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CO: Climate [junk] scientists aghast at Buck views on global warming | The American Independent“The basic science of the effect of human-produced CO2 on climate change is 150 years old,” said Colorado State University climatologist Scott Denning at the conference called by the League of Conservation Voters. ThinkProgress writer Brad Johnson followed up with Dennis Ojima, chair of Colorado State’s Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, who offered the rhetorical equivalent of burying his face in his hands, aghast.
“Quite simply, there is no hoax in studying climate change.”
“It is an important research concern, the same as studying cancer or the economic growth. There is no controversy about the role human actions have made to alter the climate system through the emissions of greenhouse gases over the past 150 years,” Ojima told Think Progress’s Wonk Room. “The fundamental physics associated with the impact of this change in atmospheric concentrations of these gases is not disputed. The manner in which these gases react in the atmosphere is one of the fundamental properties of the climate system. The science at the fundamental level related to greenhouse gases and climate are as solid and as important as the finding that germs are responsible for illnesses and that there are specific strategies to reduce germs in the environment we live in.”
Global warming may rob basmati of its fragrance - The Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: An experiment by Indian agriculture scientists points to the enormous effect global warming could have on the fragrant basmati rice. Basmati, Sanskrit for the fragrant one, may lose not just its aroma, the famous long grains may get shorter, say scientists.
Global Warming Alarmists in Retreat. Glaciers, Not So Much. « Hot AirThe Church of Global Warming has faced an uphill battle lately. The average person is not likely to accept the message that the planet is warming and that only an unprecedented shift of power and money to progressive policy makers will brings things back to normal once they’ve lived through a couple horrible winters and witnessed the massive fraud perpetrated by the climate science community. So it has come to pass that the number of Britons who believe that global warming is both real and dangerous has shrunk rapidly in the past four years.
Mr. Chairman, Your Carriage AwaitsPachauri has been chairman of the IPCC since 2002. That’s nine long years.
Given all of the above, why has he not done the honourable thing and fallen on his sword? Why has he not acknowledged that his continued presence is harming the cause he claims to believe in so passionately? What is more important – restoring the IPCC’s reputation or the vanity of a 70-year-old man who’d prefer to remain in the limelight until 2014?
When an organization is functioning properly these sorts of situations are not permitted to fester.
Council is criticised as tenant dies of cold - National News, Frontpage - Independent.ieDUBLIN City Council was yesterday accused of contributing to the death of a young mother, after the heating in her flat was allegedly disconnected in the depths of winter.
A preliminary hearing at Dublin City Corner's Court into the death of Rachel Peavoy (30) was told that the young woman died from hypothermia and that continued appeals to turn back on her central heating fell on deaf ears.
Grand Marais climber abandons quest to reach top of Mount McKinley | Park Rapids Enterprise [Lonnie Dupre] had spent six nights and five days at that height, pinned down by high winds and temperatures down to 50 below zero. He had lost “considerable strength and conditioning” during that wait, Suprenant said.
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“He had a cold night of sleep last night (Tuesday night),” Suprenant said. “I just don’t think he has enough energy to keep warm.”
2005: One World Expedition: RolexDupre and Larsen hope to raise awareness of the growing threat of global climate change, which affects the entire planet but has particular impact on the Earth's delicate Polar regions.
The Met Office winter forecast lie is finally nailed « Autonomous MindA look at the information makes clear there is nowhere left for the Met Office to hide. The Met Office has been caught ‘cold’ lying about its winter forecast in a disgraceful attempt to salvage its reputation. Its claim that it forecast the cold start to the winter lays in tatters thanks to an exchange of emails between the department and the Cabinet Office.
Climate Change Claims Melt Away - Investors.comEnvironment: In 2007, the U.N. said the Himalayan glaciers will be gone by 2035 due to man-made global warming. Yet four years later, some are advancing. What's retreating is the global warming narrative.
Climate madness and climate sense | Australian Climate MadnessWhat's even more pathetic, however, is watching pig-ignorant journalists and politicians with the memory span of a goldfish use the floods to make cheap political points, when there have been worse floods before, even in the microscopic 150 year flood record, with no evidence of increasing frequency or severity. But don't let the facts get in the way of a good story, right?
Now, on to the UN. Whenever a sceptic dares mention that there may be an ulterior motive behind climate change action, like anti-globalisation, or anti-capitalism, or scaling back western economies, the Fairfax-reading, ABC-watching lefty heads can't wait to pop. So isn't it odd that Ban Ki-Moon(bat) is advocating precisely that...
Raffi on child honouring, the right to a future, and “tweeting while Earth burns” « Climate ProgressAre we tweeting while Earth burns? Is climate collapse our new collective Titanic? How do we best describe the survival struggle of 7 billion in a way that connects with the public and with decision makers?
The science on global warming is clear and compelling. Earth is in serious climate crisis. That’s why many writers have recently upgraded climate change to climate collapse, climate catastrophe, the long emergency. To convey the climate threat fully, we need a new Story.
Boston.com: Roof collapses reported in three communitiesRoof collapses have been reported today in three communities.
In a dramatic incident in Lynn, two men were rescued from their crushed car after the collapse of a parking garage roof.
In Avon, two roofs collapsed, a police dispatcher said.
If IPCC Meetings Were Televised « NoFrakkingConsensusThe IPCC documents most likely to be read by outsiders – the Summaries for Policymakers – are not scientific statements at all. Rather, they are the result of a messy, arduous political negotiation that pits scientists against politicians.
What BBC Radio 2's Chris Evans thinks about global warming – Telegraph BlogsMS: But, but, (I didn’t realise until far too late,) back in the Middle Ages, it was very, very warm and whatever. I thought that we peoples were freezing to death. Apparently Britain didn’t get that cold…what I’m trying to say is that there are cycles….
CS: Don’t beat yourself up about that, that you’ve only just cottoned on to the fact. The Earth has warmed and cooled, but the thing is, what they said is that it’s cooling at such an exponential rate now that that’s never happened before, and you know, some people don’t believe that maybe we’re contributing to this.
Dutch Science Journalist Marcel Crok’s New Book Rips IPCC – “Influence Of Weblogs Is Growing”…scientists are not taken as seriously as before climategate, and the influence of weblogs is growing. Crok is right to include the blogosphere as part of the discussion and not to rely just on peer-reviewed literature. From a critical viewpoint he is convinced that science is not settled at all.”
EU Referendum: Three hundred metreshaving spent over four weeks trapped in the ice, the 348 crew must be wondering whether their ship will ever again see the open sea.
Two-thirds of biofuel fails green standard | Environment | guardian.co.ukJust 31% of the biofuel supplied under the government's initiative to tackle climate change met its own green standards, the Renewable Fuels Agency reports
How to get the boob tube to tell the truth about climate change | GristCDC's insight eventually led to the establishment of Hollywood, Health, and Society (HHS), a project based in Los Angeles that works directly with screenwriters to increase the frequency and accuracy of health-related storylines in television, film, and new media. (The project was founded with money from the Lear Center and now receives additional funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the California Endowment, the National Cancer Institute, and several other government sources.)
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Can you think of another issue that might benefit from being portrayed more often and accurately in mass entertainment? Me too. As it happens, HHS has a mandate from the CDC to expand into climate change. They just need some foundation funding to build up a program.
News Corp should "set example" by silencing sceptics | Australian Climate MadnessThe unwritten conclusion being that News Corporation should silence anyone who questions the Holy consensus, and The Australian should not give space to sceptics on its op-ed pages.
Coroner: Missing man died of hypothermia - PennsylvaniaA Penn Lake Park man probably died of hypothermia after hitting his head while walking near the Lehigh River in White Haven, Luzerne County Coroner John Corcoran said.
Grantham Institute studentshipThis project will examine journalists’ strategies for the sourcing of stories about climate change. Who is given voice in media reports, and how different news actors are represented, is one of the most pressing issues for the public mediation of climate science and climate policy. Journalists have been found to misrepresent the scientific consensus on climate change by deploying ‘false balance’ (e.g., Boykoff 2007).
DNR: Fish die-off in southeast Michigan is natural occurrence - Adrian, MI - The Daily TelegramA fish die-off involving the species gizzard shad occurring in southeast Michigan is a natural event due to harsh winter weather conditions and a large year-class, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
Roof collapse at Edmonton senior centreThe gym roof at the North Gate Lions Seniors Recreation Centre came crashing down just after 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday.
There have been no injuries reported as a result of the collapse, but the city has sent a trauma team to the facility to comfort those who were inside.
Metro - Snow the cause of another roof collapseThe second roof collapse in as many days left an area retailer with a mess to clean up.
No one was injured in the early morning roof collapse at the Leduc Brick location, and there is no word yet on the exact amount of damage done, but Leduc fire Chief Ernie Polsom said he believes it will be “extensive.”
Terence Corcoran: Ground control to Major Obama | FP Comment | Financial PostGetting to the moon is a suburban commute compared to the fantastic voyage Mr. Obama has promised — whether it’s fixing the deficit crisis or launching massive infrastructure projects. Andrew Hargadon, a professor of management at the University of California, said the Apollo mission comparison was faulty. “The notion that putting a man on the moon takes the same innovation process as solar on every roof, electric cars in every garage, or LEDs in every home simply reveals that federal innovation policy is funded on misbegotten assumptions.”
Obama was wrong not to mention climate change in his State of the Union | GristIn his 2009 State of the Union-esque speech, Obama spoke of "saving our planet from the ravages of climate change." In his 2010 SOTU, he affirmed the "overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change." In 2011, fresh off the hottest year on record, Obama said ... nothing about climate change. It didn't come up.
This is a failure on Obama's part. A moral failure, a failure of leadership, but also, I would argue, a political failure.
The Sneaky, Not-So-Secret Purpose of the IPCC « NoFrakkingConsensusWhen people repeatedly use a term such as “buy-in” they are speaking the language of politics. The scientists who work on IPCC reports may be accomplished in their own field, but there is no reason to believe they are any more politically sophisticated than the average person.
Which means there’s a real possibility that the IPCC will one day be seen in a rather different light. It may be viewed as a textbook case of how badly things can go wrong when political amateurs are recruited and manipulated by UN-grade political operatives.
A Climate of Staged Angst | Real ScienceFor the idealists, the organized fear of abrupt climate change serves as a handy weapon. They interpret every somehow unusual weather event as proof of anthropogenic global warming. “You have to structure your information so that it’s always confirmed, no matter what kind of weather we have,” the P.R. consultant for the environmentalist organization advises. The realists, who protest that the evidence that human activity has increased meteorological extremes is thin, are fighting a losing battle. Their dry scientific arguments are unable to gain any ground against the colorful, horrific visions of the climate idealists.
Kelly Rigg: Skepticgate: Revealing Climate Denialists for What They AreI say it's time to give the skeptics a taste of their own medicine. Borrowing a term first tweeted by Andy Revkin of the New York Times, let's officially call this "Skepticgate" - a new synonym for the cynical, profit-motivated efforts of the Kochs and Exxons of the world to keep the public disinformed about the real and present dangers of unabated fossil fuel consumption.
Google "climategate" and you get 895,000 results. It's high time we expose the real "gate" in the room. So today I present a challenge:
How many results can we get on "Skepticgate" by the year's end?
The 'C-Word' Vanishes - NYTimes.comThe “C-word,” climate, appears to have become to the Beltway what the “P-word,” population, has been in climate treaty negotiations for a long time — unmentionable.
It’s one thing to cave to a wave of naysaying climate rhetoric and build a new American energy conversation on points of agreement rather than clear ideological flash points like global warming.
It’s another to duck and cover entirely on climate, as President Obama did in his State of the Union message.
EU Referendum: On being stitched up Delingpole's mistake was in trying to play a bent game straight.
Climate Resistance » Nursing Climate Science’s BruisesThe mistake Nurse makes in his treatment of the climate debate is to imagine that it is divided over a simple claim that ‘climate change is happening’.
Letters@ClimateRealists.com: CO2 and a matter of scale by Bob Godfrey | Climate RealistsIf you saw the famous Al Gore graph on stage it was about 12 metres long (counting his paces), and this would have shown clearly that temperature drives CO2, that gap on the graph would have been about 1 metre so, temperature coming first. Al Gore’s advisers probably had a brainwave and worked out that if you make the graph so that it spans 650,000 years, this would make the gap on the graph 14mm on a 12 metre long stage and would be practically indistinguishable by the naked eye. With the undoubted help from the media, they appear to have got away with it.
Wind power’s dirty little secrets « The Daily BayonetPremier McGuinty has built a green house of cards that he hopes will stand long enough to get him past October’s election. The opposition thinks differently and if you live in Ontario you should give them a hearing. If you live in a jurisdiction that has grand plans for renewable energy, learn from the mistakes of California, Spain, Italy, Ontario and the UK, and go with coal, gas or if you like green – nuclear. Don’t rely on bird shredders or solar panels – the cost is too high and the benefit too little.
Data availability and consequences in cancer and climate science « Shub Niggurath ClimateFor anyone following the climate debate, the parallels between examination of Potti’s results by biostatisticians Kieth Baggerly et al and examination of Michael Mann’s work by Steve McIntyre and Ross McKitrick are glaring. There are startling parallels between how the University of Albany investigated Doug Keenan’s fraud charge against Jones’ co-author Wei-Chyung Wang and Duke University’s internal investigations of Potti as well.
The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Obama Stays Mum on 'Climate'; Kerry Should Have"That's alright," John Kerry told reporters after the speech. "There's a lot of work that has to be done to revalidate the science and the facts with respect to that. It would cloud the reality that we're trying to deal with respect to energy. So I'm very sympathetic. I understand that completely. That is not where the country is. That's not where the issue is right now. It has to be brought back there. And it will be, but that's a different track on a different issue."
O'Key grocery chain closes Petersburg stores after roof collapse | Business | RIA NovostiRussian grocery chain O'Key has temporary closed all of its 25 hypermarkets in St. Petersburg after a store roof collapsed under the weight of snow at an O'Key discount supermarket in the city on Tuesday, killing a woman and injuring 13 people, O'Key said.
Why Investors Should Fear America's "Sputnik Moment"What you get instead is politically directed expense, fueled by fashionable nostrums like energy independence and global warming. President Obama doubled down on his dedication to the latter concept last night by eliminating oil industry subsidies, and by promising fatuously that, by 2035, 80% of U.S. electricity will come from "clean" sources.
That's an amazing promise for a country that hasn't started construction on a nuclear power plant - realistically the only reliable large-scale source of new "clean" energy - in more than 30 years.
Second drive: 2011 Nissan Leaf - Going out on a limbIt's been cold hereabouts, lingering in the 20s and 30s recently, and we've been averaging just 65 miles per charge. One staffer brave enough to push the battery to the bitter end came away disenchanted. Starting from home on a 10-degree morning, the car showed 20 miles remaining, but after 8 miles it dropped into "turtle" mode, losing power and soon running slower and slower until it crept at what seemed barely above walking speed the last mile to our facility. "They really shouldn't include whatever you'll get from last-gasp mode in the range display," he said. "I thought I had 5 more miles and then it showed I had nothing. It was an adventure but that last mile or two wasn't fun."
New Legislature brings opportunity to repeal ban on nuclear, coal plants | Minnesota Public Radio News Coal accounts for more than half of Minnesota's electricity.
Canada: Minister rejects national cap-trade systemOTTAWA - Canada's new environment minister, Peter Kent, is rejecting the advice of a government advisory panel that has urged him to moved ahead with made-in-Canada climate change policies, despite uncertainty about United States measures and regulations.
Ski and snowboard news | information and updates The US continues to enjoy an excellent season on both East and West coasts. Although Mammoth [Sierra Nevada mountain range] still leads the world for snow depth with more than 5.4m (17 feet) lying following the huge storms at the end of last year. In the past week Colorado has stolen the thunder though as consistent winter storms have brought incredible powder to skiers and snowboarders. Vail has received more than a metre of snow in the past week and reports more than 6.8 metres of snow has fallen at mid-mountain this season to date. So far this is the fourth best season-to-date snowfall in Vail's history (records exist back to the 1963-1964 season) and snowfall this season to date is at more than 50 percent - or nearly 2.5 metres - above Vail's 47 year average at the top of the mountain and more than double what it was at this time last year at mid-mountain.
Feb 2009: Steven Chu's Wake Up CallIn a worst case, Chu said, up to 90% of the Sierra snowpack could disappear, all but eliminating a natural storage system for water vital to agriculture.
The Horrid Ms. BrownerIn these and countless other unknown ways, Carol Browner has used the reins of power as EPA Director and later as President Obama’s climate advisor to assert EPA and government control over every aspect of the lives of Americans, limiting their choices, and in the process harming the nation’s economy.
Until the nation is released from the grip of such environmental/socialist zealots, its future remains in jeopardy.
The Reference Frame: CzechGlobe began their AGW criminal activityJust two months ago, I warned that the EU econazis were buying 150 Czech crackpots and traitors for 25 million euros. The goal of the hired guns would be to spread fear and misinformation about the climate.
EU Referendum: Groundhog dayThis is now the 27th day the Sodruzhestvo has spent locked in the ice. And, although the Russians have been fairly candid about the difficulties involved in extracting her, the continued delays must be trying patience. There are 40 miles to go to the ice edge (although Russian miles tend to be rather elastic) and the ships were last reported in "a complicated area of dense ice".
Thus, there is still no immediate end in sight to this drama.
No, and Pakistan’s floods weren’t global warming, either | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogHow often now have you seen this pattern? First some weather event is immediately and noisily cited as proof or evidence of global warming, and the later news that it’s no such thing then gets barely reported.
Church to fight for Indian farmers| Cathnews IndiaIn January alone, 14 farmers committed suicide after their crops were ravaged by frost.
Ten others attempted suicide as cold weather damaged 17.6 tons of produce on nearly 3.3 million hectors of land spread over 36 districts.
Transcript: Bachmann's response to State of the Union - CNN.comWell, here's a few suggestions for fixing our economy. The president could stop the EPA from imposing a job-destroying cap-and-trade system...The president could agree to an energy policy that increases American energy production and reduces our dependence on foreign oil.
Twitter / Andy Revkin: In #sotu how can Obama men ...In #sotu how can Obama mention carbon capture pipe dream & not mention climate? Perhaps because CCS billions are simply bonbon for Big Coal?
Sierra Daily: Daily News from Sierra Magazine"Daddy, why didn't he say anything about global warming?" --daughter Fae, age 8
"The tragedy we can see unfolding, though, is the way the president shied away from even mentioning the idea that climate change is a problem. That reflects political reality, but it also reflects the greatest failure of Barack Obama’s term in office." --Matthew Yglesias, smart DC blogger
Colin Powell remains voice of "reason" on climate change | MNN - Mother Nature NetworkLater in the interview, Powell brought up the climate issue again. He emphasized the need for America to continue to engage other nations to solve the challenges of the next century. “We all need better economic progress in our countries. Unemployment throughout the world, poverty throughout the world, hunger, disease, climate control — these are no longer just issues that belong to the developed countries, they belong to the whole world.”
The American Spectator : Wind Energy Deal Blows AwaySo you've got every problem with wind energy in one judgment: high costs, unreliability, underperformance, and bird-battering. This runs counter to what environoiacs and alternative energy schemers tell us on a daily basis. What's that matter -- can't California and the federal government find enough taxpayer dough to subsidize this boondoggle too, to make it "feasible?" A wind farm of this size should be the environmentalists' dream.
The answer probably is, the government doesn't want to be seen providing giveaways of this nature to the big bad utilities. They'd rather give subsidies to the renewables dealers -- the little gremlins with the Green jobs -- and then make the utilities buy the sporadic energy from them. And whatever you do, don't tick off the ratepayers with higher electric bills, lest they discover the truth about alternative energy.
Local Republican, Democrat square off:Global warming, real or imagined? - Opinion - Press and GuideStrange, and even bizarre, weather events are occurring on a regular basis, with 2010 being reportedly the hottest year on record. Most of the world’s renowned environmental scientists warn of the dangers of global warming. Thus, it is curious that Connolly should call the concept global warming itself “the product of a quasi-religious cult.” There is incontrovertible evidence that both polar ice caps are experiencing substantial melting and, as a result, world water levels are dangerously rising.
Richard Littlemore | On Climate Change: Is Individual Action Pointless?Nothing we do as individuals will make any damn difference in the fight to forestall devastating climate change. The incremental reduction in my personal carbon budget resulting from my having chosen cycling over driving is all but laughable against the seemingly inexorable expansion of shale gas wells and tar sand refineries. But if a few of us are seen breaking suddenly in a good direction, others will follow.
Newt Gingrich Panders to Corn Belt, Eyes 2012 GOP Bid | OpenMarket.orgIt’s depressing that Gingrich, much like Bob Barr and Al Gore, is willing to shed intellectual honesty to win votes. Did Gingrich discuss the idea that “food versus fuel is plain, flat untrue” with his colleague Robert Hahn at AEI? Or his colleague Kenneth Green? Or his colleague Kevin Hassett? Or the thousands of non-partisan academic studies completed on this very subject? I am reminded of a joke told to me by a co-worker, that if the first caucus was in Hawaii we’d all be putting pineapple juice in our tanks.
New study affirms natural climate changeCHURCHVILLE, VA—It’s nice when people validate your work. Fred Singer and I—co-authors of Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1500 Years—are currently basking in the glow of a new paper that affirms the earth’s long, moderate, natural climate cycle. The study is by Dr. U.R. Rao, former chair of India’s Space Research Organization. He says solar variations and cosmic rays account for 40 percent of the world’s recent global warming.
Boston.com: Yes, again -- forecast calls for up to a foot of snowLight snow dusted much of the region today, a prelude to a bigger storm arriving Wednesday, a nor'easter that, according to forecasters, could dump 8 to 12 inches of snow.
» Government Electric and Tonight’s Speech - Big GovernmentAccording to the Wall Street Journal, Obama’s SOTU themes will be ‘competitiveness’ and ‘investment’, “daring Republicans to resist his push for new spending in areas that he will call vital to the nation’s future [like his preferred...] infrastructure, science and energy”. He demands we be competitive in the uneconomic, calls for innovation in the old and for the taxpayer to ‘invest’ in things that can’t find investors enough to stay afloat. In a country where the Snuggie and Vince the Sham-Wow guy find investors and markets.
What a humiliation that windmills and solar panels can’t. Here’s to hoping that even in Washington, neither can this absurd call to dive further down the rabbit hole of ‘renewable’ energy.
The Potomac Plunge Against Climate Change | The NationThe smile never left her face, even after Representative Donna Edwards plunged into the icy Potomac River on Saturday with two hundred local activists to urge stronger government action against climate change.
“I feel great,” a beaming Edwards told The Nation as she stood shivering in a wetsuit after emerging from a full-body immersion in the frigid river. It was the first time Edwards, an African-American who represents Maryland’s 4th congressional district, joined the annual Polar Bear Plunge organized by the Chesapeake Climate Action Network (C-CAN). And why, on a day when the air temperature in Washington measured 19 degrees Fahrenheit and the Potomac was 34 degrees, did the rising progressive star agree to such a stunt?
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“Don’t worry about needing willpower to go in the river,” an ear-flapped Tidwell exhorted the crowd minutes before the plunge.
Potty training for pigs? Test finds it works - World news - World environment - msnbc.comTAIPEI — Taiwan has been experimenting with a simple solution to the perennial problems of pollution, smell and excessive water use on pig farms: train the pigs to use a toilet.
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"To use the pig waste as manure is a very good approach within the spirit of green energy, much better than just letting it go to waste and pollute river water," Stephen Shen, Taiwan's environment minister, told Reuters Television.
"And I think that can help us a lot in decreasing CO2 emissions and fighting global warming."
Bear sets record swimming feat | The Sun |NewsA POLAR bear has notched up an extraordinary achievement — by swimming non-stop for more than NINE days.
The bear covered 426miles (687km) during the record swim — which scientists say could have happened because of climate change.
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Research zoologist George M. Durner said: "This bear swam continuously for 232 hours and 687km and through waters that were 2-6 degrees C.
Exceptionally cold weather kills 50 in Nepal Kathmandu (AsiaNews) – More than 50 people have died from the extreme cold weather that has swept across the southern regions of Nepal in the past few weeks
Terai is hardest hit with most deaths. Repeated blackouts have cut power to hospitals, factories and airports. Hundreds of schools have been closed to avoid further loss of life. Only Catholic schools have remained open for those who want to go to class despite the bad weather.
Topsy-Turvy Weather - U.S. Is Frigid, and Arctic Warmer Than Usual - NYTimes.comStill, however erratic the weather may have become, it is not obvious to most people how global warming could lead to frigid winters. Many scientists are hesitant to back such assertions, at least until they gain a better understanding of what is going on in the Arctic.
In interviews, several scientists recalled that in the decade ending in the mid-1990s, the polar vortex seemed to be strengthening, not weakening, producing mild winters in the eastern United States and western Europe.
At the time, some climate scientists wrote papers attributing that change to global warming. Newspapers, including this one, printed laments for winter lost. But soon after, the apparent trend went away, an experience that has made many researchers more cautious.
Inhofe Previews Obama State of the Union: President Should Address the Flood of Regulations Coming From EPA - They Threaten Jobs and Jobs Creation I will say here very clearly: if the President doesn't heed calls for change in his regulatory policies, then Congress will have to change them.
We will start with EPA's backdoor attempt to impose cap-and-trade taxes on consumers and employers. The President failed to pass this agenda in Congress-too many members understood its destructive costs and negligible benefits. Now he's using the EPA and the Clean Air Act to make it happen.
Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) once referred to EPA's global warming agenda as "a glorious mess." He was right. EPA regulation could cover 260,000 office buildings, 150,000 warehouses, 92,000 health-care facilities, 71,000 hotels and motels, 51,000 food-service facilities, 37,000 churches, and 17,000 farms. And what is the result? By EPA's estimates, global mean temperature would drop about one-hundredth of a degree by 2100.
The cost-benefit analysis here is fairly straightforward. And so is the answer to this glorious mess: repeal it.
johnosullivan - Eco-lawyer Humiliated in Gaffe over Climate 'Victims' Lawsuit ClaimsProminent eco-lawyer gaffes in article trumpeting climate con lawsuits. Skeptics and not ‘victims’ of man-made global warming are filing the vast majority of cases.
Price Of Junk Science - Investors.comOur courthouses should be bastions of justice, not sources of cheap wealth or chambers that create laws out of thin air that no legislature would pass. Lawmakers create the policies that govern our judicial system, and they have both the authority, and the duty, to ensure that global warming litigation doesn't become legal plunder.
What should be on trial is the global warming guesswork that passes as science, not the producers in our economy.
Economists React: ‘Staggeringly Weak’ U.K. GDP Reading - Real Time Economics - WSJThe weakness of growth was concentrated in the services (-0.5%q/q) and construction (-3.3%q/q) sectors, where output fell sharply in December. That does look very much driven by the cold weather – construction work just couldn’t have taken place. And as we know, planes didn’t take off and trains didn’t arrive. We absolutely do not think the U.K. has relapsed into recession. Recessions are caused by economic and financial shocks, not by snow. Other indicators we would associate with recession – collapsing business confidence and sharply increases in claims for unemployment benefit – are not in evidence whatsoever. – Credit Suisse
Norway defends energy exploration in Arctic | Environment & Development | Deutsche Welle | 25.01.2011If we say, from Norway's side, we will stop all gas exploration as a contribution to a more climate friendly world - that will not be the consequence. The consequence will be that coal consumption will go up.
So we have to be there as a stable provider of natural gas, we have to be there as a technological advanced nation that can develop technologies that can take down emissions and create that bridge to the low carbon future that we all need.
Is Extreme Weather a Result of Global Warming? (POLL) - World Watch - CBS News"Any one of these events is remarkable," said Jay Gulledge, senior scientist for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. "But all of this taken together could not happen without the extra heat that's in the ocean. It defies common sense to overlook that link."
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"There was never any doubt in our mind that, in reality, the frequency and severity and number of people that were affected kept increasing," said Margareta Wahlstrom, the United Nations' assistant secretary general for disaster risk reduction.
Peer review or Pal review? MPs don't want to know • The RegisterSelect Committee reports
Supporters: Don't Get Rid of RGGICONCORD, N.H. - State legislators are considering an exit from a 10-state carbon cap-and-trade program, but its supporters say such a pullout would hurt the environment and the state's economy.
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Supporters say RGGI has provided millions of dollars for projects that have put people to work retrofitting buildings, and will save millions in healthcare costs associated with pollution.
Are humans less healthy at 500 ppm CO2 than at 400 ppm CO2?
Police: Man Who Froze to Death was Living Out of His Car at Palisades Center - Nyack-Piermont, NY PatchFort Lee, NJ, man spent days at mall, nights in parking lot.
NationalJournal.com - Browner's Exit Signals Obama's Move to the Center - Tuesday, January 25, 2011Advocates of climate policy and fossil fuel industry viewed the move as a sign that the White House is a abandoning an aggressive environmental agenda, as Obama seeks to define the second half of his term as more moderate and business-friendly.
“Part of this election was at least a certain segment of the voting public saying, “Mr. President we’re not so sure about your friends. So the night before the State of the Union, when the president is trying to patch it up with some of the American people, the coincidence of saying, “This is one of the friends that I’m going to jettison” – I don’t think anyone could define this kind of announcement … as a quiet breakup,” said a senior House Democratic aide who was closely involved in the energy and climate negotiations. “This is about creating a second chapter. They could have chosen someone who dealt with health care or financial reform as a sacrificial lamb but this is what they chose. This is very much like the second chapter of the Clinton presidency.”
Record-Low Temperatures Grip Eastern CanadaA record-breaking cold snap has gripped east and central Canada with temperatures dipping as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius.
Carol Browner is leaving: does it matter? | GristFor one thing, it probably means the end of a position, "Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change," that was more or less created for Browner. She believes that "the mission of her office will remain critical to the president," according to a White House aide, which is of course quite different from believing her actual office will.
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That would leave Browner stuck where she is, which isn't likely to be any fun for the next two years. Her position was created to shepherd efforts toward a comprehensive climate bill, an enterprise that failed spectacularly. It's hard to know how much blame for that can be laid at Browner's feet, given that the White House never really threw its weight behind the effort and, oh, so many other people and institutions were busy screwing it up, but it's deader than a doorknob.
Another perversion of science: Confirmation bias in the name of global warming dogma is also scientific misconduct « The k2p blogIn essence this paper is only based on belief and the results actually obtained are denied. It seems to me that denying or twisting or “moulding” results actually obtained to fit pre-conceived notions is not just a case of confirmation bias but comes very close to scientific misconduct.
Warmist Fallback Position « Climate Sanity In their minds, forced sacrifices to “save the world” can only have beneficial effects. I was surprised to see the above Joel Pett cartoon at the end of the end of Trenberth’s American Meteorological Society paper. It is not every day that you see a cartoon in a journal article.
Official inquiries into the ‘Climategate’ scandal ‘unsatisfactory’ - TelegraphAndrew Montford, the has written his own report int the Climategate scandal for the Global Warming Policy Foundation, said the questions remain over the missing emails and how the university dealt with requests for information from the public.
Although the UEA has been cleared of scientific wrongdoing he said the missing email could answer questions about the politics of climate change research and the work of the scienitists at CRU.
"The committee suggest that we should all just move on. That may be what suits most politicians, but the public deserve to know the truth. The committee have turned a blind eye to the abundant evidence of wrongdoing at UEA and in the Climategate inquiries,” he said.
The Climate Sceptics (TCS) Blog: Can you believe these people? Amazing Annoucements!I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas J. Watson Snr., IBM Chairman, 1943
Carbon Dioxide is a dangerous pollutant - Barack Obama POTUS 2009
Warming’s Been Good To Me So FarThey say I’m crooked but it’s not on my dime
I’m just hiding the clues at the scene of the crime
Warming’s been good to me so far
My Teraflop
Runs a model and drive
I lost my data
Now I contrive
I have a big lab
Adjust in the back
I delete emails
In case I get hacked
I’m forging new records
The pols can’t wait
They send me money
And tell me I’m great
BBC became propaganda machine for climate change says Peter Sissons | Mail OnlineInstitutionally biased to the Left, politically correct and with a rudderless leadership. This is Peter Sissons’ highly critical view of the BBC in his new memoirs, in which he describes his fascinating career over four decades as a television journalist. Here, in the latest part of our serialisation, he reveals how it was heresy at the BBC to question claims about climate change . . .
Record breaking snowfall in Alberta, Canada results in roof collapse - CNN iReport Here, in this video, David Carlson takes a snow blower to his roof. In some spots the snow was nearly 4 feet deep.
Woman found dead in snow: AP Alaska | adn.comJUNEAU, Alaska - Juneau police say a 22-year-old woman was found dead in the snow along near a Mendenhall Valley road.
Fairtrade coffee producers face challenge of climate change | Business | The GuardianThe Fairtrade Foundation is hoping that new links between British retailers and small farmers can help tackle the impact of climate change on supplies of some of the world's tastiest coffee.
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The organisation wants to act as a broker between retailers, which can buy carbon credits as a way of offsetting their energy use, and small farmers who can create credits to earn money by planting trees or using more environmentally friendly ways to light or heat their homes.
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