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Inside dirt on clean energy schemes: they don't workA green energy scandal in the US has lessons for Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.
IF JULIA Gillard isn't paying attention to what's happening in Washington DC right now, she should be. The first major scandal of the Obama administration looks similar to one of the centrepieces of her carbon price package.
Scott of the Antarctic: the lies that doomed his race to the pole | UK news | The Observer As to the fate of Scott's body, and those of Wilson and Bowers, the impromptu mausoleum created by Cherry, Atkinson and the rest of the search party has long since disappeared, says Lane. "The cairn with their bodies is still out there on the Barrier, deeply buried under accumulated snow, heading slowly towards the Southern Ocean as the ice fields move towards the sea – where they will eventually receive a marine committal."
Twitter / @RevkinQuite a string of @tan123 labels for me: "Warmist left-wing anti-science agenda-driven ideologue." I know some agenda drivers who'd disagree
Pedaling for Cleaner Air - 33 News - We Believe in This Valley"...We are already over 350, we're about 360-parts-per-million in the atmosphere," explained 350.org coordinator Jenny Jacobs.
Scientists Say Atlas Is Wrong on Greenland’s Glaciers - NYTimes.comGlaciologists, previously bruised by an exaggerated claim about the melting of Himalayan glaciers in a 2007 United Nations report that became fodder for global warming skeptics, mobilized as a truth squad.
On blogs, on radio programs and in newspaper columns, they stated emphatically that Greenland has not lost 15 percent of its ice cover in recent years. The retreat, they said, is more like one-tenth of 1 percent. They were quick to add that nobody at the atlas had consulted them.
“It was a case where, really, the community came together really fast with both barrels blazing,” said Mark Serreze, director of the snow and ice center in Colorado. “Everyone had some real bad memories of this whole fiasco that had to do with Himalayan glaciers. No one wanted to see that again.”
2007: Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?One scientist even speculated that summer sea ice could be gone in five years.
Greenland's ice sheet melted nearly 19 billion tons more than the previous high mark, and the volume of Arctic sea ice at summer's end was half what it was just four years ago, according to new NASA satellite data obtained by the Associated Press (AP).
"The Arctic is screaming," said Mark Serreze, senior scientist at the government's snow and ice data center in Boulder, Colorado.
Professors: global warming is real - San Antonio Express-NewsDr. Gerald North, Texas A&M University's distinguished professor of atmospheric sciences and oceanography, and his colleague Gunnar Schade, also from A&M, both said the scientific evidence is overwhelmingly clear that global warming is occurring.
“The impulse of everyone out there is to kill the messenger,” Schade said. “We have to face the truth.”
There's “overwhelming and consilient evidence” that man-made global warming is occurring, he said.
Texas, Schade said, is headed for fewer cold nights and longer summers, an increase in average temperatures and at least a doubling of record heat waves in the coming decades.
Based on current trends, he said, within 50 years, Texas will no longer be able to sustain the growth of cotton or corn and desertification will occur.
North warned of more floods and droughts.
“Where it's wet, it's going to get wetter,” he said. “And where it's dry, it's going to get drier.”
Rally hears we need to tackle CO2 | Sunshine Coast News Both men said carbon emission policies were only the tip of the iceberg and there was great hidden support for the climate change message.
However, the age of the internet had seen rallies fall by the wayside and replaced by online support.
It's a view shared by Jack and Lesley Dunn, who were among the handful of people supporting the event.
"As a person who uses television as a medium I feel we are inundated with negative views," Lesley said.
"I feel the coverage is very biased and I feel the advertisements aren't telling the whole truths, but people are just believing these messages they are told."
Another Professor Resigns – From The Belgian European Society of Engineers and Industrialists SEIINews from Belgium…
Yet another professor, Dr. Ir. Henri A. Masson, has resigned from yet another once prestigious organisation, which too has succumbed to the darkness of dogmatism and censorship.
In late August the Société Européenne des Ingénieurs et Industriels (European Society of Engineers and Industrialists – abbreviated SEII) had organised a conference where scientists S. Fred Singer and Prof. Claes Johnson, of the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, had been scheduled to speak on climate change.
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However this all came to the attention of IPCC Vice Chair Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, who found that skeptic views have no place in the climate religion, and so moved quickly and demanded the SEII disinvite the 2 distinguished speakers. The conference had to be moved.
For SEII event coordinator Dr. Henri A. Masson, this closed-minded attitude by the SEII and van Ypersele became intolerable and so he has submitted his resignation...
Atlas Mugged « The Daily BayonetAdd AtlasGate to the list of reverse alchemy peculiar to greens. Only warmists are able to take the gold standard of something and turn it into lead.
Who You Calling Anti-Science? - Revkin.net@KeithKloor referees @chrismooney_ @kennethmgreen debate over Democrat/GOP approach to science. Kloor is right in saying that as long as the Republican Party is hostage to an anti-science minority, the onus is on rational Republicans to fight to restore reason as a central tenet of policy. This is what I recently called the “Fundamental Republican Science Problem.”
Global Warming: the Guilty Men – Telegraph BlogsIt will be same, unfortunately, when the Great Global Warming Scam finally unravels for good. There will be no payback for the dodgy scientists, green activists, shyster politicians, rent-seeking businessmen, faceless technocrats and media useful idiots who exploited and stoked this, the biggest and most expensive outbreak of mass hysteria in history.
All those of us on the right side of the argument will have is the satisfaction of being able to list the Guilty Men, just has Oborne has done.
House approves bill to delay, scrap EPA rules - BusinessWeekThe bill would require President Barack Obama to set up a committee of Cabinet-level officials to evaluate the toll that a dozen-plus EPA regulations would have on jobs, electricity, gasoline prices and competitiveness.
The regulations targeted in the legislation include everything from toxic air pollution, to gases blamed for global warming and to health-based limits for soot and smog-forming nitrogen oxides.
» Solyndra: How Far Obama and the Democrats Will Go to Protect Liberal Investors - Big GovernmentThis is corruption on a grand scale. With billions of tax payer dollars used to prop up bogus fronts for the sake of covering investors and contributors. Solyndra is only the small focal point of a much larger racketeering project in which the White House and Democrat lawmakers are guilty of running an organized crime ring.
The American ‘allergy’ to global warming: Why? - Post-TribuneFrom his big-windowed office overlooking the wooded campus of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y., [Columbia University geoscientist Wally Broecker] has observed this deepening of the desire to disbelieve.
“The opposition by the Republicans has gotten stronger and stronger,” the 79-year-old “grandfather of climate science” said in an interview. “But, of course, the push by the Democrats has become stronger and stronger, and as it has become a more important issue, it has become more polarized.”
The solution: “Eventually it’ll become damned clear that the Earth is warming and the warming is beyond anything we have experienced in millions of years, and people will have to admit...” He stopped and laughed.
“Well, I suppose they could say God is burning us up.”
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Al Gore, for one, remains upbeat. The former vice president and Nobel Prize-winning climate campaigner says “ferocity” in defense of false beliefs often increases “as the evidence proving them false builds.”
2007 Record Low Date Arrives – 9000 Manhattans Of Recovery | Real ScienceJAXA shows that there are 9,000 more Manhattans of ice than there was on this date in 1957. That is 1/4 of a Manhattan of extra ice for each Polar Bear!
At lower Manhattan prices, that much acreage would cost over a trillion dollars, or alternatively how much taxpayer money Obama gave to his banker friends.
Urban chicken consultant will help you realize your homesteading dreams | Grist For a fee, Jennifer Murtoff will come to your house and help you set up your own little Chickentopia.
Watermelons Vs The Shale Gas MiracleAgainst all the odds, the magic bullet to save the British economy has just been handed to George Osborne on a plate. All he has to do is call a halt to Britain's economically suicidal drive for "renewable energy", cancel immediately Britain's disastrous wind farm building programme, and give the green light to shale gas drilling.
Early frost cuts into short growing season - Farm & Ranch Guide: Crop NewsThe 2011 growing season didn’t last much more than 120 days across a wide swath of Minnesota.
Program would pay ranchers carbon [scam] credits to keep grassland intact - Farm & Ranch Guide: Regional NewsUnder the initial grant, Dell is developing a methodology for the carbon credit program.
The USDA provided a $161,000 Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) matching grant to DU and its partners, such as the Nature Conservancy. The group matched that grant with more than $205,000, Dell said.
New Statesman - Watching the Arctic melt, I realise apathy must be frozen outWhen a colossal wall of thousand-year-old-ice explodes right in front of you, with a noise like a very large bomb falling very far away, and you feel the chill sting of spray on your face as the ice is eaten away by human greed, you realise that a choice is still possible.
The New Nostradamus of the North: Expert on carbon markets: "You couldn’t design a better instrument for corruption"Still, before the final unraveling of the case for human caused global warming, billions of dollars are likely to be wasted on corruption e.g. in connection with carbon markets (cap and trade), recently described in this way by an expert: “You couldn’t design a better instrument for corruption"
- Bishop Hill blog - Glikson on the MWPAustralian scientist Andrew Glikson has a very strange article in the Conversation. He appears to believe that we sceptics are like something out of 1984.
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I wonder if he was involved in writing the Times Atlas of the World?
4th International Climate And Energy Conference in Munich GermanyLeading scientists, experts and critics of the AGW science and man-made climate change are gathering to present the newest results. Mark it down on your calendar!
New speakers this year will include:
- Andrew Montford
- Werner Kirstein
- Henrik Svensmark
- Chris Horner
- Piers Corbyn
They’ll be joining an impressive line-up of speakers like Nir Shaviv and Jan Veizer.
World Climate Report » Corn (i.e., CO2RN) v. DroughtWe realize that our future will see droughts in the corn belt – whether these future droughts are related to human activities can be debated forever. The good news is that elevated CO2 will give corn in the future a defense against any droughts that occur – corn will simply require much less water given the biological benefits associated with extra levels of CO2. The goodness will be felt the world over, not just in America’s corn belt.
We Can’t Find Our Missing Brains, And It Is A Travesty That We Can’t | Real ScienceEveryone (including Hansen) acknowledges that temperatures aren’t rising, and they are having to come up with all kinds of idiotic explanations why not – like Chinese aerosols, warm water sinking, etc. So why are these morons proclaiming that global warming is accelerating?
Who Is Coaching This Team Anyway? | Real ScienceThe hockey team needs a timeout to discuss strategy. A new study says that aerosols are declining due to global warming. Did National Geographic forget that the whole global warming scam now depends on increased aerosols?
Question For Climate Dimwits | Real ScienceSea level has risen over 300 feet in the last 15,000 years and temperatures have risen 12C. Why do we still have coral reefs, which typically grow in less than 30 feet of water?
You keep telling us that a few inches of sea level and a fraction of a degree will make corals go extinct.
Solar fries Queensland’s network | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogThe solar balloon leaks even more air:
Aussie alarmists in the news | Australian Climate MadnessGlikson then claims that the science on solar effects and cosmic rays are “unsupported mechanisms” despite the fact that research is still ongoing and very far from conclusive, lumps in the fringe group of Sky Dragon slayers with the majority of sceptics (who accept the scientific basis of the greenhouse effect), and claims that the Medieval Warm Period was cooler than the warming we would have had in the late 20th and early 21st centuries if something hadn’t stopped it. Follow that?
Nowhere is there any introspection as to the horribly corrupted and politicised state of climate science, any criticism of the actions of the IPCC, for example in accepting grey literature where it boosts their pre-conceived agenda of man-made warming, but strangely ignoring peer-reviewed papers which challenge that agenda, or any acceptance that the consensus side of science has been anything other than squeaky clean.
Al's Journal : How Deniers WorkA report Saturday demonstrates how the climate denial movement manipulates the political process, laundering their money, influence and phony science through think tanks, advocacy groups and event academic institutions...
Richard Silvestri: Too bad Treasure Coast global warming presentation draws only eight people » TCPalm.comFor Sept. 13, I organized a presentation by Mike Wallander entitled "Climate Reality." There were ads in this paper, on WQCS and in the Palm Beach Post. It was a free event open to anyone. Ninety seats were available. Eight people showed up. Really bad. Maybe it was Tuesday Night Football. But where were all the global warming deniers?
Also absent were elected people I invited through personal emails. I invited my St. Lucie County commissioners. Frannie Hutchinson and Todd Mowery said they had commitments elsewhere. But Chris Dzadovsky, Paula Lewis and Chris Craft did not reply at all. The event was in Craft's district, where he waffled on Florida Power & Light's proposal to put up wind generators a few years back.
How the WWF Infiltrated the IPCC – Part 1 « NoFrakkingConsensusIt is important to understand that while the WWF might once have been a humble, shoestring operation this is no longer the case. It has grown into a business entity with offices in 30 countries that employs a staff of 5,000
...The WWF explicitly told them it wanted their help in frightening the public so that the WWF could build a movement.
Scientists who join the WWF’s panel are required to complete a form that indicates their willingness to evaluate testimonials the WWF collects from ordinary people who believe that they themselves have detected human-caused climate change.
Solar Decathlon's Rainy Start | The Weekly StandardThe Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon kicked off today in Washington on the National Mall, under inauspiciously dark rainy skies. In a press release announcing the competition, Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu is quoted as saying, "The Solar Decathlon collegiate teams are showing how clean energy products and efficient building design can help families and businesses reduce energy use and save money...The event challenges talented students to become pioneers of clean energy technology and helps ensure that out nation remains competitive in the workforce of tomorrow."
Chu has reason to be hopeful that the competition pays off: The Department of Energy gives a $100,000 grant to each team just to participate in the Solar Decathlon, in addition to all the other costs of hosting and producing the competition.
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Teisha Villegas, a fifth year architecture student at CCNY, was a bit cagey with the details, but it looked nice inside! "I'm not sure," Villegas said when I asked how many kilowatts the 40 solar panels on the roof were bringing in today. "I haven't had a reading on a bright sunny day."
Al Gore's Online Climate Show Viewed By Millions ... Or Not? | Fox NewsEric Young, a spokesman for the Climate Reality Project, refuted reports that the numbers were inflated. He told FoxNews.com that Ustream did indeed drive traffic.
"Our strategy was to bring the event to as many people as possible. We achieved this by partnering with Ustream, whose player was embedded in sites across the web, not just on our homepage," Young said.
"This was in addition to watch-parties in homes, schools and businesses, and the live television broadcast on Current TV."
Ustream's website touts 511,243 views as of late Friday afternoon -- far more than Rotter's analysis, and far less than the company claims.
George Clooney hopes 'Ides of March' starts political discussion - latimes.comIf real-life Democrats end up taking inspiration from the Mike Morris character and his stump speeches, Clooney will hardly be upset. On climate change and oil, for instance, the governor proposes that the United States do away with the internal combustion engine.
"If we're cut off from oil, we will find a way to power our cars. So say it and make it happen," Clooney said. "It's not ridiculous. It is possible. And these are the kind of leadership things I would love to see and could be argued about. People will say, 'It's just actors.' But I truly believe it."
Solyndra executives repeatedly invoke the Fifth - Darren Samuelsohn - POLITICO.comSolyndra executives repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment this morning as House lawmakers pressed them to answer questions about the company's financial collapse and any hopes of repaying their $535 million federal loan guarantee.
"While I hope to have an opportunity to assist this committee in the future, on the advice of my attorney, I must respectfully decline to answer any questions," Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison told Energy and Commerce oversight subpanel Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), who opened the questioning.
CERN vs Einstein « The Daily BayonetCERN checked its own work, found no errors and then made its findings and data available to the scientific community to see if they can either replicate the result and rock the world of physics to its core, or prove them wrong.
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CERN may yet be wrong about the speed of its neutrino, but even if they are, they are scientific giants compared to the closeted group of grubby rent-seekers running climate ‘science’.
Kenya Losing 3% Of Growth If Climate Change Not Challenged-Minister - WSJ.comNAIROBI (Dow Jones)--Kenya faces losing up to 3% of its agricultural growth potential if an annual investment of at least $3 billion is not made to curb the effects of climate change in the East African Nation, Ali Mohamed, Kenya's Environment and Mineral Resources minister, said Thursday.
2009: Kenya tea output falls 11 pct in July: board | ReutersNAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's tea output fell 11 percent in July to 21.5 million kgs compared with the same month last year due to cold weather in some areas and drought conditions in others, the Tea Board of Kenya said on Friday.
The June-August cold season in Kenya -- the world's biggest exporter of black tea -- is traditionally associated with slow leaf development and supply shortfalls.
UN Carbon Market Will Survive Should Kyoto Goals End, EU Says - BloombergThe United Nation’s carbon market will survive if the Kyoto Protocol greenhouse gas-reduction goals for developed nations expire in 2012 without being immediately renewed, the European Union climate chief said.
The EU, which gives companies in its emissions trading system the right to import credits from the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism, will probably remain that market’s driving force in coming years, said the bloc’s Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard. The European cap-and-trade system, the world’s largest, was valued at $119.8 billion last year, according to World Bank estimates.
Talking to The Tea Party About Climate? | Sightline DailyLike I said, I honestly think that when it comes to climate change, there’s a little Tea Party in all of us. Denial (or call it compartmentalization, coping, prioritizing, ignoring, fearing change in how we live, or freaking out on such a massive scale that the only way to deal is to completely push it out of your mind…you know who you are!) is pretty pervasive even among the most progressive, pro-science folks I know. If it weren’t, we’d probably be a lot closer to having public and political will for mitigation policies.
Classic False Equivalence on Political Science Abuse - English Major Chris Mooney[Liberals] work with scientists and respect them–there is far too much psychological cost for most of us to openly contradict a consensus they’ve reached.
Incandescent dissidentsBeausoleil has joined an undetermined number of others around the country hoarding hundreds of bulbs before the end of the year, which will mark the last day manufacturers can produce 100-watt light bulbs
In Rush to Assist Solyndra, U.S. Missed Warning Signs - NYTimes.comWASHINGTON — President Obama’s visit to the Solyndra solar panel factory in California last year was choreographed down to the last detail — the 20-by-30-foot American flags, the corporate banners hung just so, the special lighting, even coffee and doughnuts for the Secret Service detail.
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“It’s here that companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future,” the president declared in May 2010 to the assembled workers and executives. The start-up business had received a $535 million federal loan guarantee, offered in part to reassert American dominance in solar technology while generating thousands of jobs.
But behind the pomp and pageantry, Solyndra was rotting inside, hemorrhaging cash so quickly that within weeks of Mr. Obama’s visit, the company canceled plans to offer shares to the public.
More Unsettled Science? - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online The researchers at CERN might have accidentally broken the speed of light.
Amateur Hour at the White House - WSJ.comThe decision to focus on health care was the president's own. It could have been even worse. Some staffers advised him—this was just after the American economy lost almost 600,000 jobs in one month—that he should focus on global warming.
Twitter / @AnaTellezHillary Clinton: "To have enough brain power for long-term trendlines is a constant struggle. Climate change is an example of that" #cgi2011
Byron Kennard: What's a Drag Queen Got to Do with Global Warming?At the least, I thought, it's up to me as a gay environmentalist to take a stab at it. That's what the Rue Rylvester campaign is all about, a series of short (90-second) videos I'm posting on YouTube that poke fun at climate deniers.
Rue Rylvester (an actor in drag) is a shameless parody of Sue Sylvester, the villainous cheerleading coach that the Glee audience loves to hate. As the world's top-ranked "climate lifestyle coach," Rue tells clients that global warming simply isn't happening, or, if it is, humans certainly aren't causing it, but, well, since it is happening, the thing to do is relax and enjoy it.
Yep, this is crap, and Rue is full of it, but she's funny as the dickens. And that's -- thank you for asking -- what a drag queen has to do with global warming.
Byron KennardI’m a longtime environmentalist – decades ago, an organizer of the movement – who is struggling to convert my rage and frustration over today’s dysfunctional politics into satire.
Global warming mania in the mainstream press - Orange Punch : The Orange County RegisterWhat thinking person believed this to be an appropriate photo for a story about clear, colorless, INVISIBLE CO2?...
Conflating this scary picture of some apparent noxious atmospheric pollutant with the issue of global warming and CO2 emissions is just flat out fraudulent. But let’s give USA Today the benefit of the doubt. They have so swallowed the Kool-Aid on this manifactured faux crisis that normal news judgment and standards have ceased to apply.
Al Gore claims 8.6m viewed 24 Hours of Reality though the real figure was 17,000 | Mail OnlineDespite Gore successfully getting speakers including Renee Zellweger to make appearances, website 'Watts Up With That?' has revealed that internet viewing figures were way below those reported by Gore.
Using web traffic information to estimate visitor numbers, the website said that even 17,000 viewers was possibly generous.
Video highlights of the talks posted on YouTube have also proved to be popular, with some films receiving just one or two views.
Sea Level: Another Thing The IPCC Got WrongWhilst it is true that the sea level has increased by 10 cm in the past 50 years (coincident with a period of global warming), it also increased by 10 cm in the previous 50 years when man could not have been to blame!
As Arctic Night Falls, Sea Ice Holds Its Ground If the Arctic ice pack is really disappearing, it’s going to have to shrink further than it already has. The past four years have not provided much evidence either way.
The Climate Reality Project – An Inconvenient Next Step? | The Energy CollectiveFrom a personal perspective and for context, I found An Inconvenient Truth to be a remarkable film and I was very pleased to be able to attend an Al Gore training session myself – and one that he personally delivered for a day in Cambridge, England. I have even used some of the material in my own presentations, which of course was the quid pro quo for attending the training. But it is good material and although I differ with Mr Gore on the way he interpreted some of the paleoclimate record, his overall message was solid.
This time though, I was disappointed and I am even more disappointed that this was the case. The core section of the presentation focused on extreme weather events and pretty much blamed them all on the long term change in the climate that is seemingly underway. By chance that same afternoon, I had listened in to an MIT web cast on exactly the same subject – extreme weather events. For me the contrast between the two was a concern.
Obama's fuel economy rules a job killer, auto dealers say | MNN - Mother Nature NetworkFederal 54.5 mpg rules by 2025 would cost automakers $150 billion and cut as many as 200,000 jobs, say 500 disgruntled auto dealers who descended on Washington this week. They're bucking the auto industry itself, which agreed to the Obama plan.
Twitter / @climatebradClinton: You have to assume because of climate change there will be a lot more refugees. #cgi2011
Protect Our Winters Fires Up on Climate Change [Fraud] | Skiing BusinessQ. Where does P.O.W.’s $250,000 budget come from?
That money comes from a mix of donations, memberships and fundraisers. We’re a nonprofit, so we try to stretch our money as far as we can, which is why we put a ton of sweat equity into what we do.
Q. Where does the bulk of your budget go?
Most of our energy goes into various grants and programs that we create. One of the programs we do is the Hot Planet/Cool Athletes program where a pro athlete goes to schools with a climate change expert to talk about global warming. That program was our biggest budget line item last year.
CIA Keeps its Climate Work Under Wraps | Mother JonesAs I reported last month, the CIA's Center on Climate Change and National Security has been keeping a low profile—probably because Republican members of Congress have been trying to axe the program. But apparently the CIA is going so far as to keep all information about the program classified, Secrecy News reports.
The CIA categorically denied a request under the Freedom of Information Act for copies of studies or reports from the center on climate change impacts. Jeffrey Richelson, an intelligence historian with the National Security Archive, filed the FOIA request. And while it's conceivable that some of the work the center is doing should be classified, it seems rather unreasonable that all if their work should be secret.
William M. Briggs, Statistician » Reducing Your Dog’s Carbon Paw Print?Anyway, the press release, from some nameless PR firm, is for the benefit of “Heidi Ganahl, CEO and Founder of Camp Bow Wow” who claims that the money we spend on pets is a “harm to the environment.”
Heidi has some ideas to mitigate this harm. One of the biggest is to “Break out the Fine China.” She says feeding Rover off of porcelain is more “environmentally conscious” than from a plastic dish.
In Scramble for Land, Oxfam Says Ugandans Were Pushed Out - NYTimes.comKICUCULA, Uganda — According to the company’s proposal to join a United Nations clean-air program, the settlers living in this area left in a “peaceful” and “voluntary” manner.
People here remember it quite differently.
“I heard people being beaten, so I ran outside,” said Emmanuel Cyicyima, 33. “The houses were being burnt down.”
Other villagers described gun-toting soldiers and an 8-year-old child burning to death when his home was set ablaze by security officers.
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But in this case, the government and the company said the settlers were illegal and evicted for a good cause: to protect the environment and help fight global warming.
The case twists around an emerging multibillion-dollar market trading carbon-credits under the Kyoto Protocol, which contains mechanisms for outsourcing environmental protection to developing nations.
The company involved, New Forests Company, grows forests in African countries with the purpose of selling credits from the carbon-dioxide its trees soak up to polluters abroad. Its investors include the World Bank, through its private investment arm, and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, HSBC.
In 2005, the Ugandan government granted New Forests a 50-year license to grow pine and eucalyptus forests in three districts, and the company has applied to the United Nations to trade under the mechanism. The company expects that it could earn up to $1.8 million a year.
But there was just one problem: people were living on the land where the company wanted to plant trees. Indeed, they had been there a while.
British climate "art" madness: £500,000 for floating a piece of Arctic rock to EnglandThis waste of money comes at a time when UK taxpayers have to cope with a steep rise in the cost of energy, due to the government´s (stupid) climate change policy
EU Referendum: A reason – give me a reasonMr Cox said: "I think my constituents are going to find it quite astonishing that, at a time when thousands of people are losing their jobs and when the country is on the brink of bankruptcy, we are spending half a million pounds digging up earth from somewhere in Norway and floating it down the South West coast.
Heidelberg Professor Ulirke Ackermann Warns German Green Movement Is “Paternalistic, An Enviro-Dictatorship”Ackermann writes: “For the Greens Nature is good, humans are bad” and thus must be always kept under the watchful eye of a powerful, better-knowing state. This means more central (by amateurs) planning, equalization and social uniformity.
It means the destruction of individual responsibility, and thus the individual.
Ackermann reminds us: “History shows us that this is precisely what never has put us on the path to democracy, freedom and prosperity.”
George Soros — More AGW Hypocrisy | The SPPI BlogSource: Bloomberg
San Leon Energy Plc, the natural- gas explorer backed by billionaire George Soros and Blackrock Inc., expects its Polish shale licenses to be more profitable than U.S. deposits, the company’s exploration director said.
Flashback: Does warmist George Soros own both a piece of Halliburton and a piece of Joe Romm?
A Gaggle of Liberal Loons - Opinion - PatriotPost.USWhen Al Gore likened global warming deniers, otherwise known as everyone who isn't receiving government grants or getting filthy rich off the biggest hoax since the Piltdown Man, as latter-day racists, I found myself wondering if he had his father, the late Al Gore, Sr., in mind as an example of an old-fashioned racist. His dad, in case it's slipped your mind, was one of 21 Senate Democrats who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Before Calling Green Jobs “Propaganda,” House Republicans Requested Millions to Create a “Green Collar” Workforce | ThinkProgressCongressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is leading his party’s charge against green jobs. The Chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and his fellow Republicans call the reality of green jobs a “propaganda tool” that is part of a “political ideology.”
But before taking on his politically advantageous anti-green jobs crusade, Issa sought government funds from the Department of Energy for an advanced battery manufacturing plant, saying it would help create “green collar” jobs.
- Bishop Hill blog - Time to Mann up – Part 2Climate change is a huge issue where the public interest in allowing those who pay for everything to see what is going on just could not be any more pressing or important. Perhaps the courts will decide that academia will just have to take a back seat for the time being in this regard.
Hiding The Decline Of Everything | Real ScienceNothing left but lies.
Temperatures are falling due to Chinese aerosols. Sea level is falling due to water hiding under the Greenland ice sheet. The missing heat has sunk to the bottom of the ocean. Record snowfall is due to missing ice. Arctic ice at a phony record low. Storm wind speeds exaggerated……
It is pathetic. Scientists committing fraud to keep the money coming in.
Connecting Wastewater And Climate Change - Falmouth - Communities | The Enterprise NewspapersThe biggest threat to the world?
Ask George M. Woodwell, founder of the Woods Hole Research Center, and he will tell you it is climate change. “It is undermining every fundamental aspect of life,” he told a group of 15 state, federal and local officials
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In reference to those impacts on a larger scale, Mr. Woodwell expressed a real fear that the environment is on the brink. “It is getting worse because we aren’t doing anything about it,” he said. “The reason why we aren’t doing anything about it is because of political and financial motives.”
That led Mr. Woodwell to warn that “we are going to have a new world. If climate change is what defines the world, it will not be a pretty world.”
He pointed to new weather patterns, in which precipitation has drastically changed, undermining life on Earth. “We now have droughts on every continent,” he said. “Some of you may notice Texas is drying up and burning up and that may be a good thing.”
Although the comment led to laughter, Mr. Woodwell went on to cite Jane Lubchenco, the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who spoke about the rise in temperature at a conference in Denver last week.
Chris Mooney | Science Communication: Training for the FutureYesterday I arrived in Las Vegas, Nevada, for another installment of an enterprise to which I’ve been increasingly devoted over the last year: Training scientists in communication, public engagement, and media outreach. Working with the National Science Foundation, but also sometimes on my own, I’ve now probably been involved in training over a thousand scientists in these, er, “arts.”
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The Practice. This is what, at least with NSF, we spend most of our time on. It ranges from what I call “jargon-busting”—teaching scientists not to use words that only they understand—to emphasizing the core need to design a message in a strategic way, rather than a haphazard one, and how to do that.
Chris Mooney (journalist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHe has an English Major from Yale University
Personality type differences between Ph.D. climate researchers and the general public: implications for effective communicationWe suggest that climate researchers will be more effective in conveying their messages if they are aware of their own personality type and potential differences in preferred learning and communication styles between themselves and the general public (and other specific audiences), and use this knowledge to more effectively target their audience.
Frozen in time | Greenpeace InternationalAs I write, the Norwegians are planning to open a new coal mine in Luncknefjell. It’s a bitter irony, that a fossil fuel which accelerates both the melt of the Svalbard glaciers and the Arctic sea ice, is mined at the very place where climate change impacts most of all.
Question: If Greenland has always been cold, what's coal doing there?Inhofe: Al Gore is Irrelevant | MRCTVSenator James Inhofe (R-OK), the leading climate change skeptic in the U.S. Senate and the author of the upcoming book “HOAX” was kind enough to talk to MRCTV for a few seconds the other day. We asked the Senator his thoughts on Former Vice President Al Gore’s recent 24-hour Internet marathon, intended to win over those who are skeptical of environmentalist’s claims concerning the severity of climate change. Inhofe was not swayed by the Gore-athon, and told us that in his view the Former Vice President was no longer relevant to the ongoing national conversation on the matter.
Labor censors Dr Dennis Jensen — denies peer reviewed science « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and taxThe ALP will accept an unaudited foreign committee report, whole, without question, but not scientific evidence from an elected Australian representative. Who are the climate science deniers? Is it the same team that calls people mindless denigrating names?
The EU's free CO2 allowances: A gift to the rich | EurActivThe Czech Republic's intention to hand out free CO2 allowances to CEZ, an already profitable energy company, would turn it into a dominant actor on the EU energy market and paradoxically threaten competition, writes Barbora Hanzlova, from the CEE Bankwatch Network.
Ex-President Clinton to Newsmax: Raising Taxes Won't WorkTurning to climate change, Clinton observes: “Next year the Kyoto agreement, which was adopted in 1997 and early 1998, expires. They’ve had a meeting last year and they’re about to have one in Durban, South Africa, to figure out what to do next.
“I have been saying for 10 years, and a lot of people thought I was crazy at the time, but the fundamental problem with climate change is not that it has become a political football in America, that there’s a difference of opinion about it. It’s that — take a country that fervently believes in global warming and that human activity is causing it but will not support an agreement, China.
“China’s the number one investor in clean energy technology. They still won’t support an agreement. Why? Because they don’t know for sure that a country can get rich, stay rich, and get richer without putting more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
“So what I decided to do was to dodge the debate, not because I won’t welcome the debate but because nothing’s going to happen in this space until people see that market economies can make profits and generate jobs out of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”
Southern Political ReportClinton also took a strong, if indirect, swipe at his former vice president, Al Gore, when the subject of global warming came up. In short, Clinton said that he himself has decided to dodge the debate over the effort to curb global warming. Why? Because it matters little what the United States does when China still refuses to sign any future agreement on reducing greenhouse gasses.
Now that's obvious enough to most businesspeople, and for that matter to those who closely follow the climate debate. But when Bill Clinton delivers that news in a smack-down, it's the equivalent of him looking at his old "pal" Al and pointing out that he travels in private jets and SUVs -- two items with large "carbon footprints" of their own. (Recall that Gore "dissed" Clinton when Gore ran for president in 2000.)
Lawyers netted millions in solar loan deal - Washington TimesMorrison Foerster, which represented the Department of Energy as the loan guarantor, received more than $1.9 million for legal services. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, which represented Solyndra, received more than $2.4 million.
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In a paper titled “Say Hasta La Vista to Global Warming” on the firm’s website, one Morrison Foerster associate was quoted as saying that working on the deal was “a truly unique opportunity and a wonderful learning experience.”
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The title of the paper, “Hasta La Vista to Global Warming,” was a reference to a comment made by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger at a ceremony announcing the Solyndra loan in 2009, an event that also included Energy Secretary Steven Chu and, by satellite, Vice President Joseph R. Biden.
EU hopes for climate roadmap, with US on the roadThe European Union climate commissioner says Europe would renew its greenhouse-gas reductions under the expiring Kyoto Protocol if upcoming climate talks produce a timetable for the U.S. and others to later legally commit to cutting back as well.
Why the "if"?! If the Europeans can all become rich by selling each other windmills and solar panels, why is our participation required?- Bishop Hill blog - Time to Mann upPerhaps Mann has an interest in delay.
Judge Assails 2 Scientists in Fish-vs.-Water Case - NYTimes.comthis week, two Interior fish biologists were excoriated as deceitful zealots in an unusual diatribe by a federal judge, Oliver W. Wanger.
The Reference Frame: William Happer vs Michael MacCrackenI just find it offensive when a political fat cat such as MacCrackpot feels that the environment allows him to attack a scientist who is orders of magnitude more achieved than himself.
Another Obama green company favorite under investigation… in China.As if the Solyndra and LightSquared controversies were not enough, another one of President Obama’s favorite companies pushing the green agenda is being investigated, this time in China.
Johnson Controls Inc., which is headquartered in Wisconsin and operates a battery manufacturing facility in Shanghai, has recently come under scrutiny by locals for excessive cases of lead poisoning in children living in the area. According to China Daily, 25 children in Kangqiao town are being treated for lead poisoning. The Johnson Controls plant, along with others in the area, has been shut down.
Remarks by President Obama in the Address to the United Nations, 9/21/11To preserve our planet, we must not put off action that climate change demands. We have to tap the power of science to save those resources that are scarce. And together, we must continue our work to build on the progress made in Copenhagen and Cancun, so that all the major economies here today follow through on the commitments that were made. Together, we must work to transform the energy that powers our economies, and support others as they move down that path. That is what our commitment to the next generation demands.
Hypocrisy–That’s Why We Miss Good Ol’ Bill | Power Line...Eileen Claussen of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, one of the leading advocacy groups for urgent action on the issue, had harsh words for the Clinton administration after it left office: “Finally, I’d like to offer a special posthumous award to the Clinton administration. For talking big about climate change on the international stage but doing next to nothing about it at home, I present the Clinton White House with the award for best costumes.”
I’m sure we can look forward to the same hectoring from former President Obama in a few years.
Twitter / @unescoNOW" We must teach the children that healthy ecosystems save lives" - UNESCO experts meeting on climate change education, the Bahamas.
Anticarbon tax message is 'unfair' - National News - National - General - Moonee Valley Weekly But Brendan Pearson, the deputy chief executive of the Minerals Council of Australia, one of the groups funding the ads, said even on Mr Comley's analysis, the ''world's biggest carbon tax'' claim was justified.
''Even on his analysis that's a tax take per person of $290 a year in Europe and $1227 in Australia,'' he said. ''A non trade-exposed company emitting one million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year would pay $14.4 million over the first three years and in Australia $72.5 million.''
Eon expects to cut 11,000 jobs for the sake of Green Policy | Engelske indlægIn the Financial Time on August 10th 2011 you can read that the scheduled closure of all civilian nuclear power plants is expected to cost 11,000 jobs. The German energy policy is very bad news, not only for the German people, but also for Europe's economy as a whole.
Terry Anderson: How About a Green Tea Party? - WSJ.comThe GTP would not be for you if you think increasing Washington bureaucracy budgets will produce a cleaner environment.
Blog: More evidence warmists wrongGovernments, media, and environmental groups continue to beat the drum for a fundamental restructuring of society, a restructuring that is not needed because there is no crisis. But too much has been invested in this already, and too much is to be gained by statists to give it up. Increasingly, Global Warming resembles eugenics - a half-cocked theory hell bent on transforming the political and social landscape.
We know how eugenics turned out; a pseudo-science that ended in Hitler's ovens and a world war. Ideas - even ridiculous half baked ones - have consequences.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Alan Siddons on the negative-feedback cooling effect of cloudsNevertheless, one mustn’t lose sight of the big picture. Vaporized water steals heat from the earth’s surface. Becoming a cloud, it steals even more. Only after it has lost heat to its colder surroundings is a cloud born in daytime able to give back some heat to a landscape at night. But what it gives back doesn’t come close to what it took away. So the net effect of clouds and of cloud formation is, reasonably enough, to cool. This should have been understood a long time ago.
Blinded By Green Light - Investors.comLeadership: The administration is bent on finalizing as many as 15 loan guarantees for green energy ventures before the stimulus deadline. How detached from reality can this White House be?
The administration is separated from the real world on two levels.
On one, the White House is operating as if there were no Solyndra scandal.
On the other, the White House acts as if its ideas are so brilliant that the laws of economics don't apply them.
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