Prince Harry back in Britain after Arctic journey - National Royal News | Examiner.com

Due to the extreme cold weather, a crack about a meter wide was preventing aircraft from taking off or landing.

Flashback: Prince Harry 'trapped in Arctic by global warming' as ice runway cracks | Metro.co.uk

Prince Harry will be forced to remain in the Arctic for up to 48 hours longer than expected after the ice runway he was due to use developed huge cracks.

Gore and his fellow alarmists are on thin ice

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/gore_and_his_fellow_alarmists_are_on_thin_ice#81533

Tell me: if global warming really is happening even faster than the warmists predicted, why do they need to keep readjusting like this?

What happens when the great fantasies, like wind power or European Union, collide with reality? - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8440423/What-happens-when-the-great-fantasies-like-wind-power-or-European-Union-collide-with-reality.html

The dream of using the wind to keep our lights on is being shown by reality to be one of the most absurd fantasies of our time.

The seasons shift: how spring is coming EARLIER thanks to global warming | Mail Online

Cristol Fleming says she believes the appearance of flowers up to two months early is down to the changes created by global warming.
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'And I don’t want to sound alarmist that spring is coming earlier and earlier,” said Fleming, who is in her 70s. “But, boy, every year, we do feel it.'

Meanwhile Remote Sensing Systems has shown that March 2011 was the coolest March since 1994.

Climate hoax promoters try to paint climate realists as "angry" and "dangerous"

Protest puts positive spin on climate action

THOUSANDS turned out to support climate action at a family friendly gathering in Brisbane's King George Square yesterday.

Organised by activist group GetUp!, the rally featured face painting and music for children - a deliberate move to show the positive message behind climate change action, national director Simon Sheikh said.

GetUp! did not want ''to have a louder, angrier rally but to show the difference in both our numbers and message, the difference between fear and hope", he said.

"We can answer their angry slogans and misinformation with a positive, family friendly gathering to stand up for our vision for clean energy and preserving a safe climate for our kids."
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"Let history record that when they tried to engineer a dangerous and angry Tea Party-like movement in Australia, ordinary families neutralised it with a larger and peaceful positive movement."

Remember when barely a million sockeyes showed up in 2009, and after CO2 was blamed, 35 million showed up in 2010?

“Superfish” With Bigger Hearts Equipped to Withstand Climate Change?

British Columbia’s Fraser River hosts more than 100 different sockeye salmon populations, each with its own unique and heroic migration story. But thanks to climate change, its water is becoming warmer, and that could spell doom for some of the fish.

Is B.C.'s sockeye boom a one-off? - The Globe and Mail

In 2009, about 11 million sockeye were expected, but barely one million showed up, sending economic and cultural shockwaves along the coast as commercial, sport and aboriginal fisheries closed.

The disaster of 2009, which came after three years of poor returns, was seen by many as the end of salmon on what had been the world’s most productive rivers.

But then everything changed, and 35 million sockeye came streaming back to the river this summer and fall.

Green Engineers And Flying Bicycles

But earlier a reader here at NTZ (DirkH I think) commented that many young German engineers naively come into the industry, as if on a religious mission to rescue the planet from the Biblical catastrophe of climate meltdown, in search of that all-elusive energy supply that is both cheap with no adverse effects, or to find ways to go without.

That engineers come into the industry with such religious mindsets is already a very troubling sign. It tells us they have not even taken the first step of checking the “problem” to see if the proposed solution itself could be much worse. Have the “green” engineers really looked at the data that supposedly underpins the “climate problem”?

The State of the IPCC’s Leadership « NoFrakkingConsensus

The bottom line? Rajendra Pachauri, as chairman of what is supposed to be a respectable science body, has – with deliberation and forethought – publicly linked that body to left-wing political analysis and activism.

In doing so he has single-handedly made it impossible for anyone who cares about scientific integrity, scholarly impartiality, or old-fashioned propriety to take the IPCC seriously.

Gold for Greenwash « The Daily Bayonet

There were early signs of the green fail last Fall, but the promises were were all marketing anyway, mostly to prevent hippies from getting in the way of hosting plans. Fortunately for London organizers, hippies are so gullible they bought the greenwash and stadium and event construction has been uninterrupted by gap-year malcontents. London 2012 almost deserves a gold medal for fooling greens into supporting the Games for this long.

But now the truth is out, aggrieved greens still have over a year to train for the hippie pentathlon – wailing, moaning, crying, tie-dyes and bong juggling. Should be a great games.

The Reference Frame: David Suzuki, wife: despair, huddle at night, weep

To err once is human, to err twice is accident, to err thrice is coincidence, to err four times is dumb, and to err 12 million times is to be David Suzuki.

Taking On Climate Skepticism as a Field of Study - NYTimes.com

Also, if you can’t define solutions on climate change and you’re asking me to accept it, you’re asking me to accept basically a pretty dismal reality that I refuse to accept. And many climate proponents fall into this when they give these horrific, apocalyptic predictions of cities under water and ice ages and things like that. That tends to get people to dig their heels in even harder.

Why doesn't Jairam Ramesh realize that the people of India can all become insanely wealthy by selling each other windmills?

Won't accept emission commitments under int'l duress: Ramesh

Making it clear that India would not succumb to international pressure on any legally binding commitments to reduce carbon emission, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh today said government will only act in national interest on the issue, including ensuring that the economic growth trajectory remains unaffected.

"I can assure you we are not taking on any legally binding commitments under international duress. We should take on commitments only because it is in our interest," he said at a CII function here.
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The fund was meant for Africa and other least developed countries and the island nations with countries like India voluntarily giving up their claim to it, he said, adding the long term green fund of UDS 100 billion also proved to be a non-starter.

"We are back to square one. I don't know where the climate talks are headed right now," he said.

Seashells point to much warmer past: scientists

About 3.5 million years ago, Ellesmere Island 11 to 16 C warmer than now
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The study reveals what may happen when levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide stabilize at about 400 parts per million — as was the case when those shells were formed and plants thrived 3.5 million years ago in a much warmer, ice-free Strathcona Fiord.

1. Wait a minute here: Why didn't the oceans become so acidic that no seashells could form?

2. Why didn't positive feedbacks from this warming result in an uninhabitable planet?

American Thinker: Warmists and the Organic Farming Activists

Most members of the urban-environmentalist crowd don't have the slightest conception of what they're promoting in taking us back to what they perceive to be the good ol' days. But the really scary part is that many do.

Hansen : Making Pink ….. Out Of Nothing At All ….. | Real Science

Hansen’s purple crayon is out of control. He has almost no data in the Arctic, as you can see below. The 0.44 anomaly being reported in the map above is unjustifiable. Axel Heiberg Island was cold, and the map above showed it as hot.

Grassroots versus AstroTurf | Australian Climate Madness

On the one hand we have GetUp!, the bankrolled Labor cheer-machine, a motley collection of Lefty lemmings who simply do as they're told, and turn up whenever Simon Sheikh sends them an email or a text message instructing them to go and plug some Labor/Union/Green cause or another.

On the other we have the real grassroots, ordinary Australians, many of whom are protesting for the first time in their lives against the pointless but hugely damaging environmental posturing of the Gillard carbon tax.

First the lemmings, the ABC's favourite climate warriors (note the uncritical tone of admiration from our national broadcaster):

too much snow in the Oregon desert | OregonLive.com

BURNS -- Roughly 100 homes in this high-desert town could be in the path of a slow-moving wall of water if the swollen Silvies River breaches an old dike and washes into a north-end neighborhood, a county spokeswoman said today.
...The Silvies River is fed by snowmelt from the Blue Mountains north of Burns.

AccuWeather.com - Climate Change | Coolest March since 1994

Remote Sensing Systems has released their satellite measured temperature data for the month of March 2011.

March 2011 ended up as the coolest March globally since March of 1994.

World stumbles toward climate summit - Hawaii News - Staradvertiser.com

BANGKOK » Nineteen years after the world started to take climate change seriously, delegates from around the globe spent five days talking about what they will talk about at a year-end conference in South Africa. They agreed to talk about their opposing viewpoints.

Flannery explains his vision for us ants | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Climate Commissioner Tim Flannery expands on his wild new theory of the “growth of a super-organism” - a world in which we have “global community with a common set of beliefs” so that we are “a regulating intelligence for the planet”, leading “to a stronger Gaia”.
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This is a man the Gillard Government has paid $170,000 to teach us to follow its global warming faith.

“Climate change negotiators” | Real Science

Am I imagining things, or have some segments of the world gone completely insane?
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Maybe they want to make the climate like 1887, when CO2 was very low and floods killed over a million people in China?

Hansen Unhinged | Real Science

CO2 is not going to double by 2028 and Manhattan is not going to be underwater.

Shift2neutral Carbon Credit Company Scandal: No Credits Generated

A SYDNEY carbon credits company thought to have been running some of the world's biggest offsets deals appears to be a fake, shifting paper certificates instead of saving forests and cutting greenhouse emissions.

Shift2neutral says it has made high-profile events such as the Australian PGA golf championship and the Sydney Turf Club's world-first ''green race day'' carbon neutral.

But deals to generate more than $1 billion worth of carbon credits by saving jungles from logging in the Philippines, the Congo and across south-east Asia do not seem to exist.

Climate Change Driving FIA Electric Racing Series

* Formula 1's governing body says it will work to develop electric-car racing.
* Competition could begin as early as 2013, according to reports.
* International concerns about climate change are pushing the issue.

Overnight low temperature hovers close to Sacramento record - Sacramento News

Sacramento flirted with a record low temperature this morning as winter returned on the heels of a cold low pressure system.

Record-Low Temperature Set at Santa Monica Pier - Santa Monica, CA Patch

A record-low temperature of 44 degrees was recorded at the Santa Monica Pier on Friday. The temperature tied a previous low of 44 degrees recorded in 2001.

Heavy snowfall cuts off electr in many areas around Moscow

MOSCOW, April 9 (Itar-Tass) -- The heavy snowfall, which swept the capital and the surrounding region overnight and is still continuing, and gusts of wind have cut off electricity supply from a number of power lines, a source at the Moscow Integrated Electricity Distribution Company said on Saturday.

Saving the planet, one cruise at a time | Grist

Odd locations are not unusual for green-leaning conferences, but this one might take the cake. I'm en route to Miami for a conference aboard, ahem, a cruise ship. What better place to contemplate the fate of the Earth, ocean conservation, and ways to right the planet's social ills than on a giant diesel-powered city of excess? (Conference organizers, WTF?)

Too much is not enough for The Edge’s green mansion | Grist

U2’s The Edge is planning a mansion complex that’s a metonymy for post-Joshua Tree U2: It means well, really, but it’s just way, way over the top.

The five homes (!) averaging 10,500 square feet (!!) are supposed to be built to LEED Gold standards, so bravo to The Edge for that. But if you really want to be green, maybe a network of oversized houses full of buffalo and belly dancers and groupies and giant lemons and shit is NOT the way to go. And especially not when you’re building it in a pristine, environmentally sensitive area like The Edge’s Malibu plot.

Where have all the summer migratory birds gone? - CNA ENGLISH NEWS

The society is trying to determine the reasons why the summer migratory birds have not yet appeared, the executive said.

"Climate change may be one cause," he said.

Temperatures were abnormally low around the April 5 Tombsweeping Day this year.

"This was very unusual -- the cold weather might have deterred migratory birds from flying northward to Taiwan," he explained.

Global warming disaster just ahead, well, maybe a little later than that - Orange Punch - The Orange County Register

One way to detect a fraud is that when his prophecies don’t come true he says, “I meant to say…”

Global warming causing more tropical storms and hurricanes? Not exactly - Orange Punch - The Orange County Register

Just as the global warming alarmists have falsely claimed CO2 emissions result in dangerously rising sea levels, they have insisted that tropical storms and hurricanes are another of the dire consequences of man-made global warming allegedly caused by greenhouse gases.

Well, just as with the sea levels, this ain’t exactly so.

Bangkok climate talks stall | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Japan, Russia, Canada and the United States, which never ratified Kyoto, are all firmly opposed to extending Kyoto and want a new agreement. India, China and other developing nations disagree, saying Kyoto must remain and that rich nations need to do more to cut emissions.

Ten radical posters to rally green patriots [SLIDESHOW] | Grist

"Al Gore is right: Shit be meltin'. Would his melting face be more convincing than factual charts and graphs? How much proof do we need before we make a change?" --Dmitri Siegel and Edward Morris

UK News :: Green ‘bribes’ costing Scots taxpayers £8m

TAXPAYERS have been hit with an £8million bill for a new raft of bizarre green projects, including a “real nappy project” and environmental tips for Scotland’s Nepalese ­community.

Column - Seeming green is just all wind | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

But that’s the new way: spend billions to seem good, and don’t bother to check if it does it.

Now be warned. Isn’t this the story again with the Gillard Government’s carbon dioxide tax? Only this time we’re not just risking our billions but our very future.

Flood brings state of emergency in Manitoba town

Meanwhile, lingering cold weather in the southwest of the province has contributed to the flooding threat there, the watershed authority said. The longer the snow on the ground stays frozen, the higher the water volume that will melt when a warm day arrives.

Bill McKibben | People Power: How We Can Fight Back and Win Against Powerful Polluter Interests

You could clean up acid rain by putting a filter on your power plant. But global warming is different—you’d have to shut down that power plant, and replace it with a windmill or a solar panel.
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This new and expanded 350.org will mobilize on a large scale—circle Sept. 24 on your calendar for a worldwide day of bike-based action.

Climate change: Forecast of an uncertain future | Poverty Over | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/poverty-over/climate-change-emissions

Many scientists predict that with the current rate of global carbon emissions, about 30 million more people will go hungry in the next two decades as agricultural yields diminish, and between 1 and 3 billion people will suffer acute water shortages. If nothing is done to stem a rise of 2C in global average temperatures by 2050, 250 million people may be forced to leave their homes to seek food and water elsewhere.

UEA: the sweet smell of napalm in the morning…

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100083071/uea-the-sweet-smell-of-napalm-in-the-morning/

If it sounds like I'm overdoing it, consider this: the PCC's ruling must be among the first by any quasi-official body anywhere in the world to take the side of a Climate Change sceptic rather than that of the Warmist establishment. This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

The Far North and Wintry Weather

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/the-far-north-and-wintry-weather/

The science of predicting sea ice behavior in a warming world is still in early stages of understanding

Slow-onset climate change a huge risk to food supply - FAO - AlertNet

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/slow-onset-climate-change-a-huge-risk-to-food-supply-fao

That could bring "potentially disastrous impacts on food security" starting in 2050 to 2100, he said.

Real Business - Climate change: ignore at your peril

http://realbusiness.co.uk/news/climate-change-ignore-at-your-peril

Taylerson's Malmesbury Syrups in Wiltshire makes flavoured syrups for coffees and cooking. The owner realised that demand for its products, which were linked to cold weather, would disappear within the next 20 years.

British Medical Journal: Climate change “poses an immediate and grave threat, driving ill-health and increasing the risk of conflict, such that each feeds upon the other.” - "And like all good medicine, prevention is the key."

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/climateprogress/lCrX/~3/HcZC4wR-urc/

Scientific American Vs. NSIDC

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/scientific-american-vs-nsidc/

Older ice has been increasing for the last three years. Apparently SA lacks access to the Internet

EU Says Raising $100 Billion a Year for Climate Aid Is Feasible - Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-08/eu-says-raising-100-billion-a-year-for-climate-aid-is-feasible.html

Raising $100 billion a year for climate aid is "challenging but it can be done" with the participation of public funding, private funds leveraged by banks and international carbon markets, the European Union said

Africa: Opposition building to Great Green Wall | Spero News

http://www.speroforum.com/a/51834/Africa---Opposition-building-to-Great-Green-Wall

What's green, controversial, 15km wide, 7,775km long, cuts across 11 African countries and is designed to reduce livestock deaths and boost food security for millions of people? Nothing yet, but the Great Green Wall project, a pipe-dream for decades, was recently endorsed by a swathe of African states stretching from Senegal to Djibouti. 

The green extreme has a choice of two catastrophes | The Australian

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/the-green-extreme-has-a-choice-of-two-catastrophes/story-e6frg6zo-1226035830066

And now, post-Fukushima, these two camps, once brothers in arms, are slogging it out over whose apocalyptic fantasies should be taken most seriously. Given their predilection for using biblical imagery, they'll understand this: a plague on both your houses.

Hippies of the world unite « The Daily Bayonet

In effect 1Sky just disbanded and rolled itself up into 350.org, which is a nice way of saying it failed. Now, united under the guidance of the mighty kleenex warrior, hippies can expect results, right?

Notsomuch.

ABC News Watch: Missing News: Medieval warm period in Scandinavia

ABC further reinforces its Groupthink climate echo chamber by failing to inform its audience of a recent peer reviewed study that finds temperatures 900 years ago were similar to those today. The rate of warming also higher in the 1100s than 1900s. The Hockey Stick is dead but its Zombie staggers on at the ABC.

American Thinker: Global Warming Alarmism's Long March through State and Local Institutions

Although global warming alarmism seems to be on the decline, it's in the nature of bureaucratic endeavors to perpetuate themselves. The thousands of regional, state, city, and NGO organizations created to combat global warming have a vested interest to stick fast, like limpets, to the public trough.

Government Shutdown Would Put Arctic Study on Ice: Scientific American

A shutdown would cut short a key NASA field campaign to survey Arctic land and sea ice, and a larger project it is part of. The measure now funding federal operations expires on April 8
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For the past three weeks, NASA researchers and crew have been surveying Arctic land and sea ice using specially equipped aircraft.
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Reassembling IceBridge scientists, planes and crew in Greenland would be "a pretty big production," he said. "It takes several flights just for delivering people and cargo."

Peter Foster: Reason will prevail on energy | FP Comment | Financial Post

Fossil-fuel bonanza makes peak oil theorists look ridiculous

Hide the decline - Where is the temperature stagnation?

What are the statistical odds, that corrections from 1920 to 1975 summed up just happens to give a stunningly straight line? Is it likely that station moves in Peru and China and rest of the world happens to give something systematically as a straight line over the years?

When corrections shows to follow a straight line, it certainly looks as if corrections has been carried out from a central place to follow this straight line rather than a random process of changes that demands corrections.

Climate Common Sense: Bird-chomping, bat-crunching, taxpayer-fleecing monstrosities!

John Delingpole's subtle description of wind farms has a certain poetic ring to it.

CO2 Cools Damp Air « Musings from the Chiefio

The bottom line is that adding a bit of CO2 to some damp air makes the whole works cooler, not warmer.

C3: New Antarctica Research: The IPCC "Consensus" Science Is Turned Topsy-Turvy

The latest research coming out of Antarctica reveals that scientists have been caught completely unaware of the substantial ice growth occurring below Antarctica, in addition to the obvious massive cumulative ice growth on the surface.

Climate Change Poses Major Risks for Unprepared Cities - US National Science Foundation (NSF)

Cities worldwide are failing to take necessary steps to protect residents from the likely impacts of climate change, even though billions of urban dwellers are vulnerable to heat waves, sea level rise and other changes associated with warming temperatures.

ThinkProgress » Extreme Warming Forces Climate Scientists To Add Hot Pink To Temperature Map

Temperatures in eastern Canada in the dead of winter were a staggering 21°C (37.8°F) above average.

Cool spring start stalls farmers' work - Utica, NY - The Observer-Dispatch, Utica, New York

“The farmers are a couple of weeks behind,” he said.

Video: Interview with warmist Chris Field

The Economist posted an interview with IPCC’s Chris Field. Dr Chris Field, co-chair of working group 2 of the IPCC (which is assessing climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability), discussed the role of the IPCC and their recent findings.

He corrected the insinuation that the IPCC has political or other agendas outside their mandate of providing information about climate change that is policy relevant not prescriptive.

He also said that, “Agriculture, and food security more broadly, are kind of at the center of what I think of as a perfect storm.”

Nothing will change until greens mount some primary challenges and collect some scalps | Grist

Nobody in D.C., with the possible exception of coastal liberal pols like Barbara Boxer, has any reason at all to fear the wrath of green groups. In fact, green group wrath -- expressed in grumpy TV adds, PR releases, and internet petitions -- generally serves as a badge of pride in districts to the right of, say, Bernie Sanders'. It makes a pol look "moderate."
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The problem is that greens have been playing the top-down game badly. And it's not from lack of money -- depending on how you tally it up, they spent between $200 million and $300 million just in the last year or so on the climate-bill battle. That's more than enough money to do some damage, if it's spent well.

Greenpeace assault on coal finance « Green Hell Blog

Check out this assault on an Australian Bank for their involvement with the mining industry that quite literally sustains the country:

Maslowski Decides To Stick His Fingers In The Fire Again | Real Science

In 2008, Maslowski predicted an ice free Arctic prior to 2013. That proved to be one of the dumbest predictions of the year, so he just predicted it again.

"Shell has pulled out of renewables"

Shell's outgoing UK chairman has seen oil firm's role shift in a changing climate | Business | The Guardian

Smith saw that Shell would have to change and he led the group's programme to invest in renewable energy, building up stakes in plant-based biofuels and offshore wind energy. But these days those programmes – once held up by the company as evidence of its newfound caring, environmentally friendly image – are either defunct or largely irrelevant. Shell has pulled out of renewables: it retains a small stake in biofuels development, but the company's offshore wind business is no more. Shell announced in May 2008 that it was leaving the consortium building the world's biggest offshore wind farm, the London Array, and its interests in wind were in effect at an end.

Australian global warming prophecy goes wrong. Very, very wrong. | IHateTheMedia.com

No matter where you go around the world, global warming shills repeatedly make fools of themselves with alarmist predictions that never come to pass. Now a particularly embarrassing one has come back to haunt the water department in Melbourne, Australia.

Doing Advance Work: Thousands of global warming profiteers are working 24/7 to strangle our towns and cities unbeknownst to the average American

The organized crime CO2 racket rests on the theory that all Americans are criminals. It says CO2 (carbon dioxide) is a poisonous and murderous substance caused mainly by criminal Americans who must pay billions to UN grifters, hedge fund thugs, and equatorial dictators who will use our money like others at the UN do, to redecorate their summer homes.

Mammoth Mountain Gets Even More Snow | FOX 11 News

Mammoth Lakes - Mammoth Mountain is getting another helping of snow thanks to the latest cold storm... adding to an already record-breaking snow season.

The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media » Climate Change Through the Eyes and Wit of Jon Stewart’s ‘Daily Show’

“Ha! Ah see, it’s nothing!” Stewart said in his report on the subject. “He was just using a trick to hide the decline. It’s just scientist-speak for using a standard statistical technique, recalibrating data, in order to … trick you … into not knowing about the decline.”

Although Stewart acknowledged that the hacked e-mails did not disprove climate change, he lambasted scientists for mishandling data: “If you care about an issue and want to make it your life’s work, don’t cut corners!”

Climate 'preacher' fights for Earth: News24: Sci-Tech: News

Bangkok - As grim-faced negotiators feuded at UN climate talks in Bangkok this week, self-appointed spiritual advisor Stuart Scott scouted nearby Buddhist temples for some monks who might be able to help.

Scott, a 62-year-old American who was born Jewish but now regards himself a man of all of faiths, believes the forces of religion can make a positive impact on the tortuous diplomatic efforts to resolve the global warming crisis.
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Inspired by the film, Scott in 2007 applied to be trained by Gore's people to lecture on global warming.
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Scott was then accepted and, while working part time as college teacher in Hawaii, spent the next year delivering over 100 climate change presentations to government departments, schools and lecturers across the island.

The climate change conference no one is talking about – Rooted

Australia’s major newspapers and magazines have largely ignored the Bangkok conference this week.

[Only a handful of?] Climate Justice Advocates Call for Deep Drastic GHG Emission Cuts by Annex 1 Countries and the Rejection of the “Pledge and Review” System

BANGKOK – “We demand climate justice! Deep and drastic cuts on GHG emissions by Annex 1 countries now.” “Annex 1 Countries Pay Your Due! We do not accept you ‘Pledge and Review’!” These are the calls from climate justice advocates led by Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and Development (JSAPMDD) at a protest action today.

House votes to kill EPA climate regulations - Robin Bravender - POLITICO.com

House lawmakers sent a loud message to the White House on Thursday: They want to obliterate the Obama administration’s climate rules.

The chamber voted 255-172, primarily along party lines, to nullify the EPA’s greenhouse gas regulations and the scientific finding they’re based on. No Republicans opposed the bill, but 19 Democrats broke ranks with their party to support the measure.
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The House also easily rejected Democrats' motion to recommit, which would have stipulated that EPA has the "authority to protect vulnerable children and seniors, including kids with asthma and lung diseases, from the ill effects of air pollution."

Upton rebuffed the motion on the House floor, arguing that his bill wouldn't affect the agency's authority to curb asthma-causing pollutants.

Twitter / @David Roberts

Will any of the Dems who voted against EPA science suffer for it? Or even feel threatened? At all?

If Al Gore Can Outgrow the Ethanol Fad, Why Can’t Conservatives?

The market for ethanol is propped up by the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), a Soviet-style production quota. Conservatives should be appalled by this reversion to Stalin-era central planning. Should taxpayers have to subsidize ethanol too?

Pachauri’s Pal – the Worldwatch Institute « NoFrakkingConsensus

Where, oh where, has the world’s media been on this file? I mean, this is high school grade behaviour. The head of an influential scientific body has been conducting himself in a manner that is so far from being circumspect, professional, and confidence-inspiring it takes my breath away.

Choking on Greenpeace deceit | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Once again, Greenpeace tries to terrify children with scientifically illiterate climate catastrophism. The real danger today is not to our planet but to our reason.

Dems smack down Obama climate rules

Angst over the Obama administration's environmental rules is reaching fever pitch on Capitol Hill, where even Democrats are looking to score points by smacking down the EPA.

Catlin warmists describe overheated Arctic as "painful, brutal, biting, bitter, numbing, burning" cold

How Cold Is -35ºC? | Catlin Arctic Survey

The team at the Ice Base put their idea of cold into words. This is what they came up with.

Hospital waiting times 'back on track' after harsh winter - Edinburgh Evening News

HOSPITAL waiting times are "back on course" after targets were missed due to the harsh winter weather.
Appointments were cancelled, casualty wards packed and many staff could not make it to work as the area endured the worst snow and ice for 40 years.

Twitter / @Yale F&ES:

Former NY Times science reporter Andy Revkin to discuss climate change diplomacy May 5, 5 pm Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

- Bishop Hill blog - Epic shale 

The shale gas boom just keeps getting bigger and bigger,

Cooling The Past In Clarinda, Iowa | Real Science

USHCN has subtracted an impressive 2.1 to 4.8 degrees from the actual thermometer readings taken during the 19th century. Starting in the record hot year of 1998, USHCN began adding more than a quarter of a degree to the temperatures, and have done that every year since.

Twitter / @Ceri Lewis: Survived my first night at ...

Survived my first night at the ice base, -38, woke up to it snowing it my tent on my face. Lovely :-)

Fish Kill: Thick Ice, Heavy Snow Blamed For Massive Fish Kills Across State - Courant.com

Winter fish kills are a natural phenomenon, but the unusually harsh winter caused them to be widespread and, in some cases, more devastating than in past seasons.

"I had never heard of anything like that before. It was a surprise to us," said Kathleen Bagley, director of parks and recreation in Wethersfield, where thousands of dead bass, bluegill and sunfish have carpeted portions of the shoreline at the 1860 Reservoir.

U.S. House Passes Repeal of EPA Carbon Rules Over White House Objections - Bloomberg

The U.S. House passed legislation prohibiting the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases blamed for climate change, defying an Obama administration threat to veto the bill.

The measure by Representative Fred Upton, a Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, was approved 255-172 today with 19 Democrats joining 236 Republicans.

Remember when Al Gore successfully mobilized a 10 million-strong army to push his global warming hoax? Neither do I

Two of the Nation's Biggest Climate Action Groups Unite : TreeHugger

Bill McKibben is right: If we're going see any significant progress made in addressing climate change here in the US, it's going to be driven by a major grassroots movement. The ordinary political channels -- the one crammed with special interests, lobbyists, and other defenders of the status quo -- have failed. Relying on the goodwill of corporations to reduce emissions by their own accord isn't so much of a joke as it is an absurdist fantasy. Which is why 350.org and 1Sky, two of the biggest climate action advocacy groups, are joining forces -- to begin to coordinate and grow a movement that could build a populist base big enough to tilt the scales away from big oil, the coal industry, and polluting industries everywhere.

A BIG Announcement. | 350.org

We will empower and mobilize a grassroots army--individuals, businesses, organizations, and front-line community leaders pushing for climate solutions in the United States.

[April '08]: Gore to recruit 10m-strong green army | Environment | The Guardian

Al Gore yesterday launched a drive to mobilise 10 million volunteers to force politicians to act on climate change - twice as many as the number who marched against the Vietnam war or in support of civil rights during the heyday of US activism in the 1960s.

During the next three years, his Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend $300m (about £150m) on television advertising and online organising to make global warming among the most urgent issues for elected American leaders.

"Sitting in our dimly lit, cool houses, munching local, organic food and riding our bikes to work will certainly help but not enough"

Commentary Series: Kittredge: Tsunami Of Global Warming

This year I signed up for a Lenten Carbon Fast, cutting back not on chocolate - gracious, no! - but on my own carbon footprint. The New England Regional Environmental Ministries shoots me an email early each morning with a suggestion for the day: turn off one lamp for the duration of the fast; build a compost bin, watch closely what food you throw away as the food discarded annually by an average household adds the equivalent CO2 emissions of 1-5 cars. The suggestions are pretty easy to do and this is both good and bad. Because while I turn off a light, lower the thermostat, heat the stir-fry yet again, the tsunami of global warming continues to rise before us.
...Sitting in our dimly lit, cool houses, munching local, organic food and riding our bikes to work will certainly help but not enough.

Our planet is quaking and we disregard the tsunami of global warming at our grandchildren's peril.

Prince Harry 'trapped in Arctic by global warming' as ice runway cracks | Metro.co.uk

Prince Harry will be forced to remain in the Arctic for up to 48 hours longer than expected after the ice runway he was due to use developed huge cracks.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Apr.7th 2011 « The Daily Bayonet

Get ready for the new threat of peak everything, the Internet will kill us all and did the Koch Brothers just punk everyone?

Guy who travels in 8 MPG vehicle in 45-vehicle motorcade needles another guy for allegedly burning too much fossil fuel

Obama: Expect little short-term relief on gas prices - Fall River, MA - The Herald News

But the president said it won’t happen overnight and if any politician says it’s easy, “they’re not telling the truth.”

“Gas prices? They’re going to still fluctuate until we can start making these broader changes, and that’s going to take a couple of years to have serious effect,” Obama said.  [But Obama has already been in office for two years.  If he knows how to give us lower gas prices in two years, why didn't he do it two years ago?]

Obama needled one questioner who asked about gas prices, now averaging close to $3.70 a gallon nationwide, and suggested that the gentleman consider getting rid of his gas-guzzling vehicle.

“If you’re complaining about the price of gas and you’re only getting 8 miles a gallon, you know,” Obama said laughingly. “You might want to think about a trade-in.”

Presidential state car (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The limousine is airlifted for domestic and international use primarily by a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III.[9]

The vehicle fuel consumption is about 8 miles per gallon
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Since 2001, when the president travels out of town, his motorcade has consisted of about 45 vehicles

Bummer: Nova Scotia will only receive $311k this year for climate change hoax programs

Federal cuts to blame for less money spent on N.S. environmental projects

HALIFAX - The loss of a federal climate change funding program has had a dramatic impact on Nova Scotia's Environment Department.

The provincial budget, tabled Tuesday, shows spending on environmental management projects has plummeted to $7.4 million from about $33 million last year.
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With the end of ecoTrust, the province received only $311,000 from Ottawa this year for climate change programs.

Carbon swindle in Australia: Multibillion-dollar industry where you get paid cash now for a promise that you really did something that will prevent bad weather after we're all dead

No specific standards for offset sellers

THE carbon credit market in Australia is rapidly growing into a multibillion-dollar industry but relies on voluntary standards, where anyone can offer carbon credits for sale.

Time warmist Bryan Walsh: "wanting clean air isn't the same thing as wanting climate regulation."

Attempts to Block EPA Regulations of Climate Change Fail in the Senate - Ecocentric - TIME.com

It was telling that in a major speech last week on energy, Obama barely mentioned global warming and did not talk about defending EPA regulations on carbon.

In any case, it's all hands on deck time for environmental organizations, who've seen a stunning reversal of fortune since the heady days of 2009. Their best hope might be the Republican party itself, simply going too far and inviting a public backlash. "This is a huge overreach," Environmental Defense Fund president Fred Krupp told me on Monday. "The public wants clean air. They want to know that government regulation is keeping them safe from industrial pollution." I think Krupp is right—but wanting clean air isn't the same thing as wanting climate regulation. But there's still plenty of time to find out who's right. More to come...

Climate Lessons: Marches of Madness in May: child victims of climate-scaremongering to take to the streets

The collective madness of the past 30 years or so centred around airborne CO2 is a remarkable, and a depressing, event. That it will take some time to flush it out of our collective consciousness is due in no small part to those who have chosen to recruit children to support their cause based on climate alarmism, whether it be from political or financial motivations, or both. What it cannot be motivated by is climate data.

They Lie About Almost Everything Now | Real Science

The 1978 flood destroyed 550,000 homes in Thailand.

Large North Dakota Wind Farm Falls to the Birds - IEEE Spectrum

Minnesota-based utility Xcel Energy canceled a contract to build a 150-megawatt wind farm because of concerns over bird impacts.

The wind farm, which was to be built in southeastern North Dakota by enXco Development Corp., would have cost about $400 million and was scheduled to be completed by the end of this year. But two endangered species have scuttled the plan: the whooping crane and the piping plover.

Twitter / @Andy Revkin: [in case you're wondering why "singer" Revkin still has a day job]

I have to self indulge a bit and vote for my (mostly true) coal-country ballad "Black Bird" http://j.mp/arBBird @ProfRubega #birdclass

Long, rambling rant from angry, anti-science warmist Randy Olson

#124) THE NERD LOOP: Why I’m losing interest in communicating climate change | The Benshi

[Obama] could get the public interested in climate science if he wanted to. He has the chops. He just doesn’t want to right now.
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But these endless, giant “Communicating Climate Science to the Public” workshops and conferences and symposia and blah, blah, blah … they all need to quit buffing their turds. It is a tragic waste of resources. It’s not working. Start over. Do something new. Take some frickin’ chances for Christ sake. Quit doing the same things over and over again. Surprise us. Break into the climate skeptics computers and steal THEIR emails. Something. Anything. Make it interesting, people. Break out of the Nerd Loop.

Winter Snow Is Caused By Cold | Real Science

However, there is a very good correlation between snow extent and cold. The plot below shows Rutgers North American snow cover vs. the UAH US temperature anomaly. Cold winters have more snow, and warm winters have less snow.
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This is intuitively obvious. A cold winter brings snow further south.

EU plans to link emissions trading scheme with California | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The estimated value of transactions on the EU ETS was €72bn (£62bn) in 2010 and the California cap and trade scheme could be worth $10bn (£6bn) by 2016, according to Point Carbon.

But the European scheme has been fraught with problems including over-allocation of allowances resulting in windfall profits for energy corporations and allegedly fraudulent "missing trader" transactions worth €5bn. The scheme has also been subjected to cyber attacks.

AMA quacks on climate

Since Florida and air and water temps have not changed significantly, they obviously can’t be responsible for respiratory and cardiovascular disease. The comment about the elderly is farcical, since warmer temps is why many migrate to Florida in the first place. So what about dengue fever?
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Now that Aflac has fired comedian Gilbert Gottfried, the former voice of its famous duck mascot, maybe Aflac can hire the AMA.

Breaking: Deliberately burning vast amounts of food may not be a great idea

Food Prices Stir Concern About Biofuels Mandates - NYTimes.com

But with food prices rising sharply in recent months, many experts are calling on countries to scale back their headlong rush into green fuel development, arguing that the combination of ambitious biofuel targets and mediocre harvests of some crucial crops is contributing to high prices, hunger and political instability.

Settled science update: - Climate 'technical fix' may yield warming, not cooling

Whitening clouds by spraying them with seawater, proposed as a "technical fix" for climate change, could do more harm than good, according to research.

Global Warming More Of A Threat Than Smallpox, The Black Plague, The Potato Famine, WWI, The Nazis, Communism, Nuclear War, Tuberculosis, Polio, Asteroids, And Fresh Fruit | Real Science

Your “conveyances” Causing Climate To Warm | Real Science

Mann is a scientist. Spencer is a skeptic.

NRDC : CO2 Is “Life Threatening” – 50/50 Vote Is A Clear Mandate | Real Science

Every day that goes by, these idiots become more ridiculous.

Green Master Plans Turn Out To Be Mean Disaster Plans

Dogmatism is a dangerous thing – especially when dealing with economics and when it attempts to dictate markets. Some examples follow below.

1.) EU climate policy leads to more CO2 emissions

Die Klimazwiebel: Climate scientists speak about themselves: Interview series in the Newsletter of AGU's Atmospheric Science Section

So far, there are nine interviews, three females namely Aristita Busuioc from Romania, Nanne Weber from the Netherland and Gabi Hegerl from (now:) Scotland. The six males were Rene Laprise (Canada), Raino Heino (Finland), Heinz Wanner (Switzerland), Christoph Kottmeier (Germany), Roger Pielke sr. (USA) and Alan Robock (USA).

Catlin Team Shoveling Through Thin, Rotten Ice At -40C | Real Science

The Arctic has been ice free for three years already, according to a leading Norwegian scientist. American scientists are more conservative, giving the ice at least one more year.

Greenpeace: witchhunters with $280m dollars to spend « JoNova

Greenpeace took in €200 million in 2009 (page 31 of their annual report) which is $280m USD. They have become the big corporation they so despised. (And so much for transparency, there did not appear to be a list of contributors in the annual report).

Muller: "Watts is a hero for what he's done. So is [prominent skeptic blogger] Steve McIntyre."

Q&A With Richard Muller: A Physicist and His Surprising Climate Data - ScienceInsider

Watts is a hero for what he's done. So is [prominent skeptic blogger] Steve McIntyre.

GOP-led House rejects [junk] science, 240-184 « Climate Progress

Science is the foundation of progress.

Rejecting science means in essence rejecting hope for Americans and indeed for all humankind: We live in complex times fraught with dangers, many of which are human-made and can be solved only by the application of science backed by resources that, sometimes, only government can mobilize. That is certainly the case with human-caused climate change.

Sadly, tragically even, the US House of Representatives today voted down 240-184 an amendment from Henry Waxman (D-CA) that stated:
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With this vote, the GOP is attempting to turn back the hands of time to before the Enlightenment, returning us to a new Dark Ages every bit as perilous as the original. With a deafening silence from the White House, the question remains, who will defend science? Who will give humanity a fighting chance against the forces of ignorance, who are accelerating us toward ruin

US: No climate deal without all aboard | AlterNet

Todd Stern, the chief US climate envoy, said it was time to lay to rest the concept of a "firewall" between wealthy and developing countries that dates from the early 1990s -- before the rapid economic growth of China.

"Many developing countries, including large ones, continue to be fixated on preserving the firewall between developed and developing countries," Stern told a conference in New York, in a likely reference to China.

"We see this as both unjustified and incompatible with solving the problem," he told the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit. "We are not going to be part of a new agreement with a fixed, bright-line, 1992-vintage firewall."
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But Stern insisted that China should be part of any future deal, saying it has surpassed France in emissions even on a per capita level.

"You cannot build a system that treats China like Chad when China is now the world's second largest economy," Stern said.

Eco-hero cartoon character based on guy who commuted to/from his mansion more than three hours per day via private jet

Arnold Schwarzenegger Opens Up About 'Governator' - The Hollywood Reporter

CANNES - Up close and personal with Arnold Schwarzenegger, it's clear to see that the former Governor of California has a more than a touch of wistful yearning for the life of the Governator, the animated superhero he unveiled this week in Cannes.
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Still, the Governator is heavy on not-so-subtle eco-messaging, using his superpowers to combat villains who splurge on fossil fuels and leave a trail of environmental damage in their wake. But to be clear, while he may be singing from the same hymnbook as An Inconvenient Truth, Schwarzenegger believes the message should be delivered in a very different way.

"We're not doing in a way that says to people 'You better never do that,'" he says. "That's the old Al Gore kind of a way to do this, to make you feel guilty. Guilt hasn't worked. Making people feel bad hasn't worked. You've got to make them feel good and draw them into the positive rather than keep talking about the negative."

2008: Governor's private-jet commute comes under fire

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Like many of the Californians he represents, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now spends more than three hours commuting because he lives so far from the office.

But his ride is a private jet.

After flirting briefly with buying a Sacramento abode for his family, then living alone for a while in a 2,000-square-foot hotel penthouse across from the Capitol, the governor has decided to stay nearly every night at his Los Angeles mansion.

Solar Costs May Already Rival Coal, Spurring Boom in Panel Installations - Bloomberg

Electricity from coal costs about 7 cents a kilowatt hour compared with 6 cents for natural gas and 22.3 cents for solar photovoltaic energy in the final quarter of last year, according to New Energy Finance estimates.

The Tourniquet Theory | The Rational Optimist…

To translate: sea level is rising more slowly than expected, and the rise is slowing down rather than speeding up. Sea level rise is the greatest potential threat to civilisation posed by climate change because so many of us live near the coast. Yet, at a foot a century and slowing, it is a slight nosebleed. So are most of the other symptoms of climate change, such as Arctic sea ice retreat, in terms of their impact. The rate of increase of temperature (0.6C in 50 years) is not on track to do net harm (which most experts say is 2C) by the end of this century.

The tourniquet paper is from the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons; its author, Indur Goklany, concludes: “The production of biofuels may have led to at least 192,000 additional deaths and 6.7 million additional lost disability-adjusted life years in 2010. These estimates are conservative [and] exceed the World Health Organisation’s estimates of the toll of death and disease for global warming. Thus, policies to stimulate biofuel production, in part to reduce the alleged impacts of global warming on public health, particularly in developing countries, may actually have increased death and disease globally.”

In short, biofuels are doing more harm than good by pushing people into malnutrition, which makes them more vulnerable to disease: a tourniquet round the neck of the poor.
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Almost every other climate change policy suggested so far is similarly futile. Wind: costs a fortune, kills eagles and does not even reduce carbon emissions because of the need for fossil fuel back-up. Solar: the tariff paid for energy fed into the grid is so high that you might even make money if you shine off-peak electric lamps on your panels at night. Tidal, hydro: far greater impact on natural habitats than climate change. Wave: does not work.
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As the climate nosebleed dribbles down our collective chin, we will look back in horror on those who proffered a tourniquet for our collective neck.

Warmist Suzuki on the climate debate: "I do despair. My wife and I huddle at night and weep for our helplessness. We are losing big-time"

http://tcktcktck.org/2011/04/partner-spotlight-dr-david-suzuki-co-founder-david-suzuki-foundation/

Dr. David Suzuki: I do despair. My wife and I huddle at night and weep for our helplessness. We are losing big-time and I’m enough of a scientist to see we are heading right down the tube. Judging by the past twenty years, we are going backward. I understand why people like Jim Lovelock and Clive Hamilton believe it’s too late. But, if one says it’s too late, then I tell them “Please shut up and go away” because it does no good to say it’s too late.

I think it’s too late to avoid catastrophic climate change, but must we continue to add to it?

More on the Global Cooling event that is taking place. «

And I think the BMC is a big cold looking, this implies that the year goes to -.2 or so below normal globally. But there is no denying the model is seeing strongly what was forecasted by me and others last year to happen this year, happening. And there is no el nino being seen, or the response with warming that would occur if there was a nino, which is an admission anyway that it is the ocean that is a prime driver of the climate system.

Chris Mooney | What Motivates a Climate Skeptic?

What’s surprising to me is that none of this is, at base, scientific. It’s all about distrusting some kind of power associated with the government, while very much trusting other kinds of power that are unregulated.

House Dem: Climate change bigger health threat than AIDS, malaria - The Hill's E2-Wire

Just hours before a vote Wednesday on a GOP plan to block Environmental Protection Agency climate regulations, Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) called climate change a bigger public health threat than AIDS, malaria and pandemic flu.

Rep. Betty McCollum: "Multiple studies have shown that 97 percent of the most qualified climate scientists are in agreement that humans are causing the planet to warm."

Congress on wrong side of history in denying climate change - The Hill's Congress Blog

By Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.) and John Abraham - 04/06/11 10:14 AM ET

Right now in our hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota, we are preparing for what might possibly be record-breaking floods due to winter’s heavy snowfall and the threat of heavier spring downpours. Minnesota has already experienced two 100-year floods in the Red River Valley within the past 13 years. Local doctors report an increase in cases of children with asthma and other respiratory conditions. Lake Superior has seen record low water levels in recent years, threatening not only drinking water supplies but the Duluth-Superior port that receives more than 1,200 ships and 48 million tons of cargo.

All of these public health, economic, and environmental trends have been strongly linked to climate change. Multiple studies have shown that 97 percent of the most qualified climate scientists are in agreement that humans are causing the planet to warm. If this was an illness, and 97 percent of doctors recommended a certain treatment, we would take appropriate action.
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This places the climate deniers on the same side as those fringe extremists who denied the harmful impacts of cigarette smoking and DDT, and the causes of acid rain and ozone depletion. Proponents of H.R. 910 are denying science and dangerously on the wrong side of history.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Gavin still doesn't understand science

Gavin Schmidt of NASA/GISS quoted in the new issue of Nature Climate Change (4/11) states, "Of all the things that I can do that are important, is allowing reproducibility of my code on somebody else's computer important? No, that's not important."
Gavin has apparently learned nothing about reproducibility and the scientific method from McIntyre, McKitrick, and climategate.

Senate Dems reject attacks on EPA climate efforts - WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina |

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Democrats have defeated a Republican effort to ban the Environmental Protection Agency from controlling the gases blamed for global warming.

In a 50-50 vote, the Senate rejected a measure by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma. It would have repealed a 2009 finding by federal scientists that climate change caused by greenhouse gases endangers human health and prevented the agency from using existing law to regulate them. The amendment - to a small business bill - needed 60 votes to pass.

Remember when Obama was going to lead the world to a treaty that would solve The Most Important Problem of All Time? Never mind

U.S. Cites Flaws in UN Climate Talks, Says Treaty Effort `Unworkable' - Bloomberg

Todd Stern, the State Department official who heads the U.S. delegation at the 192-nation discussions, said this week’s meeting in Bangkok was “marked by struggles over the agenda” that was similar to “bickering over the shape of the negotiating table.”
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He said a legally binding treaty of the sort envoys sought to write in Copenhagen two years ago is “unworkable,” and national regulations hold the key to stanching CO2 output.
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“Legally binding international obligations to cut emissions are not necessary,” Stern said at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance conference in New York. “It is the national plans of countries, written into law and regulations, that count and that bind.”

Obama, Nov 2008: Climate Plan Firm Amid Economic Woes - NYTimes.com

...once I take office, you can be sure that the United States will once again engage vigorously in these negotiations, and help lead the world toward a new era of global cooperation on climate change.

Now is the time to confront this challenge once and for all. Delay is no longer an option. Denial is no longer an acceptable response. The stakes are too high. The consequences, too serious.

Journalist Bill Blakemore still attempting to promote global warming hoax

ABC News global warming reporter to be science writer in residence (April 6, 2011)

The talk, "The Many Psychologies of Global Warming, from Poe's Imp and Lovelock's Apocalypse to What Sanity Would Look Like and Salvation Through Play Behavior," will turn the focus of global warming away from how the planet is reacting to human beings and back onto how the humans will respond.

[Bill Blakemore, Aug 2006]: 'Schwarzenator' vs. Bush: Global Warming Debate Heats Up

The president expressed similar sentiments last March: "The globe is warming. The fundamental debate is, is it man-made or natural -- but put that aside."

(After extensive searches, ABC News has found no such debate.)

Pajamas Media » Senator Boxer: Dangerously Ignorant on CO2

It certainly is clear: this woman has absolutely no idea what she is talking about. Terribly, profoundly clear.
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The remainder of her rant (which you can read here) makes for an amazing read — it is so thoroughly lacking in any understanding, of absolutely anything factual. She was completely clueless as to what carbon dioxide is — she kept referring to it as carbon — and has no idea that the hearing was completely unrelated to carbon air pollution.

And you wonder why people are outraged at what our leaders have given us: a bankrupt, once-great nation now led by uninformed dolts like Barbara Boxer, the EPA, and unscrupulous environmental groups that want to make sure we have no hope of recovering our former greatness.

Her term can’t end soon enough.

"During each of the four highest peak demands of 2010, wind output reached just 4.72%, 5.51%, 2.59% and 2.51% of capacity"

BBC News - Wind farm efficiency queried by John Muir Trust study

Wind farms are much less efficient than claimed, producing below 10% of capacity for more than a third of the time, according to a new report.

The analysis also suggested output was low during the times of highest demand.
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But the research found wind generation was below 20% of capacity more than half the time and below 10% of capacity over one third of the time.
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During each of the four highest peak demands of 2010, wind output reached just 4.72%, 5.51%, 2.59% and 2.51% of capacity, according to the analysis.

Aussie Braving Minus 40 Weather To Fight Polar Warming | Real Science

He is freezing his arse off on the ice to prove that it will be gone in 20 years.

Global Temperatures and Incomplete Rationale of My Own Skepticism « the Air Vent

It’s just math folks. The ocean contains so much energy that a thousandth of a degree change can throw 4C into our air temp instantaneously. Unfortunately the discussion is more complex than this because we need then to look at what happens to the release of that heat to space. The real balance is about energy flow vs content rather than instantaneous heat, but realistically tenths of a degree C of atmospheric warming over 30 years are absolutely NOT proof of CO2 global warming doom.

Ice Continues To Thicken In Barrow | Real Science

Men's Journal claim: Trace amounts of invisible, harmless, natural gas are causing deadly grizzly bear attacks

The Ghost Park | Men’s Journal

If you think global warming is some distant threat, come visit Yellowstone, our most beloved national park. Acres of trees are dying, trout runs are disappearing, and starving bears are attacking campers. It’s an ecosystem in collapse, and things are only getting worse.

I blew 30 seconds of my life skimming this article, and I still don't get it: Are we supposed to conclude that trees don't like warm weather and plant food?

Tree growth and fecundity affected more by climate change than previously thought

ScienceDaily (Apr. 4, 2011) — An 18-year study of 27,000 individual trees by National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded scientists finds that tree growth and fecundity--the ability to produce viable seeds--are more sensitive to climate change than previously thought.

Global Warming Taking The Wind Out Of Tornadoes - James Taylor - Endpoint Analysis - Forbes

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data, for example, show the number of strong to violent (F3-to-F5) tornadoes have been sharply declining since the mid-1970s. From 1967 through 1977 at least 30 F3-to-F5 tornadoes assaulted the U.S. each year, with an annual average of 50. Nearly 120 F3-to-F5 tornadoes struck the U.S. in 1974 alone. By comparison, merely 26 F3-to-F5 tornadoes have struck the U.S. on average each year since the turn of the century. The frequency of strong-to-violent tornadoes has been cut in half during the past 40 years.

These numbers are very important, as F3-to-F5 tornadoes produce the vast majority of damage and inflict the overwhelming majority of human casualties each year.

Gillard says Greens must get rid of extremists | Herald Sun

Environmentalism as a vehicle for extreme anti-capitalist anti-globalisation ideology is reaching its use-by date. What people want is sensible environmentalism, of the type that Patrick Moore, a founder of Greenpeace, espouses in his new book, Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout.
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We're all greenies at heart. But extremists and climate alarmists who have hijacked the green movement have done incalculable damage to the cause of sensible environmentalism.

Mainstream political parties who align themselves with the extremists are destined for extinction.

One million brainwashed children will allegedly march next month in an attempt to convince us that trace amounts of natural, harmless, invisible gas may kill them all

Million-Kid March to Highlight Climate Change, Telling the World: "I Matter" | FOUR YEARS. GO. | A Sustainable, Just, and Fulfilling Future for Humanity

Climate change is the most urgent issue of our time. Our societyʼs addiction to fossil fuels is messing with the perfect balance of nature and threatening the survival of our generation.

You know what's a completely ineffective way to destroy India's crops? Putting tiny amounts of plant food in the air around Albuquerque

The New Nostradamus of the North: All-time record harvest in India - and a flashback to 2010

Don´t expect Kumar or Milesi to retract. On the contrary, their "scientific" explanation will almost certainly be that the record harvest is just a temporary aberration because of climate change - but soon the harvests are really heading for a catastrophic decline, also due to global warming.!

It's because you're stupid: “Is cap and trade too complicated?” [Warmist Connie Hedegaard] asked. “It might be for the Americans. it’s not for the Chinese.”

Environmental Defense: living up to its name

Environmental groups are playing defense rather than offense in Washington, said Fred Krupp, the president of the Environmental Defense Fund, during a panel today on climate policy that opened FORTUNE’s Brainstorm Green conference.
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On climate issues, Fred said: “It’s hard to have a meaningful exchange of viewers, a serious conversation in Washington.”
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I moderated the panel on climate policy that included Fred, Jim Rogers, the ceo of Duke Energy, Connie Hedegaard, the EU commissioner for climate and Michael Shellenberger, the president of the Breakthrough Institute. It was, unfortunately, a little grim. All of the panelists agreed that despite nearly 20 years of talk at the highest levels of government and business about global warming, global carbon emissions continue to grow. They’re up by 40%, roughly, since 1990. Neither China nor the U.S has agreed to put a cap on emissions or tax fossil fuels.
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Hedegaard noted that the EU is going forward with cap-and-trade — a regulatory scheme in which governments set a declining cap for carbon emissions, and then auction or give away permits to pollute, which can then be traded among companies — and that its market could soon be linked to others. She was on her way to a meeting with Gov. Jerry Brown of California to talk about linking California’s cap-and-trade regime to the one in Europe and to another under development in China. “Is cap and trade too complicated?” she asked. “It might be for the Americans. it’s not for the Chinese.”
...I had a brief chat about this at Brainstorm Green with the rarest of creatures, a moderate Republican–Theodore Roosevelt IV–and I hope to address that questions soon.

Your tax dollars at work: EPA global warming hoax propaganda targets schoolchildren

Climate Change | U.S. EPA

Students, educators and school administrators can all play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Here is a directory of some education and action planning resources to help you:

Global Warming Alarmism Can Kill: 'Not since Communism's heyday has a dubious concept so haunted and crippled the intelligentsia' | Climate Depot

'To suggest that impoverished nations must worry more about CO2 than about tuberculosis, cholera or malaria is absurd. To tell them their energy options must be limited to expensive, unreliable, insufficient wind and solar power is immoral. To impose anti-hydrocarbon restrictions on poor countries ensures that they will remain poor and diseased, with life expectancies in the low forties'

Converting our children to the green religion may help them survive storms caused by our carbon dioxide sins

Climate change education can reduce disaster risk and ensure sustainable development | Education for All Blog

Global experience shows that investments in climate change education, including disaster risk reduction, can change human perceptions and patterns of behavior that reduce the risks and costs of disasters. For example, safe school sites can be selected through participatory risk assessments, ensuring schools are climate-proofed and multi-hazard resilient. Schools can implement school disaster management involving students, teachers and community members in practicing early warning, simulation drills, and evacuation for expected and recurring disasters. At an individual level, climate change teaching integrates not only disaster risk reduction and preparedness but also climate literacy, environmental stewardship, education for sustainable lifestyles and consumption, and green technical and vocational education.

How to prevent climate change: Blot out the sun | Grist

Perhaps the most likely application of SRM, according to the AP story: Scaring people into reducing their greenhouse-gas emissions by telling them that if they don’t, "we might never see blue sky again."

Heard this one before?: Government pushes expensive global warming hoax "solution"; voters not pleased

Australian government support at 8-year low: poll - The China Post

SYDNEY -- Support for Australia's ruling Labor Party has plunged to its lowest level in eight years, a poll showed Tuesday, as the government battles to introduce a carbon tax which has divided voters.

The center-left party led by Prime Minister Julia Gillard is trailing 45 percent to 55 percent to a conservative opposition, which has pledged to overturn the proposed tax to combat carbon pollution if elected.

“Labor's base has shrunk,” The Australian said in a commentary to the Newspoll published in the newspaper, saying the party's popularity had fallen since the Aug. 21 election.

Is NASA Obsessed With Carbon Dioxide? | Real Science

What a pathetic excuse for a scientific institution they have become.

- Bishop Hill blog - Why electric cars are really coal cars

the reality is that only about one third of the energy in the coal or gas actually ends-up as electricity because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Carnot Cycle limit - the other two thirds being thrown away as heat. Thus the electric car is harvesting in terms of well-to-wheel miles only about 27% of the original fossil fuel energy, so not that much better than the standard car running on petrol or diesel. The difference is merely whether about the same quantity of waste heat energy is thrown away at source or in the vehicle.

[And if you don't park your car at a coal plant for recharging, aren't there transmission line losses as well?]

the benchmark comparisons actually are 17mi for 10% loss and 83mi for 50% loss.

Arctic Has Been Ice Free For Three Years | Real Science

Obama-Backed Tesla Sues Its Critics - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Your tax dollars at work.

Subsidized by taxpayers to the tune of a half-a-billion dollars (Obama “investing” your money), Tesla Corporation — and by extension, the feds — has been embarrassed by car journalist Jeremy Clarkson and the Top Gear TV show on BBC. It seems a Tesla Roadster when driven hard on the track (and owners who shell out six-figures for sports cars like to know these things) goes a mere 55 miles. Not the 200 that Tesla’s PR machine claims. What’s more, Top Gear — which does not yet suffer from green political correctness like car mags stateside — says the “car of the future” takes 16 hours to recharge, and recommends (tongue planted firmly in cheek) that buyers shell out another $100,000 for a second Tesla while the other one recharges.

Ouch. Welcome to the real world, electric cars.

Tesla’s response? Sue ’em!

Multi-Year Ice Has Grown More Than 30% In The Last Three Years | Real Science

NSIDC has changed their color scheme, but you can see that the area of thick, older ice has greatly increased since 2008. The lack of MYI (multi-year ice) in 2008 led Mark Serreze to bet on an ice-free pole that summer.

Bejing has a fling with a cool change «

The Bejing Climate Center models have gained my attention over the past couple of years as they have been doing a good job hinting at cold season events in advance of US modeling ( on the order of 6 months to a year. While the model is not yet out into next winter, its forecasted 850 mb global temps this year, and particularly going into the northern hemisphere winter go hand in glove ( you’ll need one) with theories that many of us that believe the backdrop of the coming years is painted with cooling colors.

[On warmist doctors]:  - Physician, heal thyself

The authors are as follows:

* Lionel Jarvis is surgeon rear admiral at the UK's Ministry of Defence, has two homes and four children and enjoys skiing, riding and sailing.
* Hugh Montgomery, is a professor of human health at UCL, has written a book about climate change for chilidren and, erm, climbs in the Alps, Himalayas, and Andes and holds a Cat X skydiving qualification.
* Neil Morisetti, is a rear admiral and is the "climate and security envoy for the UK" as well as being a graduate of UEA. He seems to divide his time between London and his farm in Dorset.
* Ian Gilmore is professor at the Royal Liverpool hospital.

The Reference Frame: Steven Chu: climate modelers should fabricate lots of tipping points

Steven Chu is indisputably a politician - and the boss of one of the most important U.S. scientific grant agencies - and what he is doing is unquestionably an example of political pressure, a forcible rape, by which he wants to distort the results of the research in a particular direction. He has clearly no research of his own that would imply that the number of tipping points is larger than what is described in the literature - or by the models. He is prescribing the "politically desired" outcomes of the research - something that is incompatible with science.