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Saturday, August 13, 2011
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: 'Obama once cast a spell so powerful' that he wasn't ridiculed for boasting he would cause 'the oceans to stop rising and the planet to heal'
In short, the spell that Mr. Obama once cast—a spell so powerful that instead of ridiculing him when he boasted that he would cause "the oceans to stop rising and the planet to heal," all of liberaldom fell into a delirious swoon—has now been broken by its traumatic realization that he is neither the "god" Newsweek in all seriousness declared him to be nor even a messianic deliverer. [Note to Obama: The oceans have been rising since the peak of the last ice age 18,000 years ago, and the rate of rise has greatly decelerated over the past 8,000 years, and during the 20th century well before you were elected President.]South braced for super-cold blast - the-press | Stuff.co.nz
If the worst of the predictions come true today it could be a disaster for the farming community, with some parts of the country lambing.Twitter / @ClimateReality
MetService forecaster Geoff Sanders said people should be prepared for ''blizzard conditions''.
"It's really quite a significant event... it's a very cold outbreak and the strength of the wind associated with it will make it very cold. It leads on to Monday, where we could be looking at blizzard conditions in some inland areas – particularly the Canterbury high country."
Joe Bastardi cites 1st law of thermodynamics to refute #reality of climate change. Only problem? He forgot the sun. huff.to/nYhXrX
Extreme prairie weather focus of university study
CALGARY — A University of Regina researcher and his team will spend the next five years in southern Alberta and Saskatchewan learning about the extreme weather that has become a norm in these parts of the country.
With $1.25 million from the federal government, University of Regina geography professor and research scientist David Sauchyn and his team will also look at whether global warming is potentially to blame for the droughts and floods that have destroyed farmers' crops over the years.
"Every time there is a weather disaster, the media tends to attribute it to global warming, but scientists are not that certain," he said.
"We are going to look at the connection with global warming and whether it's making the extremes more severe and more often."
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Neil Batchelor, UFA crop specialist, says farmers nearly bet their livelihood every year with the weather.
"They live with weather as a risk every day of every year," he said, adding farmers know there is very little they can do about it.
However, a "cautionary" Batchelor doesn't believe global warming exists, instead crediting the extreme weather to an extended weather cycle.
"I think these things are cyclic in nature and these are just a larger cycle than the time period we have kept records for," he said.
Large Antarctic iceberg seen very far north; global warming blamed
Giant iceberg heading for Australia - Telegraph
A giant iceberg double the size of Sydney Harbour is on a slow but steady collision course with Australia, scientists have said.
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Dr Neal Young, a glaciologist working for the ADD, said that if the iceberg eventually reached Australia waters, it would crash into the continental shelf causing a magnitude three to to four tremor.
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Dr Young said an iceberg the size of B17B had not been seen so far north since the days when 19th century clipper ships plied the trade route between Britain and Australia.
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Originally three times its current size, the iceberg broke off Antarctica's Ross Ice Shelf in 2000 along with several others.
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Dr Young said sightings of large icebergs could become more frequent if sea temperatures rise through global warming.
Hansen, WG3 and Green Kool-aid « Climate Audit
Hansen likened the belief in renewables as a large footprint solution to climate and energy policy as akin to believing in the Easter Bunny or Tooth FairyAirport to double up on de-icer for winter - News, Frontpage - Herald.ie
DUBLIN Airport is set to more than double its capacity for de-icer ahead of the next big freeze -- predicted this winter.
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The council decision comes as forecasters warned that Ireland should brace itself for a third harsh winter in a row.
Heavy Rain Carefully Avoids Lubbock, Austin And College Station
Didn't Rick Perry pray for rain the other day? Five inches have fallen near Fort Worth In the last 12 hours.
Robust and heated start as readers speak out
MORE than 310 climate change questions have been posted - and more than 11,000 votes cast - in a robust online forum prompted by The Sunday Age's Climate Agenda. The agenda encourages people to ask questions on climate change and to vote for others' questions they want answered. The Sunday Age has committed to reporting on the 10 most popular questions.Jack Knox: Science deprived of a voice by politics of silence
In its first week, the Climate Agenda attracted significantly more hits on OurSay.org than any other forum run by the participatory democracy organisation. Voting ends on September 2.
One question, by Jason Fong, has led from the start. It streaked ahead in the days after climate change sceptic and Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt highlighted it and encouraged readers of his blog to ''vote here'', providing a link to the OurSay forum.
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Last night, the question had attracted more than 4780 votes, compared with the next most popular question, from Simon James, about scientific uncertainty around the magnitude of future global warming, and what he says is the reluctance of the Fairfax Media to investigate it. Fairfax is the owner of The Sunday Age.
An Environment Canada report leaked to Canwest last year showed science reporting dried up after Ottawa introduced its complicated, cumbersome communications strategy in 2007. "Media coverage of climate change science, our most high-profile issue, has been reduced by over 80 per cent," it said. The Big Brotherishness has become so silly that, as the Ottawa Citizen noted, a scientist needed clearance from political staff before discussing a report on flooding that occurred in northern Canada 13,000 years ago.
"Scientists are telling me 'We can't talk to the press and we can't talk to MPs,' " Hetherington said this week. "They can't get their message out."
Google Trends confirms what you should already know: Lack of belief in the global warming hoax is global, and isn't limited to right-wing deer-hunting non-sandal-wearing truck-driving old Caucasian American males
Google Trends: "climate change" [blue], "global warming" [red]
Scale is based on the average worldwide traffic of "climate change" in all years.
Himachal gets season’s first snow amid rains
Shimla, Aug 13 (IANS) Himachal Pradesh got the season’s first snowfall early Saturday, the weather bureau here said.Row To The Pole's Photos | Facebook
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Keylong, the headquarters of the remote Lahaul and Spiti district, received four centimetres of snow.
The higher hills such as the Lady of Keylong and the Seven Sisters around the Lahaul Valley and the mighty Rohtang Pass in Kullu district were wrapped in a white blanket.
Day 15:Weather once again hampered progress but managed to tiptoe 10 miles up coast.Now in better position to make 'assault' on Cornwall Island...ice & weather permitting
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Danny Weston Ice in the way!? Surely not!
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Tricia Prescott Maybe you'll prove that global warming isn't as advanced as everyone thinks??? Glad to see the cautious approach prevails xx
What would we do without the National Weather Service? For Oct/Nov/Dec, they're forecasting "equal chances of above normal, normal or below normal precipitation"
Area winter forecast gives little certainty | The Jamestown Sun
This has prompted the National Weather Service to issue an extended forecast for the months of October, November and December that includes equal chances of above normal, normal or below normal precipitation.
Warmist Mark Seeley sees changing weather; concludes that CO2 caused it
All the rain, snow, heat ... Is it global warming? - Post Bulletin
But in Minnesota, some minds are being changed by this past winter's record snowfall, this summer's record heat, recent torrential rains and flooding, and the unusual number and ferocity of tornadoes.
Earlier in his career, University of Minnesota climatologist Mark Seeley might have ignored climate change as a cause for these events.
"For many years I was a global warming skeptic — I'm a measurements guy, not a (climate) modeler," he said. "But when the measurements I saw showed so much change, that's what convinced me."
Climate change affecting Atlantic mackerel - Tehran Times
The "continental shelf is warming, increasing the area over which the stock can be distributed, while at the same time the distribution of the stock is shifting northward," Jon Hare of NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Narragansett, R.I., said.
Healing the planet: Your tax dollars used to pay for empty fossil-fueled plane flights to rural airports
Gov't pays for empty flights to rural airports
On some days, the pilots with Great Lakes Airlines fire up a twin-engine Beechcraft 1900 at the Ely, Nev., airport and depart for Las Vegas without a single passenger on board. And the federal government pays them to do it.
Federal statistics reviewed by The Associated Press show that in 2010, just 227 passengers flew out of Ely while the airline got $1.8 million in subsidies. The travelers paid $70 to $90 for a one-way ticket. The cost to taxpayers for each ticket: $4,107.
C3: Obama's Commerce Secretary Nominee Wants To Increase Taxes On Commerce - Likes Carbon Tax
Despite the U.S. economy being in the tank and millions yearning for high growth that will produce jobs, John Bryson favors imposing a carbon tax that will penalize commerce growth and hurt employemt prospects.U.S. May Ship More Coal, Raising EU Supply, Macquarie Says - Bloomberg
Who's John Bryson? He is Obama's choice for U.S. Commerce Secretary - a choice who favors taxes to punish commerce but is appointed to a position that supposedly represents commerce interests. Unbelievable.
The U.S. may increase coal exports, further boosting supply of the commodity in Europe, Macquarie Group Ltd. (MQG) said.Mafia-Linked Stake in Sicilian Wind Farm Recovered by Greentech - Bloomberg
“A big push” to encourage natural-gas burning in the U.S. may drive up coal exports to Europe, China and India, said Hayden Atkins, an analyst in London at Macquarie’s commodities unit
Greentech Energy Systems (GES) A/S, a Danish renewable-power developer, recovered the 15 percent stake in a Sicilian wind farm swept up when anti-mafia police seized assets from a former shareholder in the project.
Capital Flight From Green Investments – “Innovation In The Energy Sector Could Slip Into A Major Crisis”
With another financial crisis flaring up, the green energy sector this time is taking a hit. This is being reported today in the German language Technology Review here.BBC News - Australia's Great Barrier Reef 'at risk from pesticide'
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No wonder Al Gore blew a fuse a few days back. With this news and the Chicago Climate Exchange shutting down, the poor bloke is probably taking a real hit. Might want to have a skyscraper watch.
Agricultural pesticides are causing significant damage to the Great Barrier Reef, according to a new Australian government report on water quality at the site.Out of the laboratory | Red Pepper
Connie St Louis, a senior lecturer at City University, London, trains would-be science journalists.
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For Connie St Louis, the responsibility also lies with the media. She argues that too many science journalists are concerned with telling the story of science rather than investigating it. Instead of investigators and reporters they become more akin to PR spokepeople: ‘We don’t have science journalists that are interrogating science. I think we should have a much more proactive science journalism, investigating conflicts of interest, peer review, who’s retracting what and when. I don’t think people understand how much money is paid by oil companies to feed, for example, climate sceptics. I don’t think people understand how governments make decisions and I think without those bits of information it’s difficult for people to understand.’
St Louis is particularly critical of the way newspapers covered ‘Climate-gate’, the scandal that erupted when climatologists at the University of East Anglia had their emails hacked. The emails were said to contain evidence that scientists were manipulating data to support the view that man-made climate change is real. St Louis argues that editors removed science correspondents from this story because their role was seen as science promotion rather than interrogation. This meant the coverage was handed over to political and news journalists. These correspondents concentrated on the controversy and news space was filled with climate sceptic opinion.
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Science journalists had the expertise to dispute the claims of climate sceptics, and that they were not given an investigative role allowed climate change deniers to gain far greater attention than they might have otherwise.
You could only see a 10-inch plate at a depth of 64 feet last year in Lake Tahoe; CO2 blamed
Climate change may be muddying Lake Tahoe waters - ContraCostaTimes.com
The average depth at which a 10-inch plate could be seen from a research boat was just 64.4 feet last year, a decline of 3.7 feet from the previous year.
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"It looks like climate change may be behind what we're seeing this year or the last couple of years," said Geoffrey Schladow, director of UC Davis' Tahoe Environmental Research Center.
The EV-hater’s guide to hating electric cars | Grist
Electric vehicles (EVs) are a sales flop and a dismal failure. Or so I was told this week -- and last week and the week before -- by respected newspapers.The Age’s climate expert and his peer reviewed Kenyan | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
The Age seeks an expert to write on global warming and the drought in Africa. Naturally, it turns to John McIntyre, the Anglican Bishop of Gippsland, whose grip on the science is so sound that he thinks Australia can stop the whole planet from warming with just a little extra cut to its emissions- Bishop Hill blog - Bradley interview
Raymond Bradley is interviewed by Insider Higher Ed.The Climate Mirror - Revkin.net
The story seems to be that the Hockey Team emphasised the doubts and caveats over their findings
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This is true, but of course the earlier paper MBH98 was not similarly caveated. The other point to recognise is that any caveats and uncertainties were dropped long before Mann completed his work on the IPCC Third Assessment Report.
Bradley also steers into the realm of economics, claiming that controlling greenhouse gases will create new industries and jobs. True, but his erroneous conclusion that such controls are therefore good for the economy brings us back, once more, to the broken windows fallacy.
Collide-a-Scape commenters provide evidence that the climate standoff has hardened into two immutable world views. One side says:Global warming denial is very much like a religious cult, and reaching the hardcore members is difficult.The other side counters:Global warming belief is very much like a religious cult and reaching the hardcore members is difficult.Have we reached the war of attrition stage?
WWF still thinks we're stupid: They're still trying to convince us that CO2 will kill off the walruses
Arctic Weather Pattern Likely to Push Arctic Sea Ice Extent to Record Lows, Again Forcing Thousands of Walruses Ashore | WWF Climate Blog
Declining Sea Ice Disrupts Arctic Ecosystems, including Walruses and Polar BearsFlashback: WWF thinks you're stupid: If thousands of walruses with young are seen on shore this time of year, we're supposed to take it as evidence that CO2 is dangerous
Animals that spend much of their time on the ice, such as walruses and polar bears, are literally having the ice melt from underneath them; and remaining sea ice drifts away from preferred feeding areas.
In the non-reproductive season (late summer and fall) the walrus tends to migrate away from the ice and form massive aggregations of tens of thousands of individuals on rocky beaches or outcrops. The nature of the migration between the reproductive period and the summer period can be a rather long distance and dramatic. In late spring and summer, for example, several hundred thousand Pacific Walruses migrate from the Bering sea into the Chukchi sea through the relatively narrow Bering Strait.2009: Global Warming Could Reverse a Walrus Comeback - NYTimes.com
For the moment, the Pacific walrus remains abundant, numbering at least 200,000 by some accounts, double the number in the 1950s.
SongBird Survival is campaigning for high-quality science - FT.com
The RSPB even ignores its own research. Its own study with the University of East Anglia into the impact of climate change on the woodlark embarrassingly found that woodlark productivity had halved due to increased levels of predation.A dim light on global warming - Lomborg - The Economic Times
The current attempt by Republicans in the US Congress to roll back America's effort to ban incandescent bulbs has revived this discussion. Many contend that the agenda is being driven by knuckle-dragging climate-change deniers. But it's worth taking a closer look at the premise that banning things is the smartest way to tackle global warming.
Let's be clear: we do need to tackle climate change.
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You might imagine that people could choose the right light bulbs for themselves. But proponents of phasing out access to incandescent bulbs argue that they know better. As US Energy Secretary Steven Chu put it recently, "We are taking away a choice that continues to let people waste their own money.
Our view: What's going down? Not temperatures, or AC bills - USATODAY.com
Here's one way to think of it: The atmosphere is juiced like athletes on performance-enhancing drugs.Opposing view: Washington won't solve our drought - USATODAY.com
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But the climate change skeptics and deniers — many of whom hail from Texas and Oklahoma, the epicenter of this summer's misery — rarely discuss the price of inaction. If you accept that climate change is occurring, such costs are reflected in higher air conditioning bills and wilted crops.
According to a study by Tufts University researchers for the Natural Resources Defense Council, climate change will cost the average four-person household an additional $340 in energy costs in 2025, plus $2,950 for hurricane damages, real estate losses and water-supply costs.
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Some 98% of climate scientists agree that global warming is real and is very likely caused primarily by human activity.
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Too often, climate change is discussed as something to be worried about far off into the future, so far that it dims in importance compared with more pressing concerns. Both the latest global data and the USA's sweltering summer suggest, however, that the future might be now.
Many of the people who earn their living on the land and are most affected by the drought will be the very ones most hurt by "cap and trade" and similar proposals. Everyone, however, will pay higher prices for energy and for the things we buy. And because China and others will not impose the same policies, the net effect is that we would become less competitive, hurting our own people for questionable benefit at best.
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Rep. Mac Thornberry, a Republican, represents Texas' 13th congressional district.
The New Nostradamus of the North: The dirty little secret of wind power: When demand is high, output is low
Another way to describe the reality of wind power:Serreze : Ice Free Arctic In 2100 2070 2050 2030 | Real Science
"Wind turbines are a poor way to harness energy - but a very good way to generate public subsidies"
No wonder wind (and solar) energy subsidies are experiencing drastic cutbacks in a number of European countries.
The author correctly identifies Obama’s science adviser as not being a scientist.Delightful Self-contradiction | Climate Nonconformist
As Andrew Bolt mentions, no scientist has attributed this to our emissions, and droughts are not uncommon in Africa. No matter how heartbreaking the situation is over there, it doesn’t change the fact that cutting our emissions can’t help them. Realistically, the west would be in a better position to help those that need it if we weren’t worried about some bogus climate problem.
Friday, August 12, 2011
With this foldable canoe in your backpack (and your tinfoil hat firmly duct-taped to your head) you can wait in style for the CO2 apocalypse
Add this foldable canoe to your climate change survival plan | Grist
Are you concerned about apocalyptic floods? (Uh, you maybe should be.) Alternately, do you like to hike or bike to places that are good for canoeing? OR BOTH? Either in the short term or the long term, you're probably going to want this foldable canoe, which weighs less than nine pounds and folds to fit in a backpack. Unfortunately I think maybe you can't actually buy it yet? But you can go pepper the designer's Facebook wall with articles about how swiftly climate change is sending us hurtling towards watery disaster, to see if you can light a fire under him.
Row to the Pole – “don’t comment or reply to skeptics” | Watts Up With That?
By the way, has anyone noticed that not once has the team posted any updates on the “the science” they are supposed to be doing on this stunt trip?It's Official: The GOP Field Will Have No Environmental Advocate : TreeHugger
It's hard to fathom that just three years ago, the Republican presidential candidate had wholly endorsed cap and trade. As in, John McCain repeatedly pledged to fight climate change by putting a price on carbon emissions. The prospect of seeing such a proposal from a Republican today is absolutely unthinkable: Today's crop of candidates lurch over one another, racing to prove they abhor any solution to global warming the most. So extreme has the political climate become that it's now a liability to even admit that you understand the basic advisory of the nation's scientists.If green really did save money, we wouldn’t need these laws | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
But green ratings will save people money on their bills, the green totalitarians insist.Who’d have thought there’d still be ice at the Arctic? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Well, why don’t they simply trust people to make those calculations for themselves, and judge whether the price really is worth the savings?
Still, it’s odd that they hadn’t leaned from previous expeditions by warmists convinced the Arctic was turning into another Mediterranean (links at the link):Bastardi: Science and reality point away, not toward, CO2 as climate driver | Watts Up With That?
Time will provide the answer. Over the next few decades, with the solar cycles and now the oceanic cycles changing towards states that favor cooling, there should be a drop in global temperatures as measured by objective satellite measurement, at least back to the levels they were in the 1970s, when we first started measuring them via an objective source. If temperatures warm despite these natural cycles, you carry the day. We won’t have to wait the full 20-30 year period. I believe we will have our answer before this decade is done.
The polar bear problem | The Spectator
Much has been made of the 2007 summer ice retreat being the ‘greatest on record’, but records began only in 1979. In the 1920s and 1930s, there were probably still more open seasons; likewise in the medieval, Roman and other warm periods all the way back to the Holocene Optimum. Polar bears certainly survived such warmer spells, presumably by ranging somewhat further north. Indeed, fossils suggest that polar bears already existed in their current form during the last interglacial period, 120,000 years ago, when the Arctic was almost certainly wholly free of ice in late summer.Flashback: Complete barking madness from John Holdren, Obama's science advisor
A total disappearance of sea ice at all seasons would undoubtedly doom the polar bear’s lifestyle. But no scientist in his wildest exaggerations is suggesting the disappearance of Arctic sea ice in winter. As long as there is pack ice for much of the year with an ice edge, plenty of seals and controls on hunting, the polar bear is going to thrive — and tent-based tourism to the Arctic is going to be dangerous.
At the 18:54 mark at the CBC "Climate Wars" podcast here [MP3], John Holdren says this:...if you lose the summer sea ice, there are phenomena that could lead you not so very long thereafter to lose the winter sea ice as well. And if you lose that sea ice year round, it's going to mean drastic climatic change all over the hemisphere.
Climate hoax promoter Bill Chameides: Continuing to add trace amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere may cause the climate to "snap"
Bill Chameides: Global Warming: Fox News Separates Fact From Fiction
And there's another important aspect of this. If you keep on stretching that rubber band, it will eventually break. And if that happens, the rubber band will never return to its original shape.
Could the same snap happen to the climate if we keep adding CO2? Probably. When will it snap? We're not sure; we'll have to wait and see. But there's one loud snap that has already been heard: Joe Bastardi has stretched his scientific credibility beyond the breaking point.
These Earthly matters | The Australian
I am not a fan of the idea of global warming, especially after this Sydney winter. It has been the coldest I can rememberWe Can See The Future – But Only The Very Distant Future | Real Science
Sea level may not go up much any time soon. The Arctic may go through a decade or so without melting any more, temperatures may be going down. But in about 50 years the $hit is really going to hit the fan.Each Polar Bear Has Three Manhattans Of Ice To Him/Herself | Real Science
There are currently 100,000 Manhattans of sea ice in the Arctic.1956 Drought Was Worse | Real Science
NOAA said yesterday that the current drought is the worst in their records, but there is no truth to that statement.Should you let the warmists off the hook? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
There’s been a surge of voting for the only warmist question in the top eight that the Sunday Age has promised to answer in its relentless promotion of the warmist cause.
This is disturbing, even though our favorite question is still the runaway winner.
I wonder what you could do to ensure the right questions are asked of the people who most need to answer?
Blah, blah, blah: The New York Times continues to claim that there is a "scientific consensus that global warming threatens the planet"
A Polarizing Polar Bear Investigation - NYTimes.com
The scientist’s defenders believe he is being scrutinized for honest observations that tend to support the scientific consensus that global warming threatens the planet.
...A broad array of evidence suggests that polar bear populations — and the health of the planet — will be threatened by climate change in future decades even if not a single additional polar bear drowns while swimming far from shore.
It's simple, really: The Arctic ice allegedly gets thinner and more vulnerable to melt *every* year; and after ten years of this process, you may end up with more ice than you had at the start
More Arctic Sea Ice Might Chill You in Next 10 Years: NCAR - International Business Times
"The computer simulations suggest that we could see a 10-year period of stable ice or even an increase in the extent of the ice," said NCAR scientist Jennifer Kay, the lead author of the research.
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"Once you initiate the process you accelerate the whole thing," LiveScience quoted Josefino Comiso, a senior scientist at the cyrospheric sciences branch of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, as saying. "If the area becomes warmer that means that the ice doesn't have as much time to grow. And in the process it's generally thinner every year than the previous year, and if it's thinner then it's more vulnerable to melt in the following summer."
After 2 Studies, Methane Puzzle Persists - NYTimes.com
One climate-science conundrum, two research teams, two independent approaches, two seemingly conflicting conclusions.Mitchell flood mocks litany of global warming excuses | Herald Sun
The unsolved mystery, or perhaps now, twice-solved mystery, is: Why did atmospheric methane levels, steadily on the rise since record-keeping began, abruptly level off and stabilize in the last three decades?
GOSH, is that really water, knee-deep over the Wy Yung Football Clubs oval in Bairnsdale?Film on Climate Refugees Strikes a Chord - NYTimes.com
Excuse me for doubting my eyes, but Victoria's former Labor government did tell us such floods would rarely happen again, thanks to global warming.
That's why we couldn't have a dam on the Mitchell River that's now flooding Bairnsdale, you see.
That's why Labor had to build a desalination plant instead, for $5.7 billion.
What an utter farce. And if your water bills hadn't gone through the roof to pay for it, you'd laugh.
During the shooting of his 2010 documentary “Climate Refugees,” the Irish-American filmmaker Michael Nash visited nearly 50 countries in about 18 months, interviewing politicians, scientists, health workers and victims of floods, cyclones, hurricanes and droughts.
His conclusion was that short- and longer-term changes in climate are causing vast numbers of people to abandon their jobs, homes and countries to seek better lives elsewhere, or to simply survive.
The Packer - Western summer starts late - Opinion
After the heat wave of recent weeks, you folks east of the Mississippi may conclude this old man out West has lost his mind.Meta-expertise | Climate Etc.
Maybe so. But I’m beginning to doubt the whole global warming thing.
I’m no scientist, but I can read a calendar. It’s been summer for nearly two months.
For the most part, the Pacific Northwest is still waiting for the season to arrive. Cold, cloudy, chilly.
Also, I like the 6 tests for evaluating experts. Collectively, I don’t think the IPCC scores very well, whereas individual scientists score much better.Climate Includes Extreme Events – A Forecast Extreme New Zealand Weather Cold and Snow Event | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
The extreme snow event in New Zealand that is forecast this weekend is noteworthy in the context of climatology since, according to the IPCC-type predictions, such events should be becoming less common. The forecasts for this event are quite serious.Deep Thoughts About Environmentalism - Minnesotans For Global Warming
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New York Times article suggests that Huntsman's belief in the global warming hoax makes him "entirely too reasonable and mainstream for the contemporary GOP"
Cap and Trade Becomes a Bludgeon in Republican Primary Brawl - NYTimes.com
The sin of being "too reasonable"
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Thomas Mann, a congressional scholar with the Brookings Institute, is skeptical about the effectiveness of Huntsman's position on climate change during the Republican primary.
"It makes him appear entirely too reasonable and mainstream for the contemporary GOP," Thomas Mann, a congressional scholar with the Brookings Institution, said of Huntsman position on climate change.
Huge glacial ice chunk hampers Iqaluit gravel pit
The future of Iqaluit’s main source of gravel is in question after scientists studying permafrost discovered a huge chunk of ice lurking just beneath the surface of the Trail area gravel pit.Arctic voyage to study ocean's changing acidity - Technology & science - Science - OurAmazingPlanet - msnbc.com
The world's oceans are getting more acidic, and a new mission to the Arctic will help scientists figure out what this means for delicate marine life.C3: IPCC Expert Reviewer To Young Researchers: Beware Climate Models, They Make You Look Stooopid & Lazy
Eduardo Zorita, a star climate researcher with IPCC credentials, has some great advice for young scientists looking at a career in climate science. Our title paraphrases his responseallAfrica.com: Nigeria: 'We Are Against the Establishment of a Climate Change Commission'
As an organization, EMAN is against the establishment of a climate change commission because the climate change commission would only create more problem than solving it.
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What we should do as a country is to strengthen our environmental management institutions instead of creating a commission because all the funds coming in on environmental protection would go to that commission and little would be available to solve other environmental problems and because the commission is set up by an Act of parliament, the Ministry cannot challenge it.
We reclaimed the word Skeptic — next we reclaim the word Scientist « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
So go forth, all your sticklers for accurate language and guardians of science, take no prisoners, let the world know, we are independent scientists, and they are fakes. The name-calling thugs who break tenets of science, hide data and throw logic out the window don’t deserve to use the term “scientist”.Atikokan already showing the signs of global climate change
the duration of measurable snow cover has remained constant at around 20 weeks over the past 50 years.[Do warm, short winters really cause moose calves to die?]
(Nine collared moose have died in the two years – some from parasites and some of unknown causes because they were consumed by animals before they could be retrieved from their remote location.)Moose numbers up here, down to the west
While the 20% moose population decline in Minnesota “seems to be related to heat”, project lead Ron Moen hopes to identify the factors that are at play, particularly in the low survival rates for calves; warmer summers, warmer, shorter winters, (or both), habitat change (especially the loss of browsing areas of new tree growth), and others are being examined.
The state conducts yearly surveys which have shown that while the average cow to calf population ratio starts out around one calf per cow in May’s birthing season, by the following January about two-thirds of the calves have died
In 12B, observers counted 334 moose in 30 plots, which translates into a moose population of 2,450 in the 5,500 sq.km. management unit. That’s up from the 2006 survey (estimated population then: 2,150), and is the most observed in the WMU since surveys started in 1982.
Of concern is that far fewer moose were observed to the west of Atikokan.
“We did the plots to the east of Atikokan first, and when we went to the west, even the pilot noticed the difference,” said Jackson.
There could be several factors behind this, he said. Deer are more common as you move west of here, and the overall decline of moose numbers in the Northwest has been linked to growing numbers of deer. (Deer spread a parasite that they are immune to, but that kill moose.)
UN chief sees sustainable development as top priority in his second term
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today that sustainable development will remain his top priority during his second term as the head of the United Nations, saying that key challenges include achieving the global poverty reduction goals and strengthening disaster risk reduction to avert crises caused by climate change.Polar Scientist Charts Melting Caused by Climate Change | Environment | English
Michael Gooseff follows water to the end of the earth. The Pennsylvania State University hydrologist works in remote regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, where ice and frozen ground are thawing. He expects polar warming and melting to continue at an accelerating pace if no significant reductions are made in climate-changing greenhouse-gas emissions.Placing A Grade On Al Gore's "B.S." Speech - Forbes
Finally, the corker, that “the very existence of our civilization is threatened” by climate change. If this were a graduate student paper, I would write, “citation, please?” “Civilization” is a big word, as in “Greek” or “Roman”, and I think “our” means “Western”, which is remarkably insensitive to environmental disaster and change. The worst weather imaginable boggles GDP by a couple of tenths of a percent. On a planet that was about a degree (C) cooler, life expectancy in our civilization was half of what it is today. The overwhelming evidence is that people in vibrant economies adapt to, or, like Gore himself, profit from change. How much did he make on his carbon-trading business? What’s his speaking fee? Wrong on the merits.2009: Rick Perry: Al Gore has 'gone to hell' - Andy Barr - POLITICO.com
Prior to his comment about Gore, Perry had been warning the group that he believes the climate change legislation Congress is considering will prove too costly to future generations.
Perry said he thinks the bill is “based on some very flawed science” and that if it passed, “the costs to our children, to our grandchildren, are going to be staggering.”
“That is one of the most powerful reasons, I think, that we have to stand up as people [and] as a community and tell this administration and this Congress that the direction that they’re heading in is not acceptable,” he said.
Lorne Gunter: Still another wheel falls off Ont.’s green-energy bus
Seriously, I wouldn't have believed there were any wheels left to fall off of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's green-energy bus. But I was wrong. On Thursday, the[external] European Union filed a complaint with the World Trade Organizationclaiming that the huge subsidies Ontario is offering developers of alternate energy violate international trade rules. Of course, without enormous subsidies, green energy is a non-starter. It doesn't make economic sense. So if the EU complaint is upheld, Ontario will have to abandon its Green Energy Act of 2009, once and for all, but not before it has cost Ontario taxpayers and consumers billions of dollars
Scientists Trace Heat Wave To Massive Star At Center Of Solar System
PASADENA, CA—Groundbreaking new findings announced Monday suggest the record-setting heat wave plaguing much of the United States may be due to radiation emitted from an enormous star located in the center of the solar system.
Scientists believe the star, which they have named G2V65, may in fact be the same bright yellow orb seen arcing over the sky day after day, and given its extreme heat and proximity to Earth, it is likely not only to have caused the heat wave, but to be responsible for every warm day in human history.
Carbon tax advertising campaign faces audit | The Australian
THE Auditor-General will investigate Julia Gillard's $12 million carbon tax advertising campaign and its claims the tax will apply to only 500 companies and that nine out of 10 households will be compensated for price rises.
Media Matters Lies About The Heartland Institute — Again « Somewhat Reasonable
There's something very wrong with Media Matters constantly trotting out the old "they get money from ExxonMobil" argument against any group that questions anthropogenic global warming. You can't read the science journal Nature without being bombarded by ads by Shell Oil Co. Is Nature bought and paid for by an oil company? Is Media Matters tracking gifts from wind and solar companies to environmental advocacy groups? Why not?
As we've pointed out time and again, Exxon's funding was never more than 5 percent of The Heartland Institute's annual budget. And, in a key point, Exxon's support stopped in 2006 – before Heartland stepped up its involvement in the climate change debate and two years before our first of now-six international conferences. Doesn't journalistic ethics require that these facts be acknowledged whenever the charge of undue corporate influence is made? Of course, journalistic ethics and Media Matters aren't exactly frequent dance partners.
Al Gore's Climatological "Meltdown"
One may well ask whether this is what the Aspen Institute has in mind as "values-based leadership" and a "neutral and balanced venue…" A man who has spent a lifetime in politics should have learned more about how one should conduct one's self in public. Profanity laden tirades while one wallowing in character defamation of the growing number of scientists who are willing to risk their careers to disagree with the theories that have become the ideological core of the environmental movement ought to be beneath Mr. Gore — but apparently it is not. In truth, if it were not for the high office which was once entrusted to Mr. Gore, it would be easier to simply feel pity for him.
Year's first case of anthrax confirmed in SD cow
He says significant climate change such as drought, floods and winds can expose anthrax spores to grazing livestock.
Mexico: CO2 not killing fish and sharks
Marine protected area sees fish increase fourfold, sharks tenfold, in a decade.
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Friday Funny
[How people in science see each other]C3: UN Recommends Attaching Big Kites To Ships To Pull Them Thru Water - Hmmm, Oars & Slaves Next?
Besides the kites idea, the IMO recommends going sloooower, which certainly puts a new speed bump in place for the entire concept of just-in-time delivery. Based on these type of recommendations, it would be fair to surmise that the UN's IMO is not really into new technology, nor enhancing global trade.
We're saved! In an attempt to prevent bad weather in Topeka, people in Vietnam will hold a breakdance contest and go without straws for a week in cafes
Global climate change campaign launched in Vietnam - Global climate change campaign launched in Vietnam - VOVNEWS.VN
The global campaign on climate change, 350.org, was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on August 11.
This year’s campaign themed “Moving planet” will include many activities such as climate camps to provide training on climate change and help for residents who are directly affected by climate change in HCM City’s Can Gio district.
There will be communication campaigns at schools to raise awareness of climate change, build a preference towards “green” living and encourage renewable energy sources, and call on families and agencies to paint their house roofs white and plant creepers on walls to reduce indoor temperature and save energy.
On the global action day, which will fall on September 24, the campaign 350.org coordination board will encourage thousands of people to commute to schools and offices by bicycle or on foot.
The highlights of the event will be a moving art festival showcasing environmentally themed paintings made of straws, a breakdance contest and a week of no straws in cafes in HCM City.
Warmist Raymond Bradley on his hockey stick, the one that was supposed to inspire us to blow $45 trillion on the climate hoax: "It is hard to imagine how much more explicit we could have been about the uncertainties in the reconstruction; indeed, that was the point of the article!"
News: Research and Politics - Inside Higher Ed
In the late 1990s, Raymond Bradley, a climatologist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, collaborated with two researchers on a pair of studies that altered the dialogue on climate change. The studies, a collaboration between Bradley, a geophysicist named Michael Mann (then finishing up his Ph.D. at Yale University) and University of Arizona climatologist Malcolm Hughes, presented evidence of global climate change over the past millennium and set off a political firestorm. The work was widely cited by those who (like the vast majority of scientists) take climate change seriously, but was doubted by skeptics of climate.
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Q: The debate around your study looking at past climate patterns seemed to explode after you extended it to include projections going all the way back to 1000. In hindsight, do you think this was overreaching? From a purely political standpoint, did this hurt the case for climate change?
A: Our reconstruction of temperatures over the last 1000 years was titled, "Northern Hemisphere temperatures during the past millennium: inferences, uncertainties, and limitations" (Geophysical Research Letters 26, 759–762; 1999). In the abstract, we stated: "We focus not just on the reconstructions, but on the uncertainties therein, and important caveats" and noted that "expanded uncertainties prevent decisive conclusions for the period prior to AD 1400." We concluded by stating: "more widespread high-resolution data are needed before more confident conclusions can be reached."
It is hard to imagine how much more explicit we could have been about the uncertainties in the reconstruction; indeed, that was the point of the article! So, the topic of the paper had very little to do with the subsequent furor that surrounded it. One figure from our paper was selected for use in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s "Summary for Policy-Makers." Because it was a rather compelling image (easy to understand) it was reproduced in many magazines and newspapers, and quickly became an icon for the IPCC’s message that human activity was affecting climate. Those opposed to legislation that would set controls on greenhouse gas emissions thus decided to try and destroy the credibility of our research, in order to cast doubt on the entire IPCC report.
The idea that the conclusions of the IPCC rested entirely on our study was absolutely ridiculous, but from a political point of view, they had a good strategy.
Jabs at GOP debate in Iowa aren't all at Obama | Green Bay Press Gazette
Bachmann replied with a steely look accused Pawlenty of having sounded "a lot more like Barack Obama" during his tenure, support cap-and-trade legislation to combat global warming and health insurance mandates.Confessions of a Green Conservative
I can’t contain myself any longer, even though she’s obviously deluded she still needs sense spoken to her. “Al Gore’s personal energy consumption isn’t the issue. He needs to get the word out that excessive energy consumption is bad, and yes, that’s going to require some power. Besides, there are carbon offsets that take care of that. I’m sure he buys enough. Yes he has a huge carbon footprint, but it’s for a good cause — reducing carbon footprints.”Two more reviews of Climate Change Denial
Sylvia smiles for the first time today, and I’m glad I’ve been able to get her to see reason.
The other review was by Janine Kitson, published in Education, a journal by the NSW Teachers Federation.This is a crucial book to read before runaway climate change is truly beyond our control. One can only hope that this book will be read by climate deniers so we can start the challenging journey to an ecologically sustainable future...
Climate realist Martin Durkin has a new blog
HAPPY PEASANTS (and global warming) | martindurkin.com
There are few things Greens enjoy more than switching on their high-definition TVs and watching shows about primitive peoples in their natural habitat. Green TV presenters delve into tropical forests in search of scantily clad tribes with bones through their noses. The rugged presenter grimaces slightly as he eats the baked grubs, and then speaks in awe of the deep primeval wisdom of these funny tribes people with their strange habits … a wisdom we shallow Westerners have forgotten. Then it’s back to the hotel with the crew for cocktails. And when the Greens aren’t misty-eyed about the noble hunter-gatherer tribes, they’re gushing about happy peasants, knitting their own underpants and playing instruments made from sheep bladders.The Secret of Global Warming - Posh Anti-Capitalism | martindurkin.com
Where, in this pre-capitalist Disneyland, is the terrible infant mortality, the lack of electricity, the long cold dark nights, the dirty water and diarrhoea, the degraded social position of the women, the ignorance and discomfort, the crushing boredom and narrowness of the impoverished lives? Conveniently overlooked. Instead pre-industrial life is portrayed as ‘authentic’ and at-one-with-nature (and of course, good for the climate).
What would be disastrous for these people (we are told) is for them to aspire to a lifestyle like ours, which is any case, corrupt.
The Greens tell us that food should come from peasants rather than industrial farms. Chairs and tables should be produced, not in factories, but lovingly by skilled artisans. But as we all know, such antiquated, handicraft methods inevitably produce far fewer, more expensive goods. Handicraft production was what happened in that Green golden age before capitalist production, when the vast majority of people were grindingly poor – unable to afford such lovingly crafted, hand-made luxuries. These were the good old days, when everyone knew their place in the ‘natural order’.
Green anti-capitalism is Snob anti-capitalism. This is not mere name-calling. It goes to the very heart of what ‘Green’ is about.
NCAR: We can't measure natural variability; also, we conclude that half of a recent ice fluctuation was natural variability
Arctic summer ice could increase before it disappears | TG Daily
They concluded that around half the observed decline was due to human emissions of greenhouse gases, and the other half to climate variability.
"The changing Arctic climate is complicating matters," says Kay. "We can’t measure natural variability now because, when temperatures warm and the ice thins, the ice variability changes and is not entirely natural."
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation: - Brace for very cold weather, Met warns
The month of August has seen temperatures dropping to very low values.Agrimoney.com | Unica cuts Brazil sugar hopes - again
Unica has – again - cut its estimate for sugar output from Brazil's biggest cane region, after frost hampered the crop's ability to play catch up on last year.Gore realizing 'global warming' is floundering (OneNewsNow.com)
"He voiced his frustration with copious amounts of curse words. He lost his cool, he lost his composure, and he made a lot of silly scientific statements claiming that volcanoes couldn't be an explanation, that sun spots couldn't be an explanation," Morano reports.Records were set long before global warming | The Des Moines Register | DesMoinesRegister.com
He believes Gore is beginning to realize that his investment in man-made global warming is floundering.
Marc Morano (GOP EPW)"Al Gore is facing the fact that more Americans believe in haunted houses than man-made global warming. Al Gore is facing the fact that the United Nations' process has collapsed," the skeptic notes. "Al Gore is facing the fact that the climate bill in Congress has collapsed, and Al Gore is facing the fact that from A to Z, man-made global warming claims are falling apart."
I have to laugh when someone says this recent hot spell should convince everyone there really is man-made global warming. I laugh because the highest temperature ever recorded in Iowa was 77 years ago when it reached 118 degrees on July 20, 1934, in Keokuk, in the southeast corner of Iowa. And it remained hot throughout the 1930s with temperatures often above 100.
Do you suppose back then people were telling each other those terribly hot temperatures were because of man-made global warming? Of course not. That was years before the United Nations and Al Gore had even invented man-made global warming. Come to think of it, that was even years before both the U.N. and Al Gore.
Time flies for Tim Pawlenty: On cap and trade: "I rejected it and came out against it several years ago"
Bachmann knocks Pawlenty on cap-and-trade at Iowa debate - The Hill's E2-Wire
In a later interview on Fox News, Pawlenty reiterated that he now opposes cap-and-trade and knocked Bachmann for inaccurately claiming it was implemented in Minnesota, which it wasn’t.Total Pawlenty Turnaround on Global Warming
“She brought it up inaccurately. Again, she said I imposed it in Minnesota. No. I didn't. We had legislation that studied it. We considered it, but well before it never got imposed or even close to imposed I rejected it and came out against it several years ago. So again, she's aloof with facts,” Pawlenty said.
In December 2009, when he first started visiting New Hampshire, he was still talking like CO2 was pollution, and still failed to remove his state from the Midwestern Greenhouse Gas Accord:
Global warming update: Mad Max 4 filming delayed because Australia’s too green and pastoral
The highly anticipated fourth movie in the Mad Max series will no longer be filmed in Broken Hill in New South Wales’s far west, despite years of preparation.
Kennedy Miller Mitchell (KMM), the production company behind Mad Max: Fury Road, says the area around Broken Hill is too green for the post-apocalyptic film.
AMS Presentation on urban heat island signal - July 2011 - YouTube
[15 minutes] Presentation of the paper "Assessing the urban heat island signal in the U.S. Historical Climatology Network monthly temperature data" by Z. Hausfather, M. J. Menne, D. Jones, R. Broberg, T. Masters, and C. N. Williams Jr. at the 19th Conference on Applied Climatology/36th Annual Meeting of the American Association of State Climatologists in Asheville, North Caroline, July 2011.CSIRO Fail | Climate Nonconformist
The CSIRO tries to warn of the dangers of a warming world, yet hacks the English language in doing so. This is a serious ad they’ve placed in The Australian, that someone has clearly not proofread.Mount Washington hosts BC Cup race
“A Warming Earth: What the cost of doing nothing?”
Screw the fact that a warming planet is generally more beneficial. Let’s instead focus on some inflated, alarmist propaganda.
Look at the speakers. Will Steffan, who shuts his eyes, sticks his fingers in his ears and says there is no debate. Anna-Maria Arabia, who likewise denies debate by suggesting that the skeptics are unscientific. And Neville Nicholls, a trusted member of ‘the team’, as Steve McIntyre calls them.
Following the triumphant return of the Bearclaw Invitational last week, Mount Washington is pumped and ready to keep the bike season flowing with a brand new course at their BC Cup race this weekend.
Due to the amount of snow on the Monster Mile, our traditional downhill course, we had to make some quick decisions to change the location of our BC Cup downhill," explains Mike Manara, Bike Park Manager at the Resort.
Socialists quite brazen about using “global warming” as their stalking horse | JunkScience Sidebar
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: How Many Findings of the IPCC AR4 WG I are Incorrect? Answer: 28%
Senior Lecturer Dr Bronwyn Hayward (Social and Political Sciences) was one of three co-applicants who have won a prestigious Norwegian research grant worth NZ$1.18 million (just under US$1million), to investigate how youth perceive their future in a changing climate.‘Green’ power bubble leaking air badly | JunkScience Sidebar
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: How Many Findings of the IPCC AR4 WG I are Incorrect? Answer: 28%
I suspect that headline will raise some eyebrows.Planet of the Hominids - NYTimes.com
I was heartened to see that the film did not completely tilt toward the predictable Hollywood approach to “Big Pharma” of an evil corporation plotting terrible things in the pursuit of money.Arctic Ice Thinning 4 Times Faster Than Predicted by IPCC Models, Semi-Stunning M.I.T. Study Finds | ThinkProgress
Arctic sea ice is thinning, on average, four times faster than the models say, and it’s drifting twice as quickly.
Wind Power Gets an Environmental Pass in New York State (Power NY Act’s Article X vs. grassroot environmentalism) — MasterResource
Joke: ‘When is an environmentalist not an environmentalist? …. When it comes to windpower.’Articles: Making Good on the American Dream
There is only one viable solution: a program to re-industrialize the nation and become energy-independent, developing into a net energy exporter. America should have as its goal to increase the manufacturing and energy sector to 40% of the economy instead of the current 20%.Just what are they trying to claim? | JunkScience Sidebar
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The United States is sitting on the world's largest untapped oil reserves -- a natural resource that would not only mitigate the over $400 billion sent to other countries to buy their oil but could be the catalyst to create untold millions of jobs not only in the oil fields, but in hundreds of peripheral industries. The untapped reserves are estimated to be up to 2.1 trillion barrels, which is equivalent to a 300-year supply, and would allow the U.S. to become the single largest exporter of oil and oil-related products in the world, thus eliminating the trade deficit and making a massive dent in the national debt.
So, the presence or absence of the Keystone XL pipeline is all that stands between our children’s ability to control the consequences of a climate system? What does that mean, exactly?Angry Warmist goes racist
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It follows then that the best thing we can do for our kids is to build the pipeline and treat with extreme suspicion this list of future generation haters who would leave TheChildren™ worse off.
Being white is part of what he condemns. His article is titled: "How do you solve a problem like conservative white men?" I reproduce a few excerpts below. I have not reproduced any of the psychologizing as it is mere assertion with no foundation in research among skeptics. An interesting admission is in red below. In the end all he can think of to do is abuse and physical attack -- in the best Fascist style
- Bishop Hill blog - Another confounding factor?
Interestingly, the new paper's conclusion is that livestock can reduce tree ring widths by a factor of three or so, but according to the press release, "past densities of herbivores can be estimated from historic records, and from the fossilised remains of spores from fungi that live on dung". In other words, you can control for the effect.Rick Perry to run for president; climate deniers cheer | Grist
The climate skeptics can finally get excited about the 2012 election: Rick Perry, their candidate of choice, is about to officially throw his hat in the ring.NZ unaffected by human-caused global warming | Scoop News
Perry calls global warming "all one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight." Unlike many of the other GOP presidential candidates, he hasn't expressed concern about climate change in the past, so he won't have to do any back-pedaling.
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But plugging your ears and going "la la la la" doesn't make global warming disappear.
No temperature increase in the last hundred yearsLuboš Motl finds an ice-free Arctic by 2100 plausible | JunkScience Sidebar
The current emissions trading scheme (ETS) has no justification, because New Zealand has not been affected by global warming, whether of natural origin or human causes, in the last 100 years. When corrected with accepted scientific techniques, the official New Zealand Temperature Record (NZTR) shows that there has been no measurable change in mean temperatures during 1909-2009.
The historical data shows a warming rate of 0.29°C per century, while the corrected figure is 0.26°C per century. But both amounts are within the margins of error, and are effectively zero.
Had I any such expectation of longevity I’d bet against it because indications are that the ice pack survived in a reduced state during the Holocene Thermal Maximum when temperatures were 2-4°C warmer. While the good professor makes a case for enhanced greenhouse (in the Arctic) I think cloud cover and albedo far more important and that the ice will largely survive. Nonetheless, LuMo is always interesting:
Arctic sea ice "may expand and contract over regular periods of 60 to 80 years"
Hoax or Truth? Global Warming 'Scam' Debate Rages - International Business Times
Arctic Ice Melting Follows Standard Natural Cycles
Scottish scientist Dr. Chad Dick, of the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromso, after researching the log books of Arctic explorers spanning the past 300 years, believes the outer edge of sea ice may expand and contract over regular periods of 60 to 80 years. According to his [2003] research findings, he concluded that "the recent worrying changes in Arctic sea ice are simply the result of standard cyclical movements, and not a harbinger of major climate change."
NY Times on light bulb ban to prevent bad weather: They're not banning dogs in your building; they're just banning dogs who can't speak English
Almost Time to Change the Light Bulb - NYTimes.com
The misconception about limited choice is, specifically, that the new rules outlaw incandescent lights. But they don’t. They just place efficiency standards on incandescents. Starting in January, any bulb that can generate the amount of light produced by a conventional 100-watt bulb, but do so with roughly 30 percent less energy, will be eligible for the market.
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I sought shopping advice from three experts: Konstantinos Papamichael, a director of the California Lighting Technology Center at the University of California, Davis; Russell Leslie, a founder of the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, N.Y.; and Craig A. Bernecker, the director of the Lighting Education Institute, in Philadelphia.
Their advice: In the short term, you can continue to light your home with incandescents. But in the long run, they say, if you study the various lighting technologies, you can save money and time — and, perhaps, see every part of your home in its best light.
For most people, who are accustomed to a simpler light-bulb market, that’s asking a lot.
“Consumers generally bring habit, rather than intelligence, to their light-bulb purchases,” Mr. Leslie said. “It’s really problematic.”
Warmist Keith Kloor: "for too long a tyranny of thought has reigned in certain quarters of the climate debate, which has effectively marginalized voices that have dissented from majority opinion"
Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> On Discussing Climate Change as a Moral Issue
I don’t envision a future where hearty discussions of climate science are ever sidelined. The issue is sure to be aired for years to come– in the halls of Congress, in newspaper op-ed pages, and across the blogosphere.
Which is a good thing. I desire a full, inclusive debate, in which all reasonable voices get a fair hearing. The irony of some of the complaints about the climate pragmatism approach is that for too long a tyranny of thought has reigned in certain quarters of the climate debate, which has effectively marginalized voices that have dissented from majority opinion. At times, this tyranny has been enforced in the ugliest manner.
That has not been healthy for the larger climate debate.
The Reference Frame: RSS AMSU, Jan-Jul: 2011 second coldest in this century
According to RSS AMSU, the first 7 months were the 2nd coldest January-July period in this century so far (second among 11 candidate years).Global Warming: The Critical Decade - YouTube
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Only Jan-Jul 2008 with -0.024 °C managed to be colder than the same period of 2011 among the years of the 21st century. So 2011 is helping to make the preliminary 21st century temperature trend even more negative than before; this is no bulšit, angry Al.
[82-minute video] Professor Robert Manne and Professor Tim Flannery on the work of the Climate Commission, what our opinion really is on global warming, the political debate in Australia and how it fits in or otherwise with the international viewpoint on climate change.- Bishop Hill blog - Leaf lines
Nature News has a report of a possible new way of reconstructing past climates - measuring the density of veins in fossil leaves.Cloud cover theory drives scientists mad
It might not be carbon dioxide but cloud cover that drives global warming.
So says a controversial study that goes against the grain, saying random increases in cloud cover cause climate warming.
Vampire bat bites man in Mexico, who then travels to the US and dies; CO2 blamed
Vampire Bat Causes First Bat-Rabies Fatality in U.S. | ThirdAge
A 19-year-old migrant farm worker who had been bitten while in his native Michoacan on July 15, 2011, 10 days before he left for the U.S. to pick sugar cane at a plantation in Louisiana.
"This case represents the first reported human death from a vampire bat rabies virus variant in the United States," the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its weekly Morbidity and Mortality weekly report.
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The CDC warned that though vampire bat populations are currently confined to Latin America, climate change could result in a northward migration of their population, possibly leading to more cases of human infection in the southern United States.
The radical side of the green movement has spoken « Lilley’s Pad
What do you say to a man like Aric McBay? The man writes a book and pushes for an environmental movement that embraces attacks on industry and assassination in its arsenal of weapons and then denies it.Row to the Pole – backtracked and iced in | Watts Up With That?
In Deep Green Resistance, the book he has co-authored, McBay looks to terrorist groups as examples to follow. After laying out the need, as he sees it, for a revolutionary movement with aboveground and underground elements, McBay writes several chapters on strategy and tactics.
Listen to the Row to the Pole latest news on their website, they have spent today iced in and unable to move. Apparently the climbed up a hill to see how far the ice stretched and its goes to the horizon.Hiding The Sea Level Decline
…spent today “licking their wounds” is how their audio report put it…
Portuguese skeptic website Ecotretas sent me the following story about rising sea levels awhile back. Seems the more sea level rise slows down, the more the alarmists claim it is accelerating
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » A Window on Climate Peer Review
The reviewers for the article were Lisa Rotterman and Andrew Derocher. Incredibly, it turns out Ms. Rotterman is his wife – yes, some people are more peers than others – and Derocher was awarded a large research contract by Monnett just before he reviewed the article. Wow.Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Celebrating the Most Recent 5-Year Plan
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By the way, both Monnett and his partner Gleason now are claiming that everyone blew their study out of proportion and it wasn’t really about global warming. If this is true, they were sure silent about this when they were basking in all kinds of attention and press and grant money. Either of them could have stepped forward and stopped the momentum that built from this article and they did not.
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One sighting in history of four floating dead polar bears and suddenly our whole fossil fuel economy has to be shut down.
Consider it this way — a guy with no business experience is making major investments of our money in companies that were not able to get private investment. Did you really elect Obama to be venture-capitalist-in-chief? And if that were truly the President’s job descriptions, how many tens of millions of people would you consider more qualified for the job than Obama? Would you let Obama manage your retirement portfolio for you?Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Perth economic regulator warns Green power schemes badly flawed
What have climate sceptics been saying for years ?
Warmist Jeremy Grantham wants to convince us that CO2 depresses crop yields
Can Jeremy Grantham Profit From Ecological Mayhem? - NYTimes.com
Grantham put his own influence and money behind the climate-change bill passed by the House in 2009. “But even $100 million wouldn’t have gotten it through the Senate,” he said. “The recession more or less ruled it out. It pushed anything having to do with the environment down 10 points, across the board. Unemployment and interest in environmental issues move inversely.”Carbon Dioxide In Greenhouses
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Having missed a once-in-a-generation legislative opportunity to address climate change, American environmentalists are looking for new strategies. Grantham believes that the best approach may be to recast global warming, which depresses crop yields and worsens soil erosion, as a factor contributing to resource depletion.
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Grantham, who says that “this time it’s different are the four most dangerous words in the English language,” has become a connoisseur of bubbles.
The benefits of carbon dioxide supplementation on plant growth and production within the greenhouse environment have been well understood for many years.
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For the majority of greenhouse crops, net photosynthesis increases as CO2 levels increase from 340–1,000 ppm (parts per million). Most crops show that for any given level of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), increasing the CO2 level to 1,000 ppm will increase the photosynthesis by about 50% over ambient CO2 levels.
Is BOEMRE Harrassing Polar Bear Biologist Charles Monnett? - Marlo Lewis
C3: MIT Scientists Say 'Smart Grid' Could Make Power Grid Unstable - Potential of Unprecedented, Robust Blackouts
Monnett’s team observed four drowned bears on one day in September 2004.Lewis is mistaken here. Monnett's paper (Table 2) claims that single dead bears were seen on four different days. No one knows if they drowned, and I'm not completely convinced that all four were different bears.
C3: MIT Scientists Say 'Smart Grid' Could Make Power Grid Unstable - Potential of Unprecedented, Robust Blackouts
'Smart grids' - those wizbang technology marvels proposed by the electric utilities to save power and money could actually be too-clever-by-half and end up causing power grids to fail, MIT scientists are reporting.Multi-tentacled Mann o’ war raging over UVA emails | Watts Up With That?
Response to Union of Concerned Scientists, et al, from ATI executive director Paul Chesser:
“Once again these self-interested groups — who hope to protect their billions of dollars in government funding of dubious, unsupportable research — accuse ATI of ‘harassment and intimidation’ of scientists. It shows how blind they are to the fact that ATI has acted in the interest of sound, verifiable science and for the protection of the hard-earned money that taxpayers are forced to relinquish for such research.
“A Rasmussen Reports survey out earlier this week shows that that 69 percent of Americans say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists who study climate change have falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefs, including 40 percent who say this is ‘very likely.’ Only 22 percent believe it’s not likely that some scientists have falsified global warming data to fit their theories.
“Considering this is how the public sees them, UCS and their cohorts in academia need to look in the mirror and try to figure out where it all went wrong. Meanwhile, ATI will continue its pursuit to hold them accountable.”
Is climate change slipping out of the frame? | Climate Spectator
In recent years at the Melbourne International Film Festival there has been no shortage of films using climate change and environmental calamity as a theme, or making reference to it in some way. Yet this year, climate change has largely disappeared from the screen. What is going on?July Temperatures Have Been Declining Near Austin For 90 Years | Real Science
Is it that film makers (and/or Festival programmers) have grown tired of the subject? Is there a concern that new climate change films couldn't match the novelty and imminent danger portrayed in An Inconvenient Truth? Or has the public debate become so complex and divisive that audiences have lost interest? It's hard to tell – but the decline is real and man made.
The closest USHCN station to Austin is at Blanco. July maximum temperatures have declined about five degrees since the 1920s.NCAR scientists hedge their bets: Arctic sea ice may shrink or it may grow - National Climate Change | Examiner.com
The second closest USHCN station is at New Braunfels, which has been cooling since the 1940s.
Global warming was the catchphrase until the Earth stopped warming for the past decade so the more generic phrase climate change became the term to use. Shrinking Arctic sea ice was also said to be a certainty but a new report hedges scientists’ bets by saying it may not, once again providing a moving target.Arctic Sea Ice Shrank 20% From 1900-1939 | Real Science
Who's who list of climate hoax scientists tries to convince Obama that an energy pipeline will cause bad weather
Tar Sands Action » Letter from Scientific Experts to President Obama Regarding Authorization of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Adding this on top of conventional fossil fuels will leave our children and grandchildren a climate system with consequences that are out of their control.
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James Hansen
John Abraham
Dean Abrahamson
David Archer
Jason Box
Ken Caldeira
Peter Gleick
Richard A. Houghton
Robert W. Howarth
Ralph Keeling
Donald Kennedy
Michael MacCracken
Michael E. Mann
James McCarthy
Michael Oppenheimer
Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
Steve Running
Richard Somerville
Ray J. Weymann
George M. Woodwell
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