Game over for the IPCC? - Railway engineer Pachauri now building a canal in India

The fact that Pachauri now concentrates on other things than the IPCC and the global warming hoax, should be seen as a positive development. It shows that the game is over for the UN climate circus - and the Nobel laureate is turning his attention elsewhere. Hopefully he will not suggest replacing the canal with a railway.

The lights may go out in Germany even sooner than in Britain - Telegraph

Meanwhile, the BBC – as usual at the peak of the Arctic’s summer melt – prattles on about ships that sail round the top of Russia and Canada, and the ice soon vanishing altogether. In its strange bubble, the BBC seems unaware that ships could do this 70 years ago, before “global warming”, and that the real story is the crisis created by the massive return, for two successive winters, of ice to the Gulf of Finland and the Sea of Okhotsk.

Life Threatening Conditions Continue To Deteriorate In New Orleans | Real Science

This is happening every weekend now. Last Sunday, Long Island had to be evacuated because of Irene’s devastation. The image below was captured at Rockaway Beach, 5:58 PM Eastern time August 28, 2011.

All Editors And Climate Scientists Must Now Resign | Real Science

Pretending for a moment that the argument was valid (which it isn’t) the standard is that any climate paper which ignores skeptics arguments is invalid. Any editor who has ever published Mann or Hansen must immediately resign, because their papers do not address skeptics arguments.

Global warming hoax promoter Greg Laden: We know the warming isn't natural because (cough...mumble)

Global Warming: Separating the noise from the signal : Greg Laden's Blog

Numerous studies have identified a human "fingerprint" in global temperature change, and they do so by looking at temperature change over several decades, as described above. In doing this, the influence of year to year or other short term "noise" is reduced, allowing the identification of a signal caused by greenhouse gases.
...Global-scale warming over the 32-years from 1979 to 2010 is now four times larger than computer model estimates of internal climate "noise" on the same timescale. Purely natural changes in climate are highly unlikely to explain the overall warming trend in the UAH data.

Review & Outlook: Leveraging a Hurricane - WSJ.com

Rahm Emanuel may have decamped to Chicago, but Democrats in Washington still won't let a good crisis go to waste. Their current gambit is to use Hurricane Irene as a pretext to prevent spending cuts to one of Washington's most notorious boondoggles.

This week the left-wing press has been attacking House Majority Leader Eric Cantor for holding disaster relief funding "hostage." A more accurate way to put this is that Senate Democrats won't approve new funding for disasters unless they get the funding they want for corporations that make electric cars.

Obama’s Retreat on Ozone Standards Angers Environmentalists - NYTimes.com

For environmental groups, it was the final hard slap that brought a long-troubled relationship to the brink.
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John D. Walke, clean air director of the Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocacy group based in New York, likened the ozone decision to a “bomb being dropped.”
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“There is shock and chaos here,” Mr. Walke said, “so I do not know. I can’t answer that question.”
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As of Friday, Mr. McKibben said, more than a thousand people had been arrested in the previous days of protest, including Obama campaign staff members from 2008. Yet, he said of the White House, “we heard not one word from them.”

Fred Singer At Suppressed SEII Presentation: 1976 To 2000 Warming – “That’s Fake, It Doesn’t Exist”…

Fred Singer: “IPCC is finished!”

Twitter / @hlovins

Paper disputing science of climate change discredited, editor who published it resigns. Will those who trumpeted it? onforb.es/ndLc84

Can we now agree that the climate peer review process is biased? « the Air Vent

Think anyone feels the heat?

UPDATE #3: At the end of the Guardian article, it says Andy Dessler has a paper coming out in GRL next week, supposedly refuting our recent paper. This has GOT to be a record turnaround for writing a paper and getting it peer reviewed. And, as usual, we NEVER get to see papers that criticize our work before they get published.

Spencer’s announcement that his paper was published July 25, 2011. GRL rebuttal will be published next week Sept 10 2011, senior editor preemptively resigns. What is that, about 6 weeks from publication to accepted rebuttal. Talk about fast tracking.

C3: Major IPCC Climate Model Prediction Error Substantiated: Ocean Warming Not Happening, It's Cooling

The climate models, based on the IPCC's favored CO2-based AGW theory, predict that oceans will warm as the atmosphere warms from human CO2 emissions. Indeed, human emissions have continued to increase over the past decade but the empirical evidence clearly shows ocean temperatures have not, with declining temperatures a recent phenomenon that may continue.

Best Extreme Weather Cartoons | ThinkProgress

Ministry Of Truth Doing Their Job Effectively | Real Science

A favorite complaint of alarmists is that skeptics don’t publish much, while they make sure that no skeptical points of view are ever published.

A Primer on Our Claim that Clouds Cause Temperature Change « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

…and Why Dessler, Trenberth, and the IPCC are Wrong

Shortest Arctic Melt Season On Record? | Real Science

New ice is starting to form in the Arctic, and it looks like 2011 has a possibility of becoming the shortest melt season (time from peak to minimum) on record. Longer polar melt seasons are a fundamental tenet of global warming theory.

Climate Change Task Force Climate Change: Climate Skepticism & Ways Forward : Center for a Better Life

[Cmdr. Blake McBride, U.S. Navy Task Force Climate Change] Climate skepticism is a good thing. Really. We should all question what we think we know and seek to refine our understanding of the truth. Skepticism is the very foundation of scientific inquiry, and climatology is a science, not a religious dogma or political tenet. I don’t accept every new idea I come across at face value. I determine the level of my acceptance of new ideas based upon the weight of the evidence that supports them, which is the foundation of scientific analysis. Consequently, true climate skeptics are rare and, I would propose, largely found within the scientific community.

From Cufflinks to Handcuffs: My experiences at the White House « It’s Getting Hot In Here

I really admired Steven Chu for being a great scientist who straightforwardly said what he thought about energy issues; many times I told my friends that Chu was by-far the smartest and most qualified Secretary of Energy we had ever had. That’s why I was so utterly disappointed when he told EneryNow that he thought the Keystone XL pipeline was a good idea

Beware of the Coming....Ice Age? - Katie Pavlich

Apparently, a mini iceage may be on its way. Between the global cooling hysteria in the 1970s and the rampant global warming alarmists trying to take all of our money for "green" energy projects, I'm going to sit back and let Mother Earth do her thing and accept that as a small human being, I can't change the climate or the weather.

Hurricanes Are Getting Much Worse Due To CO2 | Real Science

Labor Day 1935 brought the strongest hurricane to ever hit the US, killing 600 people. In September 1900, a hurricane hit Galveston – killing 6,000 people.

Labor Day, 2011 is bringing puddles to New Orleans. There will probably be an auto accident or two – which the LSM will no doubt blame on global warming.

E-Mail Interaction Between Peter Gleick And I On Wolfgang Wagner’s Resignation | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

[Warmist Gleick] Also, there have been scientific rebuttals (which I’m not competent to assess)
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[Pielke Sr] I have expertise in the subject of the Spencer and Braswell paper. I also read the Real Climate post, and am knowledgeable on the Trenberth and colleagues work. I have published on closely related topics. I can tell you that, whereas there certainly may be issues with the S&B paper (as with the Trenberth work and all published papers), it is an appropriate scientific study worthy of appearing in the peer reviewed literature.
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What I suggest is that you seek different climate scientists than you used for your Forbes article, but who do not have a stake in the findings of the S&B paper, or its refutation. Select several in the topic area of the S&B paper, and request that they review the S&B work, and then report on their findings along with who they are. If you select individuals who are seen as less biased by all sides on this subject, you will have significantly closed the gap between our two views (and on the viewpoints of others).

Professor of Philosophy struggles to understand why climate realists don't believe that CO2 is overheating the Earth

Michael Ruse: Denying Evolution and Denying Global Warming: Is There a Biblical Link?

I take it that the cause and effect argument would be something like this: Modern science insists on the truth of evolution. But we know that evolution is false. Hence we should not accept modern science, at least not at face value. Why then should we accept warnings about global warming? In both cases we are getting predictions (or retrodictions) about times other than the present. If science is so unreliable about the past, why should we take it seriously about the future? The Bible is the guide to the past. The Bible is also a guide to the future. Leave it at that.

Michael Ruse

Michael Ruse is the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science at Florida State University.

Early Winter Snowfall Predicted For Ireland And UK - Irish Weather Online

A long range weather forecaster is predicting an early start to winter 2011-2012 for many regions of the United Kingdom and Ireland. James Madden of Exacta Weather says heavy snowfalls are likely in places as soon as late October and early November.

Last week, UK-based Positive Weather Solutions also predicted that the winter months will be colder than average everywhere and that some regions will experience significantly colder than average temperatures between December and March.

On the bright side, the PM did say ‘climate change’ - The Globe and Mail

His teeth must have been gritted, but Prime Minister Stephen Harper did manage to utter the words “climate change” during this annual Arctic tour.

Mr. Harper, as we know, hates the climate-change issue. It causes nothing but political trouble for him. He’s got a gaggle of MPs who don’t believe in the science; he’s got conservative media beating the same dead horse of faulty science every week. And he himself thinks climate change is a loser – economically, if anything serious were to be done; politically, if his government did anything serious.

AP climate hoax promoter SETH BORENSTEIN blames bad weather on your CO2-emitting sins

Disasters in US: An extreme and exhausting year - Wire Health & Science - sacbee.com

What's happening, say experts, is mostly random chance or bad luck. But there is something more to it, many of them say. Man-made global warming is increasing the odds of getting a bad roll of the dice.

Sometimes the luck seemed downright freakish.

The East Coast got a double-whammy in one week with a magnitude 5.8 earthquake followed by a drenching from Irene.
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"If you weren't in a drought, you were drowning is what it came down to," Masters said.
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One of the most noticeable and troubling weather extremes was the record-high nighttime temperatures, said Tom Karl, director of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center. That shows that the country wasn't cooling off at all at night, which both the human body and crops need.

"These events are abnormal," Karl said. "But it's part of an ongoing trend we've seen since 1980."

Individual weather disasters so far can't be directly attributed to global warming, but it is a factor in the magnitude and the string of many of the extremes, Karl and other climate scientists say.

While the hurricanes and tornado outbreaks don't seem to have any clear climate change connection, the heat wave and drought do, said NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt.
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Judith Curry of Georgia Tech disagreed, saying that while humans are changing the climate, these extremes have happened before, pointing to the 1950s.

"Sometimes it seems as if we have weather amnesia," she said.

Obama’s green dream hurting U.S. taxpayers - Chicago Sun-Times

The biggest star in the Obama firmament of green-jobs com­panies has just imploded. Solyndra, a California-based firm that produced solar panels, declared bankruptcy last week, putting more than a thousand additional workers on the unemployment line.

The Solyndra story tells you all you need to know about President Barack Obama’s ability to “create” jobs — green or otherwise.

Solar panel pay-off claim rejected

THE time it takes to pay off an average solar system will blow out after the Victorian government slashed an incentive scheme for rooftop panels, according to expert analyses.
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The association found a 1.5 kilowatt system would take 14 years to pay off under the new rate. For a 2 kilowatt system it found it would take more than 20 years.

Claims of cheating and mistakes in energy use

''I see a lot of clients [who] need to get compliance, so they'll tick the fluorescent lighting box because that's a cheap and easy one but they have no intention of keeping the fluoros in there,'' said Tracey Cools, the managing director of Efficient Living, an energy certifier. ''But they'll put them in at the time the certifier comes in there and does the check, and then they'll go back and put their halogens in because that's what they want … There's a lot of cheating that goes on around the DIY system.''

Peter Foster: Scorched by ­solar | FP Comment | Financial Post

While the green-jobs dream is collapsing, Mr. Obama has the opportunity, with Keystone XL, to prove commitment to genuine jobs, which must always ultimately be based on profitable private enterprise. In fact, it appears increasingly likely that the line will get the go-ahead. Not only did Canadian Environment Minister Peter Kent look forward this week to “eventual approval,” but even U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu — who recently suggested that energy choices had to be removed from people for their own good — pointed to the line’s advantages in terms of security of supply.

UK renewables costs exceed gas by over 100 bln pounds | Agricultural Commodities | Reuters

LONDON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - The cost of investing in renewable energy in Britain is 105 billion pounds ($170 billion) higher than building the same capacity using gas-fired power plants, an economics professor said in a report published on Friday.

The extra investment cost of building power plants such as offshore wind farms is equivalent to nearly 10 percent of overall British business investment in the next 10 years, Gordon Hughes of the University of Edinburgh said in his study "The Myth of Green Jobs."

Photo of tar sands protesters, who allegedly believe in the climate hoax: Are we sure that these people are more racially diverse than climate realists?

Click to view photo: Look at how many people are at our final civil disobedience training tonight!

The shocking truth about electric cars - The Globe and Mail

There’s just one problem. The fantasy that electric cars are right around the corner doesn’t survive even the most cursory reality check. As Dennis DesRosiers, a leading auto consultant, points out, consumers simply won’t pay a $20,000 premium for a vehicle that doesn’t go very far, isn’t very convenient, and runs out of juice as soon as you turn on the air conditioner.

Obama shelves EPA smog rule in huge defeat for environmental groups - The Hill's E2-Wire

League of Conservation Voters President Gene Karpinski slammed the decision as a capitulation.

"The Obama administration is caving to big polluters at the expense of protecting the air we breathe. This is a huge win for corporate polluters and huge loss for public health."

Frank O’Donnell, head of the environmental group Clean Air Watch, called the decision “political cowardice” in an email Friday.

He threw the rattle out the pram! | ScottishSceptic

Of course, reading between the lines it is pretty obvious what happened. The editor is a warmist, he didn’t like the fact that he had been forced to print a seminal work exposing the fraud of the scaled up CO2 models which are proven false by Spencer and by the simple fact it hasn’t warmed as they predict. And like all people deluded by their own importance he thought that the mere threat of resigning would cause people to come grovelling to him begging for him to stay so that he could force them to tow the warmist line. And when they just said: “fine go”, he threw the rattle out the pram and went home crying to mummy.

Nature News Blog: Cool climate paper sinks journal editor

In the unusual editorial, Wagner says “from a purely formal point of view, there were no errors in the peer review process. But, as the case presents itself now, the editorial team unintentionally selected three reviewers who probably share some climate sceptic notions of the authors.”

Articles: Pope Albert Issues a Bull

I was reminded on Lincoln's comment about an ineffectual pope's bull when I read the latest bull from Pope Albert Gore. He has proclaimed that anyone who does not say amen to all his globaloney is practicing the new "racism." Racism in the Church of Gore is the worst of all sins, you see. And Pope Albert is empowered to brand you with a scarlet "R" if you show any signs of doubt about his global warming Gospel.

Al Gore's convenient untruths about Alberta's oilsands

Pipelines are most environmentally safe way to ship oil

Australia’s Patrons of Climate Change Activism | Guy Pearse | The Monthly

It might seem like a diverse range of groups are all concluding independently that Gillard’s carbon price equals clean energy future, but they’re largely funded through two wealthy farmers: Robert Purves and Mark Wootton.

Robert Purves is the former chair and major shareholder of health group DCA; Mark Wootton is married to Eve Kantor, Rupert Murdoch’s niece. Through the Purves Environmental Fund (PEF) and the Poola Foundation respectively, they bankroll most of Australia’s best known environment groups, including many of those behind the “Say Yes” show.

Lockheed terminates Burlington partnership

Lockheed Martin's recent announcement that it is ending an eight-month climate-change partnership with Burlington doesn't mention local politics.

George Galloway speaks to a climate change denier Marc Morano - YouTube

George Galloway debates climate change with a climate change denier Marc Morano. Galloway asks him which of the two is the more trustworthy: A group of Scientists or a survivalist far-right Tea Partier who does not believe in climate change at all.

Originally broadcasted on talkSPORT 2nd September 2011.

"Die-hard" Californian environmentalists helping to "destroy planet"

Are "die-hard environmentalists" in California helping to "destroy the planet"? That could very well be the case, if one is to believe IPCC scientist Evan Mills, who has published the paper “Energy Up In Smoke: The Carbon Footprint of Indoor Cannabis Production.”

Farmer's Almanac predicts brutal winter for Prairie provinces

It'll be a year of teeth-chattering cold, late-season snowfalls and sunny summer days, according to the 2012 edition of the Old Farmer's Almanac.

Beware the "vast Army of Armchair Antiscientists"

Shawn Lawrence Otto: Meet America's Anti-Science Assailants

Virtually all the climate data we've gathered over fifty years points to the same conclusion: humans are warming the planet by burning fossil fuels. But the data have no credibility with global warming deniers, who view science and knowledge as opinions that can be argued into submission. There is a vast Army of Armchair Antiscientists - a shadow AAAS - intent on doing just that across a wide range of science findings they disagree with. They are militant, impassioned, cunning and deceitful, and they seek to quash any messaging that does not agree with their narrative.

Illinois beekeepers try to winter-proof bees - chicagotribune.com

Most beekeepers in this part of the state have seen the bees in 70 percent of their hives perish in the unusually harsh winters the last few years.

Chris Horner debunks Global Warming in 3min or less - YouTube

Chris Horner explains why Global Warming temperature data is bogus in 3min or less. Exclusive video from the cutting room floor of the new documentary "The Changing Climate of Global Warming"

Documentary: The Changing Climate of Global Warming

First it was Global Warming, then it was Climate change – ever wonder why the change in terminology?

This documentary examines the evolution of the climate discussion from both a local and national level. Follow the effort to take on the establishment and question the scientific research.

Greenest city moniker an Orwellian nightmare

Green economies don't create wealth, but dissipate it, which should send a shudder down the spine of every person in Vancouver

Grist: We should believe in the global warming hoax because the Pope allegedly believes in it

The ‘radical’ faces of climate change | Grist

[caption] The Pope recognizes the dangers of climate change.

Yet another stunningly stupid feature from The Washington Post: Lots of allegedly CO2-related photos and captions

Climate change around the world - The Washington Post

A look at the biggest climate change stories of our generation, from the Gulf oil spill, Cancun climate talks, and flooding in Pakistan.

Redefining the Scientific Method–Because Climate Change Science Is Special | Watts Up With That?

Phil Jones famously said:

Kevin and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!” – Phil Jones 8/7/2004

Today, we have an example

Articles: Underwhelmed by Hunstman

The fact that we are considering any remarks at all from this tinfoil candidate garnering 1-3% in the polls is a testament to his handlers' cozy connections within the Obama propaganda media.

Global Warming And Extreme Weather On Neptune | Real Science

Top scientists tell us that extreme weather is caused by excess heat in the system, which is caused by global warming – which is of course caused by man-made CO2 (AKA “carbon.”) This explains why the weather is very extreme in Honolulu, and mild in Winnipeg.

Neptune is -200C and has 1,200 MPH winds – almost supersonic. There you have it – high winds and big storms are caused by your SUV.

This message brought to you by the Union of Concerned Scientists And Marijuana Retailers.

Redefining Peer Review — Editor Resigns « the Air Vent

I would urge readers to review the resignation letter as we should discuss this for a while and it holds several important keys to what is going on.

- Bishop Hill blog - Critiques and responses

Remote Sensing has now made it clear that they will not be retracting the paper.

It seems clear from Wagner's resignation letter that his understanding of the alleged flaws in Spencer's paper came from blog posts like the one at RC; there is, as yet, no formal critique of the paper in the literature. It therefore seems fairly clear that Wagner's resignation was prompted by blog posts and perhaps word of mouth from Spencer's rivals. If so, this is extraordinary and quite an indictment of climate science.

Apparently there is going to be a formal critique of the paper, which will be published in GRL in the near future. This will be interesting for sure, but one has to wonder why a critique of a paper in Remote Sensing would be published in GRL; of course the suspicion will be that the authors will expect an easy ride from the editors there. We know that prominent climatologists have expressed their satisfaction with the "plugging" of the "leaks" that had been seen at that journal in the past. Remote Sensing, on the other hand, is presumably much more of an unknown quantity to them.

If you have never written a letter to the paper before – now is the time to do it! | ScottishSceptic

ABOVE ALL – SEND IT IN!!

Even if you don’t get published, the editor will see that they have a number of letters on the subject with a certain view and will tend to include one of those letters.

- Bishop Hill blog - Brooke on the Stirling FOI case

Heather Brooke in the Guardian writes in support of the position I took on Philip Morris's line on FOI compliance for universities:

The UK's FoI law is meant to be applicant blind. This means anyone can ask a public body for official information and there should be no discrimination based on the identity of the person asking. In the case of scientific research conducted and funded in the public's name, there is a strong argument that the underlying data and methodology should be disclosed. It is precisely this transparency that grants research reports their status as robust investigations.

Good for her.

The Reference Frame: James Hansen plans to arrest Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama

Hansen as a leader of the alarmist climate science

I would like to stress that James Hansen isn't a random John Cook whom I cherry-picked only because his texts are the best proof of the intellectual impotency and marginal insanity of the advocates of the global warming threat. In reality, James Hansen is also arguably the most respected alarmist climate scientist in the world. He's being respected as a celebrity not only by Greenpeace but by a large part of apologists for the meme that we face a dangerous climate change.

How did it happen? How could it happen despite Hansen's obvious marginal insanity? Well, it actually happened not just despite his marginal insanity; it has largely happened because of that. People and organizations such as Greenpeace have simply been the most important drivers that were influencing the composition of the climate change community in recent decades. Many of them tried to show their true colors in a less obvious way than Greenpeace but the logic was really structurally isomorphic. And what they needed were lunatics similar to the Greenpeace members themselves - who could however pretend that they can also work as average, productive scientists at the same moment so that they are more socially acceptable than the nuts who just hug and climb the trees and chimneys and eat assorted roots.

"Blog-review": Journal editor resigns because of "internet discussions" | Australian Climate Madness

“Various internet discussion fora”? Is this guy for real? So a few trolls on warmist sites, such as RealClimate and Climate Progress, convinced the editor of a peer-review journal to step down because he published a paper which challenged the consensus? “I agree with the critics of the paper”? Is that how peer review works? Editor of journal decides that the trolls are right and that’s that? No, if there were problems with the paper, they should be refuted by further peer-reviewed papers, not by the whim of one editor who chooses to fall on his sword to make a point.

Texas’ official water plan defiantly includes no mention of climate change | Grist

The last time Texas created a long-term water plan, in 2007, it conspicuously and controversially left out any mention of the effects of climate change on the state's water resources. In the midst of a drought of biblical proportions, one line from that report in particular stands out...

Environmental Health Perspectives: Climate Change and Infectious Disease: Is the Future Here?

One thing that seems fairly clear is that not all areas will see uniform shifts in infectious diseases; these, like other climate-related changes, will be highly dependent on local factors.10 “In some areas [in the United States] we expect to see a disease increase, and in others areas we expect to see a decrease. How climate change will affect that is really a wildcard at this time,” says Ben Beard, associate director for climate change at the CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.

Lawrence Solomon: Our cosmic climate | FP Comment | Financial Post

As the lead author of the CERN study puts it, there is “strong evidence” that the Sun affects the climate through some mechanism, and “a cosmic ray influence on clouds is a leading candidate.” CO2 is not.

Women unseen victims of resource wars linked to climate change

Experts have indicated that women are more likely to be unseen victims of resource wars and violence directly related to adverse effects of climate change.

Climate junk scientist James Hansen: "if the Keystone XL pipeline is approved, can we make a citizen's arrest on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for violating the Security Act?"

"The White House & Tar Sands" write-up, now posted on my webpage

[Warmist James Hansen] This raises a question: if the Keystone XL pipeline is approved, can we make a citizen's arrest on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for violating the Security Act? If they were put in the back of a hot paddy wagon in DC and held for at least several hours with their hands tied behind their backs, maybe they would have a chance to think over this matter more clearly.

Question time for Republicans - George Will - The Washington Post

For Jon Huntsman: You, who preen about having cornered the market on good manners, recently tweeted, “I believe in evolution and trust scientists on global warming. Call me crazy.” Call you sarcastic. In the 1970s, would you have trusted scientists predicting calamity from global cooling? Are scientists a cohort without a sociology — uniquely homogenous and unanimous, without factions or interests and impervious to peer pressures or the agendas of funding agencies? Are the hundreds of scientists who are skeptical that human activities are increasing global temperatures not really scientists?

Stupid Monkeys | HoweStreet.com

Another large subset of the human herd has become brainwashed to the point of delusion by a combination of state education, misinformed college professors, mainstream media, religious leaders and high-talking politicos into believing that they as individuals are little more than pawns, knee-benders, set on this planet to follow a path proscribed by the power elite.

As a consequence, when social trials arise on that path, they look first to the government for solutions. And they cling stubbornly to false beliefs, such as the myth of anthropogenic global warming, even though the truth of the situation would be readily apparent if they trusted in their instincts and did some actual research.

Warmist Dessler has another opinion piece in the Houston Chronicle: Reuses lots of his own verbal garbage

Sept 2, 2011: Perry shoots the messenger on climate change - [Climate hoax promoter Andrew Dessler] - Houston Chronicle

if climate scientists truly wanted to maximize funding, we would be claiming that we had no idea why the climate is changing - a position that would certainly attract bipartisan support for increased research.
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Economists have looked at this problem repeatedly over the last two decades, and virtually every mainstream economist has concluded that the costs of reducing emissions are less than the costs of unchecked climate change. The only disagreement is on the optimal level of emissions reductions.

July 10, 2011:  Texas is vulnerable to warming climate - Dessler - Houston Chronicle

Economists have looked at this problem repeatedly over the last two decades and virtually every mainstream economist has concluded that the costs of reducing emissions are less than the costs of unchecked climate change - the only disagreement is on the optimal level of emissions reductions.

In a cloud over ozone - The Washington Post

Perry also refers to Al Gore as “a false prophet of a secular carbon cult,” whatever on Earth that means.
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In developing the rule that Obama nixed, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson was simply fulfilling the agency’s prime mission: protecting human health.

BBC News - Journal editor resigns over 'problematic' climate paper

Publishing in "off-topic" journals is generally frowned on in scientific circles, partly because editors may lack the specialist knowledge and contacts needed to run a thorough peer review process.

Update on the Spencer & Braswell paper | Climate Etc.

I interpret the overhyping of the Spencer & Braswell paper to backlash against the “consensus” that routinely trivializes (or worse) any skeptical paper. And consensus scientists are in charge of most of the editorial boards of the most relevant journals.

More irrefutable, robust evidence of the decline and fall of NASA

CI wins NASA grant to teach climate [junk] science » Ventura County Star

Camarillo, Calif., Sept 2, 2011 - A grant obtained from NASA by CSU Channel Islands (CI) will help engage Ventura County high school students in the science behind global climate change.

CI Science Education Professor Dr. Bob Bleicher secured the $593,000 grant to help biology and earth sciences teachers incorporate NASA climate change data, research and curriculum into their classrooms. Teachers at eight schools in the Oxnard Union, Ventura Unified and Santa Paula Union High School Districts will receive professional development and resources under the grant.

“The goal is for students to be able to interact with the best climate research tools available from NASA and form their own arguments and conclusions about climate change,” said Bleicher. “Our hope is that we get more students excited about pursuing higher education and careers in science.”

CI was one of only 14 institutions across the nation awarded the funding through NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Program. The first-time grant targets schools with a high percentage of Hispanic students, who are underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The grant supports professional development for up to 20 teachers over two years at all six schools in the Oxnard Union High School District and at Ventura and Santa Paula High Schools. It includes honorariums for the teachers; instruction from nationally recognized experts on climate science; access to NASA satellite data and resources; printed and online support materials and lesson plans; on-site instructional assistance; and a two-day global climate change summer camp for students. The teacher instruction and student summer camp will begin in the summer before the 2012-2013 school year.

P.Z. Myers – Another Foot-stomping Global Warming Believer | Conservative Heritage Times

...P.Z. Myers is a biological scientist and likely doesn’t know much more about climate science than I do unless he has taken a special interest to learn about it on his own. But you don’t have to be a climate scientist to understand the state of the debate. The state of the debate is all around us. And it so obviously ain’t settled that I wonder why people like Myers still think they can bully people into believing that it is. If anything, this makes them look even more clueless because the state of the public debate has been turning decidedly against AGW in recent years. Do people like Myers and Gore only talk to each other? Did Myers not hear about that whole suppression of dissent and data cooking we learned about in that little affair commonly referred to as Climate Gate?

The Sooner State’s state of seeing climate change sooner | The Science Friday Blog

As Bebbo touches on in today’s strip, Oklahoma has also set all-time records for its lowest temperature, 24-hour snowfall, tornadoes in one month, and driest 11 month period.

Climate sceptics called every name in the book | The Australian

HAS any intellectual current ever been so disparaged and demonised, so ferociously harangued by the chattering classes, as climate-change scepticism?

Every slur in the book has been hurled at those who dare to question climate-change orthodoxies.

Warm fall expected to precede cold winter in North Dakota

But, coming off two cold, snow-filled winters, [National Weather Service meteorologist Joshua Scheck] also had some unfortunate news - the three winter months, December, January and February, could fall into a La Nina pattern.

So far, the outlook for those three months is calling for below-average temperatures statewide. Though there is no "strong signal" on what might happen with precipitation, Scheck said there is a La Nina watch in effect. During a La Nina winter, North Dakota tends to be colder and snowier than average.

Michael Levi: Energy, Security, and Climate » Blog Archive » Andy Revkin and I Talk About Keystone XL

Andy Revkin of the Times and I had a short chat about Keystone XL this morning. We discuss economics, climate, and politics. Here’s the video

Papantonio: Republicans Want Climate Science Removed From Textbooks - YouTube

Republicans and their corporate masters for years have been trying to keep the truth about climate change from reaching the American public. They work tirelessly to tell us that the earth isn't getting hotter; or that there is no scientific consensus that global climate change is real; or even that climate change is a GOOD thing because its going to open up shipping routes in the arctic. Their latest efforts, however, go far beyond their usual tactics, as they're now trying to get their anti-science agenda taught in public schools. Mike Papantonio discusses this issue with author Chris Mooney.

Md. Sen. Joins Hannah Among Arrested Protesters | NBC Washington

A Maryland state senator said he paid a $100 fine after being arrested outside the White House with other protesters while rallying against a plan to pipe oil from western Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

Sen. Paul Pinsky, D-Prince George's County, on Friday joined environmental activists who have been gathering outside the White House for the past two weeks to protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. Pinsky said he was charged with misdemeanor failure to obey a lawful order.

The Al Gore Show: 24 Hours of Denying Reality « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.

I could have done better in my career if I played along with the IPCC global warming talking points, which would have led to more funded contracts and more publications.

It is much easier to get published if you include phrases like, “…this suggests anthropogenic global warming could be worse than previously thought” in your study.

In contrast, Mr. Gore has made hundreds of millions of dollars by preaching his message of a “climate crisis”.

I would say that it is Mr. Gore who is the “climate denier”, since he denies the role of nature in climate variability. He instead chooses to use theory as his “reality”.

By giving in to Big Oil, Obama seals his political fate | Grist

Given how much more President Obama cares about the oil companies than the environmental movement, we might as well just let the oil companies take care of his reelection and focus our resources on congressional and state house champions.

That's not a happy state, given the threat embodied by Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, and other Republicans, but it's one we will find ourselves in unless a progressive, pro-environment Democrat more concerned about job creation and protecting the planet recognizes Obama's dismal approval ratings and general inadequacy and steps up to give Democrats and the American people an alternative they can be excited about.

Environmental regulations come under spotlight in 'red tape challenge' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The scrapping of environmental regulations this week became the focus of the government's "red tape challenge".

Obama Challenges Kids To Waste Their Lives Working On A Non-Problem Which They Couldn’t Do Anything About Anyway | Real Science

The more I think about this, the more I realize that he is by far the worst President. Even if climate models were correct, and even if everyone in the US moved into a cave and half of us died from Smallpox, the effect on the climate would be almost invisible. And you would never have any way of proving that you had “accomplished” anything anyway.

Kennedy inspired us to go the moon. Obama inspired us to sell our children’s future to his banker friends, and become a third world country.

Pa. withdraws from 5 federal pollution lawsuits | Associated Press

Meleah Geertsma, an attorney with the National Resources Defense Council, which is also a party to some of the cases, said the litigation will move forward, but Pennsylvania seems to be taking a step back.

"We think it's an indication the state is moving in the wrong direction on air pollution regulation," she said in the story published Friday.

- Bishop Hill blog - +++Journal editor resigns+++

This is quite extraordinary. Can it really be believed that Wagner heard "in various internet discussion fora" that the paper was wrong and on that basis has resigned?

Insightful Interview In EOS Of Dr. De-Zheng Sun “Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary?” | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

In the AGU monograph Climate Dynamics: Why Does Climate Vary?, editors De- Zheng Sun and Frank Bryan reinforce the importance of investigating the complex dynamics that underlie the natural variability of the climate system.

Shock News : Hudson Bay Polar Bears Survived Another Ice-Free Summer | Real Science

This makes about 15,000 ice-free summers in a row which the bears have survived.

NSF on Jones’ Email Destruction Enterprise « Climate Audit

During the time that I’ve been involved in climate, the U.S. NSF has had a pernicious role in enabling and endorsing Climategate conduct. This is not a new theme.

Car Buyers Aren’t Buying Obama’s Kool-Aid - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

But sales figures from August of this year — just one (four year) product cycle before the 2015 edict goes into effect — indicate that Americans simply are not drinking the Kool-aid. Even as gasoline hovered near $4 a gallon, the average fuel mileage of the top ten vehicles sold last month was just 23 mpg. The top two vehicles, the Ford F-150 and Chevy Silverado pick-ups, which account for almost 40 percent of total top ten sales, average just 17 mpg. The top two sedans, the Toyota Camry and Nissan Altima averaged 26.

Secretary Clueless - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

President Obama’s Labor Secretary, Hilda Solis, will be at his side when he parachutes into downtown Detroit on Labor Day to celebrate his “investment” in American workers and green cars.

Solis, however, just bought an SUV made abroad.
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She’s learned the Obama White House slogan: Do as I say, not as I do.

Paper Disputing Basic Science of Climate Change is "Fundamentally Flawed," Editor Resigns, Apologizes - [Climate hoax promoter Peter Gleick] - Forbes

There is a famous saying in science: “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” In this case, the arguments for climate change are backed up by such an astounding degree of science and evidence [like what, specifically?], that one, or even a few, papers that claim to refute the science of climate change deserve careful scrutiny.

Planning reforms will lead to more wind turbines - Telegraph

The number of wind turbines will treble under the Coalition’s planning reforms, campaigners have warned.

Naomi Klein, native protesters arrested at White House pipeline protest | CanadianBusiness.com

"I have seen the devastation of our environment and people's health with increased cancer deaths," Deranger said before his arrest. "If Obama approves this pipeline, it would only lead to more of our people needlessly dying."
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While Daryl Hannah and Margot Kidder, both arrested during the two-week campaign, aren't exactly at the height of their celebrity, former vice-president Al Gore, now a leading American environmentalist, has also weighed in.

Obama/Solyndra Reaction: "Should government pick winners/losers? Qualified Yes!" - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Finally I think the ed board is thinking wishfully when it claims the Solyndra debacle just raises “two important questions.” I can think of a few others: What did Solyndra do with the $527 million (out of a total guarantee of $535 million) it borrowed in the form of taxpayer-subsidized loans? Why did the Energy Department provide so much money for a technology – cylindrical rather than flat solar panels – that has not been proven scalable? What role did Tulsa-based fundraiser George Kaiser, whose George Kaiser Family Foundation held more than a 35 percent equity stake in Solyndra as of an aborted IPO in 2009, play in encouraging this subsidy?

Solyndra

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoyoteBlog/~3/9VNzlrY1f4Q/solyndra.html

Wow, that is really a fail.  Even in the worst run late 90′s Internet company I ever encountered, they were not selling dollars for 50 cents.  One wonders what numbers Steven Chu and company saw before they funded this dog, and whether from the very beginning these guys were counting on a steady stream of 9-figure government subsidy checks.

Editor-in-Chief of Remote Sensing Resigns from Fallout Over Our Paper

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2011/09/editor-in-chief-of-remote-sensing-resigns-from-fallout-over-our-paper/

If some scientists would like do demonstrate in their own peer-reviewed paper where *anything* we wrote was incorrect, they should submit a paper for publication. Instead, it appears the IPCC gatekeepers have once again put pressure on a journal for daring to publish anything that might hurt the IPCC's politically immovable position that climate change is almost entirely human-caused. I can see no other explanation for an editor resigning in such a situation.

People who are not involved in scientific research need to understand that the vast majority of scientific opinions spread by the media recently as a result of the fallout over our paper were not even the result of other scientists reading our paper. It was obvious from the statements made to the press.

Obama pulls back proposed smog standards in victory for business - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/obama-pulls-back-proposed-smog-standards-in-victory-for-business/2011/09/02/gIQAisTiwJ_story_1.html

Environmentalists condemned Obama's move in the harshest terms.

"Obama utterly caved," said Bill Snape of the Center for Biological Diversity, an advocacy group.

Obama Trims Speech, 'Green Jobs' to be Hardest Hit

http://spectator.org/blog/2011/09/02/obama-trims-speech-green-jobs#

Grist: more alleged consensus!

http://www.grist.org/#/climate-skeptics/2011-09-02-conservatives-just-as-wrong-on-economics-as-on-science

Very little in economics is as robust as the results in the physical sciences, so it would be misleading to compare the consensus on climate economics to the one on climate science, but for economics, it's fairly robust. 

The Climate Scam Marches On | Power Line

Way back in the 1984 presidential campaign, the eloquent Warren Beatty explained his enthusiasm for Gary Hart thusly: “He stands for ‘new ideas.’ And ‘new ideas’ mean, ‘You pay, mother——.’”

This burst of clarity came back to mind this morning when a new climate policy report from a consortium of European NGO goo-goos came over the transom...

Perry's Book Gives Rivals Ammunition - NYTimes.com

He makes it clear that he does not believe in global warming, accusing former Vice President Al Gore of hiding “global cooling data” from view.

“It’s all one contrived phony mess that is falling apart under its own weight,” he says of climate change science. “Al Gore is a prophet all right, a false prophet of a secular carbon cult, and now even moderate Democrats aren’t buying it.”

Zambia - Making the environment a campaign issue

ONE wonders when environmental matters will become a serious campaign issue in this country.

Political leaders have been talking about fighting corruption, distributing resources equally among other issues, in their campaign messages, but none of them has ever talked about protecting the environment from abuse.

Climate change major threat for doctors:  New Zealand

[Maori Doctor Rhys Jones] says global climate change threatens the foundations of health for human populations.

He says doctors can expect unprecedented spread of infectious diseases, a dramatic reduction in global food production, and more natural disasters.

Dr Jones vested interests are blocking action to prevent the worst effects of climate change, so instead of moving to renewable energy sources, the New Zealand government is investing heavily in major motorway projects and supporting proposals to extract lignite coal.

Limbaugh Calls Green Jobs Industry A "Money Laundering Scam" | Media Matters for America

From the August 30 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show:

Croat scientist warns that ice age could start in five years | Ice Age Now

Renowned physicist Vladimir Paar has revealed that Europe could be just five years away from the start of a new Ice Age, says this article in the Croatian Times.

American Communities and the World's Climate Will Suffer from Tar Sands Pipeline | Frances Beinecke's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

This week three NRDC staffers were arrested outside of the White House in protest of the Keystone XL pipeline that would carry dirty tar sands oil from Alberta to Texas. They did this as private citizens—NRDC as an institution does not engage in civil disobedience. I admire how they have put personal actions behind deeply held views.

‘Do you really need to print this email?’ messages may not be enough to save planet, warn scientists | NewsBiscuit

Environmental campaigners were left reeling today after scientists questioned their strategy to save the planet’s rainforests and halt catastrophic climate change simply by adding the question ‘Do you really need to print this message?’ to the bottom of every email.

FA launches ‘Let’s Kick Climate Change Denial Out of Football’ campaign | NewsBiscuit

Football fans who make offensive chants about wind turbines could face stiff jail sentences under plans by the government and the Football Association to ‘get tough’ with climate change deniers.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Australian study: 18% reduction in log availability in 2050 due to global warming

The (probably quite large) ABARES team of researchers seem to have made good use of the various models created by alarmist climate scientists. However, knowing the widely known amazing accuracy of these models, it is somewhat surprising that the Australian researchers have not actually been able to give the exact number of logs missing due to human caused global warming in the year 2050. Or maybe the logs are numbered in an appendix?

Top Economist Warns Green Jobs 'Creation' Will Undermine Recovery

One of the UK's leading energy and environment economists warns that the government's promise that green energy policies will create tens of thousands of jobs and stimulate competitive industries is an illusion.

Green deal faces ‘carbon black hole’ | News | Inside Housing

In a blow to the coalition government’s green ambitions, the findings of the association’s £1.2 million, two-year national retrofit project, Future Fit, suggests the carbon savings delivered by the green deal will be much lower than expected.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Warmist Kevin Trenberth: Come rain or come shine - always blame it on global warming

Now we have it from the highest possible authority: Irene, Katrina, heatwaves, coldwaves, floods, droughts, you name it - global warming is always to blame. "Science" is as simple as that - on the Nobel Peace Prize level.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Scientists 'stunned' by new revelation that nitrogen in rocks could 'counter climate change'

'Shocking' new findings released today 'turn all of the [settled] textbook theories on their heads' to reveal that trees can tap into nitrogen found in rocks, boosting their growth and allowing them to remove more CO2 from the atmosphere. According to the researchers, "The stunning finding that forests can also feed on nitrogen in rocks has the potential to change all projections related to climate change," i.e. downscale the alarmist predictions of global warming from computer models.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: 'Green Jobs' vs. Real Energy Jobs

For every two cents of tax subsidies for 'Big Oil,' wind and solar get nearly $1

While Politicians Deliberate Climate Change, Others Adapt

With the firm belief that every person can make a small contribution to a healthier environment, Martin suggests that individuals start by reducing their carbon footprint by just 10 percent a year and "keep at it, until they reach 90 percent over several years." It's about setting achievable goals, she explains.

Can I please see some real-life examples of individuals who have achieved this 90 percent goal?

A PR Disaster For ‘Green Jobs’

President Obama has a serious problem on his hands. First, in August, the New York Times printed an acknowledgement that the administration’s “green jobs” initiative — which the president promised would create 5 million green jobs over ten years — had failed.

Baillieu government takes axe to solar tariffs | The Australian

Environment Victoria spokesman Mark Wakeham said the move broke an election promise and was done without consultation with the industry.

"The decision to reduce support for solar power, in the same week as the decision to shut the door to new wind farm development, is extremely disappointing," he said.

Intensive Farming ‘Better For Wildlife Than Organic’

Organic farming can be less effective at protecting wildlife than intensive methods, according to research that undermines its claim to be the most environmentally friendly form of agriculture.

The Myth of Oil Addiction

America is no more addicted to oil than our ancestors were to horse fodder. We use oil, as they used fodder, to get us where we want to go. What consumers care about is not the oil or the fodder, but the mobility it provides and the associated costs. Yes, those costs include environmental impacts. But, mile for mile, the horse is a far more polluting ‘technology’ than an automobile. As soon as an alternative fuel comes along that delivers more bang for our transportation buck, Americans will demand it, and competition will drive profit-seeking firms to supply it.

Batteries from the Carboniferous | Watts Up With That?

...Nature has already solved this problem for us a very long time ago. It developed a system to capture solar energy and store it underground for future use in gas, liquid or solid form — to be used any time or anywhere we want, in rain or shine or in windy or calm conditions.

We call this energy capture system, “photosynthesis”, and this battery, “fossil fuels”.

Nature would never have thought that elements of humanity would look this gift horse in the mouth.

- Bishop Hill blog - Haunting the back issues

Barry Woods is doing an excellent impression of the now-silent-again Haunting the Library. Barry has been trawling back issues of the newspapers for global warming predictions and has come up with this:

[2008] The UK is to be hit by regular malaria outbreaks, fatal heatwaves and contaminated drinking water within five years because of global warming, the Government has warned the NHS.

- Bishop Hill blog - In the pay of Big Green

Russell Cook at the American Thinker carries the fascinating news that IPCC vice-chairman Jean-Pascal van Ypersele was working for Greenpeace while in position at the IPCC. This makes M. van Ypersele's constant refrain about sceptics being in the pay of Big Oil look, well, a tad rash.

Australia Gets Ten Times Bigger Solar Farm Following Carbon Tax | CleanTechnica

In its first solar investment in Australia, GE Energy and Financial Services has partnered with US thin-film producer First Solar and local state-owned energy firm Verve Energy to build a solar farm ten times larger than any yet built in the country. It will supply electricity for a desalination plant in Western Australia, which has a mandate to use renewable power for all new desalination projects.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds fire activity was highest when CO2 levels were "safe"

A paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters reconstructs the annual area burned in the Northern Rockies from 1626 to 2008 and finds the periods of greatest fire activity were in the early 1600's and during the period 1929-1945, both of which had "safe" levels of CO2 below 350 ppm.

C3: More Obama Green Boondoggles: GM Only Sells 302 Volts During August & 'Solar' Solyndra Goes Bankrupt

The Government Motors (GM) billion dollar+ electric vehicle (the Volt) is definitely not shocking the market. Obama's massive taxpayer funded EV is providing proof positive why government should not be involved in the private sector.

The energy-efficient lightbulbs that keep us in the dark - Telegraph

Perhaps it is a little narrow to object to energy-saving bulbs because they don’t bloody work. The EU is surely considering far more far-reaching ways to save energy. A ban on washing-up machines, I wouldn’t mind. No one needs a washing-up machine. Bans may also be expected on boxes of matches, lavatory cisterns, toasters, kettles that heat water above 50C, herpetaria, hot-water bottles, Welsh rabbits, unfrosted window panes, open-air chestnut sellers, fireworks, crème brûlée, farriers, escalators, hot-air balloons, blowlamps, candy-floss and kippers.

That would save lots of energy. And if it were all phased in gently, like the extinction of light bulbs, no one would say a word.

Climate Alarmists Attempted To Shut Down CERN Sun Science : Stop The ACLU

So, when someone wanted to do actual hard scientific experiments, the alarmists did all they could to stop it. Furthermore, as the article points out, the big wigs at CERN want the scientists to keep all politics out of the findings, and censored much of the findings and muzzled the scientists.

Funny how the True Believers (who want Everyone Else to be forced to practice what they preach) who always say the Realists are “anti-science” are scared to allow actual science to be performed and published. And unable to offer cogent and coherent scientific rebuttals.

The Political Obsession With Redirecting Private Capital - Forbes

What could $535 million of capital have done to create wealth, growth, and jobs had it been left in private hands? We will never know, but this question is at the heart of why stimulus programs and government industrial policy fail. It is in fact the great question the media never asks when they report on yet another program claiming to “create or save” jobs.

Lovins Tells Vehicle Summit: Sustainability is Performance

Sustainability leader L. Hunter Lovins is well-known for her love of horses, and her ubiquitous 10-gallon hat. It just so happens that she also has love affair with a completely different kind of horsepower: the kind generated by noisy creatures with wheels.

Yes, it’s true: your favorite cowgirl-slash-environmental-activist-extraordinaire is a motor-head speed-freak! (She’s raced motorcycles, cars, and even snowmobiles.) But, according to Ms. Lovins, she is, in no way an oxymoron, or a hypocrite. Speaking at last Thursday’s Accelerating Sustainable Performance Summit, Lovins said, “Sustainability is about higher performance.”

Breathing costs us £71.17 a year | Metro.co.uk

Prof John Thornes calculated the value of air we breathe based on the current price for carbon dioxide under the EU emissions trading scheme – 1.3p per cubic metre.

Everyone breathes around 15 cubic metres of air each day, which amounts to 19.5p a day or £71.17 a year.

The figure also means the world’s atmosphere is worth a staggering £4.3quadrillion – or 100 times the value of the global economy.

EPA has been collecting emissions data from pig farmers

EPA starts tracking greenhouse gases this month | TBO.com

The Environmental Protection Agency has spent the last year collecting emissions data from lots of polluters, ranging from power plants to pig farmers. The deadline is Sept. 30.

“The Inquisition of Climate Science” takes down the denialists | Climate Science Watch

The book features, among other things:
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• A list of the skeptic “scientists,” their arguments, and clear/concise rebuttals to these arguments.
• A list of think tanks that fund the research of these “scientists,” and where the majority of the funding for these right wing tanks has come from (ExxonMobil).
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Verdict: Powell’s book is well thought out, supremely interesting, and dead useful for those tricky interactions with your friendly local climate change denier(s). But I wouldn’t go so far as to bestow it upon them as “the gift of knowledge” – you wouldn’t want to add to the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by enabling a book burning session

Climate change could cause more wars - Thomas Kostigen's Impact Investor - MarketWatch

the correlations are too large to ignore

Julia Gillard defiant as critics say her time as Australian PM is up - Telegraph

The crisis comes as the Gillard government, which rules with a majority of just one seat, is engaged in a bitter fight with the opposition over its planned carbon tax.

Tony Abbott's carbon plan more expensive | Herald Sun

The government has seized on the modelling, saying it meant Mr Abbott's policy would lead to a $48billion hit on the Budget by 2020.

Mexican Fisherwomen Organise Against Climate Change

“By including a gender angle, we are going to bring about climate justice for the most vulnerable, and help tip the climate balance,” [Greenpeace Mexico spokeswoman Cecilia Navarro] added.

The gender deficit is visible in the Special Programme on Climate Change drawn up by the Mexican government in 2009, and in the programmes that are gradually being adopted in some of Mexico’s 32 states. Only four of these state programmes have begun to be implemented, and a fifth – in the state of Yucatan – is in the design stage.

Russia, US to study methane emission in Arctic

Moscow: A group of 27 [Is that really enough scientists?] Russian and US scientists has left on board a research vessel to study unprecedented emission of methane gas in the eastern Arctic, which could lead to acceleration of global warming.

The 45-day expedition will focus on the sea shelf of the Laptev Sea, the East Siberian Sea and the Russian part of the Chukotka Sea, where 90 per cent of underwater permafrost is located.

"This expedition was organised on a short notice by the Russian Fund of Fundamental Research and the US National Science Foundation following the discovery of a dramatic increase in the leakage of methane gas from the sea bed in the eastern part of the Arctic," the expedition leader Professor Igor Semiletov was quoted as saying by Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

Al Gore pushes halt to pipeline

The debate surrounding TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL pipeline grew louder Thursday as former U.S. vice-president Al Gore waded into the controversy, calling the proposed development "an enormous mistake."

Gore, a noted climate change crusader and winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, authored a blog post urging U.S. President Barack Obama to "block" the pipeline that would transport oilsands bitumen from Alberta to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.
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Levi, who wrote a blog Thursday challenging Gore and other misinformation, said that since a Prius gets five times the mileage as a Hummer and gasoline derived from the oilsands produces roughly 15 per cent more emissions than fuel from the average barrel of conventional oil, a Hummer using gasoline from conventional oil has 4.3 times the impact on the climate as a Prius using gasoline made from the oilsands.

"It's perfectly reasonable to be opposed, but it's probably not the best to make up the numbers," Levi said.

Rowers concerned by lack of ice after navigating Arctic

Wishart said the crew, who detailed their experiences on a blog at rowtothepole.com, saw dozens of walruses and whales and about 10 polar bears, including one particularly brazen one.

In the first week of the trek, during a rare stop where they were able to pitch a tent on some land, a polar bear got dangerously close before it was forced away with a few warning blasts from a shotgun.

"We hadn't closed hatches to go to sleep . . . and there was the bear five feet away from the tent," Wishart said.

"We fired a couple of bear-bangers over the top and he took off, much to the anguish of the three people in the tent who got a rude awakening."

Pray that naysayers are right about climate change | David Horsey Cartoons and Commentary - seattlepi.com

our only hope is that the deniers are not as crazy as they appear to be.

smmirror.com | Denial Is A Flooded River In Manhattan…

What about deaths from the tornadoes that are now appearing in aberrational clusters and taking out entire towns and cities? Twenty-two people died across eight states last weekend during Hurricane Irene. It’s no longer a movie projecting futuristic fantasy: Global warming is taking a toll and we’re still allowing ignorance and denial about it to have play in our culture.

Awful… Obama Scares Crap Out of Kids – Says Junk Science Climate Change Is Biggest Problem They Will Face (Video) | The Gateway Pundit

Barack Obama scared the crap out of a bunch of kids this week. President Downgrade told the kids that the biggest problem they will face is global warming climate change; Florida will have more hurricanes. There will be more drought because of man.
What an awful person.

Question this and you're worse than Hitler: "the extreme cold was mostly attributable to a natural climate cycle, the extreme warmth was not"

:: SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHY NEWS : : How Extremely Warm Were the Last Two Notoriously Cold Winters? ::

...the extreme cold was mostly attributable to a natural climate cycle, the extreme warmth was not.

"We investigated the relationships between prominent natural climate modes and extreme temperatures, both warm and cold. Natural climate variability explained the cold extremes, the observed warmth was consistent with a long-term warming trend," said Kristen Guirguis, a Scripps postdoctoral researcher who is the lead author of the paper set to be published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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"Over the last couple of years, natural variability seemed to produce the cold extremes while the warm extremes kept trending just as one would expect in a period of accelerating global warming," said Scripps climate researcher Alexander Gershunov, a report co-author.

Gershunov noted, however, that the study shows that extreme cold events in the past two winters, though driven by a natural cycle, are still consistent with global warming trends. The oscillation would have made cold snaps even more severe if the global warming patterns superimposed upon it hadn't mitigated the cold.

Committee Ramps Up Investigation into President’s Flagship Stimulus Jobs “Success Story” that Filed For Bankruptcy – Leaders Press White House For Documents

The Committee leaders go on to write, “President Obama and other Administration officials have repeatedly touted Solyndra and its prospects in visits to its manufacturing facility and in speeches. … When President Obama visited the company in May 2010 to tour its manufacturing facilities, he noted that ‘the true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra.’ Despite these statements on its prospects, Solyndra has experienced serious financial setbacks since receiving the DOE loan guarantee. Just after the President’s visit to Solyndra, the company cancelled a planned initial public offering. In November 2010, Solyndra announced that it was postponing a planned expansion of its facility and laying off 135 temporary or part-time workers and 40 full-time employees. In February of this year, DOE was forced to restructure the terms of Solyndra’s loan guarantee due to the company’s financial problems.”

Passing wind | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

It’s remarkable how a twitch of the weather could persuade serious people of a man-made Armageddon:

Warning Signs: Global Warming and GOP Politics

Here’s a handy guide to the campaigns to be the Republican candidate in 2012. Any effort to advance the “global warming” hoax, discredited since 2009 when it was revealed that the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change computer models were all rigged, should disqualify a candidate from serious consideration.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: After blowing $593 million on failed solar companies, Obama plans to blow $622 million more on new solar companies

The recent bankruptcies of solar companies Evergreen Solar and Obama extra-special-favorite Solyndra have cost taxpayers a combined $593 million. Now, the Obama administration is in the process of guaranteeing loans for $622 million more to new solar companies likewise destined to failure in competition with low-cost solar panels from China.

Bankrupt solar company with fed backing has cozy ties to Obama admin

A solar energy company that intends to file for bankruptcy received $535 million in backing from the federal government and has a cozy history with Democrats and the Obama administration, campaign finance records show.

Shareholders and executives of Solyndra, a green energy company producing solar panels, fundraised for and donated to the Obama administration to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Climate Resistance » Feudal Energy

Let’s not imagine that all this policy-making is just an accident of some slightly ill conceived idea about ‘nature’ and some dodgy science. This is not about slightly altering the ways we do things; minor adjustments to our lifestyles. Let’s see it for what it is: as a political idea. It changes the fundamental relationships between people. To see it as anything else is to roll over. It’s no use just saying that this science, or that measurement is bunk — the idea which should challenge is that the science justifies the politics, whether it is bunk or not.

Kerry Trueman: Laurie David on Why Sitting Down to a Meal Is Such a Big Deal

[Warmist Laurie David] You want to help global warming issues? Start eating a little less meat. That's a small but perfect example of how powerful the individual can be. And then educate your friends and family.
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The oceans are being depleted, the air is being destroyed, because of us. The climate -- who ever thought you could screw with the climate? But we're doing it, and it's not an opinion, it's not a theory, it's not a belief, it's a fact. The globe is warming and humans are causing it.

And the fact that we're not running to solve this problem when all the solutions already exist is just mind boggling to me.

SeaNews: Murmansk to Break Ice for McMurdo

NSF will pay approximately $8 million this year to use the “Ignatyuk”, it is reported.

The Green Church Seeks Dominion Over Your Home - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

The campaign is a product of the billions of dollars doled out by the stimulus in an attempt to transform Americans into good Green Church members. Such attempts are becoming increasingly prevalent: The Motor City Times recently highlighted EPA spending specifically intended to indoctrinate kids into the green warriors mindset, and millions more dollars have been doled out to Michigan developers and homebuilder as “investments” (read, federal spending) to “prevent the emissions of 12 million metric tons of greenhouse gases, equivalent to eliminating the emissions from 8 million vehicles.”

The RNC Hits Back at President Obama on ‘Green’ Jobs - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

[video] Where are the “green” jobs Mr. President?

The IAC Report One Year Later « NoFrakkingConsensus

It’s now quite clear that IPCC movers and shakers have no intention of complying with either the spirit or the letter of the IAC committee’s recommendations. That this is a thoroughly unaccountable organization could not be any plainer.

Climate Science's Tangled Web | The Resilient Earth

The alarmist web of lies is unraveling, one untruth at a time, and there is a hint of desperation in the air. From recent outburst by warmist prophets like Al Gore and James Hansen, the level of panic spreading through the climate change community can be gauged. They could ease their consciences and quiet their anxiety by simply admitting that the theory of anthropogenic global warming is wrong—know the truth and the truth will set you free.

It is not wrong or unusual for scientists to make mistakes, what is wrong is to cling to erroneous ideas and refuse to admit past mistakes. Faced with literally hundreds of corrections and new findings, the rational thing for a scientist to do would be to reevaluate his theory and its conclusions.

Instead, the climate alarmists stubbornly insist that the incorrect predictions made by their erroneous models over the past three decades somehow remain valid. Using tortuous arguments they have tied themselves in knots of illogic defending a theory that is indefensible. Climate science has not learned a lesson most mother's try to teach their children: you cannot lie your way out of being wrong.