Lawrence Solomon: Don’t count on constant electricity under renewable energy, says UK electricity CEO | FP Comment | Financial Post

Wind power will require lifestyle change
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Holliday has for several years been predicting that blackouts could become a feature of power systems that replace reliable coal plants with wind turbines in order to meet greenhouse gas targets. Wind-based power systems are necessary to meet the government’s targets, he has explained, but they will require lifestyle changes.

Under the so-called “smart grid” that the UK is developing, the government-regulated utility will be able to decide when and where power should be delivered, to ensure that it meets the highest social purpose. Governments may, for example, decide that the needs of key industries take precedence over others, or that the needs of industry trump that of residential consumers. Governments would also be able to price power prohibitively if it is used for non-essential purposes.

The reverse of UN’s disastrous “oil for food” program: Ethanol uses 40% of US Corn Crop | Watts Up With That?

The simple solution: stop burning food for fuel, drill for more oil, work on alternate energy system that actually might work, like thorium based nuclear power.

An Earth Hour with Miranda would be hot, hot, hot | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

A question to WWF: If we all emitted as Kerr emits, and not as she preaches, would our total emissions soar or fall?

In light of that answer, were you fools or frauds to make her your Earth Hour Ambassador?

Precious quote from warmist psychologist Doug Craig: "there is no scientific evidence that there is a 'natural cause' for climate change"

Redding.com: Blogs: Doug Craig's blog

What I find fascinating about all this is that they are willing to accept that the climate is changing as long as they don't have to admit that humans are responsible. And even though there is no scientific evidence that there is a "natural cause" for climate change, like a hotter Sun, they persist in their belief. As a psychologist who makes a living trying to figure out how and why people think the way they do, this is extremely interesting.

Redding.com: Blogs: Doug Craig's blog

Obtained a B.A. in Journalism and a Doctorate in Psychology. Employed as a clinical psychologist in private practice in Redding for 22 years.

Next on the Climate Change Extinction List - Red Wine

Clarets may soon become a thing of the past, as they have joined polar bears, glaciers and icebergs on scientists' extinction risk list because of global warming.

Newspaper: German tax scam may have netted 1 billion dollars - Monsters and Critics

Munich - A massive tax scam uncovered in Germany a year ago may have netted 1 billion dollars for the brains behind it, a German newspaper reported Saturday, quoting investigators.

In a so-called carousel scheme, more than 150 executives and entrepreneurs are suspected of shunting carbon-emission certificates back and forth across borders so as to avoid value-added tax.

Young Sharm digs worms, abhors global warming - Times LIVE

An environmentally conscious eight-year-old boy has started his own worm farm to do his bit to save the world from global warming.

5 environmental revelations from WikiLeaks | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Obama leaned on the Saudis to get behind the Copenhagen Accord
In a clear sign of the schizophrenic nature of world diplomacy, just as the Obama administration was colluding with China to dodge binding restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions, it was pressuring the Saudis to agree to the non-binding Copenhagen Accord.

The Saudis weren't excited about the idea of signing the accord but were afraid that they would miss "a real opportunity to submit 'something clever,' like India or China, that was not legally binding but indicated some goodwill towards the process without compromising key economic interests."

UK Minister Cites Oil Crisis To Push Climate Scam - David Icke Website

In Thursday's keynote speech on the impact of the oil crisis, Huhne argued that an $100 (£61) a barrel price for oil transforms the economics of climate change in Britain.'

The Migrant Mind: You wee people don't really need electricity

One of the more idiotic things to come out of the global warming delusion is the idea that we must get off of fossil fuels in order to save the planet. This has led the politicians to endorse all sorts of energetic nonsense (politicians are not known for having taken lots of physics courses in college). The politicians have endorsed and subsidized wind and solar, even though the amount of subsidy was huge and the return in energy tiny (politicians are not known for their business acumen either). This lunacy in both business and physics traverses the political landscape.
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Right at the end of that interview, Stephen Holliday says rather matter of factly, that the British households will simply have to get used to a 3rd world kind of energy supply. Electricity simply won't be consistently available to cook the evening meal or heat the home. Tough luck if it gets cold. Here is the quote.

Car-pooling scheme a 'farce' Tasmania News - The Mercury - The Voice of Tasmania

A STATE Government initiative to get public servants to car pool has generated only one trip every three days at a cost to taxpayers of $426 per trip.

For the same amount of money, the Government could have paid for a public servant to travel on the bus from Kingston to the city 115 times.

"Dr" Roy Spencer is sad and lonely and wrong : Stoat

Poor Roy. He has backed himself so far into a corner that he no longer has anyone competent to discuss his ideas with, with the result that he publishes (in a book, because no-one would publish it in a journal) utter twaddle. It is really very difficult to do science all by yourself, and Spencer is certainly failing.

Climate Change Dispatch - Apology to Dr. Andrew Weaver

CCD Editor's Note: Dr. Ball asked me to publish this letter. Here it is in it's entirety:

My article entitled “Corruption of Climate Change Has Created 30 Lost Years” contained untrue statements about Dr. Andrew Weaver, who is a professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. The article has since been withdrawn from the Internet website of Canada Free Press, where it was originally published in January 2011.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Smart grids not so smart

Power companies around the world are planning to spend trillions of dollars building smart grids — next-generation marvels likened to the transcontinental railroad and the Internet because they are seen as revolutionizing society.
It won’t happen. The smart grid is nothing more than a politically driven fantasy that has no economic rationale other than to support politically favoured technologies that themselves have no economic rationale other than to save the world from global warming. And on global warming the public in most developed countries, public opinion polls show, has already spoken: Global warming is a non-problem.

Global Warming Thaw - Reason Magazine

http://reason.com/archives/2011/03/04/global-warming-thaw

But is climate change a bigger priority than poverty? The film crew visits a Nairobi slum school and a posh British private school. The kids are asked to draw their futures. The Kenyan kids draw houses with electric lights, a television, and a car. That's not going to happen if fossil fuels cost a lot more. Meanwhile, a British girl sketches houses drowned by higher sea levels, an ozone hole, and dead penguins. A boy declares that the world is going to become 100 times warmer than it is now.

Giant Kites Help Shipping Company Cut Carbon

http://www.care2.com/causes/global-warming/blog/giant-kites-help-shipping-company-cut-carbon/

According to a United Nations study, up to 100 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) could be saved every year by the broad application of the SkySails' technology on the world merchant fleet. This figure would equate to 11 percent of the CO₂ emissions of Germany.

No Glory (Satellite) in Space - NYTimes.com

The loss of the Glory satellite early this morning is another setback for efforts to fill substantial gaps in the understanding of some important aspects of the climate system.

Combet admits to the great carbon tax con | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Christine Milne is perfectly right - if you really believe man-made gases are destroying the planet, then you must of course end coal mining. Which means the Gillard Government lacks the courage of its own (claimed) convictions

Skeptic's Corner: And the downside is...?

Yes just imagine. All those countless square miles of barren tundra overrun with vast invasive green forests filled with creatures bent on...uh...life.

Will planet Earth tolerate such an affront to it's territorial rights?

Chills, drills, spills and thrills | Catlin Arctic Survey

Their mission is to collect data for the third Catlin Arctic Survey – a scientific research programme into the impacts of climate and environmental change in the Arctic.

Catlin Arctic Survey Director Pen Hadow knows firsthand what the group will experience, having led the first Catlin Arctic Survey in 2009. “During the first month explorers, scientists and operations staff will work in the coldest conditions. Temperatures are likely to dip as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius which, with the wind chill factor, could plummet to minus 75 degrees Celsius. The team have all the gear, equipment and training they need, but it will still take time to establish new daily routines in such inhospitable conditions.”

“It’s very difficult getting used to working in the extreme cold. You’re trying to do quite exacting science while wearing anything up to four layers of gloves. It takes time to learn how to avoid the worst of the cold without overheating in too much clothing. That’s an Arctic challenge in its itself.”

Era of constant electricity at home is ending, says power chief | Watts Up With That?

I guess having electricity when you need it is sooooo last century … UK families will have to get used to “only using power when it was available”. That constant electricity at home was dangerous anyhow, the unending hum of the wires can drive a man so insane that the only way to cure him is to make him head of the National Grid …

JammieWearingFool: Aww: Climate Camp Disbands

Really? Five days to get it together to realize your sad, motley, rag-tag bunch just might have to get on with your lives now that this climate scam has rendered you all pointless?
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A wave of political energy so all-consuming they can no longer find enough people to camp out near power stations. Something tells me they're running out of useful idiots to underwrite their particular brand of idiocy.

Clive James on the day it rained all over the alarmists’ parade | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

A lovely essay by Clive James on the mass-forgetting in these warmist times of our past and of our poetry - in particular, of Dorothea Mackellar’s lines about this land of “droughts and flooding rains”.

The WWF Vice President & the New IPCC Report « NoFrakkingConsensus

To me, this suggests that activist scientists are far from rare. It appears that activism has become the new normal.

- Bishop Hill blog - Breaking the ice

The Gulf of Finland is in danger of grinding to a halt from a lack of ice-breaking capacity.

Die Klimazwiebel: Carnival for skeptics

The mixing of 10% biofuel E 10 in gasoline turns out to be a failure: the oil industry is forced by law to sell it, Germans don't buy it, gas stations are in trouble.
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In today's news, it is portrayed everywhere as another weird and unnecessary climate protection measure; faznet calls it a result of the German "Klimaallergie" ("climate allergy"); even the taz tries to find out the culprit (chancellor Merkel?). Thus, it turns out to be another highly unpopular and questionable climate protection measure (after the introduction of the energy saving light bulbs).

American Thinker: The Global Warming Health Scare

The American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Public Health Association (APHA) have declared Global Warming a serious public health threat. You may resume reading after your laughter subsides.

New Earth-Moving UN Study Says Half Of Arctic Warming Caused By Soot (And Not CO2)!

CO2 being the primary cause of global warming is disappearing – fast.

GLOOMIEST WINTER EVER...AND SPRING WON’T ARRIVE UNTIL APRIL by Nathan Rao | Climate Realists

SPRING was put on hold yesterday as Britain began to emerge from the gloomiest winter on record.

Forecasters warned March would be colder than normal, with the risk of frost until the beginning of April.

The greening of the North: climate change shrinking tundra, says study

"Imagine the vast, empty tundra in Alaska and Canada giving way to trees, shrubs and plants typical of more southerly climates," says a summary of the study published by scientists from the University of Nebraska, the Korean Polar Research Institute and Seoul National University. "Imagine similar changes in large parts of Eastern Europe, northern Asia and Scandinavia, as needle-leaf and broadleaf forests push northward into areas once unable to support them."
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"Increasing growth of trees may encroach on the habitat for many birds, reindeer and other locally beneficial species . . . thus adversely affecting local residents," she said.

Earth Hour's angelic ambassador announced - Environment - The Independent

Australian model and Victoria's Secret Angel Miranda Kerr is supporting the fight against climate change by becoming the global ambassador for Earth Hour, WWF revealed on Friday.
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The 27-year-old Kerr has previously undertaken charitable work for Wildlife Warriors International. In a statement released by WWF regarding Earth Hour, she said, "Each of us has a responsibility for the sustainability of our planet and each of us can make a difference if we choose to do so."

Flashback: Life is Good for Miranda Kerr Who Can Fly Private to Sydney || Jaunted

Miranda (who was not wearing an engagement ring despite rumors she is engaged to Orlando Bloom) arrived in Australia via private plane yesterday. It’s not surprising she can afford to board her own personal jet considering Forbes ranked her 8th on its list of the world’s top-earning models.

The last time Kerr and Bloom were in Sydney, they stayed at the posh Park Hyatt.

Weigel : A Jim Inhofe Victory Lap

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/03/03/a-jim-inhofe-victory-lap.aspx

"In addition to a Democratic president and a strong Democratic majority, a number of corporations provided colossal amounts of money and lobbying muscle to push cap and tax," said Ebell. "It became a classic example of the Ralph Nader view of the world -- big corporations versus the people." But: "I want to point out the obvious: They lost and we won. The forces of darkness have been driven from the field. We must not go forth and defeat the regulatory onslaught coming from the other end of Pennsylvania Ave... or, as someone more cleverly remarked to me, we must now go after the Death Star."

EPA administrator applauds Fox News for becoming carbon-neutral - The Hill's E2-Wire

To make her point, Jackson laid out News Corp.'s efforts to reduce its carbon footprint in detail.

The company is “carbon neutral across their global operations and their projects pay for themselves in less than two years on average, and there are lighting retrofits and PC shutdowns, systemic changes like moving to video conferencing and carbon footprinting,” Jackson said.

Volt battery developer says temperature a problem for all batteries | INFORUM | Fargo, ND

CHICAGO — It's a tough week to be the guy who led development of the Chevy Volt's battery. Consumer Reports on Monday said its tests showed the battery's range at a paltry 23 to 28 miles in cold weather, far below the 40 miles originally promised.
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But Bill Wallace, director of global battery systems for General Motors Corp., didn't flinch.

“It turns out batteries are like people: They love room temperature,” Wallace said Thursday at an energy forum at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

California Moving Ahead With Cap-And-Trade Program - WSJ.com

California is moving ahead with its cap-and-trade program and larger plan to combat climate change, despite a pullback on the issue by federal lawmakers and other states, California's top environmental regulator said Friday.

"I predict that in January 2012 we will be starting a program and that we'll have at least one other trading partner with whom we'll be fully linked before we start the program," state Air Resources Board Chair Mary Nichols said at a conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., hosted by The Wall Street Journal.

CTV News | A former rock star of the ad world explains why he doesn’t watch commercials

Fast Company put Mr. Bogusky on the cover and called him “the Steve Jobs of the ad world.” The trade magazine AdWeek crowned him its “creative director of the decade.”
...(In fact, last month he took an even more concrete step back into that world, signing on as the creative director and chief marketing officer with Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection. He says the job now takes up about half of his time.)

Were Republicans Smart All Along? They Accept Climate Change But Not Global Warming

http://www.science20.com/science_20/were_republicans_smart_all_along_they_accept_climate_change_not_global_warming-76897

Greenpeace Co-Founder Slams Species Extinction Scare Study as proof of how 'peer-review process has become corrupted' – Study 'greatly underestimate the rate new species can evolve' | Climate Depot

Greenpeace Co-Founder and ecologist Dr. Patrick Moore, slammed a new study claiming a dramatic and irreversible mass species extinction. “This [journal Nature] article should never have made it through the peer-review process,” Moore told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “The fact that the study did make it through peer-review indicates that the peer review process has become corrupted,” Moore, the author of the new book "Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout,” added.

The Answer Sheet - The fight over teaching evolution, climate change

Science is not determined by a popular vote...The theories of evolution and global warming have both endured rigorous scrutiny - and the scientific consensus is clear.

Dale Earnhardt, Jr., on Chevy Volt: ‘The Technology Isn’t There Yet’ | CNSnews.com

(CNSNews.com) – NASCAR racer Dale Earnhardt Jr. said that Chevrolet’s “Volt,” a hybrid electric car, is a “good product” but the “technology isn’t there yet really to provide the consumer with something that can go a little further [in mileage] than that and do a little bit better job with that.”

Twitter / C4

Al Gore's giving the commencement address at my alma mater, @hamiltoncollege. Need to borrow someone's ManBearPig costume...

Why the BBC's 'impartial' stance on climate science is irresponsible | Bob Ward | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Sceptics too often go unchallenged when they make inaccurate and misleading statements on BBC programmes

No consensus at climate talks

TOKYO — Climate negotiators from 26 countries and international organizations remained divided after a two-day informal meeting in Tokyo through Friday over the expected outcome of the next U.N. climate conference later this year in South Africa, a Japanese official said.

Justin Bieber's 'Never Say Never' Is Third-Highest-Grossing Documentary Of All Time - MTV Movie News| MTV

In his run to the top, Bieber has leaped over such lauded and popular docs as "Super Size Me," Madonna's "Truth or Dare," Moore's "Bowling for Columbine," former Vice President Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" and the nature flick "Earth."

Global warming science changes, to some scientists’ chagrin | Kyle Wingfield

The importance of Serreze’s statement about a “constantly evolving field” in which scientists “are always learning,” Taylor argues, is not its essential truth — but that so many other scientists have tried for so long to, ahem, deny it

The Murdoch Empire Is Now Carbon Neutral - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Over to you MSDNC and CNN. Let’s see if you can step up like your enemy, Rupert

Swinford man died of hypothermia in big freeze

Lessons will have to be learned from the deaths that occurred in Mayo during the Arctic spell of weather last winter when temperatures fell as low as minus 17 degrees Celsius. 'Wrap up' was the message from the coroner for east Mayo, Mr. Pat O'Connor, at an inquest in Swinford into the death of a local man who died during the cold spell last December.

Liberty County farm cook dies of hypothermia in unheated tool shed :: The Republic

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Liberty County officials say a 43-year-old farm cook died of hypothermia after the car he was driving got stuck in the snow and he sought shelter in an unheated tool shed.

Minn. Rep. Collin Peterson’s crusade against climate policy rages on | Grist

The sad saga of climate legislation under Obama -- its harrowing ride through Congress and final collapse -- features many villains. For me, the most maddening isn't some Tea Party ideologue railing against the "climate conspiracy." Rather, it's a powerful Democrat named Collin Peterson, rep from Minnesota, the House's ranking Agriculture Committee member, and the man I once deemed the corn jihadi.

Peterson's opposition to climate policy doesn't stem from any insane denialist creed. Indeed, he once even welcomed global warming -- on the theory that it would help "my farmers ... grow more corn."

Global Warming Hysteria: Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog

But if alarmists want to learn the real reasons for their loss of credibility, they should look in the mirror. They say one thing one day, and when that doesn’t work out, they turn on a dime. That, people do understand.

Why it's hard to change a climate denier's mind : Class M

http://scienceblogs.com/classm/2011/03/why_its_hard_to_change_a_clima.php

Four years after Al Gore unleashed his army of slide show presenters on the planet in an attempt to spread the word that climate is something we should be worried about, the polls show public opinion has budged hardly at all. If anything, opposition to climate-change mitigation strategies has only hardened. Why?

GISS : Winters Are Getting Much Colder

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/giss-winters-are-getting-much-colder

We have been subjected recently to massive doses of propaganda correlating record snow with alleged warming, but GISS shows winter temperatures plummeting in North America, Europe and Asia. http://data.giss.nasa.gov/ Are these climate experts ignorant about the climate, or are they dishonest? 

Peer-Reviewed Study Finds That CO2-Induced Warming Causes Atmosphere To Hold Less Water Vapor

http://www.c3headlines.com/2011/03/peer-reviewed-study-finds-that-co2-induced-warming-causes-atmosphere-to-hold-less-water-vapor.html

Another Climate Fail for NASA

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/261318/another-climate-fail-nasa-greg-pollowitz

Maybe we should study the environmental impact of NASA's continued littering of the world's oceans with mutli-million-dollar satellites.

EU’s Hedegaard Says Climate Change Fueled Middle East Revolts - Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-04/eu-s-hedegaard-says-climate-change-fueled-middle-east-revolts.html

European Union Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaardsaid extreme weather conditions linked to climate changewere a factor in the unrest unfolding the Middle East and North Africa.

German Ethanol Requirement Turns Into A Debacle

http://notrickszone.com/2011/03/04/german-ethanol-requirement-turns-into-a-debacle/

Biofuel in Germany flops

The media today in Germany are filled with the news of the ethanol debacle.

The Warmist's Dilemma

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/03/the_warmists_dilemma.html

Even if the warmists were correct in their doomsaying, their proposed course of action makes no sense.

Bubble blowers will be verifying climate models

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LuboMotlsReferenceFrame/~3/ykbPMhzYCbs/bubble-blowers-will-be-verifying.html

You must agree that it's an ingenious technological idea that proves that those $30 billion paid to the climate science in the recent years were not wasted. The capitalists in the commercial sector could only construct things like iPad 2 but they could never think of a sophisticated monitoring system based on volunteers who blow bubbles and watch contrails and clouds in their mirror while putting makeup on their faces. Government-funded science is clearly necessary for the highest-quality technological advances.

Thing Of The Past : Winter 2010-2011 Was The Third Snowiest On Record In The Northern Hemisphere

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/winter-2010-2011-was-the-third-snowiest-on-record-in-th-northern-hemisphere/

Three of the four snowiest Northern Hemisphere winters since 1967 have been in the last four years. Four of the five snowiest winters have been since CRU experts told us that children won't know what snow is

£100m: the staggering cost of Britain's worst winter - 3/4/2011 - Farmers Weekly

http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2011/03/04/125776/163100m-the-staggering-cost-of-Britain39s-worst.htm

"Coupled with the very cold spell in January 2010, December's icy blast has made 2010 the worst year in our 100-year history for cold weather claims," said John Kenny, the company's chief claims manager.

More Stupid Liberal Stories: EPA Administrator Proposes CO2 Regulations But Ignorant of Actual CO2 Level

http://www.c3headlines.com/2011/03/more-stupid-liberal-stories-epa-administrator-proposes-co2-regulations-but-ignorant-of-actual-co2-le.html

Actually, it really is hard to believe that a highly compensated, environmental bureaucrat, speaking of the need to regulate CO2 emissions before Congress, is totally clueless of the real-world atmospheric CO2 level. But it's true

Weather Channel and Weather.com: the survey says…..

http://icecap.us/index.php/go/political-climate/weather_channel_and_weathercom_so_sad_how_far_they_have_fallen1/

I would have answered yes to both questions. Sure we have warmed since the Little Ice Age and man plays a role in changing climate locally through land use and urbanization. The survey was a joke. The Weather channel blog using it to support their advocacy more proof how low the old network and weather.com has fallen. 

The New Hampshire House Ignores Science

http://blog.algore.com/2011/03/the_new_hampshire_house_ignore.html

Members of the legislative chamber made a number of statements that were especially disturbing: [Source: CAP] Deputy Majority Leader Shawn Jasper (R-Hudson) explained his vote: "Neither man nor cow is responsible for global warming." Rep. James Garrity (R-Atkinson), chairman of the House's Science Technology and Energy Committee, claimed that RGGI relies on "shaky climate science." Rep. Frank Holden (R-Lyndeboro), vice chairman of the House's Science, Technology and Energy Committee, wrote in the majority committee report that the "science of climate change is far from clear." Rep. Andrew Manuse (R-Derry): "The reasons used to promote RGGI were based in false, exaggerated and highly politicized science."

GM sells just 281 Chevy Volts in February, Nissan only moves 67 Leafs - Autoblog Green

http://i.green.autoblog.com/2011/03/01/gm-sells-281-chevy-volts-february-nissan-67-leafs/

'Darth Vader PR' blamed for climate change doubts

http://m.kamloopsnews.ca/a.jsp?aid=25436611&url=%2farticle%2f20110303%2fKAMLOOPS0101%2f110309892%2f-1%2fkamloops01%2fdarth-vader-pr-blamed-for-climate-change-doubts

Bill McKibben: Tim DeChristopher: Taking a Leap and Pointing the Way

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckibben/tim-dechristopher-taking_b_831163.html

If you're outraged by what happened to Tim, and if you're inspired, make sure to follow the group he's helped found,Peaceful Uprising. And if you're thinking about laying it on the line, give us your name at ClimateDirectAction.org.

If the feds think this prosecution/persecution will deter us from working for a livable planet, they couldn't be more wrong. Tim was brave and alone. We will be brave in quantity.

4 Dems Join GOP Fight To Block EPA Climate Rules

http://www.npr.org/templates/text/s.php?sId=134228157&m=1

Rep. Nick Rahall of West Virginia, Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota, Rep. Dan Boren of Oklahoma and Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia will sponsor a bill supported by 43 Senate and seven House Republicans that would bar the EPA from using federal law to control greenhouse gases from power plants, refineries and other industrial facilities.

Sask.'s CO2 pipeline plan dead - Saskatchewan - CBC News

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/story/2011/03/03/sk-sask-montana-project-stalled-1102.html

A multimillion-dollar proposal to pipe carbon dioxide from Saskatchewan and store it underground in Montana is officially dead.

When the $270 million project was announced almost two years ago, Premier Brad Wall and Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said they hoped to get big grants from their respective federal governments.

Ignoring America’s Doctors, Upton Calls Carbon Health Threat A ‘Myth’

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/03/03/upton-health-myth/

At a climate hearing on this week Upton justified his legislation by claiming the threat greenhouse gases pose to air quality and public health is a "myth"

Climate change may halve Pacific Islands’ coastal fish catch | Scoop News

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1103/S00153/climate-change-may-halve-pacific-islands-coastal-fish-catch.htm

Heads of Pacific Islands' fisheries agencies heard yesterday that climate change is predicted to cause big declines in coastal fisheries resources in the region, with potential production cut by as much as 50% by 2100

Minneapolis Snowfall Update: Second Snowiest Winter on Record

http://capitalclimate.blogspot.com/2011/03/minneapolis-snowfall-update-second.html

The average winter temperature at Minneapolis was 1.6° below normal

DeChristopher guilty of fraud for blocking drilling next to national parks « Red, Green, and Blue

http://redgreenandblue.org/2011/03/03/dechristopher-guilty-of-fraud-for-blocking-drilling-next-to-national-parks/

After 5 hours of deliberation today, a Salt Lake City jury found eco-activist Tim DeChristopher guilty of two felonies for "disrupting" a federal gas-lease auction. He could face 10 years in prison when he is sentenced later.

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"Just in case the federal government thinks that it's intimidating people into silence with this kind of prosecution, think again," McKibbensaid in an e-mail. "In fact, this is precisely the sort of event that reminds us just why we need a real, mass mobilization to stop the climate crisis."

Climate negotiators discuss ways to curb global warming beyond 2012

http://www.agweek.com/event/article/id/18031/

TOKYO — Climate negotiators from about 30 countries and international organizations gathered Thursday in Tokyo for a two-day informal meeting to discuss ways to tackle global warming beyond 2012.

British Green Movement Backed Murderous Libyan Regime

http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/Latest-News/british-green-movement-backed-murderous-libyan-regime.html

New evidence raises growing concerns that environmentalism is the sinister tool of fascist politics. Revelations from a crumbling Libyan dictatorship show an enforced green agenda propped up by a discredited UK establishment.

BT demands suppliers embrace carbon reporting

http://www.environmental-expert.com/resultEachPressRelease.aspx?cid=31242&codi=227463

Bianca Jagger draws in the crowds at Ecobuild

http://www.edie.net/news/news_story.asp?id=19498&channel=0&title=Bianca+Jagger+draws+in+the+crowds+at+Ecobuild+

On the whole the panel was glum indeed about the prospects for a new Kyoto, or Kyoto Plus as Bianca Jagger called it. 

Speaker Calls Global Warming a ‘Hoax’

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=348726&paper=62&cat=104

Is global warming an inconvenient truth, or a "flavor of the month" fraud used as a massive and successful fund-raising tool?

According to Dr. Stefan Gorzula, a consulting ecologist and management specialist, it's the latter, despite the evidence supplied by most mainstream scientists.

"That's essentially what this entire scare of global warming and climate change is about," said Gorzula, who spoke to about 65 men and women attending the Republic Women's Club of Clifton lecture series on Tuesday, Feb. 28. 

According to Gorzula, his dose of "common sense," is an antidote to the "fear-mongering and media hysteria" over the hot-button global warming issue. "It's also probably why I didn't get invited back to speak at George Mason University's Earth Day lecture," he told the crowd, drawing laughter.

Dennis T. Avery: Fearing EPA’s Carbon Tax

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog/~3/xRfMkNrWGgg/index.php

Churchville, VA—Farmers, along with the rest of us, could get hit with a triple jolt of regulatory shock if the Environment Protection Agency goes forward with its announced controls on carbon emissions. Consumers are already paying heavily for the federal mandate that puts a huge chunk of our corn crop, as ethanol, into our gas tanks instead of into our meat, milk, and eggs. While food costs soar, along with fuel costs, it is a waste of good corn as it contributes almost zero to our energy independence. 

Now, the EPA is moving to impose tough limits on carbon emissions from the big power plants across the country—and then plans to screw the new carbon limits down tighter and tighter. Farmers' fuel and electricity costs would go through the roof, along with everybody else's. 

Is there a 66-year cycle in temperatures?

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LuboMotlsReferenceFrame/~3/DV6Jp_JzMJM/is-there-66-year-cycle-in-temperatures.html

If the (approximate or strict) 66-year cycle is real, we may be entering - or we may have entered - a similar warming-free period as the period from the 1940s to the 1970s. Ocean cycles linked to the Atlantic Ocean - and perhaps the Pacific Ocean - would be the most likely explanations if the 66-year cycle were real. Knudsen et al. 2011, a paper discussed by Tamino, seems to be much less conclusive when it comes the value of the maximally likely periodicity.

Banking On Climate Crisis – The Merchants Of Doom

http://notrickszone.com/2011/03/03/banking-on-climate-crisis-the-merchants-of-doom/

This is a story on how some good ol boys are pushing extreme scenarios to make big money.

Fiduciary duty is getting thrown overboard by banks, insurance companies and investment houses as they race madly to capitalize on carbon schemes and the "green economy" - all under the guise of "saving the planet".

February UAH anomaly:-0.18C

http://rankexploits.com/musings/2011/february-uah-anomaly-0-18c/

Roy Spencer has posted the Feb. UAH TTL anomaly: -0.18C down from a January anomaly of -0.1C. So, La Nina's influence is still driving temperatures down

The Environmental Impact of UN Peacekeepers

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/261196/environmental-impact-un-peacekeepers-greg-pollowitz

Before the UN worries about the carbon footprint of its peacekeepers, maybe they should first focus on stopping their "peacekeepers" from raping the people they are supposedly protecting.

The Daily Bayonet » Blog Archive » Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Mar. 3rd 2011

http://dailybayonet.com/?p=7961

The hippie of the week is a serial overachiever, climate camp is canceled and if you ever wondered what opera sung by Elmer Fudd might sound like, wonder no more.

Conflicts Over Climate Issues Derail Senate EPA Budget Hearings - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2011/03/03/03climatewire-conflicts-over-climate-issues-derail-senate-71489.html

Republican Sens. James Inhofe (Okla.) and John Barrasso (Wyo.) walked Environment and Public Works Committee members down memory lane yesterday to point out media accounts in the 1970s that emphasized beliefs in so-called "global cooling" and to suggest that belief in climate science might be similarly upended.

"If we had committed the same amount of taxpayer resources and government manpower that the administration wants us to commit to prevent global warming to prevent global cooling, we would not be the most prosperous nation on earth," Barrasso said. "Advances in science and health care, diseases cured, children's lives saved would not be the reality we would have over those years. Millions of jobs would have needlessly been lost."

The PJ Tatler » UK Enviro’s embraced Qaddafi’s in 2007 PR “sustainable” project

http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/03/03/uk-enviros-embraced-qaddafis-in-2007-pr-sustainable-project/

The always observant British climate change skeptic and bloggerBenny Peiser, reminds us that back in 2007 the Libyan government announced the creation of what it claims is "the world's first sustainable region."   It was backed Euro-environmentalists who had visions of an ecotopia on Libya's northern coast.

They called it "one of the most beautiful and little known landscapes on earth."  The utopia was pushed and overseen by Col. Moummar Qaddafi's venal and corrupt son, Saif al-Islam.  It had the enthusiastic endorsement by one of U.K.'s most visible climate change alarmists, Sir. Nicholas Stern and the U.K. environmental radicals.

The 2007 launch apparently was another high visibility feel good vanity and PR exercise for the eco-radicals and a love fest for Qaddafi's son Saif who hungered for the political cover.

Rahall to co-sponsor GOP bill to block EPA climate rules - The Hill's E2-Wire

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/147233-rahall-to-co-sponsor-gop-bill-to-block-epa-climate-rules

Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) will co-sponsor legislation set to be introduced later Thursday to permanently block the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions.

Talks on ‘Green Climate Fund’ postponed

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/environment/2011/March/environment_March4.xml&section=environment

PARIS — A first meeting to set down the ground rules of a fund to channel hundreds of billions of dollars to poor countries exposed to climate change has been postponed, a UN official said on Thursday.

Representatives from 40 countries had been scheduled to meet in Mexico City on March 14 and 15 for the maiden meeting of a panel designed to breathe life into the Green Climate Fund (GCF) established last December.

"The meeting has been postponed," a spokesman for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) told AFP by phone from Bonn, adding he had no immediate further details.

Global warming `affecting food chain, carbon cycling in Arctic Ocean`

http://www.sify.com/news/global-warming-affecting-food-chain-carbon-cycling-in-arctic-ocean-news-international-lddqaijiiji.html

Phytoplankton blooms stimulate production of zooplankton, microscopic marine animals, which become a food source for fish.

Cold water may have killed dolphins, say scientists

http://mobile.al.com/advbirm/pm_29179/contentdetail.htm;jsessionid=F47593CB033E33333F267239F83E4F61?contentguid=O7yeulgO

MOBILE, Ala. -- Cold water may have killed the dolphins washing up in Mississippi and Alabama, scientists with the Dauphin Island Sea Lab said Wednesday.

They point to an apparent correlation between large pulses of chilly water that flowed into Mobile Bay during January and February and the subsequent discovery of dozens of stillborn dolphin calves in area waters.

British climatologists seek bubble blowers

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/mobile/iphone/story.html?id=4376598

Man-made Global Warming Theory AGW

http://www.nolanchart.com/article8415.html

Measuring scientific consensus regarding man made global warming by counting the number of abstracts is hardly a legitimate method of evaluation.

BBC News - 'People's watchdog' touted to keep UK green

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12620647

Sustainability experts are planning to set up a "people's watchdog" on green government when the spending axe falls on the official body next month.

The proposal was aired on Tuesday at a meeting of the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) whose 10-year Whitehall funding is about to end.

Wind fantasies are not new

http://antigreen.blogspot.com/2011/03/wind-fantasies-are-not-new-wind-power.html

Turbines require enormous quantities of concrete, steel, copper, fiberglass and rare earth minerals – all of which involve substantial resource extraction, refining, smelting, manufacturing and shipping. Land and habitat impacts, rock removal and pulverizing, solid waste disposal, burning fossil fuels, air and water pollution, and carbon dioxide emissions occur on large scales during every step of the process.

Dem to co-sponsor bill to rein in EPA (Politico Pro)

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=798d1456-802a-23ad-47b1-efcb2226f46b

House Republicans can claim "bipartisanship" in their bid to handcuff the EPA's climate change rules.

Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) told POLITICO on Wednesday that he will be co-sponsoring the legislation from House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) that puts a freeze on EPA's regulatory agenda for major industrial polluters like power plants and petroleum refiners.

"The EPA needs to be reined in," said Peterson, the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee and a frequent critic of the agency.

CAGW hysteria risks public health

http://greenhellblog.com/2011/03/03/cagw-hysteria-risks-public-health/

The nonsense over Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming is the greenies' greatest success – the DDT debacle only killed millions while the CAGW campaign is still in with a chance to bring down Western Society.

The cost of green is poverty, misery and death. Perhaps you should ask your representatives if that's really what they are voting for.

Another boxing fight ... "Spectator Debate" on 29 March 2011

http://klimazwiebel.blogspot.com/2011/03/another-boxing-fight-spectator-debate.html

The number of people in the UK who do not believe in global warming has doubled in the last two years, according to a poll from the Office for National Statistics. Does this represent an alarming success in a war against science? Or the common sense of a British public who can see the claims of the climate alarmists dissolve before their eyes?

February UAH AMSU: -0.02 deg C

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LuboMotlsReferenceFrame/~3/QQnCVPGhOFY/february-uah-amsu-002-deg-c.html

Roy Spencer has announced the final global UAH AMSU anomaly for the lower troposphere: it is -0.018 °C which means that it was just slightly cooler (by a statistically insignificant difference) than the average February from the 1980-2010 benchmark period.

As you can see, global warming causes not only warming and cooling (not to mention warmcold winters and coldwarm winters) but also the ultimate mediocrity and stability of temperatures. ;-)

a value one seventh of the IPCC best estimate for Climate Sensitivity for a CO2 doubling

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/02/new-paper-claims-a-value-one-seventh-of-the-ipcc-best-estimate-for-climate-sensitivity-for-a-co2-doubling/

Here is an interesting new paper that Miklos Zagoni has pointed me to via Judith Curry's blog. This researcher in Germany has carried out a spectroscopic analysis of the impact of CO2 and other greenhouse gases' contribution to warming.

It arrives (surprise!) at a value one seventh of the IPCC best estimate for Climate Sensitivity for a CO2 doubling. Looks intriguing at first blush…

Climate Week is trying to galvanise the green movement – but it is splitting it | Bibi van der Zee | Environment | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk//environment/blog/2011/mar/02/climate-week-splitting-green-movement/print?mobile-redirect=false

The backing of Cameron, Clegg and Kofi Annan isn't enough, say Climate Week's critics, it is blinkered – and RBS-sponsored

United Nations climate change chief tasks govts on Cancun accords

http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/united-nations-climate-change-chief-tasks-govts-on-cancun-accords-201103033451.htm

On the next round of talks under the UNFCCC to be held in Durban, South Africa, later this year, she said: 'Governments need to agree on a way to cut global emissions about twice as fast as they have already promised, along with increasing the certainty that they will do what they say'.

Scientists try to determine whether life on Earth is quickly heading toward extinction - San Jose Mercury News

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17523672?nclick_check=1

We already are engaged in a seemingly inexorable march toward barren landscapes and empty seas, a procession fueled by human population growth, resource consumption and climate change, according to scientists.

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In addition to prioritizing species preservation, Ehrlich suggested starting with caps on human population growth and limiting resource consumption. 

Earth Hour: From switching off to taking action - China.org.cn

http://www.china.org.cn/environment/2011-03/03/content_22042398.htm

Chinese actress and singer Li Bingbing has pledged to eat a vegetarian diet for 100 days this year to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions caused by the cycle of meat production and consumption, it added.

Pakistani cricket legend Wasim Akram has promised to stop using plastic bags.

Is preparing for the climate's worst really the best strategy?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/02/AR2011030206061.html

I guarantee, if we all follow Mr. Tidwell's lead and create our own little neighborhood militias so we can protect our lettuce, climate change will be the least of our worries.

Virginia Museum of Natural History curator claims evidence of global warming | WSLS 10

http://www2.wsls.com/news/2011/mar/02/martinsville-researcher-provides-evidence-global-w-ar-879096/

Many people are skeptical about global warming, so I asked her if there are any other factors that could cause this kind change.

"There's no evidence that I know of.  There's no publications that say there's something else happening," Winston said.

Greens get honest: ‘We need to stop trying to scare the pants off of the American public. Doing so has demonstrably backfired.’

http://algorelied.com/?p=4144

The truth is that the disparate crew of academics and bloggers who make up the skeptic community have toiled in relative obscurity and have been largely ignored by the mainstream media. That skeptics have nonetheless succeeded in raising substantial doubt among many Americans about the reality of global warming suggests, at the very least, that the environmental community has profoundly misframed the issue.

Worst Sentences of the Day

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoyoteBlog/~3/nQ8Ygj6qH1Y/worst-sentences-of-the-day.html

The author goes on to relate how nearly every climate scientist (up to and including the serially-wrong Paul Ehrlich) is quaking in their house behind locked doors waiting for some crazed skeptic to gun him or her down in their sleep.  Look, just about every interest group develops a mythology, and this notion of bravely seeking truth in the face of crazed irrational wackos is part of the internal mythology of many interest groups.

Climate Science: 10th Highest Paid Profession

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/globalwarmingorg/~3/7z5Rt0QsQ94/

So global warming professors are the tenth highest paid profession in the nation and the third highest paid profession in the public sector.  In terms of median earnings, they are paid as much as the average private sector CEO.

Shell wants you to walk

http://greenhellblog.com/2011/03/02/shell-wants-you-to-walk/

At the annual Rentseekers Ball (aka the Wall Street Journal's ECO:nomics Conference), Royal Dutch Shell gave attendees room-warming gifts — pedometers, with a note that was headlined "Take the First Step." If they want us to reduce greenhouse gas emissions so much, why do they sell us gasoline?

Every Affluent White Guy for Himself

http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2011/03/every-affluent-white-guy-for-himself.html

I raise this point because when it comes to climate survivalism, the little brown folks are nowhere to be seen, and apparently it's every relatively affluent white guy (and his nuclear family, of course) for himself.

SCOTUS Rejects Bloomberg's 'Green' Taxi Program

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/261135/scotus-rejects-bloombergs-green-taxi-program-greg-pollowitz

Good news, except for all the poor cab owners who were forced to buy hybrids already.

Australian scientist lectures on climate and energy security » News & Publications » The Institute of World Politics

http://www.iwp.edu/news_publications/detail/australian-scientist-lectures-on-climate-and-energy-security

Through various graphs showing temperature trends up to millions of years ago, Mr. Archibald showed that there has not been a change in average temperature since 1976, when the Great Pacific Climate Shift triggered the normal thirty-year cycle of warmer weather from colder temperatures. In fact, he explained, it was much warmer 1000 years ago - so much so that the sea level was a meter higher than it is at present.

Mr. Archibald then posed the question, for which he is famed in the climate debate, of whether carbon dioxide was linked to global warming. While the carbon dioxide heating effect is real and related to warming, it is minuscule and logarithmic.