2009 was in the bottom 10% of tornado frequency, and 2010 was also below normal. No hurricanes hit the US during either of the past two years.
he forced Climate Change right up the international agenda. Doubtless this will remain the key priority of his second term.
BEIJING — China’s three decades of rapid economic growth have left it with a “very grave” environmental situation even as it tries to move away from a development-at-all-costs strategy, senior government officials said on Friday.Weather service issues chain warning for Sierra - Around the valley - Modbee.com
Snow is forecast for the Sierras over the weekend, and several inches are expected to fall above 6,000 feet in the Sierras on Monday, which is the level of several mountain passes.Sky News: Thousands to rally for carbon tax
In a special statement yesterday evening, the National Weather Service warned anyone traveling in the Sierra Cascade Range to carry chains and cold weather gear, "since weather this weekend and early next week will resemble February or March more than early June."
Thousands of people are expected to gather in capital cities today to attend rallies in support for the planned carbon tax.gulfnews : Frost chills outlook on Brazil coffee
With the global weather anomalies known as La Nina and El Nino in momentary balance, experts say the risk of frost in Brazil's main coffee region is at its highest since 2000, the last time a sharp blast of cold air from the Antarctic swept across Argentina and inflicted serious damage to some farms.
To be sure, there are reasons not to fear the worst. Warmer oceans and a hotter sun cycle have reduced the odds; and coffee plantations are not as greatly at risk as they were 35 years ago, with most growers having long abandoned the frost-prone Parana region further south, hit hard by frost in the 1970s.
Temperatures in Santa Cruz have dropped more than a degree over the last 80 years.California Rain Now « Musings from the Chiefio
This is what it looks like when California has a “year without a summer”. Expect USA Fruits and vegetables to cost more. California grows a high percentage of the nations fresh fruits and vegetables, so it’s likely to cost a lot for that fresh salad.Heidi Cullen on tornadoes, extreme weather and ‘The C-Word’ | ThinkProgress
[Richard Brenne] With 40% more water vapor in the atmosphere possible by 2100, this century would see storms no human can now imagine, dwarfing every storm of every kind we’ve seen so far.”
The international research group says millions of people are already suffering from food shortage in these areas and climate change will make it even worse, the state-funded BBC reported.C3: Mitt Romney Can't Resist Temptation: Another Big Govt Republican Sniffs The AGW Glue
The slick, slippery, elite GOP technocrat that gave the world the failed RomneyCare, has now chosen to join with other big government proponents by embracing the anthropogenic global warming hysteria. Most certainly our nation has a lot of very difficult problems to solve but quite frankly, global warming is not one of them, which Romney can't seem to grasp.[Breaking: "Environmentalist" may not actually be a great guy]: The sordid past of Simon Lowe, a Sydney playboy turned rapist | thetelegraph.com.au
Bonito Monteiro also talked up his credentials as an actor, model and filmmaker working on an environmental documentary that would rival Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth.Councils that can't afford libraries are still recruiting highly paid 'sustainability' officers - Telegraph
Operating on rather grander scale, as we would expect, is the European Commission, which, it is revealed, enabled President Jose-Manuel Barroso and an entourage of officials to spend £249,000 on private jets to fly them to New York in 2009 for a UN climate change convention, plus another £28,000 for their hotel bill.
Western Sydney isn't stupid or uneducated. Mums and dads are firm believers in climate change and, just like inner-city greenies, are worried for their kids' futures.
But they would also rather spend money on their children's educations to create a better future, than see it vanish into a carbon tax money pit.
Climate change and a carbon tax aren't intellectual debates for most Sydney families.
They can't afford the luxury of taking the moral high ground and declaring they want to make a sacrifice for their children's children and the future of the planet.
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Sydney families simply cannot afford more price rises on food and petrol and electricity - the three things a carbon tax will hit hardest. They have nothing more to give.
Turks only started witnessing the potential detrimental effects of climate change which was highlighted with regular weather inconsistencies during Spring this year. This spring, winter continued to linger up until the last week in İstanbul.
SANTA CRUZ -- Local elected, environmental and business leaders met Friday to discuss how the Central Coast can tackle climate change, refining an effort that began in 2007 and striving to make the region a leader in preventing global warming.Met Office travel supports £350m contribution to UK economy | Public Sector Travel
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Participants also seem keenly aware that political solutions such as new regulations may not always be the best route to combat the problem, and that money is needed to wage the fight.
the Met Office, which employs 1,800 people, can in some ways act like a business, selling its expertise around the world and buying services, including travel, as it sees fit within its financial targets.
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In 2010 the Met Office spent £2.09 million on travel, which comprised £602,464 for air, £488,672 for rail and the remainder leased or hired vehicle costs and miscellaneous expenses.
Subsistence costs totalled £1.5 million, giving a total spend on travel and subsistence of £3.6 million, a slight fall on the £3.7 million spent in 2009, the difference largely accounted for by fewer flights being taken.
And it's not over yet: Sacramento can expect as much as another 1.4 inches of rain this weekend and temperatures 20 degrees below normal, with more mountain snow.
"It's what I call global weirding," said Bill Patzert, a climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. "This has been a very strange year all over the planet."
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Colder and snowier winters caused by global warming? It may be one of the counterintuitive consequences of climate change, [Judah Cohen] said.
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On Thursday, organizers of the storied Tevis Cup Western States Trail Ride decided to move it from July to October for the first time in its 56-year history. The 100-mile horse race uses a trail across the Sierra Nevada, from Squaw Valley to Auburn, that is completely snowed in.
The event avoided postponement in the big snow year of 1983 by using an alternate trail.
"Two months ago, we had planned on using that alternate route," said ride director Chuck Stalley. "But our alternate route is basically snowed in. It's been a rough year."
The statewide snowpack stands at 262 percent of average. Rather than shrinking, as it normally would by this date, the snowpack has held steady and even grown deeper in places with new storms.
Look at you guys, getting an entire article dedicated to you. Congrats…
IN a telling intervention that will change the dynamics of the debate, 13 of the nation's plumbers have spoken out about the carbon tax.NC Media Watch: Yes it has been a cold wet May, but how cold was it
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Their position can be summarised as follows:
NONE of them has the faintest bloody idea how the carbon tax will work and all think the Government is doing what one described as a "s--- job" of explaining it.
ALL agree that any increases in their operating costs will be passed on to customers.
WITH two exceptions, they queried the timing and purpose of the tax.
As many readers know, I have been tracking Grass Valley temperatures at the local national weather station since 2005. The average May Temperature in Grass Valley for the last 43 years has been 58.22 ºF. This last month the average temperature was 53.33 ºF, almost five degrees cooler than the long term average.
...your Internet search has just helped kill the planet. Depending on how long you took and what sites you visited, your search caused the emission of one to 10 grams of carbon into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming.Apple - Press Info - Board of Directors
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Apple’s 46,000-square-metre iDataCenter is set to open in North Carolina this spring with a price tag of $1 billion U.S. It will use an estimated 100 megawatts of power – as much as about 100,000 Canadian homes.
Apple’s mega-facility is part of a cluster of gigantic new data centres coming on line in North Carolina that are powered largely by cheap and highly polluting coal power. Google has a 44,000-square-metre data centre in the state that will eventually consume an estimated 60 to 100 MW.
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Google threatened to abandon the project if the state legislature didn’t pass a special law to exempt server farms from sales tax on electricity use.
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But Google chose Lenoir for more than just some nice hand-outs. It also wanted cheap electricity for those power-hungry servers.
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It just so happens that the state’s electricity is also some of the dirtiest in the country. Only four per cent comes from renewable sources like wind or hydroelectric power.
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Nearly two-thirds of the state’s electricity comes from coal.
Albert Gore Jr.Albert A. Gore Profile - Forbes.com
Former Vice President of the United States
Albert A. Gore, Jr. has served as a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. (Google) since 2001
As he puts it in the book: “I believe that climate change is occurring — the reduction in the size of global ice caps is hard to ignore. I also believe that human activity is a contributing factor. … Scientists are nearly unanimous in laying the blame for rising temperatures on greenhouse gas emissions.”Sea levels to rise 1.1m | Herald Sun
even the Gillard Government admits a carbon tax alone will not protect our coast, with sea level rises of 1.1 metres predicted as "the worst-case scenario" by 2100.AFP: Australia scientists threatened on carbon research
SYDNEY — Climate researchers at one of Australia's top universities have been rushed to a secure location after receiving death threats, according to an official, as debate rages about plans for a carbon pollution tax.Wouldn't it be great if we had the technology to trace emails and phone calls to find out who's allegedly doing this?
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Young said the menacing emails and phone calls had intensified in recent weeks amid heated public debate over Prime Minister Julia Gillard's plans to introduce a tax on carbon emissions aimed at reducing pollution.
There is a very strong implication in these messages that all the other journals which publish climatology papers were closed to sceptics. I think we can probably say that there is something of a consensus on this question.Garnaut Says That Drought In Perth Is Caused By Humans | Real Science
Anyone can predict that a drought will happen somewhere in Australia, because they happen on a regular basis and always have.Disappearing The 20th Century | Real Science
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They used to tar and feather snake oil salesmen.
Ten years ago it became obvious that the MWP had to be disappeared to make the CO2 narrative work. Nobel Prize winner Mikey Mann stepped up to the plate pushed that sucker down.
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Now that they have given up on warming and changed the meme to “extreme weather” – it has become obvious that much of the 20th century needs to be disappeared. Leading this effort is NOAA, which has recently lost most of it’s tornado records prior to 1953. The Dust Bowl never happened.
2011 is the most extreme weather in Earth’s history.
Arctic Ice pack is melting at approximately 54,000 square kilometers a day as the world warms. It’s an area almost equal to the State of West Virginia and that is in just one day."Death threats" to ANU scientists | Australian Climate Madness
Why haven’t we seen this headline? Possibly because when journalists check it’s the average rate of summer melt as the ice decreases from winter maximum of 14 million square km2 in April toward a minimum of 4.5 million km2 in September. Few people know this much ice melts every summer, but they don’t a similar amount of ice forms every winter.
The Australian Federal Police says it is aware of the issue, but there is no investigation underway.Climatologist Mojib Latif: Governments’ Fight Against Global Warming “Has Reached An Absolute Low Point”
Lots of lip service, but governments worldwide are getting cold feet about really reducing CO2 emissions. Commitment is clearly fading.
The Chevy Volt did not do so well and only ‘sold’ 481 cars. I say ‘sold’ because it appears that dealers are selling to dealers to grab subsidies, so how many actual Government Motors Volts are in customers hands is unclear. Sales numbers are further blurred if you factor in the news that the government is to buy another 100 Volts and we have no idea how many (if any) GE took delivery of last month.The New Nostradamus of the North: Bollywood fights climate change
Much more math like that and Chevy Volt sales will become a valid branch of climate science all on its own.
Bollywood is intent on beating Hollywood when it comes to fighting climate change.
PLYMOUTH, CA - Extended cold and wet weather in the Sierra foothills has kept wine grapes from coming into bloom on time.David Suzuki is a Drama Queen « NoFrakkingConsensus
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In the 25 years Crippen has worked as a winer maker, he has never seen weather like this.
"(This season) is the first one I've see that's had a weather pattern that's been so cool, so late," said Crippen. "The more heat, the faster these (grape vines) are going to grow."
When David Suzuki, Canada’s most prominent environmental activist, looks out on the world he sees nothing but crises. We have a name for people who regard everything as a crisis – we call them drama queens.What is the US President Talking About?
While the rest of us approach challenges with determination, optimism, and faith in ourselves as problem solvers, drama queens see only worst-case scenarios. They exaggerate. They emotionalize.
His use of the term carbon pollution is a measure of the desperation. He, like too many others, uses carbon incorrectly. It’s a non-metallic solid element coming from the Latin word carbo meaning coal. He is actually talking about CO2, which is a gas. Carbon is a much better political term because people associate it with coal and especially soot – clearly dirty and undesirable.
The Federal Government's chief climate adviser Ross Garnaut has highlighted the impact of climate change on Western Australia's south west in his pitch to sell a price on carbon.
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He says recent drought in the south west is clear evidence climate change is already having an impact.
"The science has been predicting it and when it starts to happen, you can't help noticing it," he said.
Almost £3m was spent on travel including £1.5m on luxury five-star hotels in exotic locations such as Mexico, Indonesia and Dubai.
The Department for Energy and Climate change spent more than £700,000 on flights.
Scientists in 11 countries and Swiss Nobel Prize winner, Kurt Wuthrich, have verified the tests of Japan’s Water Guru, Dr. Masura Emoto, how giving “love and appreciation” to water clears it. Just as loving prayers, ceremonies and joyful dances of the world’s tribes lift the vibration of the mountains and oceans where toxins cannot exist....
Anytime we express those sentiments to our Mother Earth in thoughts, prayers, ceremonies, we are purifying and restoring Her natural cycles that we have put in painful chaos.
EDUCATING HUMANITY THROUGH THE KIDS
Dr. Emoto says the best way to get this message everywhere is through the children at schools since they then educate their parents who love them.
Previous research had given coarse hints of the rock structures buried under more than four kilometres of ice, but Icecap is the first systematic attempt to get a higher-resolution image of the mountains and valleys in this part of Antarctica.
The ecosystem services provided by the Arctic sea ice urgently need to be given an economic value too, says polar explorer and Geo Mission CEO Pen Hadow.[What was the value of the mile-thick ice that formerly covered the Chicago area?]
When the glacier reached its southernmost limit about 20,000 years ago, the ice was a mile thick at Chicago--an enormous weight that depressed the land beneath.
[Video] James Hansen visiting New Zealand on climate change. A must to view! http://www.otago.ac.nz/news/itunesu/podcasts/otago018640.mp4C3: Experts Discover That Tropical Fish Can Survive Significant Temperature Increases, Contrary To Consensus Science
Eme et al. exposed two species of tropical fish to significantly warmer water. Both species easily survived the hotter waters, indicating that tropical fish have a high toleration for temperature variation.
Aussie Labor Party Prime Minister Julia Gillard is waging an aggressive PR campaign to sell carbon taxes in the Land Down Under. Resistance is fierce, with opposition leaders saying the tax “is so toxic that Labor MPs could dump her to save their own seats” (The Australian, June 3, 2011).Geologists press for recognition of Earth-changing 'human epoch' | Science | The Guardian
Anthropocene, a term conceived in 2002 by Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen, means "the Age of Man", recognising our species' ascent to a geophysical force on a par with Earth-shattering asteroids and planet-cloaking volcanoes.Twitter / Warmist Suzanne Goldenberg
#Romney still believes in climate change. Guess he's lost GOP race then reut.rs/it01Za #egGore-monism: Romney believes in manmade global warming | JunkScience.com
That Mitt Romney is a Mormon is, of course, no problem. That he is a Gore-mon, however, is.
Bryson, a co-founder of the liberal environmentalist group Natural Resources Defense Council, was most recently a member of the United Nations' Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change, a panel of scientific and industry experts tasked with providing advice on combating global warming.President Barack Obama’s 2012 Strategy: Forsake the Lost Causes, Fool the Rest
Each of these delayed regulations is broad-based, and would impact most severely the hydrocarbon intensive industries in the American Heartland. The President needs to win a State or two in this region, so he’s rolling back* regulations that would lead to unfavorable approval ratings in the Midwest during the lead up to November 2012.Pikas Have Moved to Higher Ground - NYTimes.com
[*Of course, these delays are temporary. A second-term President Barack Obama has nothing to lose, so he can pander to his environmentalist base as much as he wants. Each of these regulations would return in full force, were he to win.]
In the last 10 years, they have moved up nearly 500 feet in elevation.
Events like droughts, wildfires, heat waves and heavy downpours get my short answer. We know they are going to become more frequent, more intense, and last longer. In fact, we can already see this playing out in historical data.Flashback: Weather Channel Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics
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Yet, despite this recent report, and despite all we do know about climate change, the topic has become the C-word in Washington, D.C. Just as the term "global warming" fell out of favor, the term "climate change" is now one that few in our nation's capital dare bring up in conversation, much less in legislation. Budgets for climate research have been threatened and now a nominee for Commerce Secretary is garnering opposition in large part because of his stance on environmental issues, including global climate change.
...Hurricane season also started this week and forecasters expect it to be busier than usual. And I'm here ready for the phone to ring again, so that I can tell you one more time that if we do nothing to adapt and reduce our greenhouse gas pollution, things will only get worse... and yes, it will be our fault.
The Weather Channel’s most prominent climatologist is advocating that broadcast meteorologists be stripped of their scientific certification if they express skepticism about predictions of manmade catastrophic global warming.
Readers of this blog are well-versed in Republican attempts to axe any and all government programs that include the word "climate" in the title. Among their attempts so far this year: axing NOAA's climate service, taking a chainsaw to the EPA, and attempting to defund NASA's climate work, to name a few. The latest? On Thursday, the House GOP passed a measure barring the Department of Homeland Security from working on a government-wide plan to prepare for climate change.Warmist Kate Sheppard: Political journalist with an eye on the environment | MNN - Mother Nature Network
She studied abroad in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Russia and she admits that her biggest eco-sin is "lots of air travel".Are we sitting on unlimited fossil-fuel resources? « Hot Air
As I said earlier, the energy crisis in this country is entirely self-inflicted, mainly because the demagogues and Chicken Littles have controlled the narrative for far too long.The world is getting warmer : Romney
"I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that," he told a crowd of about 200 at a town hall meeting in Manchester, New Hampshire.
"It's important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may be significant contributors."
Christie’s use of the State Police helicopters instantly became the focus of attention on Tuesday when he landed at his son’s baseball game in Montvale, then got into a State Police car to travel the remaining 100 yards to the field. After watching five innings of the game he and his wife, Mary Pat, took the car back to the helicopter and departed for dinner about 75 miles away.
It was disclosed shortly before Thursday’s news conference that he had also flown by helicopter on Friday to see another of his son’s games.
Christie has used the State Police helicopters for 35 trips since his inauguration last year, according to the State Police.
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Governors of both parties have come under fire for their use of state helicopters -- sometimes after criticizing their predecessor for the same thing.
Republican Gov. Tom Kean had the state purchase an executive helicopter for $4.7 million in 1985; he used it for 1,039 flights in during his second four-year term.
Next, Democratic Gov. Jim Florio sold two of the helicopters and insisted his administration "isn't about flying first class. It's about delivering first-class service to the people with no frills." But he used the helicopter even more than Kean, logging 2,319 flights.
Walmart is in the grip of political ideologues. On its website it says that its goal is to be supplied 100 percent by renewable energy, which is neither achievable nor desirable. This goal is revealing, however, about the philosophical orientation of the people that Walmart behind it. They are seemingly hostile to capitalism, progress, technology and the 21st century itself.
Wind generates two tenths of one percent of the world's energy. It cannot compete with fossil fuels. Same for solar. These industries exist ONLY because of government subsidies, which in the coming years will be phased out as governments run out of money. It is already happening in Europe. Trust me, Walmart is never going to be 100% supplied by renewable energy.
BRUSSELS, Jun 3, 2011 (IPS) - For years, European governments and corporations have made use of a loophole in the Kyoto protocol on climate change to make exorbitant profits. According to some sources, this lucrative scheme has caused more pollution than ever before while lobbyists in Brussels have methodically undermined the European Commission's decision to put a stop to it.Not the climate for another tax | Herald Sun
If Gillard is remembered for tapping a fashionable cause, she will also be accused of shoddiness in its pursuit. She wants Australians to invest in her plan, but she can't properly explain what the plan is.
How much it will cost - and that's the key question for most Australians - remains buried under layers of blather. Worse, the debate has spun out a stream of interlopers who few Australians nod to for their cues.
Various religious leaders have spoken of a "moral imperative" in supporting the tax. It's unclear how God feels about this. The way it's going, He will probably hold His own doorstop press conference in coming days.
What all these audiences are witnessing is a major media company tackling the problem of climate change. The surprise is that the initiative - which is sweeping and serious - comes from Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and CEO of News Corp.Now that's a cashed-up carbon footprint
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Then again, maybe it makes sense that Murdoch's ahead of the other media barons on the climate change issue.
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By contrast, Murdoch has boldly promised to make News Corp. carbon neutral by 2010 and to weave environmental issues and themes into his newspapers, TV shows, movies and online properties - a tricky business, particularly when it comes to news.
"Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats," Murdoch said last spring, in a speech webcast to all News Corp. employees (and available here.) "We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction."
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Murdoch's evolution into a climate change crusader took time.
The rich and famous can get stuffed. Unless, of course, they are Rupert Murdoch himself, whose lavishly appointed Boeing Business Jet wafts him to and from:
A $44 million penthouse on New York's 5th Avenue once owned by the Rockefellers;
Rosehearty, a $14 million beachfront shack on New York's Centre Island, recently rented out to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie;
An 11-bedroom mansion in Beverly Hills, California 90210;
The Crystal Springs Ranch in Carmel, California, a spread reputedly the size of a small Middle East sheikhdom;
An $8 million apartment in London's posh St James's;
A soaring harbour view penthouse in Sydney;
Cavan, a picture-perfect, 17,000-hectare sheep station near Yass in southern NSW;
A 56-metre yacht, also named Rosehearty (interiors by the French designer Christian Liaigre), berthed on the Cote D'Azur.
Now that's what I call a carbon footprint.
BALANCE-of-power independent Tony Windsor says India's refusal to co-operate with a study on global climate action won't be a "make or break" factor in determining his support for a carbon price.No jobs would be lost: Ross Garnaut | Climate | carbon price
CLIMATE economist Ross Garnaut has hit back at claims his proposal for a carbon pricing scheme would damage the economy, saying no manufacturing jobs would be lost.Carbon tax dwarfed by cost of wild weather
Whether or not these natural disasters are linked to human-induced climate change, more severe weather is exactly what scientists predict as a result of global warming.
Maybe now climate sceptics will comprehend the massive economic costs we risk if we fail to address the problem. These would make the price of a carbon tax look like child's play.
The value of the primary Clean Development Mechanism market fell by double digits for the third year in a row, ending lower than it was in 2005, the first year of the Kyoto Protocol.
The problem in this case isn’t related to the global warming that CO2 is helping to cause, but rather has to do with how the gas affects the weed's growth. Carbon dioxide acts as sort of fertilizer, making yellow starthistle grow like… well, it’s already a weed, so perhaps a "super-weed" is the right term.
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"The take home message," he says, "is that there are a bunch of species that are going to benefit in the future, and there’s reason to believe that in many cases they're the species we don’t like. Poison ivy benefits immensely from increased CO2; it’s more competitive, and it produces worse toxins." His research, along with other studies, "suggests that our costs for managing the landscape to be the way we like it are going to go up."
Most Peace Country residents woke up to snow Friday morning.Sea Level Plummeting : Lowest Level Since At Least 2004 | Real Science
Environment Canada says the snow will change to rain by noon, but we could see up to 2cm before that.
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With that in mind, we should set a record snowfall amount today, as Environment Canada’s records show we’ve never had snow on June 3.
The latest data has been added to the Aviso site, and sea level is dropping through the floor. Europe’s Envisat satellite has been collecting data since 2004, and now shows that sea level is the lowest it has been since they started collecting data.
Since the start of the year, sea level has dropped almost 10 mm.
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NASA tells us that 2010 saw record melt in Greenland, and that huge amounts of water poured into the sea.
Best thing about Times iPad is you can't see comments. So Hugo Rifkind's superb article about climate change is un-polluted by nobbersGuelph Scientists Author Textbook on Climate Change - At Guelph
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The book discusses those impacts rather than debate the climate change phenomenon itself. “We take it as read that climate change is happening,” says Newman, who studies effects of climate change on cereal aphids and temperate grasslands.
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The book will become the text for a senior undergrad course at Guelph on climate change biology. The course has attracted about 100 students each fall. Plans are to double enrolment this coming fall. “It’s a topical issue that students want to learn about,” Newman says.
When 170 comments had come in to my post, I promised that this week I would attempt to synthesize the answers. It's now at 859 comments
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The deniers themselves — many of whom, I learned, prefer to call themselves skeptics — invariably claim the same motivation: since the climate-change argument has been either grossly exaggerated or downright falsified, they weren't buying it.
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I'm not finding many take-homes in all this. The whole experience has left me pretty weary and disheartened.
The precise question before the Court is whether those who emit GHGs can be sued by states, municipalities and private entities under the federal common law of nuisance. The Second Circuit – the federal appellate court overseeing federal district courts in New York, Connecticut and Vermont – found that, yes, such lawsuits are allowed. If the Supreme Court agrees, the consequences would be far-reaching and complex.
The National Weather Service has issued a frost advisory for parts of Central New York from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. Friday.Blogging Innovation » Faux Goodness And EcoSploitation
Exploiting Environmental Hysteria for Fun & Profit“Media Too Fair to Climate Skeptics”, say reporters who’ve been unfair to skeptics
Repeat after me: “the media is too balanced on global warming, the media needlessly gives two-sided reports on global warming…..” When ordinary people learn why mainstream media journalists repeat this and where it originates, they will understand how the overall smear of skeptic scientists threatens to turn from the success it is into a failure that can bring the whole so-called global warming crisis to a halt.
“When I looked down on Earth from space, I saw the beauty and the wounds of our planet. The effects of climate change are very visible when you look down,” said Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu, the chair of UNCOPUOS, reflecting on his time in space as the first Romanian astronaut in space.
[Warmist Brad Plumer]: (Fun tangent: I'm sure most people are vaguely familiar with the brouhaha over Michael Mann's famous hockey stick graph showing that the Earth is heating up at a faster rate than at any time in the past 1,000 years, right? The climate-skeptic argument is that Mann — and all the other scientists who have reproduced his work — downplayed the Medieval Warm Period. That's doubtful. But if the skeptics did happen to be right, and it was warmer in the medieval era than Mann thinks, that would actually be more worrisome, not less — it would mean the Earth is actually more sensitive to changes in radiative forcing than climatologists have suspected.)
A group including Norwegian aluminum maker Norsk Hydro and Swedish construction group Skanska said it would construct the six-to-seven-story building in Trondheim, with offices and shops covering up to 9,000 sq meters (96,880 sq ft).
The building will use solar panels and sunscreens on an aluminum facade, which will have a new energy-saving ventilation system. It will also draw on geo-thermal energy and use other technologies such as heat pumps.
Over the year, it will generate more power than it consumes.
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Trondheim, about 300 km (186.4 miles) south of the Arctic Circle, is on the same latitude as southern Greenland, Alaska and Siberia.
"I have lived in Trondheim myself for more than eight years and I know the weather is a challenge with low temperatures, wind and precipitation. There is not too much sun," Brandtzaeg said.
So consumers who want to stock up have seven months to buy 100-watt bulbs, 19 months to buy 75-watt bulbs, and 31 months to buy 60- and 40-watt bulbs.The Antarctic Volcanoes Project Blog
Polar regions and deserts look good in postcards, but who wants to live there. Meanwhile global pop. is zooming, so obviously the real answer is to pump more CO2 and water vapor into the atmosphere to turn deserts into lush green crop-growing regions like 35 million years ago when the avg. global temp was 88F and the CO2 level was 1K parts per million (vs. 390 PPM today).
By overusing the AGW concept, [they] will cheapen it to oblivion. Furthermore if AGW is a moral cause, then it’s demonstrably non-scientific, as science will only take the third place after ethics and politics. So the IPCC becomes even less important, or meaningful.Cats Leave Biggest Carbon Paw-Print Among House Pets, Study Finds
Cats are really bad for the climate, according to a new study. And so the next time it rains “cats and dogs”, you’ll know know who to blame.Solar Cycles Cause Global Warming & Cooling
Planetary warming has also been observed on Mars, Jupiter, Pluto, and on Neptune’s largest moon Triton during the decades following the peak of the “Solar Grand Maximum” - wonder why - there are no humans there! And Pluto is moving further from the sun in its orbit, thus it should be cooling, but instead it is warming. This is but one blatant indicator that suggests that the climate change on Earth is due to solar changes and our intersellar environment rather than mere human antics.Sigourney Weaver: Global Warming is Sexist - Improving Women's Lives Will Solve The Problem | NewsBusters.org
Yep. Improving women's lives will lower temperatures on the planet.
I wonder if Tipper Gore agrees with this premise?
As noted in a recent Economist article titled “Welcome to the Anthropocene,” we are altering the Earth’s carbon cycle, which leads to climate change, and we have sped up the nitrogen cycle by more than 150 per cent, which has led to acid rain, ozone depletion, and coastal dead zones, among other things. We have also replaced wilderness with farms and cities, which has had a huge impact on biodiversity.
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Now, as comic-strip character Pogo said (via a poster created for Earth Day) in the 1970s, “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
Waxman and Rush pointed to that vote in their Monday letter calling for a hearing on the Vatican and NRC reports.Survey results spun to fit warmist agenda | Australian Climate Madness
Less than a third of the population think that climate change is mainly or entirely caused by human activity (31.8%)
Over the past month, I have been speaking to women in Canada and the American Midwest about a powerful force that discriminates against us. I am not talking about the glass ceiling or sexists bosses, although we all know those still exist. I am talking about climate change.
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Our role as caretakers puts us at even greater risk in times of extreme weather. Studies have found that women are 14 times more likely to die as a result of storms and other extreme weather than men.
Climate models show that the tropics should be least affected by global warming, and satellite data shows almost no change in tropical temperatures over the last 30 years.Enviro elitists keep America unemployed - The Hill's Pundits Blog
One would expect that a “leading climatologist” would already know this
As we approach this Friday’s unemployment report, our leaders are already telling us that 9 percent unemployment might be the “new normal.” It will be interesting to see if the real story that America’s failure to create jobs is largely a self-inflicted choice by a college-educated elite who would rather consign millions of Americans to government dependency rather than get out of the way and allow them to work.How Many Distortions Can a Wind Lobbyist Cram into One Talking Point?
The answer is three, the same number of licks it takes an owl to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop.
American Wind Energy Association CEO Denise Bode recently appeared on Fox Business News to promote wind power. At the 6:45 mark of her segment, she defended wind energy subsidies with a flurry of misinformation and wishful thinking.
NJ's Governor Christie and other hack, warming alarmist politicians, often assert that global warming is causing climate change that results in growing disaster losses. Unfortunately for presidential hopefuls like Christie, ignoring the actual empirical research is a nomination death wish now that the internet allows anyone to find out if a candidate has gone into 'bozo' alarmist mode.A Geographer Pushes Outreach Both for Climate Panel and Academia - NYTimes.com
Edward Carr, a geographer at the University of South Carolina, took umbrage last year when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change urged him and more than 800 other authors contributing to the next batch of climate assessments by the group to “keep a distance from the media.” (That same mailing included a three-page brochure prepared by consultants that, among other things, advised the scientists not to use terms including uncertainty, risk and significant. “To avoid the risk of being misunderstood, avoid them,” the scientists were advised.)- Bishop Hill blog - Advice to a science minister
(2) always include an analysis of dissident views and how much it would matter if they were right
(3) never try to confine advice to what you think the Minister wants to hear (this is the sin against the Holy Ghost)
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(5) never use scare tactics to try to increase your funding: the Treasury is cynical enough as it is
Carve a polar bear out of ice in the middle of Sydney. Watch it melt. Suddenly you believe in climate change.
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But wait, there's more. They froze the ice around a bronze skeleton. In London. And then flew it to Australia. Really. In a plane. Which emits carbon. Honestly. I'm not making this up
Even a 5 percent reduction in the length of the growing period for crops can have a major impact on yields, the study found.
It may be the most revealing quote ever published in the New York Times. It appears in a story about the New York Times, and its source is a top editor of the New York Times: Jill Abramson, who will become the top editor of the New York Times in September, when Bill Keller steps down, the New York Times reports:Ms. Abramson said that as a born-and-raised New Yorker, she considered being named editor of The Times to be like "ascending to Valhalla."
"In my house growing up, The Times substituted for religion," she said. "If The Times said it, it was the absolute truth."
The awful winter of 2010-11 isn't quite over.
Despite the fact that it's June and the forecast calls for temperatures to climb close to 90 degrees today, you can still have a snowball fight (a really dirty snowball fight) and slide down a snow hill (a really short slide) right here in St. Paul.
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"I didn't think anybody figured it would take this long," said Joe Dinnebier, ground support services manager at the state Capitol.
But he said that with temperatures forecast in the 80s next week, he figures the frozen mound at Sears only has about seven to 10 days left.
California is likely to suffer more than any other state from worsening air pollution due to climate change by the end of the decade, according to a new study from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).
The report finds that in 2020, "climate change-induced ozone increases" could result in nearly half a million additional cases of "serious respiratory illnesses" and add more than $729 million to the state's health care costs.
While alarmists like Mr. Mann fear the disclosure of their methods and data, skeptics have long championed transparency and openness. What does that tell you about who is and who is not confident the data back them up?
Is global warming science a litmus test? In 2012 America, yes.
"It's clear that people want the government to do something about climate change and they also feel they have a personal responsibility to act," environmental and social psychologist Professor Joseph Reser told AAP.
The survey was carried out in June and July last year, with the results released on Friday.
Hadley Rapp, an intern researcher with the group, said one incentive that doesn't seem to inspire people to save energy is discussion about climate change.
"It's such a political issue," she said during a conference call about the group's report.
As I saw the destruction of Joplin Missouri - and began reflecting on the extraordinary devastation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and the unbelievable scenes of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami - it occurred to me that this might well be how the end of the world may begin - not with a big bang but incrementally.
...hurricane seasons have been more destructive in recent years.
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My point is simply this. It’s easy enough to shrug off quirky doomsday prophesies. However, nature is providing ample evidence that global warming and climate change are tangible and serious threats to our environment and our way of life. Yet most of America is still blithely ignoring these warnings. And it does so at great peril.
Bill Clinton urged mayors at the Large Cities Climate Summit to go after a pollutant 25 times more powerful than carbon dioxide: methane. By capturing it from landfills, from which it leaches in prodigious amounts, cities could use it to generate power. Wrestling CO2 could take years, but harnessing methane could make a big difference and make it more quickly.
He also urged mayors to go after black carbon -- all the soot and particulate crud that comes to rest on the surface of the earth, making the ground absorb more solar energy.
The IPCC just released a “Communications Strategy,” drafted at its May Abu Dhabi session, which says many of the right things. The organization will apparently be hiring a Senior Communications Manager and trying to coordinate a mechanism for rapid response. And there is much else in the document to praise—but I also note the following:From the "Communications Strategy" above:
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It appears that the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report is due out in 2013 and 2014. So basically, the IPCC has about two years to really get together a serious communications mechanism for the moment when it is going to be needed most. Let us hope that the current strategy document is only the beginning, and that dollars will follow good intentions.
How authorized spokespersons should represent the IPCC
The ability of IPCC spokespersons to provide neutral and objective statements that are grounded in the assessments reports and other products adopted by the Panel will be essential to preserving the trust and confidence placed in the IPCC by decision-makers and other key audiences. Authorized spokespersons should act in accordance with the guiding principles that have been set out for IPCC communications, most notably maintaining policy neutrality, scientific balance, and refraining from, or being perceived as advocating or communicating personal views on climate policy while speaking in their official IPCC capacity.
The report was compiled by Dr Bob Beard, the Government’s Chief Scientific Hysteria Promoter, who said: “There will inevitably be complaints by denialist flat earthers who still believe, in the early 21st century, that it is wrong to pay earthworms for services they have hitherto been providing for free. But as with our policy on Climate Change, so it is with our policy on earthworms: we have to operate on the Precautionary Principle..."Prince charles talks to more plants | ScottishSceptic
In other words it’s another group of people looking to rub shoulders with the politicians in the hope of scrounging more public money to fund their uneconomic ideas, which without the global warming scam wouldn’t have got past the filing cabinet marked “Bin”.Market Speaks: Impacts of EPA Train Wreck Will Be Much Higher Than Anticipated
Reality has interceded in EPA’s attempt to play down the impact of its train wreck regulations on the electric utility industry. First came the widely reported news that Louisville Gas & Electric had filed for a 19% rate increase by 2016 to pay for the upgrades that the regulations will require.
Now, we have the results of the capacity auction that PJM just conducted for the 2014-15 capacity year. The resulting capacity prices were about 4.5 to 8 times as high as prices paid in the last two auctions and 2.5 to 3 times as high as market analysts had predicted.
Growing waistlines simply prevent a lot of U.S. drivers from feeling comfortable or secure in smaller cars. So, unless the entire country goes on a diet, says Dan Cheng, vice president and partner at business consulting firm AT Kearney, we may be destined to keep driving big cars no matter how much a gallon of gas costs in the future.Countdown to flatline: world carbon trading market falls for first time – World Bank reports rumblings of possible failure | Watts Up With That?
I wonder how long before flatlining occurs, like last year with the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX)Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Germany's Burned Bridge
Given Merkel's penchant for blowing with the political winds and the German public's Wutbürger politics, we should expect German energy policies to continue to be anything but stable. Germany's energy policies have gone from potentially world-leading to incoherent in the blink of an eye.
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Looking at the big picture, the question now I suppose is how long must we wait until the next German energy policy U-turn?
[the above question answered in this comment: "That one's easy - it will be when the rolling blackouts start. Rule number one - environmentalism is great when it only affects other people, not so great when it affects me."]
Once again 3 months of real weather has shown the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) Outlook predictions produced every month looking ahead three months – are mostly wrong.Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jun 2nd 2011 « The Daily Bayonet
What do elven hotties, yellow dwarfs and iPuritans have to do with global warming? Enter the strange, strange world of the weekly round-up and all will be revealed. Probably.C3: Jon Huntsman: Anatomy of A Failed Presidential Bid By A 'Green' Republican
An Iowa poll on Republican candidates just came out. Jon Huntsman got just 1 vote (not even 1%). This moderate liberal, green Republican candidate, that the MSM press wants the Republicans to nominate, just flat-out fails to resonate with conservative/libertarian/independent voters.- Bishop Hill blog - More dangerous proposals
It would seem being a Republican candidate who actually believes the bogus claim that "90% of scientists think global warming is a crisis" is definitely not a winning formula, which this Obama-lite candidate is proving in spades.
Here's another set of proposals being made under the green banner that might give decent liberal-minded people a few sleepless nights: a new crime of "ecocide".Peer-Reviewed Medical Research Critiqued « NoFrakkingConsensus
This means that far stricter accountability mechanisms need to put in place. Until a researcher’s data is entirely open to examination – and until his or her findings have been replicated by disinterested third parties – it’s foolish to place too much trust in those findings.
From what I can tell, if such a regime were actually adopted, well over half of the peer-reviewed papers cited by the IPCC would be immediately disqualified.
You may remember that the mega size money transfer deal (100 billion USD a year by 2020) was brokered by president Obama and other leaders at the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 as a "compensation" for not being able to agree on anything else. It was one of the most weird - and expensive - pledges in recent years, particularly when one knows that many of the "rich" donors are living on borrowed money. In spite of all this, these same leaders now continue pledging the money they do not have for fighting something that does not exist. Fortunately, much of the money seems to be coming from "existing programmes". Still, the whole thing is an enormous waste of taxpayers´ money.Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> The Morano Gauntlet
The message should be clear by now: any Republican contenders for President will be forced to run the Morano gauntlet if they don’t march in lockstep with the newly hardened GOP orthodoxy on global warming.Thomson Reuters -
Please join us as Thomson Reuters welcomes a panel of experts to discuss the opportunities offered by the energy business. Held in coordination with the Reuters Global Summit on Energy & Climate, this exclusive event features speakers from Invesco, ClimateDepot.com, Argus Research and Drefuys.
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Marc Morano, Head of ClimateDepot.com, a website that debunks the theory of climate change
[Clem Bastow] Climate change, on the other hand, is very pertinent given that I'll get to live out my twilight years in a global warming wasteland.YouTube - Frozen Wasteland
A young audience member on Monday's show was concerned about the same issue and asked what the parties were doing ''to slow down or eliminate climate change'', only to be answered by more bickering from Lundy and Brandis. (Though Brandis was quick to assure him that ''we'll make sure you have jobs'', which must be comforting in the face of certain weather-based Armageddon.)
Lyrics: FROZEN WASTELAND Up here on the farm We chop wood To stay Warm We all could use some Global Warming We all need to fight To preserve our rights I don't want to be taxed a just for breathing Open your eyes Don't believe their lies It's just a Frozen Wasteland Al Gore is a liar His pants are on fire Plus he's getting rich from carbon offsets He's loose with the facts All he wants is a tax Lets get together Before it gets much colder Frozen Wasteland Its just a Frozen Wasteland Frozen Wasteland Frozen Wasteland WE'RE ALL FROZEN!!
That global air and ocean temperatures are rising, and that human activity is largely to blame, is no longer a subject of debate among the vast majority of the world’s climate scientists. But there is no such consensus when talk turns to another important question: Is climate change already causing more extreme weather events, including worsening downpours and flooding, intensifying heat waves, and more powerful hurricanes?
Yale Environment 360 asked eight leading climate experts whether they think there is growing evidence that human-caused global warming is contributing to an increased incidence of extreme weather — and to cite specific recent examples in their answers. Their responses varied, with some contending that rising temperatures already are creating more tempestuous weather and others saying that more extreme weather may be likely but that not enough data yet exists to discern a trend in that direction. Scientists in both camps said two physical phenomena — warmer air holds more moisture, and higher temperatures exacerbate naturally occurring heat waves — would almost by definition mean more extremes. But some argued that the growing human toll from hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and heat waves is primarily related to burgeoning human population and the related degradation of the environment.
Bravery of Larry Gibson and Mike Dunbar will not stop fossil fuel use. Nor will the
Maori boats of Te Whanau Apanui that temporarily occupied their long-held fishing grounds,
trying to block deep ocean oil exploration. This fact does not diminish such actions, or efforts to
block tar sands pipelines, long-wall mining, and other destructive practices. Indeed, such
holding actions are effective, if they are accompanied by a rising price on carbon emissions.
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Look at neighboring Australia. Suggestions of a carbon tax there have brought out all the
fire-power that the fossil fuel interests can muster – orders of magnitude more than that of
scientists, environmentalists, or public concerned about their children. Look for the same in
New Zealand. Lord Monckton may be on a plane already.
Australia is important, but, unfortunately, seems to be headed down a dark road. Prime
Minister Julia Gillard took a principled position, calling for a carbon tax, but made the mistake of
listening to political advisers. Result: attempt at same deception of the public as recommended
by big environmental groups in Washington (who have been there too long, organizations that
need annual large-scale donations) – pretend that phasedown of fossil fuel addiction can be
achieved without households noticing much, by means of a tricky emissions trading scheme.
The public is not a bunch of dummies. They can take the truth. They can also smell a
scheme, politics-as-usual.
June 2 (Bloomberg) -- The World Bank, helped by its AAA credit rating, is considering guaranteeing sales of greenhouse- gas credits, taking cues from the crude-oil market to jumpstart the United Nations-overseen carbon markets.Global warming should be limited to 1.5C, UN climate chief says | Environment | guardian.co.uk
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The value of new-project transactions under the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism tumbled 44 percent to $1.5 billion last year from $2.7 billion in 2009 as global climate talks stalled and the European Union set restrictions for some UN emission- reduction credits, according to World Bank estimates. The program, which generates offsets for projects that cut greenhouse gases in developing nations, needs bigger demand that would come from stricter climate targets, UN Climate Chief Christiana Figueres said yesterday.
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“There’s much to be gloomy about,” the World Bank’s Andrew Steer told delegates at the Carbon Expo in Barcelona, citing a spate of thefts of emissions allowances in the European Union emissions market. “We’re not going to stay in the business if it stays at $1.5 billion.”
The world may need to prepare for temperature increases of 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 Fahrenheit), and the U.S. Navy is preparing for a 1.3-meter (5-foot) rise in sea levels, he said.
Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, told an audience of carbon traders: "Two degrees is not enough – we should be thinking of 1.5C. If we are not headed to 1.5 we are in big, big trouble."
Imagine devoting your life to something which has nothing to do with reality.Anyone Who Says The Right Words Is An Expert | Real Science
As long as they spew global warming tripe , and geography student can be a climate expert.Blog: The beach is closed; Heat related illnesses?
Chicago's North Avenue Beach was closed by order of the Chicago Police Department at 6:00 p.m. on Memorial Day. In fairness it was unusually warm for this time of the year in Chicago, however with temps in the high 80's it was far from the sort of scorching heat that normally would trigger a heat-related emergency...Lawrence Solomon: Shale gas emerging as one of world’s biggest job creators | FP Comment | Financial Post
Shale gas, still in its infancy, will be exploding in growth as regions around the world begin to capitalize on this new industry’s potential. Every populated continent in the world has shale gas – Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and both Americas.Lawrence Solomon: Better red than dead, better green than free | FP Comment | Financial Post
The council’s report, published last month under the title “World in Transition – Social Contract for a Great Transformation,” argues that “The transformation to a climate friendly economy… is morally as necessary as the abolition of slavery and the outlawing of child labour.”
The great transformation will require that “The world citizenry agree to … surrender spontaneous and persistent desires” – i.e., citizens will need to accept that their lifestyles are unsustainable and collectively accept the need for government to make decisions on their behalf, without the public having a veto over government decisions that could “impede the transition to a sustainable society.”
One thing google can’t change is the nature of these stories. The trend remains clearly toward scepticism. indeed, some days I’m surprised how hostile they are, and it is an effort to find any that support the scare. But other days it will be back to the “normal” journalists trying to wring blood out of the dry global warming scare story. What is notable, is that by and large, it is the majority of smaller regional papers that tend to be more hostile questioning and informative and the larger nationals that tend to the alarmist mentality of simply repeating the press releases of this or that organisation.Global Warming - 30/05/2011 - ADJ (Proof) - NSW Parliament
The Hon. Dr PETER PHELPS [6.20 p.m.]: I comment in this place on the latest adventures in the great global warming swindle that is gripping our nation and most of the formerly civilised world. I will assume that most people know that I am an historian by trade and I come from a time when, at universities, the humanities displayed a healthy scepticism for the self-assured absolutism of the sciences. However, nowadays it seems that the sciences have been corrupted by enough government money and political correctness to have them operating in parallel with their socialist brothers in the humanities. Government money is given to agitate for specific ends. Why are we surprised when the ocean acidification project suddenly finds that—guess what?—oceans are acidifying.The Reference Frame: Does ethics require us to believe in tornado witches?
You should be ashamed, Mr Brown. You should be ashamed, Penn State University, for harboring this stunningly dishonest crook. You should be ashamed, the people of Pennsylvania, for being unable to get rid of this big piece of immoral dirt that exists within your state.
That all adds to a trend where the public and media are no longer being fooled by repeated cries of “wolf” at every abnormal bit of weather, where the run of the mill scientists now view climate “science” with the same “interest” as craniology or paranormal “research”.Water Vapor Trends « The Science of Doom
That all seems to create a realistic pathway leading to the demise of this scam, so that I can now very tentatively give a prediction of the timeline of the demise of global warming.
2011 … continued steady decline, growing lack of interest by the main stream media verging on open discontent. Mainstream politicians actively avoid voicing support, but shy away from overt scepticism.
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2015+ New elections bring in new politicians with no personal attachment to previous policy initiatives. Over the next few years most legislation “combating global warming” is quietly dropped.
Given that water vapor response to climate is believed to be mostly from the ocean (the source of water vapor), not having significant measurements over the ocean until satellites in the late 1970′s is a major problem.Why do big organisation tend to support Global Warming hysteria? | ScottishSceptic
Whatever the reason, it’s long been suspected that the sceptics have been a nightmare for the big alarmist propaganda organisations, who can’t understand how the sceptics have been so effective. Being organisational “cogs in the machine”, they simply cannot (or don’t want to) believe such an effective campaign could have been run without a massive, well-paid, highly resourced publicity machine behind it. But having tried to find the “head of the hydra” they have instead found nothing but poorly resourced individualistic people who are as apt to argue with each other as the warmists.
As popular as Christie currently is, he risks alienating a significant portion of the Republican base if he casts his lot with the global warming alarmists – especially if he appears to do so after listening to only one side of the story. And if you don’t think this issue has the potential to come back and bite him in a future presidential run, just ask Newt Gingrich and Tim Pawlenty how they feel about their past global warming advocacy.A new golden age for fossil fuels? Huh? - How the World Works - Salon.com
I'm not sure what definition of catastrophe Lind is using, but the unprecedented frequency of extreme weather events that we are already witnessing all across our planet is a strong indicator that global warming is already contributing to serious disruptions.Science Deniers: Hand Over Your Cellphones! : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
Too many of the responses to Ursula's post, however, had nothing to do with an attempt to understand how climate science (or any science) reaches its conclusions. Flames about Al Gore, the "climate gate" e-mails and the hockey stick data were trotted out again and again. These are all talking points intended to avoid real engagement with the scientific process — the experiments, the data collection, and the journal articles where ideas are fought out in the face of evidence or mathematical consistency. For these people the scientific process itself is what needs to be denied.Clinton Sees ‘Goldmine’ in Methane Emissions to Curb Warming - Bloomberg
‘‘The intense burning of fossil fuels in the world’s cities not only contributes to climate change, it also clogs the streets, pollutes the air, and shortens the lives of their millions of residents,’’ Bloomberg said. ‘‘If we don´t stop right now polluting our world and continuing to spill greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, the consequences may very well be irreversible.’’
Clinton said targeting methane and charcoal could make a ‘‘dramatic reduction’’ in greenhouse gases and ‘‘solve a public health problem.’’
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