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Protect your health from climate change with Mediclim | HealthCan a weather report protect your health from climate change, or more specifically avoid a medical emergency caused by an exacerbation of your chronic condition? In the case of the medical reminder service Mediclim, it appears that the answer is yes.
New tax law packed with obscure business tax cuts - Yahoo! NewsExtends a grant program for the production of wind, solar and other renewable energy through 2011. Cost: $3 billion.
"This is a great holiday present for the 85,000 American workers in the wind energy industry, tens of thousands of whom will now be able to get back to work in a sector that has been a bright spot in the recession so far," Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association, said in a statement.
Cold weather hits South Korea - UPI.comStrong winds made the temperatures feel much colder, weather officials said. The wind chill in Seoul Saturday was minus 8 degrees while in the northeastern mountainous regions, the wind chill was 25 below zero.
The Korea Meteorological Administration, KMA, issued a cold wave watch for the central part of the country and a cold wave alert for the southern part of the nation.
The cold weather caused pipes to freeze and break in the Seoul metropolitan area, KMA said.
You Are Being Warned! Freezing Temps Worldwide May Lead To Food Shortages :Global warming is why a low temperature record of 42 degrees that had been in place for 169 years in Fort Lauderdale was broken on December 7. Global warming is why people are freezing to death in the northern hemisphere and why they are increasingly finding themselves buried in deeper and deeper snow. Global warming is now an insanity that has been implanted deep into the consciousness of the masses, meaning no matter how cold it gets, it’s getting warmer in the minds of the press and those who control it.
No matter where he goes, Obama lives in 'the bubble' - KansasCity.comHe never cuts the grass, does the laundry, or cleans the kitchen. He's driven a car only twice in nearly four years, once for 10 feet.
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At the White House, he has a staff of about 100 to cook and clean for him.
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All told, nearly 6,600 people work to take care of the president, according to Bradley H. Patterson, a veteran of the Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford White Houses who's written extensively about White House staff.
That includes the Secret Service, the White House policy staff, the people who take care of the White House and its grounds, as well as Camp David, Air Force One, the Marine One helicopters and the armored cars. It also includes a staff florist and calligrapher.
The price tag totaled $1.5 billion in 2008, the latest year records are available...The 200 to 300 people who clean and maintain the White House are listed in the General Services Administration and the National Parks Service, for example.
Rare Christmas Snow Blanketing the SouthThe snowstorm that will strengthen into a blizzard across the Northeast Sunday into Monday will first continue to provide a rare white Christmas to the South.
The snow in the South is doing more than making an appearance. The ground and roadways across the region are getting covered.
This Christmas Day started with a couple of inches of snow whitening northern Mississippi. The snow will spread eastward through the Carolinas tonight.
Gerald Warner: Weathering the true lies of global warming Newspeak - Scotsman.com NewsThese are challenging times for climate jihadists. Last week the Met Office was forced to issue a press release stating it "categorically denies forecasting a 'mild winter' ". In fact, in October, its long-range probability map predicted an 80 per cent probability of warmer than average temperatures from November to January in Scotland. It claimed Scotland, along with Northern Ireland, the eastern half of England and Cornwall, would experience temperatures above the 3.7°C average, more than 2°C higher than last winter.
Perversely, those are precisely the regions most ravaged by blizzard conditions; but the Met Office now insists that was not a forecast. Apparently, just as weather is not climate, a Met Office map predicting an 80 per cent likelihood of higher temperatures is not a forecast. The Met Office is notoriously zealous in warmist propaganda. Its chairman, Robert Napier, is also chairman of the trustees of the Carbon Disclosure Project and of the Green Fiscal Commission - so, no conflict of interests there.
ABC's loathsome propaganda machine | Australian Climate MadnessTim Flannery: … The climate science is getting more dismal at the same time this is happening. We've seen the IPCC projections are now ground truthed against real world change, and we see that we're tracking the worst case scenario, which is 6˚ of warming.
CO2 rise “most likely due to warming oceans degassing” | Heliogenic Climate Change The rise in CO2 that began in 1860 is most likely the result of warming oceans degassing.”
PHOTOS Cold facts: Farmworkers struggle to eat, pay bills after Florida freezes » Naples Daily News MobileIMMOKALEE — Since freezes began decimating Florida crops, life has been a struggle for Maria Gabriela Chaires and her family.
Her 17-year-old son asked if he should drop out of high school and get a job, but she won’t let him.
Chaires, 37, and her 77-year-old mother, Juana Galvan, work in Immokalee’s packing houses and they, like many other farmworkers, have been dealing with drastically reduced hours since the cold weather hit this year, first in January and again in mid-December.
Global Warming Update: Blizzard Edition : The Other McCainChattanooga gets its first White Christmas in more than 40 years:
Vancouver Island resort gets record snowfall - CTV NewsMount Washington has been pummelled with three metres of fresh snow in the past three days, burying lodges, cars and even ski lifts.
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"I think people are just amazed by what they are seeing," Curtain said. "Everybody has their cameras out because you don't see snow like this everyday."
Bundle Up, It’s Global Warming - NYTimes.com THE earth continues to get warmer, yet it’s feeling a lot colder outside. Over the past few weeks, subzero temperatures in Poland claimed 66 lives; snow arrived in Seattle well before the winter solstice, and fell heavily enough in Minneapolis to make the roof of the Metrodome collapse; and last week blizzards closed Europe’s busiest airports in London and Frankfurt for days, stranding holiday travelers. The snow and record cold have invaded the Eastern United States, with more bad weather predicted.
All of this cold was met with perfect comic timing by the release of a World Meteorological Organization report showing that 2010 will probably be among the three warmest years on record, and 2001 through 2010 the warmest decade on record.
How can we reconcile this? The not-so-obvious short answer is that the overall warming of the atmosphere is actually creating cold-weather extremes. Last winter, too, was exceptionally snowy and cold across the Eastern United States and Eurasia, as were seven of the previous nine winters.
Why is it so cold? Simple... it's the North Atlantic Oscillation - and it's got a bit stuck | Mail OnlineThe NAO has been in a generally positive phase for the past 25 years. As a result, winters have usually been mild since the late Eighties, encouraging one climatologist to predict an end to winter snow in Britain.
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What about global warming? Doesn’t this all make those theories about warming look a bit stupid? Well, no. The NAO is only cooling a small area round northern Europe.
After a wasted year, climate change must once again be our priority | Robin McKie | Comment is free | The ObserverWe must sideline the sceptics
...They say we should just put up with those spreading deserts and flooded coastlines – a notion of staggering immorality, according to Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway in their book Merchants of Doubt. "This is the equivalent of medical researchers arguing that they shouldn't try to cure cancer because it is too expensive and that, in any case, people in the future might decide that dying from cancer is not really that bad."
Local authorities provide hundreds of homeless warm shelter in winterAs hundreds of homeless people in Turkey face the danger of freezing to death with the arrival of harsh winter conditions, local authorities across the country have taken the initiative to provide warm shelter for hundreds of those who are without a home.
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Süleyman Karakoçan, who was brought to the hotel from the streets by municipal officials and is now one of the new guests of the hotel, told the Anatolia news agency that his toes had to be amputated after they froze in the cold weather and developed gangrene.
EU Referendum: The hijack of the MetThis all began when its then-director John Houghton became one of the world's most influential promoters of the warmist gospel. He, more than anyone else, was responsible for setting up the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and remained at the top of it for 13 years. It was he who, in 1990, launched the Met Office's Hadley Centre for Climate Change, closely linked to the Climatic Research Unit in East Anglia (CRU), at the centre of last year's Climategate row, which showed how the little group of scientists at the heart of the IPCC had been prepared to bend their data and to suppress any dissent from warming orthodoxy.
The reason why the Met Office gets its forecasts so hopelessly wrong is that they are based on those same computer models on which the IPCC itself relies to predict the world's climate in 100 years time. They are programmed on the assumption that, as CO2 rises, so temperatures must inexorably follow.
The blogs and editorial letters boil over with outrage. Writes one not atypical letter writer in the UK, "Snowfall, ice, Arctic-level cold and all the rest have caused major disruption to the UK infrastructure in the last few weeks, not least because our gilded civil servants have been looking in the wrong direction. And they still are. . . . The country is grinding to a halt NOW, and they are still prattling about global warming in the period 2030 to 2100? These people are truly off their trolleys. They are seriously mentally ill."
Bitter cold forces review of Kashmir winter school Srinagar, Dec 25 (IANS) The bitter cold in the Kashmir Valley has forced authorities to mull closing the winter schooling that was started to make up for the classes lost during the months of unrest here earlier this year.
'It has almost been decided to close down the schools in the valley from January 1 as the extreme cold is making it difficult for the students to reach their schools on time,' a highly placed source in the government told IANS.
Environmentalists deplore Schwarzenegger's corporate turn - latimes.comThe Sierra Club warned that new regulations establishing a carbon trading regime include a giveaway to certain industries, pointing to allowances for emissions that were awarded at no cost rather than auctioned, as a state advisory committee had recommended. The plan also allows companies to purchase credits to avoid reducing pollution at their own facilities. Among the sellers of such credits will be timber companies that pledge to increase the carbon storage in forests, possibly by clear-cutting and planting new trees.
Sierra Club lobbyist Bill Magavern says oil companies would be the biggest beneficiary of the free allowance system. "The state will be giving oil companies valuable commodities for free, setting them up for windfall profits," he said.
Audubon MagazineMeanwhile, climatologists will face an onslaught of their own. Darrell Issa, the incoming head of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has already pledged to hold hearings on climate science. “I want to make sure the skeptics are heard,” Issa explained in September. While it’s extremely unlikely that Issa will debunk the evidence that humans are warming the planet, he could try to sway public opinion on the issue by depicting climate scientists as untrustworthy.
Lots more reasons to believe in Global Warming « Roger Helmer MEP6. Follow the money! We have to believe in Global Warming, because thousands of jobs depend on it, in academia, in the media, in local councils, in the new “green” industries – even Chris Huhne’s job! There are millions of pound in research grants for Global Warming. And billions of dollars for wind farm merchants, the photo-voltaic industry, and a clutch of snake-oil salesmen. Vast profits in trading carbon futures – Al Gore and Rajendra Pachauri are growing rich in the proceeds. Challenge the theory behind Global Warming, and all that lovely money goes up in smoke.
EPA Acts Unilaterally on Climate ChangePresidents have, since the days of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, made unilateral decisions arguably outside the scope of their Constitutional power and dared Congress or the Courts to stop them. The practice has increased over time and been made easier by Congress having delegated much of its power to Executive agencies. The consequence is an administrative state where the elected representatives of the people have a mostly reactive role, acting to check these agencies, rather than making affirmative decisions on national policy.
Florida Keys: Cold hurt coral, left lionfish aloneCorals struggle to survive in water below 60 degrees, and the Keys experienced the first cold-water bleaching event since 1977.
Cold-water bleaching typically is deadlier than bleaching from overly warm water.
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Manatees also are in peril when caught in waters consistently below 60 degrees. Seven dead manatees were found in Upper Keys waters from Jan. 18 to 22, part of a record 107 killed statewide from Jan. 1 to 23.
“This is an unprecedented event as far as the Keys marine environment is concerned, one will do down in the history books,” said Billy Causey, southeast regional director for the National Marine Sanctuaries Program.
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Birds also died in large numbers.
Freezing weather a matter of life and death for the homeless | Society | guardian.co.ukWhen temperatures fall below zero a severe weather emergency protocol kicks in to ensure everyone is given a roof over their head for the night and stop people dying on the streets. This year the protocol came into effect last month, earlier than usual, and has been called down on more nights than anyone can remember, according to outreach workers.
Carbon accountants stand to profit from EPA plan to regulate emissions | Grist ...the next few years could be boom times for greenhouse gas accountants.
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"You are at the point of the sword, and the president will regulate greenhouse gas emissions without Congress," Goldenhersch told me recently. "You can sue, but it will take forever. You will be forced to comply with these rules, and if you don't it will cost you a fortune. Industry will react to regulation as it has in the past -- it will automate to reduce the cost."
Ka-ching.
Snow causes chaos for European holiday travelIt added to the woes at Charles de Gaulle, where freezing conditions and a strike at the main French factory producing de-icing fluid forced the cancellation of half - about 400 - of scheduled flights. A supply of glycol was flown in from the US but many passengers already faced missing traditional Christmas Eve dinner.
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Irish Ferries added extra crossings from Britain to Ireland after about 40,000 travellers were stranded or delayed at Dublin airport because of blizzards that caused the airport to close three times. Emergency staff cleared 120,000 tonnes of snow after the airport had falls measuring 20 centimetres.
The unexpected Irish cold snap is killing cows, sheep and pigs, and young salmon at fish farms.
The Press Association: Christmas Day swim is off - the water's frozenAn annual open-air Christmas Day swimming race was cancelled after the cold weather left the water frozen.
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Mr Thomas said it was the first time the Serpentine had been iced over on Christmas Day morning since 1981.
Global warming is beyond disputeFirst, Farhi failed to point out that the scientific evidence behind the current global warming trend is beyond any doubt and is supported by every credible peer-reviewed data set available using land, sea, weather balloon and satellite records.
Second, Farhi neglected to question whether the e-mail, in which a news executive ordered his staff to provide misinformation on a scientific issue, reflects a fundamental breach of journalistic ethics - which it does.
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James Bradbury, Washington
James Bradbury | World Resources InstituteJames Bradbury is a Senior Associate in WRI’s Climate and Energy Program, conducting research and analysis on U.S. federal and state climate and clean energy policies.
St. Petersburg icicle patrol fights winter hazardsEvery winter, Russia's most European city battles traditional Russian problems as snow blocks streets and falling icicles injure and even kill pedestrians.
Would global warming be so bad? - CSMonitor.comSo what is there to say that the pre-industrial era climate is really the optimal climate? That the benefits of a possible warmer climates wouldn't outweigh the disadvantages? I have asked that many times to Al Gore supporters and either gotten no answer at all, or some list of alleged (and exaggerated) disadvantages that completely overlooked the benefits.
If one needs an example of why cold weather is bad, the current problems in the European traffic system is a good example.
In 20 years, could a chocolate bar cost $100? - CTV News In Ghana, which borders Ivory Coast and is the No. 2 world cocoa supplier, climate change is jeopardizing crops by allowing pests to thrive, leading to more disease such as "black pod," and a shorter lifespan for cocoa trees.
Merry Christmas! (welcome to the snowiest December on record) | StarTribune.comExpect More Extreme Winters Thanks To Global Warming, Scientists Say. Counterintuitive? Absolutely. But there is sound, peer-reviewed science to back this up. In fact the last IPCC Climate Report predicted more outbreaks of severe winter weather. Water vapor globally has spiked by at least 4% in recent decades, more moisture (fuel) to support not only summer flooding but major winter storms.
EU Referendum: A matter of prioritiesOther than very brief closures during and in the aftermath of storms, however, these episodes are more about money than weather. Shortages of de-icer for instance, are simply a reflection of airport operators' reluctance to invest in bulk storage facilities, and then to tie up money in hold stocks of the fluid. This has left Charles de Gaulle exposed to a strike at the main French factory producing de-icing fluid, forcing the cancellation of half – about 400 – of the flights scheduled for this morning.
The tightness on the purse strings for winter preparations makes an interesting counterpoint, with the spend on other things...
Snowfall: ‘A very rare and exciting event’ | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and EntertainmentMr. Watts operates the most visited blog on climate science in the world, www.wattsupwiththat.com now with over 57 million visits. He has spent 30 years on air in radio and television as a weather forecaster, and still does daily radio broadcasts. In 2007, he founded the surfacestations.org project, which with the help of volunteers nationwide found that only 1 in 10 of the weather stations used for monitoring climate in the USA met the government’s own standards for station siting quality
Anything left to blame on CO2?Truly, I find many of these claims as much hilarious as disconcerting. They show a widespread tendency to jump aboard the closest bandwagon and to try to explain nearly anything with the latest buzz words or scientific theory. This gullibility can most readily be seen in many news reports, but is also quite commonly found in scientific papers.
Covering Climate from Cancún to Katmandu - NYTimes.com(The activities and journalists’ travel costs, including mine, were underwritten by the Earth Journalism Network of Internews, a nonprofit group seeking to foster unfettered, credible and innovative media around the world. *)
Winter hits Paris airport with double whammy - CNN.comParis (CNN) -- Part of Paris Charles de Gaulle airport was evacuated Friday due to the accumulation of snow on the roof, and hundreds of flights were canceled because of a shortage of de-icing fluid, authorities said.
American Thinker Blog: How our vast reserves of shale gas can feed millionsThe point to keep in mind when environmental zealots rap the shale gas industry over spurious claims regarding fracking (a process used to tap the vast amount of gas) and the environment is not just that they are trying to prevent us from reducing our trade imbalance, starve terror producing nations of funds, and warm our homes and power our factories and utilities.
They are also placing at serious risk the food that supplies millions, if not billions of men, women, and children around the world.
The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : EPA: For 'When Congress Resists Action'So sayeth environmental sage if constitutional naïf Thomas E. Lovejoy at George Mason in today's WaPo piece "EPA vows to enforce curbs on emissions". Possibly you are wondering what curbs on emissions they will 'enforce', what with the legislation proposing them having been rejected in Congress after the public got wind of things?
Whatever. Surely you remember this dynamic from civics class, or even some more advanced inquiry into our system: Congress only decides major domestic policy issues until unelected bureaucrats and political appointees decide they can no longer wait for our elected representatives.
U.S. Fast Start Climate [Hoax] Financing in Fiscal Year 2010The United States is now partnering with other contributor nations to provide what is known as “fast start” funding for climate-related activities approaching $30 billion during 2010–2012.
Since Copenhagen, the United States has pressed forward to implement a significant increase in our international climate finance contribution, beginning with the Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 budget. The U.S. contribution to fast start financing in FY 2010 is a total of $1.7 billion, consisting of $1.3 billion of Congressionally appropriated assistance and $400 million of development finance and export credit. Direct climate assistance through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of State increased from $316 million in FY 2009 to approximately $1 billion in FY 2010, and these agencies' direct adaptation assistance increased from $24 million in FY 2009 to $244 million in FY 2010.
Palm Beach Post : Rain on Sunday will usher in yet another cold snap for Palm Beach County"It looks like it's not going to be anything like it was here before," Paul Allen of R.C. Hatton Farms in Pahokee said Thursday.
He did not want to say how badly the previous freezes slammed his operation, which grows sweet corn, green beans, celery and sugar cane, except to say, "we didn't get it as bad as others."
He's prepared to bring in helicopters to protect what's left.
And with the heart of the winter still ahead, he said, "we just need to pray for everybody that's still got crops, and those that are replanting, and all farmers, that this winter eases up. We all need a break. It's the fourth year in a row."
Carbon sequestration may be limited by earthquake hazard | Energy content from Western Farm Press# Pumping carbon dioxide into the ground for long-term storage – known as carbon sequestration – could trigger small earthquakes that might breach the storage system, allowing the gas back into the atmosphere.
# That hazard, combined with a need for thousands of injection sites around the globe, may keep sequestration from being as feasible on a large scale as some have hoped.
Your Piece of the Keeling Curve - NYTimes.com Rich countries like the United States, which have been burning fossil fuels for two centuries, are primarily responsible for the bad place in which we find ourselves now, with carbon dioxide at a perilously high level and rising fast.
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Susan Solomon, a famed government climate scientist in Boulder, Colo., wrote in a paper last year that climate damage would be largely irreversible for 1,000 years after carbon dioxide emissions stop.
“To me, it is kind of sobering to think that every pound of carbon that is emitted because I do something — drive a car or take an airplane or turn on a light — is going to influence the climate for a thousand years,” Dr. Solomon told me. “I actually take the bus more often now. That’s a personal choice.”
Correct Timing is Everything - Also for CO2 in the AirSundquist (1985) compiled a large number of measured [residence times] of CO2 found by different methods. The list, containing RTs for both 12CO2 and 14CO2, was expanded by Segalstad (1998), showing a total range for all reported RTs from 1 to 15 years, with most RT values ranging from 5 to 15 years.
Welcome to the Greenhouse | Beyond The Beyond“[T]here is a lot about global warming that we don’t know. As the planet heats up, almost certainly some regions will experience more intense droughts, but which regions, exactly, and how intense will those droughts be? Monsoon patterns will shift, and produce flooding, but which cities will be submerged? ….The greatest unknown of all is, of course, how people, collectively, will respond. Will they be chastened? Genocidal? Or will they just muddle along, behind growing seawalls and shrinking coasts? Science—even social science—can’t answer questions like this, which is why we turn to science fiction. Welcome to the Greenhouse!”
—from the preface by Elizabeth Kolbert
Forty years ago, Walt Kelly’s comic strip character Pogo famously intoned: “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” Now, as the evidence for climate change becomes overwhelming, we learn the hard reality behind that witticism. The possible destruction, and certain transformation, of the ecosphere has been brought about by our own activities.
Jim and Bill’s excellent misadventure | Watts Up With That?This is a web formatted version of the PDF found here on Dr. James Hansen’s Columbia.edu web site. I don’t have much respect left for Dr. Hansen, particularly when he uses the word “deniers” nine times in this interview.
Renewables Won't Keep the Lights On | StandpointIn private, the best-informed analysts now agree that Britain's environmental policies have put the country on track to have the world's most expensive electricity. This is mainly because our competitors are almost certain to choose cheaper routes to emissions reductions, such as natural gas, or to shun emissions reductions altogether.
American Thinker: The Sierra Club's MissionSince 2001 alone, the Sierra Club claims to have killed two-thirds of the 150 coal-fired power plants originally proposed for construction. The hopes and wishes of green zealots are now also bolstered by backdoor EPA regulatory methods that help the Sierra Club further its anti-progress agenda.
So, then, primitivists are poised to control the lives of 310 million people through legal maneuvering, scientifically baseless regulation, and political coercion. The Earth worshipers pose a clear and present danger to America's energy supply, and therefore to the people's health and wealth. Continued coal-fired power plant shutdowns will also result in insufficient power generation at the worst possible times -- during demand-intensive temperature extremes. But human suffering does not concern the Sierra Club.
The toughest job in the world? : Nature NewsThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change seeks its first communications chief.
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The glacier affair didn't need to become the feeding frenzy for the international media that it did, he says. "In scientific circles it had been known for months that something was badly wrong with the glacier claim. A skilled public-relations manager with a good network of relevant scientists could have nipped the problem in the bud before it burst on the scene, rather than having journalists claim a scoop," says Nuttall.
..."It will be a very challenging job," says Michael Mann, a climate researcher at Penn State University in University Park. Critics "will be taking pot shots from the sidelines at every turn".
"But the clearer we can be in communicating scientific knowledge, the harder it will be for professional climate-change deniers to manufacture false doubt, confusion and controversy", he says.
January 2010: Pachauri calls Indian govt. report on melting Himalayan glaciers as voodoo scienceLondon, January 9 : Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has described the Indian government report that criticized the claim by IPCC over the faster than expected melting of Himalayan glaciers, as "voodoo science".
IPCC Communications and Media Relations Programme Manager : Geneva Switzerland : Naturejobs S(he) will direct and supervise all web information of the IPCC Secretariat, will maintain and strengthen liaison with the media and will lead the development of communication and outreach programmes, including the social media (twitter, facebook, blogs, etc.).
- Bishop Hill blog - David Henderson on Deutsche BankThere is also Terence Corcoran's take on the same affair.
As Mr. Henderson puts it, the Deutsche report on climate skeptics has been rendered worthless as a guide to the science and for investors. It also betrays a larger issue, which is a corporate role on the part of Deutsche Bank that makes Exxon look like a Boy Scout.
FoxyLeaks: Leaked Internal Memo Catches Fox With Its Bias Hanging OutOf course, for anyone who has been paying attention to anything other than Fox News, the fact that temperatures in recent years continue to consistently break records year after year is well accepted as such, and is not a theory at all, any more than the fact the December 1st fell on a Wednesday this year is a theory. The theory, which explains this dramatic increase in temperature as the result of increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere as the result of mankind’s exorbitant use of fossil fuels is now near unanimously agreed upon by all but a very small number of climate scientist.An editorial about this leak in the LA Times said, “Instructing reporters to treat such facts as controversial is like telling them to question the laws of gravity when discussing plane crashes.” They also said that, “only a crank would deny the underlying temperature data that show the Earth getting warmer — records compiled by independent stations around the world, combined with satellite measurements and confirmed by observations of rising sea levels, vanishing glaciers and other inputs.”
Healing the planet: Pakistan: India dodges UN to get carbon creditsISLAMABAD, Dec. 23 -- India has managed to get approval of carbon credits amounting to $482,083 in seven years ($68,869 per year) from the UN for two controversial projects, Nimmo-Bazgo and Chuttak hydropower, which are not in line with the Indus Waters Treaty, after showing that it has got the clearance report on trans-boundary environmental impact assessment of the said projects from Pakistan.
The Pakistani authorities are clueless as to who provided the clearance report on the said projects to India on trans-boundary environmental impact assessment.
Expect more extreme winters thanks to global warming, say scientists - Science, News - The IndependentThe study was carried out in 2009, before last year's harsh winter started to bite, and is all the more prescient because of its prediction that cold, snowy winters will be about three times more frequent in the coming years compared to previous decades.
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Global warming will also continue to warm the Arctic air mass, Professor Rahmstorf said.
"If you look ahead 40 or 50 years, these cold winters will be getting warmer because, even though you are getting an inflow of cold polar air, that air mass is getting warmer because of the greenhouse effect," he said. "So it's a transient phenomenon. In the long run, global warming wins out."
February’s Record Snowfall Nets Philadelphia $1.8 Million In FEMA Aid « CBS Philly – News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of PhiladelphiaPHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The Federal Emergency Management Agency agrees with the rest of us, last February’s record-setting snowfall was a disaster and the agency is awarding Philadelphia almost two million dollars in disaster relief aid.
The 51 inches of snow that fell between February 5th and 10th made 2010 the snowiest winter in Philadelphia and city finance director Rob Dubow says also the costliest.
Wildlife's fight for survival in a bitter winter - Nature, Environment - The IndependentThe point is, a big freeze is generally pretty bad for wildlife – for almost all creatures, food is harder to get and shelter is at a premium.
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In really severe cold, small birds are likely to freeze to death, especially at night.
Eco-bulbs health hazard for babies, pregnant women | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | OnlineENERGY-saving light bulbs were at the centre of a fresh health scare last night after researchers claimed they can release potentially harmful amounts of mercury if broken.
Levels of toxic vapour around smashed eco-bulbs were up to 20 times higher than the safe guideline limit for an indoor area, the study said. It added that broken bulbs posed a potential health risk to pregnant women, babies and small children.
Over 300 trapped in cars after snow blocks traffic in north China - People's Daily OnlineMore than 300 people in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have been stuck in a traffic jam since 2 p.m. Thursday after snowstorms blocked a national road.
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More than 100 firefighters and police officers and 20 rescue cars are rushing to clear the snow and rescue the trapped people, amid extremely cold weather with temperatures 30 degrees Celsius below zero.
Senator to Santa: Come to the Garden State! - NYTimes.com“But given the climate you are accustomed to, I will understand if you would like to relocate to the South Pole,” Mr. Menendez wrote. “Just be sure not to move to the Antarctic Peninsula or West Antarctic ice sheet, areas that are also experiencing rapid ice melt.”
A reply to Senator Menendez from Santa | Watts Up With That?I got a letter from Santa today, with a request that I repost it here, since he and the elves were concerned the Senator may not get it before Christmas with the bad weather and the USPS holiday schedule. It is a response from Santa regarding this blog post at Huffington Post from somebody who claims to be Senator Robert Menendez
Greg Craven - AGU talk (Dec 15, 2010)This is not a talk. This is a primal scream. For help. For salvation. For the lives of my children. And I will not apologize. I will not yield. I will charge the stage and scream my message if I must. I am in the zone. I am over the edge. I am gone. I am enlightened. I am maniacal. I am insane. I am terrified at what I have just become. All of my life has been to serve this single moment. And you may need to forcibly remove me to the hospital, screaming like a madman. But you will not stop me. For I have revelation to bring.
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if your intellectually honest operational definition tells you that the time is now. . . .
You shall spill your blood. You shall soak the earth with your viscera. You shall scream the alarm until your throat runs raw. And then you shall pick up rocks and bang them together as the alarm until your hands become a bloody pulp. What shall be your future regrets if you choose? Will they be that you stood by, hopeful, desperate, unaffected, impotent while your children were slaughtered before you? Or will it be that you went too far, destroyed your career, your life, in your panic to save them?
“Cow Burp” Researchers Have a Beef With Government Waste ReportThere is also the matter of whether so-called greenhouse gases are really something with which humans ought to be concerned. The ABC News report states flatly that “greenhouse gas emissions” are “the chemicals associated with global warming.” This assumes, of course, that there is such a thing as “global warming,” an assumption called into serious question by everything from “Climategate” to the ongoing worldwide record cold temperatures.
If Aber really believes his research is worthwhile, let him pay for it himself or find private donors — e.g., the “farmers and businesses involved in the dairy industry” that will supposedly benefit from the study — to cover the cost. Shivering taxpayers should not be milked to pay for this load of “global warming” bull.
Scenarios: 2010-2030. Part I | Climate Etc.On the time scale of a few decades ahead, regional variations in weather patterns and climate will be strongly influenced by natural internal variability.
Wonk Room » Global Boiling: Year 2010 In Climate PhotosThe headlines of 2010 were driven by global warming disasters — involving the dangers of fossil fuel extraction or the biblical might of the climate they have polluted. Hundreds of thousands of people died in climate disasters
But to get a photo of "climate" rather than "weather", wouldn't you have to leave your camera's shutter open for at least 30 years?
5 lakh soldiers ready to fight global warming | Deccan Chronicle | 2010-12-24Dec. 23: India is set to have the world’s first climate army, an exclusive force of nearly half a million ‘soldiers’ trained to fight global warming. A unique strategy to set up this climate army is being launched from Vedaranyam in Tamil Nadu on Sunday.
Flashback: Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army | Environment | The GuardianAl Gore yesterday launched a drive to mobilise 10 million volunteers to force politicians to act on climate change - twice as many as the number who marched against the Vietnam war or in support of civil rights during the heyday of US activism in the 1960s.
During the next three years, his Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend $300m (about £150m) on television advertising and online organising to make global warming among the most urgent issues for elected American leaders.
Ed Driscoll » Global Warming Died; Women, Children, AlGore Hardest HitAnd speaking of movies, as I mentioned back in March, a lot of Hollywood’s recent global warming doomfests are going to be remembered as updated versions of Reefer Madness to the next generation of movie fans. Today’s global warming fear-mongering is tomorrow’s late-night camp TV.
End the Ethanol Insanity: Ed Wallace - BusinessWeekEthanol damages engines and is not a viable alternative to fossil fuels, but farmers and lobbyists don't want you to know that
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"Ethanol is not an ideal transportation fuel. The future of transportation fuels shouldn't involve ethanol." —Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Nov. 29, 2010
Althouse: "That snow outside is what global warming looks like."When everything is evidence of the thing you want to believe, it might be time to stop pretending you're all about science.
EPA Gives Power Plants, Oil Refineries Deadline to Clean Up | Fast Company"The EPA’s forthcoming standards will be based on available and affordable measures to clean up the two industries responsible for the most pollution that drives climate change," said David Doniger, Policy Director, NRDC Climate Center, in a statement. "Clear pollution control standards also will help these industries plan future investments, fuel the economic recovery, and create jobs."
In California, polluters will get hit doubly hard--first with the EPA standards, and then with the country's first major cap and trade system. So while a climate bill isn't in the cards, there are still incentives for power plants, oil refineries, and other industrial polluters to shape up.
Belmont Club » Ice Age 6What is common across the decades was the assertion that weather is generating a political crisis which forces governments to act. Back in 1974, the scientists who looked at Global Cooling believed it would cause the world to starve from freezing crops unless of course, something was done. Today their scientific descendants are claiming the world will starve to death from wilting crops unless something is done. What exactly the crisis happens to be seems less important than acting. Just don’t stand there. Do something.
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One of the great achievements of the Enlightenment was the emergence of Reason as the primary source of authority. The most worrisome thing about the recent history of climate change “science” is its apparent arbitrariness. Perhaps the world is entering new climatic age — whether of fire or ice is uncertain — but that is not as worrisome as the mental epoch to which it seems to be returning. The Dark Ages were a time when belief — or to use another word, ideology — was the arbiter of truth and social position the determinant of legitimacy. Between Marxism and the Islam, what odds would you give Galileo?
This is happening | Stephanie RogersBut while a few select regions could benefit from a warmer overall climate, most of the world would suffer on a nightmarish scale, and the feedback effect applies to warming as well.
Raging wildfires, extreme water scarcity, expanding deserts, changing ecosystems. Heat-wave deaths, the spread of deadly mosquito-borne diseases, growing dead zones in the oceans, death of healthy trees and other vegetation, coral extinction. War. Climate refugees.
...ExxonMobil was one of the largest sources of funding for such scientists for over a decade, and purported to stop in 2008. Surprise! They lied. Records show that the oil giant paid out $125,000 that year to several climate action opposition groups.... Naturally, the sun does have a lot of influence on the climate, and during the 1,150 years for which scientists have records, temperatures on this planet closely correlated with solar activity.
It was right around 1960 that the Earth's temperatures began to break away.
Upton vows fight against EPA climate rules for power plants and refineries - The Hill's E2-Wire"We will not allow the administration to regulate what they have been unable to legislate — this Christmas surprise is nothing short of a backdoor attempt to implement their failed job-killing cap-and-trade scheme,” Upton said in a statement.
“Today's announcement marks a crescendo in the EPA's long regulatory assault against America's energy producers. The EPA has its foot firmly on the throat of our economic recovery,” he said.
But the planned rules drew praise from a senior Senate Democrat. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said the EPA is taking a “measured and reasonable step” toward curtailing pollution that she said threatens children and families.
“These pollution-control standards would apply to some of the largest emitters of dangerous pollution across the country, while also encouraging investment in the nation’s clean energy technologies,” Boxer said in a statement.
Twitter / David RobertsYou're a reporter. You want to help your audience understand the cost of new EPA regs. So you ask...Jim Inhofe? What value comes from that?
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New Paper: Solar UV activity increased almost 50% over past 400 yearsA peer-reviewed paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research finds that reconstructions of total solar irradiance (TSI) show a significant increase since the Maunder minimum in the 1600's during the Little Ice Age and shows further increases over the 19th and 20th centuries. The TSI is estimated to have increased 1.25 W/m2 since the Maunder minimum as shown in the first graph below. Use of the Stefan-Boltzmann equation indicates that a 1.25 W/m2 increase in solar activity could account for an approximate .44C global temperature increase [the HADCRU global warming from 1850 to 2000 is .55C]. A significant new finding is that portions of the more energetic ultraviolet region of the solar spectrum increased by almost 50% over the 400 years since the Maunder minimum
Ethanol - Revolt Against King Corn Has Just Begun | GlobalWarming.orgroughly 60 organizations from across the political spectrum joined forces to challenge King Corn, and many are resolved to work together to carry on the fight next year.
Perhaps even more important, ethanol-subsidy foes now occupy the moral high ground. The Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune, left-leaning stalwarts that usually applaud every green fad and cheer every government intervention in the economy, all say it’s time to end to the blender’s credit. Politically-correct Time Magazine calls federal ethanol policy “the clean energy scam.” Even Al Gore acknowledges that his previous support for ethanol subsidies was a “mistake” undertaken to win the support of corn farmers in the Iowa presidential primary.
Aside from corn farmers, ethanol distillers, and their mouthpieces in Congress, hardly any informed person disputes that corn ethanol does squat for U.S. energy security, inflates grain prices, shortchanges consumers at the pump, contributes to air and water pollution, and (on a life-cycle basis) emits more carbon dioxide than the gasoline it replaces.
OPB News · West Coast Fog Not Following Climate Change ScriptUW climate researcher Jim Johnstone has a little mystery on his hands. Johnstone is analyzing 60 years worth of cloud and fog observations recorded by airport weather stations along the West Coast.
He explains that under global warming coastal fog should be increasing over time.
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Johnstone has found Washington coastal weather stations and Astoria are getting foggier over time. But fog along the rest of the Oregon coast hasn’t really changed over the last sixty years and California is slightly less foggy, not more.
July '09: Get ready for even foggier summersThe Bay Area just had its foggiest May in 50 years. And thanks to global warming, it's about to get even foggier.
Blood Supply Threatened by Green Extremism « NoFrakkingConsensusThe problem, though, is that for every green idea that truly makes sense from a cost-benefit perspective, there’s half a dozen really dumb ideas. When government-employed bureaucrats promote these dumb ideas communities lose their bloodmobiles.
The year of living dangerously. Masters: “The stunning extremes we witnessed gives me concern that our climate is showing the early signs of instability” « Climate Progress[Uber-meteorologist and former NOAA Hurricane hunter Dr. Jeff Masters of Weather Underground] wrote me:
In my thirty years as a meteorologist, I’ve never seen global weather patterns as strange as those we had in 2010. The stunning extremes we witnessed gives me concern that our climate is showing the early signs of instability. Natural variability probably did play a significant role in the wild weather of 2010, and 2011 will likely not be nearly as extreme. However, I suspect that crazy weather years like 2010 will become the norm a decade from now, as the climate continues to adjust to the steady build-up of heat-trapping gases we are pumping into the air. Forty years from now, the crazy weather of 2010 will seem pretty tame. We’ve bequeathed to our children a future with a radically changed climate that will regularly bring unprecedented weather events–many of them extremely destructive–to every corner of the globe. This year’s wild ride was just the beginning.
Climate Change Dispatch - You're a Mean One, Mr. HansenYour denier label is an appalling reference,
an insult with lack of deference
to Holocaust survivors everywhere,
while your forecasts are hundreds of percent off.
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You're a global-warming and thrice-arrested groupie
On a Federally funded climate-change spree!
British Police: Climategate Criminal Case is “Global” and OngoingIt is acknowledged that interest in this case continues, given that the enquiry has now been running for approximately a year and that there is a desire for us to publish further detail. However, the circumstances of the case do not lend themselves to public comment at this time due to the sensitivities of the investigation and this is unlikely to change in the near future.”
—Nicola Atter (December 23, 2010) Corporate News Co-ordinator - Newsroom
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EPA vows to tread carefully - Robin Bravender - POLITICO.com And, she insisted, the new rules will not involve a cap-and-trade program like the failed climate bill from Capitol Hill. “This is not any type of a cap approach,” McCarthy said. “
...Industry officials were also quick to blast EPA’s plans. “EPA’s proposals would carry tremendous costs but no benefits for the American people – all pain and no gain,” said Charles Drevna, president of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association.
Environmentalists applauded the announcement, and they’ve vowed to rally around EPA greenhouse gas rules after climate legislation collapsed in Congress.
“Actions and efforts to try and stop the EPA from moving forward with these standards represent nothing more than old and dirty politics as usual — polluters that want to hold hostage America’s clean energy future and our public health with bullying and unfounded threats of doom and gloom,” said Joe Mendelson, director of global warming policy at the National Wildlife Federation.
New Cold Front Will Bring Frigid Nights | TheLedger.comIn addition to economic damages, another result of the repeated cold waves could be the coldest December on record for Lakeland.
The record low average temperature for Lakeland for December was 54.8 degrees. That record was set in 1935, said Richard Rude, a forecaster at the National Weather Service in Ruskin.
So far, the average temperature for this month is 52.4 degrees, and based on forecast temperatures, the average is expected to increase just a little more than a degree before the end of the month, making a record likely.
BBC News - Man found at Bangor park died from hypothermiaA man who was found in a park in Bangor, Gwynedd, died from hypothermia, a post-mortem examination has revealed.
Science in the Obama White House: An Interview With John Holdren - ScienceInsiderThe Electric Power Research Institute once functioned with a very substantial budget that it obtained by getting its electric utility members to give like a 10th of a cent per kilowatt hour. And you know a 10th of a cent per kilowatt hour would raise roughly $4 billion per year. ...
...The next set of items in that supply curve is above the line, which means you have to pay for them. But they would [be feasible] if you had the kind of price on carbon that seems likely in the next 20 years. If [emitting] carbon was $30 a ton, for instance, you would do most of that stuff. ...
American Thinker Blog: Surprise! White House says Polar Bears not endangeredHow "threatened" are the bears? Much more so from human hunting than from global warming.
Intense cold wave continues in Orissa -IndiaBhubaneswar: The Intense cold wave continues in Orissa. The capital city of Bhubaneswar has broken the 10-year record. While the entire Phulbani district including the Daringibadi area has also broken the 9-year record in this season. While the state capital recorded a record low of 10.5 degree Celsius on Wednesday, Phulbani and Daringibadi recorded 3.4 and 1.5 degree Celsius respectively.
The intense cold has also resulted in the death of several birds and aquatic animals.
OVERNIGHT ENERGY: Lieberman, Graham eye revival of energy talks - The Hill's E2-WireGraham, however, said he hopes to be a player on energy again in the new Congress, and Lieberman said he sees a chance for collaboration.
While cap-and-trade is dead, Lieberman said areas including a “clean energy standard” for utilities (which Graham is pushing), natural gas and nuclear power are on the table. “It is not going to be as big or comprehensive as the American Power Act,” Lieberman said, referring to the unsuccessful emissions-capping and energy bill he unveiled with Kerry. “But we can do something here.”
Global Cooling Puts Green Jobs On Ice -- InformationWeekWith much of Europe buried under six-foot snow drifts, businesses and consumers aren't in the mood to spend big dollars on technologies that will make their lives even colder.
3% of Earth’s landmass is now urbanized | Watts Up With That?This study, from 2005, is nor one I’ve covered here before, but I thought it was relevant to have a look at as a logical followup to the recent announcement from NASA at AGU that satellites have identified strong UHI signatures in cities. The vast majority of the world’s surface weather stations used to monitor climate are in urban areas, many in the GHCN for example are at urban airports. h/t to Joe and Pete. – Anthony
U.S. Department of Energy - Tracking Santa -- An Interview with the Head Researcher | DOE BlogEvery year since 1998, the Department of Energy's Los Alamos lab has been using state of the art technology to track Santa Claus as he circles the globe the night before Christmas. You'll be able to start monitoring St. Nick's journey here starting at 6 AM ET on Christmas Eve.
An insight into Hacker-land « JoNovaPointman argues the case for the emails being leaked from inside. Part I of his thesis is that an expert hack takes a lot of money, patience and a rare personality. (And after reading his article I believe him.) In Part II Pointman suggests that there is not a lot of money or inclination to pay such an expert. Call me unconvinced on this second clause. Even though I’ve seen no evidence of big dollars at work in the skeptic case* I can imagine in any market worth 130 odd billion per annum that there would be players with handy shorts-ready-to-place who might like to pull some strings.
That said, the fact that the police investigation into the leak or hack has failed to find any answers combined with the obvious motivation for any half honest civil servant with a modicum of altruistic honor to act as a whistle-blower, means I find the whistle-blowing theory much more believable.
Energy saving gestures 'do not make a difference'Professor David MacKay, who advises the Department of Energy and Climate Change, said focusing on gestures such as turning off mobile phone chargers when not in use "is like bailing the Titanic with a teaspoon".
"The truth is that a typical mobile phone charger consumes just 0.01 kWh per day, exactly the same as the energy used by driving an average car for one second," he explained.
"I'm not saying that you shouldn't switch phone chargers off. But don't be duped by the mantra 'every little helps'."
EPA sets stage for expanded climate rules - The Hill's E2-Wire“They are not going to succeed in stopping EPA from acting under existing law, and I think the Republicans underestimate the support of the American people for environmental legislation,” Waxman told reporters in the Capitol Wednesday.
Fish and Wildlife Service Clarifies Basis for Listing Polar Bear as “Threatened” Under the Endangered Species ActIn the memorandum filed with the Court, the Service explained how its biologists had concluded in 2008 that the polar bear was not facing sudden and catastrophic threats, was still a widespread species that had not been restricted to a critically small range or critically low numbers, and was not suffering ongoing major reductions in numbers, range, or both.
The Abiding Faith Of Warm-ongers - Investors.comGot that? No matter what the weather, it's all due to warming. This isn't science; it's a kind of faith. Scientists go along and even stifle dissent because, frankly, hundreds of millions of dollars in research grants are at stake. But for the believers, global warming is the god that failed.
Why do we continue to listen to warmists when they're so wrong? Maybe it's because their real agenda has nothing to do with climate change at all.
A Christmas Present From The New York Times « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGEAnd so millions around the world will be able to see that temperatures have gone up and down in the past 400,000 years, with a characteristic shape (sharp increase with an even more marked peak, slow decline, then sharp increase again) that is currently being replicated (and the top temperatures of the past haven’t been reached yet).
Is The Climate System “Stable” And “In Equilibrium” In The Absence Of Human Disturbance | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.The answer to the question
Is The Climate System “Stable” And “In Equilibrium” In The Absence Of Human Disturbance is clearly NO.
St. Paul's public works budget snowed under - TwinCities.comOne of the snowiest Decembers on record has forced St. Paul to overspend its Public Works budget by at least $1 million, city officials said Wednesday.
Snow emergencies break banks for Minneapolis and St. Paul | StarTribune.comMinneapolis has outspent its snow and ice-clearing budget by more than 30 percent this calendar year, thanks to the third-snowiest December and third-snowiest autumn on record in the Twin Cities.
Sen. Robert Menendez: A Letter to Santa Claus I am writing out of concern, because you may have to move from the North Pole due to the dramatic melting of Arctic sea ice. The Navy's chief oceanographer says that by the summer of 2020 the North Pole may not have summer ice and other scientists project that an ice-free Arctic is possible as soon as 2012!
BBC News - Biochar: Running the numbers"I said in my recent book that perhaps the only tool we had to bring carbon dioxide back to pre-industrial levels was to let the biosphere pump it from the air for us," the originator of the Gaia concept told The Guardian newspaper last year.
"We don't need plantations or crops planted for biochar, what we need is a charcoal maker on every farm so the farmer can turn his waste into carbon."
Trendspotting: the next big sustainability issues | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.ukClimate change scepticism: will science strike back?
2010 was the Year of the Sceptics. By contrast, 2011 could just see the triumph of science, for two reasons.
First, the facts are increasingly stark. 2010 looks set to equal or exceed 1998 as the warmest year on record.
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Second, in the wake of Climategate, scientists are realising that pure research ain't enough: they need to communicate much better, too – and engage openly with their adversaries. The more that happens, the more threadbare the rhetoric of denial will appear.
...For years, advocates of bold action on carbon cuts have argued that energy insecurity strengthens their case. That'll be harder to maintain now that shale gas has entered the mix. Not only is it relatively cheap, but there is a truly humungous amount of it in the USA.
The science may be settled, but the coming year will show that the debate is far from over.
Can a 'Global Thermostat' Turn Climate Change Around?Global Thermostat sounds too good to be true: It's a startup company that aims to address the threat of climate change by capturing carbon dioxide from the air, and then making productive use of it.
The CO2 could be used to help plants grow faster in greenhouses, as a feedstock for algae, for enhanced oil production, as an ingredient in bottling plants, as a natural refrigerant, or as a circulating fluid in a geothermal energy installation.
Links on "The Wilderness Society" | FacebookSenator Murkowski wants to gut the EPA's ability to protect us from deadly global warming pollution
Atlanta weather | Snow accumulations likely on Christmas Day | ajc.comIn a statement issued early Thursday, the National Weather Service predicted that 1 to 3 inches of snow could fall across metro Atlanta, with accumulations of an inch or less south of the city.
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If the current forecast holds, it’ll be the first snow to fall on Christmas in Atlanta since a trace in 1993. The last time there was measurable snow on Christmas Day was more than a century earlier, in 1882, when .3 inch accumulated.
Climate Change Extremism Is Doing Its JobClimate is what You Expect, Ignorance Is what You Get
Robert Heinlein said, “Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.” This underscores that climate is the average of weather in a region or over time. The problem is modern climate science assumes the weather pattern of the government record, 50 years at most, is a fixed climate. A brief study of history should correct their shortsighted view, but it won’t because they insist on wearing blinkers.
Noah-period climate change policy from the 112th Congress? : Dispatches from the Culture WarsU.S. House Representative John Shimkus (R-IL) is the loon's loon's loon's loon - four deep into loonery. He arrogantly denies climate change without first understanding the science behind it, which on its own merely makes him a typical denialist once again illustrating the Dunning-Krueger effect.
Environmental Religion and Dr. James Hansen ExposedThis is a profound moral issue (Hansen mentioned Noah's commandment to save all the species), if we ourselves manage to survive.
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