"For the many, many Australians who drive long distances, maybe to work, maybe driving their kids on the weekend or going on holidays with the family, this will be a big help," the PM told the Sunday Herald Sun.
"This means that families, tradies and small businesses won't pay a cent more at the petrol pump because of the carbon price."
The policy on which our national energy strategy is now centred is a ludicrously expensive, self-defeating joke, says Christopher Booker.
In the week when it was reported that 20 per cent of the EU's fast-soaring, trillion-euro budget may soon be spent on "fighting climate change", it was timely that Britain's energy companies should have met with the Department of Energy and Climate Change to raise one of the best-hidden secrets of our Government's obsession with wind power.
How did the Prime Minister avoid noticing the latest vainglorious example of EU extravagance for so long, asks Christopher Booker.
David Cameron, we learn, was "appalled" when, at their recent European Council meeting, the EU's national leaders were presented with a 16-page brochure boasting of the £280 million palace nearing completion in Brussels for the Council's president, Herman Van Rompuy.
Anti-nuclear, anti-capitalist, anti-flying: the green movement may have alienated more people than it has won over, and there are now calls for a new kind of environmentalism
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Next week Lynas publishes a new book, The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of Humans, in which he takes his argument with the green movement a step further. The book accuses the greens of having helped cause climate change through their opposition to nuclear power, and calls this a "gargantuan error, and one that will echo down the ages".
"Anyone who still marches against nuclear today," he writes, "as many thousands of people did in Germany following the Fukushima accident, is in my view just as bad for the climate as textbook eco-villains like the big oil companies."
...he argues that "the green movement in itself is dying – I'm an environmentalist but not a green".
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Tamsin Omond of direct action group Climate Rush remembers this is a heady time. "2009 was the year we said we would do one action a month, and we did. Everyone saw this as the one chance and the feeling of momentum – that we only had to work really hard until December, and then we could have a rest – was really present. Everything we did would get in the papers and journalists were phoning up all the time. I was completely caught up in it."
...Is the green movement a leftwing, anti-capitalist movement? Mark Lynas believes it is, and that those who style themselves as greens should be marginalised and allowed to die off so that they can be replaced by a new breed of market-friendly environmentalists like him.
all it would take would be a prolonged period of bitterly cold weather with subfreezing conditions to wipe out most of North Carolina's population of the fish.Viscount Monckton answers Megan Clement of “Conversation” « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
During the winter of 2010-11 a couple of severe cold snaps resulted in documented cold stun events in Pamlico Sound, resulting in the closure of fishing for speckled trout statewide.
...If there's a species that may benefit from global warming, it could be North Carolina's speckled trout.
All of the questions and answers herein must be reproduced in full: otherwise none of my answers may be disseminated in any form, in whole or in part.Who do these kids think they are? | Zanesville Times Recorder
What's happening to kids? They don't seem to know their place any more. They keep showing up at public hearings and blabbing about what's right and wrong, as if they have a clue -- or a right.Shouldn't we carefully write down every one of her suggestions, then immediately implement all of them, since she cares about the future and no older person does?
It happened again last week when a 13-year-old girl had the audacity to give a PowerPoint presentation on global warming at a meeting of the Iowa Environmental Protection Commission. Naturally, she had to be put in her place.
The kid is Gloria Deia Filippone. She's the Iowa spokesperson for iMatter, Kids vs. Global Warming.
A combination of abnormal climatic phenomena resulted in the year being the hottest, wettest, and in many cases also the driest and coldest in recorded history, says Jeff Masters, co-founder of climate tracking website Weather Underground.WILIAM COLLINS: Pay attention to climate change, even if it’s bad for business- The Register Citizen
Well, the equivalent of a meteor is indeed streaking our way, but the press is mostly shrugging off the story. The cause of this impending cataclysm is hardly a secret — it’s climate change. But the media doesn’t want to talk about it or its potential to disrupt, or even destroy, life as we know it.WORLD Magazine | Storm warner | Daniel James Devine | Jul 16, 11
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Thus we observe remarkable behavior wherein television, newspapers, and radio report at great length on the world’s mounting natural disasters, but rarely ask, even rhetorically, whether warming could be part of the cause. They had better not. Jobs are at stake. Theirs.
...Astonishingly, these oil, coal, natural gas, power, and auto companies have been able to purchase the whole Republican Party and all of Fox News. That has helped suppress any serious questioning or action.
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OtherWords columnist William A. Collins is a former state representative and a former mayor of Norwalk.
Hurricane expert [Bill Gray] takes the American Meteorological Society to task on climate change | Daniel James DevineInteractive Map Reveals Effects Of Climate Change Near You | Fast Company
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The hurricane forecaster wrote that many AMS members, like him, believe global warming is a natural phenomenon driven by cyclical changes in deep ocean currents. "I anticipate that we are going to experience a modest, naturally driven global cooling over the next 15 to 20 years," he predicted.
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AMS policy director William H. Hooke told me in an email that the society's position on climate change was supported by scientific literature, and "no formal response to Dr. Gray's opinion piece is necessary."
A 2009 survey seems to back up Gray's opinion about the views of AMS members, though. In the survey, the AMS probed the views of TV weathercasters within its membership: Only 19 percent of respondents agreed that "global climate models are reliable in their projections for a warming of the planet." A full 50 percent disagreed with the statement, "Most of the warming since 1950 is very likely human-induced."
It's not just floods and fires. A new interactive map shows you all the insidious and sometimes invisible problems facing the planet, from food shortages to super poison ivy.“Question Authority” Back In Vogue
All those billions poured into brainwashing at schools could be quickly for nothing.1886 : US Hit By Seven Hurricanes | Real Science
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These things can spread like wildfire among the youth.
In 1886, the US was hit by seven hurricanes, including two major hurricanes.July 15, 1936 – “1,000 Perish on 12th Day of Hot Spell in Nation” | Real Science
Seven consecutive days of 100 degree heat in Michigan.
The $9 million project will raise the 2-mile-long road with nearly 5 feet of sand and dredge spoils to ensure it is passable during coastal storms and back-bay flooding, which is expected to grow worse with rising sea levels.Why Unions Should Reconsider Support for Tar Sands Oil Pipeline | Environment | AlterNet
The project is one of the first examples of Cape May County responding to the effects of global warming, officials said.
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Climate change is likely to spur similar expensive solutions in South Jersey, said Doug O’Malley, director of the nonprofit group Environment New Jersey.
“This is the first sign that Cape May County is in a terrible fix,” he said. “Looking at the science on climate change, a majority of our shore towns will face not only sea-level rise but also increasing storm surge in coming decades.”
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“The scary thing is we can’t engineer our way out of this crisis,” he said. “We need to solve the root of the problem with global-warming emissions.”
The Keystone XL pipeline is a key link in an energy path that will lead to devastation for American working families. Here's why.
We've all heard about global warming caused by the emission of carbon and other "greenhouse gases" into the atmosphere. Despite the claims of a political faction that it is a myth, there is a near-total consensus among climate scientists that it is real and that it will cause devastating climate change.
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Scientists calculate that the safe level for carbon in the atmosphere is 350 parts per millions. But we are already significantly over that level -- which is why we are already facing devastating climate change. Only by drastically limiting our carbon emissions can we limit still greater devastation.
The predicament we face if emissions go on rising along the "high" scenario envisaged by IPCC was put colourfully by one of its authors, Kevin Trenberth, of the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado yesterday.
"If you come back in 100 years, it will be like Star Trek. You could be on a different planet. You can move from Miami to New York, but polar bears and trees don't have anywhere to go to."
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott in an excellent speech yesterday shows what a gift a carbon tax is to a cash-hungry Big Government:The end of climate debate? - Bennington Banner
It seems increasingly likely that 2011 will go down as the year humans stopped debating global warming and climate change and started seriously doing something to reduce our role in it.
The extreme weather we’ve seen over the past decade or two -- intensifying, it appears, over the past couple of years -- should drive the skeptics into silence. That won’t, of course, as they’ve already shifted to the idea that, sure, the climate is changing, but humans have little or nothing to do with it.
Facts: Global surface temperature rose about three-fourths of a degree Celsius in the 20th century. U.S. corn yields quintupled. Life expectancy doubled. People got fat. Global warming didn’t cause all of this, but increased atmospheric carbon dioxide directly stimulated plant growth. Further, greenhouse warming takes place more in the winter, which lengthens growing seasons. With adequate water, plants then fix and yield more carbohydrate.Peter H. Gleick: Misuse of Food and Climate Data at Forbes
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I continue to be amazed at how little the facts are checked on global warming, even when writing for the so-called newspapers of record. Crop yields have increased at a constant rate despite changes in global temperature. Per capita grain production is going up, and stupid policies — not global warming — are putting people’s food security at risk.
From 1960 to 1980, global cereal yields grew an average of 2.5% per year, but from 1980 to 2010, they only grew 1.7% per year.
Now it turns out that climate change might be a reason for his illness.Climate debate deserves more than hysteria, fear and populism - National News
Oddly, denialists rarely refer to observed phenomena
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In Australia, the quality of public debate - Ross Garnaut, Will Steffen, David Karoly, Tim Flannery aside - has been deplorable
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W.B. Yeats was right: ''The best lack all conviction, while the worst/Are full of passionate intensity.'' (The Second Coming, 1919.)
Barry Jones was minister for science 1983-90 and is a Fellow of all four of Australia's learned academies.
The Ministry of Health is advising asthmatic patients not to engage in outdoor activities during the cold weather.
Ministry spokesperson Peni Namotu told FBC News – more asthmatic cases have been recorded at hospitals and people must carry their medicine with them at all times.
‘It is important for asthmatic patients to prepare themselves for medication and also their inhaler –also important for them to keep warm and not engaging themselves in outdoor activities.’
Trade in international pollution permits will be strictly limited under the Gillard Government's climate change package to prevent so-called "carbon cowboys" from scamming the multibillion-dollar scheme.
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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott, who yesterday blasted the Government's planned carbon tax as "socialism masquerading as environmentalism", said the possibility of the ETS being corrupted was great.
In light of the fact that several prominent Republican politicians have recently come out in support of the science behind anthropogenic global warming, it seems that the political currents may be turning in the right direction.[Chris Winter comment] Confirms ExxonMobil Funded Climate Deniers, But Change May Be Coming | The Intersection | Discover Magazine
However, depending on how you read it, the fact that Jim Inhofe bowed out of the Heartland Conference at the last minute may be a good sign. He said that he’s “under the weather” and couldn’t make the conference, where he was scheduled to give a keynoter.Whistling past the graveyard - Idiom Definition - UsingEnglish.com
If someone is whistling past the graveyard, they are trying to remain cheerful in difficult circumstances.
Weather on the ground was severe, it was 42 degrees below zero at McMurdo on Friday, and there were also minor local earthquakes, says Chief Master Sgt. Connie Hoffman. Thankfully temperatures weren't quite low enough to freeze the fuel in the plane, which can happen further inland in Antarctica, says Herndon.
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The weather was brutal, Herndon says. He spoke with the medical staff who told him " you couldn't imagine it, despite all the protective equipment they'd never felt anything like it."
Kunstler -- clearly an incurable contrarian -- likes Poughkeepsie. He lives in the Hudson Valley himself, in a far cuter but similarly sized town, and he predicts that such neither-village-nor-city places will one day be just right. "We'll see people moving to places that are scaled appropriately to our energy diet," he said -- towns small enough to walk across, but big enough to pool their resources for, say, a hydropower plant. And with good farmland on one side and a great big river on the other, Poughkeepsie is ideally placed for local food production and carbon-free transportation. "Towns like Poughkeepsie are at their nadir now," he conceded, "but they have a lot of virtues that are going to become apparent in the years ahead."
I don't necessarily buy Kunstler's vision of the future, but years of covering climate change have given me the chance to contemplate a lot of grim scenarios.
Wondering what the weather might be like this winter? Why not ask Warmist Jeff Masters of Weather Underground for a no-nonsense prognosis based on the science of man-made global warming?Only a sceptic needs a licence to comment | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
As Masters cautioned us in 2006, we should expect more “brown winters” characterised by a lack of snow. As he mournfully told his young nephew, snow is now pretty much a thing of the past, thanks to global warming
One rule for sceptics, another for warmists.Only a sceptic can’t say “fascist” | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Double standards for sceptics on the ABC.Quadrant Online - Ove's right, it speaks for itself
Did you know that academics get their name as authors on academic publications because they raised the research money? That’s what professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg said in a blog discussion with Marc Hendrickx.
Brilliant research! Everyone knows that the reason North Dakota is full of lush green rainforests is because of the very consistent rainfall they receive year after year. North Dakota rainforests are even more lush than those found in Arizona.Growing pain as food prices spike - Local News - News - General - The Canberra Times
Fruit and vegetable prices in the ACT have spiked to their highest levels in six years with recent floods and cold weather pushing the cost of cucumbers up to $15 a kilogram.Global Warming Hates The Fourth Of July | ThinkProgress
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Sydney Market Reporting Service owner and principal surveyor Chris Cope said wintry conditions had stunted the growth of many vegetables and delayed the ripening process. Cyclone Yasi and flooding in Queensland and other parts of the countries have also led to price rises.
''Cold air is being sucked up from the polar regions, it makes the ground cold and the plants stop producing..."
As fossil fuel pollution heats the planet, one of the casualties is the traditional celebration of the founding of the United States. The record droughts, floods, and storms fueled by global warming are causing widespread bans on fireworks and the cancellation of numerous municipal firework displays
Google, a leader of innovation in the digital economy, says that without a private and public focus on innovation in renewables, storage and electric vehicles, the cost of delaying the clean energy economy could be in the trillions of dollars to the U.S.
in the past two years, the IPCC has displayed a talent for manoeuvring itself into embarrassing situations, making itself an easy target for critics and climate sceptics.- Bishop Hill blog - Mooney unspun
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Greenpeace probably fights just as hard to promote its values as the fossil-fuel lobby does for its own interests. But in principle there is nothing wrong with asking experts from either side to contribute to the IPCC's reports — even though the reports represent a supposedly value-free extension of academic science. But by neglecting to ask the Greenpeace-linked author of the extreme scenario in question to disclose his affiliation and possible conflicts of interest openly and formally, the IPCC recklessly exposed itself to its critics.
Falkenblog looks at Chris Mooney's recent output and concludes that he doesn't understand standard errors:Airlines Claim to Support Climate Action While Opposing the Only Effective Policy to Cut Carbon Pollution | ThinkProgress[Mooney] concludes that 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing'. Yes, Mr. tendentious English major without an understanding of standard errors, it is.
Airlines have undertaken a massive public relations campaign to green their image. But when it comes down to actually addressing the carbon pollution to mitigate climate change, the industry has staunchly opposed any action.
Could the findings of Zhang et al. mean that the projections of "almost all state-of-the-art climate models" are just plain wrong? They sure could, for real-world observations always win out over theoretical projections if they differ; and so far, at least, that's what the observations are doing -- they're winning.Liberal states band together for carbon tax showdown with Julia Gillard | The Australian
JULIA Gillard is facing a carbon tax revolt from the Liberal states amid warnings of heavy job losses, unprecedented power price rises and a flight of capital as federal Labor grapples with its climate change agenda.
SELIGMANN: If there was a 1% chance (pause) that the plane you were getting into this morning (pause) to fly here (pause) was gonna crash (pause) would you get on that plane? (dramatic pause) The answer is always no.What if there's a 100% chance that the alarmists are wrong, a 99.99% chance that lots more CO2 and a few degrees of warming would be beneficial for life on Earth, and a 100% chance that wise fossil fuel use is crucial to lifting the world's poorest people from a life that can be nasty, brutish, and short? Do you take the risk of NOT wisely using plenty of fossil fuel resources?
ROSE: Right.
SELIGMANN: Okay. So let's assume that there's only a 20% chance that climate change science is right. (pause) Do you take the risk of not responding to it?
RUSH: You know, that's the argument these people have been using for decades.
...by the way, if there was a 1% chance that that plane you were getting into this morning was gonna fly here was gonna crash, would you get on it? People do every day. People get on every day. There is a percentage that an airplane is gonna crash, and people get on 'em every day. Make no mistake about it.
...Bierce’s saying was invoked this week at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Doha, Qatar, during a panel discussion on climate change, denialism, and communication. (Click here to watch a video of the session. [Note that almost every shot features at least one bottle of nice, refreshing bottled water.] The point was that we humans are pretty irrational beings (even if we think we’re not), which makes communicating science -- a highly rational process -- extremely difficult.
...Citing research by Yale University’s Dan Kahan, Vendantam said that polarization on the issue of climate change actually increases as members of the public become more scientifically literate -- a fact that flies in the face of reason. Kahan concludes that his research “shows that science journalists have one of the hardest jobs in the world.”
Needless to say, Vendantam won some points with his audience, a group of more than 700 science communicators from 80-plus countries.
We’ve been here in Doha discussing the most pressing challenges facing our profession and learning about some of the top-notch science taking place in this corner of the Arab world. At the top of the agenda: Communicating the threat of climate change and the ways that countries such as this one are trying to mitigate and adapt to it.
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Key questions for those of at the conference have been why there is still so much inaction on climate change -- by governments, by citizens, by everyone. Why are there still so many people who don’t accept the science of human-induced global warming in spite of the overwhelming evidence? What are we -- the people who are paid to translate the latest science for the general public -- doing wrong?
The answer, given emerging research on how our brains work, may be to appeal to emotion, to speak the language of feelings rather than facts. So the next time you get in an argument with someone over whether human-induced global warming is fact or fiction, or simply encounter someone who needs a wake-up call about the environment, remember that sometimes it's our hearts, not our brains, that actually do the thinking.
Advertising doesn't get much greener than this: Coca-Cola and the World Wildlife Fund have unveiled a new 60-by-60-foot billboard in the Philippines that's covered in Fukien tea plants, which absorb air pollution. Each plant can absorb up to 13 pounds of carbon dioxide a year. "This billboard helps alleviate air pollution within its proximate areas as it can absorb a total of 46,800 pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, on estimate," says botanist Anthony Gao.The Reference Frame: CO2 vs temperature: ice core correlation & lag
Imagine that you have a small bottle with 385 milliliters of Coke. It originally contained 4 volumes of carbon dioxide: if you extract carbon dioxide from one bottle of Coke to empty bottles at normal conditions, you will fill four bottles.
A SCANDALOUS campaign to shut down debate on global warming should tell you how dodgy is the warmists' science.The New Nostradamus of the North: The Inquisition is live and kicking - in Brussels
As can be seen, not so much has changed in Europe since the first Inquisition .....GLOZER: Corn-ethanol fiction - Washington Times
In the case of this heretic, the inquisitors did not actually have to work very hard in order to get him to repent.
The costs of ethanol policies are enormous, estimated at more than $500 billion to American consumers and taxpayers from 2008 to 2017...
Federal ethanol policy has been hugely successful at one thing: transferring wealth from food consumers and taxpayers to the corn and ethanol industries.
Heartland Institute communications director Jim Lakely said it's a “myth” that only skeptics are invited to the conference.
President of the Pacific Institute Peter Gleick, a scientist who supports the findings behind man-induced climate change, said he wouldn't consider attending.
"I go to many meetings as it is, and the interesting science is being done elsewhere," he said on a "pre-buttal" conference call hosted by the Center For American Progress. "This is not a science conference, it's a political conference. It's a way for a small community -- and I would argue a diminishing community -- to get together in a self-support kind of way. There is no science that's going to be discussed there that's new or that's interesting ... it's just not worth a real scientist's time."
When you look upon a global warming denialist, you are not seeing a person who is deluded, wrong, misinformed, or misguided. You are seeing a person who is intent on killing your grandchildren. You may want to treat them politely, you may want to be a dick to them. Do whatever works. But don't let them think for a second that you do not know what the consequences of their actions are. Don't let them get away with it.Greg Laden's Blog : About
I have a very fancy PhD from Harvard (written in Latin and everything) in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, as well as a Masters Degree in the same subjects (also from Harvard).
Cape Town (ABC Live):The Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), a partnership of five multilateral development banks, approved $444 million in grants and near-zero-interest loans to support Cambodia, Mozambique, Nepal, St. Lucia, and Zambia in their efforts toward national-level climate resilience.
Professor Molina won the Nobel Prize and is best known for his work in identifying the role of chloro-fluorocarbons in the destruction of the ozone layer.
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Turning back to the keynote address, Molina lamented on the poor job that scientists had seemingly done in conveying what is, in his view at least, a relatively simple and well understood physical phenomena governed by a set of known equations. In addressing the audience, he asked quite simply in his soft understated tone “What is it about Planck’s Law and the Boltzmann constant that is now in dispute?”.
On a January evening in New Haven, Connecticut, Discover teamed up with NBC, Citizen Science, Yale University, and the National Science Foundation to convene a town hall meeting on the implications of rising global temperatures. The frigid weather outside was not helping the cause. Just weeks earlier, record amounts of snow had buried the Northeast, leaving millions of people snowbound. Most climate researchers regard epic snowstorms as perfectly consistent with the predictions from their models: Warmer temperatures lead to wetter air, which in turn can lead to more snow...Should we tax carbon emissions? Push for radical efficiency standards? Is it possible to address global warming without harming the economy?Flashback: How Much Global Warming Are We Willing to Take?: Scientific American
Inside Yale’s Kroon Hall, four panelists tackled these questions from widely varying perspectives. Billy Parish cofounded the Energy Action Coalition, the world’s largest youth climate-advocacy organization. Linda Fisher is the chief sustainability officer at DuPont, which has increased profits by reducing its emissions and selling more environmentally friendly products. Rajendra Pachauri is chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007, and director of Yale’s Climate and Energy Institute. And Katharine Hayhoe, a professor of geosciences at Texas Tech University, is an evangelical Christian who addresses common misconceptions about climate change from a religious as well as scientific perspective. NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw moderated the event in front of an audience of college and high school students—people who will spend the next few decades living with the consequences of the policy decisions we make right now...
Hayhoe, for one, compares this report with a doctor's visit for Earth—the chronic disease being human-emitted carbon dioxide.
With climate change-induced disasters in mind, my wife Patty and I, along with Steve Izzo, traveled to Washington as the York contingent of Citizens Climate Lobby. There, we joined with other volunteers from the U.S. and Canada to ask our legislators to act on the science by moving toward clean, renewable energy sources now.World Climate Report » Extreme Precipitation Update
At the CCL conference, we heard from renowned climate scientist Dr. James Hansen, who explained how the release of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels is building up greenhouse gases and preventing more and more of the sun's energy from escaping the earth's atmosphere.
...Maybe when I return to Washington, I'll travel in an electric car charged with power made from wind, roll down my windows, listen to the quiet breeze, and breathe clean air. After last week, I can dare to dream again.
we’ll leave you with this incredible one sentence summary of an article by Laurens Bouwer in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society – a statement that still has us shaking our heads:“Lacking significant impact from anthropogenic warming so far, the best way to assess the potential influence of climate change on disaster losses may be to analyze future projections rather than historical data.”So we should disregard the lessons from past data on hail in China, extreme precipitation events in Hawaii, floods in southern Germany, or the historical occurences of other extreme weather, and instead turn to climate model projections for guidance? We can only hope that he is kidding.
LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Despite the objections of his neighbors, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has ordered city officials to proceed with a plan to erect a six-foot wall around the mayor’s mansion.StopGlobalWarming.org » Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa, Los Angeles
We can’t think about global warming as some far-away problem of melting polar ice caps, rising sea-levels, and distant hurricanes in remote places. It is OUR problem here in Los Angeles. This is a global problem with severe local repercussions. The time to act is NOW. Just as no family would watch its house burn down without rallying the community to fight the fire, we need to sound the alarm, join hands, and face this challenge together. We can’t afford to dither, delay, or declare defeat for another year. This is a crisis that we can and must meet.
The methodology is complex and highly mathematical. Climate change even rears its head:...the likelihood of Fourth of July rain has decreased over time ...OK, I won’t keep you in suspense any longer. Here are the key findings of the study:We find that days without rain on Fourth of July in childhood have lifelong effects. In particular, they shift adult views and behavior in favor of the Republicans and increase later-life political participation.
Sustainable biofuel costs significant more than regular jet fuel and is a premium that the airline industry cannot sustain today.Mark ready for ice adventure - Perthshire Advertiser
“A few years ago this would have been totally out of the question but more and more expanses of water are opening up in an area which was once iced-up even during the Arctic summer,” he declared.The Need for Public Ownership of the Carbon “Idea”
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“There are actually five Magnetic North Poles. Rowing to the North Pole itself is impossible.
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“We are not claiming it is scientific but obviously that will be part of the message in the BBC documentary..."
Where an “idea”—or put another way, a theory—has such a profound life-changing price tag, those being asked to pay for it need to “take ownership” when it comes to government policies.
the U.S. had its coldest winter in 25 years. A series of remarkable snow storms pounded the Eastern U.S., with the "Snowmageddon" blizzard dumping more than two feet of snow on Baltimore and Philadelphia. Western Europe also experienced unusually cold and snowy conditions, with the UK recording its 8th coldest January. A highly extreme negative phase of the NAO and AO returned again during November 2010, and lasted into January 2011. Exceptionally cold and snowy conditions hit much of Western Europe and the Eastern U.S. again in the winter of 2010 - 2011. During these two extreme winters, New York City recorded three of its top-ten snowstorms since 1869, and Philadelphia recorded four of its top-ten snowstorms since 1884.
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The pace of extreme weather events has remained remarkably high during 2011, giving rise to the question--is the "Global Weirding" of 2010 and 2011 the new normal? Has human-caused climate change destabilized the climate, bringing these extreme, unprecedented weather events? Any one of the extreme weather events of 2010 or 2011 could have occurred naturally sometime during the past 1,000 years. But it is highly improbable that the remarkable extreme weather events of 2010 and 2011 could have all happened in such a short period of time without some powerful climate-altering force at work. The best science we have right now maintains that human-caused emissions of heat-trapping gases like CO2 are the most likely cause of such a climate-altering force.
METALS giant Nyrstar has demanded it be shielded from Julia Gillard's proposed carbon tax as key executives criticised the government's consultation with industry on compensation as lip-service.John O'Sullivan: Shock News: Disgraced Climategate Scientist Made Top UN Weatherman | Climate Realists
Matt Howell, Nyrstar's Zurich-based general manager of group smelting operations, yesterday said if the Gillard government did not provide a serious commitment to protect the company's Australian operations under a carbon tax, then its two smelters in South Australia and Tasmania that employ 1500 people would close.
In a shock move a discredited global warming scientist implicated in climate fraud is appointed to a top job at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Jim Salinger, one of the scientists suspected of criminal misconduct in the Climategate scandal has been elected to the prestigious role of President of the Commission for Agricultural Meteorology of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Climate skeptics are aghast at the news.
June 30: Author Christian Parenti explains whether the environment is to blame for the political and economic unrest in the world.The Onion - America's Finest News Source
He went on to explain that the new F1 vision was designed to chime with the efforts of modern car makers in world of climate change, diminishing oil supplies and rising fuel prices.2009: Greenwash: Formula 1 failing miserably to keep its green promises, writes Fred Pearce | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Back in 2006, the president of Formula 1's governing body, Max Mosley, promised a "green overhaul" for the sport. The new rules requiring green technology would be rolled out in time for 2009, he said.
Two years ago this week, he announced that the new rules would be voluntary until 2011. Last year, it emerged the final roll-out would not take place until 2013.
Max is trying, but the big teams are resisting. Meanwhile the planet warms.
...Motor racing gobbles carbon just as it gobbles cash.
A formula 1 car emits about 1.5kg of CO2 for every kilometre it drives, about nine times that of a family car. And that's just the start, as its huge teams of mechanics, drivers and their kit and hangers-on tour the globe through the summer.
In total, Greenpeace found Exxon has reduced its donations to such groups from a peak of $3.4 million in 2005 to less than $800,000 for 2010. “Without giving them any credit, it does make a big difference,” Mr. Davies said.Global warning: Scientists claim extreme weather and climate change are linked | Mail Online
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Mr. Davies said he would still like Exxon to acknowledge the damage that Greenpeace contends the company has done. “It is like leaving a room without ever saying they are sorry,” he said.
The controversial U-turn [If the science is settled, are U-turns allowed?] is a radical departure from the previous standpoint and was made by a new international alliance of climate researchers from around the world.Panama to host U.N. climate talks in October | Reuters
(Reuters) - The last round of U.N. climate talks before an annual summit in South Africa this year will be held in Panama, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change said on its website. The inter-sessional meeting, which will be held in Panama City from October 1 to 7, will be another opportunity for countries to make progress on a global climate change deal.
However, it looks like the world will again fall short of a full climate deal this year [Ya think?] in Durban, South Africa, after two past attempts.
The Baylor study found that drought conditions make some chemicals in the environment more toxic to fish and other aquatic life. Specifically, the study found that drought conditions exacerbate the magnitudes of the natural pH shifts in the water. This is important, the researchers said, because some contaminants in the water, such as ammonia, are more toxic to aquatic life depending on the pH level.YouTube: Chain of Fools
Obama mentioned corporate jets or corporate-jet owners six times on Wednesday during a press conference, sparking outrage among hard-core conservatives who accused him of engaging in “class warfare” or worse.Fading public support spells doom for carbon tax | The Australian
The next federal election will inevitably be a referendum on an uncovenanted carbon tax that in three short years will morph into the world's first economy-wide ETS.Oxford academic wins right to read UEA climate data | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Jonathan Jones, physics professor at Oxford University and self-confessed "climate change agnostic", used freedom of information law to demand the data that is the life's work of the head of the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, Phil Jones. UEA resisted the requests to disclose the data, but this week it was compelled to do so.
Graham gave the UEA one month to deliver the data, which includes more than 4m individual thermometer readings taken from 4,000 weather stations over the past 160 years. The commissioner's office said this was his first ruling on demands for climate data made in the wake of the climategate affair.
in the end, the majority of governors voted to delete the term climate change from that resolution.And I thought Chris Huhne trained as an economist?
The second reason to choose the low-carbon path is self-evident: it is more resource efficient.No it isn’t you gargantually stupid onanist. It is “more expensive”. More expensive is a way of measuring “greater resource use”. We pay 46p per unit of solar PV ‘leccie, 9 p for coal derived. Thus each unit of solar energy uses 35 p more in resources than each unit of coal derived. Shit, this isn’t economics even, this is just accounting!
That’s right, the process of “global weirding” could be seen in the dramatic fall in the number of cyclones. Global warming, you see, leads to more cyclones. And fewer cyclones. It depends on what’s happening at the time. All part of “global weirding”.At Denier Conference, Heartland Institute President Claims “Fossil Fuel Dependency” is “Not a Problem” | ThinkProgress
The ICCC is the Woodstock of climate change denial. (That is, if Woodstock were held in a windowless hotel ballroom with a couple hundred people — mostly caucasian men over the age of 65.)“the Melting and Breakdown of Polar Ice Sheets Seems to Be in the Vicinity of a Couple of Degrees Warming” | ThinkProgress
That leaves, somewhat optimistically, perhaps a degree or so of wiggle room.
I just finished listening in on the Center for American Progress press call titled, “Climate Deniers Congregate in the Nation’s Capital.” The press call’s explicit purpose was to criticize the Heartland Institute’s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, taking place tomorrow and Friday in Washington, DC. The presenters were Center for American Progress senior fellow Joe Rom, former Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, and scientist/global warming activist Peter Gleick.
The press call was surreal, for many reasons. Here are a few quick highlights (or, more accurately, lowlights):
+ Last week I had received an email from the Center for American Progress announcing the press call and inviting me to participate... Either way, they sure didn’t allow me to ask a question, like they allowed everybody else to do.
+ Joe Romm began the call by extensively bemoaning those “who attack and harass climate scientists.” Later, he criticized those who would “kill the messenger” rather than discuss the scientific facts. Yet before the call was over, Romm repeatedly and personally attacked the scientists speaking at the Heartland Institute conference, including calling them purveyors of “astrology” and “flat earth conspiracy stuff.”
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+ In the course of asking Romm a question, a reporter from Bloomberg referred to the Heartland Conference as a “denial fest.” And the media wonder why polls show the American people no longer trust the media to be objective or accurate.
Poland's EU budget commissioner has been forced to recant after he claimed climate change was exaggerated and argued that overambitious EU CO2 emissions targets would hurt his country's economy.
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Green campaign groups and an alliance of MEPs described the commissioner's comments as "terrifying" because, it was claimed he was seeking to "deny the overwhelming evidence of climate change".
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Martin Callanan MEP, the leader of the European Conservatives, who does not dispute climate change, said he was accused of "denial" too after speaking out against higher CO2 targets.
"Any dissenting voice is treated as equivalent to Holocaust denial. To compare not supporting an EU policy to the extermination of six million Jews is crazy and offensive," he said. "Climate change, wherever you stand, is a legitimate subject of debate."
at Climate Corps, that means getting down to the nitty-gritty. The summer program embeds MBA students, called Climate Corps fellows, at major corporations, where they ferret out opportunities for increasing energy efficiency.
“Nothing to do with [Monckton's] views,” says Kuehner, before confirming the cancellation was indeed “about comments he made”. Says “we support freedom of speech” while showing no support for it. Wavers between claiming he knows the 100-odd complaints were from members, and conceding he may have been had by phone-in Leftist frauds.Die Klimazwiebel: Extreme weather link 'can no longer be ignored'
Is the link between more extreme weather and AGW becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy?Wildebeest Move To Higher Ground In Greenland | Real Science
With summer setting in along the coast, where temperatures have gotten as high as 5C recently – the Wildebeest herds have moved up to higher “ground” where mid-summer temperatures are a more pleasant minus thirteen degrees this fine July afternoon.
There are growing concerns that the European Commission is either unwilling or unable to support a robust carbon market – risking low and volatile carbon prices, or at worse the complete collapse of the market.EUobserver - Coal-friendly Poland: a bad climate leader for the EU
inside the largest of the new member states, scepticism towards climate change science and defiance of the EU climate and energy package has predominated in governmental and mainstream media discourses for months.MP Martin Callanan dismisses green revolt talk - Business News - News - nebusiness.co.uk
NORTH-EAST Euro MP Martin Callanan has dismissed reports suggesting he is at loggerheads with the Prime Minister over moves to toughen climate change targets.More Science Journalists, Fewer Science Supporters
The reports suggested UK MEPs were preparing to revolt against the Government after David Cameron and Energy Secretary Chris Huhne urged Brussels to increase the 2020 EU target for cutting emissions from 20% to 30%.
But Mr Callanan said he was behind the move - as long as the target applied to all countries, not just those within the EU.
Science and journalism is needed. Both. One should get the science right but it is not journalism if you reflect only one side of an argument, no matter how strong, or how much of a consensus there may be. It might be unpopular to say, and may be alien to some scientists, but journalism in a democracy in a free society is more precious than science. Whatever one’s stance one should criticise, highlight errors, make a counterbalancing case if it will stand up, but don’t censor, even by elimination, because if that is done, we risk losing something far more precious than science. Journalists should portray where the weight of evidence lies. But that is the least they should do. Journalism is more, and some in the BBC still remember that.
Meanwhile, Ms Gillard was forced to retreat from her suggestion that only Mr Abbott was calling the initial fixed carbon price a tax.PM - Anti-carbon tax: focus on real Australians 01/07/2011
The prime minister admitted on Friday it was indeed a 'carbon tax' but she insisted it would only be a temporary measure before the ETS kicked in.
STEPHEN LONG: So what could an anti-carbon tax ad campaign look like? Advertising experts say the spin should target concerns about jobs and the cost of living and the campaign should avoid using celebrities.Terrified of Monckton! GetUP don’t want anyone to hear him speak « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
They are desperate! They know they have no answer to what Monckton has to say, and that Monckton convinces people everywhere he goes, so their only option is smears, slurs and banning him. We don’t ask to silence them. We know if people hear both sides of the story they’ll make up their own minds, and we look forward to that happening.
Their plan will backfire, and could prove a media bonanza for us
As a scientist, I have a duty to warn you about what is happening to the Earth’s climate. What is happening is that the world has entered a sharp cooling phase. Growing conditions will shrink three hundred kilometres towards the equator by the end of the decade. There will be a major reduction in agricultural productivity in the mid-latitudes. The Canadian wheat crop will be wiped out.THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Despite a marked increase in California grape production, alarmist study predicts collapse of wine industry
A study released today from Stanford University, aka Global Warming Central, claims the California wine industry will collapse due to global warming, despite the marked increase in California grape production of approximately 400% along the North Coast, 2500% along the Central Coast, 1500% in the Central Valley, and 800% in the Southern Valley of California over the past 30 years of global warming.Lord Reay: The Climate Change Act Should Be Repealed
The Climate Change Act should be repealed, its panoply of carbon budgets abandoned, all the agencies such as the climate change committee which drips its advice into the Government's ear sent packing, and a chance given to our economy to resurrect itself. Otherwise we have a grim and, very likely, a dim future.Global Maritime Carbon Deal Dead In The Water
EU officials believe that a global deal to cut maritime carbon emissions is currently unachievable and are instead talking up an initiative by the Bahamas to regulate the world's shipping fleets as an alternative.
Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved? Is it time to take to the streets, express some outrage, maybe engage in a little guerilla warfare against Big Oil and Big Coal?The Associated Press: Wacky West weather means snow on the 4th of July
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This question of how far to take the fight to stop global warming has haunted activists for years. But now that more conventional solutions, such as a global treaty to cut greenhouse-gas pollution, are dead, the issue is more pressing than ever. As the crisis grows, the temptation to turn up the volume with more dramatic and attention-grabbing protests will only increase. Climate activists often speculate about who will emerge as the Martin Luther King of the climate movement. But it may be equally relevant to ask who will emerge as the Malcolm X.
Ski poles are replacing fishing poles at popular hiking and camping spots where late-winter snowstorms blanketed Western mountains from the Rockies to the Sierra Nevada.New York City’s massive solar opportunity | Grist
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California's Alpine Meadows will be open Independence Day weekend for the first time since 1995, and for just the second time in its 50-year history, said spokeswoman Rachael Woods.
The cumulative impact is enormous, with city rooftops capable of providing half the city's peak power, and 14 percent of its annual electricity consumption.
The city should immediately maximize solar power development to save millions in electricity costs. [And what about the potential to immediately save *billions* by requiring city employees to wear hats topped with small wind turbines?]
[noted environmentalist R K Pachauri] said his organisation TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute) today inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Madhya Pradesh Government on climate change.
Marc Marano [sic], a former staffer to Sen. James Inhofe (Washington's climate change skeptic-in-chief) and editor of Climate Depot, a popular climate change skeptic blog, kicked off the 2012 talk at a panel called "Public Policy Realities" at the Heartland Conference Thursday.Rick Perry Gets in the Race* - Joshua Green - Politics - The Atlantic
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"People always say 'Chris Christie! Chris Christie!'" Murano [sic] said. "On energy policy all he talks about is banning coal and putting offshore windmills in New Jersey. He couldn't be more clueless when it comes to climate and energy. Another very dangerous man when it comes to this issue."
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After his talk, he told TPM that he's a Perry man.
if I'm reading this right, the claim is that Perry's denial of global warming is what compelled him to join the race. *Sigh* It's going to be a long summer.Friedman: World still flat and America still sinking | Aspen Daily News Online
He argued that America’s loss of exceptionalism has resulted from an inability to adapt to the tech revolution, to globalization, to debt and deficit issues, and to climate change initiatives.
Snow 50 feet deep still buries the road to Artist Point at Mount Baker and that will keep the upper portion of the road closed all summer.
"We found snow 50-plus feet deep near the upper parking lot," said Theo Donk, state Department of Transportation (WSDOT) supervisor, who made a trek to Artist Point on Wednesday. "This is the deepest snow I've seen since the world-record year 1999, when the highway didn't open for the summer."
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"The restroom in the upper parking lot is nowhere to be seen," Donk said. "Normally the roof is peeking through the snow at this time. We couldn't even reach it with a snow-depth pole."
Only 300 viewers of the #ICCC6 live stream. Not exactly a groundswell. @grist @drgrist @jlakely @HeartlandInstYouTube - SAVE OUR PLANET - Climate change conference held in Germany
[4 views as of 6am US Central Time 7/1/11; uploaded 6/27/11]Twitter / @workshoptalk: RT @EthanNuss Any surprise ...
RT @EthanNuss Any surprise that 99% of speakers at #climate denier conference #ICCC6 are old white guys?Twitter / @ClimateMajority: @jlakely Are there any sci ...
@jlakely Are there any scientists at #ICCC6 to interview?Twitter / @ClimateMajority: Want to take on ridiculous ...
Want to take on ridiculous climate deniers like @wattsupwiththat? Join us at ClimateFail.com, brand new and accepting guest posts.The Climate Fail Blog | [This "brand new" blog currently consists of two posts from Jan. 2011, then one from June 2011]
temporary snowfall is useless and anecdotal evidence. Present me with a photograph every day for the 40 years and we’ll talk.
This video is the work of http://www.kilezmore.com/ The rapper in the video tells us that warmist climate science is a hoax, is all about money and control, and that the science is cooked up at the CRU and other institutes. I don’t know who is behind the video – could even be some renegade fringe types, who knows.Offended Warmist Reacts Swiftly To Skeptic Rap Video – Predictably Labels Rap Artist “Sick”
So are the youth turning against the Great Hoax? Looks that way.
I took a shot at translating the German lyrics in English below.
[caption] Warmist and CDU pol Reinboth likens skeptic rap artist as a Jew-hater?- Bishop Hill blog - Conflict of interest
Perhaps George would like to consider a joint call (a) for the IPCC to activate its COI policy for all AR5 working groups with immediate effect and (b) for climate journals to require disclosure of conflicts of interest in the way that medical journals do. I'll write and ask him.
Where there is discord, may we bring harmony...
He is in no way an objective researcher, as proved by Greenpeace's investigation showing his opposition to the findings of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCCFlashback: Massive climate funding exposed « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
In total, over the last 20 years, by the end of fiscal year 2009, the US government will have poured in $32 billion for climate research—and another $36 billion for development of climate-related technologies. These are actual dollars, obtained from government reports, and not adjusted for inflation. It does not include funding from other governments. The real total can only grow.“Limits to Growth” – Here’s What You Never Hear About It – And The Truth. | hauntingthelibrary
That’s right – even the Club that commissioned the study did not accept its findings, in particular its gloomy, Malthusian tone. King happily agrees that “criticism concerning lack of appreciation of technological change, the power of the market and the degree of aggregation were, of course, valid” (p.339).
But don’t expect to hear the truth about Limits to Growth anytime soon. The fictional version of it is so much simpler and more useful than the reality behind it.
And 10 minutes later, after the building was inspected by the Secret Service, the motorcade arrived.
Cardullo, 33, estimates that Obama was traveling with 200 people.
Scientists are to end their 20-year reluctance to link climate change with extreme weather – the heavy storms, floods and droughts which often fill news bulletins – as part of a radical departure from a previous equivocal position that many now see as increasingly untenable.
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Climate researchers from Britain, the United States and other parts of the world have formed a new international alliance that aims to investigate exceptional weather events to see whether they can be attributable to global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
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[Warmist Kevin Trenberth] “We have this extra water vapour lurking around waiting for storms to develop and then there is more moisture as well as heat that is available for these storms [to form]. The models suggest it is going to get drier in the subtropics, wetter in the monsoon trough and wetter at higher latitudes. This is the pattern we're already seeing.”
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“There is strong evidence if you look across the world that we are seeing an increase in heatwaves and floods and droughts and extreme rainfall and extreme temperatures,” Dr Stott said.
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[Trenberth] “It’s not so much the instantaneous result of the greenhouse effect, it’s the memory of the system and the main memory is in the oceans and the oceans have warmed up substantially, at depth, and we can measure that. I will assert that every event has been changed by climate change and the main time we perceive it is when we find ourselves outside the realms of the previous natural variability, and because natural variability is so large this is why we don't notice it most of the time.
“When we have things that occur usually 4 per cent of the time start to occur 10 per cent of the time, that’s when we begin to notice. The main way we perceive climate change is in changes in the extremes? this is when we break records.”
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Floods, USA, 2005 Katrina was one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the US, and it caused the destruction of New Orleans when levees were overwhelmed.
...61 percent say the summers are cooler and highly variable, with a few very hot days that burn and kill the grasses.
...82 percent say the rains are cold...And 63 percent of herders said something similar to this: “When we were kids we had gentle, warm shivree rains, lasting two to three days, and we could go out barefoot, without shirts, and play in the rain. Now it is too cold and kids do not like to go out in the rain.”
Other audience members who spoke outside described Lord Monckton as "pompous" and "crazy", while his arguments contained "glaring holes". [What glaring holes, specifically?]Why do warmists run from debate? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
About half of the 200 attendees were climate change believers, they said.
"There was a lot of head-shaking and disagreeing kind of noises from the crowd," law student Laura Cassie said.
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WA Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, who is preparing to vote on the government's proposed Carbon Tax Bill later this year, described Lord Monckton's arguments as simplistic and lacking credibility.
"His prescription is basically to let the ship smash into the iceberg and then come what may, we'll think about lifeboats later," Senator Ludlam said.
"He's professing the most extraordinary scientific conspiracy ... I think it's beyond belief that this many smart people would collude in this extraordinary conspiracy against the truth."
The warmists’ strategy is two-fold: first, to deny there’s a debate by refusing to actually have one; and, second, to avoid subjecting their ludicrous claims to scrutiny by the informed.
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This fear of debate should tell you everything about the warmists and their theory. But give credit to those few that do dare meet their critics.
A conservative online news site is suing the Defense Department in an effort to gain access to the travel records of U.S. officials who went to Copenhagen in 2009 to attend international climate talks.Ridd: fund the sceptics to test the warmists’ claims | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Republicans and conservative groups have blasted the 2009 United Nations climate negotiations as a failure and criticized President Obama and other U.S. officials for attending the talks, arguing the trip was a waste of taxpayer money. The 2009 talks in Copenhagen ended with a voluntary nonbinding accord that many activists called too weak.
Physicist Professor Peter Ridd, long a foe of the alarmists predicfting the reef’s imminent doom, is appalled by the closing of the scientific mind. He writes to the Chief ScientistStanford University Could Be Turning Out More Useless Research Than Ever | Real Science
Summer temperatures in California are almost as hot as they were 120 years ago.
AMES, Iowa - The prospect of rising temperatures in Iowa and the Midwest is predicted to lead to a dramatic decline in corn yield. With a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Iowa State University researchers are looking to develop a corn variety that maintains the region's high yields even as temperatures rise.
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Yield losses of up to 40 percent are projected in tropical and subtropical areas by the end of the 21st century.
Polar Bear ProtectionQuadrant Online - The Greens bought to book
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As I’ve said here before, it’s inevitable that environmental lawyers engaged in the fight over greenhouse gases will use whatever statutes they think help their case (and whatever public relations stunts, including dressing up as a bear at climate negotiations).
The Greens’ policies would have catastrophic, unintended consequences for this country. They would threaten its prosperity, diminish individual human rights, decrease its tolerance and harmony, and make us less secure. Worse, and this is the biggest irony, the Greens’ policies would actually damage our environment.
The tragedy is that it is precisely the “good intentions” of the Greens that draws so many people to them and to vote for them. The result, if this group with its ill-thought out policies ever gets its way, will be a disastrous return to a new primitivisation.
Two short years later, the climate skeptics gathering that kicked off this morning at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park hotel had the air of a victory lap.Romm – Man Made CO2 Equals 36.5 Billion Nuclear Bombs Per Century | Real Science
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Patrick Michaels, a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute and self-described "luke-warmer," said that while human activity is having an effect on the climate, the change is modest and easily adaptable.
Michaels said scientists are encouraged to spice up their research about the extent to which human emissions are endangering the climate in order to secure academic positions and grant money.
"There is very little incentive for anyone to delay or derail that gravy train," Michaels said.
And they said that only 100 bombs could wipe out civilisation!Cuomo Clarifies Fracking and Nuclear Plans - NYTimes.com
New York State Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s energy plans for the state are crystallizing. Through administrative moves, he has indicated that he sees the need to responsibly exploit the state’s enormous gas resource while moving toward ending nuclear power generation near New York City and its suburbs.The Blackboard » La Nina Double Dip?
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In a text statement, Joseph Martens, the commissioner of the environmental agency, saidThis report strikes the right balance between protecting our environment, watersheds, and drinking water and promoting economic development.I think he’s right
I don’t check the ENSO forecasts each week. I was a bit surprised to see the current forecast is for neutral conditions to continue and then be followed by… La Nina
few of us have any useful reference frame for comparisonBye-Polar Disorder: Judge Upholds ‘Threatened’ Listing for Polar Bear, Leaving It on Road to Extinction | ThinkProgress
it is extremely likely the Arctic will be virtually ice free in the summer within about two decades, and it wouldn’t be surprising if it happened within one.James Inhofe: Al Gore Is Right, Obama's Bailed On Talking About The Environment | TPMDC
...Ursus maritimus as a whole will be irreversibly doomed.
As for Obama, Inhofe said that the president is feeling the shift away from global warming support as well. The American people don't want to hear about global warming anymore, Inhofe says, and Obama is obliging them.
AN ALLIANCE of some of the nation's biggest industry organisations is preparing to spend millions of dollars on a campaign to destroy the Gillard government's plans to put a price on carbon.Australia headed for disaster: Monckton
Controversial climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton says Australia will be tossed into the Third World if it succumbs to what he calls the federal government's socialist agenda.$4 billion to buy nothing but trouble | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Just Hazelwood and the Greens renewable fund would cost us $4 billion, leave us with more expensive and unreliable power, put thousands of jobs at risk, and make zero difference to the world’s climate.
Barking mad.
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