Many Australians to be better off under tax deal: Gillard | The Australian

According to a recent Newspoll, just 30 per cent of people support the tax.

“The presumption in the Newspoll that the majority of Australians don't want action on climate change will change,” Senator Brown told reporters in Brisbane yesterday.

Ms Gillard warned the government would not be cowed by opposition to the tax and accused the Coalition of “lies and distortion” and “attacks on our economists and scientists.

“After all that, I simply say to our opponents: is that the best you can do,” she said.

“Because if you think that's enough to knock us off course, you've got another think coming.”

Montana ultra-marathon race cancelled due to snow | Great Falls Tribune | greatfallstribune.com

MISSOULA — The race director of a 100-mile ultra-marathon foot race through the Flathead National Forest has cancelled the event due to lingering snow on the route that he says would make the course too dangerous for runners and likely prevent anyone from finishing within the required 36-hour limit.

Author James Delingpole Speaks on Global Warming Debate

Unfortunately, dialogue on the issue remains littered with exaggeration and misrepresentation. “One of the great propaganda victories that has been scored by the green movement has been to portray this world as having two kinds of people: on the one hand you have the caring sharing bunny hugging types, members of Greenpeace who care about nature; and on the other hand you have evil capitalists with big fat cigars in their mouth and dollar signs on their pinstripe suits.” With a dialogue like this, it makes reasonable debate and compromise an increasingly unlikely proposition. As Delingpole points out, the evidence is inconclusive as to whether climate change is actually caused by man or if subtle climate change is even a problem. But these types of open discussions can only occur when fear and propaganda are taken out of the equation. “What my book is really about is a plea for a more rational discourse about the environment.”

Climate change: Gillard or Abbott | thetelegraph.com.au

[Piers Akerman] The carbon dioxide tax has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with raising an extra $11 billion in revenue.

The tax is not a reform, it is economic suicide.

Sage advice from a tree hugger: To prevent bad weather, turn off your computer at night; it it's off, this'll also help the network administrator to back up your files and upgrade the software

30-Day Guide to a Smaller Carbon Footprint - Lavanya Sunkara - Open Salon

8. Switch Off- Turn off your computer at work. No need for the system to be using up energy while you are out of the office. Besides, the network administrators back up files and/or make software upgrades over the network at night that you wouldn’t want to miss out on.

Lavanya Sunkara

I am a writer, avid reader, mother of a beautiful adopted dog, world traveler, animal lover and a proud tree hugger.

House GOP set to repeal incandescent bulb ban

Come Monday, Americans may be one step closer to having absolute freedom in their light source choices.

Green tax in pocket, the Government spends, spends, spends | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

So huge sources of carbon dioxide such as farming, petrol and many heavy vehicles are excluded. Big emitters get compensated. Lots of people are given more money to buy more stuff, like electricity.

Something doesn’t compute, if this really is about stopping apocalyptic global warming.

The Phoenix dust storm shows that, whatever the weather, it's always 'climate change' - Telegraph

One of the more touching features of our global warming zealots is their remarkable ignorance of history. As their religion crumbles, they clutch ever more desperately at any “extreme weather event” to support their sad creed. Hot or cold, dry or wet, droughts, heatwaves, floods or record falls of snow are all inevitably cited as evidence of mankind’s “disruption of the climate” – even if cussed old Mother Nature has produced such things hundreds of times before.

Does The Sea Surface Temperature Record Support The Hypothesis Of Anthropogenic Global Warming? | Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations

THE ONE-WORD ANSWER TO THE TITLE QUESTION IS NO.

US Precipitation Shows No Correlation With Temperature | Real Science

This is the entire NCDC annual data set for the US, going back to 1895. People claiming that warmer temperatures bring more precipitation are simply not telling the truth.

Cryosat2 Needs Adjustment | Real Science

Last year people kept telling me that PIPS is evil and Cryosat2 will prove it. Now that we have Cryosat2 data which makes PIPS look conservative, alarmists are complaining that Cryosat2 is also evil.

University of Arizona-led research sounds alarm on rising sea levels

An ice cube in a cup of warm water will disappear in just a few minutes.

The Reference Frame: Climate "scientists": 95 percent of people fry to death at 20 °C

However, if the planet were warmer by 5 °C, just imagine this nonsense for the sake of it, we could notice the difference but we would surely see no substantial death rate. In fact, that's about the point at which the warm-weather-related deaths would match the cold-weather-related deaths. At this point, the number of temperature-related deaths would probably be minimized. That's not a shocking insight - after all, 20 °C is the temperature we like in our living rooms - I actually favor 23 °C but it is not far - so if this is also chosen to be the global mean temperature, the planet will surely become more comfortable than it is now.

Climate Change Dispatch - CO2 Levels Pre-Industrial Revolution

The average level till the late 1880’s was about 400 ppma, far above the claimed 270 ppma.

EPA’s Cap-and-Trade for State Pollution Risks Court Challenge - Bloomberg

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-08/epa-s-cap-and-trade-for-state-pollution-risks-court-challenge.html

The EPA said the regulation will help lead to as much as $280 billion in annual health benefits

This Week in Climate News | Power Line

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/07/this-week-in-climate-news.php

Good grief, where to start with the weekly climate follies?  

The Climate Wars Myth

http://www.twq.com/11summer/index.cfm?id=441

History shows that "warm" periods are more peaceful than "cold" ones. In the modern era, the evolution of the climate is not an essential factor to explain collective violence. Nothing indicates that "water wars" or floods of "climate refugees" are on the horizon. And to claim that climate change may have an impact on security is to state the obvious—but it does not make it meaningful for defense and security planning.

Motives for communicating climate science

http://judithcurry.com/2011/07/09/motives-for-communicating-climate-science/

A lot of this conversation is about finding ways to get people to believe in climate change, and care about it enough to help promote change and progress and solutions

Great moments in scientific consensus | Pundit Review

The idea that the science is settled on something as dynamic as the earth’s environment simply defies rational thought. It is a leap of faith, putting facts aside in favor of beliefs, much like the people who deny evolution. How ironic. The true believers, the Gorebot crowd that wants to “restore science to its rightful place” is actually deeply anti-science.

Friday Funny- Gavin Schmidt on: Polar Bears, Martha Stewart, and Me | Watts Up With That?

It features a talk by NASA GISS warmist Gavin Schmidt, who apparently took a trip to understand that all important metric of the Arctic climate; polar bears. A video of his talk follows. Apparently, Martha Stewart came along for the ride and made a festive thermometer cozy for Gavin.

Warmist Kevin Anderson: "I think it’s extremely unlikely that we wouldn’t have mass death at 4 degrees"

Too hot to handle: can we afford a 4-degree rise? - National News - National - Environment - Maribyrnong Weekly

A conference in Melbourne next week featuring a who’s who of climate scientists will explore what warming of 4 degrees or more means, including for Australia. Apocalyptic is the only word for it, and understanding the implications is equally important for policymakers, business and the community. Keynote speaker Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, director of the Potsdam Institute and climate adviser to the German Chancellor and to the EU, has said that in a 4-degree warmer world, the population “carrying capacity estimates [are] below 1billion people”.

Professor Kevin Anderson, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change in Britain, was quoted in The Scotsman ahead of the 2009 Copenhagen conference saying the consequences were ‘‘terrifying’’.

‘‘For humanity it’s a matter of life or death ... we will not make all human beings extinct, as a few people with the right sort of resources may put themselves in the right parts of the world and survive. But I think it’s extremely unlikely that we wouldn’t have mass death at 4 degrees.

‘‘If you have got a population of 9 billion by 2050 and you hit 4 degrees, 5 degrees or 6 degrees, you might have half a billion people surviving.’’

Australian climate scientist Professor David Karoly, alongside Melbourne University and CSIRO colleagues, will give a paper next week on likely changes to our climate in a 4-degree scenario. He has warned that ‘‘we are unleashing hell on Australia’’, but says he can’t answer questions about Australia’s likely carrying capacity, which depends on variables such as future willingness to pay, lifestyle and innovation. The hotter it gets, ‘‘it just gets harder and harder to support more people’’.
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‘‘The Brisbane floods will bevery little compared to a 7-metre sea level rise,’’ Karoly says. Tourist attractions? The Great Barrier Reef will die. There will be no skiing industry in Australia — he says any snow will ‘‘fall and melt’’.
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Three degrees may be the ‘‘tipping point’’, leaving us powerless to intervene as planetary temperatures soar and, quoting NASA climate scientist James Hansen, there will be ‘‘no return within the lifetime of any generation that can be imagined, and the trip will exterminate a large fraction of species on the planet’’. Half the world would be uninhabitable. Ocean ecosystems and food chains would collapse.

Shrimp season starts strong despite delay - Local - TheSunNews.com

It was extra cold. It was especially mean. For 31 days, starting in mid-December, water temperatures were at or below 47 degrees, cold enough to kill the white shrimp. And it did.

She knew the harsh winter was the reason the commercial shrimp trawling season, which usually opens in late May or early June, was delayed until June 22. The opening date has not been this late since 2001, which was preceded by a similar chilly winter, said Brett Witt, a S.C. Department of Natural Resources spokesman based in Columbia.

therecord.com.au - UNDA defends intellectual freedom over Monckton

When WA Greens Senator Scott Ludlam told Lord Monckton, “it must be lonely being on the fringe when 97 per cent of scientists” confirm global warming, the Briton questioned that figure, as only “a few dozen” scientists were actually involved in climate sensitivity work.

Global SST Update: Still No Sign of Resumed Warming « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

the recent new enhancement of cloudiness (smaller circle) suggests a fall of SST in the next month or so.

New Paper Illustrates Another Failure Of The IPCC Mullti-Decadal Global Model Predictions – “On the Warming In The Tropical Upper Troposphere: Models Versus Observations” By Fu Et Al 2011 | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

This new Fu et al 2011 paper, despite ignoring peer-reviewed papers that show the discrepancy is even larger, is still another “confession” regarding the failure of the IPCC to accurately simulate the climate system.

The Sensitive Kind | The Resilient Earth

Are the climate science estimates getting better, is the historical data improving? Perhaps. But it is important to recognize that our current knowledge of paleoclimate remains spotty and filled with errors. So, if studying paleodata is superior to climate modeling in the elusive hunt for an accurate sensitivity reading, and the proxy data used to study paleoclimate is itself suspect, where does that leave climate science? Right where its critics have suggested, an immature science that really cannot make any trustworthy predictions about future climate change. That fact is something we all should be sensitive to.

Atacama Desert experiences rare snowfall | News | Wanderlust

The BBC reported that an estimated 31.5 inches of snow fell in the worst affected areas.

Local media reports said a total of 36 people were stranded in the snow and had to endure freezing temperatures for several hours before being rescued.

South America cold snap kills 22 : Voice of Russia

22 people have already died in the coldest summer in South America in recent years, news reports said on Saturday, citing Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil, which remain in the grip of a cold spell.

Australians to 'change their mind on carbon tax' - Greens leader Bob Brown | Herald Sun

GREENS leader Bob Brown says any polling done after the carbon tax package is released will show Australians embracing the scheme.

According to a recent Newspoll, just 30 per cent of people support putting a price on carbon.

Truckies threaten action on tax | Herald Sun

THE Transport Workers Union (TWU) is threatening protest action as early as next week if the federal government's carbon tax plan is not to its liking.

TWU federal secretary Tony Sheldon said members would stage "sit-ins" and protests at MPs' offices if industry operating costs are hurt by the tax.

Pressure grows for green tax to be axed to ease burden of soaring fuel bills | Mail Online

Consumer groups and MPs say all energy suppliers should be forced to reveal on bills how much hard-pressed families are forced to pay to subsidise green energy and end Britain’s dependence on dirty coal, oil and gas.

CEO of Al Gore group admits to hiring "hundreds of organizers" to push for climate change hoax legislation

Global warming warrior rallies troops in Aspen | Aspen Daily News Online

Two years ago environmentalist Maggie Fox expected to be doing a victory lap by mid-2011, with climate change legislation passed in congress and a growing worldwide movement to deal with global warming.
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The movement she’s led as the CEO of Alliance For Climate Change — the organization founded by former Vice President Al Gore in 2006 — is stalled and needs a renewed focus, she said.
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She talked about a relatively brief but exciting moment in climate change organization, following President Barack Obama’s election in 2008, when she hired hundreds of organizers from his campaign to begin pushing for climate change legislation.
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With hopes for the movement slightly deflated, Fox explained that the Alliance is now re-focusing on getting people to accept that climate change is a reality. They’re working on branding a national advertising campaign, based largely on the widely successful “Truth” campaign about the health effects of cigarette smoking.

Gloria Steinem: "The truth is that global warming is a nuclear holocaust slowed down slightly."

Feminist icon Gloria Steinem on climate change, population, & deep ecology [VIDEO] | Grist

“Coldest autumn for Australia since at least 1950″ | Real Science

LA Times Says That Record Snow In Montana Is Due To Global Warming – Caused By Burning Oil | Real Science

Brilliant research on the part of the LA Times. The entire Pacific Northwest has been far below normal temperatures this year, and the last three months was the coldest April-June in over 50 years.

Obama Auto Czar: “I Did This All for the Unions” - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Ouch. Yes, Bloom and his boss, President Obama, “did this all for the unions.”

The smoking gun is on the table. And the White House’s we-saved-the-auto-industry campaign slogan is shot.

U.N. Security Council to Take Up Climate Change: Scientific American

Attitudes toward bringing up climate change at the Security Council have changed dramatically in the past few years, and advocates of council action say the tide has turned from strong opposition to possible action on the matter.

Climate change forces early spring in Alberta, Canada

ScienceDaily (July 7, 2011) — Spring is hailed as the season of rebirth, but if it comes too early, it can threaten the plants it is meant to welcome.

A University of Alberta study shows that climate change over the past 70 years has pushed some of the province's native wildflowers and trees into earlier blooming times, making them more vulnerable to damaging frosts, and ultimately, threatening reproduction.

Warmer Temperatures Mean Less Rain | Real Science

One of the big climate lies of 2011 has been that warmer temperatures cause more rain. Naomi Klein repeated that nonsense today about flooding in Montana, and of course failed to mention that it has been an exceptionally cold year in the Northwest states.

The graph below plots annual rainfall vs. temperature for all years in the NCDC Montana record. It is quite clear that warmer temperatures do not correlate with more rainfall.

For all that pain, here’s a calculation of the gain | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

So the calculations. Gillard’s massive taxes and billions in subsidies for green powers will over the next decade avert 0.00024 degrees of warming, providing she does all she claims she will, and provided global warming theory works as advertised.

And to achieve even that, how much will Gillard have to rachet up her tax over the next decade?

Heat And Drought Killing Yellowstone Elk | Real Science

2011 has been the fifth wettest and twenty-second coldest year on record in Wyoming.

April-June Was The Coldest On Record In Oregon | Real Science

Last year, the same period was the 11th coldest on record.

According to the world’s top-rated climate scientist, last year was also the hottest year humans have ever seen.

Mark Lynas: Home » Uncategorized » The God Species withdrawn from Amazon – censorship?

Although I cannot prove it, I now believe that this is a malicious attempt at censorship by individuals or organisations who find the content of The God Species threatening.

Europe’s Temperatures Show No Evidence Of Warming Since 1998

European winters seem to have gone through an alternating warm-cool –warm- cool cycle since the 1940s and now appear headed for a cooler cycle like the 1962-1987 period.

Jennifer Marohasy » Agroforestry out of Carbon Tax Smells like Snake Oil

Investing in soil carbon makes good sense, but investing in agroforestry… Such schemes were pushed hard a decade or so ago with lots of promise and lots of subsidises but many have already ended with financial ruin.

Have jellyfish come to rule the waves? | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Until 2010, mackerel were the one reliable catch in Cardigan Bay in west Wales.
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Last year it all changed.

Monbiot: Global Warming Jellyfish Apocalypse – End of Vertebrate Life Is Nigh. | hauntingthelibrary

Well, of course, it’s nothing new – this has all happened before. Like in the Phillipines in 1999, where an “enormous concentration” of jellyfish was blamed for crippling the new power station. In Miami in 1984, where a “huge crowd of jellyfish” shut down the nuclear reactor at the St Lucie power station and again in 1993. In Tampa Bay in 1971, where massive “swarms” of jellyfish shut down the power plant. In Tokyo in 1972, where they closed a power plant, in the Persian gulf in 1958 where they shut down an oil refinery – the list goes on.

Having backtracked on his “2012 Meat Apocalypse” prediction, Monbiot’s latest is even better – the end of vertebrate life and the imposition of “a system dominated by jellyfish” who apparently are starting by shutting down power stations. Run for the hills!

Australia PM warns polluters' days over

Australia: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard came out fighting over her contentious pollution tax Saturday, warning the "freedom to pollute our skies" was over, ending 20 years of denial and delay.
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"Most people will find that when all is said and done, they are not a cent behind, and many will come out ahead," said Gillard.

Czech president refuses to sign bio fuels bill | Czech Position

Czech President Václav Klaus, a well-known denier of manmade climate change and a Eurosceptic, has hit out at what he regards as excessive and damaging environmental legislation by sending back a bill on bio fuels to the lower chamber of the Czech parliament without his signature.

Sky News: Gillard knows many are worried

Ms Gillard told delegates the science on climate change was clear.

'And friends you know we must lead because the science says we must and friends we've know that for an awfully long time,' she said.
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She accused the coalition of a 'cynical campaign of fear' against the tax.

Gernot Wagner: Dear Climate Denier, Can You Repeat This on the Record?

What to do if someone does doubt? Smile politely, pull out a recorder or your phone, and ask to have their statement on the record. Their children may want to know.

The real climate hoax: denying reality and demonising scientists - The Irish Times - Sat, Jul 09, 2011

ENVIRONMENT: The Inquisition of Climate Science , By James Lawrence Powell, Columbia University Press, 240pp, £19.50

THE RECENT removal of some of Australia’s leading climate scientists to safer accommodation, to protect them against death threats, was a shocking illustration of the virulent campaign now being waged by climate change deniers — often the same people who want the biblical story of creation taught in schools as a counterpoint to evolution.
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This demonisation of climate scientists, as James Lawrence Powell writes, is not dissimilar to what Galileo faced when he endorsed the “heretical” thesis that the Earth moves around the sun. It is a “modern inquisition conducted . . . on the front pages of newspapers, on right-wing radio and television, on the blogosphere and on denier websites”.
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“For global warming to be a hoax, climate scientists, research laboratories, university administrators, funding agencies, scientific journals, the United Nations, government science agencies, ministers and diplomats would all have to be part of a vast international conspiracy unprecedented in human history.” Hardly likely, is it? Powell deals effectively with “Climategate” — the controversy that ensued when unknown persons “hacked” into the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit computer system — and notes that six independent inquiries had found “not a single faked data point, not a single deleted e-mail, not a single article prevented from publication”.

Ninety Percent of Obama Travel at Least Partly Politics | The Blog on Obama: White House Dossier

Since returning from vacation in Hawaii Jan. 4, Obama has embarked on 25 domestic trips involving use of Air Force One. Of the total, 22 have involved either a fundraiser, travel to a presidential battleground state, or both.
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The most egregious of these kinds of voyages appears to have occurred on April 27, when Obama and the first lady jetted to Chicago to tape the Oprah Winfrey show, and then the president flew on to New York for fundraisers. Mrs. Obama flew directly back to Washington, creating an expense for taxpayers instead of for Mrs. Winfrey, who presumably could have flown to the White House to tape the interview.

» Climate Change Hoaxers Add to the Official ‘Stupid Things Used to Fear Monger About Global Warming’ List - Big Government

Once again, its time to add to the official “Stupid Things Used To Fear Monger About Global Warming” list. Recently, global warming moonbats have blamed each of the following “calamities” on global warming, climate change, or whatever they have decided to call it these days:

The American Spectator : Global Warming Tales and Tails

And perhaps the reason the public is getting skeptical about climate scientists is that they set out to create virtual reeducation camps for the public rather than admitting they might be wrong; such is the nature of a large, well-funded cult. In any case, the admission that temperatures have not warmed for a decade is the most important aspect of the paper.

Regional cooperation: ‘Climate change bigger threat than wars’ – The Express Tribune

Referring to a research study, Prof Najam said South Asian countries in the coming days would be threatened more by natural disasters than wars.

Will Napa Valley Be Able To Produce Wine In 30 Years?

By 2040 Northern California might have 50% less land suitable for growing premium wine grapes due to climate change.

Environmentalists Caused Recent Global Warming Trends And Need To Do It Again | The Intersection | Discover Magazine

While many of us were howling about global warming over the last decade, Earth’s surface temperature actually failed to significantly increase. Yes, I said it. Global surface temperature showed little warming between 1998 and 2008. But, don’t go and broadcast the demise of the global warming movement quite yet. The reasons for the cooling trend are not encouraging. In fact, they are quite threatening. And, if environmentalists have their way (and I think they should), global warming will reemerge and may do so at an alarming rate.

News You Can't Use About Arctic Ice Climate Change - Climate Central

On the one hand, reporters like me try to explain to our readers that climate change is an overall trend, played out over many decades, and that a single year that's warmer than the year before, or cooler, doesn't mean a blessed thing.

And on the other hand, we sometimes make a huge deal when a given year is warmer or less icy than the year before — while deriding climate skeptics if they should trumpet a cooler than average year, or make a fuss about the fact that Arctic ice hasn't yet reached the lows of 2007.

It's all a bunch of noise, in both the statistical sense and the more conventional sense as well.

Australian children are being terrified by climate change lessons | Courier Mail

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/australian-kids-are-living-in-climate-of-fear/story-e6freon6-1226091162425

PRIMARY school children are being terrified by lessons claiming climate change will bring "death, injury and destruction" to the world unless they take action.

Should We Be More Scared Of Climate Change? | Fast Company

One famous scientist told me that he exaggerated the dangers of climate change in his lectures because "if people aren't scared, they won't pay attention." This strategy has apparently worked well enough that one in three school kids surveyed back in 2009 were afraid that the Earth won't exist when they grow up, and half thought that the entire planet will soon become an unpleasant wasteland....the threats posed by our carbon emissions won't go away for tens of thousands of years.
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Curt Stager is an ecologist, paleoclimatologist, and science journalist with a Ph.D. in biology and geology from Duke University.

Climate Disasters Batter Districts Of Climate-Denying GOP Appropriators | ThinkProgress

Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID) says he’s scared of the EPA’s efforts to fight greenhouse pollution. He should be considerably more scared of the consequences of polluting our weather.

Seniors win carbon [dioxide swindle cash]

ABOUT 1.85 million pensioner households will receive on average a $210 windfall in their compensation for higher prices due to the carbon tax under the scheme Julia Gillard will announce tomorrow.

Ballmer, Branson Headline Microsoft's Partner Conference CIO.com

Sir Richard pledged 100 percent of profits of Virgin transportation companies to clean tech investments [Who, if anyone, is checking to see if he's actually doing this?], and this year he launched the Carbon War Room to mobilize capital, innovation, expertise and entrepreneurs to advance climate change efforts."

In Twitter Town Hall, President Repeatedly Emphasizes Clean Energy Future | ThinkProgress

In an oblique, mangled reference to global warming pollution, Obama said reducing oil use would “drastically cut down on our carbon resources.”

Bummer: Carbon dioxide may kill billions of people

Climate Change: Still Worse Than You Think | Mother Jones

a doubling of CO2 in the atmosphere might produce a temperature increase of six to eight degrees Celsius, not the mere three degrees Celsius most commonly estimated.

This is just one model. There are lots of parameters to fit, there are only two glacial intervals to test, and the error bars are fairly large. In other words, it might be wrong. But it's one more data point in an increasing series of data points suggesting that climate change is worse than we thought—though "worse" is something of an understatement. Six degrees isn't just a bit warmer here and there; it's a global catastrophe that would likely produce mass extinctions, dead oceans, large-scale desertification, coastal cities underwater, and billions dead.

Prof. Horst Malberg: Climate Change At Most 10% Because Of CO2 – Dominated by The Sun

I examined in detail what drives the climate and I looked at all the available data, from Europe, from USA, from Japan – all data were evaluated, and naturally the global data. It clearly shows that the climate is dominated by the sun, and then on top of that by the oceans, and then a little bit by the CO2 effect. I would estimate it has a magnitude of 10%, for Co2, and not more. More than 80% of the climate change is driven by the sun. That means relative to natural climate change, the influence by CO2 is very small, and so it does not justify any action for climate protection, where wind parks are built in order to save CO2. Sure you can do it, but it won’t have any impact on our climate, at least no real impact.

Gray whales survived global warming, cooling by changing diets

Scientists now believe California gray whales survived global warming and cooling cycles over millions of years, because they are not picky eaters, or stubborn migrators. Flexibility may allow the species to win a new round of climate changes, they say.

Early winter, cold spring combine to shrink Eastern Oregon cherry harvest by 60 percent :: The Republic

MILTON-FREEWATER, Ore. — Production is down by about 60 percent for cherry growers in Eastern Oregon's Milton-Freewater Valley after an early winter and cold spring.

Cap-and-trade policies losing steam - POLITICO.com Print View

Cap-and-trade policies were once heralded as the most cost-effective way to combat climate change, creating visions of a trillion-dollar global market that would clean up the air and spawn a revolution in new energy technologies.

But the concept, originally created by Republican economists, appears to be dying by a thousand cuts.

Politicians who once embraced the idea now see it as a third rail, while states and countries are either delaying or rejecting its implementation outright.

Cap and trade is facing obstacles across the country | MNN - Mother Nature Network

And in climate conscious California, Samuelsohn points out that Governor Jerry Brown is having to delay his state’s responsibilities in the Western Climate Initiative. So yes, cap and trade is dead inside the Beltway. Outside the beltway it is either dying or at best very ill.

The Atlantic blames global warming for making the weather too cold

An Era of Tornadoes: How Global Warming Causes Wild Winds - Paul Epstein - National - The Atlantic

Too hot, too cold, too rainy, too dry, too windy. The operative word is "too," and it is the exaggeration of normal weather events that defines the changing climate.

Scary maps of the new climate normal | Grist

Parts of the Great Plains, the Mississippi Valley, and the Northeast experienced slightly cooler July maximums from 1981-2010 compared to 1971-2000 (top map).

[Devastating news:  Developing countries are allegedly saving all of our grandchildren from fiery floods]: Industrialized Countries are Now Losing the Clean Energy Race | ThinkProgress

For the first time ever, developing countries lead yearly investment in clean energy — representing about $72 billion in spending in 2010, versus $70 billion in rich countries. So while U.S. lawmakers argue about efficiency standards in light bulbs, the 800-pound dragon, China, is dominating. Meanwhile, Brazil, India and various Middle Eastern countries are catching up.

Michael Fisher | RealClimate Reveals Willie Soon’s “Scientific Sleight of Hand”

When it comes down to it, the quality of the science is what matters. And skeptical science regularly resorts to misdirection and junk science as a mode to influence popular opinion. That is why we need scientists like those at RealClimate to break through the skeptical static and reveal the truth.

The Coming Clean Tech Crash - Energy Source - How we power the world - Forbes

The global clean energy industry is set for a major crash. The reason is simple. Clean energy is still much more expensive and less reliable than coal or gas, and in an era of heightened budget austerity the subsidies required to make clean energy artificially cheaper are becoming unsustainable.

Clean tech crashes are nothing new. The U.S. wind energy industry has collapsed three times before, first in the mid 1990s and most recently in 2002 and 2004 when Congress failed to extend the tax credit that made it profitable. But the impact and magnitude of the coming clean tech crash will far outstrip those of past years.

Thing of the past: Olympic Peninsula snowpack dwindles to only nearly 400 times the average for this time of year

Record snowpack across Rockies continues its midsummer melt - Capital Weather Gang - The Washington Post

Just two weeks ago, snowpack measurements on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington were 39,100 percent of normal (or nearly 400 times the average for this time of year).

Energy Tribune- No Global Warming: Due to China Burning “Extra Coal”!

As a superb bronze of Ronald Reagan was being unveiled in the gardens of London’s U.S. Embassy on July 4, a new study into why global temperatures stalled back in the mid-1990s was making headlines. According to the study’s lead author Robert Kaufmann the “lack of global warming” may well be due ... to the Chinese burning “extra coal”. So there it is. Hot off the presses is the suggestion that not only is man’s burning of coal a chief cause of global warming, man’s burning of even more coal, at least temporarily, may also be responsible for cooling global temperatures, too.

Hard to take in, isn’t it? Or is the growing desperation to pile theory on theory to explain away – what Monty Python’s John Cleese might term the “bleedin’ obvious” - that the CO2-global temperature causative link theory is looking increasingly shaky and difficult to maintain. Reagan had a clear-sighted ability to see things for what they were. And when complex issues of the day found alleged experts performing verbal contortions to underpin one theory or another, Reagan invoked a famous dictum: “Don’t be afraid to see what you see”.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Harvest problems in India - the real world vs the alarmist dream world

Would it be too much to ask that a miniscule amount of the enormous EU "climate change" aid would be converted to support for building adequate storage facilities for bumper harvests in India!

I am afraid that is wishful thinking. The EU global warming believers live in their own dream world - all messages from the real world are immediately removed from their sight.

Settled science: Bad Stuff happens and will continue to happen, costs a trillion dollars or 1,740 trillion dollars, may be caused by CO2 or not

The cost of climate change - Counting the Cost - Al Jazeera English

Freak weather and natural disasters seem to be on the rise. Over the past 50 years, severe weather patterns have cost 800,000 lives and a trillion dollars in economic losses.

Tom Nelson: Bummer: “net present value of climate change impacts” is allegedly $1240 TRILLION

Scientists find “net present value of climate change impacts” of $1240 TRILLION on current emissions path).

Calls for central carbon bank revived after EUAs plummet

Calls to set up a “central carbon bank” to regulate the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) are being repeated in the wake of the recent rout on the world’s largest carbon market.

The idea of an independent panel that would have the power to withhold European Emissions Allowances (EUAs) when prices threaten to crash, and raise volumes when they overheat, was promoted by Gordon Brown in 2008 when he was UK prime minister. However, it was dismissed by the European Commission (EC).

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Paper shows climate models underestimate cooling effect from clouds by a factor of 4

A paper published in the technical newsletter of the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment finds that climate models suppress the negative feedback from low clouds, which serve to cool the Earth by reflection of incoming sunlight. The paper notes that cloud feedbacks in computer models are not only uncertain in magnitude, but even in sign (positive or negative). As climate scientist Dr. Roy Spencer has pointed out, a mere 1 to 2% natural variation in cloud cover can alone account for whether there is global warming or global cooling, despite any alleged effects of CO2.

Sound of one-sided debates a disturbing trend | The Australian

WHEN ABC radio presenter Adam Spencer hung up on his interview guest, Lord Christopher Monckton, he demonstrated a disturbing trend in Australia's progressive insider class.

On a range of issues, and especially when it comes to climate change, we see a determination to win debates not through rational argument, but by silencing opponents. In a vibrant liberal democracy such as ours, this is an uncomfortable development.

Carbon tax to hit profits and growth and inflation predicted | The Australian

JULIA Gillard's carbon tax will create an instant inflation spike, slow the domestic economy's already tepid growth and make a dent in company earnings at a critical time in the nation's recovery from the global financial crisis.

Impost 'ill-timed' and puts Australia at a disadvantage | The Australian

THE Australian named as co-chair to President Barack Obama's newly created committee on manufacturing has a message for the Australian government: the carbon tax is ill-timed and bad for investment.

Darwin-born Andrew Liveris, who runs the $US54 billion ($50bn) Dow Chemical, thinks a price signal on carbon fails to appreciate that fossil fuels will continue to be the dominant source of energy and suggests the government needs to appreciate the problem more holistically.

"I think it's not well timed," Liveris told The Australian.

"The problem with carbon pricing in isolation is that Australia will be on its own in doing this and it may end up becoming a very difficult place for people to come and invest in.

Why scientists should wish for Andy Revkin’s speedy recovery « State Factors

Andy’s work truly is fair and balanced

Brrr .... Baby, the cold weather is not over yet! | The New Age Online

Carl Loots, a forecaster from the South African Weather Services, said the temperature in Johannesburg plummeted below freezing point yesterday.

“Gauteng reached a low of -1°C yesterday,” said Loots.

Loots said despite predictions that the weather would improve, Gauteng will remain icy until the beginning of next week.

Gap Year News - Year Out Group - Gap Year | Cultural Exchange | Voluntary Work Abroad

Rodney Harrex, general manager for the UK and Northern Europe at Tourism Australia, suggested that Brits had a "long-standing love affair" with the land down under, largely due to its warm climate and unique landscape.

CultureLab: Saving the planet: not just for pansies

About four years ago [director Peter Byck] realised that Gore's brand of apocalyptic environmentalism would only go so far. It might appeal to "whiney liberals" like himself, but half of America - the country responsible for a quarter of the world's carbon dioxide emissions - was repelled by its self-flagellating pessimism.

And so he set out to make an optimistic movie about climate change. What he found surprised him: many of the people who are taking action are muscular patriots or even, as he puts it, "knuckle dragging conservatives", the kind of people who are not supposed to give a rat's ass about CO2 or global warming.

Shock News : Earth Survived Mud Cracks In The Past! | Real Science

Alarmists love to use pictures of mud cracks as a sign that the world is coming to an end – due to evil human behavior. However, we find mud cracks all through the fossil record, indicating that mud actually dried in the past.

Alarmists apparently would prefer a world where mud never dries out, and just gets deeper and deeper until new glaciers come and cover it over. A constantly cold, wet world is the goal all alarmists want to see achieved.

Republicans Set to Repeal Light Bulb Efficiency Standard That Would Save Consumers $12 Billion a Year | ThinkProgress

More efficient light bulbs also will eliminate the need for 33 large power plants [which ones, specifically?]– and the pollution they generate

Broncos give sceptic the flick | The Australian

Tour organiser Andy Semple said the debate had turned nasty. "In the Middle Ages they would have burned Monckton at the stake, in the 1930s they would have burned his books," he said.

"In 2011, people are satisfied with withdrawing their venues."

IPCC Draws Conclusions First, Then Gets WWF To Back Them Up | Real Science

Why bother to pretend they are doing science?

[Democrats to Koch Industries:  Will you give us some of the money you made by allegedly destroying the planet?] » I Love It When Businesses Get Scrappy with the Government

Check out this letter, where Koch Industries responds to Democratic fundraising pitch.

Next Week: House Vote on Bulb-Ban Repeal - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Apparently Rep. Fred Upton really has seen the light.

John LaPlante writes at The Michigan View that the House Energy Chairman will bring a repeal of the incandescent-bulb ban to a vote on the House floor next week. And Upton — sponsor of the original ban — says he will be the first to vote to repeal the ban as an offense against consumer choice:

More settled science

More on the Divergence Between UAH and RSS Global Temperatures « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

the RSS linear trend since January 1998 has actually cooled slightly (-0.03 deg. C per decade) while ours has warmed slightly (almost +0.05 deg. C per decade).

I HATE it when that happens: Trace amounts of carbon dioxide may cause us to lose our souls

Hidden cost to religion of climate change denial : Nancy Abrams & Joel Primack : City Brights

The repetition of disasters, the millions of refugees, the endless cries for help and pleadings for financial contributions may numb us and make compassion a sentiment whose evolutionary cost becomes too high. If that happens, we lose not only the climate but our souls. And ironically, leading the charge toward soullessness are so many religious people.

Remember when Jack Handey channeled Al Gore?

Jack Handey quotes

“If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."”

Jack Handey quotes (American Writer and cast member of Saturday Night Live from 1991-2003. Famous for his Deep Thoughts comedy sketches.)

Confessions of Members Of The Climate Science Community | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

“The importance of decadal climate variability (DCV) research is being increasingly recognized, including by the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)...The magnitudes of regional DCV often exceed those associated with the trends resulting from anthropogenic changes.”
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The confessions that are listed in this article are an implicit admission of the bankruptcy of the approach on climate assessments such as the 2007 IPCC WG1 report where their assumption is the multi-decadal climate model predictions are skillful.

Have the Met Office let the cat out of the bag concerning the influence of solar activity on the Earth's climate at long last?

FT Weekend Magazine 25/26 June: Feeling the heat? Clive Cookson goes inside the Met Office. | Climate Realists

" We now believe that [the solar cycle] accounts for 50% of the variability from year to year", says Scaife. With solar physicists predicting a long-term reduction in the intensity of the solar cycle - and possibly its complete disappearance for a few decades, as happened during the so-called Maunder Minimum from 1645 to 1715 this could be an ominous signal for icy winters ahead, despite global warming.

How Many Melt Days So Far? | Real Science

Could someone do a calculation of how many melt days the interior of the Greenland ice sheet has had so far this year? I don’t have time to do this highly complex calculation, but basically it is the number of days above 0C.

Remember when we were supposed to be starving by ten years ago? Never mind

Holdren 1969 : The Science Is Settled – Everyone Starving Before The Year 2000 | Real Science

In other words, he proposed forced sterilization based on his hare-brained theories. His reward for being dangerous, wrong and anti-democratic? Obama made him his science advisor.

Mississippi most obese state, Colorado least | Reuters

(Reuters) - The number of obese U.S. adults rose in 16 states in the last year, helping to push obesity rates in a dozen states above 30 percent, according to a report released on Thursday.
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Public health experts around the world have raised the alarm about exploding rates of obesity -- particularly among children -- and many are promoting efforts to encourage exercise and easier access to affordable, healthy food.

"we are perhaps as near as we can come to a proof of deliberate falsified temperature data?"

Hide the decline - Latest News (hidethedecline)

...Same scenario for a significant warm peak in temperature data for a large chunk of SE Europe: The warm peak has been reduced/removed for most stations in SE Europe.

This simultaneous removal of near identical warm peaks for all stations in a country or more demands that all stations at the same time should have reported wrong in the exact same way. And when at the same time the warm peak is found in neighbouring countries there is hardly any doubt, that we have documented unjustified removeal of warm peaks.

And when for example for the French peak, the near by Spanish temperature data has been omitted in the exact same years 1990-1991, then we are perhaps as near as we can come to a proof of deliberate falsified temperature data?

"The Conversation": Trust us, we're academics

Graham Readfearn | Clearing Up The Climate Debate with A Conversation

Andrew Jaspan, co-founder of a new popular Australia-based media website The Conversation, says as advertising dollars have shrunk, so too have the numbers of experienced journalists who can report and analyse science stories accurately and fairly.
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The Conversation, just three months old, is already registering more than 220,000 visits a month but it is not like any other news website. There is no agency news wire, for example. All the main contributors, of which there are now more than 1000 registered, are academics at universities.

Writers are only allowed to contribute on areas in which they are actively researching, or have a history of researching. Conflicts of interest, such as corporate funding or associations with think-tanks, have to be disclosed to the reader. Even anonymous commentators are banned.

The Conversation's latest venture has been a series of a dozen articles from leading climate researchers, titled "Clearing up the climate debate" which directly challenge the science and credibility of climate change deniers.

To start the series, a group of almost 90 scientists [without disclosing conflicts of interest] co-signed an open letter.

Climate change is real: an open letter from the scientific community

Disclosure Statement

Our goal is to ensure the content is not compromised in any way. We therefore ask all authors to disclose any potential conflicts of interest before publication.

Al Fin: Why the Obama / Gore Carbon Hysteria Orthodoxy Is Wrong

Thanks to Obama administration suppression of coal, offshore oil & gas, nuclear power, and opposition to expanded use of Canadian oil sanes, the US almost toppled into a state of energy starvation -- saved only by the fortuitous rise of the shale oil & gas industry. And the Obama administration is even trying to shut down shale fracking, behind the scenes! How stupid is that?

Healthy economies need energy. Lots of energy. When a US president bases his energy policy on a pseudoscientific theory of carbon hysteria, the entire nation suffers.

Dr. Holger Thuss Of EIKE Reports On 6th International Climate Change Conference In Washington

While climate tourists were meeting for the zillionth time to talk about rescuing the Kyoto Protocol and spreading a party-atmosphere at the taxpayers’ expense in Berlin, elite climate scientists met in Washington for the 6th time (privately financed), and agreed: The global climate is as normal as it has ever been – only the politics in a few countries (foremost Germany) is getting more and more out of whack.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Another 3.2Bn taxpayers dollars down the gurgler

Some great quotes by the Green Senator Christine Milne – “It has been obvious for years that renewable energy programs in Australia are a mess of badly designed schemes run as photo opportunities…”.

C3: More Confirmation That Unprecedented Global Warming Happened In Past - Say The 1930s

The fact that the 1930s had a much larger impact on U.S. temperatures than either 1990s or the 2000s should be of interest; also very germane to the modern "unprecedented" warming deception foisted on them by climate scientists more interested in fame and fortune.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Why the IPCC Has Lost Trust

The IPCC is now one train wreck after another. After being embarrassed by the spectacle of a Greenpeace energy scenario being elevated to top level prominence in a recent report on renewable energy by an IPCC author from Greenpeace, the IPCC compounds that error by trying to explain it away with information that is at best misleading if not just untrue.

Energy experts slash estimates on household savings from using solar panels | Mail Online

Solar panels that cost up to £16,000 will knock just £70 a year off household bills, which is almost half the original estimate, energy experts have admitted.
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The EST had estimated that about 50 per cent of the energy produced by solar panels is used in the home. It now says the figure is more like 25 per cent.
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Jenny Driscoll, energy campaigner with Which?, says: ‘Consumers must really be on their guard when it comes to solar panels. There is a massive amount of exaggeration about the benefits from salesmen.

OUTRAGE OF THE YEAR: EPA SENDING TAX DOLLARS TO CHINA

"As the White House calls Congressional leaders to a meeting to address our nation's debt and spending crisis, a report recently released by Congressman Fred Upton shows that the Obama EPA has been spending millions of taxpayer dollars in places like China - a country we already owe 1.2 trillion - to promote its liberal climate change agenda," Senator Inhofe said. "This is truly the outrage of the year.

0ABC News - Carbon pricing explained

[Because of the biggest scientific fraud in human history, massive tax and huge new bureaucracy appear; bad weather allegedly gets prevented]

Electric shock for millions as British Gas raises prices by 18 per cent | News

Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne responded by calling for "radical reform" in the industry.

He said: "I'm pushing the big six suppliers to help their customers overhaul their draughty homes and understand the best tariffs on offer, and I'm backing new entrants to bring more competition to the market.

"The UK electricity market has to change. Only radical reform will give us the best chance in the long run of keeping the lights on at a price that doesn't wreck our economy over and over again."

Articles: Obama's Plan for $10 Gas

American drivers are angry at having to pay $4 a gallon for gas, and understandably so. Their anger is often directed at the oil companies that supply the gas. It should be directed at Barack Obama instead.

From the beginning of his appearance on the national stage, Obama has focused on the goal of driving up energy prices with the idea of "weaning" America off fossil fuels. He has succeeded in driving up prices, all right, but not in reducing dependence on fossil fuels. According to "The Outlook for Energy 2011," fossil fuels now supply 80% of global demand. That percentage will remain unchanged through 2030 despite hundreds of billions in subsidies squandered on wind and solar.

Nor has Obama succeeded in reducing our dependence on foreign sources of oil.

Black Gold Rush In Texas

U.S. oil companies are rushing to stake their claims for shale oil acreage in the PermianBasin, an area encompassing 100,000 square miles in western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The area could contain as much as 106 billion barrels of hydrocarbons.

How did this come about?

Because a new technology is opening up previously unattainable sources of oil. This same technology led to the tripling of U.S. natural gas supplies in recent years.

How much money (and time) does cycling to work actually save you? | Maxton Walker | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The potential savings made by not using public transport can often end up going towards bike maintenance and gear
...It also calculates that – given that I can get to work very fast on public transport – I spend four days a year extra travelling to and from work.

Twitter / @Revkin

Anyone seriously seeking Wllie Soon's views on climate needs to read @realclimate deconstruct of polar bear cherrypick bit.ly/oAjayD

#140) Andy Revkin, Jarod Lanier, and the Dehumanizing Elements of the Internet | The Benshi

ANDY REVKIN, SUPERHERO OF THE BLOGOSPHERE

The world of environmental blogging has been dealt a blow which is hopefully only temporary and quickly reversible. Andy Revkin, author of the NY Times blog, Dot Earth, my buddy (he was on the panel discussion of “Sizzle” at the 2008 Woods Hole Film Festival premiere) and longtime hero in the blogosphere (where heroes are scarce) had a stroke last Friday. Initial indications seemed to be that it wasn’t a stroke, only advance warnings (blurred vision), but judging from his comments now, it sounds like the doctors have deemed it an actual stroke. Which has left him (at least for the time being) slowed down in typing speed, though he’s in good enough shape to answer a couple of my emails, which is a HUGE relief.

High water, pipeline spill hurts Montana fly fishing industry | Grand Forks Herald | Grand Forks, North Dakota

HELENA, Mont. — Disappointed anglers are putting off their vacations this year with Montana’s blue-ribbon trout streams running higher and dirtier than they have in recent memory.

The murky water is the result of spring flooding and a torrential runoff still pouring off the mountains from a record winter snowpack. Water flows for many of the major rivers are at twice their normal rates or higher, churning up muck and mud that have made the water nearly opaque in some streams.

That’s muddied the outlook for a major tourism draw for Montana, with cancellations running as high as 80 percent in parts of the state so far this year.

Senators propose immediate end to ethanol credit - TwinCities.com

WASHINGTON—Two senators from ethanol-producing states proposed Thursday to immediately end a tax credit for the corn-based fuel and agreeing to support shifting some of that money to debt reduction.

Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and John Thune, R-S.D., along with ethanol opponent Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., have proposed diverting $1.3 billion of the money remaining for the tax break this year to pay for debt reduction. And $668 million will be used for incentives for the ethanol and biofuels industries.
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Ethanol industry groups praised the agreement Thursday, signaling it is the best they can do as Washington has trained a skeptical eye on their business. Just last year, many in the industry were hoping the full $5 billion tax break could be diverted for industry incentives.

Flashback: “Let them burn ethanol” — Marie Antoinette | Facts About Ethanol

The result was a perfect Washington storm: Agribusiness lobbying and environmentalist advocacy about “energy independence” came together to push ethanol front and center, from where it has gathered momentum and gained strong champions.

Al Gore, campaigning for Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar in 2006, defended ethanol with the question, “What is so complicated about choosing fuel that comes from Minnesota farmers rather than from the Middle East?”

Quite a lot, as it turns out, Al. The former Vice President has been a leading ethanol supporter since the 1970s. In 1994 he cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate that stopped a cut in ethanol subsidies. In 1999 he called ethanol “environmentally friendly” when boasting of the Clinton/Gore administration’s plans to triple its use by 2010.

Settled science rears its ugly head in Australia: Because of the global warming hoax, let's kill the camels for farting and kill the kangaroos for not farting

Eat Kangaroo Meat To Boost Health And Environment, Aussies Told

Researchers in South Australia recently announced exciting new work confirming the  Tamar wallaby has special bacteria in its digestive system which causes it to emit negligible levels of methane. Cattle and sheep on the other hand belch methane by the tonne, making them a significant source of greenhouse gas pollution.
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Seriously, though, rather than playing God with the stomachs of cattle and sheep, why don’t we celebrate the fact we have an extraordinary resource already which offers an immediate part of the solution to global warming?

Australian company proposes killing 'farting camels' due to global warming fears

The kill-a-camel suggestion is floated in a paper distributed by Australia's Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, as part of consultations for reducing the country's carbon footprint.

Green group claims: "triple demand for print" to halt climate change

A UK-based group that works to promote print and paper wants large tracts of Australian forestry for its "unpopular" theory that increasing printing can actually save the planet.
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However, FOPAP has claimed that because forestry captures CO2 out of the atmosphere, increasing tree planting, paper manufacturing and printing would trap carbon and reduce climate change.

According to FOPAP, "if the demand for print were to treble over the next 100 years, global warming could be brought to a halt".

Does warmist George Soros own both a piece of Halliburton and a piece of Joe Romm?

2007: [Warmist] Soros buys Halliburton | FP Passport

Normally, I'm willing to overlook the hypocrisy of the liberal elite. If Al Gore and his Hollywood cronies want to fly around on gas-guzzling, atmosphere-polluting private jets while railing against global climate change, I'm willing to overlook it.

But the latest move by globe trotting, hyper-liberal billionaire George Soros borders on being too much. According to papers filed with the SEC, in the fourth quarter of 2006 Soros purchased nearly 2 million shares of ... hold your breath ... Halliburton.

Halliburton: Information from Answers.com

Halliburton (pronounced /ˈhælɨbɜrtən/; NYSE: HAL) is the world's second largest[6] oilfield services corporation with operations in more than 70 countries.

Joe Romm Says Joisey Shore Could Disappear! Everybody Panic! » Pirate's Cove

Have you had the occasion to visit Joe Romm’s Climate Progress blog lately? Would it surprise you that it is now a formal part of the far left Think Progress, which is itself a part of the far left George Soros funded Center for American Progress? But, don’t worry, it’s really all about “science,” having nothing to do with far left progressive politics

Phoenix Photographer's Storm Video Goes Viral

Teachers say they want to use it in their classrooms -- and former Vice President Al Gore expressed interest in licensing the video for his new television network!

Carbon tax won't cut power use: Barnett

"I don't think it will work. I just don't think it will affect consumer behaviour," he told Sydney radio jock Alan Jones in a program broadcast from Perth.

"Electricity prices will go up, again that will affect the cost of living but will people use electricity less? No, I don't think so."

Why are natural disasters linked to climate change? Answers from a public relations convention « Shub Niggurath Climate

The only solution, the report concludes is to have a “SWAT team” of public relations personnel who will “ready to go into action immediately” as a disaster occurs, and immediately link the disaster to ‘climate change’ across a wide variety of media platforms. This would serve the twin purposes of swiftly capturing the sphere of information, and gaining mileage afforded by reaching minds in a vulnerable state.

Record highs? – NOAA staffers are beginning to doubt the accuracy of the measurement system | Watts Up With That?

While Joe Romm squawks about record highs being “obscenely hot” over at Think-Climate Progress, there’s a quiet bit of questioning going on within NOAA about the veracity of the surface temperature measurements, particularly related to ASOS stations at airports, which have made up a significant number of recent record high temperatures in the USA in June.

Below is an extraordinary interchange between Dr. Roger Pielke Sr., and Greg Carbin, of the NOAA Storm Prediction Center.

Milne confirms: the tax won’t push us to renewables | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Deputy Greens leader Christine Milne is just the latest to confirm that this carbon dioxde tax won’t change the climate.

Carbon chaos in Canberra | Climate Spectator

There is good reason why the government did not release the details of its carbon pricing package before the weekend. Broad agreement with the Greens and the independents may well have been reached on the key parameters, but an absolute bun-fight was continuing on the details.

Some accounts paint a picture of chaos in the corridors, as lobbyists and MPs and company folk suddenly realised, when Prime Minister Julia Gillard set down this Sunday as Carbon Day, that “OMG! They are going to do it,” and dived into the scrum to eke out an exemption or an extra dollar in compensation.

UPDATE 3-Winter storm continues to hit Chile copper heartland | Reuters

A new cold snap with a severity seen only once every half a century is again disrupting in a region that produces a fifth of the world's mined copper.

Rev. Jim Ball: Camping Out at the Carnival of Climate Change Denial

Truth is, we're getting dangerously close to driving off a cliff in the clown car of climate denial. Scientists have posted signs with blinking lights warning there's a cliff ahead. They are essentially yelling, "Stop, stop! Reverse course!" But those with us in the clown car say "Cliff? What cliff? I don't see no cliff! Hit the gas! Yippee!"

YouTube - ‪Taxi: Reverend Jim's driving test‬‏

Return of “The Plug” | Climate Skeptic

I don’t think there is anything we could do with a bigger bang for the buck than to reduce particulate emissions from Asian coal. This is FAR easier than CO2 emissions reductions — its something we have done in the US for nearly 40 years.

Chris Landsea and the Moral Midgets « NoFrakkingConsensus

Kevin Trenberth, who is not a hurricane expert, had participated in a press conference in which the media and the public were led to believe that a link exists between global warming and more intense hurricanes. When Landsea protested to the IPCC that this was improper, especially given the fact that Trenberth was in charge of the hurricane section of the climate bible then being prepared, he was blown off

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds temperatures and precipitation were higher 1000 years ago

A paper published last week in the journal Climate of the Past examines the climate of central China over the past 1800 years using two different types of proxies. The paper finds higher temperatures and precipitation were present during the Medieval Warming Period (960-1100 AD) than at the end of the 20th century. This paper adds to the published work of 986 scientists who have documented that the Medieval Warming Period was as hot or hotter than the present and was a global phenomenon. This study also shows both the rate and magnitude of the rise in temperature from the year ~ 700- 880 AD was much greater than over a comparable period including the 20th century.

Car Wars: The Empire Strikes Luxurymakers - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Electrics are simply inferior to high-performance gas engines. Take Tesla’s $120,000 Roadster sports car. Though impressive in performance, it is less capable than the similar Lotus Elise — which costs half as much. That’s one reason the Roadster is going out of production this year.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, July 7th 2011 « The Daily Bayonet

Skeptics are smarter, hippies like hookers and warmist scientists are so much FOIA-gras.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Poland must fight German-French attempts to prevent shale gas exploration

The Polish government - and other sensible governments in Europe - must not let Leinen and the shady Russian-German-(French) axis stop the shale gas revolution in Europe. No price should be too high for Poland on this matter - not even membership in the EU!

The New Nostradamus of the North: "Rent-a-roof" solar panels - another renewable energy scam exposed

The news comes after a Which? investigation found that three quarters of solar panel salesmen used "dodgy sales tactics" and misled customers on potential savings. In an undercover investigation, the consumer group found that 75pc of companies overestimated how much energy the solar panels would produce and most of them underestimated how long it would take for the system to pay for itself.

Obama Handicaps Detroit - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Driven by global-warming zeal, Washington greens are forcing up the price of oil by strangling U.S. oil exploration while at the same time forcing Detroit to make smaller cars to meet fanciful federal mpg standards — even as foreign automakers dominate the small car market.

Here's a green job for you: Why not ride an exercise bike and generate one penny's worth of electricity every hour?

These Exercise Machines Turn Your Sweat Into Electricity - IEEE Spectrum

Still, might this be a reasonable way for a gym to offset at least some of its electricity use? Let's assume that the average piece of exercise equipment is in use 5 hours a day, 365 days a year. If each patron generates 100 watts while using it, that machine creates some 183 kilowatt-hours of electricity a year. Commercial power costs about 10 cents per kilowatt-hour on average in the United States, so the electricity produced in a year from one machine is worth about US $18 dollars.

NASA Scientist to Guarantee Global Warming in July 12 Talk at Cal Poly

Global warming is all but guaranteed, judging by data being gathered now about Earth’s ocean temperatures, according to Vasquez. Per cubic centimeter, oceans store 1,000 times more heat than air, and ocean temperature is a major indicator of climate change.

Obama admin funds $200K poll to psych-out Republicans on climate | JunkScience.com

The poll was funded by a September 2010 grant from the Obama administration’s National Science Foundation in the amount of $200,000.

Isn’t it nice that the Obama administration is trying to help Republicans get elected? Very post-partisan.

Climate is on coffee agenda | Worcester Standard

AtmosFear is the latest Cafechurch event being held at Costa Coffee on the High Street at 7.30pm and will look at some of the key issues surrounding climate change.

Heartland Institute's Climate Contrarians Enjoy Media Platform | Media Matters for America

In his closing remarks, Bast said: "I am absolutely convinced that if you open the hood and look at the science on climate change, you're going to come away convinced that the science is very sketchy, very uncertain, and as a result it doesn't justify the kind of public policies that are being advanced."

Did we say that carbon dioxide makes storms more intense? We meant less intense

Fewer rain storms across southern Australia with global warming

ScienceDaily (July 6, 2011) — Decreasing autumn and winter rainfall over southern Australia has been attributed to a 50-year decrease in the average intensity of storms in the region -- a trend which is forecast to continue for another 50 years.

Remember when carbon dioxide was going to cause drastic declines in the Yellowstone grizzly population? Never mind

2009: U.S. Court Rules Yellowstone Grizzlies Are 'Threatened' - NYTimes.com

In a 46-page decision issued in Montana District Court, Judge Donald W. Molloy ruled that existing regulatory mechanisms outside the E.S.A. were inadequate to protect the bears, and that the Fish and Wildlife Service failed to adequately consider the impacts of global warming and other factors on food sources for the grizzly.
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Judge Molloy also pointed to the decline of whitebark pine nuts, a key source of nutrition for the Yellowstone populations of grizzly bears, concluding that the science relied on by the Fish and Wildlife Service “does not support its conclusion that declines in the availability of whitebark pine will not negatively affect grizzly bears.”

Although the decision can be appealed by the Fish and Wildlife Service, Doug Honnold, an attorney with Earthjustice, an environmental law firm representing the plaintiffs, was optimistic.

“Now that Yellowstone grizzlies are again listed as a threatened species, the federal government can develop a new recovery plan for their protection that takes into account the ravages of global warming,” Mr. Honnold said.

[October 2010]: Yellowstone grizzly population is at its highest in decades - latimes.com

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Grizzly bear numbers in and around Yellowstone National Park have hit their highest level in decades, driving increased conflicts with humans as some bears push out of deep wilderness and into populated areas.

Scientists from a multi-agency research team announced Wednesday that at least 603 grizzlies now roam the Yellowstone area of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho. That's more than three times the number in 1975, when hunting was outlawed and the species placed on the endangered list.

But more bears also means more run-ins with humans -- although bear biologists are quick to point out that visitors to the region are more likely to die in a vehicle crash than a grizzly mauling.

Two people have been killed by grizzlies in the Yellowstone region this year: one west of Cody, Wyo., and another near Cooke City, Mont.

[July 7, 2011] Griz sow kills man in Yellowstone Park | Great Falls Tribune | greatfallstribune.com

Yellowstone and nearby surrounding areas are home at least 600 grizzlies and some say more than 1,000. Once rare to behold, grizzlies have become an almost routine cause of curious tourists lining up at Yellowstone's roadsides at the height of summer season.

One good result of a mad tax | thetelegraph.com.au

Now Windsor is supporting a carbon tax which will impose intolerable burdens for zero environmental gain.

In fact, the irony is that sulphur dioxide pollution from China's ever-expanding dirty coal-fired power stations is said to have stopped global warming by creating an insulating blanket which blocks the sun's rays and helps keep the Earth cool, scientists revealed this week. Now, sulphur particles are real pollution which cause acid rain, provoke asthma and make people sick, as opposed to "carbon" - the trick name for carbon dioxide emissions, which are not actually pollution at all.

But we are in for the scam of a low-carbon future, thanks to Windsor and Oakeshott.
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But people will wake up. There will be a generation of voters allergic to Greens and independents.

Packaging Europe - Bottle deposits would deliver thousands of Green Jobs

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) today (Wednesday) launches new research demonstrating how well over 4,000 full time equivalent green jobs could be created by a UK deposit refund system (DRS) for drinks containers.

Today In History:  It's now been four years since the peak of global warming hysteria

In 2007, more than 150 musical artists rocked the world in the global environmental awareness concert dubbed Live Earth. Former Vice President Al Gore was among the organizers of the 24-hour, seven-continent global event which delivered music and messages designed to raise awareness about global warming. Featuring performers like Madonna, the Police, Shakira, Linkin Park, Kanye West, Bon Jovi and Alicia Keys, the concerts were held in New Jersey, London, Johannesburg, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hamburg, Washington, D.C., Sydney, Rio de Janeiro. The little-known band Nunatak even played a short set from Antarctica before 17 researchers to fulfilll Gore's promise to hold concerts on all seven continents on the date 7-7-07.

Greens' hot air blows a hole in their credibility | thetelegraph.com.au

1. Among a sea of stupidity from Canberra comes Greens Senator Sarah Hanson Young wanting to abandon the steel industry in Whyalla and replace it with wind turbines. The 400 people required for the project would leave the 3600 working in steel looking for work. Whyalla's other 20,000 residents could start basket-weaving to sustain the town. Or maybe ride exercise bikes to generate power when the wind stops blowing.

» Utility Acknowledges Millions in Ratepayer Charges to Pay for Green Gestures - Big Government

You want to fund some ‘green’ scheme, or build a bunch of windmills with their extraordinarily expensive transmission schemes on top and then an otherwise redundant gas plant for (chuckle) ‘backup’?

Great. But you can only pass through to the ratepayer what it would have cost to build something that works. The waste and folly all comes out of your and your shareholders’ hide.