Saudi Gazette - GCC chief urges regional cooperation to curb harmful ‘greenhouse’ effects

http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=20110508100126

"Climate change poses an urgent challenge to our planet and human societies, including the OIC member states," Al-Zayani said in a speech copy of which was also sent online to the Saudi Gazette.
"While historically the share of the OIC countries in green house gas emissions and global warming has been negligible, these countries are unfortunately among the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change," he added. Citing a report by the UN International Panel on Climate Change, Al-Zayani said climate change has induced sea level to rise probably up to 59 centimeters or even more by the year 2100.

Former President Carter speaks at GSU graduation | AccessNorthGa

http://www.accessnorthga.com/detail.php?n=238519

the country's leadership should focus on climate change and offering more humane assistance to those in need, he said

Lefty heads pop as Bolt Report airs on Ten

http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2011/05/lefty-heads-pop-as-bolt-report-airs-on-ten/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lefty-heads-pop-as-bolt-report-airs-on-ten

Bolt asked Abbott how much his direct action climate policy would reduce the global temperature. Abbott didn't answer… (because it's square root of bugger all).

The show also revealed that the brainless lemmings at GetUp! paid $16,000 to give a refugee (helpfully wearing a GetUp! t-shirt) a surfing lesson with Tony Abbott. They really do have more money than sense.

Wyoming producer seeds beets week later to avoid plants freezing

http://m.theprairiestar.com/mobile/news/producer_reports/wyoming-producer-seeds-beets-week-later-to-avoid-plants-freezing/article_04a49d64-78ff-11e0-bd49-001cc4c03286.html

Most widely used climate computer model exaggerates global warming by 67%

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2011/05/most-widely-used-climate-computer-model.html

The abstract, however, contains a remarkable admission that the model exaggerates the global warming from 1850 to 2005 by 0.4°C more than observations. The observed global warming from 1850 to 2005 was only 0.6°C, thus the computer model predicted ~ 67% more global warming than actually occurred. This exaggeration alone could account for all of the claimed "heat trapping" from the increase in man-made carbon dioxide over that same 155 year period. IPCC projections for future global warming based upon this model may be similarly greatly exaggerated.

Shock News : Climate Change Secretary Accused Of Being A Slimeball

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/shock-news-climate-change-secretary-accused-of-being-a-slimeball/

Fido Flatulence Offsets

http://www.ozclimatesense.com/2011/05/fido-flatulence-offsets.html

Shale gas could solve the world's energy problems - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8500496/Shale-gas-could-solve-the-worlds-energy-problems.html

Unfortunately we here in Britain and the EU are run by people so much under the sway of such dogmas that they may be disposed to resist to the last the thought of our joining in this revolution (although large reserves of potentially suitable shale are buried below much of eastern England). In trying to resist the kind of unscientific eco-lunacy which has those who rule us in its grip, Mr Ridley's neat summary provides a welcome briefing note.

iMatter March for Climate Action on May 7-14

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/climateprogress/lCrX/~3/87-7s2lHHl4/

Our addiction to fossil fuels is messing up the perfect balance of nature and threatening the survival of my generation.

If we continue to hide in denial and avoid taking action, I and my generation will be forced to grow up in a world where hurricanes as big as Katrina are normal, people die every year because of heat waves, droughts, and floods, and entire species of animals we've come to know disappear right before our eyes.

CO2 Decides Not To Trap Heat In North America

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/co2-decides-not-to-trap-heat-in-north-america/

Human generated CO2 has been demonstrated to be a very tricky and deceptive molecule. In some places it blocks outgoing longwave radiation, but for unexplained reasons the troublesome little buggers have chosen not to do that in North America. 

EPA Recycling The Same Global Warming Nonsense For Three Decades

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/epa-recycling-the-same-global-warming-nonsense-for-three-decades

This past winter was the coldest on record in Florida. Summers in Maine have not warmed for 120 years. The EPA speaks boldly and authoritatively about things they know nothing about

NPR.org » World's Farmers Feel The Effects Of A Hotter Planet

http://m.npr.org/story/135952277?url=/2011/05/07/135952277/worlds-farmers-feel-the-effects-of-a-hotter-planet

"We're not saying yields have gone down, just to make this clear," Schlenker says. "What we're saying is yields are lower than they would have been without the climate trend. So yields have still been going up over the last 30 years."

Yes, the false accusation that Gore was exaggerating came from none other than Roger Pielke, Jr. - And yes, I just re-confirmed with Gore's office that Pielke is as wrong today in his false claims as he was 2 years ago

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/climateprogress/lCrX/~3/PEU5dadOzvg/

My apologies to long-time readers for having to go through this again, but I think it's important to see the tactics and strategy of the breakthrough bunch aka the false narrative industrial complex (FNIC).

The vocal few cry no to 'tax on air' | smh.com.au

http://m.smh.com.au/national/the-vocal-few-cry-no-to-tax-on-air-20110507-1edkn.html

Burnett independent MP Rob Messenger told the crowd the Labor government was relying on public confusion to get support.

"The Prime Minister and all her mates in Canberra are saying 'we want you to pay more money to us and we are going to stop the world's climate from changing'. It's absolutely ridiculous," he said.

Sense from Von Storch

http://judithcurry.com/2011/05/07/sense-from-von-storch/

JC comments:  I completely agree with Von Storch's statements, and he and his colleagues are to be commended for actually trying to understand climate skepticism and skeptics.  I also agree that attempts to placate skeptics such as at skepticalscience.com aren't terribly effective.  There are many complex, unsettled issues that require much more research.  People with questions often do not even get a "stroppy reply;" they are merely dismissed as "deniers."  IMO, actual dialogue with skeptics (enabled by the blogosphere) is one of the best ways to increase understanding.

EDITORIAL: Air Force witchcraft

http://sppiblog.org/news/editorial-air-force-witchcraft

Though cloaked in scientific terms, the tenets of global warming are essentially pagan. This belief system, which cannot be questioned, holds that material sacrifice – turn down your thermostat and trade in your light bulbs – will result in a change in the weather. It is the modern equivalent of a rain dance. These neo-Pagan worshippers now have a federally supplied space they can call their own in the hills of Colorado Springs, Colo.

Head On Collision Coming For Warmists

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/head-on-collision-coming-for-warmists/

The light at the end of the tunnel for the Arctic meltdown cult, is actually a train barreling towards them at 90 MPH.

They have been fed continuous exaggerations about almost all aspects of Arctic.

EDITORIAL: Air Force witchcraft - Washington Times

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/5/air-force-witchcraft/print/

Others on the left prefer to look upon the armed forces as a playground to experiment with fringe ideas. Take the Air Force Academy which reportedly held a ceremony on Tuesday to dedicate a pile of rocks in the academy's "worship area for followers of Earth-centered religions."

Young green minds fuelled by cash rewards

http://www.vancouversun.com/mobile/iphone/story.html?id=4744815

Global Warming Lengthening European Lives Three Years Per Decade

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/05/07/global-warming-lengthening-european-lives-three-years-per-decade/

Global warming is unequivocal. It controls all physical processes.

Australian FOI law keeps secret the construction of New Zealand seven station temperature series

http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=950

Just Right: Climate scam model

http://jr2020.blogspot.com/2011/05/climate-scam-model.html

Of all the climate models out there, this is the most accurate one:

Diary of discord for chief scientist - National News - National - Education - The Canberra Times

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/national/national/education/diary-of-discord-for-chief-scientist/2155864.aspx

The diary reveals Professor Sackett met some of the world's most politically influential scientists during overseas trips. She was invited to address a global climate summit organised by former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger, lunched with UNESCO director-general Irina Bokova and met John Holdren, White House director of science and technology, and top NASA officials.

Clinton talks terrorism, economy, sustainability

http://www.missourinet.com/2011/05/06/clinton-talks-terrorism-economy-sustainability/

Former President Bill Clinton delivered the Commencement speech at the University of Central Missouri, touching on America's attack on Osama bin Laden, what needs to be done to turn the economy around, and mostly, global warming and sustainability.

Vail-area snow-sports sales reflect national record | VailDaily.com

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20110506/NEWS/110509875/1078&ParentProfile=1062

The Great Hypotheses Scam Continued

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SkepticsCorner/~3/f4ZrykoAT-c/great-hypotheses-scam-continued.html

Those various "inputs and assumptions... to obtain predictions from a wide range of climate-change scenarios " is the goose which is laying the golden egg for scientist  throughout the scientific community and they know it. This is why they close their collective eyes to the greatest scientific scam in history.

Heavy snowpack, late spring could take toll on marmots

http://www.timescolonist.com/mobile/iphone/story.html?id=4738261

BBC News - PM's pledge of greenest government 'vanishingly remote'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13312901

The report prepared for the provincial government says the science is still uncertain about rising sea levels, but land use planners should anticipate a one-metre rise by 2100.

The Canadian Press: Sea levels on B.C. coast rising faster, higher than previously believed

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5h5voTO84d0dwQznMfn4-rv2exNog?docId=6779720

The report prepared for the provincial government says the science is still uncertain about rising sea levels, but land use planners should anticipate a one-metre rise by 2100.

Observations: U.K. Government: "Climategate" No Reason to Doubt Climate Change

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=uk-government-climategate-no-reason-2011-05-06

Now the U.K. government, represented by theGovernment Office for Science, has produced its own response. In a May 5 memo to Parliament, the government wrote: "After two independent reviews, and two reviews by the Science and Technology Committee, we find no evidence to question the scientific basis of human influence on the climate." 

Climategate scientists 'too secretive and may have broken Freedom of Information laws' | Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1384390/Climategate-scientists-secretive-broken-Freedom-Information-laws.html

Climate change hardly visible in North America

http://www.vancouversun.com/mobile/iphone/story.html?id=4736609

Scientists from Stanford and Columbia Universities said Canadian and U.S. temperatures since 1980 have changed, but are still within the range of "natural variability" in weather. So in North America, the effects of climate change are practically invisible. A notable exception to the (world's) warming pattern is the United States," they write in a study published Friday.

Melting of Arctic Isn't on Radar Screen of Arctic Council | Earthjustice

http://earthjustice.org/blog/2011-may/melting-of-arctic-isn-t-on-radar-screen-of-arctic-council

Polar bears are drowning. Huge glaciers are melting. Low-lying cities are worried. All because of climate change. But, when the eight nations of the "Arctic Council" meet next week, climate change won't be on their agenda - despite a frightening new report on climate change by the council's own task force.

In U.S., Peak Flu Season This Year Was Worse Than Last

http://www.gallup.com/poll/147449/Peak-Flu-Season-Year-Worse-Last.aspx

Residents of cold weather climates are probably more susceptible to getting sick with the flu as they spend more time indoors in the winter, increasing their opportunity to catch the virus. Cooler weather also creates more favorable conditions for the virus to survive in nature, which also increases the chances that someone will actually get sick. These factors likely play a role in increasing reports of the cold and flu in the winter months, and why warmer weather states tend to have lower rates of colds and the flu than their colder weather counterparts.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Friday Funny - Neural Circuits

http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2011/04/friday-funny-neural-circuits.html

Chris Mooney explains the biological mechanisms that have led experts to be able to protect their minds against the corrosive effects of ideology and politics:

I'm not saying anyone is capable of being 100 percent unbiased but I am saying that scientists evaluate scientific claims, and also claims about expertise, using the norms of their profession, precisely because they have neural circuits for doing so laid down by many years of experience. Which the other groups don't have.

Nuclear power plants cleared of leukaemia link

http://feeds.nature.com/~r/news/rss/most_recent/~3/0w6Mc5ekGUk/news.2011.275.html

Investigation of cancer clusters should turn to non-radiation causes, say British researchers.

The Vatican takes on climate change: it's cheaper to fix now

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/05/anthropocene-vatican-climate-change-group-coins-name-for-our-era.ars

According to the Vatican report, those consequences have already begun. "Human-caused changes in the composition of the air and air quality result in more than 2 million premature deaths worldwide every year and threaten water and food security—especially among those 'bottom 3 billion' people who are too poor to avail of the protections made possible by fossil fuel use and industrialization."

Electronic Records Can Reduce Carbon Footprint - Health IT Update

http://healthitupdate.nextgov.com/2011/05/the_use_of_health_information.php

Health information technology can "dramatically" reduce greenhouse emissions implicated by scientists as a primary cause of climate change, according to a new study.

The analysis, by Kaiser Permanente, found that electronic health records could reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the United States by 1.7 million tons. The journal Health Affairs published the study in its May issue, according to a news release.

John McCain Joins GOP Push to Abolish the EPA : TreeHugger

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/05/john-mccain-gop-push-abolish-epa.php

Price carbon emissions and force industry to reign in carbon pollution? What a grand idea! Pretty tough to imagine that a man with such a sensible view of climate change would not only come out against doing every single one of the things he outlined in the video above, but then go further, and advocate for tearing down the agency responsible for the nation's achievements in pollution reduction thus far

Dave Roberts Of Grist Tells Germans: “Climate Bill Is Dead – Probably For A Number Years…Failed Spectacularly”

http://notrickszone.com/2011/05/06/dave-roberts-of-grist-tells-germans-climate-bill-is-dead-probably-for-a-number-years-failed-spectacularly/

Roberts, you will recall, is the activist at Grist who in 2006 called for Nuremberg-type trials for bastards who deny global warming

Rich nations miss U.N. climate finance deadline

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/5/7/worldupdates/2011-05-06T194829Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-568290-1&sec=Worldupdates

OSLO (Reuters) - Rich countries have missed a U.N. deadline for outlining aid to help developing nations combat climate change.

ThinkProgress » Blog Archive » Pawlenty’s Apology Papers Over His Extensive Support For Cap And Trade

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/06/pawlenty-cap-and-trade-apology/

As ThinkProgress has reported, Pawlenty has an extensive record of actively supporting cap and tradeand other climate change initiatives. He signed multiple pieces of legislation calling for greenhouse gas reduction, including one that called for an 80 percent reduction in Minnesota's greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. In 2008, he recorded a radio ad in which he declared, "Cap greenhouse gas polution now!" It wasn't until 2009, when Pawlenty was busy trying to make a name for himself on the national scene, that he backed away from his support for the policy.

The Gore Effect: The Public Has Rejected The Doomsday Global-Warming Cult

http://www.c3headlines.com/2011/05/the-gore-effect-the-public-has-rejected-the-doomsday-global-warming-cult.html

As this chart shows (click on image to enlarge), the public is moving to a recognition that the actual benefits of global warming exceed the exaggerated risks published by the IPCC's "peer-reviewed" science andthose hyped by the left's pundits/reporters.

Friday United States Agricultural Update

http://www.weatherbell.com/jd/?p=1420

The Northern growing areas are having one of their worst starts to corn planting ever

Explorer Adrian Hayes shares polar tales - The National

http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/explorer-adrian-hayes-shares-polar-tales

He described "ice melt water and tonnes of crevices" all pointing to what he portrayed as an alarming trend of climate change.

Tom Harris: Get out of Kyoto while it’s still possible | Climate Realists

http://m.climaterealists.com/?id=7644

Stephen Harper should guide our nation away from the most costly hoax in the history of science

IBD Editorial: EPA: Jobs Don't Matter

http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=6f7c41e0-802a-23ad-4267-0989482c184a

Jobs: The EPA admits to Congress that it does not take into account the impact of its regulations on employment, the economy or international competitiveness. Neither, apparently, does the White House.

This stunning revelation was made by EPA Administrator Mathy Stanislaus in response to a question by Colorado GOP Rep. Cory Gardner. It came during Stanislaus' testimony before the House Environment and Energy Committee on Thursday and exposes the Obama administration's public posture on jobs and the environment as a fraud.

Lomborg Cools It In London

http://omniclimate.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/lomborg-cools-it-in-london/

Live microblogging of the screening+Q&A of Bjorn Lomborg's "Cool It", organised by Legatum at London's Soho Hotel on May 5:

The Green Blind Spot

http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2011/05/green-blind-spot.html

Dave Roberts at Grist has post up critiquing Matt Nisbet's report

 in which he reveals a lot about the mindset of many American greens (of course, to the extent that Grist represents this community).  Roberts' critique clearly shows that greens have a huge blind spot when it comes to technology, it just doesn't factor in their calculus.

Organic farms more energy efficient – not so says Mischa Popoff

http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=947

Winter Weather Advisory for Hawaii Mountains, snow water content for the western US and updated MEI

http://www.weatherbell.com/jd/?p=1400

The mother of all Sundays – The Bolt Report premieres | Australian Conservative

http://australianconservative.com/2011/05/the-mother-of-all-sundays-%E2%80%93-the-bolt-report-premieres/

Presenter Andrew Bolt is the most widely read columnist in Australia and his blog has been scoring over two million page impressions per month. It provides a rallying point for those who challenge the alleged anthropogenic nature of climate change. No one in the media has done more than Bolt to question the alarmist scientific theories.

THOUSANDS OF UGANDANS TO BREATH EASIER THANKS TO LIFESTRAW® “CARBON FOR WATER™” PROGRAM ON KENYAN BOARDER

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8993233-thousands-of-ugandans-to-breath-easier-thanks-to-lifestraw-carbon-for-water-program-on-kenyan-boarder

Vestergaard Frandsen fully funded the "Carbon For Water™" program (see www.carbonforwater.com), which will be reimbursed with carbon financing. This unique funding model gives companies in developed countries potential revenue, in the form of carbon credits, for sponsoring programs that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries. Carbon credits can then be sold to carbon credit buyers that want to reduce their carbon footprint or improve their environmental stewardship. The revenue generated will largely be reinvested into the project to make it sustainable for at least ten years. 

Attention deficit disorder

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/5/6/attention-deficit-disorder.html

Political Climate is a new blog to me. I chanced upon their article about the media's interest in climate change (or the lack thereof), and was struck by this graph.

Record snowfall has Sunshine Village looking to open for Canada Day skiing

http://www.calgaryherald.com/mobile/iphone/story.html?id=4735613

For the first time in 20 years Sunshine Village is considering opening its slopes on Canada Day after a record snowfall this year.

Agents for Social Change: Report on Conveying the Health Implications of Climate Change | Age of Engagement | Big Think

http://bigthink.com/ideas/38291

1.1 Climate change is a serious threat to the public's health and wellbeing worldwide.

1.2 The health of Americans is already being harmed by climate change, and it's likely to get worse in the not too distant future.

The Great Peer-Review Fairy Tale

http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2010/03/06/the-great-peer-review-fairy-tale/

How – and why – have we been deceived about this for so long?

If the amalgam of people and institutions that comprise the IPCC can't be trusted to tell the truth about something so simple, why should we pay attention to anything else the IPCC says?

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Geophysicist Dr. Nils-Axel Mörner predicts new Little Ice Age by the middle of this century

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2011/05/geophysicist-dr-nils-axel-morner.html

Corruption of Climate Science Has Created 30 Lost Years

http://drtimball.com/2011/corruption-of-climate-science-has-created-30-lost-years/

Traditionally, the older scientists held to the prevailing wisdom and were challenged by the new, skeptical graduates looking for wider answers. In climatology, the opposite has happened. The so-called skeptics challenging the prevailing wisdom are the professors who have researched and taught the subject for 30 years or longer. Their knowledge is much wider than that of the new young scientists because climate science has stagnated for thirty years.

Tim Lenton is silly

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/scienceblogs/stoat/~3/kVp7xMwOqfk/tim_lenton_is_silly.php

 Where exactly is the scientific basis for 2 oC? Tim is very interested in making our politics consistent with the science, so why isn't he mentioning it? Is he, perhaps, continuing the rather dishonourable tradition of pretending that because lots of people have taken 2 oC for granted, then it must have a solid basis? I don't think it has such as basis, and have said so before.

Climate Refugees Found

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/climate-refugees-found/

Tens or hundreds of thousands of climate refugees go to the warm climate of Arizona every winter to escape the cold climate of the midwest

Back to basics: “Green Electric” becomes “General Electric” again

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/05/05/back-to-basics-green-electric-becomes-general-electric-again/

The president of General Electric slams his previous company green policy as being "too elitist", vows to get back to "working". Maybe this will mean no more "green sin week" on GE owned TV networks

Climate Lawsuits Heading for Defeat Say Top Legal Experts

http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/home/8955-climate-lawsuits-heading-for-defeat-say-top-legal-experts

Desperate greens file countless lawsuits in last gasp bid for climate regulations: experts, public and lawmakers unmoved.

iMatter Marches Worldwide This Week: Time For The Younger Generation To Lead

http://www.desmogblog.com/imatter-marches-worldwide-week-time-younger-generation-lead

You don't often see a child telling her parents to be moreprotective. It's not often that a kid reminds her mom to do the dishes, clean her room... act responsibly. But this is exactly what these children and teenagers are doing. They are asking adults to act more responsibly, to protect their children's future. Isn't it about time that adults start acting responsibly to protect the climate?

April Auto Sales and Washington's Fuelish Failure

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/266563/april-auto-sales-and-washingtons-fuelish-failure-henry-payne

Sales of the plugin Chevy Volt actually dropped. GM's  hybrid Chevy Malibu sedan sold — wait for it — five cars. Meanwhile, Chevy sold 24,000 — that's thousand — gas-fueled Malibu sedans

Political doubt hinders carbon sequestration projects

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110505/full/news.2011.271.html?s=news_rss

Howard Herzog, who researches sequestration at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, says that most of the eight or nine projects under way in the United States are now in doubt.

"A lot of the momentum that has been built up is just going to grind to a halt," says Herzog. "My hope is that we will see a few projects go ahead and serve as an example of what can be done when the politics turn around."

Climate change curbs crops

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110505/full/news.2011.268.html?s=news_rss

The study notes that the United States — which produces about 40% of the world's soya and maize — has so far been shielded from yield declines because its crop-growing regions haven't warmed in summer over the past 30 years, perhaps because of natural variability or the cooling counter-effect of aerosols. 

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, May 5th 2011

http://dailybayonet.com/?p=8341

There's an app for Al Gore, Osama takes the big sleep and Prius drivers lack testicular fortitude, or something

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Death of Climate Nut Osama to Revive Obama Climate Agenda?

http://spectator.org/blog/2011/05/05/death-of-climate-nut-osama-to

Man this climate moonbattery gets really hard to follow.

Obama agrees to let the military kill climate alarmist, activist, and pro-Kyoto scold Osama bin Laden, which should now grease the skidsfor Obama to impose the climate agenda.

Scientists behaving badly

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/5/5/scientists-behaving-badly.html

The Climategate parallels in the story are obvious.

The New Nostradamus of the North: In praise of shale gas - James Delingpole at his best

http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2011/05/in-praise-of-shale-gas-james-delingpole.html

What Ridley says about Gazprom, Greenpeace and the other losers is, of course, true. They will do their utmost in order to strangle the coming shale gas revolution. It is now up to sane people to make sure that they will not succeed.

Australia's new chief scientist reveals his plans : Nature News

In the field of climate change, for example, the public has become confused and science's reputation has been damaged by experts slinging mud at each other rather than debating the science. "Science should be above that sort of thing," he says.

Chubb is also keen that all views on issues such as climate change are given due consideration. "The bulk of the world's scientists think that climate change is occurring at a reasonably rapid pace and that a fair bit of it has been caused by human beings," he says. But it is important to also take notice of people with alternative views. What climate policies the government chooses to pursue, however, is a "political issue" and not a matter for him, he adds.

Footballer Aims to Encourage Environmental Change With Solar PV

Rio Ferdinand may be best known for stopping strikers en route to goal, but the Manchester United and England international defender is hoping to raise his profile by extolling the virtues of green living.

According to Ferdinand, averting man-made climate change is of central importance to the survival of mankind.

Implosion Of The Greens

I strongly recommend you read Mead’s entire post as well as Monbiot’s. They chronicle the complete failure of the green movement to articulate solutions which make any coherent sense in the context of existing energy realities.

It’s almost summer, we can start believing in climate change again | Grist

Maybe put everyone in a sauna before having them make important business or policy decisions about the climate.

The green problem: how do we fight without losing what we're fighting for? | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Green narratives have collapsed precisely because they were unable to withstand the steely quantification demanded by an attempt to get to grips with problems like climate change.

Vineyards Hit Hard By Cold Weather | KSBY.com | San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, Paso Robles

"These were burned up the night of the frost." It's something Merrill hasn't seen in 31 years of growing.
"Some of those trunks that are along the wire are actually just frozen to the point where ah, that the bark is dead," he said. And when the bark is dead, Merrill said it affects long term growth, putting a serious dent in local grower's income.
"The modern history of vineyards in San Luis Obispo County hadn't seen something like this happen, to be so all encompassing and so devastating."
At this point... growers will watch and wait... as they determine what they can save and what is lost. But they say damages could run as high as 80 million dollars.

American Thinker Blog: No child is too young to be a pawn of the left

Children have been blown up for climate change, directed to save polar bears by pestering parents, used as a proxy to sue McDonalds over toys and taken advantage of to expel God from school. Today, a left-wing group known as Our Children's Trust hopes to use children in lawsuits aimed at making the atmosphere a public trust:

Hans von Storch: Science Has Failed To Answer Legitimate Questions – Warmists Have Responded With “A Stroppy Reply”

Deutsche Welle writes:

On the loss of credibility, climate science itself is to blame. The science has stirred up scientifically unfounded expectations, says von Storch. The demand that the public has to rapidly accept instructions on how to act in order to save the planet has blurred the boundaries between policy and science. As a result, science has not become something that has to do with “curiosity”, but rather gives the impression that it’s all about pushing a pre-conceived value-based agenda: “As scientists we have become political tools who are to deliver sought arguments to get citizens to do the right thing.”

Serreze 2010 : “That is simply not the case” | Real Science

Earth to Mark – the graph below is from your organization. It shows that the ice is “getting thicker again” and has been for several years.

Alarmists Offer A Perfect Global Warming Challenge - James Taylor - Endpoint Analysis - Forbes

In the wake of last week’s tragic tornado outbreak, the alarmists are inviting us to focus on the alleged connection between global warming and tornadoes. I agree – let’s indeed pay special attention to the tornado issue. The alarmists’ argument regarding tornadoes is a near perfect proxy for alarmist global warming arguments as a whole. The skeptical counter-arguments are a near perfect proxy for skeptical global arguments as a whole. Do you trust subjective speculation that is strongly and repeatedly contradicted by real-world facts, or do you trust the theory that is strongly and consistently supported by real-world facts? Answer this question regarding tornadoes, and you will similarly have your answer regarding the overall global warming debate.

Australian ski season | Snow It All blog

Snowbird in Utah copped over 18 metres of snow in their best season on record. Breckenridge and Vail in Colorado broke their records too with Vail having the best season in 10 years. Squaw Valley in California hit the 18-metre-plus mark, another record breaking figure, and Whistler Blackcomb in Canada recorded it's second snowiest winter on record.

How Global Warming Caused the Attack of the Giant Ants | Discoblog | Discover Magazine

Archibald and his team think that the giant ants made their break for it when the Eocene experienced one of its hyperthermals, hundred-thousand-year periods of higher temperatures thought to be “driven by the release of carbon dioxide from sediment.” It’s estimated that these warm periods would have raised Arctic temperatures to 46 degrees Fahrenheit.

Climate change: Climate change predictions unclear for California precipitation and runoff - latimes.com

Precipitation and runoff in California's major river basin will not fall dramatically with climate change, according to a new federal study that shows rising temperatures will have an uneven effect on the West's water supplies.

Northern Territory wants 50 year carbon tax exemption | The Australian

THE Northern Territory's Legislative Assembly has passed a motion calling for the territory to be exempted from a carbon tax for at least 50 years, or until a global consensus is been reached on reducing carbon emissions.

Has Mexico's climate aid really slowed carbon emissions? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

IPS: Amidst the creation of a new 'Green Climate Fund' for developing countries, questions are being raised on the climate finance Mexico has already received

Australia flooding last summer also linked to La Nina and cold Pacific «

Flooding historically in Queensland has occurred in strong La Ninas in cold PDO years, conditions occurring this year. A similar major flood occurred in 1974, a strong La Nina winter in the 1947-1977 cold PDO phase.

Combet ends solar panel subsidies early - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - Political - Stock Journal

THE federal government will accelerate cuts to subsidies for household solar panels from July, phasing them out a year earlier than scheduled.

Under the changes to be announced today, the Climate Change Minister, Greg Combet, will say the move will help contain an overheating renewable energy market and trim soaring power prices by up to $35 a household a year.

RealClimate: Handbook in Denialism

Denial is apparently caused by our lizard brainstem. What coincidence then, when talking about fossil fuels from plants from the era of huge long dead lizards (the fossil fuels are not made of the dinosaurs), that denying evidence for anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is linked to that lizard part of the brain. So, what about using the labels ‘reptiles’ or ‘dinos’? Washington and Cook opt for ‘deniers’, and so will I hereafter.

‘Climate Change Denial’ is a useful book and resource for those with an open mind – for instance journalists.
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The discussion about the climate science is fairly brief

Austin: coldest May temperature ever, by four degrees

Just another cold morning at the airport |

How cold was it at the airport this morning, here in Austin? How ’bout 38 degrees Fahrenheit. This was good enough for the record low, by 8 degrees, no less. It was also the coldest May temperature ever, by four degrees. I bet everyone will be talking about this all over town — not!

- Bishop Hill blog - UEA Chancellor's emails

Someone - not me - has got hold of the Climategate emails of UEA's Chancellor, Brandon Gough. This is a slightly odd choice of target, as university Chancellors are usually figureheads as far as I know.

However, it did throw up two things: one trivial but odd, the other just rather funny.

Don't let the Watermelons kill the Shale Gas Revolution – Telegraph Blogs

But what we are going to see in the next few months and years are very concerted efforts by green campaigners and their sympathisers in the EU to besmirch the name of shale gas in favour of their preferred (and – of course – disastrously expensive and environmentally destructive) power source, renewable energy.

We mustn’t allow them to get away with it. Our economic future – not to mention the size of our fuel bills – depends on it.

NC Media Watch: Mother Nature's climate change smack down

Mother Nature could care less what the lefty warmers have to say

Save money. Scrap green power | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Green power just costs too much - even for this Gillard Government, which claims we need more renewable power:

Tony Windsor tells Gillard government it needs to improve its sales job on climate action | The Australian

INDEPENDENT MP Tony Windsor says he is not panicked by plummeting support for a carbon tax, but says the government needs to improve its marketing of its plan.

Renewables could power nation: Milne - National News - National - General - The Canberra Times

Senator Milne said renewable energy was the ''fastest growing energy sector on the planet'' but the Labor Government would not get on board. ''Here in Australia, the more things change, the more they stay the same,'' she said.

''The entrenched fossil fuel lobby still fills the airwaves and the corridors of parliaments with their nonsense that renewables cannot deliver and that clean coal or nuclear power are the only answers.

''These are the renewable energy denialists who, if anything, are more dangerous now than the climate denialists who are finally being sidelined in the inevitable momentum towards a pollution price.''

Only one-quarter of Britons think risks of climate change outweigh the benefits | SciGuy | a Chron.com blog

The private think-tank Ipsos recently surveyed more than 2,000 Britons aged 16 and above about their attitudes toward science. A news release about the survey findings says nothing about climate change.
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Now let’s say you’re a scientist concerned about climate change. (Despite what you may have read, a lot of them really are). Here’s the challenge you’re facing: Not only does the public not presently believe you, but 75 percent of them think they already know enough about the issue to not need any further lecturing from you, thank you very much.

Climate Activists Target States With Lawsuits : NPR

A group of attorneys using children and young adults as plaintiffs plans to file legal actions in every state and the District of Columbia on Wednesday in an effort to force government intervention on climate change.

The courtroom ploy is backed by high-profile activists looking for a legal soft spot to advance a cause that has stumbled in the face of stiff congressional opposition and a skeptical U.S. Supreme Court.

The goal is to have the atmosphere declared for the first time as a "public trust" deserving special protection. That's a concept previously used to clean up polluted rivers and coastlines, although legal experts said they were uncertain it could be applied successfully to climate change.

Two NASA Sites Win Webby Awards - State College, PA | Penn State

NASA's Global Climate Change site, which won last year's People's Voice Award for science, won the 2011 judges' award for best science site.

climate.nasa.gov: Climate Change: Evidence

The current warming trend is of particular significance because most of it is very likely human-induced and proceeding at a rate that is unprecedented in the past 1,300 years

Farmers fear frost may damage harvest - TheNews.pl :: News from Poland

The sudden drop in temperature has prompted panic in sections of the farming community, amidst fears that yields of apples and other fruit will be damaged.
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Ten years ago, farmers lost approximately 90 percent of their harvests when severe frosts returned in spring.

The World’s Tropical Forests Are Already Feeling the Heat by William Laurance: Yale Environment 360

Indeed, for any specific location in the tropics, our ability to predict future changes in temperatures — and especially rainfall — is appallingly bad. Different global circulation models, which are our best tools for projecting future climates, often differ wildly — even when run under the exact same hypothetical greenhouse-gas scenarios.

Scientists are also bitterly divided on whether undisturbed rainforests will grow more massive or shrink in the future.

Westpac joins carbon revolt | The Australian

WESTPAC chief executive Gail Kelly has joined the growing criticism of Labor's carbon tax, declaring an emissions trading scheme better for business and warning the "uncertainty" caused by the lack of policy detail is affecting her customers.

California frost devastates grape crop | Daily wine news - the latest breaking wine news from around the world | News | decanter.com

California's Central Coast may have lost up to 50% of its grape crop after one of the worst spring frosts in history.

Tuesday Ties Record for Low Temperature in San Antonio | KGNB 1420 AM

(San Antonio, TX) -- Yesterday was a record tying day for cool temperatures in the San Antonio region. The thermometer at the San Antonio International Airport dipped to 47-degrees yesterday morning just before 6am, tying the record set back in 1970.

Warmist Revkin to give this lecture: "Beyond Super Wicked: A Journalist's Journey Tracking Two Decades of Greenhouse Diplomacy -- and Rising Greenhouse Emissions"

Andrew Revkin Keynote Lecture - Climate Policy Workshop :: Events Calendar :: Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Keynote public lecture by Andrew Revkin, former New York Times climate & environment reporter, and Senior Fellow at Pace University.

The Climate Sceptics (TCS) Blog: Scientists for Sale claims Garth Paltridge.

We hear that Julia Gillard is happy to have the CSIRO, the Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian Academy of Science on her side while making her arguments for a carbon tax. Well of course she is. She and her predecessors bought them. And bought them good. Over the last couple of years her Department of Climate Change (the DCC) gave them 27 million dollars in the form of research grants. That pays a fair swag of the salaries of the CSIRO and Bureau climate scientists who make up the majority of all employed climate scientists in Australia.

The Climate Sceptics (TCS) Blog: The Oldest Thermometer Record In existence - NO WARMING?

This set of graphs is from Hadley's Met Office.

Obama’s Science Adviser Warns Of Ice Free Winters In The Arctic | Real Science

Climategate Update

Citing the potential for “financial harm,” the University of East Anglia last week denied a Freedom of Information request by “Hockey Stick” debunker Stephen McIntyre for the controversial Yamal temperature data. This is the third time he has been rebuffed by the University, which was scandalized by last year’s Climategate controversy over, among other things, inappropriate avoidance of FOI requests.

Bill Richardson: Killing bin Laden Means Obama Can Pass a Climate Bill - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

A BOLD CALL — Also at the gala was former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, who said he thinks Osama bin Laden’s death might give him Obama enough political power to pass a climate bill. Either way, he called on the president to reengage on the climate debate, and cautioned environmentalists that they couldn’t afford to wait for a friendlier Congress: “You know if we do that, we’re doomed,” he said.

Wayward whale not a fluke : Nature News

Grey whales aren't the only creatures whose ranges might expand as summer sea ice contracts.

- Bishop Hill blog - Plodding along

Last night I had a response to an FOI request to Norfolk Police for financial information relating to the UEA emails inquiry. I asked for costs per month for the investigation, expecting these to show a tailing-off over the period since Climategate.

Imagine my surprise then, to be sent this

Death Spiral for Climate Alarmism Continues (A Year Later) — MasterResource

For two years now, I’ve made a case that climate alarmism – which I define as the reflexive tendency to assume worst-case scenarios generated by climate models are true (and warrant public policy based on that belief) – is in a death spiral.

Tornadoes and Global Warming - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic

It's easy to give into the temptation to assume that any change in the weather must be due to global warming. But we've had weather for a long time. Even if we somehow manage to halt global warming, the tornadoes, we will always have with us.

Lots Of Cold Air Headed To Australia | Real Science

Snowpack Now Almost 10X Of 2009 | Real Science

Defending the atmosphere, part 1 « Climate Progress

Starting on May 4, young people in the United States and several other countries will file petitions and lawsuits in an effort to force public officials into protecting us all from climate change.

The international legal intervention – the sponsors call it guerrilla law – is believed to be the first of its kind. It is being organized by Our Children’s Trust in Eugene, Oregon. It’s part of a broader campaign that will include “iMatter” marches by young people around the world May 7-14, the brainchild of 16-year-old Alec Loorz of California.

Bracing for climate change in the San Francisco Bay Area | Dan Schreiber | Bay Area | San Francisco Examiner

By 2100, a 55-inch increase in the sea level would increase flood risk throughout the Bay Area — including downtown San Francisco, Silicon Valley and the San Francisco and Oakland airports.

Breaking: Planet to "be roasted by 2100"; sea levels to rise 50 meters over time

NunatsiaqOnline 2011-05-04: NEWS: Calls for political action on Arctic climate change: scientists

“What’s really is remarkable is how far it’s going to rise,” according to models, [James White from the University of Colorado] said.

How high? As much as 50 metres over time, he said, with rising water drowning states, nations and cities.
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Inaction on climate change means “the planet is going to be roasted by 2100,” said Bob Corell, the chairman of the 2004 Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, at the conference.

2007: Robert W. Corell Joins The Heinz Center As Global Change Director

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Jan. 29 -/E-Wire/-- Dr. Robert W. Corell recently joined The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment as the new Global Change Director.

Again: During past, intense periods of global warming, why didn't allegedly positive feedbacks turn the Earth into a permanently uninhabitable fireball?

Giant Fossil Ants Linked To Global Warming - insciences

During the Eocene Epoch, many plants and animal species migrated between Europe and North America via continuous land across the Arctic, bridging the two continents. But the mystery is how did these ancient giant ants pass through a temperate Arctic climate — too cool for them?

The researchers suspect that the key is in the brief, but intense episodes of global warming that happened around this time. They appear to have created periodic opportunities for hot climate life to pass between continents through the Arctic. Archibald calls them brief openings of a physiological gate to cross the physical land bridge.

Death rates from heat waves may go up in the coming decades

"Our study looks to quantify the impact of increased heat waves on human mortality. For major a U.S. city like Chicago, the impact will likely be profound and potentially devastating," said Roger Peng, lead author of the study.

Leaf and Volt Sales – April « The Daily Bayonet

Congratulations to Nissan for breaking the difficult 1,000 unit barrier in only 4 months. How that trend becomes half a million units per year isn’t obvious to me, but then I’m not a scary smart car executive pushing tin boxes that grind to halt after 40 miles or so.
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Chevy’s Volt slumped from a March high of 608 units to only 493 cars in April (pdf). No word on how many of those went to GE’s welfare for useless products program.

Hurricane damage to forests: Scientists study impacts on carbon cycle

There was twice as much destruction in the years prior to 1900 because there were more hurricanes and much larger forested areas.

Weigel : The Kochs Fail PR 101

And there was quotable gold like this:

Koch says he’s not sure if global warming is caused by human activities, and at any rate, he sees the heating up of the planet as good news. Lengthened growing seasons in the northern hemisphere, he says, will make up for any trauma caused by the slow migration of people away from disappearing coastlines. “The Earth will be able to support enormously more people because a far greater land area will be available to produce food,” he says.

Farmers in Himalayas who allegedly believe in the global warming hoax are "incredible experts", while American farmers who don't believe are science-denying idiots?

Watching Climate Change Through a Farmer's Eyes - ScienceNOW

In the last few decades, farmers in the heavily-forested Darjeeling Hills of the Himalayas in India and Nepal have noticed something strange. Rivers and streams are drying up, crop yields are plummeting, and trees have begun to flower long before spring arrives....A group of women told the researchers that all their lives they had washed their food containers every 3 or 4 days. But recently, they found that they had to wash them every 2 days: a few degrees increase in temperature was causing food to spoil more rapidly.
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Susan Crate, an anthropologist at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, says there is much to be learned from what she calls "place-based people," who "watch the weather closely and know the signs, smell rain in the air, tell the direction of the wind, the way the animals act. These people," she says, "are incredible experts on their environments."

The Reference Frame: iMatter: Your house is uninhabitable for most species

The warming induced by the increase from 391 ppm to 500 ppm is smaller (by about 20%) - because of the logarithmic law - than the warming by the same 109 ppm between 282 ppm and 391 ppm which was about 0.7 °C and pretty much unnoticeable without accurate gadgets and contrived statistical methods.

Volcano heats high-mountain lake to 108 degrees

Now imagine what a few thousand underwater volcanoes could do

TheDartmouth.com: Lott: An Alarming Shade of Green

While environmental awareness is generally a good thing, we must be on guard against “experts” spouting sensational, politically-motivated scaremongering to make headlines and attract funding. Unfortunately, the College’s decision to invite someone like Goodstein without bringing in opposing perspectives reflects the extent to which many members of the Dartmouth community have bought into the overblown hype surrounding climate change.

WEBCommentary(tm) - Carbon and carbon dioxide: Clearing up the confusion

Legislators and regulators need to focus on controlling unhealthy amounts of real pollutants (based on valid medical and environmental science) – and keep their pesky hands off our CO2!

Yellowstone hopes to release bison back into park for summer | KBZK.com | Z7 | Bozeman, Montana

They were captured because they continually wandered north of the park in search of food due to the harsh winter in the park.

"Without question, we had a very significant winter this year. That did prompt a significant amount of bison movement," Nash said.

Carbon tax worries MP - Local News - News - General - Camden Advertiser

MACARTHUR MP Russell Matheson has called on the federal government to scrap the "carbon tax" to protect Macarthur families.

Mr Matheson said the tax would hurt families already struggling with the increased cost of living.

"The Coalition wants to stop or rescind the carbon tax," he said.

Energy Tribune- Now Even Tornadoes Are Used For Energy Spin

President Obama and Secretary Chu are either unaware of or ignore the fact that computer models are greatly over-predicting the amount of warming in the upper troposphere. These models are forecasting 2 to 3 times more warming than has been observed with real world measurements. This dramatic warming is the fingerprint that would prove that man made global warming is real but it is not there. And yet these predictions are what Mr. Chu and the President thinks we should use to completely dismantle our proven system of making energy and somehow replace with highly theoretical, unproven “renewables” that potentially could have a much worse impact on America than any climate changes in the next 50 years. Obama says he wants to eliminate fossil fuels as an energy source one day and then says he wants to fund exploration by foreign countries and then buy their oil the next. This strangely inconsistent policy can’t be good for our energy or economic future.

Twentieth-Century Growth Rates of Florida (USA) Corals

In discussing their findings, Helmle et al. say they demonstrate that "the measured corals have historically been able to maintain rates of extension and calcification over the 60-year period from 1937 to 1996 under the combination of local environmental and climatic changes." They also note that calcification rates were positively related to sea surface temperature