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Recent freeze one for history books - Portales News-TribuneThe deep freeze of February, 2011, is definitely one for the books. Young people should write a note in their diaries to embellish the hardships and retell the story to their grandkids 30 or 40 years from now.
“How cold was it grandpa?”
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“It was so cold the Internet stopped flowing for three days in eastern New Mexico.”
Yuma crops hit by freezing temperaturesYUMA - Prices for lettuce and other winter vegetables grown in southwest Arizona will likely rise because of damage caused by freezing weather.
Yuma County's cooperative extension director says most if not all the growing areas in the county were affected by a hard freeze in recent days.
Farmers Watch Harsh Winter Crush Their Livelihoods : NPRFor Northeastern farmers long used to coping with all sorts of cold-weather problems, this winter presents a new one: snow and ice that's bringing down outbuildings, requiring costly repairs, killing livestock and destroying supplies.
Farmers in Connecticut alone have lost at least 136 barns, greenhouses, sheds and other structures as snow measured in feet, not inches, accumulated while January passed without a thaw.
The Associated Press: 35 zoo animals freeze to death in northern MexicoCIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Thirty-five animals at a zoo in the northern Mexico state of Chihuahua have frozen to death during the region's coldest weather in six decades.
Serengeti Zoo owner Alberto Hernandez says 14 parrots, 13 serpents, five iguanas, two crocodiles and a capuchin monkey died. He said Saturday that power failures cut off electrical heating at the zoo in the town of Aldama.
Temperatures have dropped to 9 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 13 Celsius) in the area, the coldest weather in 60 years.
Morano on 'Your World'Climate Depot's Marc Morano explains how ethanol production fueled by global warming hysteria may have contributed to the Egyptian situation:
How Does the IPCC Safeguard Against Bias? « NoFrakkingConsensusIn short, there appears to be an alarming lack of checks and balances regarding the way the IPCC makes what some people view as its most important set of decisions. Which means we now have our answer to the question: How does the IPCC safeguard against bias?
It does not.
GLOBAL WARMING UPDATE: Bizarre Weather, Destroyed Crops, And No More Right Whales [Warmist fund manager Jeremy Grantham] Weather-induced disappointment in crop yield seems to be becoming commonplace. This pattern of weather extremes is exactly what is predicted by the scientific establishment. Snow on Capitol Hill, although cannon fodder for some truly dopey and ill-informed Congressmen, is also perfectly compatible. Weather instability will always be the most immediately obvious side effect of global warming.
Global warming? Not 'end of the world' - The Orange County Register"It's not the end of the world," Patzert said. "It's a warmer world, and it's a melting world. We're adapting to it already. And we'll adapt to it no matter what. But it'll put tremendous demands on water and power."
Patzert started his hour-long talk, complete with detailed graphics, by making no secret of his own political views, or his perception of those of his audience in a meeting room at Orange County Water District headquarters.
"Even though most of you all are Republicans, it's still one of the best-run water district in California," he said.
He said climate change is "the real deal," not "the musings of idiot, leftist scientists and Democrats, like me."
» Judge Halts Implementation of California Cap and Tax - Big GovernmentThanks to Ronald Reagan’s legacy and a legal miscalculation by leftist environmentalists, this week a California judge stopped the implementation of California’s Cap and Trade law: better known as Cap and Tax. This is the same type of carbon trading that Al Gore has hawked for years, but failed to get through the most radical Democrat Congress in generations. That’s how bad it was. Of course, that didn’t stop whacked out California from passing a Draconian version of the same job killing scheme.
National media not thrilled with North Texas weather - Sports - Wire - BradentonHerald.comSuper Bowl organizers believe that a memorable game and the theme-park appeal of JerryWorld will save the day and make more than 5,500 media members forget the freezing rain, sleet, snow, more snow, and zero-degree wind chills that engulfed the region during a less-than-Super week.
Friday's snowstorm, which dumped five inches on Dallas, where the media hotel is located, was the last straw for Peter King of Sports Illustrated, who Tweeted that this year's event is "officially a debacle."
NASA's Johnson Space Center to Remain Closed Friday - Texas/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Due to the continuing cold weather conditions, NASA's Johnson Space Center will remain closed to all non-essential personnel for all of Friday, rather than reopening at noon CST as planned.
Although the site is in good condition, a delay in the arrival of the latest cold front has kept roads icy longer than anticipated, and the commute would likely be unsafe for many employees.
OpEdNews - Article: Global Climate Change: Missing in ActionIn the most recent New York Times/CBS News poll respondents overwhelmingly (43 percent) saw Congress' top priority as Job Creation, followed by Healthcare (18 percent), the Federal budget deficit (14 percent), Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (12 percent), and Illegal Immigration (7 percent), Something else (3 percent), and Unsure (3 percent). There was no mention of Global Climate Change in this and similar polls.
Given the seriousness of the problem it's curious that the American voting public has lost interest in Global Climate Change.
Fury builds over blackouts caused by de-industrialization of America | News-Worthy InformationFury is building over rolling nationwide blackouts triggered by the Obama administration’s deliberate agenda to block the construction of new coal-fired plants, as local energy companies struggle to meet Americans’ power demands amidst some of the coldest weather seen in decades.
- As reported yesterday, four hospitals in Texas reacted furiously after they were hit with planned outages despite being promised they would be spared even as power to Super Bowl venues remains uninterrupted.
Survey of EUEC Attendees Finds More than Half Are Not Measuring Carbon -- Environmental ProtectionEmissions Systems: 58 percent of the professionals surveyed responded that they have no system in place to record carbon emissions; an almost identical figure to the 61 percent of respondents to the 2010 survey who claimed their companies had no emissions recording systems in place.
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Water Emissions: 55 percent of respondents identified water emissions as an equal priority to carbon emissions. Only 15 percent responded that carbon emissions are of greater priority than water emissions.
Blizzard spreads snowy shroud over nearly half USCHICAGO (AP) — A fearsome storm spread a smothering shroud of white over nearly half the nation Wednesday, snarling transportation from Oklahoma to New England, burying parts of the Midwest under 2 feet of snow and laying down dangerously heavy ice in the Northeast that was too much for some buildings to bear.
Tens of millions of people stayed home. The hardy few who ventured out faced howling winds that turned snowflakes into face–stinging needles. Chicago's 20.2 inches of snow was the city's third–largest amount on record. In New York's Central Park, the pathways resembled skating rinks.
For the love of God, stop having babies, says U.N. | GristOne solution: Act more like a Judd Apatow character. Prolonging our adultescence may help reduce fertility to below replacement level (i.e. one birth for each death), as more adult children discover that, by the time they’re ready to move out, they’ve gone through menopause.
Cracks noticed before roof collapse at Apple Valley church - TwinCities.comOfficials were investigating possible causes of the collapse, including heavy snow and ice, said Apple Valley Fire Chief Nealon Thompson. In western Minnesota, snow buildup caused the roof of a hardware store in Glenwood to cave in Tuesday, authorities say. No one was hurt in that incident.
Freeze leaves sea turtles stunned | stunned, friday, turtles - Brownsville HeraldAn estimated 500 cold-stunned sea turtles had been rescued in the lower Laguna Madre area by Friday, a Texas Parks and Wildlife Department official said, as cold temperatures took marine wildlife by surprise this week.
- Bishop Hill blog - The big cutoffFred Pearce is on the receiving end of the full fury of the warmosphere for his article about the Lisbon conference in New Scientist.
Some interesting thoughts on Antarctic peninsula warming | Watts Up With That?Due to the southward shift of the storm track, a high SAM index is associated with anomalously dry conditions over southern South America, New Zealand and Tasmania and wet conditions over much of Australia and South Africa. The stronger westerlies above the Southern Ocean also increase the insulation of the Antarctica. As a result, there is less heat exchange between the tropics and the poles, leading to a cooling of the Antarctica and the surrounding seas. However, the Antarctic Peninsula warms due to a western wind anomaly bringing maritime air onto the Peninsula (Fig. 5.9). Indeed, the ocean surrounding the Antarctic Peninsula is in general warmer than the Peninsula itself and stronger westerly winds mean more heat transport onto the Peninsula. Over the ocean, the stronger westerly winds tend to generate stronger eastward currents. Furthermore, the divergence of the currents at the ocean surface around 60oS is enhanced because of a larger wind-induced Ekman transport. This results in a stronger oceanic upwelling there.
Krauthammer, Thomas spar over global warming as the cause of this year’s extreme winter weather Look, if Godzilla were on the Mall this afternoon, Al Gore would say it’s global warming because the spores in the south Atlantic Ocean were – you know, look everything is, it’s a religion,” Krauthammer said. “In a religion everything is explicable. In science, you can actually deny or falsify a proposition with evidence. You find me a single piece of evidence that Al Gore would ever admit that would contradict global warming and I’ll be surprised.”
85,000 Chickens Killed In Collapse Of Bozrah Coop « CBS Hartford – News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of HartfordHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Connecticut’s agriculture commissioner says the collapse of a chicken coop due to heavy snow has killed 85,000 chickens.
Greyhound passengers stranded in Denver - KWGNDENVER -- They're far from a monster storm terrorizing the Midwest, the east, and even the south. Yet, they have become victims of it in Denver.
Greyhound Bus Service says 110 people got stranded at its downtown Denver terminal, and many of them have been there since Monday.
Sen. Inhofe, environmental groups spar over whether carbon emissions actually pose health risk | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and EntertainmentIn an interview with TheDC, Joe D’Aleo, a meteorologist and executive director of the International Climate and Environmental Change Assessment Project (ICECAP), called the public health argument “nonsense” and “absolutely ludicrous.”
“Since we emit 2.7 pounds of CO2 per person per day from respiration, it is clearly not harmful,” said D’Aleo.
He also pointed out that in classrooms, auditoriums, and especially submarines, carbon dioxide levels are always higher than they are in the open air. “And they don’t die in submarines from carbon dioxide,” said D’Aleo.
“The EPA has admitted that its cap-and-trade agenda won’t have any meaningful impact on climate,” said Matt Dempsey, spokesperson for Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, one of the co-sponsors of the legislation. “One wonders, then: how could stopping something with no impact have any impact on public health?”
“This has nothing to do with public health, and everything to do with saving jobs, protecting consumers, and keeping our manufacturing base here in America,” he added.
Scientific Illiteracy is on the March.In the case of Upton and Inhofe, I am cynically amazed by their willingness to put their heads on the chopping block --- as a cautious but literate scientist I suspect that they have a close to 90% chance of going into the history books as the most ignorant and thoughtless legislators in our history as the data comes in in the next FIVE to twenty years. They do have the courage of their convictions. These convictions apparently come from thin air. And probably polluted air.
Or likely from their fossil fuel burning donors.
If you're still on the fence, read Hansen's "Storms of my Grandchildren" for a cautious prediction.
Halfway to doomsday! | The Daily CallerBelow-freezing temperatures, icy streets, and blinding blizzards have plagued the country for two weeks now. Buried in all that snow is the five year anniversary of the Sundance premiere of Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth.”
It was at Sundance in 2006 that we first heard Gore’s most profitable hypothesis: The world had ten years or less to avert imminent destruction. That same year, Rush Limbaugh began his “Algore (sic) Doomsday Countdown.”
Cancun was disappointing, don`t expect much at Durban: Ramesh New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) Terming the climate change talks at Cancun last year as 'disappointing', Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh Friday said the world should not expect much from the UN climate conference in Durban scheduled later this year.
Fatal I-44 Crash Survivors Treated in Joplin - OzarksFirst.comLieutenant George Brown with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol says that the fatalities were two men and one woman. The cause of death was hypothermia.
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Several of the divers and other rescuers had to be treated for hypothermia and exposure. Six divers were treated for hypothermia and exposure.
Finnish Railways punctuality plummets to record low"Last spring there was frost damage of a completely extraordinary scale that lasted well into the summer," Pertti Saarela, a VR division chief, told the Finnish News Agency
New record low temperature set in Sierra Vista as the mercury dips to 3 degrees | The Sierra Vista HeraldThe official reading from the National Weather Service marked Thursday’s low a tad higher, but at 3 degrees it was still the lowest temperature ever recorded in Sierra Vista. The previous low, according to the weather service, was 7 degrees on Feb. 26, 1912.
The record temperature was the result of a strong low-pressure system moving across the Southwest that by Thursday afternoon had centered itself over New Mexico, according to the weather service.
Gore's Unending Blizzard Of Lies - Investors.comHoaxes: As the nation digs itself out, the grand wizard of global warming comes out of hiding and blames it all on that SUV stuck in your driveway. A blizzard is a terrible thing to waste.
What has been dubbed the Groundhog Day Blizzard has caused Al Gore to poke his head out of his massive carbon-generating mansion in Nashville, Tenn., to blame the 2,000-mile storm on our alleged obsession with fossil fuels.
Sorry, Al, but in Chicago the solar panels were buried under upward of two feet of snow as citizens cranked up those polluting snow blowers, a scene repeated in much of the country. In the middle of blowing snow, blowing smoke does not help. Get our drift?
CapitalClimate: Midwest Groundhog Day Blizzard Update: Wisconsin Records SetThe National Weather Service has reported that several Wisconsin locations observed top-5 snowfall amounts for 24, 48, or 72 hours in the blizzard ending yesterday:
SOUTHERN WISCONSIN WAS RECENTLY BOMBARDED WITH MULTIPLE STORMS THAT
PRODUCED BETWEEN 15 TO 28 INCHES DURING A 72 HOUR PERIOD. MANY SITES
SAW SNOWFALL RECORDS BROKEN DURING THIS PERIOD...FOR 24 HOUR...48
HOUR...AND 72 HOUR INCREMENTS.
State wastes a bundle trying to be ‘green’ - Port Orchard Independent...as part of developing a strategy on climate change, the state hired the Center for Climate Strategies (CCS) to organize Washington’s Climate Advisory Team and analyze the costs and benefits of a wide range of potential strategies.
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For this service, Washington paid $200,000 to CCS.
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What’s more, the proposals developed by the Climate Action Team were never acted upon, and a bill incorporating their ideas never even received a vote in committee.
Washington paid more than other states — and all for nothing.
Russian geography students rescued from drifting ice floe; lots of fossil fuel burnedWith their helicopter grounded by blizzard conditions, the rescuers set off by road, towing a small amphibious boat. Because of poor road conditions, they did not expect to reach the students before midnight. At the same time, the icebreaker Dixon, itself 100km away, set sail course for the students, but found that it could not navigate the shallow waters of the bay for fear of running aground.
Finally, at 9pm, the weather lifted and a Mi-8 naval helicopter left Vaskovo airport.
Global Weirding: [Remember the good old days, before George Bush caused all these temperature swings?]We have all seen examples of global weirding when it comes to weather, with more and more examples of severe weather, ranging from tornadoes to floods to swings in temperature, including the historic snow storms that much of the nation is experiencing this week. Nature's toll is seen on both land and in our oceans.
Reliable forecast under the weather - BostonHerald.comMeet the global weirdos. They’re the ones telling you that all the snow outside is proof that it’s getting warmer. Only, they don’t call it “warming” anymore.
No, that was back in the “Earth has a fever” days. Back when Al Gore was predicting that the ice caps were melting, the polar bears were drowning and Manhattan would sink beneath 20 feet of water “in the near future.”
But then something happened. Since 1998, temperatures have been relatively flat. We’ve got more polar bears than ever, and Manhattan is buried under snow. For a planet-roasting crisis that threatened the human race with extinction, there doesn’t seem to be much actual warming.
So then the mantra became “climate change.”
Ernest Istook: "Green Jobs" Cronyism and CannibalismSimply put, the green jobs agenda spends billions of taxpayer dollars to destroy existing jobs and replace them with jobs in politically-favored businesses, raising the costs of energy along the way.
The politically-connected win. Existing job-holders and companies lose. Home electric bills go up. Power also costs more for companies, making it more expensive to go into business or to stay in business.
It's cronyism that is building a political power structure based on false claims about clean green jobs.
It's cannibalism because creating the green jobs requires killing off existing jobs.
Global Warming Believers Propose Tax on Meat... | Gather“This tax is not at all a matter of forcing people to become vegetarians, but merely moving towards a slightly more climate-smart diet,” says Stefan Wirsenius of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Porky Pearce : StoatBut "the science is settled" has been one of the mantras used almost exclusively by climate denialists as a term of insult for those actually doing science (Pearce is fully aware of all this back story, of course. He isn't using the phrase accidentally or carelessly). It is a feeble attempt at a double bind: is the science settled? ha ha, then you can't be a scientist because real science is never settled. Is the science not settled? Oh great, then we don't need to do anything until it is. The answer, of course, is that we know now (and indeed have for years) enough about the science to know that the world is warming now due to human activity, and will be warming more into the future from more anthro stuff.
They call this a consensus?"Only an insignificant fraction of scientists deny the global warming crisis. The time for debate is over. The science is settled."
So said Al Gore ... in 1992.
Kyoto Report [Robert Watson, newly elected President of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)] was asked in a press briefing about the growing number of climate scientists who challenge the conclusions of the UN that man-induced global warming is real and promises cataclysmic consequences. Watson responded by denigrating all dissenting scientists as pawns of the fossil fuel industry. "The science is settled" he said, and "we're not going to reopen it here."
Report: Flatulent cows a major cause of climate change - Kingsport Times-News OnlineWASHINGTON -- U.S. beef cattle are responsible for 160 million metric tons of global warming emissions every year -- equivalent to the annual emissions from 24 million cars and light trucks. But unlike American drivers, farmers who raise beef on pasture can reduce global warming emissions by storing, or sequestering, carbon in pasture soils, according to a report released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
Mayor Addresses Gas Shortage - Albuquerque News StoryAlbuquerque Mayor Richard Berry is asking residents to turn their thermostats down to help the state curb its current natural gas shortage.
Berry is asking residents to turn their thermostats down 10 degrees and wear heavier clothing to ease the state’s gas problems.
FoxNews.com - Al Gore Explains 'Snowmageddon'“The last 2,000 years is full of incredible weather events that dwarf what we see today,” said Horn. “Nature isn't cooperating with the global warming camp and theory.”
Blackouts Anger Dallas Hospitals « CBS Dallas / Fort WorthDALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – They are the critical care safety nets for North Texas: Parkland, Baylor, Methodist and Presbyterian Dallas. So, during Wednesday’s rolling outages, why was the power cut to these vital hospitals?
Where's Mayor Daley? | NBC ChicagoThe mayor, who has in the past called himself "the most accessible public official you've ever met," has been strangely absent since Mother Nature unleashed her winter fury over Chicagoland.
Video: Koch protests include calls to lynch Clarence Thomas « Hot AirWill the media cover the violence inherent on the Left with the same passion they pursued those non-existent connections between the Tucson shooter and Sarah Palin? Will the Southern Poverty Law Center report on the “Rage on the Left” and label Common Cause a racist hate group?
The Reference Frame: Do the causes of temperature changes matter?There is absolutely no way to honestly introduce double standards here. If one decides to claim that the temperature that happens to deviate from the average of some random era is a bad thing, it must inevitably be true that whoever helped to increase this deviation has done a bad thing. You can't use two different temperatures - the real temperature measured by thermometers and an "adjusted one" from which some "speculative noise" was subtracted - and you can't choose the "more convenient one" depending on what you find more convenient for your claims.
Such an attitude is a flagrant case of dishonesty. However, this is exactly what alarmists - including softcore alarmists - are doing pretty much all the time. The only possible conclusion is that they don't want the policies to depend on the actual temperatures measured by thermometers - or any honest data, for that matter: they want the policies to depend on whatever fabricated data that are good enough to justify the pre-decided policies.
- Bishop Hill blog - Jones in LincsOne interesting snippet from the article is this quote by Jones:
I received a lot of nasty emails from November to March/April last year from people threatening to kill me among other things. I passed them on to Norfolk police who said they didn’t fulfil the criteria for death threats.
I'm slightly bemused by this - a death threat that doesn't meet the police's criteria for death threats./b>
My Way News - Terror, ruin but no deaths in huge Australia stormTULLY, Australia (AP) - First came the terrifying roar, then a violent bang like something had exploded.
The Ten Deadliest Hurricanes World Wide | Epic Disasters 11. October 10 - 12, 1780
The Caribbean
This is another hurricane with historical consequences. The worst hurricane in Atlantic history, it killed more than 20,000 when it slammed into Martinique and the Barbados. It also severely damaged a British fleet in the area, shifting the balance of power to the French. This ultimately led to the defeat of the British fleet in the Battle of the Chesapeake and Washington’s victory at Yorktown.
Many Bumps in Jon Huntsman's Road to a GOP Presidential Nomination - HUMAN EVENTSHerbert also cited his ticket mate's belief in global warming and position on cap and trade as an area in which the two friends differed. In Herbert's words, "I'm not as big on global warming as he is. ... I'm not inclined to develop policy based on unproven science. Let genuine science dictate our course and not ideology."
Al Gore is right about snow and climate change | Cynthia TuckerEven if Americans were more knowledgeable about the science of climate change, they’d have difficulty understanding the connection between a winter of extreme weather and a warming planet. A giant cold front has much of the country locked down under bitter cold and brought Chicago the most snow it has had in its recorded history.
CANOE -- CNEWS - Daily Feature: Al Gore's snow jobAs for Gore, if, as he argues, climate scientists have predicted for decades that global warming would make “snowstorms more severe” and lead to “colder winters,” why was there no mention of this in his “documentary,” An Inconvenient Truth?
It portrayed global warming exclusively as a phenomenon of steadily rising temperatures, expanding deserts, retreating glaciers and deadly heat waves. (Ironically, severe cold has always posed the greater threat to human life.)
ABC The Drum - Adjusting the pitch on climate changeSomething fascinating is happening to the Government's climate change argument.
It's replacing morality with economics.
Inability to read wind of change | The Daily Telegraph For climate-changers like Milne, Cyclone Yasi was a tragedy precisely because it did not live up to its advance billing and failed to deliver the disaster she and others had predicted.
The fear-mongering Greens and the carbon tax hopefuls in the ALP have long been spruiking human responsibility for environmental disasters as the driver of their bizarre climate change policies.
American Thinker Blog: Lisa Jackson's EPA sandboxWell it is safe to say the American electorate has noticed the Obama administration's skullduggery, environmental and otherwise, and the EPA is being put on notice.
The Republicans now pose a threat to Lisa Jackson's EPA sandbox and the dreams of the environmental zealots.
As with ObamaCare repeal, the Republican blowback on CO2 emissions may not make it past the Senate, never mind the President's veto desk, but the stage is being set for 2012.
Tucson sets new record low temperature TUCSON (KGUN9-TV) - People in southern Arizona woke up to bone chilling temps and breezy winds Thursday. A strong cold front brought frigid arctic air to the region yesterday, and the air mass will stick around through today. The low in Tucson hit 18 degrees this morning, breaking the previous record of 21 degrees set in 1910.
Mountain sites across West record new lows Temperature sensors at mountain sites across the Western U.S. and Cache County recorded dozens of new record low temperatures Wednesday morning.
Temperatures were around 20 degrees lower than normal for this time of year on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to Randall Julander, a spokesman at the Utah Natural Resources Conservation Service in Salt Lake City.
The Man With the Snow Job - NYTimes.com Al Gore, on the phone between plane flights Wednesday, of course, pointed to global warming. “Here’s a basic fact,” he said. “There is about 4 percent more water vapor in the atmosphere today than there was in 1970.” That extra water, he said, is because of warmer oceans and warmer air, and is returning to earth as extra-heavy rain and snow.
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We could always blame George W. Bush — that never gets old. But Gore declined to be helpful when it came to fixing blame. “I’m sorely tempted to throw out three or four names, but it wouldn’t be right,” he said, showing a depressing level of prudence for someone who was spending the day trying to get cross-country by airplane.
Dead batteries stall wind turbinePORTSMOUTH — The latest ailment to stop Portsmouth’s wind turbine is one that will sound familiar to most motorists in cold weather.
The batteries are dead.
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The decision was then made to replace the year-and-a-half old batteries. Replacements were found and will be installed this Wednesday and Thursday.
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“It drives me crazy to see it stopped but that’s where we are,” he said.
Mr. Crosby said the turbine has 30 of the 12-volt batteries (each about the size of a motorcycle battery) that are connected in series up in the turbine’s nacelle.
When they arrive they won’t have to be lugged up the vertical ladder to the nacelle.
Global Warmth Gone!Dr. Roy Spencer’s site has posted the UAH MSU temperature for January 2011 and, as we see, the warm temperatures are gone. A La Nina (cool equatorial Pacific water surface temperature) is raging and is linked to playing a role in the storms now hitting Australia and the US.
Let’s recall that just a few short years ago climate “scientists” were claiming that La Ninas were expected to become rare and that the Pacific would find itself more and more in an El Nino mode. Things are turning out differently though. Time to get back to the drawing board for the 7,000th time.
And what’s with global warming causing more preciptiation? The data also suggests the opposite, at least oceanic.
Short Sharp Science: Climate sceptics and scientists attempt peace dealthe leaders of mainstream climate science turned down the gig, including NASA's Gavin Schmidt, who said the science was settled so there was nothing to discuss.
Across the spectrum, participants were mostly united in disagreeing with Schmidt. Climate science, they said, is much less certain than the IPCC mainstreamers say, and peace can be found only if all accept what they dubbed "the uncertainty monster".
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The biggest, most totemic, issue remains the IPCC's adoption of the "hockey stick" narrative, which holds that 20th-century warming is unique over the past millennium. Most in Lisbon saw this as a scandalous example of IPCC editors taking sides in an unresolved debate, and of how "scientific findings were judged according to their political utility".
Equally contentious is the charge - the pet subject of several in Lisbon - that the IPCC is "in denial" about whether ocean oscillations, which can absorb and release heat from the atmosphere but are not well represented in climate models, could explain the global warming of the past 40 years.
Third, most agreed that there was no scientific basis for the world adopting a target to prevent global warming going above 2 °C. It was "arbitrary", they said, and cooked up by climate scientists with a political agenda.
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Public trust in climate science had collapsed and had to be rebuilt through reconciliation, they said. Of course, mainstreamers would claim it is hypocrisy for "sceptics" to lash out at mainstream climate science and then invoke the resulting public confusion to demand a seat at the table. But have they a better idea?
Wonk Room » WaPo Blogger Andrew Freedman Is Very Worried That Climate Scientists Are Mean To DeniersProfessor Scott Mandia, a climate scientist who has organized the Climate Science Rapid Response Team to help journalists like Freedman do a better job, responded succinctly in the comments:
The world is round, smoking is strongly linked to lung cancer, and humans are causing the planet to warm. To insist otherwise is to be in denial. Trenberth is dealing with reality.
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Freedman seems to think that the path to “a more civil dialogue on climate science” lies in a “Reconciliation in the Climate Change Debate” conference, ignoring the fact that the conference is funded by the oil industry and populated by climate deniers like Steve McIntyre and Steve Goddard. In fact, a civil dialogue requires an acceptance of reality by all participants — instead of the toxic propaganda of the pollution-funded climate deniers.
Global warming - what does the NASA/GISS satellite record show?The "slow increase (planetary cooling*) of global upwelling LW flux at TOA from the 1980's to the 1990's, which is found mostly in lower latitudes, is confirmed by the ERBS records." and:
"The overall slow decrease (planetary warming*) of upwelling SW flux from the mid-1980's until the end of the 1990's and subsequent increase from 2000 onwards appear to be caused, primarily, by changes in global cloud cover (although there is a small increase of cloud optical thickness after 2000) and is confirmed by the ERBS measurements."
Winter strikes Phoenix Open, long frost delays expected first 2 days | StarTribune.comThe temperature was in the high 20s early in the morning when the players started arriving and only 35 around 11 a.m. when the pro-am was called off.
"The greens are still frozen," said Slugger White, the PGA Tour's vice president of rules. "The approaches are frozen. And it just would do a tremendous amount of damage if we walked on it, just tracking everything up with the greens being frozen."
Singer Raffi: Only Hope Against 'Climate Disaster' Is Indoctrinating Your Children | NewsBusters.orgIf we’ve learned anything from the Huffington Post, it’s that celebrity’ attempts at political eloquence almost always ends in disaster. A recent op-ed by Canadian singer Raffi was no exception; while God dumped enough snow on America to collapse the Superdome and Floridians tried to make sense of their temperatures dipping into the low 20s for a few weeks, the man had the tone-deaf gall to say we really need to refocus on this global warming thing.
Bay Area hands out $3 million to install home electric car chargers | GristThe Bay Area Air Management District on Wednesday granted $3.9 million to four companies as part of an effort to roll out electric car charging stations in 2,750 homes, as well as 30 fast-chargers along highways. Depending on the electric car, high-voltage fast chargers can "fill up" a battery in as little as 30 minutes.
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While the San Francisco Bay Area is widely expected to be an electric car epicenter, the first mass-market battery-powered sedans -- the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf -- have been slow to hit local roads so far. I've spotted one Volt on the streets of Berkeley, but have yet to see a Leaf in this city, where one out of every five cars sold over the past four years has been a Toyota Prius hybrid.
CBS 'Early Show' Blames Winter Storms on Global Warming | NewsBusters.orgSpeaking to physicist Michio Kaku on Wednesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Chris Wragge fretted over the recent series of severe winter storms and wondered: "...nine storms in seven weeks, why is this happening?...a lot of people want to talk about global warming and thinking that that may actually come into play here. Is that accurate? Is that having an effect on what's going on?"
Dr. Kaku agreed with the suggestion: "Yes..."
EPA chief slams bills to block climate rules, affirms Obama's veto threat - The Hill's E2-WireJackson defended the agency’s initiatives to regulate emissions from power plants and other facilities.
“Those [bills] would halt EPA’s common-sense steps under the Clean Air Act to protect Americans from harmful air pollution that until now has not been regulated at all from any sources in this country,” Jackson told reporters after testifying at a Senate hearing on drinking-water safety.
Algore: Cold is Global Warming[Rush Limbaugh] But you see Algore is not a scientist; he is a propagandist. He has a considerable financial stake in the success of his own propaganda, and that's what this is about. I hate to say it, but this is about Algore enriching himself on a hoax, propaganda. So you can't expect him to bother too much about inconvenient details. While he wants to tell us that scientists were warning us 20 years ago that the snows are gonna get even worse like we have never seen before, ten years ago the experts at Hadley were telling us snow would become so rare that it would be something children will not even recognize. They wouldn't even know what it is. March of 2000.
Snow-laden roofs collapsing across the region - BostonHerald.comReports of roof collapses are coming in from around the region.
In Wilmington, a roof collapsed at Markham Medals’ building at 235 Andover St. at 7:45 a.m., Fire Chief Ed Bradbury said. No injuries were reported. A roof also collapsed at 230 Crescent St. in Chelsea.
Leominster firefighters have responded to three collapses so far today.
Global warming questions delay Yolo's climate plan - Daily Democrat OnlineGordon continued by saying farmers have worked to reduce carbon emissions through more efficient machinery and less use of fertilizer.
He said the global warming issue might not last much longer and officials shouldn't give in to the "hysteria." Gordon ended his comments by quoting Thomas Jefferson and said if Jefferson were alive today, he would urge the board to vote against the climate plan.
Global warming is a cyclic process: Guinness record holder Chandigarh, Feb 2 (IANS) He has drilled the highest tubewell in the world and holds a Guinness record for the feat. He spends most of his time looking for precious water resources in the high Himalayas. And now geologist-entrepreneur Ritesh Arya wants to demolish the 'myth' that global warming is a consequence of human activities and says its a '100 percent natural cyclic process'.
'Global warming is a natural process and man and his activities have no role in enhancing or reducing the cyclic process,' Arya says.
Nearly 100 ‘Climate Education Programs’ funded by NASA, NOAA, NSF & EPA « ClimateQuotes.comFour Federal agencies are funding at least 95 'Climate education programs'. These programs are specifically designed to influence students, teachers, and the public in general about climate change. Based on their summaries (which I will share) these programs are not intended to present information and let the public decide for themselves. Instead, they are designed for two goals. One, to influence the public to accept and take action on climate change. Two, to increase the future workforce involved in climate change fields. I will take each agency in turn, look at their stated goals, then look through some of the programs they have funded.
To be very clear, these programs do not further climate research. They are not studying the atmosphere or oceans. They are not studying clouds or albedo. We know nothing more about the state of our climate from these programs. Their sole purpose is education.
Winterkill claims some US wheat, more damage to come"Snow is covering about a third of the Plains wheat belt, which of course leaves the western two thirds of the belt exposed," said Donald Keeney of US meteorologist MDA Federal. "Temperatures are well below 0 degrees Fahrenheit this morning, ranging from -3 in Amarillo, Texas, to -15 in Sydney, Nebraska. I'm estimating about two thirds of the Plains wheat belt is seeing significant winterkill from this event."
17 below: Boulder breaks record, today's high to stay in single digits - Boulder Daily CameraThe temperature in Boulder at 6 a.m. was 17 below zero, which broke the record low for the city of minus 16, set in 1996, according to local meteorologist Matt Kelsch.
NWS: Most intense cold wave since 1989 for Dallas-Fort Worth - Dallas Weather | Examiner.comA record low is a near certainty tonight across the Metroplex, according to National Weather Service (NWS) records for DFW.
The existing record for February 3rd is 14 degrees set in 1996. Lows for Feb 3, 2011 are expected to range 3 to 8 degrees (!) over the northern and western portions of the Metroplex to 7-11 degrees at the airport.
If it reaches 8 degrees, this will tie the coldest temperature since 1996 for DFW, also recorded in February.
Sen. Boxer says climate science hearings are 'absolutely' in the works - The Hill's E2-WireSenate Environment and Public Works Committee Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) is issuing a challenge to skeptics of climate change science: Bring it on.
Boxer said Wednesday that she's expecting hearings on the issue.
'Snowfas' and Sustainability - NYTimes.comI’m in Tempe, Ariz., today, where the fountains are frozen, having (barely) escaped the Groundhog Day blizzard that just swept much of the country. I won’t be able to join my friend and Pace University colleague John Cronin on the “snowfa” carved on Main Street in Beacon, N.Y., until the weekend
What They Said About the Climate Models « NoFrakkingConsensusSo how exactly did we arrive at our present situation? Governments around the world are now convinced CO2 emissions are dangerous and that drastic steps must be taken to curtail these emissions. And where did they get this idea? From computer models that even IPCC insiders say are uncertain, unreliable, and unvalidated.
Capital Weather Gang - Cooling off the heated climate change rhetoric ...Trenberth does indeed show a slide entitled "The Deniers" during his wide-ranging talk, which touches upon the changing nature of extreme weather and climate events in a warming climate.
Defending his use of a term that many climate change skeptics say they find offensive due to its association with those who deny the Holocaust, Trenberth defiantly tells the audience: "My reaction to some of them is, 'well, if the shoe fits, wear it.'"
Climategate hurts eco-group donations - Los Angeles Ecopolitics | Examiner.comElite nonprofit eco-group donations are down about 14% since last year’s “climategate” exposures of exaggerations, if not fraud, in U.N. researcher reporting on global warming. These eco-groups are the vanguard of the “green lobby” that operates among more than 4,000 taxpayer-subsidized organizations that agitate and litigate for costly environmental regulations at local, state and federal governments -- both here and abroad.
Devastating freeze for the Valley as historic cold weather system moves in | Phoenix NewsLows in the high country will hover around zero, but with the wind chill, it will feel much colder, closer to 30 below. There’s actually a wind chill warning for Flagstaff and the rim country. Here in the Valley, there is a freeze warning. The forecast low in town is 30 degrees, but outlying areas could get down to 20.
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This is some of the coldest weather we’ve seen in Phoenix in years. Temperatures could approach those of 2007's killing freeze -- when Sky Harbor got down to 29 degrees -- but with the wind, it could feel even colder.
Stefan Rahmstorf: Greenland Could Melt With Another 0.4°C Of WarmingSo as TAZ reports it, Rahmstorf is claiming that Greenland could melt with just another 0.4°C of warming. TAZ mentions “still unpublished research”. Perhaps this is new research from Rahmstorf that’s designed to salvage his already discredited claims of 1.8 metres of sea level rise by 2100. Does that mean we should expect another piece of panic science from Rahmstorf to appear in an upcoming Nature issue.
Global warming skepticism reaches White House (OneNewsNow.com)A prominent global warming doubter believes the growing skepticism about climate change has forced President Obama to be silent about the issue.
Climate Depot Executive Editor Marc Morano believes the real climate change is taking place in the oval office, especially considering the fact that the president failed to mention the issue in last week's State of the Union address.
"There was an analysis out of a U.K. paper saying that he has mentioned global warming [or] climate change the least of any president in 20 years," Morano notes. "In other words, the first Bush, Bill Clinton and the second Bush have all mentioned global warming and climate change more than Obama has in his speeches."
Snow-buried Niigata asks for troops | The Japan Times OnlineNIIGATA (Kyodo) Niigata Gov. Hirohiko Izumida on Wednesday asked the Ground Self-Defense Force to dispatch troops to a city buried in snow, saying the danger of avalanches is increasing as temperatures rise.
The GSDF is expected to dispatch a team from Camp Takada in the city of Joetsu to the city of Uonuma, both in Niigata Prefecture, where more than 4 meters of snow have accumulated.
Antelope near Glasgow starving during harsh winterAcross northeastern Montana, continuous snow and cold have left antelope weakened and dying. Whitetail deer swarm haystacks like flies on rotting meat. Carcasses of dead antelope and deer litter the hillsides and valleys. Only the golden and bald eagles, magpies and crows are getting fat as they scavenge the animal corpses.
"It's difficult out there, and they've been doing it since November," Johnson said.
Bad winters are common across the rolling prairie of northeastern Montana, only miles from the Canadian border. But this winter has been even harsher than normal, with snow coming earlier and heavier. And the cold? Tuesday morning's low was 40 below zero.
"We're well on the way to having a record-breaking winter," said Mark Sullivan, FWP's Glasgow-region wildlife manager. "It's tough on wildlife, no doubt."
Upton, Inhofe to float plan Wednesday that blocks EPA climate rules - The Hill's E2-WireHouse Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) will unveil draft legislation Wednesday that would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, a GOP aide on the House panel said.
Desperate Markets: Carbon TradingThe European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is an absolute, shameful and thoroughly predictable disgrace.
Climate Scientists Seek Invite from Congress | Mother JonesA group of scientists, seeking to cut off assaults on climate science at the pass, sent a letter to every member of the House and Senate urging them to take a "fresh look" at climate change and volunteering to appear at hearings on the subject.
CapitalClimate: New February Daily Snowfall Record at Oklahoma CityThe National Weather Service reports that the major storm sweeping through the Midwest has set an all-time daily snowfall record for February at Oklahoma City:
PRELIMINARY REPORTS INDICATE THAT 11.8 INCHES OF SNOWFALL HAS BEEN
MEASURED TODAY AT WILL ROGERS WORLD AIRPORT IN OKLAHOMA CITY. THIS
IS A NEW RECORD DAILY SNOWFALL...BREAKING THE OLD RECORD OF 5.5
INCHES WHICH WAS SET ON THIS DATE IN 1913.
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