"The days of fossil fuels are over," he said. "The trouble is we're going to run out of atmosphere first."
Turner is involved with promoting clean energy, favoring solar, wind and geothermal projects. He has reservations about natural gas and opposes the resurgence of nuclear power.
"Who wants to have a nuclear power plant in their backyard today?"
Because of the unfolding calamity of climate change, I have strongly supported the nuke plant ban repeal.
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James P. Lenfestey is a former editorial writer for the Star Tribune, specializing in energy and education.
Some argue that, since it is illegal to engage in activities that could harm or kill threatened or endangered species, Americans should be forced to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to preserve polar bear habitat. While such a notion hasn’t forced many of us to voluntarily drive fewer miles or turn down our heat, it might be just what it will take the world’s largest land carnivore from going the way of the dodo.
Scientists are recognising that CO2 is becoming less of a factor and that black carbon soot instead is being recognised increasingly as the a driver of warming in the Arctic. Time to go back and revamp the models – again.New figures show the lights may go out sooner than we thought - Telegraph
Our coal-fired power stations are closer to extinction than predicted, and wind power stubbornly refuses to fill the gap, says Christopher Booker.Global Warming Skeptics Conserve Energy As Much As Believers
Insisting that people not only act the right way but truly believe is religion, not public policy, so doing the right thing is good enough.Middlemen's profits through the roof
CORPORATE ''middlemen'' are pocketing $1200 for doing little more than assigning inspectors to conduct safety checks on homes for the federal government's botched insulation program.Jeff Reinartz: Earth Day part of the greens' desire for control - Post Bulletin
I’m likely to be dismissed by many as a planet hating, SUV-driving barbarian in love with big oil, and that’s fine. The truth of the matter is I love America, and I don’t want my freedoms and liberties regulated by socialist elites.
Make no mistake. The greens are coming. They’re coming for your light bulbs, your plastic bags, your shower head, your thermostat and eventually even your car. They seek to regulate every aspect of your consumption even as they, their Hollywood cronies and their allies in government have bigger “carbon footprints” than all of us.
In fact, the report predicts winter temperatures here will rise 6 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit by the end of the century, with summer temps climbing 8 to 18 degrees higher.
And because of its reliance on dairy farming, forestry and tourism, Wisconsin would face more significant effects than other states. By 2050, Wisconsin could face a loss of $6.2 billion in gross domestic product and nearly 39,000 jobs.
The report was written by the American Security Project, a nonprofit, bipartisan public policy organization working on a range of issues. The group is chaired by former Sen. Gary Hart and includes both military and political leaders.
A shadowy lobby group which pushes the case that global warming is a real threat is being funded by the taxpayer and assisted by the BBC.Barrow Meltdown Continues | Real Science
-20C and rotten ice now five feet thick.High-Speed Rail Is Failing in China - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Oh my. Whatever will Tom Friedman and President Obama say about this?The U.N. Is The Enemy Of Climate Science
When advocates take center stage and make cringe-worthy statements over and over again, they actually hurt the science they are advocating. The UN has said baffling things to such an extent they have hurt the reputation of climate science, resulting in backlash about climate change because no one knows what to believe any more.
Why do you think a NASA scientist would start the graph at 1980 when there is data all the way back to 1955? Oh, here's why.
Er … say five Rachel Carsons and sing three Bob Dylan songs, my fellow planetary traveler, and go thee out and sin no more.
Let’s not pretend that religion has left the public square.
In order to address the percolating issue of global warming, Starbucks customers have to bring their useable paper cups or tumblers in the selected stores in the US and Canada to get a free brewed coffee in lieu of it. Moreover, if they don’t have any useable cup or tumbler, they can get a 20% discount on the useable paper cups and tumblers of Starbucks.
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Responding to the spiraling acute concern of global warming, Kathleen Rogers, President of Earth Day Network, claimed, "This is really about moving people beyond environmental education and getting everybody to commit to at least one thing—as evidence, we hope, to the world governments that one in seven people on the planet has taken an action".
- Why is the Gillard Government handing over so much money?Climate Scientists Answer Question: Should climate sensitivity be measured by global average surface temperature anomaly? « ClimateQuotes.com
This post deals with the the question of whether or not climate sensitivity should be measured by global average surface temperature anomaly. I asked multiple climate scientists their opinion, and their responses are below.Google to buy 100.8 megawatts of Oklahoma wind energy | Grist
this week's big money move -- the third so far this month -- is different. It also involves wind but is a power purchase agreement (known as a PPA in the utility trade) rather than a direct investment in a specific project.C3: Michael Tobis Unhinged: Climate Alarmist Scientist Unleashes F* Word Tirade In A Doomsday-Cult Cant
....In this case, it has committed to a 20-year contract to buy the electricity generated by a 100.8-megawatt wind farm called Minco II that NextEra will build in Oklahoma, where a new Google data center is set to go online later this year.
The fact that he seems to truly believe the planet is at stake because of CO2 suggests a personality that can't distinguish reality from the virtual world his climate models simulate, which he must think he exists in.
Folks, seriously, the man needs help.
Damage is unquestionably extensive in the northern San Luis Obispo and Southern Monterey counties around Paso Robles, Calif., and north to the King City area where tender 2011 crop buds were fried from hours of mid-20 degree temperatures.The Blackboard » Record for ‘f’ words in a climate blog post?
Some vineyards may not have a crop to harvest this fall due to the April 8-10 frost.
Does Michael’s rant represent a Greg Craven moment?EU Referendum: Cashing in the carbon
Soon enough, we will be seeing fare hikes to pay for this absurdity, but customers will doubtless be comforted by the thought that they are increasing the profits of firms such as International Power, which has put 100 men on the dole to gain its extra credits. Clearly, the benefits of the EU just keep multiplying. Why on earth would we ever want to leave?A faith-based wake-up call on Earth Day « Climate Progress
If, among other things, the crucifixion remembered by Christians on Good Friday is an example of humankind’s blindness and cruelty, then certainly our lack of action on environmental issues is another example of our penchant for blindness to reality and cruelty to future generations.
Maybe what we need to be praying for on Earth Day 2011 is an Easter of sorts, when our nation wakes up to the pressing—even desperate—needs of the Earth and commits itself to passing along to future generations a clean and viable planet.
...journalists who work to “balance” a story present an inaccurate picture when they give equal weight to sources promulgating inaccurate facts.
“If I report a story on abuse of children, I don’t go out and interview an abuser on the up-side of child abuse,” he said as an example of how an effort to balance can go too far.
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Shelby said that when he first began to report on climate change, much of the science was unsettled. Most of the “other side” coverage was really about those who disagreed over details of theory.
“When the science began to grow conclusively, the PR machines of the (right-wing and libertarian) think tanks … began to hire and sponsor scientists with pretty good credentials. Those scientists ‘cherry-picked’ information from massive studies and found fault with them. Rather than taking the intellectually honest approach and saying that the body and conclusions of the study were strong, they wished to show that the entire science was flawed.”
Nick Griffin MEP left climate change Eurocrats lost for words this week after a stinging attack on the global warming hoax during a speech in Brussels.
Speaking at a debate of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, of which he is a member, Mr Griffin called EU biofuel policy a disaster, anthropogenic global warming “non-existent” and wind farms “Mickey Mouse technology”.
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Mr Griffin went on to blast the EU’s folly of blowing $100 billion on fighting the discredited pseudo science of global warming that voters regard as “a tax rip-off by the banks and political elite”.
“Just a few years ago, the global warming alarmists were telling us that we’d never see snow again in the UK … No wonder the public, who have more sense than most MEPs, reject this childish big lie,” he said.
In honor of Earth Day 2011, here are the Top 10 Environmental Scams:Excellent News : We Wont Freeze Until The Year 2000 | Real Science
1. Global warming alarmism
All-in-all, a welcome change in tone by at least one influential part of the Warmist camp.
Don’t get pulled off into a science debate with someone who’s not even a climate scientist.
At the Green Net conference in San Francisco, Microsoft's chief environmental strategist, Rob Bernard, talks about how the company is examining climate change by studying carbon cycles and the massive amounts of carbon sequestered in the top layers of soils around the world. For example, in the Amazon, Microsoft scientists are deploying sensors on the forest floor, measuring the rate of decay and then gauging the impact on global warming.
...As Bjorn Lomborg wrote just the day before in the Washington Post, “China was responsible for half of the world’s production of solar panels in 2010, but only 1 percent was installed there… solar is responsible for one-half of one-thousandth of 1 percent” of China’s energy.
You see, the Chinese make the things not because they work (they don’t, in any meaningful sense of the word), but to satisfy Western mandates made from political vanity, as well, apparently, as Western policymakers’ lack of intellectual curiosity.
This is California’s “Music Man”. For Simpsons’ fans, it’s their Monorail.
"SunPower recently received a $1.2 billion loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy that will finance construction costs."
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Citing the pressing need to address global climate change, San Luis Obispo County supervisors Tuesday approved a 250-megawatt solar project on the Carrizo Plain.
Greg Blue, project manager with applicant SunPower Corp., said the company will now concentrate on fulfilling 148 conditions the county is requiring before construction can begin by the end of August.
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Three of the supervisors -- Adam Hill, Bruce Gibson and Jim Patterson -- spoke of the need for such photovoltaic plants in order to begin curbing society's greenhouse gas emissions, which are expected to dramatically disrupt global climate patterns.
"If you want to see parts of Bangladesh underwater because you are against solar panels on the Carrizo Plain, I won't join you," Hill said.
Supervisors also praised the work SunPower did to redesign the project in order to minimize undesirable effects, particularly in protecting endangered species such as the giant kangaroo rat.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) was once a champion of policies like cap-and-trade to combat global warming pollution, but he now calls his past climate leadership “stupid” and a “disaster.”
The polar explorer who worked with Pawlenty to “convince the skeptics” and find solutions to greenhouse pollution from oil and coal, Will Steger, is now “baffled” by Pawlenty’s reversal. In an interview with Mother Jones, Steger says that he believed “morally we were on the same level” when they met in 2006, and praised the governor’s acts of leadership in 2007 to build “unity in this community” around a clean energy economy. Now, however, Steger — who has conquered both the North Pole and Antarctica — feels defeated by Pawlenty’s “reckless” abandonment of our children’s future
So what’s the true cost of an electric car? Hard to say. Sticker prices are high–Chevrolet’s Volt has an MSRP of $40,280, while the Nissan Leaf is priced at $32,780–but buyers get a $7,500 tax credit that reduces the cost. The government even gives tax credits to buyers of the $109,000 Tesla Roadster.
The tax credits are merely the most visible form of federal support. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who spoke at today’s event, said the government has invested $5 billion so far to electrify the nation’s transportation system.
...Ecotality, for example, which makes the Blink charging stations, is leading a $230 million initiative, half of which is funded by DOE, that plans to install more than 15,000 EV charging stations in the coming months. [How many charging stations will there be for every electric vehicle?]
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I asked Secretary Chu and Ed Markey when they thought electric cars would be able to compete without subsidies.
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“Hopefully, by the end of this decade, we’re going to be at parity,” Chu said.
Very roughly, because the numbers are trade secrets, electric-car batteries cost up to $1,000 per kilowatt. The Leaf has a 24 kwh battery, the Volt a 16kwh battery...
“You can’t pick the exact year” when subsidies will not longer be necessary,” Markey said, “but Saudi Arabia helped us this past weekend by saying they’re going to keep the price of oil high.”
A Laser Charge system would enable long-term sorties to be flown and the only required downtime would be for the essential maintenance. A laser transmitter converts the power from the primary source (generator, battery or AC source) into a monochromatic beam of light. This is then collected by a specialist photovoltaic (PV) cell on the UAV/ UCAV and then converted to power as is conventional for the PV cell.
So, is this the greenest government ever? Absolutely not, and the blinding hatred of regulation that led it to dump the Climate Change Act and more into its "cut red tape" challenge will not help it become so.
I've also been able to keep in touch with the next generation of leaders by achieving yet another "first": the first EPA Administrator with a Facebook page and a Twitter feed.
Newswise — RICHLAND, Wash. -- Atmospheric scientists trying to pin down how clouds curb the amount of sunlight available to warm the earth have found that it depends on the wavelength of sunlight being measured. This unexpected result will help researchers improve how they portray clouds in climate models.YouTube - Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now (Live, 1970)
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"The amount of the sun's energy that reaches the earth's surface is the main driver of the earth's temperature. Clouds are one of the least understood aspects of climate change. They can block the sun, but light can also bounce off one cloud into another cloud's shadow and increase the solar energy hitting earth," said PNNL atmospheric scientist Evgueni Kassianov.
[I really don't know clouds at all]
Nisbet's report is a fascinating look at the decline of a political movement that was, only a few years ago, apparently on the verge of major legislative victories. But regardless of what else one takes from the report, these two facts should be noted: the American press routinely promoted a political climate friendly to liberal environmental policies, and those policies were advanced by groups that outmatched their opponents both financially, and in terms of political muscle.
There is no reason for the Republican Party to stake out a Luddite position on the environment. Yet, so often you see prominent Republicans do exactly that. At the Copenhagen climate talks Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe came barging into the press room to tell those of us in the media that climate change was a "hoax" made up by "Hollywood elites." I looked on with embarrassment as members of the European press openly laughed while Inhofe delivered his rant. No credible conservative in Europe would make such remarks. And Republicans shouldn't either.Dealbreaker: He Doesn't Believe In Global Warming | The Frisky
“Global warming isn’t scientifically proven,” he wrote.Earth Day Smurf Day - Minnesotans For Global Warming
WHAT??? Does he think the world is flat, too? I thought in horror. I’m from California.
The atmosphere of mars is 95% CO2 yet their average temperature is -100º F...Green houses typically have 3 times atmospheric levels of CO2 for maximum plant growth.Is Earth Day Passé?
I just checked the Web sites of eight leading eco-activist groups, curious as to how prominently the organizations are featuring Earth Day messages and activities.
Surprisingly, seven of the groups — Center for Biological Diversity, EarthJustice, Environmental Defense Fund, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council — say nary a word about Earth Day.
She has taught me the rather simple, quite powerful fact that if I act irresponsibly, my actions will come back to harm me. If I embrace practices that contribute to global warming - drive a gas-guzzling car, eat beef, or leave all of my electronics plugged in, then I, my children, my grandchildren, and also my great-great-great-great-grandchildren will pay the price for my actions.Ka-Ching! More Greenpeace Money « NoFrakkingConsensus
[(IPCC) author] Hoegh-Guldberg has been cashing paycheques from activist organizations for the past 17 years.Don’t Forget: Earth Day Co-Founder was Killer Ira Einhorn - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Well, at least he “composted” her. Save the planet!Billions of dollars sneaks out the door through UN committees « JoNova
The Copenhagen Accord seemed like such an innocuous piece of face-saving wall-paper, but a river of money flows to it’s organizers and patrons. The US — past the point where it can pay what it owes as it’s foreign debts mount — committed $1.7 billion last year. The UK, facing mass riots over public spending cuts, has given even more per capita. The Scandinavians are punching far above their weight too.In Texas, Questions of Drought and Climate Change - NYTimes.com
John Nielsen-Gammon, the Texas State climatologist, says that about 80 percent of the models laid out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in a 2007 report predicted declining precipitation for Texas, but on the other hand Texas has gotten increasing rainfall from 1895 to the present.
fortunately for the environment (and unfortunately for the environmentalists) the Deepwater Horizon disaster turned out to be all hype. Today, just a year later, it is difficult to find any of the spilled oil.Cooling on Warming - By Greg Brooks - Planet Gore - National Review Online
For only the second time in Gallup’s polling history, Americans place economic growth (54 percent) ahead of protecting the environment (36 percent) in a direct tradeoff. These numbers have flipped over the decade; in January 2000, 70 percent favored protecting the environment compared to 23 percent who would give priority to economic growth, a monumental 65-point shift over the last 11 years.ThinkProgress » Flip-Flopper-In-Chief: After Calling For Action On Climate Change, Gingrich Now Won’t Take Action On A ‘Theory’
“I think we honestly don’t know,” he said. “I think the evidence is not nearly as complete as the computerized models, and I think that the understanding of climatology is a lot more incomplete than the global warming advocates would have you believe.”American Thinker: The Green Nazis
Gingrich said he could see taking “prudent” and cost-effective steps to address climate change but would not support any form of a cap-and-trade program.
“I would not adopt massively expensive plans over a theory,” he said.
One of the most intriguing facts of the Nazi Party membership rolls is how many of its adherents belonged to what today would be considered the green movement.
President Barack Obama is pointing to high gasoline prices for his sagging poll numbers.$8 gas and the green agenda :: Jeff Jacoby
"My poll numbers go up and down depending on the latest crisis and right now gas prices are weighing heavily on people," Obama said at a Los Angeles fundraiser Thursday night.
TESTIFYING BEFORE the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu was asked about something he said in September. "Somehow," the Nobel laureate had told The Wall Street Journal, "we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." At the time, gasoline in Europe was going for around $8 a gallon. Did the secretary, Florida Representative Cliff Stearns inquired, still want to see US gas prices rise that high?
April 22 is Earth Day. The following science-informed analysis summarizes the dire state of the Planet and what needs to be done to stop the horrendous global avoidable mortality holocaust killing 18 million people each year and to deal with the worsening climate emergency that threatens a climate genocide with a predicted 10 billion victims this century if man-made climate change is not urgently addressed.
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12. Top climate scientists have estimated that only 0.5 billion people may survive unaddressed climate change this century, a climate genocide that will kill about 10 billion people.
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Dr Gideon Polya currently teaches science students at a major Australian university. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career
President Obama declared today's 41st annual Earth Day proof of America's ecological and conservation spirit—then completed a three-day campaign-style trip logging 10,666 miles on Air Force One, eating up some 53,300 gallons at a cost of about $180,000. And that doesn't include the fuel consumption of his helicopter, limo, or the 29 other vehicles that travel with that car.
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During his trip, Obama's 30-car motorcade was used to carry him to events. His limo, and there are usually two in the motorcade, gets a high of 8-10 miles per gallon, according to industry estimates, ironic considering his recent criticism of low-mileage cars. In Pennsylvania earlier this month, he mocked low-mileage vehicles that get 8 miles per gallon, like heavy duty work trucks.
President Obama said Friday that the United States can lead the world in tackling of climate change by investing in clean energy technology.
“The United States can be a leader in reducing the dangerous pollution that causes global warming and can propel these advances by investing in the clean energy technologies, markets, and practices that will empower us to win the future,” Obama said in an Earth Day proclamation.
The president said this month that “even if we doubled the amount of oil that we produced, we’d still be short by a factor of five.” That’s simply incorrect. Doubling our production would trim imports nearly in half. Boosting production by a factor of five is not currently feasible, but if it were, it would make the United States the world’s largest producer.
Major energy companies have been given free carbon allowances worth more than £100m this year for closed or mothballed power stations – despite the fact that the plants are producing little or no emissions.
‘We now realise that the disasters that continue increasingly to afflict the natural world have one element that connects them all – the unprecedented increase in the number of human beings on the planet,' he added.
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who blamed a Department of Energy (DOE) official for his non-functioning toilet a month ago, sees new government efficiency standards as something out of an Ayn Rand novel.The Blackboard » Reviewer outs himself!
“You restrict my purchases, you don’t care about my choices, you don’t care about the consumer frankly, you raise the cost of the all the items with all your rules, all your notions that you know what’s best for me,” Paul said to DOE Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hogan at a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on March 10th.
“Frankly, my toilets don’t work in my house. And I blame you and people like you who want to tell me what I can install in my house, what I can do. You restrict my choices, there is hypocrisy.”
Some of you may recall the kerfuffle when RyanO revealed that Eric Steig was “reviewer A” on his paper. Today’s twist is Jason Box who broke the super-secrecy of the review process announcing he was the reviewer of Frauenfeld, Knappenberger and Michael’s “A reconstruction of annual Greenland ice melt extent, 1784–2009″. After revealing his role as reviewer, he criticized the paper.The Death Spiral Visualized | Real Science
Can there be any doubt that we are headed for an ice free Arctic by 2013?The Non-Alternative Alternatives - By Chris Horner - Planet Gore - National Review Online
Bjørn Lomborg indeed does a very good job of pointing out the obvious: “A green future will not result from subsidizing immature technology#…#. Wind and solar power are not yet competitive.” But then he goes on to suggest that we can make them competitive with more research money.
But in the case of wind and solar, this is absurd. They aren’t immature industries: They’re windmills and solar panels. Wind-powered, solar-powered, and coal-powered electricity were pioneered within eight years of each other. One works. The others never could match up but now are (risibly) touted by politicians and greens as “new technologies.”
"We found that more than half of the added carbon dioxide was pulled from the atmosphere within 30,000 to 40,000 years, which is one-third of the time span previously thought," said Bowen, the journal Nature Geoscience reports.
I’m not here to say cap-and-trade was the “correct” strategy.Obama calls out “climate change deniers in Congress” (sort of) « Climate Progress
One final point: Most of the deniers in Congress aren’t really “climate change deniers” so much as “climate science deniers.” The clever ones fall of the playbook of saying the climate is changing — but then launch into a bunch of denier talking points about the cause and so on.
Green Day: The day set aside to save the planet has become a second Halloween where we fear imaginary planetary ghouls and goblins. Greenies get the treats, but the trick has been on us.Church leader likens inaction on climate to crucifying Christ
The Moderator of the Uniting Church Synod of NSW and ACT, the Reverend Niall Reid, said in his Easter message that climate change was the result of ''unsustainable, unfettered and unthinking addiction to economic growth'', and those who could not entertain a less destructive path were like those who sent Jesus to the Cross for expediency's sake.Residential Solar Systems Increase Sale Prices, Study Finds - NYTimes.com
The growth in residential solar systems, of course, is taking place on a tiny base. About a tenth of a percent of all households have photovoltaic systems, and all solar systems combined — industrial and residential and everything else, as well as concentrated-solar plants in the California deserts — amount to about two-tenths of 1 percent of all renewable electricity in the country, according to the federal Energy Information Administration. Renewable electricity, in turn, makes up about 8 percent of the electricity used in this country.
“But I don’t think there’s any doubt that unless we are able to move forward in a serious way on clean energy, that we’re putting our children and our grandchildren at risk,” Obama added.Obama: Think about ditching those gas-guzzling SUVs - The Hill's E2-Wire
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“Right now we’ve got $4-a-gallon gas, and most of the people under this tent don’t have to worry about that. But for the average person who has to drive 50 miles to work and can’t afford to buy the Tesla, it’s hammering them. It’s hurting them,” Obama said, according to a White House transcript that notes the Tesla comment drew laughter.
President Obama urged the public Thursday to think about trading in their SUVs for more fuel-efficient vehicles, arguing that gas-guzzlers keep the country dependent on foreign oil.Flashback: Obama's SUV-Laden Motorcade Demonstrates His Climate Change Hypocrisy - Peter Roff (usnews.com)
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“It turns out, as president, I’ve got a lot of cars in my fleet,” Obama said. “What we’ve said is, let’s make our fleet 100 percent alternative-fuel cars.”
I wasn't in the store during the president's visit; I was outside, watching. And counting—counting from where I stood the Chevy SUVs and the vans that made up the motorcade.
I counted 11, none of which had any signs identifying them as hybrids or flex-fuel vehicles, plus an ambulance, idling, engines running while the president ate his vanilla custard with hot fudge and nuts on top. There may have been one or two more, spewing what the president and his supporters would call "greenhouse gasses" into the atmosphere.
21-Apr 41.4 InchesNenana Ice Classic Breakup dates
20-Apr 1940 19982009: River ice in Alaska: “pretty good proxy for climate change in the 20th century” | Watts Up With That?
The Ice Classic has given them a rare, reliable climate history that has documented to the minute the onset of the annual thaw as it shifted across 91 years. By this measure, spring comes to central Alaska 10 days earlier than in 1960, said geophysicist Martin Jeffries at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks — and that trend is accelerating. “The Nenana Ice Classic is a pretty good proxy for climate change in the 20th century,” Dr. Jeffries said.
The costs of this clean energy would be roughly comparable to that of fossil fuel sources. In addition, according to a report by the Maryland Energy Administration, a substantial wind facility "will reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2 by 945,000 tons per year and promise improved public health outcomes, cleaner air and cleaner water."EDITORIAL: EPA's faith-based agitprop - Washington Times
EPA bureaucrats began pushing faith-based outreach under the Bush administration. The twisted evangelism is hardly surprising as the church of global warming is the left’s favorite denomination. Liberals have no shame when it comes to using other people’s money to gain converts to this all-important religion. They believe if they do not, Mother Earth will curse the planet with warm weather, not the chilly frost they desire.Deluded, Misled Or Dishonest? | Real Science
The lack of warming has caused much of the global warming community to cross the line into blatant fraud. Cold is not caused by heat or lack of ice. Fewer hurricanes and tornadoes does not mean more hurricanes and tornadoes. Filling in pink temperatures will not make the Earth warmer. Lying about the Arctic will not make the ice disappear.
I'm not a Republican or a Republican Party apologist. I'm an ordinary citizen who's interested in the facts, and the facts about climate change tell a tale that Mr. Hiatt and people of his ilk can't or won't accept. The climate is changing alright, but it's getting cooler - not warmer. At this point, the only way to have missed that fact is to have bought into the liberal progressive lie that global warming is destroying the planet so completely that you refuse to even consider evidence calling it into question.The Texas climate change solution: God - How the World Works - Salon.com
After months of a historically unprecedented drought, devastating wildfires are raging across more than a million acres of the state of Texas.Researchers: Climate change may tax Chicago sewers - chicagotribune.com
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Notwithstanding the disclaimer that one should never directly connect the dots between any single weather event and larger patterns of climate change, it seems like it is at least worth mentioning that the Dust Bowl conditions currently asserting themselves in Texas, Oklahoma and elsewhere in the Southwestern United States are exactly the kind of climatic catastrophe that the United States Geographical Society has predicted is likely to occur as temperatures continue to rise.
CHICAGO—Wastewater overflows from Chicago's aging sewer system likely will become more frequent as climate change triggers heavier rainfalls, according to a new study that calls into question whether the city's planned $3 billion network of underground pipes and reservoirs could handle the influx.Say no to plastic and grow more trees: Dikshit (April 22 is Earth Day)
‘Protecting earth is every person’s and every country’s responsibility. Climate change is the greatest challenge of our time,’ the chief minister added.
While competitors like Clorox, Church & Dwight and S.C. Johnson were hurrying to introduce green products around 2008, Procter & Gamble, the household products giant, decided it would not.American Thinker: What Do Light Bulbs Have to do with the Commerce Clause?
Len Sauers, vice president for global sustainability, said the company considered such a move five or six years ago. But in conducting market research about green products, what the company found was that “not many people bought them,” he said.
...residential appliances, especially light bulbs, are used at the time of day, early morning or evening, at the lowest base demand point, thus cannot affect the operation of power plant loadings locally, let alone across the nation.American Thinker: Greens vs. Energy
In other words, light bulbs can be either energy hogs or energy tightwads and have no impact on power generation costs, emissions, or fuel use. If a homeowner uses fewer kwhs, the power plant must still be in operation. If he or she uses more kwhs then the power plant will just soak up otherwise idle on-line capacity already fired up. Because the operation of household light bulbs has negligible effects on interstate generation or transportation of electrical power, any federal statute regulating electrical devices for the consumption of energy must fail the Rehnquist Court test.
This April 22, if you find yourself frustrated at rising gasoline prices, or rising electricity prices, or rising natural gas and heating oil prices, make sure you place plenty of blame on the environmentalists behind Earth Day; for decades they have found a reason to oppose every practical form of energy in the name of "saving the planet."
The evidence of global warming is extraordinarily strong, the threat of dangerous climate impacts is high, and the risk of catastrophe is real. These are conclusions shared by the best and brightest of the global scientific community, including our own National Academy of Sciences. Whether we look at the rise in global temperature; the drumbeat of warmest-ever years and decades; the clear shift in precipitation patterns; the dramatic shrinking of both mountain glaciers and Arctic sea ice; the accelerating rise in sea level; the acidification of our oceans; or the rapid increase in forest fires, the tale told by the evidence is the same and it is compelling.
These things matter. They warn of droughts and floods and extreme storms. They warn of water shortages and food shortages. They warn of a world that 11 retired generals and admirals wrote about in 2007, in which climate change becomes a “force multiplier for instability in some of the most volatile regions of the world.” Think of the killing heat wave, drought and fires in Russia last summer. Think of the monumental floods in Pakistan. Think of New Orleans. These are the kinds of devastation global warming is predicted to bring.
When a green-lobbyist climate scientist provides Congressional testimony, it's his/her unique opportunity to make impressive alarmist claims for the cameras.Writer Tells of Global Warming Dangers | The Cornell Daily Sun
Most gore-green scientists would not waste this type opportunity by presenting scientific truth, especially when the empirical evidence does not match the desired scary story. And Dr. Richard Somerville was no exception when giving his March 8, 2011 testimony.
“Climate change is the biggest problem humans have ever dealt with,” Bill McKibben, writer and environmentalist, said to a crowded Call Auditorium as a part of the 2011 Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecture on Thursday.Climate Scorekeepers Can't Keep Their Grades Straight | National Legal and Policy Center
McKibben, who has been called the “world’s best green journalist” by Time Magazine, discussed 350.org...Human actions have caused temperature to rise a collective two degrees Celcius across the globe, he said.
...Wind power is currently the fastest-growing source of electric generation in the world, he said, and biofuels are efficient alternatives for fossil fuels.
These evaluations align with the climate alarmists’ logic that human-caused global warming leads to both snowfall increases and less snow; both more rain and drought; and both more and less colorful trees.
After the ice is gone, would Earth proceed to the Venus syndrome, a runaway greenhouse effect that would destroy all life on the planet, perhaps permanently? While that is difficult to say based on present information, I’ve come to conclude that if we burn all reserves of oil, gas, and coal, there is a substantial chance we will initiate the runaway greenhouse. If we also burn the tar sands and tar shale, I believe the Venus syndrome is a dead certainty.Vernon Morning Star - Climate clock is ticking
Venus has a temperature of 450°C (842°F), hot enough to melt lead. It once held water but the runaway greenhouse effect heated the planet so much that the water molecules were destroyed.
The sun's energy hitting Earth is slightly more than half that of Venus. Burning the tar sands and tar shale could, over time, put Earth's temperature to around 225°C (437°F).
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No one can say for sure when business as usual will end human life, but some of the most notable climate scientists in the world suggest that continuing as we are, humanity or at least civilization, will be terminated in about 89 years, the end of this century.
Heartland is offering people the chance to see and possibly meet some of the heroes of the skeptic world in Washington in June 30 – July 1, 2011, Washington D.C. (I hear this may possibly be the last of the Heartland Climate conferences. I hope not!)Hansen Tones It Down : Only ’5 meter sea level rise by 2100′ | Real Science
Unfortunately I won’t be able to get there, but Bob Carter, Harrison Schmitt and Steve McIntyre will.
In a paper published by Columbia University, celebrity climate change activist and academic James Hansen has revealed predictions of a 5 meter sea level rise by 2100.`the whole damned ice sheet is going to go down that hole!’ | Real Science
“A field glaciologist, referring to a moulin on Greenland, said: `the whole damned ice sheet is going to go down that hole!’
In the U.S., a slim majority (53%) currently see it as a serious personal threat, down from 63% in previous years.
Concern about global warming has also declined across western, southern, and eastern Europe, and in several cases, even more precipitously than in the U.S. In France, for example, the percentage saying global warming is a serious threat fell from 75% in 2007-2008 to 59% in 2010. In the United Kingdom, ground zero for the climate data-fixing scandal known as Climategate in 2009, the percentage dropped from 69% to 57% in the same period.
A great deal of wind has gone out of the climate-change sails since the revelations a year-and-a-half ago of major data manipulation by many of the world’s leading climate scientists. Still the “green” desire to micro-manage individual lives and regulate whole cultures still exists, so environmentalism remains a movement that needs to be kept in check.
The mind-boggling complexity of the issues surrounding climate change, economic recovery, multiple wars and, yes, federal and state budget deficits outstrips the authority of common sense either as the basis of workable policies or as a critique of those already on the table.
(Reuters Life!) - If the environmental movement has a high holiday, Earth Day is it.Earth Day Sunday | Easter
The annual effort to raise public awareness about the environment and inspire actions to clean it up marks its 41st anniversary on Friday, coinciding with the Christian Good Friday and Judaism's celebration of Passover.
In an effort dubbed "A Billion Acts of Green," organizers are encouraging people to observe Earth Day 2011 by pledging online at act.earthday.org/ to do something small but sustainable in their own lives to improve the planet's health...
Some Catholics are concerned with what they see as an attempt by environmentalists to hijack Easter for their own Earth Day purposes.- Bishop Hill blog - More Mother Jones
In a letter dated April 1 to churches across the country, the environmentalist group Earth Day Network encourages priests to remember Earth Day Sunday, even though Easter is that same Sunday.
I missed the video embedded in the Mother Jones article. This is hugely funny. The author seems to think that hide the decline was something to do with assessing twentieth century temperatures:
The USA is where we are to kick a new trend and to raise the bar. The climate is changing and that’s a fact, bears don’t know when to take a nap, On top of that it won’t be cool when the flood waters rise and mosquitoes rule.GOP backs EPA into a corner, they come out...rapping?
the EPA’s new education campaign for children is as weird as it is inaccurate.
What the hell went wrong?... the climate push was … a total flop. By late 2010, the main cap-and-trade bill had fizzled out in the Senate; not a single Republican would agree to vote for it. Greens ended up winning zilch from Congress, not even minor legislation to boost renewable electricity or energy efficiency. Worse, after the 2010 midterms, the House GOP became overrun with climate deniers, while voters turned apathetic about global warming. All those flashy eco-ads and all that tireless eco-lobbying only got us even further from solving climate change than we were in 2008.
So now greens are in the post-mortem stage, and, not shockingly, it’s a sensitive subject. On Tuesday, Matthew Nisbet, a communications professor at American University, released a hefty 84-page report trying to figure out why climate activism flopped so miserably in the past few years.
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Just about everyone in the green movement has a theory for why the climate fight sputtered out. Some activists blame their all-too-powerful foes. The oil and coal industries, as well as groups like the National Association of Manufacturers, all vehemently opposed cap-and-trade and shelled out millions lobbying Congress. The cranks who deny that global warming is manmade were way too effective at spreading their disinformation.
This depletion of ozone has shifted the Southern Hemisphere's climate so that dry areas in the subtropics now see about 10 percent more precipitation in summer than they used to, scientists reported in the journal Science.
"Ozone is now widely believed to be the dominant agent of climate change in the Southern Hemisphere, so this actually means that the international agreements regulating climate change cannot be confined to dealing with carbon dioxide," said the study's lead author, Sarah Kang of Columbia University.
Sometimes, you just have to shake your head. The central question of whether or not human-caused climate change is a) perceptible and b) dangerous comes down to a judgment call. It’s all about how one interprets a body of highly uncertain – and frequently contradictory – evidence.
Any organization that doesn’t understand that its scientific conclusions cannot be based on Greenpeace-supplied data is not an organization whose judgment can be trusted.
This is not an abstract political fight. If these proposals are passed, more mercury, dioxins, carbon pollution and acid gases will end up in the air our kids breathe. More Americans will get sick, end up in the hospital, and die from respiratory illness.... Yet one proposal under consideration would actually overturn a finding by EPA experts on the impact of carbon pollution on our atmosphere. Another would prevent government scientists from even gathering information on the amount of this pollution going into the air.
One of the most interesting aspects was finding out how central environmental consciousness was to the rise and fall of socialism in Germany. When the GDR was founded, one of its many promises to workers was clean working conditions, without the polluted air and water imposed by capitalist industrialization. There were legal safeguards and fines on polluters. The regime was quite energy conscious, at least in the beginning.Which nations are most responsible for climate change? | Environment | guardian.co.uk
1. China: 7,711 million tonnes (MT) or 25.4%Cattle, Crops at Risk From North Dakota Floods, Snow
2. US: 5,425 MT or 17.8%
Snowstorms on top of flooding in North Dakota have not yet resulted in many cattle deaths as feared, but lingering cold, wet weather threatens the state’s herd, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official said.
The globe may be warming, but the political climate for moving Australia to a lower emission economy seems colder by the day. This week's Age/Nielsen poll had support for a carbon price at 34 per cent, a fall from 46 per cent in February.
the headline is another unscientific fantasy from the climate community (quoting Michael Mann):How climate science became the target of “the best-funded, best-organized smear campaign by the wealthiest industry that the Earth has ever known.”As readers know, this characterization of Climate Audit and other critical climate blogs (WUWT, Jeff Id, Lucia, Bishop Hill) is total fantasy on the part of the climate science community. It seems to me that the fantasy is an ideological construct that they use to avoid looking into the mirror.
Mother Jones provide no evidence to support their headline
Earlier this month, at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania, President Obama gently mocked a father of ten for failing to cram his family into a hybrid. I think his advisors have figured out that this isn't very good for his image, and his stump speech has changed accordingly.Overstock.com and Carbonfund.org Partner to Launch Carbon-Neutral Shipping Program for All Worldstock Products on Environmental Expert
'Overstock.com recognizes that we all have to take responsibility for preventing climate change, and as a major retailer its positive actions will have a huge impact,' said Eric Carlson, President of Carbonfund.org.Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air
Once again, Barack Obama attempted to regale an audience with his depth of medical knowledge — and once again, we have another Obamateurism. Attempting to defend his regulatory adventurism at the EPA, Obama told an Annandale audience on Tuesday that the reason he’s so tough on coal is that it causes asthma in children:Greenpeace targets India's telecom majors | Real Time News India
“Consumers certainly would like to know that when they use mobiles or change their Facebook status, they are not contributing to toxic coal ash, global warming or future Fukishima’s,” Pratap added.
“There are climate change deniers in Congress and when the economy gets tough, sometimes environmental issues drop from people’s radar screens,” Obama told about 200 guests at the Pacific Heights residence of internet billionaire Marc BenioffTop 5 Environmental Disasters That Never Happened
Enviro-leftists have a talent for concocting scare stories about mass environmental disaster, and thus stampeding the public into destrcutive policy-making that always ends up killing millions of poor people. Eventually, the scare story gets exposed as a hoax, and the media look like a bunch of thoughtless dupes.Hold the accolades on China’s ‘green leap forward’ - The Washington Post
As the world’s factory floor, China is not an obvious environmental leader. It is beleaguered by severe pollution and generates more carbon emissions than any other nation. Yet many have trumpeted it as an emerging “green giant” for its non-carbon-based energy production and its aggressive promises to cut carbon emissions. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman described China’s “green leap forward” as “the most important thing to happen” at the end of the first decade of the 21st century.
But the facts do not support this “green” success story.
Odinga said the tragic earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan and damaged its nuclear power plants in Fukushima and the upheaval in North Africa and the Middle East have highlighted the urgency of the task.
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"In Africa and elsewhere, there are huge untapped renewable energy resources. There are vast tracts of land where we can plant trees and regenerate rich forests to create extensive carbon sinks. The choice need not be between climate and public safety," the PM said.
It is such a pathetic pile of lies, old propagandistic clichés, and misunderstandings that, given the collapsing interest in this irrational way of thinking about Nature, life, and science, you have to ask who is funding this defective and separately unprofitable enterprise.
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Ms Ľubica TrubÃniová, a former boss of Greenpeace Slovakia, said according to the "New Profit" magazine:
I don't need any electric power for my life because I can burn candles instead of turning on the light bulbs while watching TV.
Greenpeace is working hard to deny the quote.
KINGSTON — The Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Programme has received an additional $103 million in the 2011/12 estimates, now before the House of Representatives.
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Also, establishment of local forest management committees (LMFMCs); public education and awareness campaign
Apple has come bottom of the most comprehensive green league table of technology companies because of its heavy reliance on "dirty data" centres.Apple - Press Info - Board of Directors
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The report estimated dependence on coal for Apple's data centres at 54.5%, followed by Facebook at 53.2%, IBM at 51.6%, HP at 49.4%, and Twitter at 42.5%.
Albert Gore Jr.
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international negotiations focused on universal and legally binding instruments will not succedSOU professor presents global warming counter-argument | MailTribune.com
A Southern Oregon University professor believes students and the public need to hear the considerable case against global warming to help spur critical thinking.
Biologist John Roden will give a talk called "Global Climate Change: Why Are There Still Skeptics?" at 7:30 tonight, in the Meese Auditorium in the SOU Art Building, as part of the school's Distinguished Lecture series showcasing campus professors. It's free and open to the public.
If you go
What: Talk by biologist John Roden on "Global Climate Change: Why Are There Still Skeptics?"
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Emphasizing that he doesn't oppose the "climate change paradigm," Roden says it rests on a three-legged stool: that the climate is warming, it's human-caused and it will bring catastrophic results. And if any one of those is disproved, the paradigm collapses.
"Climate science has basically been at the receiving end of the best-funded, best-organized smear campaign by the wealthiest industry that the Earth has ever known—that's the bottom line," Mann told me when I visited him at his Penn State office last November. Near his desk, Mann keeps an actual hockey stick, signed by Middlebury College's championship hockey team to show the school's support for his work.
Things really heated up for Mann in late 2009, when more than 1,000 emails from him and other climate scientists were lifted from a server at the Climatic Research Unit [22] (CRU) of the UK's University of East Anglia, the world's leading research institution focused on climate change. The emails offered a window into the climate-science bunker, with a view of Mann and his fellow researchers growing increasingly defensive. One scientist wrote [23] that he was "tempted to beat the crap out of" a skeptic at the libertarian Cato Institute. Another joked that the way to deal with skeptics was "continuing to publish quality work in quality journals (or calling in a Mafia hit)." Scientists suggested that they would rather destroy data than provide them to their critics. They also discussed using "tricks" in their research, debated how to frame uncertainties in some of their data, and attempted to control access to peer-reviewed journals.
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[Kevin Trenberth] also warns that the report could raise more questions than it answers: "[W]hile our knowledge of certain factors does increase, so does our understanding of factors we previously did not account for or even recognize." At the leading edge of climate science, he writes, displaying the limits and uncertainties of science so publicly is not without risk, so the IPCC should proceed with caution when sounding the alarm bells.
Thanks to WUWT, for his Story on “Now its global warming killing Pikas“, obviously the Pikas (some kind of South Amercan rat/rabbit) isn’t the story, so much as the almost complete absence lately of these “global warming could … kill the …The carbon tax that ate Australia - The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)because of ”.
Even if man-made global warming [AGW] were real we know that an Australian carbon tax will have no effect on rising temperature; the sums have been done, the questions have been asked and the only answers given have been odd.Five ways to green your marijuana habit | Grist
With this Government's reputation for bungled schemes - the BER, the home insulation scheme, the mining tax, clean coal to name a few - even progressives should think twice about whether this government has the capacity to introduce such a complex reform as a carbon tax and trading scheme.
The risk is not that Australia will be left behind in putting in place new, better, cleaner, greener technology, but that Australia will be left with no steel industry, no aluminium industry, no refineries or smelters.
Weed miles matter just like food miles.Boeing to build recyclable 787’s with 100% renewable energy | Grist
The 10 acre roof of the new Boeing 787 airplane factory in North Charleston, South Carolina will be covered with enough thin-film solar panels to provide a fifth of the plant's power. The rest will come from a nearby biomass facility, which will be powered by shrub and tree waste.
Garth Paltridge is an Australian atmospheric physicist with 45 years experience. He worked with CSIRO, the WMO, NOAA, and as Professor and Director of the Institute of Antarctic and Southern Oceans Studies. He has explained why he’s skeptical of the theory of man-made global warming in his book – The Climate Caper: Facts and Fallacies of Global Warming. Here he explains how a scientific “consensus” can be bought. There’s more than one good reason why argument-from-authority is a fallacy. — JoFrank Swain on skepticism « Shub Niggurath Climate
As is somewhat obvious, skepticism, in certain circles, is not so much about skepticism at all but rather the belligerent and noisome reaffirmation of orthodoxies. Whether it be in modern medicine, organized religion or in climate science, this brand of skepticism and its practitioners know the answers. There is none of the questioning attitude, the natural curiosity, the poking and the prodding that one would reflexively associate with a skeptic. Instead, what one sees is something curious – a deference to authority and the ‘cult of the expert’ when it comes to certain topics.If the rest of the world is with us, we wouldn’t sell so much coal | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
[Gillard] ”I’m very confident in the future of our coal exports as well as we move to clean energy future.”
The climate-refugee prediction isn't the first global warming-related claim that has turned out to be laughable, and everyone can make mistakes. More troubling is the impulse among some advocates of global warming alarmism to assert in the face of contrary evidence that they never said what they definitely said before the evidence went against them.1925 : Low CO2 Tornado Killed More Than 800 People In Three States | Real Science
These columns have asked for some time how anyone can still manage to take the U.N.-led climate crowd seriously. Maybe the more pertinent question is whether the climateers have ever taken the public's intelligence seriously.
Conservatives are more likely to embrace climate science if it comes to them via a business or religious leader, who can set the issue in the context of different values than those from which environmentalists or scientists often argue.
Sydney Morning Herald columnist Elizabeth Farrelly sighs for the virtue of a communist dictatorship, which, unike Australia, needs not pander to the 80 per cent of the population which has an IQ of just 80 and resists virtuous causes such as global warmingThe voice of America's frustrated youth, Power Shift, is on its way to the UK | Guppi Bola and Charlie Young | Environment | guardian.co.uk
At Sunday's march on the Chamber of Commerce with their green helmets and suitcases, they chanted "I'm ready to work. Where's my green job?"Vandals strike at gas stations on anniversary of Gulf oil spill | Bay City News | Local | San Francisco Examiner
The group's website says Rising Tide is comprised of people and organizations that confront the root causes of climate change, and linked to another website, www.extractionaction.net, that called Wednesday a day of action to mark the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The fliers left behind at the gas stations said, "We act against oil that kills humanity and kills the planet. We urge movement against gasoline now before it is too late for us all."
Annan appealed to skeptics by reminding them of the old Roman proverb ´in Vino Veritas´ which means ´in wine lives truth´. Quoting Winston Churchill he said, ‘I could not live without Champagne- in victory I deserve it and in defeat I need it.’ He also added his interpretation, ‘I could not live without drinking wine.’Flashback: Buffett's Charlie Munger Says Cap And Trade Is "Monstrously Stupid" (CLIP)
Munger, though, if the past is any indication, doesn't really care to limit emissions at all. Here's his take on global warming from a 2007 investor meeting: "So what we are really talking about with global warming is dislocation. Dislocations could cause agony though. The sea level rising would be resolved with enough time and enough capital. I don't think it's an utter calamity for mankind though. You'd have to be a pot-smoking journalism student to think that."
CHICAGO (CBS) – Not only has Chicago dealt with chilly rain, hail and even snow this week, but temperatures Tuesday were at their lowest for this late spring date since the 1940s.
Most Americans say they take action to protect the environment but a significant number admit they still don't believe in climate change, according to a new consumer survey.EPA's faith-based agitprop - Washington Times
Global-warming zealots seek new recruits
Farmers know that soil temperatures should be at least 50 degrees, and preferably closer to 60 degrees, before they put corn seeds into the ground.
But the recent cold snap has sent soil temperatures in the wrong direction, according to Iowa State University’s daily soil map.
For instance, Kossuth County in northern Iowa showed a soil temperature of 42 degrees on Sunday. By Tuesday, when the county was being covered by snowfall, the subsoil temperature had fallen to 37 degrees.
Like Holdren, many people who ascribe to doomsday scenarios related to AGW seem to think that severe weather is happening more frequently. From a perception not steeped in the history of television technology, web technology, and mass media, which has been my domain of avocation and business, I can see how some people might think this. I’ve touched on this subject before, but it bears repeating again.THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Farewell to Dr. Noor Van Andel
In recent years, the reach of communications technology has expanded and the speed with which natural disasters are reported has increased. With global news coverage, instant messaging, and Internet-enabled phones with cameras, is it any wonder that nothing related to severe weather or disaster escapes our notice anymore? This improved reporting makes it seem as if severe weather events and disasters are becoming much more frequent.
According to the climategate.nl blog, Dr. Noor Van Andel, a Netherlands prominent skeptic of anthropogenic global warming, died yesterday
RUSH: Charles Manson has broken his silence, 20-year silence to the media. He has broken his silence to rail against the dangers of global warming. Now, look at the nutcases that are somehow aligning themselves or with each other to promote this hoax now that it has been exposed. Here you have Manson, I mean even brainwashers can be brainwashed...But, for crying out loud, back in, what was it, January of 2010, just a little over a year ago, it was Bin Laden who came out of his cave to warn about the dangers of global warming.Division grows over global warming between the discerning and the gullible - Minnesotans For Global Warming
Why does global warming attract so many people who want destroy our country? That’s a good way to look at it. Global warming attracts any number of international, United Nations, and domestic leftists who want to destroy this country.
HACKENSACK, MN-- Despite the growing scientific evidence that global warming is not real, Americans have become increasingly polarized on this fraudulent issue, according to a first-of-its-kind study led by a Michigan State University researcher.Hansen et al concludes “the rate of sea level rise is likely to accelerate during the next several years.” « Climate Progress
The gap between the skeptics and the gullible people who actually believe in the global warming hoax has increased 30 percent between 2001 and 2010 - a "hopeful" trend that's keeping draconian national energy policies from being considered, argues Elmer Beauregard.
Humanity's "Faustian aerosol bargain"
James Hansen has posted a new 52-page draft paper entitled “Earth’s Energy Imbalance and Implications.”
While this paper is a tougher read than most, the good news is that Hansen gave an hour-long talk on this topic last week, which is posted to YouTube:
if Ford’s estimates of about 80 miles per gallon are accurate, the car will use less fuel than many motorcycles and scooters.Soot key to rapid Arctic melt? - CBS News
They want to find out if that's themain reason for the recent rapid warming of the Arctic, which could have a long-term impact on the world's climate.Jacob Slevin: Can New York City Achieve Carbon Neutrality in Buildings by 2030?
Carbon neutral buildings are ones that do not emit greenhouse gases or offset any emissions by producing renewable energy.New Article Titled “Bias In the Peer Review Process: A Cautionary And Personal Account” By Ross McKittrick | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
[Pat Michaels] Unfortunately, the Climategate e-mails revealed that indeed there has been systematic pressure on journal editors to reject manuscripts not toeing the line about disastrous climate change. Even more unfortunate, my experience and that of others are that the post-Climategate environment has made this situation worse, not better. It is now virtually impossible to publish anything against the alarmist grain. The piles of unpublished manuscripts sitting on active scientists’desks are growing into gargantuan proportions…..”
“As Orchid Island’s ambient temperature rose by 0.5 degree Celsius from 2001 to 2009, temperatures inside drain pipe openings in a concrete retaining wall, where some skinks choose to lay their eggs, increased by an average of 1.7 degrees Celsius,” Huang said.
As a consequence, the survival rate of skink eggs in this man-made environment decreased by 25 percent over the decade, while that of those laid in natural habitats grew by 15 percent, Huang said. “The mild temperature climb has actually been beneficial to offspring viability when eggs are laid under rocks in natural surroundings,” he added.
But these natural energy sources, the film explains, have the potential to be so profitable in the long run that the upfront expenses could become negligible over time. The people and companies that forge ahead and invest in the green industry have much to gain, the film claimed, and consumers of these alternative energies could also pay less to heat their homes and power their vehicles in the long term.
A handful of world-renowned green entrepreneurs are also featured in the movie: former California Energy Commissioner Arthur Rosenfeld, Virgin CEO Richard Branson, former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, and Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman are a few out of many.
Perhaps the most influential character, though, is Van Jones, a civil rights advocate turned green-jobs organizer and advocate. He started Green For All, a foundation that works to bring green jobs to low-income and high-risk communities.
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