Just weather: Oregon "spring was the fifth in a row featuring weather chillier than the norm established over the past 30 years"

NewsRegister.com - Forces of nature combine for cold, wet spring

This spring was the fifth in a row featuring weather chillier than the norm established over the past 30 years. This one has been particularly cold and wet.
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Mote cautioned, however, that the local cold snap should not be used as evidence to cast doubt on the reality of global warming.

Global Warming Blamed For Increased Food Yields (But Not Enough)

Now, food production has not actually decreased in the last 30 years, it went up. Way up. But, properly framed, global warming can still be blamed if a projection is established where farmers would have produced even more without climate change.

What about the US, where temperatures have actually gone down?

Top French politician, International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn held investigation of sodomy charge - NYPOST.com

The French political bigshot who heads the International Monetary Fund was arrested for allegedly sodomizing a Manhattan hotel maid today — hauled off an Air France flight just moments before takeoff from Kennedy Airport, police sources said.

Three Port Authority detectives pulled Dominique Strauss-Kahn from the plane’s first-class cabin just two minutes before it was due to depart for Paris, according to police sources.

Flashback: IMF Proposes "Green Fund" for Climate Change Financing

The world must adopt a low-carbon model for growth as it rebuilds from the global economic crisis, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

To help finance this shift in the global economy, the IMF is working on a set of proposals to create a multi-billion dollar “Green Fund” that would provide the huge sums—which could climb to $100 billion a year in a few years—needed for countries to confront the challenges posed by climate change.

YouTube - IMF Strauss-Kahn speaks about effect of climate change on Africa

IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn speaks about effect of climate change on Africa in speech at University of Nairobi, Kenya, March 8 2010.

Proof Of Climate Change In Colorado | Real Science

It kind of pisses me off that we used to have a nice climate like California, and then global cooling came along and made it cold all the time. I blame you, because you simply aren’t generating enough CO2.

Chilly spell settling in, says bureau

Parts of Victoria, including Shepparton, Orbost, Bairnsdale, Portland, Warrnambool, Moorabin, Scoresby, Frankston and Cranbourne have shivered through their coldest start to May on record.

The new US Postal service green stamps – no mention of global warming, climate change, or carbon – but they do want us to turn off our lights “forever” | Watts Up With That?

Surprisingly though, when you watch the promotional video, there’s no stamp that says anything about global warming or CO2. Even the official USPS press release has no mention of global warming, climate change, or carbon footprint. That’s just strange. Maybe they realize that it has become “Voldemort” in Washington.

Montana Producers Behind in Spring Seeding

Cold weather and lots of rain and snow is keeping area producers out of their fields this spring, putting a halt to seeding.

Hillary Has Fixed Greenland’s Climate – She Can Go Home Now

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2011/05/14/hillary-has-fixed-greenlands-climate-she-can-go-home-now/

Proper uninhabitable cold has been restored. No doubt she will come back, take a long hot shower to warm up, and then tell the press about the global warming devastation she saw there. 

Bill Maher | Alabama Tornadoes | Global Warming | The Daily Caller

http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/14/noted-climatologist-bill-maher-on-alabama-tornados-this-is-global-warming/

Despite being someone who opposes blind faith and living a life in accordance to religious texts, HBO's "Real Time" host Bill Maher has put his faith into a scientific theory that has had its share of doubt cast on it over the past two years.

A Banner Day for Media Bias: The NYT’s Friday the 13th On Global Warming

For those few and uninformed skeptics, the NYT assures us that “Not only is the science behind the climate-change forecast solid, but the risks to future generations from further inaction are profound.” Already, “the sea level is rising in many American towns” and the average United States air temperature has increased by two degrees in the last 50 years.

No Wind Power Needed in the Pacific Northwest - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Grid operators say they have run out of capability to sell the surplus electricity, store the water or shut down gas, oil, and nuclear plants — leaving wind farms the unfortunate victim.

Green Mountain Graduates 186 Students; College President Declares Climate Neutrality -- POULTNEY, Vt., May 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --

http://m.prnewswire.com/news-releases/green-mountain-graduates-186-students-college-president-declares-climate-neutrality-121831848.html

his address, Governor Shumlin told graduates "You have a responsibility that your parents and I never had–you wake up every day knowing that if you don't finds ways to reduce our addiction to fossil fuel that your planet won't be livable for your kids and grandkids. That's kind of a big one.

Edenhofer’s Plan For Sustainable Wealth Destruction – Wants $12 Trillion For A Few Tenths Of A Degree Of Cooling

Question: A man sitting next to a radiator in his living room wants to feel 0.2°C cooler. What should he do?

a) Move his chair a couple centimeters further away from the radiator, or

b) Go out and pay $5000 for a completely new heating system from a shady manufacturer who promises it will be 0.2°C cooler.

Sane persons of course will answer with “a”.

The Climate Sceptics (TCS) Blog: Climate Scare is over - Roger Helmer MEP

Climate Change is entirely natural; the idea that by changing our energy policy we can change the climate is just nonsense...

Michael Moore to join Keith Olbermann's Current TV program

Keith Olbermann's supportive commentary on filmmaker Michael Moore's criticism of the Osama bin Laden killing comes on the heels of Mr. Moore's decision to join Olbermann's Current TV program as a contributor.
Liberal television news commentator Keith Olbermann, working now for Al Gore's Current TV venture, has added a new contributor to his "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" program, with the announcement on Wednesday that filmmaker Michael Moore will join the Olbermann team, Reuters reported.

GISS Extrapolations : 10C Gradient Across A Few Miles | Real Science

I wonder what physical mechanism Hansen would use to explain the huge gradient across the North Pole?

Out Of Africa (And Antarctica) | Real Science

Pink shows where GISS has no thermometer readings for April. They report precision within 0.01 degrees.

Do you watch Planet Green’s TV programs? « Climate Progress

It doesn’t appear ratings are terribly good

Top 10 Most Obnoxious Hollywood Liberals - HUMAN EVENTS

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=43491

Green that’s not green « The Daily Bayonet

If Gilead were proposing something useful like a nuclear power plant, greens would be united against it and all we’d hear about is the poor turtle and whippoorwill. But it’s ‘green’ energy so they’re torn between wanting to build more monuments to stupidity and protecting nature. Which means popcorn futures are up.

‘There isn't a single rain gauge in Djibouti’

“There isn't a single rain gauge in Djibouti, there's no (weather) radar in Djibouti, there's no way you can predict a flood because we don't have any observations,” he added, highlighting an example gleaned during a visit to the East African state's weather service.

Family power bills 'to soar 50% in four years | This is Money

The hike in fuel bills is expected as Britain becomes more reliant on imported gas. It will also be needed to pay for the new generation of nuclear power stations, the upgrading of the national grid and the creation of thousands of wind turbines to meet Europe's tough climate change targets.

Climate Scientist Rap is Funky, Fresh and Informative | ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gossip

In the video, a group of actual climate scientists (with their names and titles up there and everything) rap about how climate change is a serious, man-made threat, politicians are a bunch of whiners, and deniers are full of crap.

There’s plenty of attitude, and enough shots at deniers to go around: at one point the scientists rap, “Unlike Andrew Bolt, our work is peer reviewed,” (oh snap!). Later, an Alan Jones impersonator raps, “The greenhouse effect is just a theory, sucker,” to which the hip-hop scientists reply, “Yeah so is gravity, float away motherf***er!”

Rescue at 19,500 feet ties McKinley record: Climbing | Alaska news at adn.com

Stranded above 19,500 feet on the continent's tallest peak, the injured climber suffered frostbite and hypothermia as temperatures hit 30 below. His leg was broken. The wind gusted to 70 mph.

North Korea Goes Cold and Hungry « Musings from the Chiefio

North Korea is having a bit of trouble growing food. That’s what happens to the most marginal producer when things get just a touch colder.

It gets better: Grist now tries quoting the Bible and linking to a video by the 10-year-old "King of Eco-Rap"

Calling all artists: The climate movement needs you! | Grist

Great upheavals demand great art. And now humanity faces the gravest of threats: climate change. The climate clock ticks ominously onward, but thus far we have been unable to marshal what Bill McKibben and Naomi Klein describe as the "bodies, passion, and creativity" required to avert impending economic and environmental disaster.

But passion comes from the heart, not the head, and climate activists have largely been targeting people's upper organ, pleading their case with statistics, policy platforms, and poll-driven messaging. Maybe it's time to aim lower.
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Other artists have begun to respond. There are now songs like "Melting Ice" by 10-year-old Lil Peppi, the "King of Eco-Rap"; or Jill Sobule's satirical "Happy Song About Global Warming."
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So we call on our fellow artists to join the climate movement and our fellow climate activists to embrace activist art. For, as the Bible says (Proverbs 29:18), "Where there is no vision, the people perish" -- and so does the planet.

The new IPCC can still cite non-peer-reviewed literature from climate activists

International Climate Panel Announces Reforms on Conflicts, Errors - ScienceInsider

According to a draft of the conflict-of-interest policy distributed before the final vote, coordinating editors and authors of the panel’s voluminous reports would have to fill out a form each year detailing affiliations, funding, and jobs that “might reasonably be construed by others as affecting your judgment.”
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On the issue of citing non-peer-reviewed literature, such as reports from nongovernmental organizations and climate activists, the new procedures say that IPCC report authors can include such documents “as long as they are scientifically and technically valid. However, magazines and newspapers are in principle not valid sources ... blogs, social networking sites, and broadcast media are not acceptable sources of information for IPCC reports.”

Should Christopher Monckton blindly accept the beliefs of warmist PhD student Tim Leslie?

Twitter / @Erik Olsen: Yo, @Revkin is your man. I ...

Yo, @Revkin is your man. I think he will like it. @danilic The Extended version of "I'm A Climate Scientist" [with a picture of Monckton!] http://youtu.be/xFTddFk6zb8
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Retweeted by Revkin and 3 others

Sentence of the Week - NYTimes.com

A. He’s standing amid a fire murmuring “theater.” (Bill McKibben, New York Review of Books, re: Bjorn Lomborg’s pronouncements on climate change)

A little zinger, out of nowhere, toward the end of a long piece on climate-change policy. I imagine McKibben getting out of his chair and hopping around for a few minutes after he wrote this.

Pachauri happy over ‘forward-looking’ IPCC policies

The IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Chairman, Mr R.K. Pachauri, has expressed happiness over a stronger governance structure and a set of “forward-looking” policies adopted by the Panel at its 33rd Plenary Session

Right to Work | TSSA conference fringe meeting – Climate Change and Trade Unionists: Time for Action

Wanted-One Million Climate Jobs!

Climate Change and Trade Unionists: Time for Action

U.S. Action to Combat Climate Change Remains Urgent: Scientific American

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry (D-Mass.) called the NAS report "the latest watertight finding on the pile of countless peer-reviewed scientific studies that underscore the risks if the United States doesn't address climate change now, not in 10 or 20 years."
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"Republicans in the House should be ashamed of their votes denying climate change and handcuffing the Environmental Protection Agency," [Waxman] said. "If we wait to act, it may be too late to save the planet from irreversible changes."

Popular Technology.net: Are Skeptical Scientists funded by ExxonMobil?

Conclusion:

The scientists unjustly attacked in the Carbon Brief article are not "linked to" [funded by] ExxonMobil. The Carbon Brief and any other website perpetuating this smear should issue a retraction.

B.C. Liberals' 'green' policy hurts kids, gifts big business

It's tortuous logic that takes money from school budgets to buy offsets for inefficient buildings that schools have no funds to upgrade or renovate.

Couple that punitive approach with the fact that the Pacific Carbon Trust will sell those Encana offsets for $25 per tonne, making a profit considerably larger than the school system's expenditure on offsets.

Western Mountains has a great snow season «

“Even many of the old-timers have never seen some of the depths measured across northern Colorado this month”, said Green.

What Is The Difference Between Osama And Grist? | Real Science

Both believed that it would take mass casualties of Americans to achieve their personal political goals. Both believed that global warming is destroying the planet.

5,000 Year Old Middle East Conflict Caused By SUV Drivers | Real Science

The New Nostradamus of the North: Two trendy climate change scaremongers

Here we have a leading Harvard Medical School scientist and a Science magazine journalist telling us that climate change already has lead to all kinds of catastrophic developments, from the spread of infectious diseases to the recent revolts in the Middle East and North Africa. On the other hand, these two scaremongers tell us that he earth can be saved by "switching to climate-friendly policies" and installing bike lanes and "green roofs"! If the authors were serious, they should at least - like some other global warming alarmists - demand some real tough action. But Epstein and Ferber are not to be taken seriously. They seem to be just a couple of trendy "feel good" scaremongerers.

China-Subsidy fraud hits emissions battle

ABOUT 205 million yuan (US$31.5 million) in subsidies intended to help industries reduce emissions were embezzled by power plants, steel makers and cement manufacturers between 2007 to 2009, according to a governsment audit.

Newt: "it is inconceivable that any threat from global warming is big enough to justify destroying the American economy"

Newt Gingrich: 'I bring some scars with my life' | McClatchy

Regarding global warming, Gingrich acknowledged the reality of it, but said he didn't know if it's being driven by human greenhouse gas emission.

"The planet used to be dramatically warmer when we had dinosaurs and no people. To the best of my knowledge the dinosaurs weren't driving cars," he said.

Scientists' contention is not that Earth is now warmer than ever, but that the current rate of temperature increase is unique.

But Gingrich dismissed the vast majority of scientific opinion, on the grounds that so many scientists support it.

"I distinguish 'science' from 'political science.' and when I see 6,000 scientists sign something, that's called political science. That's not science," he said.
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Regardless, he said, "it is inconceivable that any threat from global warming is big enough to justify destroying the American economy."

Saving Energy? Colder Homes Hurt The Environment In The Long Run

Beginning in the 1970s, we were taught to keep homes cooler if we want to save energy and therefore both money and the planet. But systems don't really work that way, as most knew, and a report commissioned by Friends of the Earth and written by Professor Sir Michael Marmot points out that cold homes cost lives and harm the environment in the long run.

While elderly people living in cold homes are more prone to heart and lung disease, the editorial by Dr. Keith Dear and Professor Anthony McMichael from the Australian National University in Canberra also
notes that cold homes can affect health at any age. Children are more likely to suffer from breathing problems and adolescents living in a cold house have an increased risk of mental health problems.

Hasta la Vista warm summer «

Well I say look at how cold it has gotten in the mid troposphere:
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now close to .6C COLDER than last year and nearly the coldest we have seen in 10 years at this level of the atmosphere.

To re- emphasize… this is where the IPCC had all the warming aloft in the tropics that was supposed to be the sign of the “trapping” and positive feed back

Hows that working out for you

Gates puts energy into climate change solutions - National News - National - General - Latrobe Valley Express

Mr Gates spoke on Tuesday to a sold-out audience at a fund-raising breakfast in Seattle for the nonprofit Climate Solutions.
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Mr Gates had some critical jabs at politicians, saying the optimism he feels when meeting scientists fades when he thinks about "the political elements that should be in place" by now, such as pricing for carbon.

417 DAYS UNTIL LABOR’S EUROPEAN BULLY TAX | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog

Those who currently have reservations about a carbon tax or more directly oppose it now include the citizens of Illawarra, Hafda’s Butchery, Labor senator Doug Cameron’s working people, Rio Tinto, Alcoa, dairy farmers, barley growers, insurance companies, local councils, state governments, CFOs, food and grocery producers, miners, union members, Gerry Harvey, G&S Engineering, Sam Gadaleta, BHP, Queensland Labor members, the Noosa Chamber of Commerce, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Northern Territory parliament, Santos, the Australian Taxi Industry Association, Alumina Limited, an industrial group representing Amcor, Bluescope Steel, Boral, CSR, Sucrogen, Sugar Australia, Rheem, Vicpole and Dexion, Incitec, the Taxi Council of Queensland and also the Australian Agricultural Company, the Australian Coal Association, the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries and the Federation of Automotive Product Manufacturers. Plus Penrith’s Sun Masamune sake brewery:

Don’t want to face impossible decisions? Act now on climate | Grist

"All extreme weather events are now subject to human influence," said Peter Gleick, a climate and water scientist and the president of the Pacific Institute, at a Capitol Hill briefing on Monday organized by the American Meteorological Society (AMS). "We are loading the dice and painting higher numbers on them."

10 natural wonders to see before they disappear - CNN.com

(Budget Travel) -- You've heard the grim timelines: if warming continues, the Great Barrier Reef will be bleached by 2030; glaciers in the Swiss Alps, on Mt. Kilimanjaro, and in Glacier National Park will disappear in under 40 years; and Arctic ice melt will leave the North Pole bare and polar bears extinct.

Overheated planet update, Washington state edition: "The last time all three passes opened so late in the season was 1974"

WSDOT - 2011 - Crews battle late-spring snowfall and avalanche danger in mountain passes

CASCADE MOUNTAINS – The calendar might say spring, but Old Man Winter hasn’t easily released his icy grip on three mountain passes cutting through the Cascades. Record amounts of snow are hampering efforts to clear and reopen the passes.

Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) crews on the North Cascades Highway, and Chinook and Cayuse passes are working hard to open at least two of the passes by Memorial Day weekend. The last time all three passes opened so late in the season was 1974 – also a La Niña year.

Warmist Laurel Whitney claims "actual equations prove earth’s climate has been put on steroids...It’s not rocket science, it’s a simple calculation"

Laurel Whitney | California Town’s School Board Wants Politically “Balanced” Curriculum On Climate Change

Clearly, because if it was based on math, students could find that actual equations prove earth’s climate has been put on steroids, and it’s because we’re spewing billions of tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere everyday, for the past century. It’s not rocket science, it’s a simple calculation that shows that energy in (from the sun) ≠energy out (back into space) on our planet.

Laurel Whitney

Laurel Whitney is an up and coming contender in the climate change arena. Currently residing in New York City, she is an adjunct professor in the Environmental Studies department at Pace University, where she gets to depress aspiring freshman about how the world is riding a flaming rollercoaster towards ecological disaster.

Hey, Laurel: Can we please see your "simple calculation"?

More climate hoax promotion from Reuters

Climate change bringing infection, hunger, illness | Reuters

Another result of a changing climate: heat and carbon dioxide magnify the effects of asthma and allergies, particularly in cities where more and more children are developing respiratory problems.
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For example, Ferber said, the re-insurance company Swiss Re realized that it could insure wind farms at a lower premium than oil rigs, because entire wind farms aren't likely to be felled in a disaster.
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[Warmist Paul] Epstein said that humans need to dramatically decrease fossil fuel and wood burning "in order to give the climate a chance to re-stabilize at a level that would be viable" for environmental and human health.

Center for Health and the Global Environment

Paul R. Epstein, M.D., M.P.H. is Associate Director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School (http://chge.med.harvard.edu) and is a medical doctor trained in tropical public health. ...Dr. Epstein received recognition for his contributions to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore.

Carbon - Financial - Thomson Reuters

The combination of Thomson Reuters expertise and our recent acquisition of Point Carbon enables us to bring you even deeper insight into the Carbon markets – so we have decided to bring both communities together.

Campaign will Donate $100,000 to Bike Advocacy and Climate Change Nonprofits

Every mile traveled by bike instead of car prevents one pound of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere, according to the Climate Leadership Initiative at the University of Oregon. Car-generated carbon dioxide is one of the leading causes of global climate change.

Stranded Man's Body Found Months Later - Portland News Story - KPTV Portland

A Forest Service crew has found the body of a man who was stranded in the snow for almost 70 days.

Group of Marin residents revolts over changes to battle global warming - Marin Independent Journal

Marin residents opposed to increased housing densities — some skeptical of global warming science — voiced their concerns loudly at a public workshop hosted by planners charged with designing a strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2035.

Joe Barton, a friend to oil and energy interests, snubs global warming report

Who are you going to trust on the issue of global warming? Politicians or scientists? More precisely, are you going to put your faith in the likes of Congressman Joe Barton, a Texas Republican backed by oil and energy companies, or the carefully plodding researchers at the National Academy of Sciences? When the NAS issued an alarming report called "America's Climate Choices" that concludes global warming is real and must be dealt with immediately, Barton sniped, “I see nothing substantive in this report that adds to the knowledge base necessary to make an informed decision about what steps, if any, should be taken to address climate change.”

Will Climate-Related Disasters Convince Americans Global Warming is Real? : TreeHugger

What if floods of biblical proportions were to devastate a major metropolis? Well, the way some in the green community see it, such disasters would be truly terrible -- truly, truly terrible, they stress -- but they might be necessary to wake the public up to the threats posed by climate change.

UN climate hoax chief: “Work to design new climate institutions has begun"

Climate Treaty Is Possible, UN Envoy Says, Rejecting U.S. View - Bloomberg

“What is not doable is not to address climate change and not to do it in a timely fashion and at the level which it merits and with the urgency it needs to be done,” Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change told reporters in New York.
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“Governments can and should pick up speed and focus on all fronts,” Figueres said. “Work to design new climate institutions has begun and needs to be completed by Durban.”

The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Huntsman the Latest Too-Clever 'Climate' Candidate

So what we see is another guy trying to be slick, to avoid saying "Bad idea. But, can I still have credit for the ask? I won't swear off it." Not mature. Trying to have it every way. Not trustworthy.

Warmist James Hansen: "What we're going to have to do is leave the rest of the coal -- most of the coal -- and the tar sands and the oil shales in the ground"

Climate scientist says NZ lignite no bargain

"What we're going to have to do is leave the rest of the coal -- most of the coal -- and the tar sands and the oil shales in the ground," he told NZPA.
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"If we do put a rising price on carbon emissions, then we're going to come up with other things: algae-based fuels, more effective solar panels and maybe advanced nuclear power."

Trees may grow 500 km further north by 2100 | Canada | Reuters

OSLO (Reuters) - Trees in the Arctic region may grow 500 km (300 miles) further north by 2100 as climate change greens the barren tundra and causes sweeping change to wildlife, a leading expert said.
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"Changes seem to be happening even more rapidly than we had anticipated just 10 years ago," Aevar Petersen, chair of the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), told Reuters from Greenland on Thursday, where foreign ministers of Arctic countries agreed steps to bolster regional cooperation.
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"We do fear for the polar bear if the ice is melting," Petersen said. "It really hasn't anywhere to go." An international report last week projected that the Arctic Ocean could be ice-free in summers in the next 30 to 40 years.

If you buy carbon dioxide rip-offsets, will the sky be bluer than it would otherwise be?

Can We Make Climate Change Sizzle?

While waiting in the train station on my way out of San Francisco International Airport I noticed a group of business-casual people arriving in the city. The group was commenting on the carbon offset poster in the otherwise empty station. “Keep Our Skies Blue,” the poster read, with the message to buy air travel carbon offset credits at kiosks in the terminals. The loud-talker of the group didn’t understand the message of the poster, and it actually made him angry. “What are they trying to do?” he asked, suggesting that he thought it was some sort of San Francisco hippie exaggeration scam. He seemed more skeptical than inspired and I’m pretty sure he wasn’t going to be buying any carbon offsets. Observing the negative interaction between these travelers and the poster got me thinking about how can we better communicate messages of climate change.

75% of Americans Have Never Heard of Climate-Gate, Study Reveals : TreeHugger

In the course of investigating a recent piece for Slate on how climate skeptics can "convert" to believe in the science, I spoke with Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz, the Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication. He has a working paper on Climate-Gate pending publication, and it focuses on the impact the event had on American belief in climate change.

"That paper shows that Climate-Gate did have a significant impact on public opinion," he tells me. "We found that, first of all, 75% of the public didn't even know about it."

D.R. Tucker's "Confessions": How do climate skeptics change their minds? - By Brian Merchant - Slate Magazine

So what might lead the nation's skeptics and undecideds towards such meaningful conversions?

For skeptics, it'd probably require dismantling major chunks of the "denial industry"— the multinational corporations, conservative think tanks, and partisan cable networks that have an interest in promulgating doubt about climate science. This won't happen anytime soon.

Rap attack on climate change sceptics hits home | Damian Carrington | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Can comedy rap reach the people conventional campaigning can't? On the evidence of this video, I think yes.
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In case you've missed it, take a look at this video (unless swearing offends you). It made me ask if comedy rap is an effective campaigning tool, and it certainly made me smile. Made by working Australian climate scientists for a television show, it lampoons the fact that virtually all climate sceptics are not scientists.
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The climate rap predictably induced confected outrage in the sceptics over the bad language. None addressed the central point that most sceptics are not scientists.

Volunteers survey elk fatalities around Mount St. Helens

After the harsh winter of 2008, more than 150 elk carcasses were counted in the wildlife area, despite a hay feeding program for the animals.

Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » Poll: Only 19% Blame Made-Made Global Warming For Recent Extreme Weather, 51% Say Natural Phenomenon…

Global warming propagandists hardest hit.

Yellowstone's Sylvan Pass closed for 3rd straight day because of multiple snow slides :: The Republic

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. — A blanket of heavy snow is causing problems in Yellowstone National Park.

Sylvan Pass — which connects Fishing Bridge to the park's east entrance — remained closed for the third straight day Friday because of multiple snow slides onto the road. The slopes on either side of the road are covered by deep fields of heavy, wet snow.

KODI-AM in Cody also reported that snow contributed to the collapse of the roof at an RV repair facility this week and damaged the roof at the Grant Village Visitor Education Center.

Blindspots at the IPCC « NoFrakkingConsensus

We need no further proof that the environmentalist mindset also dominates the IPCC than the fact that this new report appears to completely ignore the shale gas revolution.

Why Mississippi floods were expected : Nature News

Why did it happen?

The simple answer is because it rained. A lot.

Would putting all the climate scientists in a room solve global warming... • The Register

Critics also point to the disappearance of 4,500 largely rural stations from the 6,000 formerly used by NASA, via the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). Jones couldn't address this, but pointed out many stations aren't really independent; around 200 stations are needed to obtain a global average.

American Thinker: A Good Hot Shower

the long arm of environmental extremism now extends even into your shower.

Former “alarmist” scientist says Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) based in false science « The Greenroom

While you’re listening to the CEOs of American oil companies being grilled by Congress today, remember all of this. They’re going to try to punish an industry that is vital to our economy and national security, and much of the desire to do that is based on this false “science” that has been ginned up by government itself as an excuse to control more of our energy sector, raise untold revenues for its use and to pick winners and losers. All based on something which is, according to Evans and other scientists, now demonstrably false.

Mo Money, Mo Problems « Climate Audit

Why should readers of the Climategate emails be surprised that young climate scientists want to act like real thugs, just like the Team? That they too want to sip cristal in the VIPCC? Why should they settle for “Bahamas in the spring” (Jones et al 1996 at 0:36 – see passim citation here – when they can also have Tahiti (Jones 2008)?

Al's Journal : Adaptation in the US

"The Bay Area must start prepping for the whens, not the ifs, of climate change - like building cooling centers for use during heat waves..."

Landrieu pushes back against attacks on Big Oil - On Congress - POLITICO.com

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) has thought of a novel way for oil industry executives to protest her party’s attacks on their federal subsidies: Pack up your things and go elsewhere.

“I don’t think the oil executives would ever do this, but if I were one of them, I would be tempted to just shut off the spigots and go elsewhere and maybe America could run everything on solar power for the next decade or two and see what happens,” Landrieu told POLITICO.

Peru: Global warming allegedly making the cold colder

For Some, the Climate Crisis Means Change or Perish | OnEarth Magazine

He remarked to the villagers that they knew better than any scientist how the climate was changing: the cold was colder, the heat was hotter, the rains were unpredictable, new pests were eating the crops, you could look up at the mountain and see rock where once there had been snow.

Los Alamitos School Board orders global warming class to teach the controversy, push disinformation « Climate Progress

Before Los Alamitos High School science teachers can tackle topics such as global warming, they will have to demonstrate to the school board that the course is politically balanced….

“Let us know if you spot any bugs in the new web pages” | Real Science

An upwards correction on NASA financed climate data? Shocker – we’ve never seen that before.

Here is another bug. Your numbers are much too high. By a factor of four.

Base By Numbers | Catlin Arctic Survey

-48 ºC coldest air temperature recorded

-15 ºC warmest air temperature recorded

As Clinton works against global warming in Greenland, some there don’t mind it - The Washington Post

Rather than questioning global warming, many of this island’s 60,000 inhabitants seem to be racing to cash in.

The tiny capital of Nuuk is bracing for record numbers of visitors this year; the retreating sea ice means a longer tourist season and more cruise ships from the United States. Hunters are boasting of more and bigger caribou, and the annual cod migration is starting earlier and lasting longer.

In the far south, farmers are trying their hand at an exotic form of agriculture: growing vegetables.

“Before, the growing season was too short for vegetables,” said Noah Melgaard, a local journalist. “Now it is getting longer each year.

The Catholic Church: Given that they were wrong on that Galileo thing, can they redeem themselves by endorsing the biggest scientific fraud in history?

The Pope gets down with climate change | Grist

The Catholic church is still kind of wiping holy egg off its face for the whole Galileo thing, so this is a step in the right direction. Unfair? Maybe, but that was kind of a big foot-in-mouth moment.

Jon Huntsman, once a climate hawk, now disses cap-and-trade like all the other Republicans | Grist

A couple of months ago, I asked, "Is Jon Huntsman the greenest GOP presidential hopeful?"

Disappearing world: 100 places under threat from climate change | Environment | The Guardian

A new book highlights 100 areas of the planet that could vanish because of global warming – and encourages us to visit them [via solar-powered planes?] before they do.

Ed Miliband appeals to David Cameron over carbon budget row | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The Labour leader says it is a 'question of trust' that the prime minister implement climate committee advice
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Greenpeace is planning to send a team of huskies to the House of Commons on Friday, a satirical reminder of Cameron's trip to the Arctic while in opposition.

Overheated planet update: Minnesota now so hot that only some lakes may still be ice-covered for the mid-May fishing opener

Most, if not all, of Minnesota's lakes should be ice free by opener | StarTribune.com

Nearly all lakes in Minnesota should be ice-free in time for Saturday’s fishing opener.
... the State Climatology Office still lists a few northeast lakes, including Brule, Devil Track, Sawbill and East Bearskin, as ice-covered.
“Some of the smaller trout lakes could still have some ice on them,’’ come Saturday, Steve Persons, DNR area fisheries supervisor, said Thursday. But he said recent sun and warm temperatures should help melt what ice is left.
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“Anytime ice-out is running this late, we brace ourselves for slow walleye fishing,’’ he said. “The fish won’t be as active.’’ He suggested that anglers heading to his region might consider fishing for trout, or even northerns.
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Meanwhile, the DNR warned anglers to beware of the cold water they almost always face on the opener. Water temperatures could hover in the low 50s, or below, in some areas. A 2007 report by the U.S. Coast Guard says a boating accident is five times more likely to be fatal if the water is colder than 60 degrees.

Breaking: Gingrich spokesman claims Newt is "a fan of Morano's blog and reads it often"

Newt Gingrich's 'love seat' predicament - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com

Newt Gingrich's co-starring role in a climate change ad — where he sat on a love seat in front of the Capitol next to Nancy Pelosi — just won't go away.
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"I don't know what we'd apologize for," Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler told POLITICO Friday.
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"There are some people who are willing to engage and debate their ideological opponents and there are some who are willing to cede ground," Tyler said. "We're not willing to cede ground."

Hogwash, says prominent global warming skeptic Marc Morano.

"My only question is how stupid does he think American voters are that he'd come out and claim that?" said Morano, editor of the blog Climate Depot and a former spokesman to global warming foe Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.).
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As for Gingrich, Tyler said he's a fan of Morano's blog and reads it often. But he thinks that Morano's attacks on Gingrich are misdirected.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » BoM Autumn temperature Outlooks not so hot

In a nutshell, the BoM needs a scorcher late May heatwave in the SE to bring Autumn temperatures to match their Outlook.

Huntsman on cap and trade: 'It hasn't worked' - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.com

Jon Huntsman is backing away from his support for a cap-and-trade system for Western states that he once championed as Utah governor.

"It hasn't worked," the potential GOP presidential candidate told Time Magazine in his first extended interview since leaving his post as U.S. ambassador to China. "And our economy's in a different place than five years ago."
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Like the others, Huntsman’s views on climate legislation live on via the Internet. He partnered in 2007 with then-California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer in a nationally-televised Environmental Defense Fund commercial urging Congress to pass legislation capping greenhouse gases.

New Zealand spot carbon price falls on weak demand | Energy & Oil | Reuters

Many market watchers had expected a flurry of activity ahead of the May 31 deadline to surrender permits for 2010 emissions liable under the scheme. However buying interest was tepid.

"Whilst there has been some interest from entities looking to square away their 2010 liabilities, on the whole there has been more volume available for sale with many of the larger buyers staying away from the market," analysts at Westpac Bank said in a note to clients.

Reflection in Skeptic Stew « the Air Vent

Too much energy in the oceans, too much potential for hidden Co2 sinks, too low of a CO2 level, biased and incomplete measurements trusted implicitly, controversial data eliminated, bad and even stupid solutions proposed. The result—- Skeptic Stew

Coal industry talks on carbon tax end in "deadlock" | Australian Climate Madness

Should we have expected anything else? The carbon tax is a direct attack on the coal industry, and no amount of "compensation" will change that. The government is sinking yet further into the mire.

Allergy season here with vengeance

"A lot of people who haven't suffered in previous years have come in for the first time in several years with symptoms," he said, noting that the Northeast's sudden change from cold, snowy winter to warm spring has worsened the situation.
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"We do know that climate change and warmer temperatures are allowing trees to pollinate longer than usual," [Angel Waldron, spokeswoman for the Asthma and Allergy Foundation] said. "Although people feel things are worse than ever before, it's actually because of the longer season. It's a longer time to endure."

Spencer Tunick: environmental crusader - Telegraph

In 2009, Tunick revisited the theme of global warming, photographing 700 naked volunteers among the vines in Burgundy. In his second collaboration with Greenpeace, he aimed "to draw attention to the effect climate change is having on French wine production."

The climate in the wine-growing regions is changing. Warmer temperatures mean that the harvest is taking place earlier and a Greenpeace report found that, "wines end up having higher sugar levels and alcohol content while retaining less acids - which means they are unbalanced with an overripe flavour and heavier texture."

WTOP.com - UN climate chief predicts US turnaround on warming

NEW YORK (AP) - Washington's inaction on climate legislation is a "very serious hand brake" on world efforts to combat global warming, the U.N. climate chief said Thursday.

But Christiana Figueres said she believes the U.S. will eventually join the rest of the industrialized world in mandatory reductions of greenhouse gases.

"I don't think it's a permanent state of affairs that the world will be able to live with," she said of the failure of the U.S. Congress to cap emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming.

Climate Deniers Hit Gingrich on Flip-Flop | Rolling Stone Politics | RS Politics Daily | Rolling Stone Writers and Editors on Political News

Key players in the Climate Denial Machine, such as web spinner Marc Morano, are holding Gingrich's feet to the fire: "Newt Gingrich is arrogant enough to believe that he doesn't have to play by the same rules as everyone else," Morano told Fox News, and went on to predict that the ad was going to hurt Gingrich with the Republican base.

JunkScience.com calls on ClimateDepot.com to renounce anti-climatism | JunkScience.com

This is interesting because we non-climate alarmists have gone from skeptics to deniers of manmade global warming to deniers of ongoing climate change to, now, opponents of just plain climate — which we suppose is akin to being opposed to matter and perhaps even existence itself.

We’ve heard the expression “climate of hate,” but never of anyone hating climate.

In Africa, Climate Resilience Through Insurance - NYTimes.com

It’s all totally sensible. My only problem with the program is that it’s pitched by Oxfam around the need for adaptation to human-driven climate change, instead of the utterly clear and longstanding reality that this region of Africa has long been, and remains, hugely vulnerable to existing patterns of climate extremes and is going to see roughly doubled risk simply through population growth in coming decades.

Greenhouse heating adds another element of risk, for sure.

allAfrica.com: Africa: The Hype Versus the Reality of Carbon Markets (Page 1 of 2)

The Africa Carbon Exchange (ACX) was launched in Nairobi on March 24; yet only two days before, Bloomberg headlines announced: 'Global Carbon Credits Die as Smart Money Backs Indian RECs (Renewable Energy Certificates).'[1]

7 Simple Questions You Won't Believe Science Just Answered | Cracked.com

So what does this mean to us? It means our glacier ice-melt models are shot. Because if the top layer of melting ice is getting replaced by an invisible (to us) bottom layer of solidifying ice, how are we going to predict the glacier's thickness? And did we mention that it takes "aircraft equipped with ice penetrating radars, laser ranging systems, gravity meters and magnetometers" to find this subglacial refreeze ice party in the first place? So it's not like we can just check out Google Earth to see what's shaking at the poles. It's also ruined all of our ice-dating methodologies. We can't count on the top layer being new and the bottom layer being old when refrozen ice is screwing and warping all the layers above it. Everything we understand about ice ages and climate change comes from correctly dating that ice -- something we just can't do anymore.

Arctic Sea Ice News & Analysis

Ice extent declined through the month more slowly than usual, at an average rate of 29,950 square kilometers per day (11,560 square miles per day). The average daily rate of decline for 1979 to 2000 was 40,430 square kilometers (15,610 square miles) per day.

Gingrich: I know it looked and sounded like I was spooning with Pelosi in that '08 global warming hoax ad, but I was actually debating her

Gingrich Feels the Heat for Appearing in Global Warming Ad With Pelosi - FoxNews.com

"Newt does not apologize for trying to persuade his ideological opponents that his conservative solutions are the best solutions," spokesman Rick Tyler said in an email. "His attempt to work with Speaker Pelosi is another testament to Gingrich's willingness to debate his conservative solutions with liberals, in this case Pelosi. As it turned out, Pelosi ... and Gingrich still disagree about how to best protect the environment. But Gingrich will never shy away from debating those on the left on issues like the environment, education and healthcare that they think they own."

Climate fraudster Pachauri resurfaces: Now he allegedly also knows something about energy policy

Exclusive: Pachauri: I.P.C.C. report can guide renewable energy industry - Renewable Energy - Ecoseed Information Network

“The [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s] Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation is the most comprehensive compilation of knowledge on renewable energy assessed by the leading scientists, technologists and policy analysts familiar with this field, from all over the world,” the I.P.C.C.’s Rajendra K. Pachauri told EcoSeed in an interview.
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The new I.P.C.C. special report said 80 percent of the world’s energy supply could be met by renewables by 2050 provided it is backed by “the right enabling policies.” The I.P.C.C. studied six renewable energy sectors – bioenergy, direct solar energy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean energy and wind energy.
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“Given the fact that I.P.C.C.’s reports are policy relevant without being policy prescriptive, this particular document will receive a great deal of interest from policy makers, business organizations, researchers and the public at large,” Mr. Pachauri said.

Gingrich Feels the Heat for Appearing in Global Warming Ad With Pelosi - FoxNews.com

"It's almost like he can't admit he made a mistake," Morano told FoxNews.com. "He needs to say it was a brain fart, at the very least."
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"Newt Gingrich is arrogant enough to believe that he doesn't have to play by the same rules as everyone else," Morano said, predicting it would hurt him in the primaries. "I can't think of any Republican who hasn't addressed this in a way that is satisfactory to the Republican base."

Race against the tide, risking death under huge blocks of ice. [VIDEO]

If junk scientists start saying the word "Anthropocene" more, will politicians pass carbon dioxide swindle legislation?

Human influence comes of age : Nature News

Humanity's profound impact on this planet is hard to deny, but is it big enough to merit its own geological epoch? This is the question facing geoscientists gathered in London this week to debate the validity and definition of the 'Anthropocene', a proposed new epoch characterized by human effects on the geological record.

"We are in the process of formalizing it," says Michael Ellis, head of the climate-change programme of the British Geological Survey in Nottingham, who coordinated the 11 May meeting. He and others hope that adopting the term will shift the thinking of policy-makers. "It should remind them of the global and significant impact that humans have," says Ellis.
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Some at the ICS are wary of formalizing a new epoch. "My main concern is that those who promote it have not given it the careful scientific consideration and evaluation it needs," says Stan Finney, chair of the ICS and a geologist at California State University in Long Beach. He eschews the notion of focusing on the term simply to "generate publicity".

Others point out that an epoch typically lasts tens of millions of years. Our current epoch, the Holocene, began only 11,700 years ago.

Overheated planet update, May 11 edition: Facing snow and wind chills in the upper 20s, Colorado Rockies game postponed

Mets-Rockies Game at Denver’s Coors Field Postponed by Rain, Cold Weather - Bloomberg

The New York Mets’ game against the Colorado Rockies in Denver today has been postponed because of rain and cold weather.
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The Denver area is expected to get more than two inches of precipitation in the next 24 hours with wind chills in the upper 20s, according to Accuweather.com. The Associated Press said parts of the Denver area may get snow from the storm.

Stanford Scientist Criticizes Fox Distortion Of His Climate Study | Media Matters for America

In fact, the study examined only crop-producing regions and only during the growing seasons of corn, rice, maize, and wheat.The research indicated that those specific regions in the U.S. have not seen the same warming trend evident in global average temperatures over the past 30 years. (Indeed, no climate scientist would say the planet is expected to warm uniformly).

Ski resorts record strong year | Mainebiz

The ski mountain reported record revenue, record skier visits and record snowfall for the winter season, according to a press release.

Senate Dems split with Obama on transferring tax credit revenue from oil companies to alternative energy « » Print The Daily Caller

Democrats agree that it’s time to end tax credits and write-offs for the most profitable oil companies, but when it comes to spending the billions that would be added to government coffers if the bill passes, Congress is ignoring President Obama’s call to use the extra money to subsidize alternative energy.

EPA Launches Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships Initiative - Christian Newswire

WASHINGTON, April 18, 2011 /Christian Newswire/ -- Administrator Lisa P. Jackson today announced the formation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships (FBNP) initiative.

Carbon tax to cost $14m before it starts, thanks to ad campaign | Adelaide Now

TAXPAYERS will pay nearly $14 million to fund a carbon tax advertising campaign.

According to Budget papers the "climate change foundation campaign" will cost $13.7 million in total, including $5.5 million this financial year and $8.2 million in 2011-12.

Last year's Budget papers revealed, it is "a national campaign to educate the community on climate change, including on climate science".

Weigel : Pretty Much Every Republican Front-Runner Used to Support Cap and Trade

There were always critics, but it wasn't really until 2009, when environmental skeptics and groups like Americans for Prosperity went to war against it, that conservative and national opinion really turned.

Don't miss this insane climate hoax rap video

Rap Attack: I’m A Climate Scientist « Greenfyre’s

The F-bomb again, sigh. Maybe Tobis really has fundamentally altered the tone of climate science discussion? OK, they are climate scientists, there are actual facts and some legitimate political commentary in there, enjoy.

Confronting the 'Anthropocene' - NYTimes.com

LONDON — I’m participating in a one-day meeting at the Geological Society of London exploring the evidence for, and meaning of, the Anthropocene. This is the proposed epoch of Earth history that, proponents say, has begun with the rise of the human species as a globally potent biogeophysical force, capable of leaving a durable imprint in the geological record.

Climate change - Commentary | The Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia, Missouri

Our best bet is to stand ready to react rather than try to pre-empt worldwide climate change with policies like cap-and-trade, whose adverse market-confounding effects are more certain than any cure they might bring.

Baillieu: carbon goal aspirational

PREMIER Ted Baillieu has hand-balled responsibility for Victoria meeting its key climate change target to the federal government - and warned he would not support a carbon tax that disadvantaged the state's economy.

Ballarat has coldest day of year - Local News - News - General - The Courier

BALLARAT’S chilly autumn weather continued yesterday, with the city’s top temperature the coldest for early May in more than 50 years.

2011 Sustainable Living Survey Fielded by L'Oréal USA Reveals Changes in Attitudes, Behavior and Consumption Are Slow to Come | 3BL Media

If given a choice between two equally performing products, 38% of Americans say that they would choose the more eco-friendly option.
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Americans believe that the three most important environmental issues, in order of importance, are:

Access to clean water and sanitation (64%)
Waste management (52%)
Ocean polluting and overfishing (49%)

Despite the abundance of scientific evidence that has been reviewed by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change among other experts, and reported on by the news media, 39% of Americans still don’t believe there is concrete proof that climate change is occurring.

EU Referendum: Koch facts

The Koch Brothers (pronounced Coke) have started a blog - about three years after they were advised to do so, and then not as well as they could. But that's corporates for you, and why the warmists have been running rings round them.

Global warming did not cause April’s record tornadic outbreak - Coeur d'Alene Press: Weather Gems

As Roy W. Spencer, Ph.D., Climatologist, and the Principal Research Scientist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville explains: "Contrasting air masses of widely-varying temperatures is the key. Active tornado seasons in the U.S. are always the result of UNUSUALLY COLD air pushing much farther south than normal through the Midwest into Dixie."

GISS : “All values are missing!” | Real Science

They have zero data at 83N-90N, yet report very high anomalies – which massively skew the global average upwards.

The Raging WeatherBull Shows COOLING as the Cause for the Wild Weather! «

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Team Obama Threw $300M Down the High-Speed Toilet - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Are you kidding me? $185 million for consultants and public relations? Middle-class jobs my butt.

Oh, and the recommendation that the first line of the train actually pay for itself. Brilliant!

Colorado/Wyoming Getting Slammed With More Heavy Snow | Real Science

The mountains of Colorado and Wyoming already have near-record snowpack, and are getting lots more today. This is because of the early spring and declining spring snowpack which the models predicted.

Tears for a clown « The Daily Bayonet

There’s nothing sexy about bombing gas wells or tossing acid at whalers. Greenpeace activists occupying private property to raise money is the ‘non-violent’ side of the radical green coin. They do it because they’re extremists, not environmentalists. Slapping an ‘eco’ label on their actions is greenwashing of the worst kind.

New Jersey: Underwhelming numbers turn out to march in favor of the global warming hoax

Students march in bid for action on climate change - NorthJersey.com

A small but enthusiastic clutch of Bergen Community College students carried homemade signs and chanted anti-pollution slogans as they marched from their Paramus campus to Ridgewood High School on Tuesday to raise awareness about climate change.
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As the group marched down the center island of Paramus Road, a few diesel-burning trucks honked their horns.

Premise of new video game: "It’s 2045, and the Ark is humanity’s last refuge after years of global warming have flooded most of the planet"

Review: Once promising ’Brink’ loses its edge | centralwisconsinhub.com

It’s 2045, and the Ark is humanity’s last refuge after years of global warming have flooded most of the planet. Two factions, Security and Resistance, are battling for control of the Ark, and you can play through the eight-episode campaign on either side.

Climate change: we can't wait for absolute certainty | Achim Steiner | Environment | guardian.co.uk

We could say with greater certainty that many victims of rising greenhouse gas emissions were already with us, if only the existing science was able to disentangle the climate signature from the other complexities and challenges many people across the world increasingly face.
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The role of institutions such as the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) is to continuously review emerging science, subject it to careful peer review and ensure that it is available to public policymakers and, indeed, the public.

Warming trend could prove boon to Canadian farming - The Globe and Mail

“Pretty much every climate model says that [North American farmers] will get warming too,” but it has not yet been affected by the trend, Dr. Schlenker said.
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Mr. Eisenhauer says most warming is likely to occur at latitudes to the south of Canada’s prime agricultural lands.

Labor denies $13.7m is for carbon tax ads | News.com.au

THE federal government has rejected coalition claims it squirrelled away $13.7 million in the budget to fund an advertising campaign to promote its proposed carbon tax.

The budget papers make clear that Labor set aside money for a "climate change foundation campaign" in this financial year and 2011/12.

But Finance Minister Penny Wong told parliament today the $13.7 million wasn't new but rather a "transfer of already announced funds between years".

NH Senate considers repealing cap-and-trade - Boston.com

CONCORD, N.H.—Legislation to end New Hampshire's participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is coming up for a vote in the state Senate.

Global warming hoax promoter Paul Douglas smears climate realists as "cellar-dwelling (oil-stained) 'scientists' "

Paul Douglas weighs in | StarTribune.com

Most Cited Climate Skeptics Linked To Big Oil. Why am I not surprised? I've lost the capacity to be shocked....when skeptics send me stories questioning climate change I ask them a). where did they find it, b). is it peer-reviewed science? and c). follow the money. Who paid them to write these critical stories? Oh, ExxonMobil? Yep, that explains it. Here's a story that shines more light on these cellar-dwelling (oil-stained) 'scientists"

Climate Change: an emetic fallacy – Telegraph Blogs

You’d need to be very set in your belief system indeed to come away from one of Professor Ian Plimer’s feisty, funny engaging lectures and not be convinced that the whole idea of AGW is a complete crock. Same goes for Professor Nils Axel Morner’s hilarious, crazy-Swede lecture on his experiences measuring sea-level rises in the Maldives (there hasn’t been any: whatever the Maldives president and his underwater cabinet tell you). Same also goes for Prof Svensmark: really his cosmic ray theory is gloriously compelling.

In other words there is still an enormous amount of uncertainty out there about the chaotic system which causes climate. But here’s the rub: global policy makers are acting as if there isn’t.

Good year for British wine as hot weather helps harvest - Telegraph

British winemakers are expecting a bumper harvest this year following an unseasonably hot start to summer.

Local grape growers consider state of emergency | KSBY.com | San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria, Santa Barbara, Paso Robles

Local vineyard owners heard from the state today about possibly declaring a state of emergency after some damaging temperatures.

An April frost brought hail and freezing rain two nights in a row to the Paso Robles area.

Thousands of acres lost grape buds, which could mean 50 percent of this year's crop.

Government's climate adviser steps in to carbon budget row | Environment | The Guardian

Cable fears the energy secretary's plan relies on securing a cap on emissions trading across Europe that may never materialise. If this were not achieved, the UK would be left cutting carbon emissions unilaterally, which would risk putting industry at a disadvantage compared with outside competitors and "could lead to significant fiscal costs".

Could climate change be a good thing? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

the science suggests that global agricultural productivity may increase during the first three degrees Celsius of warming

Daily Journal - Oklahoma tribal casino to rebuild snow-damaged area, add tower with 100 rooms

TULSA, Okla. — The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is planning to rebuild a section of the resort that collapsed during February's snowstorm, but the casino's owners aren't stopping there.

UPDATE 1-Phoenix Solar's shares seen plunging on weak Q1 | Reuters

Due to harsh winter conditions, the company posted a first-quarter loss before interest and tax of 16.9 million euros ($23.61 million), much bigger than the 5.3 million loss average forecasted in a Reuters poll.

Kelowna Capital News - Near-record Okanagan snowpack raises flooding concerns

The third largest snowpack in the past 35 years is sitting in the Okanagan watershed just waiting for warm weather, and perhaps a little rain, to melt it and send it rushing down into the valley bottom.

Climate Bipolar Disorder Strikes Again | Real Science

When warm El Nino dominated, Trenberth blamed it on global warming.
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Now that cool La Nina is dominating, they are trying to blame that on global warming.
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Whatever the weather is, they will rationalize it as being caused by global warming. The incredibly low (non-existent) standards of climate science make this possible.

Brendan DeMelle | 350.org Launches Crowd-Funded Ad Campaign To Hold Polluter-Friendly Politicians Accountable

350 and CREDO are trying to raise $12,000 in the next week to put up the ads in both Ohio and Massachusetts. The groups are a little iffy about the plan, noting the weak economy and the ease of "clicktivism" which might discourage people to participate in an effort that actually requires forking over a few bucks.

C3: Newt's Candidacy, D.O.A.? Pelosi's Buddy - The Big Green, Big Ethanol, Big Spending, Big Govt Republican

Any politician who believes the fabricated hysteria of catastrophic global warming is literally unfit for office.

The Reference Frame: Bill Gates on global warming

At the end, the host informed us that the organizers had promised the Gates Foundation not to ask whether the foundation would get involved in climate change. Being a rat, unsurprisingly, he asked whether the foundation would get involved in climate change. Gates spends several minutes to say Nope, the foundation will continue to do things to help the poor (including those related to the availability of energy but not climate-driven).

The Global Warming Doctrine is Not a Science: Notes for Cambridge | Václav Klaus

To conclude, I agree with many serious climatologists who say that the warming we experience or is on the horizon will be very small. Convincing argumentation can be found in Ian Plimer’s recent book.[11] I agree with Bob Carter and others that it is difficult “to prove that the human effect on the climate can be measured” because “this effect is lost in the variability of natural climate changes”[12]. From the economic point of view, in case there will be no irrational interventions against it, the economic losses connected with such a modest warming will be very small. A loss generated as a result of a completely useless fight against global warming would be far greater.

Václav Klaus, “The Science and Economics of Climate Change Conference”, Howard Theatre at Downing College, University of Cambridge, 10 May 2011

Just How Bad Is GISS? | Real Science

These two March, 2011 maps from UAH and GISS show it pretty clearly. March was a very cold month in Greenland.
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Surface temps from Weather Underground confirmed this. However, Hansen’s magic (below) made most of Greenland hot (anomalies as high as 9.9C.) GISS fabricated Arctic data is worthless, at best.

Earliest Cold Weather In Australia Since 1970 | Real Science

- Bishop Hill blog - The conference - a summary

I was struck by the stony faces from the AGW subscriber side when Vaclav Klaus made some jokes in his talk. I think that, despite what they say, they are very much of the left. Perhaps they just don't realise it.

- Bishop Hill blog - Conference on the Science and Economics of Climate Change - cartooned by Josh

The nine fascinating lectures from Phil Jones, Andrew Watson, John Mitchell, Michael Lockwood, Henrik Svensmark, Nils-Axel Morner, Ian Plimer, Vaclav Klaus and Nigel Lawson are summarised visually here.

- Bishop Hill blog - Royal Society summer show

Not may be warming the planet, but are warming the planet. Blimey. As readers here know, we have no idea if the warming we've seen is even statistically significant.Yet here is the Royal Society proclaiming that we're definitely warming and its carbon dioxide that's doing it. Not a hint of a doubt.

With a trailer this careless with the uncertainties, the exhibit itself should be something else.

Wind’s Political Trouble in Ontario (Secretive Samsung deal at issue) — MasterResource

Ontario received an early Christmas present yesterday with the announcement by Progressive Conservative Opposition Leader Tim Hudak that if elected, his government will cancel the $7 billion Samsung deal (Canadian) and revisit hydro deals. Such would negate the FIT (Feed In Tariff) programs that fill the coffers of developers at the expense of power users, large and small.

The Samsung deal, in particular, was privately honed and constructed to give Korean business opportunities a fine edge in getting power to the grid, as well as more business incentives in construction for solar and wind turbines.

Peter Foster: Green revolution set to follow red

http://www.financialpost.com/m/blog.html?b=opinion.financialpost.com/2011/05/10/peter-foster-green-revolution-set-to-follow-red&s=Opinion

Mr. Steiner was quick to leap to his colleagues' defence in the case of Climategate. Mere doubts about the scientific facts were no excuse to slow down the agenda, he said. Questions about IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri amounted to a "witch hunt." Glaciergate was a "typographical error." The notion that the IPCC was "sensationalist" was, he claimed, "risible… Indeed, caution rather than sensation has been the panel's watchword throughout its existence."

Seattle: Wet, cold weather weakening berry crop

KING5.com | Seattle News Video on Demand

Berry farmers in Whatcom and Skagit Counties are struggling to deal with unusually cold and wet weather.

Bill Gates "made a lot of jokes" about The Most Serious Issue of All Time; says it will likely never be a big focus for his foundation

Bill Gates says key to beating climate change is energy innovation. Is it? | Humanosphere

Climate change and supporting energy R&D is not, and likely will never be, a big focus for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he said, because these are likely best solved by the “capitalistic format” and government incentives supporting industrial innovation.

“The foundation looks at things that are ignored, no market for,” Gates said.
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Gates made a lot of jokes (and got laughs) when talking about the failure of governments and politicians to address climate change

Failed climate gimmicks axed in budget | Australian Climate Madness

WAYNE Swan has taken the razor to a raft of green programs, particularly those aimed at cutting emissions from coal consumption, and mopped up a string of failed green programs in a budget that, as expected, makes little mention of the impending carbon tax.

Cold weather, rain expected to return to Front Range Wednesday - The Denver Post

A storm system will bring rain and even snow to Denver starting Wednesday.

Human-Made Climate Change: Moral, Political and Legal Issue | Scoop News

Dr Hansen is visiting New Zealand this month and giving a range of talks throughout the country.

Spring mule deer survey complete | The Jamestown Sun | Jamestown, North Dakota

Three years of harsh winter conditions have increased adult mortality and reduced production. The last two years have resulted in the two lowest production rates ever documented, and biologists expect this year’s production to be similarly low.

Only In Climate Science Can You Play With a Broken Hockey Stick

Facts proving humans are not causing global warming are not enough to stop the political juggernaut. Perhaps exposure of collusion among a small group of self-proclaimed climate scientists who continue to play with a broken stick will stop the madness forcing destructive economic policies.

Computer Models: The Bane of Modern Society

Why wasn’t he challenged? How are the IPCC getting away with their deceptions and failed models? Bartholomew and Goode provide the answer succinctly in this paragraph on mass hysteria:

Mike Keefe climate cartoon « Climate Progress

“Looks like Greenland’s arrived earlier than expected” — from the winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning

London churches set sights on 90% carbon reduction

http://au.christiantoday.com/article/london-churches-set-sights-on-90-carbon-reduction/10996.htm

The report has been compiled by engineering consultancy Arup with the support of the Diocese of London and the Carbon Trust.

It sets out in detail the range of low carbon options available to churches, including everything from the use of wax candles compared with different kinds of artificial light, to upgrading catering equipment.

Northwest farmers, scientists launch $20 million climate-change study | Regional News - The News Tribune

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2011/05/10/1659565/scientists-farmers-to-study-climate.html

Funding for the study comes from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Alberta: The southern Rockies have the highest snowpack on record

Record snowpack poses threat - Pincher Creek Echo - Alberta, CA

Scientists are reporting the highest snowpack on record and are keeping a watchful eye on the weather as temperatures begin to rise.

Dr. Uldis Silins, Professor of Forest Hydrology with the University of Alberta, said the southern Rockies have the highest snowpack on record – 17 to 42 years of measurements depending on the station.
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Dr. Silins said Alberta Environment takes a manual measurement in March and then begins issuing seasonal flow forecasts. This year, the snowpack continued to increase with another 30-40 per cent added since March.

Cattle futures end mixed

Summer's grilling season got off to a slow start with unusually cold weather

Central Coast frost could cost 5 million cases of wine | Western Farm Press

“I wouldn’t be surprised if growers in Monterey County lost as many acres as those in Paso Robles,” he says. “So, the Central Coast could lose as much 5 million cases of wine this year.

Arnold Schwarzenegger & Maria Shriver: Inside Their Split - iVillage

Insiders say that Shriver reported that Schwarzenegger seemed "unstable." Perhaps he was at a loss with what to do now that his time as Governor is over.