Wharton news: NPR's Steve Curwood to promote greatest scientific fraud in history

Titans and titillation

For a different style of spoken word, Wharton has renewed the Worldview Lecture series after a one-year hiatus. Deans from three MSU colleges picked the speakers to dovetail with their curricula...Steve Curwood, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and host of NPR’s environmental program “Life on Earth,” will talk about the economic, social and national security benefits of facing up to global warming Feb. 27.   [Where's the part about Girl Scouts not having to wear life preservers at all times?]

Steve Curwood: Information from Answers.com

Steve lives at his family's farm in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire and spends much of the year in Cape Town, South Africa.

American Thinker: California's Renewable Economic Suicide

Gov. Jerry Brown, flakier now as a recycled geriatric governor than he was as Governor Moonbeam decades ago, has decided to place his state into economic hospice care. By proudly signing legislation that would require California to obtain 33% of its electric power from renewable sources by 2020 -- the Renewable Energy Bill -- he is telegraphing that the state does not have much longer to live.

The planet strikes back: Why we underestimate the Earth and overestimate ourselves | Grist

In his 2010 book Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, environmental scholar and activist Bill McKibben writes of a planet so devastated by global warming that it's no longer recognizable as the Earth we once inhabited. This is a planet, he predicts, of "melting poles and dying forests and a heaving, corrosive sea, raked by winds, strafed by storms, scorched by heat." Altered as it is from the world in which human civilization was born and thrived, it needs a new name -- so he gave it that extra "a" in "Eaarth."

Half-naked college students protest coal | Grist

Oh, college students.They'll use just about anything as an excuse to take off their clothes.

Cap-and-trade policy won’t ‘hoover up western resources,’ says Ignatieff

EDMONTON — Any cap-and-trade program created by a potential Liberal government would not move Alberta resources to Eastern Canada, Michael Ignatieff promised at an Edmonton campaign stop Saturday.

Steel Guru : More unions demand exemption of steel production from carbon tax in Australia - 200791 - 2011-04-17

The Australian reported that Australia's most powerful union leader has demanded Ms Julia Gillard exempt steel production from the carbon tax, with workers and bosses uniting for the first time to warn of job losses and the potential collapse of the industry.

Just 2 months till the days start getting shorter - Minnesotans For Global Warming

I'll let the viewers conclude if they see any global warming on this chart. Keep in mind that Lake Minnetonka is in the Twin Cities Metro area so it should be affected by the Urban Heat Island effect.

The NASA/GISS “problem” «

NOTICE THE DATES OF COMPARISON: 1951-1980 This during the COLD PDO and non satellite era!.

Which Chevy Would You Buy? - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

In other words, the Volt — “a pricey science experiment” says Autoweek – makes sense to a wealthy niche of metro drivers that only use a car for limited inner-city commuting. Or for those who want to make an eco-statement about their lifestyle. That’s a niche that covers Obama’s Hyde Park Chicago neighbors.

Gas-power rules. Proof? The Volt’s Cruze stable-mate.

Opposing Views: Gore to young advocates: Battle industry lobbyists to turn the tide on climate: Reported by Ben Geman: Updated by Noel Sheppard | Climate Realists

[Gore] Do they actually believe this line from the large carbon polluters that the scientists are making this up, committing fraud in order to get research grants?

Give me a break. They are trying to kill us, too.

Matt Ridley on Cause and Effect Mix-Ups | Mind & Matter - WSJ.com

Antarctic ice suggested that ancient carbon dioxide had caused warming. Now we know the temperature rise came first.

Another nice little earner for our Alarmist of the Year | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

If you think that’s the most bizarre kind of sponsorship deal for a professional warmist, try this

The Missing Map « NoFrakkingConsensus

Remember, UNEP is one of two UN “parents” of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It’s supposed to be the grown-up in the room. It’s supposed to set a good example for the IPCC to follow. But rather than being a reputable source of information on which the rest of the world can depend, UNEP appears to have devolved into a full-fledged activist organization.

CapitalClimate: Minneapolis Snowfall Update: Fourth Highest Total

Yesterday's 0.6" of snow at Minneapolis brought the 2010-2011 snowfall total to 85.3". That was just enough to edge past 1916-1917 into 4th place.

RealClimate: Fracking methane

(Funnier still are the contrarian responses, for instance from “Bishop Hill” who completely agrees with the industry (again without any actual knowledge of the issues), and who can’t resist using their criticism of Howarth to condemn a whole University (and by proxy, the whole scientific enterprise). I mean, why bother with independent scientists when the industry can tell you exactly what you are supposed to think?).

The Weekend Interview with John Watson: Oil Without Apologies - WSJ.com

John Watson, Chevron's CEO, says Americans must stop taking affordable energy for granted. That means more 'oil, gas and coal.'

Save the World by Eating Spiders, Ants, and Cockroaches - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Sounds good, but Al Gore has to eat only bugs for a year before we give the diet any serious consideration.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Another blow to warmist theory: Decreasing radiation from greenhouse gases

The anthropogenic global warming theory is based upon the notion that increasing 'greenhouse gases' will increase infrared 'back-radiation' to the earth to [supposedly] warm the planet. The theory also claims that increases in the minor 'greenhouse gas' carbon dioxide will cause increases in the major 'greenhouse gas' water vapor to amplify the infrared 'back-radiation' and global warming. A study published online yesterday in The Journal of Climate, however, finds that contrary to the global warming theory, infrared 'back-radiation' from greenhouse gases has declined over the past 14 years in the US Southern Great Plains in winter, summer, and autumn. If the anthropogenic global warming theory was correct, the infrared 'back-radiation' should have instead increased year-round over the past 14 years along with the steady rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Revkin of NYT takes back his statement that skeptics are more knowledgeable about the science

The quote has since disappeared

Interview: Climate change directly affecting development: former World Bank VP

"This has been now translating into loss of income, into loss of life and loss of livelihood from Pakistan to Australia, to China, all over the world," said Thomas, currently director-general of Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) at the World Bank Group.

According to a recent IEG report, the frequency of disastrous heat waves (such as in Europe in 2003 and in Russia in 2010) and floods (such as Pakistan 2010) may have doubled, due to climate change. Sea level may rise two to five feet this century, imperiling coastal cities, populous deltas and low-lying islands. Unabated, climate change could derail development, with a one-in-fourth chance of an 11 Fahrenheit rise this century.

Panel makes recommendations on NM regulations - BusinessWeek

Bruce Frederick, an attorney with the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, acknowledged that New Mexico can't solve the problems associated with climate change by itself but rescinding the new emissions rules would send the wrong message to other states and the federal government.

"It would send the message that waiting is OK, that waiting is the thing to do," he said. "On the other hand, if these regulations stay on the books and they start to become enforceable, we want to look to exporting those things to other states and hopefully get the federal government to notice. That's how things get done at the federal level."

Finnish man gives his Chevrolet eco-friendly makeover to run on wood chips

His El Camino pick-up can cover 125 miles on a hundredweight and half of wood chips but carries enough timber for 800 miles.
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The technology, first used during shortages of petrol in World War Two, produces emissions that are cleaner that conventional petrol or diesel engines.
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Clearing out the burners - and the fact that it takes twenty minutes to get them hot enough to produce gas - are seen as minor disadvantages.

Unions, industry abandon Labor's carbon tax | Australian Climate Madness

The house of cards is beginning to topple. One by one, unions and industry are realising (finally, FINALLY) that a carbon tax is bad news all round - and for no benefit whatsoever. Yesterday it was Paul Howes of the Australian Workers Union. Today it is the turn of the big steel companies and various other unions

Howes steps away from Gillard and her poisonous tax | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

I’ll say it again, Julia Gillard is finished and can no longer rely on the support even of the union leader who did most to install her:

48 times Combet lied about “carbon pollution” | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

In sharp contrast to the clarity and accuracy of Emerson’s speech, Combet’s was littered with verbosity and the deliberate lies incumbent on campaigners like him.

From the 48 times he used the term “carbon pollution” to quite deliberately foster the false impression of bits of dirty grit, to the pretence that China is not embarked on dramatically increasing its absolute levels of emissions of carbon dioxide.

Obama as Snuffleupagus: Expect our imaginary friend to skip out on Power Shift again | Grist

So no one's waiting for Obama any more. We've realized that in the great battle between Big Bird and Big Oil, President Obama is Snuffleupagus -- our imaginary friend. When we're alone together, we can dream of a bright future. But when the dirty energy lobbyists show up looking for a fight, somehow he's never there. Suddenly, you're alone up against their billions -- and when you look in the distance, it occasionally seems as if he's reappeared on their side. Also, you realize that he's not as furry as Snuffy, and doesn't have a Snuffle. WTF, Barackalupagus?

Transcript of Van Jones Keynote Address from PowerShift 2011 | TckTckTck | Join the Race to the Future!

We have an energy system
a civilization
powered by death.
Fueled by death.
Why do they call them fossil fuels?
Oil – dead for 60 million years.
Coal – dead for 300 million years – pull out of ground.
Burn in industries. We burn death.
We act shocked, having pulled death out of the ground,
that we get death out of the skies.
Let’s stop fueling death.

Flashback: Obama’s ‘Green Czar’ Van Jones: ‘Green Jobs’ Goal is ‘Complete Revolution’ Away From ‘Gray Capitalism’

Van Jones a failed radical revolutionary changes his persona just enough to be able sneak in the back door as a greenie all the way to White House! Obama & Dems embrace him. The far left ideologues Obama surrounds himself with are far to numerous to not be a reflection of Obama’s politics.

YouTube - Power Shift 2011 Van Jone's Keynote Speech (Part 1)

YouTube - Power Shift 2011 Van Jone's Keynote Speech (Part 2)

Count the lies: Fraudster Al Gore speaks to brainwashed youth in DC

YouTube - Power Shift 2011 Al Gore's Keynote Speech (Part 1)

[Al starts talking at about the 6-minute mark]

YouTube - Power Shift 2011 Al Gore's Keynote Speech (Part 2)

Gore to young advocates: Battle industry lobbyists to turn the tide on climate - The Hill's E2-Wire

“There are four anti-climate lobbyists on Capitol Hill in this city for every single member of the House and every single member of the Senate,” Gore said Friday night at the opening of the April 15-18 conference.
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Gore said the Civil Rights movement was fueled by youth questioning their parents about legal discrimination, and he drew a link to climate change.

“When they could not answer that moral question coming straight from the conscience of young people, that is when the laws began to change,” Gore said. “You need to ask, ‘tell me again why its al right to put 90 million tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours, 20 percent of it will still be there in 20,000 years.'”
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He went on the offensive against climate change deniers, citing a litany of extreme weather events – ranging from floods in Pakistan to droughts in the U.S. southwest – and noted that nine of the 10 hottest years on record have occurred in the last 12 years.

Transcript of Al Gore & Van Jones Keynote Address from PowerShift 2011 | TckTckTck | Join the Race to the Future!

Thanks to our new friends, John in New Zealand and Cameo in Florida and their efforts transcribing this livestream, we’re thrilled to share this working transcript of the speeches with you. Read on and be inspired!

Spring Break In The Arctic | Real Science

the physical effort of a polar expedition is beginning to take its toll.

Frost damages wine grape crops in SLO County - Local - SanLuisObispo.com

Overnight frosts that occurred in the early-morning hours April 9 and 10 caused widespread damage to North County vineyards, and the losses may meet state qualifications to be deemed a disaster.

“It was a hell of a frost is what it was,” said Dana Mill, owner of Mesa Vineyard Management and Pomar Junction winery. It was the coldest and most widespread freeze he’s seen in 25 years, he said, citing frost as far as King City.

IPCC climate hoax chief Pachauri takes fossil-fueled trip to Delaware

Climate "expert" looks to knowledge institutions for solutions to climate change

“Natural factors such as solar activity and volcanic activity don’t fully explain what has happened to temperature increases over the past 100 years or so,” Pachauri said. “However, when we include inputs related to increases in the concentrations of greenhouse gases, what we get is almost a perfect fit between model predictions and actual observations.”
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To those who urge inaction in the face of uncertainty, he posed the question, “What chance of a flight crashing would prevent you from boarding a plane?” Even a five percent chance — that is, five airplanes out of every 100 — would make most people refuse to fly, he said.

That's not an open plastic container of planet-killing bottled water in front of Pachauri, is it?

Is it completely sustainable to enjoy fresh flowers in Delaware this time of year?

Earth Matters: Robert Miller On global warming, our best may not be enough - NewsTimes

Throughout the area, people are doing their best to conserve energy and fight global warming. In Ridgefield, for example, the town and school system hope -- if voters approve -- to spend $1.9 million to replace every aging light bulb in town-owned buildings with energy-saving florescent bulbs.

Obama's $5 Billion Weatherizing Program Wastes Stimulus Funds, Auditors Find - FoxNews.com

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/14/obamas-5-billion-weatherizing-program-wastes-stimulus-funds-auditors/?test=latestnews

"It's a complete cesspool of waste," Leslie Paige, vice president of Citizens Against Government Waste, told FoxNews.com. "When it's over, we will never know how much went down the tube. They cannot track the money. By the time they get to it, a lot of the money will be gone."

Gillard says jobs are her priority - National News - National - General - The Canberra Times

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/national/national/general/gillard-says-jobs-are-her-priority/2136138.aspx

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said he could guarantee not one job would be lost through a carbon tax because he wouldn't introduce one.

Hippie cult-ure « The Daily Bayonet

I think global warming counts as a cult. But you knew that.

Hybrid Car May Have Sparked Garage Blaze - Connecticut News Story - WFSB Hartford

Officials said they can't rule out that the couple's brand new Chevy Volt hybrid had something to do with the blaze.

Patterico's Pontifications » UN Caught Scrubbing Embarrassing Climate Refugee Prediction

Of course the great thing about the UN is that even though they are a dishonest-to-evil club for dictators they are also clumsy. Apparently no one at the U.N. knew there was such a thing as a google cache.

Texas to install world’s largest wind energy storage system | Grist

The Department of Energy has thrown in $22 million for the project, with Duke matching the grant with another $22 million.

Duke and Xtreme plan to plug in the battery by late 2012.

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Bird Brains and Others Defend Michael Mann

ATI's Chris Horner also notes in our response how these groups were missing in action on the "academic freedom" front when Greenpeace demanded the records of Mann's former UVA colleague, Patrick Michaels, a climate alarmism skeptic. Same goes for several other skeptical scientists at other institutions where Greenpeace inquired.

Blizzard shuts I-80 in Nebraska, strands motorists - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

OMAHA, Nebraska (Reuters) - A spring blizzard dumped up to 16 inches of snow in Nebraska, stranding dozens of motorists and forcing the closure of state's main highway, Interstate 80, for a 120 mile stretch, officials said on Friday.

Global warming to blame for Fernando Torres goal drought | Harry Pearson | Football | The Guardian

"One minute we have a goal drought, next a goal flood," says Professor Rory Strange of the pressure group Stop What You're Doing Right Now!

That's pricey: 13 items that cost more, or will - CNBC

Tropicana, owned by PepsiCo, said last month it's raising prices on some of its juices by 4 percent to 8 percent to cope with higher costs due to cold weather damage of Florida citrus crops. That means shoppers are paying more for Tropicana and Dole fruit juices.

Simple rebuttals to denier talking points — with links to the full climate science « Climate Progress

Progressives should know the most commonly used arguments by the disinformers and doubters — and how to answer them.

The best remedy for the price of gas « Climate Progress

Requiring automakers to cut CO2 emissions 6% a year would help clean the air, slash our oil addiction and save motorists billions

More Tick Infections “Due To Global Warming” – German Inflation Fuelled By High Energy Costs

Here’s another “global warming is good for everything that’s bad, and bad for everything that’s good” story.

C3: Billionaire's Green-Toy Designed To Cool The World May Actually Warm It Say Scientists

Now comes confirmation from scientists that these cloud experiments are likely to do the opposite of what was originally thought (warming instead of cooling) - definitely the law of unintended consequences is in play when performing in a pretentious god-like manner. If these type of billionaires' experiments go awry, hopefully it would lead to massive global class-action lawsuits that will finally impoverish the dumb ass billionaire class once and for all.

Like Superman, American University Will Get Its Energy from the Sun | Standard Solar Inc.

WASHINGTON, DC (April 15, 2011) With a mandate for renewable energy in the District of Columbia in place, and a commitment to become carbon neutral by 2020, American University is installing one of the largest solar electricity systems in Washington, D.C. and the largest urban solar hot water system on the east coast.
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Last spring, American University announced its plans to neutralize greenhouse gas emissions and become a carbon-neutral campus by 2020. AU is reducing energy consumption, using wind power for 100% of its purchased electricity, exploring large-scale renewable energy development in the DC area, and planning to mitigate university travel emissions by supporting carbon offset projects this year. Plans are underway to create renewable energy on campus by installing a wind turbine, designed by an AU professor, to be placed atop a parking garage, and will install a generator that runs on used cooking oil from the campus dining hall.

Electricity from the solar photovoltaic panels will avoid more than 557 tons of carbon per year, the equivalent of eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from 57,500 gallons of gasoline annually, or nearly 1 million gallons over twenty years.

YouTube - Alexander Cockburn dumps on nuke loving greens and man made global warming

Acclaimed leftist journalist Alexander Cockburn at his home in Humboldt County, California.

Pacific salmon may be dying from leukemia-type virus - Sacramento Living - Sacramento Food and Wine, Home, Health | Sacramento Bee

The salmon run has been highly variable: The worst year came in 2009, with 1.5 million salmon, followed by the best year in 2010, with 30 million salmon. But the overall trend is downward.

Losses were particularly high in elevated river temperatures; warmer water makes it more difficult to deliver oxygen to the tissues of salmon.

Seven of the last 10 summers have been the hottest on record for the Fraser River. But experts say it's too soon to pin the blame on global warming.

"Clearly, a warming climate is going to produce some new stresses for Pacific salmon," said Daniel Schindler, a professor of aquatic and fishery sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. "Some of those stresses will certainly be expressed through increased susceptibility to disease, including something like this."

Gillard's carbon hopes up in smoke - National News - National - General - Myall Coast

THE Gillard government's plans to put a price on carbon have suffered a body blow, with key unions demanding exemptions for industry that are unacceptable to the Greens.

With his own job under threat from a hostile membership, the national secretary of the Australian Workers Union, Paul Howes, demanded yesterday that the steel industry be given a complete exemption from the carbon scheme and that there be generous compensation for the aluminium, cement and glass sectors.

Mr Howes issued the demand after a fiery crisis meeting with nine union branch secretaries from across Australia. It is understood Mr Howes, who is up for re-election before the next federal election, faced being dumped if he did not issue the demands.

The half-life of disaster | Brian Massumi | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Hurricane Katrina was a "natural" disaster only if you fail to note the effects of climate change on the water temperatures of the Gulf of Mexico, and the environmentally ruinous "management" by the US Corps of Engineers of the Mississippi River floodplain.

Extreme weather is moving tectonic plates, scientists claim | Mail Online

People who are ridiculed for saying that earthquakes are a result of global warming could actually be right, new research has found.

Long term climate change has the potential to spin the Earth's tectonic plates, according to a news study from the Australian National University.
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Dr Giampiero Iaffaldano from the ANU research school of earth sciences said that monsoon rain increased by four metres every year, speeding up the motion in the Indian plate by one centimetre a year.

Youth at environment summit unhappy with Obama policies - The Washington Post

On Friday, Hight and 10,000 other young clean-energy advocates will open the third Power Shift conference at the Washington Convention Center in the District. The three-day climate summit takes place every other year.

But instead of endorsing the president’s energy policy, as in 2009, they plan to lambaste it, saying that Obama is siding with what they consider to be the dark side — big oil and coal-fired power plants. Organizers are planning a demonstration Monday with 5,000 participants outside the White House.

Deniers!: 97% of Kenyans say climate change isn't their biggest concern

Kenyans concerned over rising food, fuel prices: - KBC News

Just a day after fuel prices went up, a new opinion poll shows that most Kenyans cited the rising food and fuel prices in the country as their biggest problem.

The latest poll released on Friday by synovate research indicates that 33 percent cited the price of food, the cost of fuel and poverty as their main area of concern.

Synovate Head of Research of Tom Wolf said that a majority of Kenyans are concerned with the high increase in the food prices in the country.

Of those polled, 26 percent said the issue of food, hunger and famine remained the most critical, 9pc cited unemployment, while 6pc said their biggest grouse was politics and the same number cited corruption and bribery.

Three percent said it is climate change , two percent said it is insecurity while one percent cited health, water, housing and education as their biggest problem.

Overviews far from a carbon copy

THE government has sharpened its message this time around, having failed under former prime minister Kevin Rudd to explain the emissions trading scheme adequately.

Gone is the rhetoric about climate change being ''the great moral challenge of our generation'' and the importance of protecting the environment from rising sea levels and one-in-1000-year weather events.

Now the government is spruiking the message that pricing carbon is about ''creating the jobs of the future'' and making the big emitters pay for their contribution to the problem.
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BusinessDay's survey of the ASX 50 suggests a fair degree of ambivalence towards pricing carbon - or at least a reluctance to discuss it publicly.

Twelve of the 50 backed Canberra's plan to introduce a carbon price, including some of the country's biggest emitters. But this support is heavily qualified, with calls for compensation for trade-exposed, emissions-intensive industries that would be disadvantaged against overseas rivals.

Three companies flatly opposed the move - Woodside, BlueScope and Coca-Cola Amatil. They said Australia should not move before rivals overseas, and pricing carbon threatened already struggling sectors.

Future farm: a sunless, rainless room indoors | ECN: Electronic Component News

DEN BOSCH, Netherlands (AP) -- Farming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines, where rainfall is irrelevant and where the climate is always right.

The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless building with meticulously controlled light, temperature, humidity, air quality and nutrition. It could be in a New York high-rise, a Siberian bunker, or a sprawling complex in the Saudi desert.
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Sunlight is not only unnecessary but can be harmful, says Meeuws. Plants need only specific wavelengths of light to grow, but in nature they must adapt to the full range of light as a matter of survival. When light and other natural elements are manipulated, the plants become more efficient, using less energy to grow.

"Nature is good, but too much nature is killing," said Meeuws, standing in a steaming cubicle amid racks of what he called "happy plants."

A Dark Economy - an inside perspective

Many of my international readers should know that Portugal is seeking a rescue package. The reason for the bailout? Strange as it may seem: a green economy that has gotten dark, so much darker... Portugal will be the ONLY country in the World, according to the IMF (check out Table 2.2), that will have a GDP negative growth in 2012! José Sócrates, Environment Minister between 1999 and 2002, and Prime Minister since 2005, is the person behind this tragedy. His green vision has brought Portugal some recognition amongst greenies, but mainly a dark future!

Almost everything imaginable in this Green promise has gone wrong. Murphy's law at its best

June 1934 : All 48 States Over 100 Degrees | Real Science

1934 used to be the hottest year – before USHCN and GISS worked their magic.

2006 : Time Magazine Reports That Global Warming Is Making The Earth Ill | Real Science

No one can say exactly what it looks like when a planet takes ill, but it probably looks a lot like Earth. Never mind what you’ve heard about global warming as a slow-motion emergency that would take decades to play out. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the crisis is upon us.

More firms move jobs, facilities out of California | vranich, jobs, moves - The Orange County Register

It's the fastest rate of departures since Vranich started tracking the exodus in 2009

Governments pick U.N. green fund delegates - baltimoresun.com

OSLO (Reuters) - Governments have agreed on a list of 40 delegates to design a "Green Climate Fund" to channel billions of dollars to poor nations, the United Nations said on Friday, ending disputes that delayed the first talks by a month.

How the Ice in Your Drink is Imperiling the Planet - Ecocentric - TIME.com

Want to save the Earth? Easy, just buy a couple of ice trays. To the long list of human inventions that are wrecking global climate—the internal combustion engine, the industrial era factory—add the automatic ice maker.

Honduran CO2 Project Is Evaluating EDF Contract Termination - Bloomberg

An emissions-cutting project in Honduras is evaluating Electricite de France SA’s termination of a contract to buy carbon credits.

EDF terminated yesterday its involvement with the Aguan biogas project in Central America, after an environmental lobby alleged that the facility’s owner committed human rights abuses.
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The company is investigating killings of 10 security guards and a 13-year-old boy in relation to “trespassing” on the site, he said.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Willliam Jefferson "Bill" Clinton in denial of reality

Bill Clinton, April 13, 2011 (The New York Oberserver):

"Now, there is almost nobody in denial about the reality of climate change,"

Mitch Daniels has quacky climate views a la Michael Crichton | Grist

[Daniels] Although there are scientists, and scientific studies, that are deeply skeptical of all these claims, they are rarely heard in what passes for public debate. The debate, so far, has been dominated by "experts" from the University of Hollywood and the P.C. Institute of Technology.

Joining this discussion will require more than technical competence; it will take courage, too. In what has become less a scientific than a theological argument, anyone raising a contrary viewpoint or even a challenging question is often subjected to vicious personal criticism. Any dissident voice is likely to be the target of a fatwa issued by one Alatollah or another of the climate change theocracy, branding the dissenter as a "denier" for refusing to bow down to the "scientific consensus."

YouTube - Bjorn Lomborg - Cool It (DVD) *Interview (Apr.12/11)

Late Show with David Letterman

Penn State: Colloquium on the Environment - Andrew Revkin is the keynote speaker for the 2010 7th Annual Colloquium on the Environment

While the media largely ignored the climate story until the last several years, Revkin spent more than 20 years immersed in this subject, producing more than 500 magazine and newspaper stories, two books, a prize-winning Discovery-Times documentary, Arctic Rush, and hundreds of posts on his blog. His reporting on the politic struggles over climate policy consistently led all competitors. In 2005 and 2006, he exclusively exposed efforts by political operatives to rewrite government climate reports in the White House and prevent NASA scientists from conveying their views on warming. His stories were quickly followed by the resignations of two presidential appointees.

1988 : Trenberth Was A Denier! | Real Science

Hansen was spewing the identical nonsense, but the rest of the team wasn’t on board yet.

Swan delusional: "carbon tax will save jobs" | Australian Climate Madness

Not sure whether Wayne Swan is a liar or a fool. Does he genuinely, honestly, truthfully believe that taxing our economy for no reason whatsoever and damaging our competitiveness will "save jobs"? If so, he's a fool - and a damn fine one at that.

NC Media Watch: Ready for some cooler weather?

There has been a strong explosive eruption of the Bezymianny volcano on Kamchatka Peninsula last night raising the alert code to RED for the region.

Preliminary reports indicate the ash billowing to least to 33,000 feet. The volcano's activity could affect international and low-flying aircraft, and climate according to experts.

NASA: Solar Activity Heats Up | Solar Cycle 25

News flash: The pot is starting to boil. "Finally," says Fisher, "we are beginning to see some action."

NBC News, CNBC, MSNBC All Particpating in NBCU’s 2011 ‘Earth Week’ - TVNewser

The networks of NBC Universal, including CNBC, MSNBC and NBC News, are all lining up green-themed programming for the 2011 installment of the company’s Green is Universal “Earth Week” April 17-24.

Protesting the ‘Green’ Revolution in Germany - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

It seems some Germans are concerned that thousands of new windmills and “high-voltage power masts” to replace nuclear power might be a blight on the countryside.

1969 Shock News : “Instant Ice Age On The Way” | Real Science

Minnesota Senate lifts curbs on new coal-fired power plants - TwinCities.com

Stressing a future need for reliable, affordable power, the Minnesota Senate voted Thursday to lift 4-year-old restrictions on new coal-fired power plants.
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When the act was approved and signed by then-Gov. Tim Pawlenty, it was hailed as a path to cleaner, homegrown energy generation. But the chief sponsor of the Senate bill, Sen. Julie Rosen, R-Fairmont, said provisions dealing with carbon-dioxide emission limits on plants such as coal have become obstacles to economic growth.

Is your dog really stupid enough to believe in the global warming hoax?

Eco-Friendly Store For Your Pooch; Eco-Dogs

Another co-founder and Vice president, Roger Franklin, said ” It is important to us to bring awareness as to how people can involve their pets in their eco-conscious efforts to prevent global warming and guarantee a sustainable environment. Thus, our slogan became ‘ leaving smaller carbon paw prints’.

Richard Littlemore | Lindzen Slipping from Ranks of "Credible" Scientists

Richard Lindzen has long been the "skeptic" community's scientific poster boy. In a world stuffed with deniers for hire such as S. Fred Singer and Tim Ball, who lecture on the topic of climate change regardless that they bring little or no relevant expertise to the subject, Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT and has served (many years ago) as a lead author on a chapter in the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Most of Lindzen's comments in this interview amount to little more than advising children to play with matches...
It's the argument you might hear from Smokey the Bear's evil cousin...

Al's Journal : Green Jobs Leading Michigan's Recovery

“The change raises the prospect that Michigan might one day be a
global hub for electric vehicles and advanced battery development,
along with biofuel technologies, wind power parts and solar panels.”

[Global warming hoax-related ridiculous carbon dioxide storage scam] to rival wool, says Garnaut - National News - National - General - Warren Advocate

STORING carbon dioxide in the landscape has the potential to be as important to the rural economy in 2020 as the entire Australia wool industry, the federal government's climate change adviser, Ross Garnaut, believes.

David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey: Climate Change Heads to the Supreme Court - WSJ.com

Most carbon-emitting activities make major contributions to economic growth and human civilization. There are no standards or emission caps created by the politically accountable branches of our government that courts can apply in determining which of these activities creates a "nuisance" and which does not. The rank absurdity of plaintiffs' claims should be obvious to the justices, who should rule decisively that the federal courts do not possess constitutional jurisdiction over climate change cases.

Crochet Blanket: Eco-Friendly Warmer for Cold Nights | Goseon Net

Did you know that by foregoing the use of an electric blanket and replacing this with a crochet blanket, you are helping decrease carbon dioxide emission by up to 108 pounds, within a three-month period?

Nano Patents and Innovations: Climate Change From Black Carbon Depends On Altitude

The team's research involved idealized simulations of adding a theoretical megatonne of black carbon uniformly around the globe at different altitudes in the atmosphere. They found that the addition of black carbon near the land and ocean surface caused the surface to heat. As the altitude of black carbon increased, surface warming decreased. The addition of black carbon to the stratosphere caused the land and oceans to cool. This cooling occurred despite the fact that the black carbon caused the Earth as a whole to absorb more energy from the sun. When black carbon is high in the atmosphere, it can lose its energy to space while helping to shade the land and ocean surface.

Power Shift 2011: Watch Live | Power Shift 2011

Check back Friday, April 15 at 7pm for a livestream of our opening keynote session featuring Al Gore and Van Jones.

BBC News - India's much-loved Alphonso mango hit by [cold winter]

A cold winter and unseasonable rains have led to a severe shortage of much-loved Alphonso mangoes in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay).

The price of the sweet-tasting fruit, used in religious rituals and in various drinks, has doubled from 2010.
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"This is a coastal area and the temperature hardly drops below 17 or 18C," said Dr Subhash Chavan, a fruit research expert.

"But it dipped [below that] for 65 days between December and February and as a result, the fertilisation process was adversely affected."

Grid Problems Force Rolling Wind-Farm Outages in Pacific Northwest - William Pentland - Clean Beta - Forbes

The seemingly endless expansion of wind power production in the United States has pushed large parts of the nation’s electric grid to the limits of its abilities. Now, in the Pacific Northwest, the power grid is pushing back as grid limitations could force Pacific Northwest wind power producers to shut down operations.

Greens "want higher carbon price" | Australian Climate Madness

Of course they do. They don't care about people not being able to pay their electricity bills, or living in excessive cold (or heat), or not being able to afford to buy groceries to feed their families. They don't care about humanity full stop. They only care about "saving the planet", so naturally, they want a carbon price as high as possible in order to shut down our economy to please Gaia. More evidence (should any be needed) that the Greens, being an extremist environmental advocacy group rather than a reputable political party, should never be trusted to ever hold any sway in the government of Australia.

Key union puts Julia Gillard on notice over carbon tax | The Australian

THE Gillard government has been warned that union support will be withdrawn from Labor's campaign to put a price on greenhouse gas emissions if it looks like "one job" will be lost because of the proposed carbon tax.
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In response to questions about today's meeting of AWU branch secretaries in Sydney, Mr Howes said he had attended six mass meetings of workers in the past 10 days and was facing angry demands to take action.

"I now appreciate just how upset workers are about the carbon tax," he said.

EPA Boss to Speak at Youth Climate Conference With Van Jones and International Socialists | NewsBusters.org

On Saturday, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Lisa Jackson will be giving the keynote speech at the Energy Action Coalition's Power Shift 2011 conference, a meeting of potentially 10,000 green youth activists in Washington, D.C.

According to the schedule, President Obama's former green jobs czar Van Jones will be speaking Friday evening, and members of the International Socialists Organization will be hosting a panel discussion Saturday

Hudson Bay Update | Real Science

By this date last year, Hudson Bay ice was already melting. This year, the area is forecast to be locked in a deep freeze for at least two more weeks. Looks like the Polar Bears will have plenty of ice for their daiquiris.

Bye Bye Bats? | The Resilient Earth

When night falls, many insects come out to feed, often on human food crops. Helping to turn back the pillaging insect hoards is an aerial armada of unsung and unloved heroes—bats. Bats are voracious predators of nocturnal insects, helping to control the populations of many crop and forest pests. Tragically, several migratory tree-dwelling species are being killed in unprecedented numbers by wind turbines across North America. Recent analysis presented in the journal Science suggests that reduced bat populations cause agricultural losses estimated at more than $3.7 billion/year and could rise as high as $53 billion/year if bats are driven to extinction. Oblivious to the carnage being caused by wind turbines, climate change alarmists and green political dupes have continued to push for rapid expansion of wind power. It is time to call a moratorium on wind park construction until a more realistic and less damaging policy can be formulated.

Overheated Arctic update: Ice Fireworks

Ice Fireworks | Facebook

It's hard to explain what -40C degrees is like, so we've provided a little demonstration. Please don't try this at home!!

-40C degrees means that you can throw a pan of boiling water and it will rain ice crystals.

Denmark has seen Ontario's future: Goldstein | Lorrie Goldstein | Columnists | Comment | Toronto Sun

20% of nordic nation’s electricity from wind power — with sky-high costs and no reduction in emissions

Walmart Has NOT Disavowed Political Correctness | National Legal and Policy Center

Reviews of news articles and press releases show there is no evidence that political correctness, “Green” products, organics or Dach are leaving Walmart any time soon.

Climate Lessons: Not Just Another Brick in the Wall: hey! teachers! leave them kids alone! – a climate change activist and psychotherapist has second thoughts about pushing her beliefs on to children

Ro Randall, who describes herself as ' psychoanalytically trained psychotherapist researching, writing and blogging on climate change', has posted some good thoughts on why climate activists pick on children, and why they might want to stop doing so

Writers on the Range: Don't blame it all on global climate change | SummitDaily.com

Recently, I was astonished to read a paper published by a prestigious institution that stated — without qualification — that Colorado's current bark beetle epidemic could be pinned on the donkey of climate change. More amazing yet, this paper said that Vail Resorts now seeds clouds because of the unreliable snow caused by climate change.

What's next, I wondered: Was I going to be told that the Great Recession was a consequence of warming temperatures? The diabetes epidemic? The hailstorm that took out my garden last June?

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Apr. 14th 2011 « The Daily Bayonet

Another element goes rogue, a warmist throws cold water on global warming models and marijuana gives Gaia more than the munchies.
All this and a seal-clubbing hottie, what could possibly go wrong?

ABC climate hoax promoter weighs in

ABC reporter: Cooperation key to stopping climate change - The Daily Cardinal - News

ABC News climate reporter Bill Blakemore said the public should focus on the ways in which it can combat global warming rather than worry about the specific effects of climate change such as greenhouse gases and warming ocean currents at a lecture Wednesday.

Blakemore said global warming is dangerous and progressing faster than expected, but humans can slow down its progression by changing their current habits that contribute to global warming.

"It's about what will humans do," Blakemore said. "That means it's a psychology story."

He said the United States is not as active in combating global warming as other nations and regions around the world are, specifically China and Europe.

This lack of action, according to Blakemore, is largely due to many Americans remaining in denial about global warming, which he said is undeniably influenced by humans.

Schwarzenegger, Davis tout California's commitment to fighting global warming | 89.3 KPCC

"When we're trying to build renewables out in the desert," said Davis, "and people say, 'Well, I don't like the noise of these wind farms, they're too loud. I don't like the glare of these solar panels, and I don't want a transmission line coming within 5 miles of my property.' Get real! I mean you've got to make choices in life."
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Schwarzenegger argues reducing dependence on foreign oil is a crucial part of an energy policy adapted to climate change. Trouble is, he says, Democratic and Republican leaders at the national level aren't doing anything about it.

“We have no vision," says Schwarzenegger. "We have no goal. We do not know in Washington right now what do we need 20 years from now how much oil do we need, how much onshore drilling do we need, how much offshore drilling do we need, how much renewable energy do we need, how much energy conservation do we need, how many nuclear plants do we need, we don't know any of that.”

[If we have no vision or goal on energy, why, exactly are we spending so much money on the United States Department of Energy?] - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

President Barack Obama unveiled on May 7 a $26.4 billion budget request for DOE for fiscal year (FY) 2010, including $2.3 billion for the DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). The budget aims to substantially expand the use of renewable energy sources while improving energy transmission infrastructure. It also makes significant investments in hybrids and plug-in hybrids, in smart grid technologies, and in scientific research and innovation.[5]

As part of the $789 billion economic stimulus package in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Congress provided Energy with an additional $38.3 billion for fiscal years 2009 and 2010, adding about 75 percent to Energy's annual budgets.

Our grandchildren are saved!: EPA and Bill Clinton will partner to spend your money somehow in Arkansas today in a way that will allegedly result in better weather after we're all dead!

04/14/2011: EPA Awards City of Little Rock $500,000 in Climate Showcase Communities Grant

(DALLAS – April 14, 2011) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today the City of Little Rock, Ark., is receiving $500,000 in Climate Showcase Communities grant funding. The project will implement an innovative program that partners with industry and its employees to achieve energy savings.

Little Rock joins 22 other communities across the country receiving a total of $8.3 million in funding, including three Indian Tribes, to pilot innovative local strategies to combat climate change. These new grantees join 25 other communities previously awarded funding in 2010.
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“Little Rock is looking forward to partnering with EPA to showcase the efforts of the Clinton Foundation energy conservation project,” said Little Rock Mayor Mark Stodola. “I am particularly excited about the tool-kit that will be created for employers to help their employees reduce home energy footprint and costs.”
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“The goal of the Clinton Climate Initiative of Arkansas (CCI AR) is to improve health and increase wealth for individual homeowners by reducing utility costs and improving indoor air quality,” said CCI AR Program Director Martha Jane Murray. Our program will demonstrate green job creation and enhance economic development in the Little Rock community with the products and services associated with energy retrofits.”

LegalNewsline | Article argues for dismissal of states' global warming case

"At the heart of each issue facing the Supreme Court is the stark reality of what the plaintiffs have asked the federal judiciary to do: set environmental policy for addressing a global issue through party-driven litigation, on a piecemeal basis with the distinct likelihood of conflicting decisions, rather than through politically accountable legislative or administrative processes," DeLaquil and Rivkin write.

The scientific issues at hand are "complex" and "contentious," the lawyers argue. "Federal judges are selected for their legal acumen, not their scientific expertise, and it does the public and judiciary a disservice to require them to decide such exceptionally complicated scientific disputes," they add.

Andrew Klavan: A New Definition of Science | Benzinga.com

To me, global warming is a problem that ranks in seriousness just below the issue of what color pocket handkerchief I'll be wearing to the royal wedding... and no, I'm not invited... and if I were, I wouldn't wear a pocket handkerchief. But as I've read about and investigated the matter, there always seemed to me to be a scintilla of a sliver of a scrap of a possibility that there might be something to it. This article by former climate alarmist David Evans from last week's Financial Post is the clearest debunking of the whole thing I've yet read and may be the last word on the subject I ever read:

The whole idea that carbon dioxide is the main cause of the recent global warming is based on a guess that was proved false by empirical evidence during the 1990s. But the gravy train was too big, with too many jobs, industries, trading profits, political careers, and the possibility of world government and total control riding on the outcome. So rather than admit they were wrong, the governments, and their tame climate scientists, now outrageously maintain the fiction that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant.

The article goes into precise and concise detail on what is happening and why - short, to the point and perfect for us non-scientists. It seems to me we need a new definition of science: theory supported by observation and experimentation over-ridden by money.

The Climate Refugee Hoax - Investors.com

Junk Science: Five years ago, the U.N. predicted that by 2010 some 50 million people would be fleeing climate change, rising seas, mega-hurricanes and so on. Instead, no islands have sunk and their populations are booming.

It's been said that when you make a prediction and provide a date, never give a number, and if you give a number, never provide a date. That way you can always claim to be right, even when you are wrong, and that it just hasn't happened yet.

WASHINGTON: Higher energy prices push wholesale prices higher | Business | Kentucky.com

Food prices dipped last month, after soaring by the most in 36 years in February because of a harsh winter freeze that raised the cost of fresh vegetables.

California dreaming: Which personal lifestyle choices today will do the most to lessen the intensity of Asian storms in 2060?

When it comes to carbon footprints, location and lifestyle matter

With the help of Jones and Kammen, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) has launched a similar website, CoolCalifornia.org, designed to be a one-stop-shop to motivate and connect the millions of Californians who are taking action to minimize carbon footprints.
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These ideas will also be explored at the Behavior, Energy and Climate Change Conference, which is being coordinated in part by the UC Berkeley team and will be held in Washington, D.C., from Nov. 29 to Dec. 2.

“Most people are willing and many are actively seeking how to live more climate-friendly lifestyles. The question is whether we can do it fast enough to reduce some of the worst impacts of climate change. Figuring out what makes the greatest impact seems like a good first place to start,” Jones said.

Brainwashed youth to be offered this proposition: If we switch from Big Oil to Big Solar, we can prevent hurricanes?

Standard Solar’s CEO Tony Clifford to Educate Young Environmental Leaders During Power Shift 2011 | EON: Enhanced Online News

ROCKVILLE, Md.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Standard Solar, Inc., a leader in the full-service development, installation and financing of solar electric systems for commercial, government and residential customers, today announced that CEO Tony Clifford will share his solar advocacy expertise during Power Shift 2011 - a historic summit for 10,000+ young leaders, being held April 15 – 18 in Washington, DC. Power Shift 2011 is designed to help young leaders obtain the skills they need to create clean and just energy solutions in communities around the country and around the world.

Snowmelt runoff leading to ND oil spills - Beaumont Enterprise

Williams County Emergency Manager Mike Hallesy says there was record snowfall in the Williston area this past winter, and water from snowmelt this spring is running over fields and swamping oil well sites.

Sales pitch for carbon tax unleashes a dog of a proposition

''One million people will be better off'' is the USP with which the Minister for Climate Change, Greg Combet, hopes to persuade the public to buy his shiny new carbon tax.

I almost choked on my 100 per cent natural grain Wheaties. This must be a really crappy product.

There can be only one genuine way to sell the carbon tax, and that is by advertising the fact that it will prevent anthropogenic warming. It's like Mortein. I buy it because I have a nasty problem that needs eradicating. Excessive CO2 emissions around your home? Stop them dead with the new carbon tax! Available at all good stores.

It's instructive to think of how the GST was sold to a less than enthusiastic public. Basically, it was the castor oil strategy - this stuff is going to taste slightly unpleasant, but it's going to do us all a power of (economic) good. And it worked. Arguably that is the only honest way of selling the carbon tax, too. Self-sacrifice for the greater good. In this case, of mankind.

Yet despite all the political shenanigans of the past few years and a massive teaser campaign for more than a decade (rising sea-levels, end of the world, Al Gore) "the greater good" is not the USP with which the government has chosen to sell this product.

Which must mean, to put it bluntly, that the product doesn't work.

Overheated planet update: Official iceout on Lake Minnetonka more than a month later this year than in 1878

Official Ice Out on Lake Minnetonka

MINNETONKA, Minn. - The Hennepin County sheriff’s office declared an official ice out at 6 a.m. Thursday [April 14] – another welcoming sign of spring despite a chance of snow in the weekend forecast.

Lake Minnetonka Iceout Dates

Earliest Ice-Out: March 11, 1878
Latest Ice-Out: May 8, 1856
Earliest to Latest: 59 days
Most Common Ice-Out: April 17 & 18 - 9 times.
Average Ice-Out: April 15 (Ice-Out has never occurred on this date.)...

Climate Science Myths And Misconceptions – Post #2 On The Metric Of Global Warming | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Misconception #2: The global average annual temperature average is an appropriate metric to diagnose global warming.

Cold weather delays asparagus harvest (w/ gallery) | Northwest News - The News Tribune

Miller, of Airport Ranch Inc., is among several Mid-Columbia growers who said cold weather has delayed asparagus harvest this year.

Sony mulls two-week summer break to save energy

Sony said on Thursday it was considering having all its employees in Japan take two-week summer vacations to save energy, amid power shortages in the aftermath of the March 11 disasters.

By shutting down offices, air conditioners, elevators, and other facilities, the electronics giant believes it could save up to 25 percent of the power it normally consumes during the peak summer months, said a Sony spokesman.
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Analysts have warned of the likely slowdown of the economy through this summer, as manufacturers are forced to limit production due to the power shortfall.

Climate, Communication and the 'Nerd Loop' - NYTimes.com

The last link is particularly important, given that it shows, among other things, that those dismissing human-driven global warming tend to have a more accurate picture of the basic science than those alarmed by it.

Bezymianny the next high latitude impact volcano? «

Climatologists may disagree on how much the recent global warming is natural or manmade but there is general agreement that volcanism constitutes a wildcard in climate, producing significant global scale cooling for at least a few years following significant eruptions. However, there are some interesting seasonal and regional variations of the effects.

Oman and Robock (2003) and others have shown that though major volcanic eruptions seem to have their greatest cooling effect in the summer months, the location of the volcano determines whether the winters are colder or warmer over large parts of North America and Eurasia. According to Oman, tropical region volcanoes like El Chichon and Pinatubo actually produce a warming in winter due to a tendency for a more positive North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and Arctic Oscillation (AO) – below left top and bottom. In the positive phase of these large scale pressure oscillations, low pressure and cold air is trapped in high latitudes and the resulting more westerly jet stream winds drives milder maritime air into the continents.

Volcano Eruptions & Climate Change | Extreme Cold Winters, Weather & Climate Extremes | Laki Volcano, Iceland | Our Amazing Planet

The eruption of a volcano in Iceland is often blamed for the unusually harsh winter of 1783 to 1784 around the North Atlantic. But new research lays the blame for the extreme cold elsewhere.

Scientists find that the extremes of cold back then might actually have been triggered by the same climate effects potentially responsible for the unusually cold and snowy winter that Europe and North America experienced from 2009 to 2010.

These new findings shed light on how extremes in natural variability in climate have played — and still play — a key role in our world today, along with any recent global warming effects, the researchers said.

Biofuels targets are 'unethical', says Nuffield report | MAARS News

Professor Tait told BBC News: “It is clear that current EU policies as currently produced and incentivised are unsuitable and unethical. We clearly need a new overarching ethical standard backed up by certification to improve the way the world produces biofuels.”

Responding to the challenge from some campaigners that cropland should not be used to fuel the cars of the rich, she said: “There are numerous conflicts with food crops..."

Massachusetts: For alarmists, more dismal polling results

Mass. residents differ on threat from manmade climate change - The Green Blog - A Boston Globe blog on living Green in Boston

The survey, called “The 80 Percent Challenge: A Survey of Climate Change Opinion and Action in Massachusetts” found that 77 percent of those surveyed say global warming has probably been happening – and 33 percent believe it is caused at least partially by human activity and very serious. Another 26 percent, however, who believe it is real and caused somewhat by humans do not see it as a serious threat.

Twenty-four percent of residents are considered “dubious”, meaning they are unsure global warming is real or believe it is drive by natural causes while another 17 percent are “dismissive”, meaning they do not believe it is real.
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• Only a third of residents with annual incomes above $100,000 say it will be a very serious problem for Massachusetts if left unaddressed compared to half (49 percent) of residents with income between $50,000 and $100,000 annually.

Cold weather destroying ozone in the Arctic

BBC ever so subtly tries to blame humans

Hide the decline - Did CRU loose their unadjusted Hadcrut temperature data in the 1980´ies?

1) If CRU are aware what adjustments they have made to their temperature data, why should they not be able to fast obtain unadjusted data again? Therefore: If CRU cannot deliver unadjusted data, they appear not aware of what adjustments they have done. But are these not peer reviwed, documented?

2) If CRU lost data in the 1980´ies why have they not delivered unadjusted data from the last 3 decades?

Mike Casey | Gambling when we don’t have to

Two weeks ago, I visited the office of a friend of mine, a partner at a top cleantech Silicon Valley law firm. He and I shared a concern about the increasingly hostile, anti-clean energy propaganda from dirty energy-funded critics who are trying to position clean energy as expensive, subsidy-dependent, and “not ready.” The good news, my friend said, was that he’s increasingly hearing from cleantech executives and investors concerned about these growing attacks on their investments. The bad news was that many of those concerned don’t connect the attacks with the dirty energy money that’s funding them.

“Now what cleantech needs to hear is, ‘No more Mr. Nice Guy’,” he told me. “These [dirty energy] guys are out to kick our butts, and they will if we let them.”

Monopile retrofits and designs going forward: Room for grout? | Wind Energy Update

Roughly 600 of Europe’s installed 948 offshore turbines have been prone to grout connection failure, causing turbines to tilt within their monopile foundations.

FLASHBACK: Donald Trump and his hair join the climate zombies « Climate Progress

[Trump] “Gore wants us to clean up our factories and plants in order to protect us from global warming, when China and other countries couldn’t care less. It would make us totally noncompetitive in the manufacturing world, and China, Japan and India are laughing at America’s stupidity.” The crowd of 500 stood up and cheered.

Follow the Krill: A New Theory on Penguins' Decline - NYTimes.com

Just what is ailing the Southern Ocean penguins?

For a long time, the answer seemed to be that their icy habitat was being lost to global warming.

But as the BBC and others reported on Tuesday, a new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggests that isn’t the case.

Stockwell asks: Is the Atmosphere Still Warming? | Watts Up With That?

I suspect that the only really convincing evidence against global warming is a sustained period of no global warming or cooling — climate sensitivity and feedbacks are too esoteric.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Oxfam uses people in need to spread false climate change propaganda

It is quite clear that people in need - both in Uganda and the Claretet Islands - should get help, but to use their plight in order to promote false global warming/climate change propaganda is immoral, to say the least.

A nation of fickle fools | Climate Change

Most Australians say they don't want a carbon tax.

Vote us: we’ll give you back half your money | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

I’d say this is becoming a farce - if it wasn’t one already.

Combet, Gillard and Brown are trying to sell us a used tax | Herald Sun

The stupidity and dishonesty is also captured and projected in the claim that on the one hand "only" the so-called big polluters will pay. But about half of you will be "compensated", indeed over-compensated.

Compensated for what? If only the polluters are paying?

Further Combet - and Gillard - continue to tell lies about China. They must know they are lying. But again incredibly, they also appear to believe what they say - having a bizarre ability to "not see" all the new coal-fired power stations that China is opening.

There is a very clear bottom line. This is a huge tax. It will grow to be at least half the size of the GST, perhaps even more.

Socialists of the World Unite for Youth Climate Conference | Watts Up With That?

Starting Friday, April 15 in Washington DC, we will be able to witness an absolutely surreal public display of anti-capitalist, extreme far-left community organizing, all wrapped in the cloak of climate change / clean energy activism: The Power Shift Youth Climate Conference. Can we finally stipulate that there exists a well-organized nexus of scientists/politicians/organizations that wish to solve the “climate crisis”, and are using the issue as a political tool to further their leftist agenda? From the list of speakers, partners, and Workshop Titles, there is certainly no doubt about the motivations of this collection of greens. Arrogant, condescending scientists and politicians sneer at so-called anti-science, Big Oil Republicans and demand global warming adherence as a litmus test for elected office. Instead, advocate scientists and environmentalists should be continually questioned about their motivations prior to consideration of their extreme|draconian policy prescriptions. I’m getting really tired of their holier-than-thou-attitude.

Video: Climate of Corruption

On Friday, April 8, in the Longworth House of Representatives office building, the Cooler Heads Coalition hosted Professor Larry Bell, author of “Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power behind the Global Warming Hoax,” for a Congressional briefing on his new book.

Video of Professor Bell’s excellent presentation is available here.

Bolivia: Where adaptation equals abandonment « Climate Progress

The UK Guardian’s John Vidal has doing a series of pieces on Bolivia and climate change. It really drives home the point that for most people in the developing world, “adapting” to human-caused climate change is simply going to mean abandoning their homes:

El Alto, city of rural migrants whose crops failed when the climate changed | John Vidal | Global development | guardian.co.uk

Hundreds of thousands of people have flooded in from the countryside to find work and opportunity, but increasingly the reason they give for moving is that frequent droughts, erratic rainfall, heatwaves, unseasonal frosts and floods have made conditions too hard to grow crops.

C3: When Did Hottest Sea-Surface Temperatures Occur? Newest Research Says During Medieval Period

Newton et al. analyzed sediment cores from the Makassar Strait between the Indian and Pacific Oceans and confirmed that the hottest sea-surface temperatures took place some 800+ years ago, during the Medieval Period. These scientists noted that Medieval Warming took place during a solar activity maximum.

RealClimate: The warm beer chart

Perhaps a way to connect with Joe Sixpack?

Obama’s Stupid Car Tricks - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Fiat just earned 5 percent more ownership in Chrysler for creating a product no one has bought yet.

‘Gaia Joins the Global Mob’ - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Mafias hate free markets and free societies; it’s bad for their “business.” So it’s only logical that the world’s greatest criminal enterprise (aka the United Nations) should provide the setting for a fanciful scheme to destroy free enterprise. It will come in the form of a Bolivian-sponsored global treaty promoting the “rights” of “Mother Earth.” According to a report in Postmedia News, the Bolivian proposal will be a global version of the country’s new Law of the Rights of Mother Earth, which created a Ministry of Mother Earth in order to give Mother equal status with humans.

The new treaty reflects the long-standing efforts of the country’s leader, Evo Morales, to “save the planet” from human depredations. To that end, Morales has proposed 10 “commandments,” the first of which, predictably enough, is “to end capitalism.”

George Mason University “Climate Change Communicator of the Year” – where only one viewpoint is allowed | Watts Up With That?

Heh, what can you say? Read some of the glowing nominations at the links below. It’s pure self aggrandizement wrapped in a delusional comedy. I got the biggest chuckle from seeing skepticalscience.com listed as an “organization”. Mike Mann’s nomination letter #5 link in individual nominees is a hoot also. Lest some think this is some sort of sour grapes, it isn’t. It is simply humorous that only one type of communications apparently passes muster and the nominators are all part of the same club

Barrow Sea Ice Continues To Get Thicker | Real Science

Seal Population Has Quadrupled In The Last Forty Years | Real Science

Another alarmist author demonstrates that he/she is incapable of coherent thought.

GISS Completely Loses The Plot In March | Real Science

Hansen thinks most of Greenland was hot in March. 2-10C above normal.

RSS (which actually has data in Greenland) shows March very cold. 2-4C below normal.

2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 0 | Real Science

Last year was the hottest year ever. This past winter was the hottest winter ever in the Arctic. Arctic ice has the lowest volume and is the thinnest on record. Sea ice extent is lowest on record. All of these declarations have been made by government experts.

If they were telling the truth, then NSIDC’s March report couldn’t possibly be true.
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We are being lied to by people who are funded by our tax dollars.

Leading German Meteorology Expert Calls Fighting Climate Change “A Senseless Physical Endeavour”

At his Der Wettermann website retired German meteorologist Dr. Wolfgang Thüne is calling for an immediate stop of all state-funded climate research.

Nuclear danger the issue, not climate change

The latest Nanos poll shows only six per cent of Canadians say they are concerned about environment, but that only 3.4 per cent of Canadians intend to vote Green.

Corn passes wheat | Des Moines Register Staff Blogs

. A fresh concern in the markets this week is the weather forecast for Iowa and much of the Corn Belt, which indicates several days of wet, cold weather than will delay planting and possible push some acres badly needed for corn back into soybeans.

Bad weather causes dome collapse of ice-skating arena in North Ossetia | Vestnik Kavkaza

Heavy snow in Vladikavkaz continued on April 12 and 13.

The dome was covered in too much snow. It broke when people started removing the snow. No one was injured, Mir reports.
The weather has now improved.
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Heavy snow in North Ossetia caused the radio and television tower of the Alania Channel to bent on April 13. The Trans-Caucasus Highway connecting South Ossetia and Russia closed.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Myron Ebell of the CEI talking on Global Warming

This comes highly regarded but my connection is a little slow. Myron Ebell chairs the Cooler Heads Coalition, which comprises over two dozen non-profit groups in the USA and abroad that question global warming alarmism and oppose energy rationing policies.

UK carbon price floor to harm businesses-Pt Carbon | Reuters

(Reuters) - Britain's plan to introduce a price floor for carbon emissions permits from 2013 could push the UK carbon price to 54 euros a tonne by 2020 and harm UK businesses, Point Carbon analysts said.

Gillard plays down Windsor carbon comments

However independent MP Tony Windsor, who is on the committee working on the scheme, said on Thursday while he believed a carbon price could create renewable energy jobs in the bush he would not "vote for something that does nothing".

"There is no carbon tax, there may not be a carbon tax," Mr Windsor told ABC radio.

"The prime minister doesn't have the numbers, as I understand it at the moment.

Surge in green frauds anticipated in the near future, shows PwC report - News - Business Review

ency in fraud and market abuse has emerged, as the scale of sustainable business activity and green projects grows while the controls and systems that protect them remain relatively weak, shows a PwC report.

Programs such as the EU Trading Scheme (which covers approximately 11,000 installations across Europe, or half of the EU’s greenhouse gas emissions - worth nearly USD 120 billion) are now of such a size that they are attracting the serious attention of professional criminals, continues the information from PwC.

“We are seeing a surge in frauds with a green element. Often this is down to a lack of a mature information security policies and controls”, stated Daniel Anghel (in picture), Partner, Indirect Tax, PwC Romania.

Popular Technology.net: 900+ Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of "Man-Made" Global Warming (AGW) Alarm

Read: The following papers support skepticism of AGW or AGW Alarm defined as, "concern relating to a negative environmental or socio-economic effect of AGW, usually exaggerated as catastrophic."

We're saved!: Clinton and Bloomberg will attempt to prevent bad weather by tweaking trace amounts of invisible, natural, harmless atmospheric gas!

President Clinton and Mayor Bloomberg Join Forces to Combat Climate Change

Today, President Bill Clinton and New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced the expanded alliance between the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (C40) and the Cities Program of the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), a program of the William J. Clinton Foundation. Mayor Bloomberg serves as the Chair of the C40.

Joe Romm: 4C Climate Change [Hoax] Communicator of the Year?

His post typifies the blunt and courageous approach Romm takes to "the story of the century": "A stunning year in climate science reveals that human civilization is on the precipice."

For these reasons, Joe Romm is unusually deserving of this award. I give him my strongest possible endorsement for it.

Nominated by:

Michael E. Mann