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How utterly insane is this Government to plan to send $57 billion a year overseas, just to buy permission to keep our coal-fired power stations…
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Global warming runs out of gas
For those who have a wish to hear the grating sound of a man distempered and frustrated that the cause for which he has given at least a decade of his time, the "greatest moral challenge of our time," is lost, I recommend listening to Al Gore as he was captured during an address at an Aspen global warming conference two weeks ago. It is a revelation.
Climate Skeptics: Crazy as They Want to Be
Serious, science-based climate skeptics have a chance to separate themselves from the foaming-at-the-mouth lunacy that defines their public image. I mention this because I know that some of you skeptics chafe at the buffoonish antics of Christopher Monckton and the sweeping declarations of Republican Senator James Inhofe.
Rick Perry Pushes Their Buttons - Article - National Review Online
Progressives like to cloak their policy preferences in the mantle of science, but they do not in fact give a fig about science, which for them is only a vehicle to be ridden to the precise extent that it is convenient. This is why they will ask what makes Rick Perry qualified to disagree with the scientific establishment, but never ask the equally relevant question of what makes Jon Huntsman qualified to agree with it. So long as they are getting the policies they want, they don't care
Green Solar Jobs In Germany Fail To Materialize – German Greens On Perry
Concerning climate change, 69% of all Americans believe scientists have lied about climate change. Let's see if Obama is stupid enough to side up with the 31%.
FM radio and global warming nonsense
Above all, why do people continue to think "there must be something in the warmist argument", … that the truth must lie somewhere between what real science tells us can be correct and what they believe must be correct, when the evidence is so overwhelmingly against them?
Why do people continue to think "there must be something in the warmist argument", when the evidence is so overwhelmingly against them?
The First Law Of Climate Historectomy
Artifacts trapped under ice prove that it was always colder in the past. Farmers in Greenland used to raise crops underneath the ice
Hansen : Faking It In The Arctic In July
Hansen shows the region north of 80N red hot (1958-2002 baseline) in July, even though he has essentially no data there. DMI shows temperatures in July almost exactly normal
Obama's War On Americans: His EPA Strangles New Mexico's Economy With A New $370 Million Regulation
Read here. The Obama-approved rogue EPA agency is determined to crush any economic activity in the name of inconsequential benefit if coal is involved
Obama's Nightmare Cruise
This weekend marks the 17th annual Woodward Dream Cruise, a national event that brings over a million people and some 30,000 cars of every stripe to Detroit's "Main Street." It is a uniquely American celebration of automotive genius, internal combustion, the democratization of travel, noise, crowds, and personal liberty.
In short, it is everything that President Obama and the Pelosi Democrats are not. No wonder Obama's bus avoided Woodward during his Midwest swing.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Warmist Andy Pitman admits that the science isn't settled; also admits that climate scientists overseas get "excellent salary packages" and they can "significantly affect policy"
Right climate to make move into science - National News - National - Education - The Advertiser
IT IS a rapidly growing field, calling for bright minds and big thinkers, but there are not enough environmental and climate scientists coming through university to meet demand.Flashback: Scientists 'losing climate fight' - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The director of the Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Professor Andy Pitman, said while the need for climate scientists in academia, government institutions and the corporate world was fast increasing, ''we aren't training the next generation of students … to fill in those niches''.
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In a bid to boost the numbers of climate scientists, the climate change research centre at the University of NSW is offering honours scholarships to graduates. .
Professor Pitman said many students, conscious of their HECS debt, forgo science or postgraduate degrees and enter what they see as more lucrative careers in business, finance and mining, but it was a misconception that science graduates did not do well.
''Almost invariably, climate PhDs with a physics or maths background find themselves in demand overseas and with excellent salary packages,'' he said. ''This is a growing area with a small number of such specialists, making them an elite that are coming in at the ground floor of a worldwide demand, so it is a great way to fast-track a career.''
Climate systems researchers have the chance ''to pursue some very serious science that will significantly affect policy and - because the field is so new - change our fundamental understanding of climate''
Professor Pitman says sceptics have used the IPCC's error to skew the climate change debate.
"Climate scientists are losing the fight with the sceptics," he said.
"The sceptics are so well funded, so well organised. "They have nothing else to do. They don't have day jobs so they can put all their efforts into misinforming and miscommunicating climate science to the general public, whereas the climate scientists have day jobs and [managing publicity] actually isn't one of them.
"All of the efforts you do in an IPCC report is done out of hours, voluntarily, for no funding and no pay, whereas the sceptics are being funded to put out full-scale misinformation campaigns and are doing a damn good job, I think.
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Professor Pitman has also played down the significance of the error in the IPCC's report.
"There are two paragraphs that have been questioned in a 1600-page document," he said.
"After two years, people have been going over that report with considerable care and have found a couple of errors of fact in a 1600-page document.
"I mean, we ought to be talking about the other 1599 pages that no one has found any problems with."
Scientists: Aliens May Punish Our Species for Climate Change - Megan McArdle - Business - The Atlantic
It was ever thus . . . it's really remarkable, in fact, how often the aliens in science fiction just happen to be preoccupied with the exact same political issues that obsessed intellectuals of the era when the fiction was written. And yet it's still somehow breathtaking. They don't even notice that they're not noticing all their embedded assumptions. For example, the scientists do not even consider the possibility that the recent decline in church attendance among the citizens of the world's most powerful nations could be a signal to advanced, god-fearing aliens that we are a decadent and irreligious species who should be wiped out.Ancient Coloradoans Were Very Short And Lived Underneath The Ice | Real Science
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Of all the possibilities, the one that seems least likely to me is that advanced aliens capable of traveling between the stars will turn out to view global warming in very much the way that a handful of Western scientists do.
Preserved artifacts found in melting ice patches along the RockiesThe First Law Of Climodumbnamics | Real Science
As global warming increases, icy tombs that preserved these artifacts are now melting and emerging from the ice. Pieces of animal remains, Native American baskets, and clothing are among the typical discoveries found from Lee’s frequent trips to the Rockies
Ice can only melt if the temperature is rising.FALSE ALARM: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Global Warming is Misleading, Exaggerated, or Plain Wrong » Climate science’s decade of deception
Melting glaciers prove that the temperature is going up
Unhappily, as I discovered during more than two years of research for my book False Alarm: Global Warming—Facts Versus Fears, the 69 per cent have got it right. Over the past decade alarmist climate scientists—including the top figures in the field—have been deliberately misleading the public on many climate issues. One might even say alarmist climate scientists have developed a culture of deception, a culture that is very clear in the “Climategate” emails.
Among many deceptions—too many to deal with here—one is particularly blatant. For more than a decade, the public has been bombarded by claims that the planet was not just warming but experiencing “accelerated”, “unequivocal,” “unprecedented” and “dangerous” warming. Yet the actual temperature record shows that during the past decade, on average, there has been little or no warming.
Only recently, faced with a gap between the climate reality and alarmist theory that was too great to ignore, has official climate science begun to admit the facts to the public.
World Climate Report » Western Pacific Hurricanes Declining?
These three studies provide even more evidence (as if any more is even required) that shows that claims that hurricane activity is increasing are completely at odds with a plethora of findings reporting on observations collected from throughout the world.Jim Hoggan | Thich Nhat Hanh and David Suzuki on How Individual Frame of Mind Has Everything To Do With Saving the Planet
Getting people to believe that they really can make a difference in the struggle to the save the planet from human folly can be just as important as encouraging them to take action, according to one of the world’s leading Buddhist scholars.Heading for the Hills: Spanish Winemakers Adapt to Global Warming - TIME
In Vancouver for a week of teaching and lectures, Buddhist monk, poet, peace and human rights activist, Thich Nhat Hanh, sat down with David Suzuki and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson for an hour-long conversation on what it’s going to take to bring about the change in human behavior that is needed to put the world on a path that will ensure a healthy planet for future generations.
Global warming in the last half of the 20th century actually made wine taste better.California: Frost caused grape cost loss – but industry is healthy, forecasters say
With the Paso Robles Wine Country experiencing a grape crop loss of anywhere between 20 to 50 percent, the cost of wine has gone up.Californians support strong climate action; see economic opportunity : The Thin Green Line
"There was a significant frost that caused real damage," said Atascadero resident Matt Turrentine of Turrentine Brokerage.
77 percent said they support the state's 33 percent renewable energy requirement. But when asked if they would support it if it caused their bills to go up, just 46 percent still said yes.
» WaPo Gets its Pinocchio on for Dishonest ‘Warming’ Attack on Perry - Big Government
Remember, WaPo cites no evidence at all or even the ritual appeal to authority for man-made climate change (catastrophic or otherwise), but just assumes it without even the courtesy of an ‘arguendo’.Marc Morano: Absurd Global Warming Claims | The Heartland Institute
So let’s turn to the evidence WaPo generally cites, in its coverage, as supporting its faith, ’something called’ the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Now, the IPCC ‘is a bit old’, having been started expressly to ’support a possible future climate treaty’ in 1988. And seek to support such a thing, it does. If with increasing hilarity.
Who are these people, regularly cited either as “2,500″ or “2,000″ of the “world’s leading climate scientists” (later downgraded to 400 after a little scrutiny)? Are they that? Do The Four Hundred hold up against thirty-plus thousand including 9,000 PhDs? (and why does WaPo need to distinguish PhDs from the rest, as more credible? The man running the federal government’s climate effort has long claimed a PhD, even in a CV submitted to get a federal grant many years ago, but it turns out he only possesses an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from a different university than the one he used to claim an academic PhD from? Is he unqualified? Sort of like, well, WaPo’s writer. President Obama. Al Gore. And the rest? Again with the flexible standards).
No. The IPCC’s ‘chief climate expert’ is a railroad engineer. The 2,000 are anthropology teaching assistants, transport policy instructors, socialist economists and other climate luminaries.
And the IPCC’s Dr. William Schlesinger admitted that only 20% of UN IPCC scientists deal with climate: “Something on the order of 20 percent [of UN scientists] have had some dealing with climate.” Meaning by his own admission, 80% of the UN IPCC membership has no dealing with the climate as part of their academic studies.
ECN PODCAST - Marc Morano, ClimateDepot.com publisher discusses absurd global warming claims and the GOP presidential candidates.Department of Labor | Smartphone App | Heat Safety Tool | The Daily Caller
“Next thing we know, Solis’s Labor Department will come out with an app that tells swimmers that water is wet,” Manning said. “This is absurd. What a waste.”The Green Jobs Fumble
This isn’t the first report on the green jobs fiasco. There are numerous reports of outrageous amounts of money spent “creating” very few jobs. There are reports of stimulus-receiving green-tech factories closing (or moving abroad), some after receiving praise from Obama himself. Could the failure of promoting ‘green’-jobs have been predicted? Well, you could have looked at Spain, or Germany.
The EPA Cannot Be Trusted to Keep the Lights on
So the EPA is low-balling the impacts of its regulations. Nothing new there—EPA long has underestimated the cost of its regulations. Expensive energy is bad enough; unreliable electricity is worse still. Demand-driven blackouts are a hallmark of developing countries. They are known in America only to Californians, where rolling brownouts have been unfortunate side-effect of silly green energy policies.Obama Losing the CBC on Green Jobs - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online
In light of these recent, troubling revelations about the EPA’s reliability analysis, the Congress should consider carefully whether the EPA is competent to avoid plunging this country into darkness.
Here’s Maxine Waters from Hardball last night where she says, “All this talk about the green jobs never materialized.” And she’s shocked about this? It will be interesting to see if there are any “green” ideas in Obama’s jobs proposal that he’s going to get to as soon as his vacation is over. From what I’m reading, I’m hearing roads, schools, and water projects but nothing to do with “green” energy. Stay tuned.Gas Prices Under Obama - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online
But what Bachmann knows, and CNN and the rest of the smarty-pants don’t like to report, is that Obama has been systematically strangling U.S. oil production — from Shell in Alaska to a Canadian pipeline — in order to drive up prices as part of his green American revolution (even as the White House has been rhetorically sympathetic to lower prices).
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If it sounds like the Obamaphiles aren’t very interested in goosing production, you’re right. Warming zealots like high energy prices just fine.
Climate change science makes for hot politics - The Washington Post
“Climate change has become a wedge issue,” said Roger Pielke Jr., a University of Colorado professor who has written extensively on the climate debate. “It’s today’s flag burning or today’s partial birth abortion issue.”Republicans and global warming - Achenblog - The Washington Post
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“Ultimately we go back to physics. If you burn fossil fuel you make CO2,” said Richard B. Alley, a geophysicist at Penn State University and author of “Earth: The Operator’s Manual.” “You can do this with bookkeeping. How much did we burn, how much CO2 does that make, where is it? There it is.”
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There are dissenting scientists, but they’re a small minority within the climate-science community. A 2010 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences surveyed 1,372 climate scientists and found that 97 percent to 98 percent agreed that humans were contributing to global warming.
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Climate change, says Marc Morano, the publisher and editor of the skeptical Web site Climate Depot, is “a litmus test, pure and simple, for the presidential race.”
Read [the above article] and then take cover!Study Warns of Boomerang Effects in Climate Change [Hoax] Campaigns | Age of Engagement | Big Think
Climate change campaigns in the United States that focus on the risks to people in foreign countries or even other regions of the U.S. are likely to inadvertently increase polarization among Americans rather than build consensus and support for policy action.EU Referendum: Cameron's father-in-law loots from old ladies
The Green Tosser's wealthy father-in-law, Sir Reginald Sheffield, is said to be ripping off almost £350,000 a year from a subsidised wind farm on his country estate – equivalent in value to about 1,000 wide-screen plasma TVs each and every year.
Question: Why are the Obamas acting so very much like they don't really believe in the global warming hoax?
Weasel Zippers » Blog Archive » King Barack And Queen Michelle Fly Separate Jets To Martha’s Vineyard Only Hours Apart, Taxpayers Stuck With The Bill…
(WHD) — Michelle Obama and President Obama traveled to Martha’s Vineyard just hours apart, costing taxpayers thousands in additional expenses so she could have just a bit of extra vacation time.
Mrs. Obama and her daughters arrived just before 2 pm Thursday on a U.S. government jet, according to the Martha’s Vineyard Times, which got its information from the local airport. The first lady’s office has been silent on her travel. President Obama arrived in the evening along with the family dog Bo.
The extra costs related to Mrs. Obama’s solo trip mainly include the flight on a specially designed military aircraft she took instead of Air Force One, as well as any extra staff and Secret Service that had to be enlisted to go with her. She would also have had her own motorcade from the airport to her vacation residence.
Mrs. Obama’s separate jet travel sends the wrong message on a host of issues, from global warming to the budget deficit to the economy – in which currently so many people can’t afford to take a vacation at all.
This is not the first time Michelle has gone on vacation ahead of the president on the taxpayers’ tab. Last December, she racked up what was likely more than $100,000 in expenses leaving early for their Hawaii vacation.
Behind the Aliens-Will-Smite-Us News Story « NoFrakkingConsensus
For example, on page 21, the authors write:Given that we have already altered our environment in ways that may viewed as unethical by [aliens] it may be prudent to avoid sending any message that shows evidence of our negative environmental impact…any message that indicates of [sic] widespread loss of biodiversity or rapid rates of expansion may be dangerous…On the other hand [the aliens] may already know about our rapid environmental impact by listening to leaked electromagnetic signals or observing changes in Earth’s spectral signature. In this case, it might be prudent for any message we send to avoid denying our environmental impact so as to avoid the [aliens] catching us in a lie.This just makes me want to weep.
Breaking: Over the last four decades, trace amounts of CO2 have allegedly caused a 132-kilometer band of lifeless territory to form all around the Earth at the equator
Climate change drives animals to high ground - Climate Change, Environment - The Independent
"Species of animals and plants have been moving their distributions away from the equator and towards the poles much faster than previously realised. In fact species are moving northward in the northern hemisphere and southward in the southern hemisphere on average at a rate of about 16km or 17km per decade," Professor Thomas said.
"These changes are equivalent to animals and plants shifting away from the equator at around 20cm per hour, for every hour of the day, for every day of the year. This has been going on for the last 40 years and is set to continue for at least the rest of the century," he said.
"It's just a phenomenal rate of movement of the whole of biological life away from the equator towards the poles..."
Today's alarmist proposition: Cough up your hard-earned money for "Mother Nature", or trace amounts of invisible gas will cause aliens to kill us all
Carbon fees: A way to recoup damage done to nature - baltimoresun.com
The carbon fee is not for the government, it is a payback to Mother Nature herself for the rape, burning and slow destruction of our environment that we have been doing for centuries (at no cost) and for which we show no signs of abating.
Climate Resistance » The Silliest Climate Change Article Ever?
Sample is the Guardian’s science correspondent. But it seems that he has more correspondence with science fiction than science proper. How can any discriminating journalist — which is their job, after all — not have seen the report, and thought to themselves… ‘oh, for ****’s sake’, and either ignored it, or given it the ridicule it deserves?C3: NY Times On Green Jobs: "But the results so far suggest such numbers are a pipe dream"
Never mind human-haters from another planet. The more immediate problem is the journalist’s and scientists’ deeply ingrained misanthropy, right here on Earth. It’s not just speculation that is the problem; it’s what the speculators are speculating from. They presume to sit in judgement of the rest of us, as aliens. That’s got nothing to do with science.
The notoriety of Obama's and the Democrat's green job fiasco is finally being picked up by the leading pulpit of green-leftism in the U.S. - the New York Times. The gullibility and idiocy represented by the article brings a certain level of schadenfreude as greenie/leftie/liberal cope with the obvious but continue to pursue a failed strategy they do excel at: wasting taxpayer monies.Shawn Lawrence Otto: Rick Perry's Anti-Science Character
For the record, no leading climate scientists have been found to have manipulated data, and the data collected over fifty years since Charles Keeling first began to measure atmospheric carbon dioxide point to an inescapable conclusion: we can measure the increasing carbon specifically from fossil fuels, and it is at the highest levels in at least 600,000 years, and that is causing the average global temperature to rise.Thousands launch mass protest in Washington, D.C. against tar sands pipeline | rabble.ca
Those hoping to halt runaway global warming could not sooner start promoting this crucial lesson: the most important lifestyle change to save the climate won't be biking to work, replacing your light bulbs, or eating local. It will be acquiring the habit of civic defiance. The bigger and better-funded groups in this fight can encourage this shift by providing resources and support to direct action-oriented grassroots campaigns and the struggles of frontline communities, the most dynamic and powerful dimension of the growing climate justice movement.
No, NASA Did Not Release A Study On Aliens And Global Warming | Media Matters for America
The subhead of the Guardian article falsely claimed that the report was "for Nasa" and the paper has since issued a correction.
Indeed the report is not NASA research. Shawn Domagal-Goldman, the co-author of the paper who works at NASA, wrote yesterday:This isn't a "NASA report." It's not work funded by NASA, nor is it work supported by NASA in other ways. It was just a fun paper written by a few friends, one of whom happens to have a NASA affiliation.
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Yes, I work at NASA. It's also true that I work at NASA Headquarters
William M. Briggs, Statistician » Alien Invasions To Increase Because Of Global Warming, Scientists
Eco-warriors from beyond the skies are on their way to destroy our world before we do—women and minorities are expected to be hardest hit—according to a shocking new report from scientists at Penn State and NASA.Atmosphere of Mars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seems these little Greenpeace men from Mars might be incensed because we’ve released too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for their taste. Humanity, ET might surmise, must be eliminated “To improve galactic infrastructure.”
The atmosphere on Mars consists of 95% carbon dioxideTracking Species as They Flee Ever Higher - NYTimes.com
What is more, a large minority of species were observed to move in the opposite direction from what was predicted — for instance, to lower elevations and closer to the equators.Himalayan Glacier Disappearance Overstated | The Resilient Earth
Basically, lazy scientists picked the low hanging fruit in terms of gathering field data and, by doing so, have biased the results. Further more, that bias is toward glacial melting, the result desired by climate change alarmists. Naturally, if researchers gets the result they want, they look no further. So despite a non-representative, too small sample set, the IPCC and its fellow warmists ran with the melting Himalayan glacier story anyway.
This should surprise no one, for it is the modus operandi of the entire climate change cabal: take biased, inconclusive, or even contradictory results and spin them into calamitous predictions to frighten the public. In just the last few months we have found that shrinking arctic ice coverage is not anywhere near record low levels for the Holocene, attempts to estimate climate sensitivity from paleodata and models cannot be reconciled and the measured amount of radiant energy leaving the Earth is higher than that used in climate models, meaning the models have been wrong for decades,.
Fujita & Nuimura are to be commend for telling it as it is—reports of the Himalayan glaciers' demise are unwarranted. As are all the other tales of eco-terror told by the global warming charlatans. When will the climate alarmists learn? Inconclusive science, presented as settled science, is actually bad science.
World News: Stage collapse kills 5 at Belgium festival - thestar.com
Be it an unfortunate chain of coincidence or the scary new reality of mounting festivals in the age of global warming, the Pukkelpop festival disaster marks the fourth time this summer a major concert event has been marred by a stage collapse.Limit greenhouse gases or extraterrestrials may destroy us say Penn State scientists - Wry Heat
So, it will be greenhouse gases rather than the nightly news that will alarm the aliens. Doesn’t Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann work at Penn State? It seems there is no limit to the contrived, scary scenarios global warming alarmists will proffer. Earlier this week I wrote an article titled “Girthic Warming” in which I said the subject research took the prize for stupid associations. That was before I saw the Penn State paper.Snow on Cuba Mall in central Wellington (HD) By Ro Tierney | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.
This video shows the joy and surprise in people in Wellington New Zealand who have never seen snow before.Burning up food prices: More corn going to ethanol production now than food production
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in its most recent Crop Production and Supply/Demand report for this year, said for the first time ever more of the American corn crop will likely wind up in our gas tanks rather than in the bellies of our livestock.Rage against the dying of Labor’s light | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
So why the hell don’t these people rage against the dying of light? Block the carbon dioxide tax. Get in a hardheaded new leader. At least go out with pride.The true cost of this tax will freeze you | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
There has been nothing mentioned in the media about the “Carbon Tax’s” effect on refrigerant, so I feel compelled to inform you as a refrigeration wholesaler, that the impact of this useless tax will be massive.
In a nutshell, the price of refrigerant, which keeps all of Australia’s food fresh, will rise a minimum of 300% at the wholesale level.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Global Warming Could Trigger Alien Attack
If we’re willing to accept the premise that aliens come to earth and care about what we’re doing, why should we assume the alien race embraces contemporary environmental ideology? It seems to me the scientists are engaged in a bit of projection.Global warming may drive aliens to destroy life on Earth. No, really. | IHTM
We could just as easily speculate about an advanced alien race seeing things quite differently. Perhaps the aliens would come from a planet with a much warmer temperature and see global warming as our invitation for them to colonize the planet. Or maybe they’d see gradual warming as a sign that we are a productive civilization that has been able to conquer and subdue our natural environment and is therefore worth trading and cooperating with. Or maybe this race would follow something like the “Prime Directive” and see our expansion as a reason to just leave us alone. Or maybe they would watch cable television and conclude we are a primitive, debased species not worth their time.
Hmmmm. The aliens sound a lot like progressive Democrats.Kevin DuJan - HillBuzz.org | Listen to Al Gore or aliens will kill you | Hillbuzz
Great. Merciful. Zeus.
I’m tempted to say these crackers had done lost their mind, but that was evident long before they started talking about the Romulans massing their starfleet on the edge of Earth’s atmosphere to forcibly compel us to keep paying attention to Al Gore’s circus of lies.
In a weird way, I do need to give the Left credit for continually inventing this craziness and for never giving up on any of their economy-destroyed schemes. These people are more resilient, industrious, and repellant-resistant than termites, and a thousand times more committed to their resulting destructiveness.
EconoMonitor : Ed Dolan's Econ Blog » Why Rick Perry’s Position on Climate Change Makes Him a True Conservative
Perry’s problem is that he is unwilling to keep an open mind even about the fundamental hypothesis of a human role in climate change.Progressive Intollerance: Talking to Themselves | The Moral Liberal
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews takes the strongest version of this position. To him even skepticism about catastrophic climate change is a sign of hostility to science, although a good number of scientists are skeptical.» Indoctrination Fridays: ‘Global Warming’ Activist Teacher Takes Her Agenda to ‘Truck Country’ - Big Government
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If someone doesn’t fit their mold, he or she is ignored or vilified. I know many people who (like me) reject Keynesian economics (and are skeptical about catastrophic climate change) while embracing science. (Yet we realize that scientists have the same the foibles and temptations we all are prone to, such as confirmation bias and career ambitions.) But Matthews & Co. say there are no such people. The pundits can’t even acknowledge good faith in their opponents.
Not only has Dean crossed the line that separates teaching from propagandizing, but she spent almost a month’s worth of class time on her global warming unit, with the grand result being a few recycling bins placed around the school and a “climate of concern” among the students.Global warming 'could trigger alien attack' | TG Daily
It is doubtful that Washington state’s standardized test asks students to explain how owning a truck helps contributes to global warming. That means in a nine-month school year, Dean only has eight months to teach the rest of the 8th grade science curriculum – the stuff that kids will actually be tested on.
It is clear that “teaching to the test” leaves less time for their social engineering lesson plans, which cramps the propagandists’ style in a major way.
In some places the authors get really carried away - one wonders how many of them are frustrated would-be Hollywood screen-writers.
If we did get attacked by aliens, they suggest, it's possible that another bunch might fly in to save us.
"The fact that they have now resorted to playing the “alien invasion” card illustrates how desperate and discredited the climate change cult has become"
Prison Planet.com » Pay Your Carbon Taxes To Al Gore Or Space Aliens Will Attack
Global warming alarmists invent new hoax after failing with everything else
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Having failed with drowning polar bears, global superstorms, rising sea levels and a myriad of other manufactured hoaxes, global warming alarmists have invented a new threat to try and persuade us to pay carbon taxes directly to Al Gore and the global elite – vengeful environmentalist extraterrestrials from outer space.
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The fact that they have now resorted to playing the “alien invasion” card illustrates how desperate and discredited the climate change cult has become.
There are many people who lament the decline and fall of NASA since its Apollo heydays, but if this is what taxpayer funds are being spent on, the organization’s demise cannot come soon enough.
It's a stampede: Plants and animals are allegedly fleeing CO2-induced heat at a rate of 20 cm per hour
A New Study Shows That Plants and Animals Are Moving Rapidly in Response to Climate Change - Climate hoax promoter Bryan Walsh - TIME.com
Regardless of what Rick Perry and the rest of Republican presidential candidate field believe (except for you, Jon Huntsman), climate change is real and it's happening...In a study published in the August 18 Science, researchers in Britain and Taiwan found that species are moving in response to global warming up to three times faster than previously believed.
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As York University conservation biologist Chris Thomas says, climate change is putting plants and animals on the run:These changes are equivalent to animals and plants shifting away from the Equator at around 20 cm per hour, for every hour of the day, for every day of the year. This has been going on for the last 40 years and is set to continue for at least the rest of this century....An influential 2004 paper in Nature estimated that up to 1/3 of the world's plants and animals could be committed to extinction by 2050 because of climate change. But those conclusions have been disputed
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There could be 9 billion human beings on the planet by 2050—a plant that will almost certainly be warmer, with a less stable climate.
The New Nostradamus of the North: Obama´s climate orthodoxy: U.S. ambassadors as story tellers
More than 60 elementary school students stepped on American soil on Saturday and gathered by the fireplace of the United States ambassador’s residence in Camp John Hay here as they listened to US Ambassador Harry K. Thomas Jr. tell the story of Simon the Sun, Wendy the Wind, Kurt the Cloud, Henry the Water and Mikko the Corn.Philippines: Coal-fired power plants put children at risk | EnerPub - Energy Publisher
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But Thomas was here with the children to wage a different war—a war against fossil fuels and a fight for renewable energy.
Estimates for every 1 degree in temperature rise, crop yields will drop 10 percent.
PM faces hostile COAG meeting | Top Stories | BigPond News
The Liberal premiers will push Prime Minister Julia Gillard to scrap the planned carbon tax during Friday's COAG meeting in Canberra.
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Meanwhile Queensland Labor premier Anna Bligh says she won't support the carbon price package until she secures a better deal for her state.
But she said her carbon-intensive state did have a big motivation to act on climate change.
'If the state and nation fail to act on climate change, one of the first things that we will be in trouble with is the Great Barrier Reef,' she said.
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemelo doesn't believe in electric cars, Santa Claus (video) -- Engadget
As saucy as some of them may be, today's electric car is definitely a novelty. Still, it's not too hard to imagine a future where the majority of autos run on electrons -- whether they're pushed from batteries or hydrogen fuel cells. Not everybody's down with that idea, and one of those EV detractors is the incredibly suave Ferrari president Luca di Montezemelo. We recently had a chance to chat briefly with the man who said -- in no unequivocal terms -- that there is no electric Ferrari coming:You will never see a Ferrari electric because I don't believe in electric cars, because I don't think they represent an important step forward for pollution or CO2 or the environment. But, we are working very, very hard on the hybrid Ferrari. This should be the future, and I hope in a couple of years you can see it.
Love affair with the automobile | Autonet.ca
There are those who would have us go on a blind date with their vision of re-engineering our way of life, our society and our needs. Politicians posture (the car is an easy target). There are those who wail about the environmental footprint while ignoring the impact of their own pet people-moving systems.Concern cooling : Canada : Canoe TV
Some would even see us imitate the Amish and return to horse and buggy without considering how to dispose of horse manure, horse urine and dead horses.
Are Canadians done caring about climate change? Tom Harris and Charles Adler take a closer look at what recent poll numbers show.Caring less about the climate? : Canada : Canoe TV
New polls show Canadians are less concerned about climate change, but does that mean it should fall of politicians' radars as well?Corbett quietly turning off the lights on renewable energy
[Pennsylvania] Quietly but systematically, the administration has all but shut down the state Department of Environmental Protection's Office of Energy and Technology Deployment -- the state's primary energy office -- and removed directors and reassigned staff in the Office of Energy Management in the Department of General Services and the Governor's Green Government Council.Still feeling green - BostonHerald.com
It has also forbidden state executive agencies from signing contracts that support clean energy supply.
With this week’s bankruptcy filing, the great Evergreen Solar experiment is now officially a staggering failure, but the fantasy that the state can buy new jobs with a fat investment of taxpayer cash may live on.UK inflation: No room for dogma in these hard times | Mail Online
Families are suffering real hardship. Businesses are fighting for their very existence. Ministers must drop their dogma about global warming and give the country a break.
The American Spectator : Suing NASA and UVA
Survey results published this month by Rasmussen Reports show the public is skeptical of scientists who practice in the realm of climate change, which might cause opponents of academic transparency to think twice.THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: How Heidi Cullen fools the public to sell the man-made global warming hoax
The staggering findings should be a serious blow to morale within the Global Warming Governmental Science Complex.
Climate activist Heidi Cullen told viewers of ABC News this week that recent 'extreme weather' was related to global warming, stating, "When you crank up the heat, when you globally warm the planet, you're going to see more extreme events." What she failed to mention is that the 'extreme weather' is due to La Nina, a cooling of the Pacific Ocean along the equator. Alarmists claim global warming leads to fewer La Ninas, and results instead in a "permanent El Nino" state of warming in the Pacific. This claim has also been repeatedly debunked in the peer-reviewed literature. The claim that warming leads to more extreme events such as storms has also been repeatedly debunked.Prepare for an Invasion | Climate Nonconformist
This has been peer-reviewed, so it must be true. Apparently, aliens may wage war on humanity because of our greenhouse emissions.Climate Common Sense: Let Them Eat Carbon
Completely lost in all the eco-babble about scrapping coal power and nuclear power and replacing it with "green energy" is the fact that a modern economy is built on cheap power and the changes the green activists want will lower enormously our standard of living. Low cost power is a multiplier to human effort so a few people can produce large outputs allowing a society where more and more people live off the sweat of fewer and fewer productive workers.
The Wall Street Journal examines the price of global warming policy and the effect on standards of living.
Question: If thousands and thousands of the world's climate scientists truly believe that developing the tar sands will make the world uninhabitable, why is only one climate scientist registered for this month's planet-saving White House tar sands protest?
Climate [junk] scientist willing to face arrest at tar sands pipeline protest | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Climate scientist Jason Box says oil sands are a moral issue that he feels compelled to address at Keystone XL pipeline protestsHansen Says Development Of Tar Sands Would Mean “Game Over For Climate”
...as of mid-week he's evidently the only climate scientist who has registered to join about 2,000 other like-minded thinkers to line the fences surrounding the White House — where peaceful arrests are not uncommon for protesters of all stripes.
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Climate scientists have already done their homework, Box emphasized, adding that the results are irrefutable.
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Box sees no reason why he can't maintain his professional scientific credibility while making a foray into activism.
He said some of his fellow scientists already have complimented him for signing the letter and for deciding to travel to the Washington protest. His impression is that he won't be shunned by a community that's becoming more vocal about its convictions.
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Yes, he admits to being a bit apprehensive about being confronted by climate deniers who might accuse him of being part of a vast Al Gore conspiracy. But he's not worried enough to cancel his September flight.
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"I feel I'm on the high ground defending this position and that I have reason on my side," he continued. "The question is, will anybody listen?"
James Hansen, says klimaretter, warns of these “fatal” consequences. Klimaretter quotes the eccentric NASA scientist:The known climate scientist James Hansen emphasizes that the extraction of tar sands would increase the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere by 50%. ‘When the development of the tar sands continues, then it means “game over for the climate,’ says Hansen.”
Tim Pawlenty sacrificed integrity -- his and ours | StarTribune.com
candidate Pawlenty embarrassed himself before the entire nation by turning his back on one of his most significant accomplishments.Let’s Put the Huntsman Campaign Out of Its Misery | Power Line
As governor, he saw the ominous clouds of climate change as the economic opportunity they represent, and was a strong supporter of renewable-energy standards that helped make Minnesota a leader in using our abundant nonpolluting energy resources.
But as candidate for the Republican nomination for president, he shamefully recanted that position to fit right-wing talking points that the science is uncertain, while he knows the opposite is true -- the science has only grown more certain since he first became governor.
What a missed opportunity. What if instead he had stood firmly facing the whirlwind of climate-change denial and had spoken the truth -- that the winds of change are blowing and that the nation needs to embrace them.
That every reputable scientific organization in the world, from the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council to George W. Bush's scientific advisory committee, have all affirmed what the science of climate is telling us: Human activities are changing the climate in already alarming ways.
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Jim Lenfestey is a former Star Tribune editorial writer.
If Huntsman really does not know that global warming alarmism is at best a hotly debated theory, he has no business trying to participate in public life.Beckmann: Time idle Ann Arbor treehuggers got serious about saving the planet | themichiganview.com | The Michigan View
What a tough time it's been lately for the environmental activist crowd.
First, taxpayers took a hit when Fisher Coachworks of Flint — they were going to make electric buses — went under, taking millions of federal and state subsidy dollars into bankruptcy with it, and failing to fulfill ex-Gov. Jennifer Granholm's promise that it would be part of the "new energy economy in Michigan."
Then, Evergreen Solar, with operations in Midland, went bankrupt. Evergreen was supposed to be "leading the green industrial revolution," Granholm promised. Alas, now Evergreen is ever-dark and more American taxpayer stimulus dollars have been wasted.
Anti-idling ordinance
But the worst news for enviros had to come out of Ann Arbor where the City Council failed to adopt — for now — the recommendations of the city's Environmental Commission (yes, they really have one of those there) to adopt an ordinance that would turn city law officers into global warming police.
Ann Arbor is looking to join a select group of cities that are aiming to save the planet by threatening fines for those drivers who leave their cars idling longer than the environmental disciples deem safe for our planet.
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Environmentalists need to demand that Ann Arbor politicians show real leadership by extracting the municipality from the grid that is killing the planet, and produce its own electricity from solar, wind and hydro.
More alien nonsense | Australian Climate Madness
So even assuming our environmentally conscious aliens:Stop global warming or the aliens will kill us | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
live on the closest planetary system to our own, AND
have been monitoring the atmosphere of a rather small, rocky planet orbiting a rather ordinary star, AND
have the technology to detect a 100ppm increase in CO2 from Earth’s emission spectrum, AND
have the same useless climate models we have here, AND
have the misfortune to count among their number the alien equivalent of James Hansen, who finds this treatment of a foreign planet abhorrent, AND
set off immediately on receiving this shocking information, intent on saving the Earth, AND
have the technology to travel at even 100 times as fast as the fastest human space vehicle ever, AND
are able to transport the numbers of invaders and weaponry required to subdue nearly 7 billion Earthlings,
they would still not arrive for at least 2,600 years.
Do you sense an edge of hysteria to demands that we cut the emissions that help make us rich? How do these NASA researchers know aliens wouldn’t prefer a planet with more carbon dioxide?Cloud computing – a green opportunity or climate change risk? | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk
climate change itself may make cloud computing less attractive.Eight bears killed - and counting
[Vancouver] Doyle warned that this year has all the ingredients for a bad season for bear conflicts, in particular a weak berry crop due to theCritters moving away from global warming faster - WTOP.com
unseasonably cold spring and the snowpack staying late on the mountains.
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Technocratic utopia is of course a mirage, a supreme act of hubris, that any group of people could have the incentives or information required to manage the world top-down for us. If I told an environmentalists that I wanted ten of the smartest biologists in the world to manage the Amazon top-down and start changing the ratios of species and courses of rivers and such in order to better optimize the rain forest, they would say I was mad. Any such attempt would lead to disaster (just see what smart management has done for our US forests). But the same folks will blithely advocate for top-down control of human economic activity. The same folks who reject top-down creationism in favor of the emergent order of evolution reject the emergent order of markets and human uncoerced interaction in favor of top-down command and control.Citing a Lack of Usage, Costco Removes E.V. Chargers - NYTimes.com
Costco, the membership warehouse-club chain, was an early leader in offering electric-vehicle charging to its customers, setting an example followed by other retailers, including Best Buy and Walgreen. By 2006, Costco had installed 90 chargers at 64 stores, mostly in California but also some in Arizona, New York and Georgia. Even after General Motors crushed its EV1 battery cars, the Costco chargers stayed in place.Melting Has Essentially Stopped In The Arctic | Real Science
Yet just as plug-in cars like the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet Volt enter the market, Costco is reversing course and pulling its chargers out of the ground, explaining that customers do not use them.
“We were early supporters of electric cars, going back as far as 15 years. But nobody ever uses them,” said Dennis Hoover, the general manager for Costco in northern California, in a telephone interview. “At our Folsom store, the manager said he hadn’t seen anybody using the E.V. charging in a full year. At our store in Vacaville, where we had six chargers, one person plugged in once a week.”
One of the regular spammers here doesn’t understand the difference between melt and compaction. The ice area graph has been flat for about a week, indicating that there is very little melt going on. Some of the extent graphs continue to decline a little because 15% concentration ice will compact if the wind is blowing it together.
The concept of ice not melting below the freezing point seems to be beyond Mr. Duncan’s comprehension.
“Scientists” completely loose it … aliens to destroy earth | ScottishSceptic
This is star trek meets daffy duck!Bandwagonitis leads to embarrassing gaffe
The report below claims to note a dramatic change in the last 10 years and attributes it to global warming. But even the Warmists now admit that there has been no warming in the last 10 years. So the claim CANNOT be true. It would be wise to check the facts before opening mouthGillard has a problem: Growing Convoy on the way — powers through North Queensland! « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
Animals across the world are fleeing global warming by heading north much faster than they were less than a decade ago, a new study says.
A Convoy of more than 100 vehicles – including road trains, campervans and utes – rolled into Katherine last night to show their support for the Convoy of no Confidence, a convoy heading to Canberra to raise a voice against recent government decisions.Uh-huh… all those declining emissions | JunkScience Sidebar
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of oil, coal and natural gas, which accounts for about 80 percent of U.S. overall greenhouse gas output, rose 213 million tonnes, or 3.9 percent, last year, the Energy Information Administration said.
...Italy emits 10 to 20 times more HFC-23 than it officially reports. (EMPA)
The Reference Frame: CO2, AGW makes animals disoriented, move to North
The media interest in global warming has dropped to about 1/3 of the peak traffic we saw around early 2007.MILLOY & DUNN: Air-pollution scare debunked - Washington Times
The people's desire to search for global warming has decreased to 1/6 of what it was at the beginning of 2007.
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The global warming hysteria is dying away - by a factor of e every two years or so - but simultaneously with this inevitable evolution, we're facing an increasingly radical and immoral gang of liars, scumbags, and terrorists many of whom have (together with their apologists) contaminated journals and universities in many countries.
EPA uses phony statistics to justify costly air-quality rules- Bishop Hill blog - +++Has the Climategate hacker just spoken?+++
Steve M has been speculating that RC was a UEA insider, who held back some important parts of the email archive as a bargaining chip- Bishop Hill blog - Scientific independence
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Last night, someone signing themselves RC and again using their website link as http://www.realclimate.org/FOIA.zip left the following comment.There was no deal made.
[retired CSIRO scientist named Art Raiche] We were given very strict, VERY strict guidelines on not publishing anything or publicly discussing any research that could be seen as critical to Government policy. If we did not do it, we would be subject to dismissal.
We had now become a government enterprise. We were told by the chairperson that we scientists no longer worked for Australia, we had to learn that we worked for the CSIRO.
Another astounding statement by a global warming "witch doctor"
Buja´s statement about moving from "Climate 1.0" to "Climate 2.0" clearly shows that he is living in a fantasy land. To allege that "models developed over 40 years" and the IPCC´s reports are "unequivoical" proof of human induced global warming is, of course, sheer nonsense, and discredits the entire work of an institution like the Climate Science and Application Program at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.Rick Perry, Out and Proud on Climate Denialism
Of course, nobody should be surprised by Buja´s views. A look at the Center´s web page shows that this is one of the Climate Science and Application Program´s focus areas:
"Training traditional healers in the West Nile region of Uganda to recognize plague as part of a decision support system"
Scientists are usually seen as quiet individuals who work to discover new knowledge that helps human civilization to survive...But when scientists try to warn us that using fossil fuels as a major energy source is poisoning our atmosphere and changing the climate in dangerous ways, Rick Perry would rather think the worse of them: Not only are scientists wrong, they are venal, too. Indulging in baseless insults is a perogative of some candidates, and Rick Perry is a master of this, a skill he learned during his Texas campaigns.Los Angeles CA : Texas Gov. Perry Starts with Campaign Gaffes
Perry makes his bizarre claims deliberately...Perry will certainly keep saying stupid things because it gains him enormous press attention and the committment of millions of Republican voters.
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Steven Schafersman is a consulting scientist, writer, and science education advocate.
Whether or not you buy the theory of global warming, Perry needs to stop pandering to his Party’s right wing and state for the record what he intends to do about manmade pollution.As Imperiled Walruses Are Forced to Shore by Melting Ice, Obama Administration Moves Forward With Dangerous Arctic Drilling Plan
“It’s a painful irony that on the very day the Interior Department says no additional information is needed to understand the impacts of drilling on Arctic wildlife, distressed walruses in the Chukchi Sea were seen hauling themselves onto shore because there’s no sea ice where they need it,” said Rebecca Noblin, Alaska director for Center for Biological Diversity. “The Arctic is reeling from climate change, but the Obama administration has a head-in-the-sand approach to looking at the impacts of oil drilling in the region.”
Latest news — Row to the Pole
It was bitterly cold again, with air temperature at minus 2 with a wind chill on top of thatExtra terrestrial contact paper – those involved should hang their heads in shame! | ScottishSceptic
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Having set off from Table Island at 0930 on Wednesday we finally touched terra firma on Ellef Rignes at 1046 on Thursday - some 25 hours later. Weary, and in some cases, a little brusied. We got got some food before getting back on board to try and push on around the coast to find a suitable bolt hole to get some rest. However as we have found on numerous occasions you can't take anything for granted up here and sure enough it wasn't long before we found ourselves confronted by what turned out to be an inpenetrable ice field. After 11 hours of searching for the elusive gateway we decided to head to neighbouring King Christian Island to anchor up for the night and recharge six very tired bodies.
I’ve just read the so called “paper” on Extra Terrestrials and it is the worst kind of nonsense and may as well be prepared by primary school kids given the lack of any knowledge or ability to draw inferences from human history let alone any concept of what really might happen if alien lifeforms ever contacted us.C3: Explaining Global Warming To An Anti-Science Progressive Liberal - AGW For Dummies
Based on this video, would it be possible that your typical eugenics-loving progressive liberal might actually be able to come to terms with climate science per the real emprical evidence verus theory only? Naaahhh!What is the optimum temperature?
Australian grape-grower Erl Happ became interested in climate when trying to work out what climate was best for grape-growing. And, as every grape grower knows, some climates are better for grapes than others. So instead of the common academic focus on average temperature, Happ became interested in how that average is made up. He looked at temperature by region and season rather than by some uninformative global average. What he found was that temperatures in different regions and seasons moved in different directions at the same time. While one region or season was cooling another was warming.
So this regional/seasonal disparity very strongly made an explanation in terms of CO2 useless. AGW theory could explain uniform warming only and uniform warming is NOT happening. Looking at average temperature artificially hides what is actually happening.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Breaking: Rick Perry's lack of belief in the global warming hoax may cost him the votes of people who still believe in the global warming hoax
Rick Perry in New Hampshire: Evangelical cowboy faces a rough ride - CSMonitor.com
Others, though, expressed concern over the governor’s stance on global warming, which he referred to as “a scientific theory that hasn't been proven” in Bedford yesterday.
“I asked him, Did he believe in global warming, and he said he thought the science was still out on that matter,” says Portsmouth resident Martha Fuller Clark, a Democrat and a former New Hampshire state senator who spoke with the governor. “I do not want a president who’s not paying attention to science.”
Chris Huhne is likely to be next minister to quit government - mirror.co.uk
ALASTAIR CAMPBELL once said you have 11 days to kill a story or else it could kill you. Or words to that effect, I’ve put a little spin on that myself.Politicized Global Warming in the GOP - [Ronald Bailey still believes] : Reason Magazine
Those are ominous words for Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne (right) – also known as ‘Huhne me?’ The worry for Huhne is that everyone appears to be talking about this speeding ticket allegation and not about the climate.
The accusation that Huhne forced his estranged wife Vicky Pryce to put speeding points on her driving licence in 2003 won’t go away.
In any case, both would-be Republican presidential candidates are commendably opposed to cap-and-trade carbon rationing. I think that Perry is wrong on the science (and I know many H&R readers disagree), but also think that what government is likely to do about man-made global warming is probably worse than the future effects of global warming.More Data in on Arctic Pack Ice | Robert A. Brown - seattlepi.com
We have to remember that these models have a statistical chance attached. Although the model predicts the ice all gone by 2050, it also allows about a 5% chance that it’s gone in 2014. Many people would take out insurance on a 5% chance of $trillions loss in a few years.
Twitter / @TuckerCarlson: Which scientists do you trust
Which scientists do you trust? RT @JonHuntsman: To be clear. I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.Frustration for start of Scotland's harvest | News | Farmers Guardian
In England, this year’s harvest is generally similar, or possibly a little slower, than normal because of the cold weather in June and July, according to the NFU’s chief arable adviser Guy Gagen.Polar blast threatens Daffodil Day | Stuff.co.nz
Daffodils will be in short supply for next Friday's Daffodil Day with the Antarctic blast wiping out stocks, including more than half of the flowers grown at the Waikato's sole supplier to the NZ Cancer Society.Climate Change – Now We Must Fear Alien Attack « Tory Aardvark
Graham Phillips, who owns the Clandon Daffodils at Gordonton, says the cold snap could not have come at a worse time. He should be flat out picking daffodils this week but said the bad frosts and unusually low daytime temperatures had seen a drop in his production by about 60 per cent.
This is probably the most ridiculous fear scenario that the Church of Climatology have ever come out with, we could be attacked by aliens monitoring us from space because of our obscene CO2 emissions, which having failed to increase global temperatures, could still piss off alien life forms.
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However fringe lunatic this appears the standard warming alarmist message of we must restrict (economic) growth and go back to living in mud huts and never travelling more than 5 miles from our village is repeated, if we do this then the aliens who might have attacked us, might not attack us, or something like that.
C3: "Peak Solar" Strikes States - Solar Power Makes No Economic Sense Without State Subsidies
With U.S. state budgets under tremendous pressure to balance budgets, many are cutting expenses, including those lucrative subsidies for solar installations. Now that solar subsidies have been reduced or eliminated, solar home and business installations rarely make viable economic sense.Update on Polar Bear Biologist Investigation
Tennessee and Oregon are two recent states that are pulling the plug on solar.
So my impression at this point is that Monnett’s suspension and the IG investigation have no policy significance. Were it not for Monnett’s quasi-celebrity status as the author the 2006 drowning polar bear study, none of this would be news.Ethanol is now a matter of national security | Grist
Now the bad: The Obama administration (which has been as aggressive an advocate for ethanol as any corn-state Senator) isn't going to let the ethanol industry down -- even if it means using federal dollars to ensure that 40 percent of U.S. corn keeps going into American gas tanks. The administration's commitment comes despite the fact that so-called "second generation" biofuels -- i.e. the kind that don't require corn as the feedstock -- remain forever "around the corner" (as this recent Reuters investigation documented).U.S. Icebreaking Woes Threaten McMurdo Resupply, Research Plans
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What's frustrating isn't that the government is investing in alternative liquid fuels. It's that, national security be damned, we're barking up the wrong energy tree: All the data point to ethanol being a climate dead end. And it's a dead end that's eating our food. Yet the government finds ways to keep the money flowing towards ethanol. It's truly the boondoggle that just won't die.
Last month, the Swedish government abruptly ended an ongoing agreement with the U.S. National Science Foundation that allowed NSF to lease Oden, the pride of the Swedish icebreaking fleet and also the world's most capable polar-class research vessel. NSF has used the ship each winter since 2006–07 to clear a path through the sea ice to resupply McMurdo Station, the largest scientific outpost in Antarctica and the hub for U.S. activities on the continent. The Swedish government decided that the Oden needed to stay at home this coming winter after two harsh winters disrupted shipping lanes in the region.
SCHNARE: Campaign advice for 'all of the abovers' - Washington Times
Because dirty, costly wind energy is masquerading as an essential element in “all of the above” as outcomes, the Republican candidates who cite it stray from conservative limited-government principles and instead adopt a coercive policy when it comes to energy. In effect, the “all of the abovers” tacitly support the climate-change “solution” agenda without acknowledging that there’s a problem in the first place.Perry in New Hampshire on Global Warming - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online
The presidential candidates who want the support of fiscally conservative, sensible environmentalists should put sound science and free-market principles ahead of compulsion and subvention, and therefore should promote the options for the most economical energy available, without subsidies and mandates.
No wonder Dems hate Perry as he has the ability to articulate his position in a way that doesn’t make him sound like a cuckoo-clock.The CLIMATE SCEPTICS Blog: President Vaclav Klaus - The Mass Delusion of Climate Change
[13-minute video]Have Solar Panels, Will Travel - NYTimes.com
With its upper deck covered with over 5,300 square feet of photovoltaic solar panels, the Tûranor PlanetSolar is unlike any ship you’ve ever seen. Sleek and sexy, it looks more like a spaceship than something that travels the seven seas.
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To be sure, the Tûranor PlanetSolar, financed by various sponsors, is a scientific experiment rather than something that will be mass-produced for commercial use. Moreover, its route does not stray far from the equator to ensure that a maximum amount of sunlight is available — hardly an option for the commercial shipping industry.
Mapping Antarctic Ice In Motion - NYTimes.com
Dr. Rignot said that one important finding that emerged during the mapping effort was that inland glaciers do not degrade solely because the ice beneath is being crushed by the ice above.Crazy? There are worse things you could (rightly) call Michele Bachmann - The Globe and Mail
It is impossible to explain the extent of motion revealed in the study, he said, without assuming that the deformation process is supplemented by melting at the base of the ice. “We have to account for a significant component of sliding on ice,” he said. Dr. Rignot is also affilated with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
But Ms. Bachmann, introducer of the Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act (I am not making this up), also thinks global warming is a hoax and carbon dioxide is a “harmless gas,”Greens pollute the fossil fuel debate | The Australian
Earlier in the week Brown said "the jury was out" on whether a switch from coal to gas to generate electricity would deliver the emissions reductions government modelling has forecast. Yesterday, as pressure mounted on the Greens from industry and Gillard declared that gas -- like coal -- has a strong future in Australia, Brown clarified his earlier remarks and began backtracking from some of the more robust language of his colleagues.
AP: "Animals across the world are fleeing global warming by heading north much faster than they were less than a decade ago, a new study says"
Critters moving away from global warming faster | Long Island Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Animals across the world are fleeing global warming by heading north much faster than they were less than a decade ago, a new study says.
About 2,000 species examined are moving away from the equator at an average rate of more than 15 feet per day, about a mile per year, according to new research published Thursday in the journal Science which analyzed previous studies. Species are also moving up mountains to escape the heat, but more slowly, averaging about 4 feet a year.
The species – mostly from the Northern Hemisphere and including plants – moved in fits and starts, but over several decades it averages to about 8 inches an hour away from the equator.
“The speed is an important issue,” said study main author Chris Thomas of the University of York. “It is faster than we thought.”
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“It’s already affected the entire planet’s wildlife,” Thomas said in a phone interview. “It’s not a matter that might happen in the lifetime of our children and our grandchildren. If you look in your garden you can see the effects of climate change already.”
Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Aug. 18th 2011 « The Daily Bayonet
Australia might be going the way of the Titanic, a climate skeptic wants to be President and you’ll never guess what fracking causes this week.Jon Huntsman on Global Warming - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online
So we should trust the alarmist scientific community about stopping our use of oil, but not do anything that will cut our oil use as that would stifle growth? I guess this is why politicians get paid the big bucks.Revisiting Climate and the Food Supply - NYTimes.com
The surprising result was that increased drought in Europe, at least in this particular computer analysis, barely mattered at all. The cyber-wheat was able to mature faster in a warmer climate, offsetting some effects of water stress late in the growing season, and it also responded well to the increasing level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, as many plants are expected to do.Murdoch, Hackgate, Climategate, the Guardian and the vile hypocrisy of the left – Telegraph Blogs
The upshot was that “wheat will avoid the most severe drought stress by maturing early,” the paper said.
Steve McIntyre has examined the Climategate connection more thoroughly I have space for here. You can read his inspired sleuthing here, here, here and here. I certainly agree with his assessment that UEA’s decision to recruit a man like Wallis represents a very strange use of public money. Surely, if you were an academic institution of genuine probity your first priority were one of your departments (in this case the CRU) to be implicated in skullduggery would be to investigate the allegations properly, rather than see it as a PR issue to be covered up by a hard man from the world of rock n roll and tabloid newspapers.
What can we conclude from all this? At the very least that the whole business stinks.
Roundup: Climate hoax promoters smear climate realist Bastardi
Joe Bastardi is ‘Completely Wrong’ and ‘Does Not Understand the Very Basics of the Science’, Climatologists Explain | ThinkProgress
Kerry Emanuel: “Bastardi’s Background Is In Weather Forecasting, Not Climate Science.” Kerry Emanuel, atmospheric scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, stated via email:I might point out that Bastardi’s background is in weather forecasting, not climate science. Asking him to comment on the science of climate change is rather like asking a country doctor to comment on the latest developments in biomedical research. The media really ought to know better. [Email to Media Matters, 8/16/11]Gavin Schmidt: Statements Made On Fox By Bastardi Are “Nonsense,” And “Simply Ignorant.” In a point-by-point rebuttal to multiple statements made in the past by Bastardi, NASA climatologist Gavin Schmidt used the words “nonsense,” “simply ignorant,” “completely wrong,” “handwaving,” “very odd,” and “based on nothing.” Schmidt concluded that presenting Bastardi as an expert on climate change is “about as credible as someone claiming to be an expert on the Greenland ice sheet because they eat ice cream.” [Email to Media Matters, 8/16/11]
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NASA and Penn State climate hoax promoters: Reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack
Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations, say scientists | Science | The Guardian
Rising greenhouse emissions may tip off aliens that we are a rapidly expanding threat, warns a report for Nasa
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It may not rank as the most compelling reason to curb greenhouse gases, but reducing our emissions might just save humanity from a pre-emptive alien attack, scientists claim.
Watching from afar, extraterrestrial beings might view changes in Earth's atmosphere as symptomatic of a civilisation growing out of control – and take drastic action to keep us from becoming a more serious threat, the researchers explain.
This highly speculative scenario is one of several described by scientists at Nasa and Pennsylvania State University that, while considered unlikely, they say could play out were humans and alien life to make contact at some point in the future.
Shawn Domagal-Goldman of Nasa's Planetary Science Division and his colleagues compiled a list of plausible outcomes that could unfold in the aftermath of a close encounter, to help humanity "prepare for actual contact".
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