors' Turns 40Under the aphorism that bad ideas never die, they just become progressive agenda items, the EPA won a 5-4 Supreme Court ruling that "greenhouse gasses" including carbon dioxide are pollutants. The five assenting justices, being strict arbiters of the law, did not allow actual science or common sense to play a role in the decision. This opened the door for the EPA to regulate the production of carbon dioxide in any manner they so choose. The inconceivable amount of money and power to be acquired in controlling the Earth's atmosphere is an irresistible temptation to our easily corruptible ruling class, and they have won.
[Amusing National Geographic headline]: Global Warming Burning Up Lakes?A loss of oxygen and the deterioration of food chains have transformed Africa’s Lake Tanganyika and Russia’s Lake Baikal. Scientists have pointed to global warming, and now a new study finds that a similar fate may be in store for many of the world's freshwater bodies.
In the last 25 years, the world's largest lakes have been steadily warming, confirms the new study, some by as much as 4°F (2.2°C). In some cases that is seven times faster than air temperatures have risen over the same period.
Low turnout for Cancun conference | Video | Reuters.comDec 2 - Heads of state stay away from U.N. climate change conference in Cancun
Barrasso: Administration Must Stop Wasting U.S. Taxpayer Dollars on International Climate Change BailoutsWASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Oversight in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, strongly opposes the Obama administration’s decision to transfer billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to developing nations in the name of climate change.
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“We have a $1.29 trillion deficit and are $13.6 trillion in debt. It makes no sense for the United States to now spend billions of taxpayer dollars to fight climate change in other countries. Americans are concerned about jobs, the economy, the debt and spending. If the administration is serious about listening to the American people, they will cancel this international climate change bailout.”
NZ at heart of Cancun row over tree carbon - Carbon NewsNew Zealand is at the centre of a row at the Cancun climate change talks over proposals to adjust the way in which carbon is accounted for in trees.
Environmental groups say that the Land Use Land Use Change (LULUCF) rules being negotiated at Cancun would effectively let this country increase its greenhouse gas emissions by 45 per cent.
Should We Celebrate EPA's Birthday? | Stop the Energy Tax | American SolutionsAside from the patent absurdity of believing a panel of judges can simply declare scientific facts into existence, the EPA's authority to regulate carbon dioxide through the Clean Air Act is pure smoke and mirrors. The Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 gave the EPA the power to regulate sources of air pollutants that threaten public health, with a low end threshold of 250 parts per million (ppm). This clearly excluded CO2, as sources that emit as little as 250ppm of CO2 include small businesses and even certain lawnmowers. No one in 1990 was talking about taxing people to cut their own grass.
UVA Covering Up for Mann? | The SPPI BlogThe university at first told Marshall it no longer had access to the documents he sought. But in response to Cuccinelli’s subpoena, it has acknowledged that it has a backup server that contains some of the records. The university has now told Marshall that the costs of preparing the documents he seeks would total $8,000.
“When a public institution says they don’t have any documents and they do, that’s wrong,” Marshall said.
As for the $8,000 price tag, Marshall said, “it’s ridiculous that they would tell the public, whom they’re supposed to work for, that they have to pay to get public information — and pay through the nose.”
Alaska acknowledges effects of climate changeANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Alaska wildlife officials have released a report acknowledging that scientific and traditional evidence increasingly shows climate change at unprecedented rates throughout the Arctic.
The report released this week marks a departure for the state, which is suing to overturn the federal listing of polar bears as a threatened species because of declining sea ice habitat.
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A Department of Fish and Game official, Doug Vincent-Lang, says the agency has stayed out of the climate change debate but thought it was time to take stock of the effects.
Current temperature in Fairbanks, Alaska-20°F [Record high 41 in 1992]
12/02/2010: Governor Schwarzenegger honored with EPA’s Climate Change Champion AwardLOS ANGELES – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency honored Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California with EPA’s Climate Change Champion Award in recognition of his accomplishments in green energy, clean technology, but above all for his extraordinary leadership in the struggle against global climate change.
“Because of Governor Schwarzenegger’s leadership, the world looks to California as an example of climate change policies that make sense,” said Jared Blumenfeld, EPA’s Regional Administrator for the Pacific Southwest.
CFACT to Represent Climate Realism at Cancun Climate Talks -- CANCUN, Mexico, Dec. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --"There is not and never has been a genuine scientific consensus about man's impact on climate," Rucker said. "The so-called consensus was cooked up by a narrow group of campaigners and then amplified by an unquestioning media. An atmosphere of intolerance, a sort of 'scientific McCarthyism,' was created that was so thick that researchers and politicians feared to ask questions or discuss alternatives. Everyone knew that man-made warming was funded and rewarded, while questioning its premises was a career killer. So much was forced upon the public that any open-minded observer knew not to be true, that public support collapsed, as did Copenhagen. Many people's fame and fortune have come to depend on global warming. They are right now gathered in Cancun desperate to get the global warming doomsday train back on track and keep our money flowing."
Climate Change Dispatch - 'Twas the night before Cancun--A Visit From St. Rick'Twas the night before Cancun, when all through the land,
Slimy creatures did slither, their hats in their hand.
Their funding still held, by a thread, it was clear,
So they needed alarm and they needed new fear.
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Dec. 2nd 2010 « The Daily BayonetClimate talks in Cancun have started, Al Gore is AWOL and Raj Pachauri isn’t as smart as he used to be.
Frederic Bastiat, Phone the EPA! - By Chris Horner - Planet Gore - National Review Online So, if you get to the bottom of all the arguments advanced in favor of restrictionist measures, you will find only a paraphrase of that common cliché: “What would become of the glaziers if no one ever broke any windows?”
Mexican climate reports under fire : Nature NewsResearchers row over whether regional projections are based on sound science.
Cancun climate change summit: 2010 was hottest year on record - TelegraphDr Vicky Pope, the Met Office’s head of climate science advice, explained that the cold weather in Britain is compatible with the warming pattern as regions of the world can experience different weather patterns.
Britain has coldest year since 1996 (but it will be the hottest year since 1850 for the rest of the world) | Mail OnlineIreland and Scotland had their coldest winter since 1963, while France, Germany and Norway all experienced a chilly year.
However, the global picture is very different.
Dr Pope added: 'Britain is of course just one tiny part of the world and the global picture varies tremendously.
AccuWeather.com - Joe Bastardi European Weather Blog The shiver that is hitting is similar to the opening of January last year worldwide, where major cold shots engulfed the Far East, the eastern U.S., and Europe. That these are growing more pronounced is no accident, and the climate people arguing for reduction of greenhouse gasses are acting like spoiled children when they claim whatever happens means they are right.
World May Post Hottest Year on Record in 2010, UN Agency Says - BloombergNext year is likely to be cooler because of a “very strong” La Nina effect, the Met Office said today in an e- mailed statement. That refers to a periodic pattern of cooler surface waters in the Pacific Ocean. The latest began in the second half of 2010. The British agency said 2011 is likely to be about 0.44 degrees Celsius hotter than the 1961 through 1990 average, placing it among the 10 warmest years on record.
That compares with the 0.52-degree temperature “anomaly” registered in 1998, the hottest year in the series compiled by the Met Office since 1850.
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While a single year of data “doesn’t give a scientific basis to arrive at any kind of inference,” there’s a stronger trend to be drawn from a longer series of readings, Rajendra Pachauri, the UN’s chief climate scientist, said in an interview in Cancun. Before this year, 11 of the previous 12 years featured in the 12 hottest years in recorded history, he said.
“It’s important for negotiators to follow the science and use the negotiations on climate change to respond to the science,” Pachauri said.
2007: A New Leaderboard at the U.S. Open « Climate AuditFour of the top 10 are now from the 1930s: 1934, 1931, 1938 and 1939, while only 3 of the top 10 are from the last 10 years (1998, 2006, 1999). Several years (2000, 2002, 2003, 2004) fell well down the leaderboard, behind even 1900.
Cancun climate talks don't faze industry, investments - Dec. 2, 2010NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Industries that emit large amounts of greenhouse gases don't expect any new restrictions from the incoming U.S. Congress or the ongoing international climate talks in Cancun, Mexico.
While the industries are concerned about new regulations from the Obama administration, the type of sweeping rules on greenhouse gases were seen as virtually inevitable two years ago now appear off the table. As a result, new investments in things such as coal-fired power plants are pushing ahead.
U.N. Proposal to Prosecute U.S. for ‘Ecocide’ - Climate Change - Fox NationThe UN Framework Convention on Climate Change conference, which opened in Cancun, Mexico on Monday, has yielded another example of how supposedly idealistic notions concocted by Western liberals, no matter how daft, can be transformed into weapons for international power politics. Bolivia has renewed its call for the establishment of an International Tribunal for Climate Justice that would be able to sanction governments that engage in "ecocide," defined as crimes against biodiversity, nature and Mother Earth.
Bolivia's UN Ambassador Pablo Salon asserted it was unacceptable for some developed countries to refuse a new commitment under the Kyoto Protocol. "Developed countries were looking for solutions that would put the onus on developing countries to reduce emissions," Salon said. Making "ecocide" the equivalent of a war crime (or a crime against peace) would apply exclusively to the actions of developed countries.
Climate change aid will cost British taxpayers £2.9bn over four years | Mail OnlineBritish taxpayers will have to fork out £2.9 billion over the next four years to help the world’s poorest countries cope with global warming, the Government said last night.
Royal Society Exposes More Global Warming Gaffes by UN Scientists: John O'Sullivan guest post at Climate Realists | Climate RealistsLatest Royal Society report reveals UN climate scientists ignored melting icecap impacts on sea levels and miscalculated future temperatures in their climate models.
Exclusive CFACT interview: UN climate chief Pachauri ignorant of 15 years without warming | CFACTWhen asked about the fact that there has been no statistically significant global warming for the past 15 years, Pachauri became evasive. Even Phil Jones, a climatologist at the University of East Anglia and a prominent global warming alarmist, admitted this fact in the wake of Climategate.
Marc Morano On The DudeMaker HotlineThe leading global warming propaganda promoters in the U.S. such as Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein, and Barack Obama; or any other major world leaders. Is this the air inside of the global warming movement being leaked faster than some cables on a Wiki page? Marc Morano would like to think yes, but prepare for a comeback.
Cancún climate change summit: will US go all or nothing? | Environment | guardian.co.ukChristiana Figuera, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, expressed optimism that countries could move forward with all portions of a deal. "Governments can deliver a balanced package if they engage in the flexibility of compromise and listen to each others' needs," she said. "Nobody can afford an immovable position."
But she also acknowledged that there is much to be hammered out over the next ten days. "Clearly we are here for two weeks because it's going to take two weeks."
The Press Association: Ambulances 'struggling' to get to emergenciesThe NHS is coming under increased pressure due to the cold weather, with some ambulances struggling to move along icy roads and a rise in 999 calls, including in London.
The number of people admitted to hospital through A&E is known to rise as temperatures drop, with more people tripping and falling. The London Ambulance Service said that on Thursday 999 calls had risen by 13% in the last two days compared to the same days last week.
Across the capital, more than 300 calls an hour were being received during the busiest hours - 50% more than usual. Some patients will not receive ambulances due to snowy conditions, with those patients with minor illnesses and injuries offered advice over the phone.
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