Australia crazy to lead on climate change: Howard - Insiders - ABC

[Howard] And the whole basis on which we went to the people with that policy and the belief was that the rest of the world would follow and would be going in the same direction.

But they're not. I mean, the Americans, and I've just been in the United States and there's no chance in the world of the Americans embracing an emissions trading system.

The Indians aren't, the Chinese aren't.

And we are crazy to be going ahead of the rest of the world. If the rest of the world were adopting a different attitude, well then a different attitude might be countenanced.

But the whole scene has changed.

John Howard: "There's no chance in the world of the Americans embracing an emissions trading system."

Howard predicts lonely path on ETS

Former prime minister John Howard says there's been a global shift away from carbon emissions trading and Australia could be going down a lonely path.
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Mr Howard said despite going to the 2007 election supporting a trading scheme he now believed there had been a global shift away from that type of action.
"In 2007 people were almost dancing in the streets in favour of these measures," he told ABC TV today.
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"Some of the views have shifted on the science, people aren't as certain anymore as they were four years ago," he said.
"There's no chance in the world of the Americans embracing an emissions trading system."
He said the Chinese, Indians and Canadians also were not keen on the idea.
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He also predicted the Greens had reached their peak.
"They are starting to alarm people ... they are increasingly seen as real extremists," he said.
"Australians don't like extremists."

These people think you're stupid: CO2 allegedly may cause Antarctica to return to its usual "tropical paradise" state in the next 200 years

When Antarctica was a tropical paradise | World news | The Observer

For most of the past 100 million years, the south pole was a tropical paradise, it transpires.

"It was a green beautiful place," said Prof Jane Francis, of Leeds University's School of Earth and Environment. "Lots of furry mammals including possums and beavers lived there. The weather was tropical. It is only in the recent geological past that it got so cold."
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This point was backed by Pekar. "When we look at the Antarctic's past, we get a vision of what our planet might be like in a couple of hundred years: a hot, drowned world. "

Students 'brainwashed' over climate change: LNP - National News - National - Environment - Melbourne Times Weekly

Mr McIver's comments received loud applause from more than 700 delegates from throughout the state.
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Queensland Education Minister Cameron Dick said Mr McIver’s comments were an “outrageous slur” on the professionalism of the state's 38,000 teachers.“The curriculum taught in Queensland state schools is developed and delivered by educational experts, not politicians, nor backroom political party operatives like Mr McIver,'' he said.''Quite simply, students studying science in Queensland state schools are taught scientific facts.''We all know that Mr McIver and the LNP are climate-change deniers, and his comments are not only wrong and insulting, but an attempt to push the party’s ‘head-in-the-sand’ beliefs on Queenslanders.''

Mr McIver described Labor's carbon tax as a "socialist" policy would have a devastating effect on Queensland business and on Queensland jobs.

"It is a direct threat to our economy. I believe it is a redistribution of wealth," he said to cheers of "hear, hear" among delegates.

Lawrence area growers report little fruit on trees - KOAM TV 7 Joplin and Pittsburg

Growers in the region say a cold snap in February has decimated their fruit trees this year.

Owners of several orchards in northeast Kansas told The Lawrence Journal-World that their crops were either completely destroyed or will yield much smaller crops.

Dalai Lama Says That Humans Control The Weather. | Real Science

Many religions seem to be converging on a common worship of CO2.

Quadrant Online - Lights, action, lies

The government climate infomercial they didn't use.

They Want To Control Every Aspect Of Your Life | Real Science

What you eat, what you drive, where you drive, what you believe, what you say, what you can own, how many children you can have, how much you can travel, how much money you have, what your kids are taught, how big your house is, the temperature of your house, how your house is heated, how far you live from your work, what kind of light bulbs and other appliances you have ………

Global warmers make Lenin’s Bolsheviks look like libertarians. In Soviet Russia, polar bears eat Bolsheviks.

Ignoring climate change | The Salt Lake Tribune

The Utah Air Quality Board recently denied a petition to take action on climate change. According to the news story “Utah government rebuffs ‘iMatter’ greenhouse gas petition” (Tribune, July 7), the board stated that it “simply doesn’t have the resources to perform the requested inventory of greenhouse gas” because it is “already hard-pressed to get its current workload done.”

Manufacturing(?) consensus | Climate Etc.

Goodwin makes a strong argument that the IPCC is a manufactured consensus that has been reached by intent. As such, Lehrer argued in 1975 that such a consensus is conspiratorial and irrelevant to our intellectual concern.

- Bishop Hill blog - A mezzo-soprano on climate science

Before starting her singing career, Rice had been a climatologist and described her experiences thus:

I was amazed really by the inadequacy of what we had, because we're talking about climate change which is over tens of thousands of years as opposed to the twenty years of data that we had. So in a way we were putting out a lot of ideas and not really having concrete scientific research to support it, and I suppose at that point I did lose a little bit of my spark, thinking well I could propose an idea and I could probably draft a thesis that would support it and yet I wouldn't really convince myself necessarily.

River Mysteriously Disappears in Costa Rica - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Chalk this up to the new theory that links global warming to plate tectonics, as it’s obvious that global warming is at play here:

Queensland floods and Russian heatwave will be used to justify 'climate change' policies - Telegraph

The sort of disasters Sir John had in mind included last year’s Russian heatwave, the floods in Pakistan and Queensland and the current drought in East Africa, all of which climate zealots have rushed to blame on global warming. But Sir John, who is a professor in “applied population biology”, may not be aware that each of these examples has been shown by scientific studies not to be evidence of “climate change”.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard defends carbon tax ad spend | News.com.au

The advertisements, to screen from tonight, will cost $12 million but the total bill for the federal government to explain its climate-change policy will cost more than $25 million.

C3: Laurens Bouwer, IPCC Lead Author Admits There Has Been No Significant Impact From Climate Change

In a nutshell, Laurens Bouwer, speaking for the IPCC, concurs that the climate change empirical evidence (ie, severe weather events, species extinction, etc.) of CO2-induced global warming is not convincing, nor material, nor relevant. Since there is no evidence of the IPCC C-AGW hypothesis and predictions being valid, he suggests instead using the failed predictions as basis for future prognostications about climate impact.

Simply amazing idiocy from the IPCC's scientific elite, eh? But wait......

With Arctic Ice at Record Low, NSIDC Director Serreze says “we are on track to see an ice-free summer by 2030. It is an overall downward spiral.” | ThinkProgress

Indeed, many, including me, believe we’ll see virtually ice-free summers within a decade.

The Reference Frame: Deadly New York heat wave kills 50 people a day

Just to be sure, it was 1911.

The IPCC Is Dead « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

This is it, guys and gals. The IPCC is dead.

GFC is hurting my tax sell: PM | thetelegraph.com.au

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/gfc-is-hurting-my-tax-sell-pm/story-e6freuy9-1226096021003

She slammed the "completely untrue" commentary of talkback hosts like 2GB's Alan Jones, accusing him of deliberately misleading voters.

"Shows like Alan Jones' show are just putting out there things that are completely untrue, day after day. The campaign against the climate change science, some of the disrespect that's shown to scientists and economists and others - that is worrying."

- Bishop Hill blog - The respected David King

As readers here know, Sir David was responsible for a truly extraordinary bit of "hiding the decline" in his book on global warming. It therefore speaks volumes about the Guardian that they describe him as "one of the most respected figures in climate change policy". I hate to think how the less respected ones behave.

Gillard bought Greens' support with promise of "urgent climate action" | Australian Climate Madness

We all knew this already, but it’s good to hear Adam Bandt admit openly that Julia Gillard sacrificed her principles and her party and was happy to throw an explicit pre-election promise under a bus to buy the Greens support

IPCC: the warmists' club | Australian Climate Madness

Kevin Rudd used to prattle on about the “4000 guys in white coats who run around and don’t have a sense of humour” who kept telling him that man-made emissions were to blame for dangerous global warming. You’d be lucky to get to 4000 even if you included all the rent-seeking hangers-on – and there were plenty of those.

German Geology Professor Rejects Claim Of Accelerating Sea Level Rise

Germany’s leading political daily the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) published an open letter written by geology Professor Dr. Friedrich-Karl Ewert rejecting the claims made by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) that sea level rise is accelerating.

Why global warmists hate climate skeptics

Lack of respect for liberty, always present in unaccountable dictators, leads directly to lack of respect for life and property. The natural course of events is for authoritarians to reward themselves with special dispensations, to participate in gross immorality and to use imprisonment, torture and murder as tools of control. 

Lindzen, like Dr. Roy Spencer, and climate skeptics in general are hated because they undermine the ability of a self-anointed group to accumulate power by means of their "intelligence and virtue," as they attempt to sway millions of the credulous who seek paths to redemption through the false religion of environmentalism and its worldly virtues.

'Dean of climate skeptics' slated to speak Monday at CSU | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com

Outspoken climate change and global warming skeptic Fred Singer will speak at Colorado State University on Monday.

Singer, who also is known for his skepticism about the health impacts of second-hand cigarette smoke, will speak about the disparity between climate models and climate observations and what he calls "chaotic uncertainties" and how to overcome them.

Singer is an emeritus professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and is known as the "dean" of climate skeptics. ''

Why Hasn’t The Earth Warmed In Nearly 15 Years? - Patrick Michaels - Climate of Fear - Forbes

Where is the test of the hypothesis that sulfates are indeed responsible for the lack of warming? In this paper, it’s simply “modeled-in” as it fits the data well. That’s correlation, not causation.

- Bishop Hill blog - Warm climates of the past

An interesting looking conference at the Royal Society in October:

Articles: The Global Warming Hoax: How Soon We Forget

There are millions of smart people out there who have been bombarded with this global warming nonsense for so long that they've actually come to believe it. The old adage that if you tell a lie often enough it becomes the truth happens to be true, especially when the people don't get to hear other points of view, something our mainstream media has made sure of over the last few decades.

But even though people are slowly growing skeptical about it, and turning away from the mainstream media, we can't afford to let our guard down about this scam. And we'll never truly defeat it for good by arguing against it based on the enormous costs involved. Whether it's global warming, or global cooling, or ocean acidification, we need to denounce this madness as the outrageous lie that it is, if we're ever going to defeat this hydra in all of its various guises.

He says, she says in a faux election campaign

''HOW do you measure how much emissions we're using? How would you do that?'' It's a question at the heart of Julia Gillard's campaign to deliver Australia a clean energy future, yet the vast majority of people the Prime Minister is asking to support her price on carbon would have no idea how carbon dioxide emissions are calculated.
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''It's actually pretty hard to do this because carbon dioxide is invisible and it's weightless and you can't smell it,'' Abbott began, projecting frankness.

''So it's not something that you can just look at and say: 'Yeah, we can quantify that'.''

He went on to paint a vivid and troubling word picture, raising the spectre of an ''army'' of ''carbon policemen'' rampaging around the country with clipboards, attempting to measure something that was ''neither easy nor accessible'', and making life difficult for business.

Where science has gone wrong | ScottishSceptic

And then along came “global warming” or “climate change”. Suddenly, you could begin to repeat all the research. Not: “the lifecycle of the lesser spotted goat-toad”, but “the effect of climate change on the lifecycle of the less spotted goat-toad”. So, the last thing anyone in the science community wanted to do was to undermine the goose that laid the golden egg. They knew climate “science” wasn’t exactly hard science, but what did they care so long as the grants kept coming in?

Carbon tax will enrich foreign traders - Abbott | News.com.au

FEDERAL Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says Julia Gillard's carbon tax is "a get rich scheme for foreign carbon traders".
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"I'm all in favour of doing the right thing by the carbon traders of equatorial Guinea and Kazakhstan," Mr Abbott told the conference.

"And all the other places Kevin Rudd likes to visit.

"I am sure they are very decent honest people. I'm sure the last thing they want to do is rip off Australian business."

Mr Abbott said government documents show $57 billion will be sent abroad under this scheme.

Revealed: The real winners of Gillard's carbon price plan | News.com.au

BIG banks, accountants and lawyers are among the big winners to cash in on the carbon plan, as companies wrestle with reporting requirements arising from the tax.

Reality Show: Al Gore Connects the Dots | OnEarth Magazine

My only true gripe with the event doesn't have to do so much with the theme, but with the timing. It's a mere ten days before 350.org's big Moving Planet distributed global action. Billed as "a day to move beyond fossil fuels," creative events and actions are planned in cities and towns all over the world.

Warmist James Lovelock: “The climate war could kill nearly all of us and leave the few survivors living a Stone Age existence.”

“Global Warming” | Dissident Voice

For example, James Lovelock—who favors technological approaches to the global warming problem—“fears [that] we won’t invent the necessary technologies in time, and expects ‘about 80%’ of the world’s population to be wiped out by 2100. Prophets have been foretelling Armageddon since time began [not quite true!], he says. ‘But this is the real thing.’”15

Such a prediction is scary. But even more so is Dr. Erik R. Pianca’s recommendation of a deliberate 90% culling of the human population! I hope that Dr. Pianca meant this as a “tongue in cheek” recommendation, but have no way of knowing whether or not it was.16

Lovelock’s “80% figure” was given in 2008. In his 2009 book (op. cit.) he states (p. 6) “we do have to take seriously the possibility that global heating may all but eliminate people from Earth.” And (p. 33): “The climate war could kill nearly all of us and leave the few survivors living a Stone Age existence.” And (p. 247-248): “Our first imperative is to survive, but soon we face the appalling question of whom we can let aboard the lifeboats? And whom must we reject? There will be no ducking this question for before long there will be a great clamor from climate refugees seeking a safe have in those few parts where the climate is tolerable and food in available.”

Believer Emily James wants us to question whether it should be illegal for protesters to try to shut down power stations

Interview: Emily James, film director - Scotsman.com News

She filmed a direct action at Royal Bank of Scotland's headquarters and a failed attempt to shut down a power station, and reveals the chilling face of absolute police power at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen in 2009.
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What emerges from the film is that, for some people, communal action is not only empowering but also therapeutic. One of its most colourful characters, Marina – a "domestic extremist" who often serves tea in china cups at protests – suffers from depression, James reveals, and activism "has given her a sense of meaning and purpose. I think she's very aware that if she weren't doing this, she would be very deeply depressed."

If their actions are sometimes considered illegal, James, in subtitling the documentary A Tale of Modern Day Outlaws, says she wants us to question whether the activists are really criminals. "Generally the laws that they're breaking, like aggravated trespass, which is what they normally get charged with, only exist in order to punish activists." Most of them aren't "enaging in antisocial behaviour", she says, but are "people who are trying to build the world into a better place, not rip it down.

Fast-shrinking glacier experienced rapid growth during cooler times - Online News # 28412

Washington, July 15 : A study has found that large, marine-calving glaciers have the ability not only to shrink rapidly in response to global warming, but to grow at a remarkable pace during periods of global cooling.
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Through an analysis of adjacent lake sediments and plant fossils, the UB team determined that the glacier, which retreated about 40 kilometres inland between 1850 and 2010, expanded outward at a similar pace about 200 years ago, during a time of cooler temperatures known as the Little Ice Age.

Effects Of Warming Arctic Highlighted At London's Maritime Museum (VIDEO)

Matt Clark told the online magazine, “Walking across these glaciers was the most magical moment for me. When I was standing on one of them, one of the scientists said: ‘In 50 years’ time, these won’t be here.’ It is this beauty, scale and fragility — and a sense of loss — which we are trying to embody in this exhibition.”

Deeply Concerned Chris Matthews Fears Climate Change Will 'Create Trade Routes Across the Arctic Circle!' | NewsBusters.org

Yikes, trade routes through the Arctic! Next thing you know there'll be commerce, profits! Worse still ... boats going to Norway. Oh the humanity ...

Climate groups wants NZ debate with sceptic | NATIONAL News

Plans are under way to pit outspoken climate sceptic Christopher Monckton against top New Zealand scientists in a debate designed to stir up controversy.

A climate change sceptics group is trying to arrange a visit by the high-profile British peer on the back of his trip to Australia.

Guy who fears CO2 more than terrorism recommends another massive climate swindle

Sir David King: world should abandon Kyoto protocol on climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The world should abandon the Kyoto protocol on climate change and move instead to a system where each nation would have a carbon emissions quota based on population, the UK's former chief scientist has urged, in an explosive contribution to the long-running climate negotiations.

Sir David King is one of the most respected figures in climate change policy. He is the architect of the UK's response to global warming, credited with reviving the flagging climate talks in 2004 when he called the problem "a greater threat than international terrorism".
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King - who was born in Durban, South Africa, where the next round of climate talks will take place this December - will publish a report on Monday intended to inject new life into the long-running United Nations talks. The ultimate aim, he said, should be that by mid-century each country should have an emissions quota based on their population - probably set at around two tonnes of carbon per person - supported by a carbon trading system, by which rich countries wanting to exceed their quota could buy carbon credits from poorer nations. The average UK citizen has a carbon footprint around 4.5 times that, while the average US citizen's footprint is 10 times as large.

Trashtivist: Shameful soup stink | Grist

But, man, it really smells. [This bag of trash that the Grist founder is carrying around is] embarrassing.

Letters: British Council: Our climate change work will continue | Environment | The Guardian

we are not a climate change organisation – our role is to strengthen international relationships for the benefit of the UK. Climate change will remain an important part of the content of our core programmes in the arts, English, education and society around the world. Apart from climate change being a critical issue in its own right, it also captures the imagination of young people and stimulates international debate. Our work is part of the UK's commitment to tackling climate change.

Why a high-carbon investment bubble could be the lesser of evils | Duncan Clark | Environment | guardian.co.uk

This week has seen a new green meme emerge: the idea that investment in high-carbon companies is creating a "carbon bubble" that could leave the world exposed to another financial crash.

Republicans declare victory for freedom after House votes on lightbulbs | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Republicans claimed to have struck a blow for freedom on Friday when the House of Representatives voted to strip all funding from government programmes promoting energy-saving lightbulbs.

The measure, brought as an amendment to an energy spending bill by the Texas Republican Michael Burgess, bars the federal government from using any funds to enforce improved lighting efficiency standards.

World Climate Report » Arctic Species Prefer Warmer Climate?

Both of these studies show us while so many warn of impending doom for ecosystems in high latitudes as climate changes, empirical evidence for many species may indicate substantial benefits for a warmer world. As we see in these articles, Great Cormorants and moose seem fine with the idea of warmer summer and winter conditions in high latitude regions!

Column - Crap applause | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

And, no, carbon dioxide is not pollution, but a gas crucial to the circle of life. Scrub it from the air and plants will die, and, then, so will we.

So in one standard piece of Government-friendly writing on global warming, we have buckets of crap. And how the authors of such stuff cheer when they’re told to stop.

WSJ Hits Cellulosic Ethanol Hard

Cellulosic Ethanol and Unicorns:

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Mandating Faulty Accounting to Reach Absurd MPG Standards

In fact, no current electric car would meet the 56.2 MPG standard if the accounting were done correctly.

Just Do It: UK Climate Activism Film {VIDEOS} | Planetsave

If you haven’t kept up with or haven’t been aware of all the great climate action in the UK in the past few years (or even if you have), check out these awesome videos below

Putin calls for global climate consensus - UPI.com

MAGNITOGORSK, Russia, July 15 (UPI) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has called for an international consensus on greenhouse gas emissions.

Camel Calculations | Real Science

I ran Australian camel farts through my climate model and found that killing all the camels will prevent 0.000000 degrees of temperature rise over the next century.

Animals consume the same amount of carbon as they emit. Had Julia passed primary school, she probably would have been aware of this.

It is important to remember that we are dealing with some of the stupidest people who ever lived.

Gone by September? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

the odds are rapidly shortening on Julia Gillard being out by late September.

This is madness and it must be stopped | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

It is lunacy to impose a carbon dioxide tax that will slow our growth on the eve of a financial clamity, and it’s utterly delusional to do on the expectation that this is the very time when sinking economies will impose similar taxes themselves.

Climate anger dangerous, says German physicist | The Australian

ANGER against scientists involved in the climate debate is reaching dangerous levels and it's only a matter of time before one is murdered, says leading German physicist Hans Schellnhuber.

Professor Schellnhuber, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change member, said he was amazed by the intensity of the political uproar in Australia over a relatively soft carbon-pricing policy.
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"As I tell my colleagues from time to time, 'Some day some madman will draw a pistol and shoot you'.

"It will happen -- to me or somebody else. I'm pretty sure about that."

Professor Schellnhuber said the intolerance of science was much worse in the US, but he was surprised by the intensity of the debate in Australia.

The Green Economy Withers - Investors.com

Energy: Even after fudging numbers and ignoring the huge subsidies, a liberal think tank reports that growth in the alternative-energy sector lags the rest of the economy.

Green jobs were supposed to be our salvation, both for the earth and for the economy, according to the Obama administration. White House policy based on this flawed premise led to offshore and onshore drilling bans and the locking-up of energy-rich lands while huge alternative energy subsidies (aka "investments") found their way into the stimulus and other legislation.

As happens when government tries to pick winners and losers, the government lost — no, we all lost. As has happened in countries such as Spain, this misallocation of resources has succeeded only in stalling our economy as unemployment and debt grow.

Grey wolves from Alberta help avert death of an ecosystem

“The loss of these animals may be humankind’s most pervasive influence on nature [Wait, not CO2 emissions?],” the team of 24 scientists from the United States, Europe, Africa and Canada are reporting Friday in the journal Science.

Students' climate [hoax] assignment throws open debate - Health - NZ Herald News

The students found the reading material puzzling, too. "I was actually surprised by these papers because there were well-documented arguments, including the presentation of scientific evidence in the forms of graphs and tables. I became convinced - temporarily - that there was strong evidence against climate change," said the student who spent a week researching and talking to other experts before concluding the papers were problematic.
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The students who visited de Freitas were perplexed too. " He suggested global warming is not necessarily due to humans, that it was just a natural phenomenon. He showed graphs and a few bits and pieces of data - and to be honest it did seem quite compelling."

In the end the students discarded de Freitas' information. As one pointed out: "If we had bought his view then we wouldn't really see any reason for doing the project." Which is hardly de Freitas' fault - he was asked for his views by School of Population Health and gave them freely and the meeting with the three med students was held at their request.

The climate dissenter holds his ground - National - NZ Herald News

"I use both new and old material in my slides. Some of the best science is quite old," said De Freitas. "He didn't use any hockey stick graphs that show the extreme change in our climate since human activity - he didn't show us anything like that," said the student.

More settled science: "forests are a far more significant carbon sink than previously thought"

As Carbon Sinks, Forests Are Even Mightier Than Assumed - NYTimes.com

According to a study published online on Thursday by the journal Science, the world’s forests absorb 2.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year, or about one-third of the carbon dioxide released through the burning of fossil fuels.

The lead author, Yude Pam, a research forester at the Forest Service, describes the study as the most comprehensive analysis of the global carbon budget to date. It shows that forests are a far more significant carbon sink than previously thought.

Book Review - Here on Earth - By Tim Flannery - Warmist Revkin - NYTimes.com

An overwhelming majority of scientists agree that humans have upended hosts of ecosystems and are exerting a growing and potentially calamitous influence on the climate. Some, perhaps in response to public indifference, have a tendency to push beyond the data in arguing for action. “Here on Earth” places Flannery in this group. I had a moment, about halfway in, when I was ready to give up in the face of overheated descriptions of environmental problems. But I stuck it out...

We’re Doomed! ‘2011 climate disasters cost a record $265 billion’ - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Most of that cost ($210 billion) came from the tsunami in Japan.

Lights Back On? - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Can you say campaign issue? Forget the debt ceiling — this issue illustrates the gulf between freedom-loving party and the nanny-state party in a way that every voter can understand.

High of 85 sets a new low record - Local - fresnobee.com

The Valley's cool spell broke a record in Fresno on Thursday, bringing the lowest high temperature ever recorded for July 14, the National Weather Service said.

Thursday's high of 85 degrees in Fresno broke the record of 89 set for the date in 1920, weather service meteorologist Jim Dudley said. He attributed it to a low-pressure system.

Climate Skeptics Need To Look Out Their Window | The Energy Collective

The climate skeptics are not looking out their windows. They are not going outside. Are they incapable of feeling the heat, or of noticing the sweat running down their faces? That bump they heard last night was a tree being blown through their roofs by powerful wind storms, but they pretend to not notice the water raining in through the new hole in the roof.

A carbon price reality check | Green Left Weekly

Green Left Weekly has refused to go along with the cheer squad for Gillard’s climate change scam.

timestranscript.com - The chance of climate change being worse than thought is high - Breaking News, New Brunswick, Canada

Only recently have scientists discovered that dramatic climate change can occur so rapidly it is akin to flicking a light switch. At some point (nobody knows exactly where or when) natural processes undergoing change will reach a critical mass triggering the switch.

Professor Smith notes that our planet's climate has been relatively stable for the past 10,000 years, during which we became a species of farmers who rely on good climates, but evidence from many sources (ice layers, tree rings, sediments etc.) tell us that before then the planet's climate was wilder with fluctuations as much as an 18 F change in average global temperature in as little as 10 years! Even in our 'stable' period, in the past 1,000 years the western United States suffered three droughts at least as bad as the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, except they lasted between three and seven times longer. Sudden tipping points have occurred before.

At last, consensus: You know what sucks? Trying to prevent global warming by freezing your ass off in a tipi all winter

Not one more winter in the tipi, honey | Grist

But at some point, the weather turns, or the project slows. Or a baby arrives, and everything gets more complicated. For whatever reason, their brio fades, NOMWITTH sets in, and what was once a joint project becomes a battlefield, XX vs. XY. In mild cases, help is hired, the house gets a roof, and all ends well. In more serious cases, one person -- inevitably XX -- splits town for a fully furnished condo with central heating, leaving XY alone with the low-carbon dream.

I've seen many couples, and carbon budgets, fall prey to NOMWITTH

Women who love men who live in huts too much | Colorado Central Magazine

A year ago, I started dating another biologist. Somewhere in the first flush of romance, we stood high in the Rockies watching a particularly gorgeous lilac, pink and tangerine sunset play off the surrounding peaks. Birds tootled melodiously. My sweetie put his arms around me, nuzzled me on the neck and identified the divine song as that of the hermit thrush. Then he said, “Let’s drive back to town and rent Naked Gun.”

My knees nearly buckled with lust. I had met the biologist of my dreams. Sure, he lives in New England, where he teaches classes on global warming when he isn’t flying out to see me. But heck. Life is paradoxical and love is more so.

Puffington Host Thinks CO2 Will Destroy Nature | Real Science

This is what the world looked like at 3,000 ppm CO2 during the Devonian. None of these plants or animals would exist without CO2.

Our Refutation of Dessler (2010) is Accepted for Publication « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

Well, our paper entitled On the Misdiagnosis of Surface Temperature Feedbacks from Variations in Earth’s Radiant Energy Balance which refutes Dessler’s claim, has just been accepted for publication. In it we show clear evidence that cloud changes DO cause a large amount of temperature variability during the satellite period of record, which then obscures the identification of temperature-causing-cloud changes (cloud feedback).

Along with that evidence, we also show the large discrepancy between the satellite observations and IPCC models in their co-variations between radiation and temperature

Hurricane Season Getting Off To A Shocking Start | Real Science

It has been almost three years since any hurricane hit the US. In 2005, they told us that all the hurricanes hitting the US were proof of global warming.

Worst Drought In History | Real Science

Reading Joe Romm’s writing, there can be little doubt that the current drought plaguing the US is caused by man and is the worst in history.

The pendulum is swinging back now: Climate Rap « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

The warmers have been pretending for so long that they are the little guys fighting Big Oil, Big Industry, and Bad Government. The ruse worked so well, that the bubble is ripe for busting. They can’t “fight” the establishment — they are the Establishment. They have a $144 billion carbon trading scheme, a $243 billion renewables investment annually, not to mention a UN agency, and whole Western Government Departments spinning their dogma. What self respecting youth wants to be a useful idiot fighting for their profits?

Yes Virginia, the Climate Bible Relies on Newspaper Clippings « NoFrakkingConsensus

When newspaper clippings are cited as evidence, when there’s a discrepancy between what an article says and what the IPCC claims it says, when IPCC writers rely on media reports rather than verifying facts directly – neither the process nor the end result is anything like what Pachauri has advertised.

A great many government institutions need to wake up and smell this stinky coffee.

How to lose friends and lose influence on people: Shove a CO2 swindle down voters' throats

I don’t think this carbon dioxide tax is working to lower temperatures | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

In the first Australia-wide voting intention poll conducted since Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced the details of the Carbon Tax the latest telephone Morgan Poll conducted over the last two nights, July 13/14, 2011 shows the L-NP 60.5% with a record winning lead over the ALP 39.5% - the worst Two-Party preferred voting result for Labor since the first Roy Morgan Gallup Poll conducted in May 1942.

Der Spiegel: Projecting Sea Levels Has Become “A Bazaar – Who Can Bid The Most?”

In the past each successive IPCC report lowered the sea level rise that is expected to occur by 2100. Critics pounced on the IPCC’s downward corrections, and so fears of rising seas diminished along with the IPCC’s credibility. Now the IPCC faces a dilemma (and irrelevance): Will it go back to alarmism? That may be real tough to do.

Carbon price: the climate science indicates a carbon tax is desperately needed | Rooted

Professor Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, chief climate science advisor of the German government and keynote speaker at the Four Degrees or More? Australia in a hot world conference held this week in Melbourne, made a point on Lateline that even the least-informed should be able to understand: “Our body temperature is about 37 degrees. If you increase it by two degrees, 39, you have fever. If you add four degrees, it is 41 — you are dead, more or less. And you have to think about the body temperature of our planet, which has been brought about through many, many processes over many, many millions of years.”

BC: Lack of global warming blamed for fatal bear attack

DNA tests confirm killer black bear was among those shot by conservation officers - The Globe and Mail

Insp. Sundquist said this summer’s damp, cold weather has affected bear activity, and people should expect to see the animals in unexpected places as they follow food availability.

No sign of reef decline through man-made warming | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

But Dr Hugh Sweatman of the Australian Institute of Marine Science now suggests in a peer reviewed paper that this influential alarmist may have been wrong, and that there is no evidence of reef decline from some systemic change. You know, like man-made warming

Climate Common Sense: Half Million Dollars per Day down the Toilet!

Sydney's 2 billion dollar desalination plant needs a half million dollars per day to stand idle- a tribute to the previous inept Labor Government and now a burden on future generations. Labor listened to false prophet Tim Flannery and fellow climate catastrophists that the shortage of water was caused by global warming and huge expenditure was required to avert disaster.

No, the world isn’t watching our futile sacrifice | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

[Peter Costello] I can confidently say that when I was in Europe I did not read of any other country being so moved by our government’s new tax on carbon dioxide as to embrace measures to harm their own industries. At the meetings I had with investment managers in the US no one seemed to think there was any chance the US would adopt a cap-and-trade or emissions trading scheme. I caught up separately with Condoleezza Rice and Sandy Berger (National Security Advisors in opposing administrations). Neither thought there was any chance of their party going down a path like that!

She said, he said and the bottom line in Australia’s carbon [dioxide] tax farce | JunkScience Sidebar

The bottom line is that there is zero chance of Australia imposing a durable carbon dioxide emissions tax or trading scheme. What we have at the moment is a desperate and clueless minority government dancing to the insane tune of misanthropic Greens rather than having the integrity or even simple self respect to say “No, we’d rather lose office than pander to a bunch of people-hating loons like you”.

How green politicking will deepen fuel poverty | Rob Lyons | spiked

Setting out a low-carbon policy in the UK will have next to zero effect on climate change, whatever the effect of manmade greenhouse gas emissions will be. It will make UK business less competitive and it will push more people into fuel poverty. It may even cost jobs if some firms quit Britain altogether. But never mind, eh? At least British politicians will be setting a ‘moral lead’ on climate change to the rest of the world.

Citi's view on UK Energy Market Reform

Your granny dies so polar bears may live? I don't think that's the real choice. Your granny is collateral damage in a battle for subsidies built on outdated theories. We have old people dying so that billiionaires can assuage their guilt over their carbon footprint? That is simply obscene.

Trenberth making outrageous claims in the Antipodes (probably thinks world won’t hear) | JunkScience Sidebar

Trouble is likely on the horizon for electric consumers - Minnesotans For Global Warming

Trouble is likely on the horizon for electric consumers due to the current state of U.S. energy policy - more accurately, the lack of a well-researched, balanced and congressionally approved energy policy.

Bummer: CO2 allegedly causes cancer

The pulsating menace of global warming is here
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“You remember what happened in Haitti after that devastating massive earthquake, scores of people were affected by cholera outbreak and died. This is the one of the effects of global warming.”

Also, in Nigeria, there have been increasing cases of cancer. Cancer is a deadly disease which can result from global warming.” remarked Br Bolaji Ajeigbe of JVM Clinic, Ibadan, Oyo State.

Carbon trading has its risks including fraud, warn experts | Herald Sun

Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce, who opposes the system, says despite $382 million being spent on a new climate change bureaucracy there were bound to be rorts as $3 billion went overseas on abatement.
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Taxpayers' money would be "cast like confetti around the world"

Dredging Today – Study Shows Connection Between Beach Erosion and Climate Change (USA)

He acknowledged that the study encompassed five to 13 years of data

The Debilitating Disease of Climate Alarmism

Yes, we live in truly disturbing times, when climate alarmists are proclaiming one impending catastrophe after another, if anthropogenic CO2 emissions are not drastically reduced; and there is absolutely no question but that the responsibility for the resultant widespread and growing state of irrational depression, anxiety and stress that is manifesting itself throughout the world can be laid squarely at the doorstep of those who peddle climatic doom and gloom, and that the perverse results of their perturbing of the psyches of millions of people will bring nothing but anguish and remorse as rewards for their woefully misguided efforts.

Abbott eyes mandate to dump tax

Mr Abbott told the forum to ''never underestimate people power'' and that if enough pressure could be applied to Labor MPs, the legislation could be stopped from going through Parliament in the first place.

Carbon tax bad for buses: O'Farrell

Schools, hospitals and other services would also suffer, he said, as the NSW government was set to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in dividends from the state's mainly government-owned black coal power generators, which have been denied compensation for the tax they will pay.

"It could take up to half of the dividends provided by the state energy companies to state government," he said.

Selling the carbon tax: less is more - The Drum Opinion - Julia Gillard should have stayed in bed this week, for all the good her carbon tax campaigning did. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

the prize for best-stunt-of-the-week goes to the other Brisbane woman who bailed up Julia Gillard and demanded to know why she had lied to us. Her two minutes of fame are likely to be remembered long after the other sideshows have faded from memory.

The encounter highlighted Gillard's continuing problem in the trust department, the issue that cruels the pitch every time she talks about climate change policy.

The encounter killed Gillard's message for the day and also showed everything that grates about her.

Black frost destroys citrus, horticulture | The Zimbabwean

A lot of farmers in Bulawayo’s peri urban farming area last week lost most of their horticulture crops and citrus produce to severe frost following a cold spell experienced in most parts of the country.

Farmers who spoke to The Zimbabwean said their crops had been destroyed by frost bite, which hit most parts of Matabeleland destroying crops such as tomatoes, cabbages, potatoes, maize and flowers.
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“We haven’t experienced such a severe frost as this one before. It must have been the black frost I have heard of that destroys everything. I lost my entire flower crop which was meant for export to South Africa,” said Khumalo.

We're passionate about carbon too: Tony Abbott | The Australian

TONY Abbott says Coalition MPs are just as passionate in their opposition to a carbon tax as Julia Gillard is in favour of the policy.

The Opposition Leader, who yesterday vowed to call a double dissolution poll if he won the upcoming election and was blocked from axing the carbon tax, said today the Prime Minister should accept that most Australians disagreed with her climate plan.

The arid Southwest's 10 great climate deniers - Global warming - Salon.com

many GOP politicians from some of the worst afflicted Southwestern states maintain that man-made global warming is an elaborate hoax. We've compiled a list of 10 such prominent climate change deniers and compare their statements against their constituents' current climate woes.

Carbon [dioxide scam] scammer warning - The West Australian

Scammers are targeting consumers about the carbon tax, offering $5000 in compensation to unwary Australians.

It's the end of the scam as we know it?: For British Council climate hoax program "there is no budget for next year"

Artists condemn British Council's decision to axe climate [hoax] programme | Environment | guardian.co.uk

A group of some of Britain's best-known authors and artists has condemned the British Council's "extraordinary" decision to all but end its groundbreaking international work on climate change and demanded the decision be reconsidered.
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The British Council's cultural work on climate change and the low-carbon economy has involved as many as 100 million people across the world and was seen as a crucial and highly effective part of the UK's strategy for tackling global warming. It engaged schoolchildren, politicians, community leaders, scientists and journalists in scores of countries, including major efforts in China and India, using events, teaching materials, websites and competitions.

In a letter published in the Guardian, Sir Andrew Motion, Philip Pullman, Caryl Churchill, Ian McEwan and others with "affectionate connections" with the British Council write: "As the climate crisis proves ever more intractable in geopolitical terms it is hard to imagine a more important activity [and] there is no better vehicle than the British Council."
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The working budget for the council's climate change programmes has been cut by at least 43% to £2.1m, the investment budget from £500,000 to £3,000, and there is no budget for next year.

Letters: The British Council must reconsider the axing of its climate projects | Environment | The Guardian

One of the most prominent projects has been with young people. The Climate Generation is a programme energising and supporting many "climate champions" to undertake projects involving decision-makers locally, nationally and internationally.

Fuel efficiency standards | Unplugged from reality | The Daily Caller

President Obama wants to force car manufacturers to raise average fuel efficiency to a ridiculous 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025. If this number becomes the law of the land, the only way car manufacturers will be able to comply is by selling millions of plug-in hybrids.

Like all government central planning, this forced transformation of our cars is a sweet dream so long as it is only a theory. And like all central planning, once it becomes reality it will introduce us to its list of unintended consequences.

It Must Be The CO2 | Real Science

Not as bad as the 1930s or the 1950s. It must be the CO2.

Global Warming Causes More Poison Ivy | Real Science

More than when? Less than when? They never show any evidence of a trend. New England had record snow last winter.

The yard has poison ivy. The woman next door looks like a witch. Therefore witches cause poison ivy. Burn her.

These are the same religious nuts from the 18th century.

Green jobs pay better as clean-tech sector booms - USATODAY.com

Brookings broadly defines the "clean economy" and includes such industries as waste management and transportation

Global warming infinitely “more dangerous” than Hitler | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Today, we are fighting a different and infinitely more dangerous enemy - global warming.

The New Nostradamus of the North: The British Council to cut its megalomaniac climate change programmes

The British Council is finally going to stop wasting money on useless climate change programmes, which do not have anything to do with its real purpose.

Biggest Coal Company and Coal Country Collaborate on Mega Mine - NYTimes.com

A newly announced partnership between the world’s biggest private coal mining company and coal-burning country cuts against recent efforts to paint China green because of its push on manufacturing wind turbines and solar panels. All of its efforts on renewable energy come atop ongoing expansion of its use of coal.

Fraudster Al is already pretending that the Australian carbon dioxide tax is a done deal

Al's Journal : Australia Introduces Carbon Tax

A step forward -- though we need a global agreement to truly have an impact on the climate crisis:

Arrest of the managing director of a firm hired by the University of East Anglia’s CRU (Climatic Research Unit) to carry out “covert” operations

“Covert” Operations by East Anglia’s CRU « Climate Audit

Today brings news of the arrest of the managing director of a firm hired by the University of East Anglia’s CRU (Climatic Research Unit) to carry out “covert” operations – h/t reader Chu here). Neil Wallis of Outside Organisation was arrested today in connection with the spreading News of the World scandal.

Quadrant Online - Inventing a pollutant

On Sunday, 10 July 2011, Australia witnessed a surreal farrago of lies and ideological conceit. Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s announcement and later address to the nation was a weird concoction of figures relating to compensation for the masses and monotonously repeated use of the word “pollution”. Since both Julia Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan specifically call carbon dioxide a pollutant, I looked up the National Pollutant Inventory, published under the authority of the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Surprise surprise, there is no mention of CO2 as a pollutant. Even more astonishing is that no gallery journalist has looked up the easily accessible website and asked the obvious question. Julia Gillard’s failure to correct this omission by this recalcitrant department is starkly revealing.

What really convinced me that the Government was stark raving nuts was the calm precision of the supposed benefits of the compensation package. Can you really believe that the average family will lose precisely $9.90 in costs but gain $10.10, leaving a net gain of exactly 20 cents? This is beyond satire. This surely rivals the crazy delusions of the central planners in the old Soviet Union. The notion that bureaucrats could capture in a model every variable and capture every last detail of every business and consumer decision is beyond mad.

Polluting our reason, not the air | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

One of the masterstrokes of this Government’s propaganda has been to persuade even educated journalists ("even"?) that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, threatening even the air they breath.
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We can laugh, but this meme has escaped. I heard a woman on ABC talkback assert, without contradiction from the host, that if we didn’t stop emitting carbon dioxide, her children would not be able to breath. On Channel 10 on Sunday, former Liberal leader John Hewson, on being told be me that Gillard’s carbon dioxide tax would have close to zero effect on temperatures, insisted that “cleaning” the air would still be good, regardless.

Take a deep breath, please | Herald Sun

Could somebody down at The Age - anybody? - explain to the poor chap about carbon dioxide.

Which if the atmosphere wasn't "polluted with," life on earth would not exist. All plants would die. He wouldn't actually have any "air to breathe."

And which - just to break it to him gently - he, ahem, breathes out in concentrations that are 10 times that of the "polluted atmosphere."

If the Australians really believe that cap and trade is coming to the US anytime soon, why not "bet the farm" on related Intrade contracts?

Fatal flaw in case for a carbon tax | The Australian

THE one thing you need to know about Treasury's modelling of the carbon tax is this: it assumes that by 2016, the US and all the other developed economies that do not have carbon taxes or emissions trading systems in place will have them up and running.

This implies that in next year's US presidential election, likely to be fought at a time of high unemployment, the winning candidate will campaign on the basis of introducing a carbon tax that will go from zero to $30 a tonne in a matter of months. And that tax will then not only get through Congress but in record time.

Moreover, that feat accomplished, by 2021 China will sign up too, and with 14 per cent of the world's population and barely 20 per cent of world income, will agree to shoulder 34 to 35 per cent of the costs of global mitigation. As part of that deal, China's leadership will accept a fall in national living standards, relative to business as usual, of between 5 and 10 per cent, while per capita incomes in the far wealthier US and European Union decline by a fraction of that amount. And with China on board, the rest of the world will join the party.

Intrade - A US cap and trade system for emissions trading to be established before midnight ET on 31 Dec 2013

[Last closing price: 10 cents on the dollar]

Consumer climate tax woes fresh blow to Gillard | WORLD News

Prime Minister Julia Gillard's carbon pricing sales pitch has been dealt a fresh blow after one of the country's top retailers declared the policy was partly to blame for a dramatic collapse in consumer confidence.

David Jones says carbon tax fears among well-heeled shoppers have contributed to a record fall in sales which has forced it to slash its second half profit guidance.

As Gillard delivered a passionate speech defending her controversial policy, David Jones boss Paul Zahra declared he had "no doubt" the carbon tax debate was a factor in slowing sales.

Cats, Not Cars, Cause…Climate Change? | Breaking news and opinion on The Blaze

So, cats cause global warming, but global warming causes more cats.

John Podesta, guy who helped lead Obama's transition, suggests that Washington, DC is the "global capital of dysfunctionality"

The Global Clean Energy Race: Ontario's Opportunity

The following are remarks given by John Podesta at an event on July 13, 2010 in Ontario hosted by Environmental Defence Canada, WWF, Blue Green Canada, and MaRS.

Good evening. Thank you, Rick, for that kind introduction, and to Environmental Defence Canada for organizing this event. I bring you greetings from my nation’s capital and the global capital of dysfunctionality.

Flashback:  John Podesta and Cassandra Q. Butts oversee Obama’s transition | Muckety - See the news

The Associated Press reported that Podesta led a large organizational meeting last week to give marching orders to several dozen people who have been assigned to committees charged with different facets of a transition. Butts oversaw the groups dedicated to selecting personnel.

You know why you shouldn't kill whales? It's because whale poop prevents hurricanes

Loss of top animal predators has massive ecological effects | e! Science News

Industrial whaling in the 20th century resulted in the loss of large numbers of plankton-consuming great whales, which are now known to sequester carbon into the deep sea through deposition of feces. The result has been the transfer of approximately 105 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere that would have been absorbed by whales, contributing to climate change.

Warmist Ilya Maclean's incredible hockey stick: 200 years after the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, he can't name one CO2-induced species extinction. In 89 years, he suggests there may be over one million CO2-induced species extinctions.

Steve Milloy has some good questions for climate hoax promoter Ilya Maclean

[Ilya Maclean] Our study does not make the claim that there are existing examples in which climate change has caused/will cause species extinction so I cannot provide you with these.

Total Number of Species Estimated in the World - Current Results

Tallying the estimates of all living things brings the number to 11.3 million species currently on earth.

89 years is only another 32485 days, and to reach a million extinctions by 2100, CO2 has to kill off an average of 30+ species for each of those days.

I'm not an infallible IPCC scientist like Maclean, but I think that's unlikely.

What Obama can do to save the planet - War Room - Salon.com

What we can still do, though, is prevent North America from becoming the next Middle East.

Washington Post: Light Bulb Ban Is “Impressive”

Few laws epitomize the belief that government should micromanage the daily affairs of Americans more completely than Congress’ ban on incandescent light bulbs. It’s an intrusion into the most mundane aspect of our lives. It violates the rights of both consumers and producers. It forces Americans to buy a hazardous, mercury-laden alternative. It sets a precedent under which almost anything in our lives can be controlled by bureaucrats. Given one word for such an outrageous policy, what would you choose?

Would You Let a Social Worker Handle Your Investment Portfolio? - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Michigan senator Debbie Stabenow has a graduate degree in social work from Michigan State University. So this week, she invested $2 billion of your money in the lithium-ion-battery industry.

Ain’t spending other people’s money fun?

Ben Jervey | David Legates Asked To Step Down As Delaware State Climatologist

Cindy Baxter of Greenpeace US’s Research Department believes that the University’s decision to replace Legates as Delaware State Climatologist likely involved his close ties to the controversial Soon.

Australia counts the cost of environmental lunacy – and plots its sweet revenge – Telegraph Blogs

$24.5 billion is too bloody much, too bloody much by far, for Australia to pay for the privilege of reducing the world’s temperature, by 2020, by 1/4000th of a degree.

Yep, you read that aright. Australian Prime Minister Julia “Toast” Gillard has hit on the ingenious idea of clobbering one of the world’s most thriving – and also one of the most carbon-intensive – economies with a tax on one of its main industrial by-products, CO2, which will punish business, hamstring economic growth, boost unemployment and make life for everyone outside the enviro-rent-seeking professions more difficult and expensive. And all in order to achieve the wonderful goal of ensuring that by 2020 the world’s temperature will be altered with such refinement and subtlety that not even the most sophisticated measuring equipment yet devised is likely to notice the difference.

One third living in fuel poverty - Stirling Observer

The proportion of households living in fuel poverty in Scotland is nearly twice as high as that of England, official figures have shown.

Almost a third of Scottish households (32.7%) spend at least 10% of income on fuel, the official definition of fuel poverty, compared with 18.4% of households in England.

Warmist Joe Romm suggests that the US may not get "serious" about reducing CO2 emissions until the mid-2020s

Coal Industry Commits Suicide, NY Times Gets Story Half Right | ThinkProgress

It remains true today. To repeat, whenever we [get] serious about reducing emissions, something that is inevitable by the mid-2020s, if not much sooner, we will aggressively deploy every last bit of cost-effective, commercial low-carbon technology.

Mark Steyn on Al Gore - DON'T AXE, DON'T TELL

The piece below, for example, is a trivial little thing. I suppose one could argue that it uses a small footnote to make a large point about a man who was not unimportant and who, at the Copenhagen climate conference, came within an East Anglian e-mail or two of taking out the entire developed world. But really, it's just an excuse for a bit of cheap knockabout.

Energy and Commerce Leaders Probe Administration on Greenhouse Gas Rules

WASHINGTON, DC – House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) called on the Environmental Protection Agency today to provide information on its current and proposed rules to regulate greenhouse gases.

The Green Left’s Ten Thousand Commandments - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

The Religious Right is in your bedroom. And the Green Left is in every other room in your house.

If Bible-thumping busybodies want to govern your sex life, then the Goracle’s disciples want to dictate what light bulbs to use in the living room, what foods you eat in the kitchen, what toilets you flush in the bathroom, what washers and detergents you use in the laundry room, and what car you park in the garage.

Incredibly, the House of Representatives went on the record Tuesday night to ban the light bulbs that 85 percent of Americans choose to use in their homes. We’re not making this up.

Remember when the late Stephen Schneider claimed that he received "hundreds of hate e-mails a day", and when he accused climate realists of "Hitlerian lies"?

[July 2010] Stephen H. Schneider, climate change expert, dies at 65

His passionate views on the climate debate occasionally attracted vitriol from extremist groups. An FBI investigation recently found he was named on a neo-Nazi "death list," and Dr. Schneider said he received hundreds of hate e-mails a day.

"What do I do? Learn to shoot a magnum? Wear a bulletproof jacket?" Dr. Schneider said. "I have now had extra alarms fitted at my home, and my address is unlisted. I get scared that we're now in a new Weimar Republic where people are prepared to listen to what amounts to Hitlerian lies about climate scientists."

Five-minute German climate realist rap with English subtitles

‪Kilez More - Klimawandel (Klimalüge, Klimaschwindel) - YouTube

About My Book « NoFrakkingConsensus

My new title is:

Our Spoiled Godchild:
How the World has Been Taking Climate Change Advice
from a Wayward Teenager

My spotlight is now trained firmly on the IPCC itself. It is difficult to think of another organization that is so influential and yet so unaccountable.

Julie Gillard blames the Internet for reporters allegedly writing "complete crap" about her carbon dioxide swindle

I meant what I said at the time, PM says of no carbon tax promise | The Australian

JULIA Gillard showed rare emotion today as she defended her carbon tax - and her prime ministership - from community outcry and personal attacks.
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Asked about the intensity of the carbon debate and the media's responsibilities, Ms Gillard issued a blunt appeal to reporters. “Don't write crap,” she said.

“It can't be that hard,” she said. “And when you have written complete crap, I think you should correct it.”

She said the “volume of crap” had changed over the years, due to the demands of modern media.

“I'm not suggesting in the past everything we read was wonderfully accurate.

“But I think with the new media environment, where you are both restless and relentless with content ... I think the quality of the content is possibly lower just because the volume has had to be higher.”

Dr Jim wants no part in visit | Noosa News | Local News in Noosa | Noosa News

THE Greens Noosa state candidate Dr Jim McDonald is not about to waste his time going along to hear the sort of pseudo scientific “snake oil” that he says climate change sceptic Lord Christopher Monckton peddles.

Dr McDonald is something of a doubting Thomas in that he does not believe the international spokesman for the global warming non-believers is a proper lord.

“And he certainly is not a scientist. What he is is a former journalist who is the PR spokesman for the climate-change lobby,” he said.

Dr McDonald said none of Lord Monckton’s arguments used to deny climate change stood up to serious scientific scrutiny.

“The fact is that you can’t have a scientific debate between non-scientists and scientists,” Dr McDonald said.

Junk science journalism - report on Great Lakes by advocacy groups

ICECAP

Some of the Great Lakes’ treasured national parks are showing ill effects of climate change that are likely to worsen in coming decades, from shoreline erosion to decline of certain wildlife and plant species, a former park system administrator said Wednesday.

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Lets look at Michigan temperature strends in summer and annual below even with urbanization, no trend or slight cooling..
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Liars everyone. They never think anybody will ever check the facts. They know their friends in the media can e counted on to believe them. The media is implicated in most of the economic woes we have in this country by backing these government, enviro driven policies based on greed or ideology.

Major Coal Producer Shelves Carbon Capture Project | FDL News Desk

For years – decades? – we’ve heard about the promise of clean coal, which will allow the United States to produce its own energy and limit carbon pollution, through the promise and wonder of technology. We heard that responsible energy companies were installing carbon capture and sequestration systems right now, to make coal mining a clean and green job. we heard that we didn’t have to compromise our lifestyle or change our energy consumption habits, because we were the Saudi Arabia of coal and the big brains found out a way to make that as safe for the environment as solar and wind.

We were sold a bill of goods.

Nation's Top 'Clean Coal' Project Abandoned : TreeHugger

...the underlying trend that the plant's closure suggests is far more disturbing: Power companies sensed a wind change a couple years back, when it looked like climate laws were inevitable, and began investing in carbon emissions-reducing technology. This is a clear signal that those companies no longer fear such laws, and are shifting back to the status quo -- focusing on generating power as cheaply as possible, no matter how emissions-heavy.

Warmist Richard Branson boasts about his fuel-guzzling lifestyle

My perfect weekend: Richard Branson - Telegraph

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean and it’s always full of people in party mode.
......I had a skiing accident in Zermatt...
I always find it difficult to leave Necker, but I still spend half the year travelling the world on business trips. I’m just coming to the end of a two-week round-the-world trip right now: I went to Colombia which was magnificent...
After a fortnight of being on and off aeroplanes I’m yearning to get back home.

Virgin Atlantic Airways: Information from Answers.com

In 2010 Virgin Atlantic carried 5.3 million passengers,[5] making it the eighth largest UK airline based on passenger numbers.

Virgin Galactic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Virgin Galactic is a company within Richard Branson's Virgin Group which plans to provide sub-orbital spaceflights to the paying public

Press Room | Carbon War Room

[Tumbleweeds blowing through Branson's Carbon (Dioxide) War Room? Since January 10, 2011, a total of zero "Recent Articles" have been added to the Press Room.]

Remember February?: Winter harder on humans, psychologist says - Shawnee, OK

Hot weather carries the physical risks of heat stroke, dehydration and severe sunburn to equal cold weather’s hypothermia and frostbite, but the mental effects aren’t quite as severe.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, July 14th 2011 « The Daily Bayonet

Science is hard for hippies, Skippy’s coming to dinner and Manbearpig returns to our dimension for a day.

Bummer: Lack of global warming leads to undeniable increase in pirate activity, which hampers global warming hoax scientists

Pirates Swashbuckle Global Warming Alarmists - Climate Change - Fox Nation

Piracy in the Indian Ocean is hampering the efforts of climate change researchers to the point where they have had to call in the Australian Navy.

Flashback: Global Warming Causes Pirate Population Decrease | BorkWeb

According to the following chart from Venganza, I am sad to say that we are seeing a steady decrease in the number of pirates in relation to the temperature. It seems these powerful pillars of society are unable to take the heat on the high seas, driving their numbers down.

Less snow, worse air quality, and more poison ivy, oh my: NSF funds climate hoax propaganda in New Hampshire

Science Center examines ‘Global Warming in Your Backyard’

“Seasons of Change” was developed by the New England Science Center Collaborative and Brown University’s Watson Institute of International Studies and Center for Climate Studies, under a grant from the National Science Foundation. To prepare teachers, parents, and students for visiting the exhibit, a project website gives “background on climate change in New England and opportunities for becoming citizen scientists,” curators said.

“You know that climate change is taking place when you can see it happening in our own backyard,” according to an introduction about the project at seasons. terc.edu/index.html. “More rain, less snow. More severe storms and flooding. More heat waves.

Worse air quality. More severe asthma and allergies. New pests, more poison ivy.”

Pielke Sr: "The claim that CO2 dominates climate change in the multi-decadal time period has been clearly FALSIFIED."

Climate Science Myopia | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Beck Endorses The Slogan "Deny Till We Die" On Climate Change | Media Matters for America

'Green' Economy Is Real but Needs a Push, Study Suggests - NYTimes.com

Over the last seven years, the green economy has grown at a rate of 3.4 percent, trailing the 4.2 percent growth achieved over all

More density equals less driving: just an urban legend? | Grist

Modern life demands mobility, and few things are better at providing that than the automobile.

State climatologist doubts haboobs will become common - KTAR.com

Arizona State Climatologist Nancy Selover says it takes a "perfect storm" scenario to produce a giant haboob and she believes such storms will continue to be rare.

Healing the planet: During "coal rush", India removes global warming hero Jairam Ramesh from the environment ministry

Andhra Pradesh at the forefront of Indian 'coal rush' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

A single Indian state is to build a new fleet of coal-power stations that could make it one of the world's top 20 emitters of carbon emissions – on a par with countries such as Spain or Poland.
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Growing frustration at the government's decison to block the expansion of coal mines in some of India's most heavily polluted coalfield areas is thought to have contributed to this week's removal of Jairam Ramesh from the environment ministry.

Ramesh was widely blamed by the coal and power ministries for delaying mine expansion approvals and for India not meeting its coal production targets. Ramesh relaxed rules for coal developers under intense pressure in the days before he was moved, but bans on new mining in several hundred blocks with a potential of over 600m tonnes of coal remain.

Separately this week, international watchdog groups also complained that Indian coal companies were trying to earn hundreds of millions of carbon credits from the coal expansion. The Krishnapatnam plant has been registered with the UN clean development mechanism (CDM) and, if approved, could generate 3.5m carbon credits a year.

Graph of the US wind energy bubble

EIA - Today in Energy

From 2005 to 2009, the annual growth in U.S. wind capacity averaged 40%. Since 2006, 36% of total electric power industry capacity additions have been wind generators. The economic downturn and an uncertain regulatory environment (particularly relating to the renewal of production and investment tax credits) contributed to a lower level of wind capacity additions in 2010.

What makes a scientific expert? Congressional Democrats offer a shocking answer | JunkScience.com

Astonishingly, a scientist’s source of funding is what makes him expert, according to the Kerry-Moran bill.

[Why not try to use your toilet to prevent hurricanes?] - Water saving devices in the toilet will help UK fight climate change says Government adviser  - Telegraph

Households should be encouraged to fit nozzles on taps and put water saving devices in the toilet, the Government’s climate change adviser has warned.

Poland Blocks Europe Madness

Let’s hope Poland sticks to its guns and doesn’t cave in to the green suicide energy-pact that is being rammed through in Europe.

Richard Black’s response | ScottishSceptic

Come on Richard. If you ever read this, please just prove you aren’t as stupid as you make out and tell us how Chinese pollution in the 21st century can halt global warming, when the worldwide reduction in pollutants from virtually all industrialised nation has never been credited with causing the apparent warming we saw from 1970-2000 by your like.

Which reminds me of a joke: “why do you find so many global warmists at the top of hills … because they don’t know that there is a path downwards.”

I can't remember if I cried the day...the horsefly...died

Billions of bugs wiped out on Dutch roads | Reuters

(Reuters) - Dutch motorists kill about 133 billion insects a month, splattering bugs on their vehicles and eliminating important members of the food chain, according to a study released this week.

Settled science: Looking an entire 1/600 of a century into the future, sea ice extent guesses vary by 25,000 Manhattans

Sea Ice News – July ARCUS forecast published | Watts Up With That?

We received 16 responses for the Pan-Arctic report (Figure 1), with estimates in the range of 4.0 to 5.5 million square kilometers for the September arctic mean sea ice extent.