Fun with Chicago Winter Temperatures « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change

Of course we can’t say from this what’s going to happen over the next 30 years, but with a stunning drop at a rate of nearly 11 degrees F per decade, you might reconsider banning white oak trees! If those who believe solar cycles and ocean cycles have more of an impact on climate than carbon dioxide are right, Chicago can expect to see more significant drops over the coming decades, making everyone in the city planning department look pretty foolish.

Hoodwinked by Berkeley Earth « Calder's Updates

Propaganda Tito style

Chris Huhne condemns us all to fuel poverty - Telegraph

Another monumentally expensive project to 'fight climate change' has bitten the dust - but the Energy Secretary still doesn't see the light.

Is there room for the environment at the Occupation? | Grist

"I saw a story in the New York Times that mentioned [Occupy Wall Street] was running on gas generators," Hurowitz says. "It didn't seem right that a movement that's supposed to change the world should be propping up big oil."
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The trouble is, the tech crew is missing an adapter necessary for connecting the panels to the battery. So they're charging the battery with their gas-powered generator instead. "Right now, we're not using the output in the smartest way," Mears says.

Nick Bryner, a 27-year-old, fourth-year law student at George Washington University who assisted with the solar panel installation, says that even when the solar array is connected, "It's not going to be enough to cover all the energy needs."
...Occupy Boston has devised a solar-charging USB box to keep cell phones juiced up. The Rolling Sunlight did make it to Wall Street, where it powered the media center there. But three days in, it had to be driven back to D.C. for repairs, according to Greenpeace media officer Molly Dorozenski. There was apparently some sort of charging problem with the batteries.

Hypothermia and respiratory problems and significantly reduced numbers, oh my: Wall Street protesters find out that the planet isn't as overheated as they had imagined

Winter woes threaten Wall Street occupiers

They put on a gritty war face and insist they are more determined now than ever, but the Occupy Wall Street campers now face the slow advance of an unrelenting enemy: the New York winter.

As freezing winds blew Friday over the epicenter of their protests, Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, the demonstrators were already huddling in significantly reduced numbers.
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"The cold affects us already," admitted Maria Fehlig, a volunteer nurse at the protesters' makeshift infirmary, a small blue tent marked by a cross that is the only structure so far tolerated by owners of the park ensconced between skyscrapers.

She noted there had been several cases of hypothermia and respiratory problems.

Oct 19, 2011: "Sydney has shivered through its coolest start to October in 45 years"

Sydney Weather Forecast | Warm Temperatures On The Way

Sydney has shivered through its coolest start to October in 45 years, but that's all set to change with the hot weather arriving in force over the next few days.

The city's maximum has yet to top 25 degrees this month, something that hasn't been seen since 1966.

‘The Science is Settled’, Part 858 » Climate Resistance

Many in the debate want to draw a line under the science, to have it ‘settled’ once and for all. But as has been discussed at length, here there and everywhere, that just ain’t science. The desire to move forward with policies, then, without further debate about ‘what science says’ — it has spoken, after all — speaks about the extent to which the policy-making process precedes the evidence-making process. Looking more deeply at the coverage of the debate reveals that expectations of science precede the science. The dialogue between the policy-makers and the evidence makers is two-way, and precludes any criticism or alternative discussion entering the dialogue.

"What Should a Ski Company that Cares About Sustainability Be Doing?"* | ThinkProgress

*No, shutting down isn’t an option.   [Wait, what?!  If we're really trying to prevent the "complete collapse of human civilization", why wouldn't shutting down ski companies be an option?]

California Air Board Sweats the Small Stuff on Cap-and-Trade [Swindle] - NYTimes.com

The California Air Resources Board’s all-day hearing Thursday was such a well-oiled exercise in democracy and administrative procedure that the momentousness of the occasion was almost lost in the footnotes.

Witches, God, climate change … it's a matter of belief

Part of the problem is that large numbers of people have ''come to think that [scientists and policymakers] are nasty, clever people trying to push their liberal, environmental, anti-business, anti-jobs, anti-religious causes''.

Meanwhile, the media has fragmented and the old expectation of quality and ethics has gone in the Fox News-like pursuit of market niches.

''In the United States, the land of 'free' speech, you have to pay an awful lot to get access to the channels of information - and the forces of darkness do pay a lot,'' Kitcher says.

College to host climate change video conference

It’s rare to find a scientist who doesn’t understand the significant impact climate change has on our environment, reports Lea Hix, chair of general studies and allied health at Pamlico Community College.

Word Of The Day: ‘Warmist’ | Talking Points Memo

[Morano’s] the first person to expose me to the use of the word “warmist” to describe those who accept the scientific consensus that manmade CO2 emissions are having profound environmental effects. (I guess that makes Morano a “coldist”?)
...Muller’s findings have disqualified him as a fellow traveler and have catapulted climate change deniers even deeper into flat earth territory.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » D.J. Keenan’s And My BEST Methodology Reviews

“Say, Briggs. You’re always negative. If you’re so smart, why don’t you do your own analysis and reveal it?” Good question. Unlike the BEST folks, and others like my pal Gav, I don’t have contacts with Big Green, nor do I have a secretary, junior colleagues, graduate students, IT people, fancy computer resources, printer, copier, office supplies, access to a library, funds for conference travel, money for page charges, multi-million dollar grants, multi-thousand dollar grants, nor even multi-dollar grants. All the work I’ve ever done in climatology has been pro bono. I just don’t have the time or resources to recreate months worth of effort.

McIntyre: "...“MMTS rural good” had a post-1979 trend of 0.11 deg C/decade while “CRS urban bad” had a corresponding trend of 0.42 deg C/decade."

First Thoughts on BEST « Climate Audit

Combining both stratifications, “MMTS rural good” had a post-1979 trend of 0.11 deg C/decade while “CRS urban bad” had a corresponding trend of 0.42 deg C/decade.

Bleak Prospects for Avoiding Dangerous Global Warming - Infoshop News

"The alarming thing is very few scenarios give the kind of future we want," says climate scientist Neil Edwards of The Open University in Milton Keynes, U.K.

Climate Change Deniers Abandon ‘Befuddled Warmist’ Physicist Who Came Around On Global Warming | TPMDC

That’s put a small but influential group of anthropogenic global warming skeptics and climate change deniers on the war path.

Blogger Anthony Watts — a meteorologist and blogger who doubts greenhouse gases contribute to warming — was excited about Muller’s group’s work
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[Morano is] right. Muller’s conclusions aren’t technically in conflict with the views of a subset of skeptics — those that accept the Earth is warming, but deny the conclusion that humans are driving the warming. But they could easily refurbish the credibility of climate science in the public mind.

The decline and fall of "BIGBY Birding" illustrates the death of the global warming hoax

So back in 2008, birders decided that they could prevent bad weather by not using fossil-fueled vehicles to birdwatch.   They could help heal the planet by doing "Big Green Big Years (Bigby birding)".  It was exciting, they were heroic, and 379 posts at Birdforum followed!

By 2009, it was less exciting, they were less heroic, and only 25 posts were produced.

By 2011, this green fad was essentially over.

[379 posts] BIGBY Birding 2008 - BirdForum

It's fun, it's a challenge but most importantly, it sends out a message - leave the car at home!

[25 posts] BIGBY birding 2009 - BirdForum

[2 posts] Bigby birding 2010 - BirdForum

There is no Bigby birding 2011 thread.

Back To Black: Germany Looks To Mongolian Coal To Secure Energy Future

Last Thursday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel signed a resource trade agreement with her Mongolian counterpart in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. Surrounded by a contingent of German industry leaders, the German delegates were eager to secure access to Mongolia’s burgeoning mining economy, specifically its coal, rare earth elements and other commodities, in exchange for German technology and skills to support local mineral processing operations.

[Humor]: Occupiers are cool | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

A letter from the typewriter museum | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

The CSIRO, at the cutting edge of science, technology and global warming modelling, pecks out on a trusty Remington a press alert about solar blogs and other “new stuff”.

Newt Gingrich charms Dallas Tea Party crowd with scholarly air, promises to undo Obama | The American Independent

Questioners, often addressing him as “Mister Speaker,” solicited his thoughts on education reform (we should “radically shrink” the U.S. Department of Education, he replied) and whether global warming is a manmade phenomenon (“To be honest, I don’t know.”)

As an amateur paleontologist, though, Gingrich said he knew the planet was even warmer when dinosaurs roamed, and he said he doubted there was much industry emitting greenhouse gases back then.

Climate Change Negotiations: The Death of the Kyoto Process - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

There seems little possibility that next month's climate summit in Durban will produce an emissions reduction agreement -- meaning the world will soon lack any binding CO2 targets. Europe may soon find itself alone in the fight against global warming.

A climate catastrophe descended on the German Foreign Ministry in Berlin early last week...."The meeting in Durban could become an act of mourning," warns Reimund Schwarze of the Climate Service Center in Hamburg, which analyzes climate policy on behalf of the German government.
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Although the industrialized countries will achieve the goal set in 1997, Merkel, now Germany's chancellor, has lost almost all the optimism she had at the time. In fact, she now warns that the international negotiations could turn into a "huge disappointment."
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The Kyoto Protocol was never ratified in the United States, and the country remains unwilling to submit to international commitments on energy consumption out of a concern that doing so could cost jobs. "Clean energy has become a dirty word in the United States," a close advisor to US President Barack Obama said during a recent visit to Berlin.
...it is likely that in the coming decades global warming will exceed the 2 degrees Celsius defined by the UN as the threshold to a dangerously overheated world.
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Jochem Marotzke, director of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg and chairman of the German Climate Consortium, believes that global climate policy has reached a low point and that both politicians and the public are losing interest in climate issues. "But we can't negotiate against the climate," Marotzke warns.

Question: Should I still be forced to install crappy, expensive, cataract-causing lightbulbs to replace my current allegedly hurricane-causing bulbs?

Energy-saving fluorescent lights linked to increasing eye diseases | Firstpost

Washington: Energy-saving fluorescent lights can harm eyes, say scientists. A new research, led by the Australian National University, has warned that the global trend towards using fluorescent globes instead of incandescent ones as a strategy to beat climate change could be increasing eye disease.

The research, published in the ‘American Journal of Public Health’, has found that fluorescent lighting may cause a 12 per cent rise in UV-related eye diseases like cataracts and pterygia.

Time: "...climate change got to be the political third rail"

Global Warming: How to Refocus the Fight | TIME Ideas | TIME.com

Now that 'climate change' has become a bête noire, environmentalists need to broaden their strategy

There’s been much hand-wringing — but perhaps not enough soul-searching — among environmentalists about how climate change got to be the political third rail...I don’t like the terrifying mess my kids will face. (By the way, “climate change” is yesterday’s weak phrase; it doesn’t begin to convey the intensity of trouble that is now upon us. I’m going with “climate chaos.”)
... Americans are growing bored with the plight of polar bears, about whose futures they once seemed to care more about than the futures of their own children...Deniers have the funding of the Koch brothers....just like you can’t say which cigarette gave you lung cancer, you can’t say which storm was triggered by global warming. So what? There’s still plenty of room to message on weather, which everyone agrees has gotten weird.
...we should fight global warming because our lives depend on it.

Government's drive to boost electric car sales falls flat - The Independent

A government plan to make 2011 "the year the electric car took off" appears to have stalled, with uptake of a scheme to promote sales of environmentally friendly vehicles falling dramatically.

The "plug-in car grant", conceived under Labour and launched by Philip Hammond in January when he was Transport Secretary, offered an incentive of up to £5,000 to buy an electric car.

The number of vehicles sold through the scheme has dropped significantly since its launch, with only 106 being bought in the third quarter of 2011, down from 465 in the first quarter of this year, and 215 in the second.

Peter Pan’s Green Cake was Poisoned — T.F. Stern | The Moral Liberal

There you have it; the Obama administration lined their own pockets and the pockets of political allies through the use of bogus and manipulated data which they have proclaimed to be the result of man made global warming. The promise of green energy, regardless of its practicality has been used to squander billions of dollars, not so much on innovation and new technology; but on long shot ventures which reasoned investors won’t touch. The taxpayers are being played for suckers while at the same time our free market system is being dismantled brick by brick.

We're saved!: Shoppers come in to look at electric vehicles, then buy new fossil-fueled vehicles!

Electric vehicles help automakers bring shoppers to showrooms - latimes.com

Just having those vehicles in the showroom can translate into sales of other models, Hazimeh said. Shoppers come in to check out the electric vehicles but then drive off with something else if they find they can't afford the premium for the new technology.

Children in California won't know what a grape looks like

Cool weather hammers California wine grape production

The California Department of Food and Agriculture forecasts a 9 percent drop in wine grape production, says this article by Lisa Baertlein.

The smaller-than-normal harvest is due to heavy spring rains and the second summer in a row of cooler-than-normal temperatures.

Scientists take unnecessary fossil-fueled trips to Miami to discuss how to convince other people not to take unnecessary fossil-fueled trips

Nature News Blog: Can psychology overcome a climate of resistance?

In Miami today, at the annual meeting of the Society for Environmental Journalists, a panel of three social scientists tackled the question of how to get people to change behavior. Never mind whether they care or not. How can the culture be tweaked? How can policies be set to influence human behaviors to emit less greenhouse gas?

One - perhaps controversial - recommendation they all echoed was to avoid the phrase 'climate change,' which they say has become too politicized. Kenneth Broad, the director of the Leonard and Jane Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami suggested 'environmental change.' Shahzeen Attari, who studies human behavior and energy use at Indiana University likes "climate disruption."
...If we can "psych out" the man on the street and get him biking to work, we should be able to influence the major decisions that shape our global energy economy. Perhaps environmental organizations should start recruiting in psychology departments and in the intelligence community.

Another inconvenient truth: The National Audubon Society folks clearly don't actually believe in their own global warming hoax propaganda

For a while now, the Audubon folks have been telling us that emitting CO2 is a very evil thing to do.

A book (The Big Year) was written about three birders who needlessly burn an absolutely enormous amount of fossil fuel (on long-haul flights, rental cars, airboats, etc).

When the book is turned into a movie, does Audubon take a strong stand, telling us that emitting CO2 is still evil, even if you do it as part of their favorite hobby?

The answer is a resounding "No". Not only does Audubon fail to condemn this movie, they have reportedly sunk six figures into the Fox marketing effort.

This underlines the biggest problem for global warming hoax promoters: The underlying premise of CAGW is so stupid that not even the "believers" truly believe in it.

CBS: Cutting Greenhouse Emissions Needed to Save Birds from Global Warming | NewsBusters.org

"Here in California, Audubon scientists went beyond measuring bird movement to look for solutions. They found that reducing the greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming could make a dramatic difference for many birds."

An open letter to Secretary Clinton: KO Keystone XL | National Audubon Society

For climate change, the news is even worse. One of the world’s foremost climate experts, NASA’s James Hansen, calls it “essentially game over” for the climate if we allow Alberta Tar Sands to be developed.

Last year, we all saw both the hottest year on record and the greatest amount of global warming pollution in history. Extreme weather events are taking place around the world...

'Big Year' pushes for the birds

In fact, Audubon has sunk six figures into the Fox marketing effort -- which includes media kits, private screenings in 20 cities and a massive social media effort that launches Oct. 10 -- in a push to attract the 48 million birders in America, as estimated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Richard Branson: 'Saving the world’ is good business - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/climatechange/8841368/Richard-Branson-Saving-the-world-is-good-business.html

Take his Carbon War Room – based on Churchill's Whitehall command centre on the premise that "the threat to our planet is indeed worse than the First and Second World War put together" 

Warmist Chris Rapley - YouTube

[Rapley: "The climate system is quite sensitive...we may be provoking the climate system so that it becomes much less stable"]

BEST: What I agree with and what I disagree with – plus a call for additional transparency to prevent “pal” review | Watts Up With That?

…let’s make the peer review process transparent so that there is no possibility of “pal review” to ramrod this through without proper science being done.

Climate Skeptics Take Another Hit | Warmist Kevin Drum

Climategate was always a ridiculous sideshow, and this is just one more nail in its coffin. Climate scientists got the basic data right, and they've almost certainly gotten the human causes right too.

The well-deserved thrashing of warmist Peter Gleick continues over at Amazon

Twitter / @PeterGleick

Climate change skeptics and deniers driven into weird frenzy by negative review of their bad book on Amazon: amazon.com/review/R3DB7LH…

Amazon.com: Peter Gleick "PGleick"'s review of The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken f...

25 of 292 people found the following review helpful
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[smiffy] You read the same book as me? I was fascinated by the clear, concise way the IPCC fraud was explained. This is way cheaper than a Carbon Tax, or even a Dept of Climate Change.
Maybe next time you'll try reading a book before "burning" it?

Junk scientist: “It appears we really did save the world in 1987”

Scientist speaks out after finding ‘record’ ozone hole over Canadian Arctic | News | National Post

“If the taxpayer in his infinite wisdom were to give me 10 times the budget I have now, I think I could use all that money quite usefully and do good science with it,” Tarasick said. “I don’t think we’re wasting a penny . . . Could we get by on less money? Well, we could do less with less money. We could do more with more money.”
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Environment Canada measurements show that the hole over the Arctic resulted in somewhat lower ozone over most Canadians this summer, and UV levels about three to five per cent higher than what would be expected if there had not been a hole. But Tarasick assured Canadians that they should not have health concerns because of the recent ozone depletion.

“If we didn’t have the Montreal Protocol (signed in 1987) . . . we would have seen a rather permanent ozone hole, which would have flushed, in the spring, low levels of ozone to lower latitudes,” Tarasick explained. “It appears we really did save the world in 1987.”

Soaring prices push Queen close to ‘fuel poverty’ - FT.com

Royal accounts show the Queen’s electricity and gas bill was £2.2m in 2010-11

Can we make the climate a part of the human world? | Planet3.0

Climate scientists, for whom any inherent doubts about the possible extent of human influence on the climate were overcome by years of training in physics and chemistry of the climate system, need to accept that there are rational cultural, religious and historical reasons that the public may fail to believe that anthropogenic climate change is real, let alone that it warrants a policy response. It is unreasonable to expect a lay audience, not armed with the same analytical tools as scientists, to develop lasting acceptance during a one hour public seminar of a scientific conclusion that runs counters to thousands of years of human belief.

Green Energy's Bad Karma - Latest Headlines - Investors.com

The road to national bankruptcy is being paved by this administration with its crony capitalism, and we are being driven into the ditch with an electric car.

Future of Kyoto commitments at issue in ‘tough’ Durban talks

http://www.nationalpost.com/m/wp/news/blog.html?b=news.nationalpost.com/2011/10/21/tough-talks-expected-over-kyoto-commitments

Earlier talks to thrash out a planned $100-billion-a-year Green Climate Fund, established in Cancun in December, saw the United States and Saudi Arabia withdraw their support for the overall design supported by other countries, a London-based NGO, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), said Thursday.

China Faces Potential Winter Power Cuts - WSJ.com

Last winter, power cuts and electricity rationing caused a big rise in industry use of diesel for power generation, which prompted a jump in China's oil-product imports.

President Barack Obama is a Venture Socialist - Mail Online - Brian Darling's blog

U.S. President Barack Obama is a Venture Socialist. Venture Capitalists put up money on start-up companies with privately raised money in an effort to make a profit. Venture Socialism is when a government uses taxpayer moneys to invest in private companies to promote a political outcome. President Obama has used taxpayer loan guarantees authorized by his original stimulus plan to fund risky green energy ventures including solar panels and electric cars.

Arctic Temperatures Continue To Be The Coldest In Over A Decade | Real Science

Temperatures are more than 5C cooler than four years ago. This is due to unprecedented warming in the Arctic caused by rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Global warming is real – Telegraph Blogs

What is going on is exactly the kind of utterly reprehensible dishonesty and trickery I anatomise more thoroughly in Watermelons. The Warmists lost the battle over "the science" long ago; that's why the best they can do now is resort to the kind of risible semantic ruse like this deliberate conflation of "global warming" with "man made global warming".

Sceptical Berkeley Scientists Say, “Human Component Of Global Warming May Be Somewhat Overstated” | Watts Up With That?

Now, here’s the irony, the Berkeley team are actually sceptics about the matter where the real debate lies – the question of the mix of human and natural contributions to the recent warming. Now why didn’t any of these “reporters” pick up on that?

Why was this nugget missed or ignored? It is because environmental reporters are too obsessed with bashing sceptics, and reading press releases, than in reporting science.

Interesting suggestion from BBC warmist Richard Black: You know what was the dominant influence on global mean temperature during 42 of the 72 years ending in 1976? Not CO2

BBC News - Climate study raises 'heated debate'

I had a chat with Michael Schlesinger, the University of Illinois professor who discovered the AMO along with Natalia Andronova in 1994.

Research he and others have done since shows clearly, he said, that "while the AMO was the dominant influence on global mean temperature during 1904-1944 and 1944-1976, it is not the dominant influence over the entire observational record, 1850 to 2010.

"Over this time period, it is the increase in the concentrations of greenhouse gases caused by humanity's burning of fossil fuels that is the dominant cause of the observed warming."
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The sceptical blogosphere has been unusually quiet - disappointingly quiet, you might say.

James Delingpole, Jo Nova, ClimateAudit... nothing.
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A number of journalists in the mainstream media appear to regard Watts Up With That and other blogs of the same ilk as a gushing tap of stories - and if Mr Watts believes journalists should not report science that's not peer-reviewed, perhaps he could pick up the phone and have a word with them.

Confused warmist Muller: You shouldn't be a skeptic of anthropogenic global warming; by the way, we didn't assess the anthropogenic component of global warming

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Richard Muller Gives Permission To Be Climate Skeptic, Shows Why

Physicist Richard Muller has a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal that should be read by everyone (The Case Against Global-Warming Skepticism).

Richard MullerMuller concedes—in public—what many skeptics have claimed for years: that our temperature record is poor, especially over the oceans, that it is limited, filled with errors and biases, and when used as a basis for judgment, leads to over-certainty.
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Even more delightfully, Muller admits that it has not been growing stormier (sorry, Big Al):
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From that he insists, “you should not be a skeptic, at least not any longer.” Somebody has to remind Mr Muller that skeptics aren’t skeptical of that some warming (and some cooling) has occurred. We are skeptics about our ability to explain this warming (and cooling), and to predict skillfully future warming (and cooling).

The fallacy—and it is a fallacy Mr Muller commits—is to suppose that because many climatologists have offered one theory for the observed warming (and cooling), and that, at least for the moment, they cannot think of one better, that therefore their theory is true. Thus, I remain skeptical.

Richard A. Muller: The Case Against Global-Warming Skepticism - WSJ.com

Global warming is real. Perhaps our results will help cool this portion of the climate debate. How much of the warming is due to humans and what will be the likely effects? We made no independent assessment of that.

Embattled warmist Peter Gleick tries to defend his trashing of a book that he obviously didn't read

Twitter / @PeterGleick

@RichardTol No. I won't deal with Watts, who censors comments, and then demands others take time to point out and fix the errors of others.

Twitter / @clim8resistance: @PeterGleick It wasn't a r ...

@PeterGleick It wasn't a review; you didn't read the book. It's your inability to debate that causes criticism. Same w/ IPCC @NOconsensus

Twitter / @PeterGleick

@clim8resistance I love a good debate, only on real issues not made up crap like laframbois diatribe and climate chg denial. :)

It's come to this: In an editorial mentioning the bagging of a large black bear, the left-wing St. Paul Pioneer Press throws in a shot at Al Gore's climate hoax greed

On efficiency, the bear and a glimmer of good news - TwinCities.com

A trophy bear was shot in the town of Hudson, Wis., last week, raising nationwide attention...Al Gore took a break from cashing in on climate change to emote over the devastation created by global warming (under the mistaken assumption that the Bear's Christian name was Polar).

Pachauri video roundup: Head of UN's "policy neutral" climate hoax body weighs in

Dr Pachauri "Impact of eating less meat" message - YouTube

Nobel Peace Prize winner Pachauri on hockeystick scandal - YouTube

[Pachauri:  "I think we clearly have a very grim future"; the people of Norway should keep their homes 2-3 degrees cooler in winter, don't use the word "fraud"]  In january 2008 Nobel Prize winner Rajendra Pachauri held a speech at a conference on climate change in Stavanger, Norway. As this was in my home town I was so lucky to be able to ask him live for his comments on the hockeystick scandal that was emerging at the time.

Presidential Arrival [In SUVs?!] - YouTube

President of Iceland arrives at the luxurious Camden Harbour Inn in Camden Maine. In his party the First Lady of Iceland, Nobel price winner Rajendra Pachauri and four members of the Secret Service.

Rajendra Pachauri on GOP Climate Denial - YouTube

Recorded on October 20, 2011 using a Flip Video camera.

API CEFS: Session 2 - YouTube

[71 minutes] Lecture 1: The State of Climate Science - Rajendra Pachauri, Professor, Head, IPCC, India
The robust findings from the IPCC's 4th Assessment Report confirmed that climate change is unequivocal.

Dr. Pachauri says climate change needs a people's movement - YouTube

[2009] Chairman of the International Panel on Climate Change now believes that a popular movement is the only way to tackle climate change.

A Message to the Youth from Dr. Pachauri - YouTube

An NSCU ISE Alumnus, Dr. Pachauri won the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for his work in climate change.

HARDtalk:Al Gore Dr Pachauri 2 - YouTube

Clip Two: Today the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to Al Gore, former US Vice President and star of the documentary

Apple Board Handled Jobs’ Health Matters Correctly, Gore Says - Businessweek

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. board member and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said the issues related to Steve Jobs’s illness were handled appropriately and the founder planned for the future by nurturing talent.

“I thought it was handled absolutely correctly,” Gore said of Jobs’s medical condition at the All Things D technology conference in Hong Kong today. “I wouldn’t change a single thing” about how the board handled it.
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Jobs received secret treatments for the illness while telling people he was cured, his authorized biographer Walter Isaacson told CBS News’s “60 Minutes,” according to excerpts released yesterday.

We didn't listen!: Remember when leading scientist Thomas Edison warned us about the dangers of alternating current?

War of Currents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edison's publicity campaign

Edison carried out a campaign to discourage the use[17] of alternating current, including spreading disinformation on fatal AC accidents, publicly killing animals, and lobbying against the use of AC in state legislatures. Edison directed his technicians, primarily Arthur Kennelly and Harold P. Brown,[18] to preside over several AC-driven killings of animals, primarily stray cats and dogs but also unwanted cattle and horses.[improper synthesis?] Acting on these directives, they were to demonstrate to the press that alternating current was more dangerous than Edison's system of direct current.[19] He also tried to popularize the term for being electrocuted as being "Westinghoused". Years after DC had lost the "war of the currents," in 1902, his film crew made a movie of the electrocution with high voltage AC, supervised by Edison employees, of Topsy, a Coney Island circus elephant which had recently killed three men.[20]

Edison opposed capital punishment, but his desire to disparage the system of alternating current led to the invention of the electric chair. Harold P. Brown, who was being secretly paid by Edison, built the first electric chair for the state of New York to promote the idea that alternating current was deadlier than DC.[21]

Where next for CCS?

The government funding, worth up to £1bn, has been pulled because Chris Huhne, the secretary of state for energy and climate change, deemed that the of the cost of the 260km of pipeline, which would have carried CO2 from the coal-fired power plant to a sub surface storage facility, was too high.

The last of the bought-off scumbags that told lies about man-made global climate change and global warming have switched sides - Max Keiser

Sceptical climate scientists concede Earth has warmed

About - Max Keiser

Max Keiser is a TV presenter, radio host, entrepeneur, broadcaster and journalist.
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Max is presenter of “The Oracle with Max Keiser” on BBC World News, which aired every Friday from 9 January 2009 through March 2009.

This ought to "shut up" climate skeptics: Earth warming so incredibly quickly that allegedly only one-third of sites have cooled over the last 70 years

New study seeks to shut up climate skeptics | EurActiv

According to the Berkley’s project leading scientist, Robert Rhode, urban heat does not contribute significantly to the average land temperature rise, because urban regions amount to less than 1% of the land area.

Indeed, two-thirds of the weather stations reported warming of land temperatures over the last 70 years, while only one-third of sites, the bulk of them in Europe and the United States, reported cooling temperatures.

“The large number of sites reporting cooling might help explain some of the skepticism of global warming,” Rhode said, adding that it is very hard to measure weather consistently over decades and the presence of sites reporting cooling temperatures can false data. This is why it takes hundreds of stations to detect and measure an average warming, work that was done by the California University scientists.

Steve Jobs Biography Reveals He Told Obama, 'You're Headed For A One-Term Presidency'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/20/steve-jobs-biography-obama_n_1022786.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk2%7C106072

"You're headed for a one-term presidency," he told Obama at the start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where "regulations and unnecessary costs" make it difficult for them.

Gore takes CO2-spewing trip to Hong Kong, then blames CO2 for "all" items on a list of bad weather events

Al Gore on Apple, Google, and the “Broken” U.S. Political System - Peter Kafka

10:38 am: Walt: OK, let’s talk about the climate. This ties into tech: We love all these devices. Walt gestures to writers sitting in the front row, and Gore notes “All Apple — almost all Apple”. But it seems like people in the developed world have all these great devices, but people in the rest of the world deal with the pollution. Here in Hong Kong, there’s a lot of smog, and I’m told that much of it comes from over the border in mainland China, where much of this stuff is made.

Gore: About two percent of global warming comes from this stuff. “It’s a non-trivial factor”.
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Except for this massive disinformation campaign, reminiscent of the tobacco industry in the 1950s telling us that smoking didn’t cause cancer, that tells us this stuff isn’t a problem.
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10:48 am: Gore: Meanwhile look what’s happening in Pakistan, Thailand, Russia, Colombia, all facing terrible crises because of the climate. Columbia has had 5x its normally rainfall this year. The Philippines have had massive series of downpours for the past two years. Nashville, my hometown, just had “once in a thousand year rainfall… at some point there has to be a reality check.”

10:49 am: Walt: And this is all because of pollution?

10:49 am: Gore: Yes.

Al Gore: Video Highlights from AsiaD (Video)

Former Vice President Al Gore arrived at AsiaD almost directly from Steve Jobs’s memorial at Apple

330 ppm Climate Refugees | Real Science

Top scientist Bill McKibben​ promises Eskimos that 350 ppm will save their igloos, but apparently he just pulled that idea out from some dark nether region.

Browner, Colbert, the EPA, and Broken Windows | Watts Up With That?

. The EPA itself said that to implement the full CO2 regulations on all emitting point sources would require a quarter million new federal employees … I mean, all those shiny new jobs will whack ugly old Mr. Unemployment on his head right there!

Articles: How Many Electricians Does It Take to Screw In a Light Bulb?

I'm not sure how much you'd be willing to pay an electrician to change just one lamp, but I'm sure you would absolutely blow a fuse if you were asked to pay (as taxpayers did) the almost $1,100 that the county paid my company to replace just one light bulb on that day. The county did in fact "party like it's 1999," but it did so on the taxpayer's dime.

While not all of the tasks were as blatantly wasteful as the one given on that day, it seems as though my company was hired to help dispose of some "surplus" cash that the county was given for those "Y2K" projects. Basically it's the same concept as one of those "use it or lose it" year-end monetary bonfires we've all heard about.

Unclear on the concept: After observing four decades of "wacky" Canadian weather, warmist David Phillips suggests that current wacky weather is caused by carbon dioxide

Senior climatologist has fun with weather trivia

After four decades in the business, David Phillips knows bad weather sells.

He’s moved thousands of copies of his annual Weather Calendar, which chronicles the “misery, hardship and misfortune” wrought by Canada’s wacky weather.
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So what happened to normal weather?

“My sense is that this may very well be the beginning of climate change. This is the way that climate change is showing up: in extremes and flip flops and real surprises,” he said.

Though residents of the second coldest country on earth may laud “global warming,” what it really means is that Canadians can expect more wild fluctuations and bigger storms.

“We’re not going to be Miami of the North,” he said.

Children in Iowa won't know what an honest NWF president looks like: Schweiger to blame global warming for five consecutive harsh Iowa winters ?

Wildlife leader to lecture in Cedar Falls | TheGazette

Larry Schweiger, president of the National Wildlife Federation, will lecture on “Wildlife Habitat and Climate Change” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 at the Cedar Falls Public Library, 524 Main St., Cedar Falls.
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Schweiger will discuss how Iowa’s pheasant population has fallen to a record low, in large part due to unprecedented winter and spring precipitation over the last five years.

Iowa Pheasant Population at an All Time Low | Outdoor Life

This is the fifth year in a row that Iowa was hit with a harsh winter and an extra wet spring, which makes for brutal nesting conditions.

2009: Say Goodbye to What's Likely Iowa's Coldest July

Iowa City's 68.8-degree average, 8.0 degrees lower than normal, adds up to the coolest July ever at the Iowa City Airport and is 0.2 degree below the mark set in 1861.

2011: Roadside survey shows pheasant population at all-time low

A series of cold and wet springs have also hurt Iowa’s pheasant numbers.

Politico doesn’t quite get it: The real problem with Solyndra media coverage | Grist

Solyndra was a bum loan that will be forgotten within a year as the solar industry continues its explosive growth.

Liberals unhappy with Solyndra focus - POLITICO.com Print View

David Roberts, a columnist for Grist, said he expects Solyndra to go the way of Travelgate and the death of Vince Foster — two Clinton-era headline-grabbing sagas that have effectively become historical footnotes. Articles about the bankrupt solar company, he predicted, will fade as Republicans fail to find proof of illegalities or political cronyism.

Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation is spreading errors | Bob Ward | Environment | guardian.co.uk

All of these errors may have been accidental, the result of Lord Lawson not knowing enough to recognise mistakes. However, they fit a consistent pattern of underestimating the potential risks of climate change and exaggerating the costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Man on the Street Interviews - YouTube

People in D.C. have some...interesting...opinions on climate change and sustainability.

No consensus: Fraudster Michael Mann says that the Muller/Rohde team "finds that climate science is robust"; Rohde says "These papers do not address causation"

Sceptical climate scientists concede Earth has warmed - environment - 20 October 2011 - New Scientist

"They get the same result that everyone else has gotten," says Michael Mann of Penn State University in University Park. "That said, I think it's at least useful to see that even a critic like Muller, when he takes an honest look, finds that climate science is robust."

Tom Nelson: Warmist Andy Revkin: "The assertion has been that the world hasn’t really warmed — just the thermometers"

[Team member Robert Rohde] These papers do not address causation.

IPCC: Integrity-challenged, Politicised, Compromised and Corrupt | Australian Climate Madness

Every MP and Senator in Australia (and every attendee at the Durban Climate Summit) should be forced to read this book from cover to cover. Then maybe they would think twice about accepting without any critical thought the partisan conclusions of the IPCC.

This is a must-read book, and it’s a bargain at only $4.99 on Kindle. It expertly and thoroughly exposes the IPCC for the compromised and corrupt organisation we always suspected it to be.

Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars In Finland - ABC News

One of Fisker's biggest financial supporters, records show, is the California venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. The firm financially supports numerous green-tech firms, records show.

Kleiner Perkins partner John Doerr, a California billionaire who made a fortune investing in Google, hosted President Obama at a February dinner for high-tech executives at his secluded estate south of San Francisco. Doerr and Kleiner Perkins executives have contributed more than $1 million to federal political causes and campaigns over the last two decades, primarily supporting Democrats. Doerr serves on Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Doerr has not replied to interview requests since March.
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Tesla brings political pull, as well. A former Tesla board member, Steve Westly, is an Obama bundler who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the president in 2008 and for his 2012 re-election campaign. His Westly Group was also a financial supporter of Tesla Motors until Tesla went public in 2010, and Westly continues to back the company. Westly has declined interview requests since February, but has appeared in multiple conferences, forums and TV interviews publicly praising Tesla Motors.

Tesla's founder and CEO, Elon Musk, is a hearty political contributor who has primarily backed Democrats, including Obama. According to published reports, another Tesla investor is Nick Pritzker, a donor to Obama and a cousin of Penny Pritzker, the national finance chair of Obama's 2008 campaign.

Scry Me A River | The Resilient Earth

So when you hear news that scientists predict a 30% to 50% decrease in the area suitable for production of premium Californian wine grapes, skiing in the Rockies will be curtailed or that your local river is going to dry up, take it with a grain of salt. It's just the latest set of non-prediction predictions from the seers of climate science—climate change clairvoyants trying to scry the future in a pool of computer output. Much like other psychics, they ignore their failures and point with vindication to the (very) few predictions they get right. None the less, Nostradamus still has ardent followers, as does global warming.

BBC News - Global warming 'confirmed' by independent study

Bob Ward, policy and communications director for the Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment in London, said the warming of the Earth's surface was unequivocal.

"So-called 'sceptics' should now drop their thoroughly discredited claims that the increase in global average temperature could be attributed to the impact of growing cities," he said.

"More broadly, this study also proves once again how false it was for 'sceptics' to allege that the e-mails hacked from UEA proved that the CRU land temperature record had been doctored.

"It is now time for an apology from all those, including US presidential hopeful Rick Perry, who have made false claims that the evidence for global warming has been faked by climate scientists."

Befuddled Warmist Richard Muller Declares Skeptics Should Convert to Believers Because His Study Shows the Earth Has Warmed Since the 1950s! -- Climate Depot Responds

'Warming now equals human causation?! Muller should be ashamed of himself for promoting media spin like this' -- 'Muller's study is already being met with massive scientific blowback from his colleagues'

Green Hypocrisy – COP17 Has An Official Airline « Tory Aardvark

The COP17 Climate Synod has an official airline which offers special discounts for warming alarmists flying to Durban to put a stop to us normal mortals, flying.

A Summary of The B.E.S.T. UHI Pre-pre-pre-pre-paper « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

5. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that if 27% of the Global Historical Climatology Network Monthly (GHCN-M) stations are located in cities with a population greater than 50,000, then assuming a UHI of 3C/century the contribution BY UHI to the world MEASURED average is 3*27%=0.81C

6. Nevermind, there’s always space for pure speculation

Coalition lashes carbon critics - National Rural News - Agribusiness and General - Political - Stock Journal

THE federal opposition has launched a fierce attack on the renewable energy sector, accusing its ''vested interests'' of opposing the Coalition's climate policy because they want to profit from Labor's $10 billion clean energy fund.

Opposition finance spokesman Andrew Robb told The Age that the Gillard government's proposed $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation - which will help finance green investment - would be ''a honeypot to every white-shoe salesman imaginable''.

- Bishop Hill blog - BEST paper out

To mark the occasion the BBC has dusted off some of its old hockey stick pictures for its front page. It really is an amazing graph - like a drug to some people.

The long pause in warming confirmed « Calder's Updates

Global warming real? Not recently, folks. The black curve in the graph confirms what experts have known for years, that warming stopped in the mid-1990s, when the Sun was switching from a manic to a depressive phase.

Will Al Gore Take Delivery of his Finnish Fisker? - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Inquiring minds want to know. Details here.

Terence Corcoran: Climate issue off the agenda

On eve of UN meeting, reports reveal an overwhelming urge to do nothing

The New Nostradamus of the North: The man behind Merkel´s failed energy policy

Now we know why the German energy policy has been such a massive failure. It appears that Angela Merkel has let herself be guided by Jeremy Rifkin, a Wharton Business School professor who is said to have been Merkel´s adviser for six years.

And no wonder that the "green" Spanish energy policy, with huge subsidies to solar and wind energy also has been a catastrophy - the same Rifkin has also been socialist PM Zapatero´s adviser. In addition Rifkin has, according to Bloomberg, also advised French president Sarkozy and the European Commission, central players in the failed EU energy and climate change policy.

Student-led Climate Justice and Politics Workshop | Students on Ice Blog

It is also intended to solicit input from the audience to inform the work of the York University delegates who will participate in COP 17 in November 2011.

The workshop will take place on Wednesday October 26, from 17:00 to 20:00 (GMT) Physical location: Room 305 York Lanes, York University, Toronto.
Virtual location: For those who would like to join in the discussions from anywhere in Canada and the world, the workshop will also take place in the cyberspace. If you would like to participate virtually, please see below for instructions.

Update: Fisker Karma Electric Car Gets Worse Mileage Than an SUV - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/warrenmeyer/2011/10/20/update-fisker-karma-electric-car-gets-worse-mileage-than-an-suv/

Congrats to the Fisker Karma, which now joins corn ethanol in the ranks of heavily subsidized supposedly green technologies that are actually worse for the environment than current solutions.

A skeptical physicist ends up confirming climate data - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/a-skeptical-physicist-ends-up-confirming-climate-data/2011/10/20/gIQA6viC1L_blog.html

Muller's team appears to have confirmed the basic tenets of climate science

White Roofs May Actually Add to Global Warming | 80beats | Discover Magazine

A new study published in the Journal of Climate claims that painting rooftops white—a method championed by energy secretary Steven Chu and others to combat climate change—only minimally reduces local cooling, and actually causes a slight increase in overall global warming.

Fisker Karma: Solyndra on Wheels | Fantastical Andrew Fox

Our tax dollars at work… a half-billion dollar loan (actually $529 million) from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a hybrid toy for the wealthy and/or celebri-licious (like Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the first customers) that, in real world driving, won’t get much better mileage than your average crossover utility vehicle. Not only that, but the cars are manufactured in Finland — that’s right, Finland – and shipped here for sale, where their purchasers will then receive a $7,500 tax credit for buying one (the “cheap” base model starts at $96,895, with the full-zoot Eco Chic model going for a bargain $108,900).
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contrary to the company’s initial hype, the Karma will only run for thirty-two miles on its electric motors before its turbocharged gasoline engine needs to kick in (as opposed to the initial estimate of fifty miles). Once that occurs, the Karma gets about the same mileage as a Ford Explorer. Not the new Explorer, even. The older, gas-hog, body-on-frame model. We’re talking twenty miles per gallon, folks. So much for your “green investment.”

The Reference Frame: Berkeley Earth recalculates global mean temperature, gets misinterpreted

It is not true that the Berkeley group has found relevant evidence for the core questions in the AGW debate

Peter Glover: Britain’s Green Huhnacy

If he really wants to serve the will and best interests of the people, David Cameron must first jettison Britain’s green Huhnacy.

Comment On The Article in the Economist On Rich Muller’s Data Analysis | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Unless, Muller pulls from a significanty different set of raw data, it is no surprise that his trends are the same.

Warmist Alec Baldwin views climate hoax propaganda film, then endorses "unprecedented" scheme to award up to one billion frequent-flyer miles

Climate Refugees Draws Attention from Colorado Governor, Alec Baldwin, and a Packed House at Film Festival - Planet Green

[Feb 2010] "Climate Refugees" is about populations around the world forced to flee their homes because of rising sea levels or extreme weather events (or resource conflicts) associated with climate change.

According to Big Green Boulder, "Governor Bill Ritter and the film's director, Michael Nash, introduced the film to a full audience that included Alec Baldwin on Sunday afternoon at the Boulder International Film Festival. 'This film says that we need to stop the debate about climate change and puts a human element to the issue,' Ritter said. 'The face of climate change is the climate refugee.'"

Capital One to Reward Up To One Billion Miles in Venture Match My Miles Challenge - pymnts.com

[Mar 2011] Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE: COF) today announced an unprecedented promotion in the credit card rewards category. The “Match My Miles Challenge” (www.capitaloneventure.com) gives consumers who open a Capital One Venture Card the opportunity to match up to 100,000 miles they currently have in an airline credit card rewards program. In total, Capital One plans to match up to one billion miles.
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“I love my Venture card because there are no restrictions or special hoops to jump through,” said Baldwin. “You earn miles twice as fast and they’re good on any airline at any time so you can actually use them whenever you want. And, I think it’s great that with this promotion Capital One will start off new cardholders matching mile for mile to let them see for themselves.”

Warmist Revkin still hates my grandchildren: Treating the atmosphere like an open sewer, now he touches down in Miami

Twitter / @Revkin

Arriving soon in Miami for sej.org #SEJmiami Hopefully no pythons or monitor lizards on runway.

Richard Muller: "the deniers pay no attention to science"

Global warming study finds no grounds for climate sceptics' concerns | Environment | The Guardian

"My hope is that this will win over those people who are properly sceptical," Richard Muller, a physicist and head of the Berkeley Earth project, told the Guardian.

"Some people lump the properly sceptical in with the deniers and that makes it easy to dismiss them, because the deniers pay no attention to science. But there have been people out there who have raised legitimate issues," he said.

Pie-throwing warmist Mark Lynas on Greenpeace anti-nuclear activists: "These people are nuts"

How Mark Lynas riled the green movement | Environment | guardian.co.uk

e360: You attribute much of this fear to scaremongering by environmentalists.

Lynas: After the accident, Greenpeace was running around giving press conferences in their white biohazard suits. There were anti-nuclear activists planning to go and sell chalk pills to supposedly save the children of Fukushima. They believe in what they're doing, but these people are nuts. And they're doing real harm by spreading fear. What we know from Chernobyl is that the psychological impacts of fear of radiation are worse — in terms of health outcomes — than the actual damage of the radiation itself. We need to learn the lessons of this and that nothing is without consequences, nuclear scare-mongering included.
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e360: You seem to have undergone quite a personal and professional transformation. Ten years ago, when you were a frontline activist, you walked into a bookstore and threw a pie in the face of [Danish author] Bjorn Lomborg, who had just published The Skeptical Environmentalist.
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e360: Have you talked to Lomborg since that incident?

Lynas: Yes, I have made an abject apology to him on a couple of occasions and he's been gentlemanly enough to accept it in very good grace. And in an odd sort of way, we've become quite friendly. I actually have found that I have a high regard for the work he does, even though I still don't agree with a lot of his conclusions. I think what Lomborg does is genuine, and no one should have a pie thrown in his face because he challenges conventional wisdom.

Warmist Scott Mandia calls out Donna Laframboise: Did you know that the Climate Bible wasn't *literally* produced by a slapdash, slovenly teenager?

Amazon.com: Scott A. Mandia's review of The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken f...

[Mandia] (Pg. 4) Put simply: the entire planet is in a tizzy because of a UN report. What most of us don't know is that, rather than being written by a meticulous, upstanding professional in business attire, this report was produced by a slapdash, slovenly teenager who has trouble distinguishing right from wrong. (WRONG. EXPERTS PRODUCED THESE REPORTS. EVEN IF THIS IS MERELY ARTISTIC IMPRESSION IT IS QUITE MISLEADING.)

Amazon.com: Scott A. Mandia's review of The Delinquent Teenager Who Was Mistaken f...

When one begins to drink a glass of spoiled milk, it only takes a sip or two to understand that there is nothing good in there and I better put the glass down now. The same is true for LaFramboise's book.

Professor Mandia - Meteorology, Forecasting, Climate Change, Global Warming Information

M.S. Meteorology - Penn State University
B.S. Meteorology - University of Lowell
Teaching at S.C.C.C. since 1991

The Blackboard » LaFramboise: Gleick, Curry.

I notice the book now ranks #1 in “conservation”, ranks #2 in paid downloads for science issues

Climate Change Policy is as Dangerous as Climate Change » Climate Resistance

How can the UK government only now be commissioning reports which state the obvious? How did it fail to anticipate that rising energy costs would cause harm to people? Why did it not consider the human cost of its policies before rushing them through parliament? Why did it not think to consider mitigating the effects of fuel poverty before creating the problem of increasing fuel poverty? Why should we think that the government’s attempts to intervene to mitigate the effects of fuel poverty will be any less damaging than their attempt to mitigate climate change?

Expect more intervention and more policies. Expect more fuel poverty. Expect more deaths.

‘Is Wind Worth It?’ Not Really, Says the New York Times - By Charles C. W. Cooke - Planet Gore - National Review Online

As such, Wald’s unavoidable conclusion is that, “thus far, it is not economics that is driving wind energy growth; it is the renewable energy mandates in force in 29 states and the District of Columbia.” When the New York Times concedes that your movement is largely the product of government force, you know you’re in a losing battle.

Climate Ethicist: Why Should People in the Future Pay to Clean Up Our Mess? | ThinkProgress

Arguably, the biggest issue facing humanity at the moment is the looming global environmental crisis.
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Stephen Gardiner is a professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Program on Values in Society at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he specializes in ethics, political philosophy, and environmental ethics

The Paul Ehrlich Of Climatology Reveals His Latest Halloween Horror Visions

Rahmstorf, who has the unscientific habit of taking cyclic graphs and drawing straight trend lines along their upward or downward flanks and extending them all the way out to doomsday, presents the latest horror vision that has been haunting his mind lately. Indeed the visions seem to be getting more intense and vivid. In a piece in the Gulf Times he warns of “grave warning signs”.

Obviously he appears unaware of the fact that the Arctic all but melted away in the 1950s (see photo above) before rebounding to the record high levels of the 70s. You can’t start at the top of a cycle a draw a straight line along its downward flank all the way to yonder

Congratulations to Dr. Gavin Schmidt | Watts Up With That?

While we are polar opposites, and Dr. Schmidt can’t find it within himself to respond to any of my emails or to allow my comments and many others to appear on RealClimate, let me offer congratulations anyway.

Warmist Andy Revkin: "The assertion has been that the world hasn’t really warmed — just the thermometers"

Skeptic Talking Point Melts Away as an Inconvenient Physicist Confirms Warming - NYTimes.com

Anthony Watts and others who have energized climate skeptics by claiming to poke holes in research showing substantial recent warming have their work cut out for them.
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The assertion has been that the world hasn’t really warmed — just the thermometers — due to expanding asphalt and concrete around cities and other locations housing weather stations.
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[Team member Robert Rohde] These papers do not address causation.

Green Agenda unravelling around the world « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Good news: signs are coming in from all over the non-Australian-and-New-Zealand world. Hints of sanity are spreading. Everywhere Green schemes are being slashed, junked and rethought.

I’m heartened. There are reasons to be optimistic, (even if, in the end, the good news was not because politicians got rational, but because the money ran out).

The Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project puts PR before peer review | Watts Up With That?

Readers may recall this post last week where I complained about being put in a uncomfortable quandary by an author of a new paper. Despite that, I chose to honor the confidentiality request of the author Dr. Richard Muller, even though I knew that behind the scenes, they were planning a media blitz to MSM outlets. In the past few days I have been contacted by James Astill of the Economist, Ian Sample of the Guardian, and Leslie Kaufman of the New York Times. They have all contacted me regarding the release of papers from BEST today.

There’s only one problem: Not one of the BEST papers have completed peer review.

5-min video: Breathtakingly stupid polar bear propaganda from NWF

David Mizejewski: Simple Equation Predicts Doom for Polar Bears (VIDEO)

This video from National Wildlife Federation and Polar Bears International explains it.

French Scientists Protest Allègre's Role in New Ecology Foundation - ScienceInsider

PARIS—Former French Science Minister Claude Allègre is at the center of a new controversy stemming from his role as a prominent climate change skeptic.

Sixty members of the French Academy of Sciences have written to the chancellor of the Institute of France, historian Gabriel de Broglie, objecting to Allègre's position at the new Fondation Ecologie d'Avenir, one of some 100 active foundations sheltered by the institute.
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The report reflected the outcome of a debate held by the academy at the request of then science minister Valérie Pécresse in response to the outcry over Allègre's book, The Climate Fraud. More than 400 French climatologists had asked Pécresse to disavow Allègre's book, which they said was riddled with errors, and to express confidence in the climate research community.   [There are more than 400 French climatologists?!]

Senate Sitting Out Solyndra Saga

House Republicans can't get enough of Solyndra. Senate Democrats across the Capitol? Not so interested.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Green Cronyism

Again, if we care just about energy, we should be thrilled about low-cost Chinese solar panels. If the Chinese government wants to somehow subsidize our consumption of solar panels, great!

Watch this proposal. Any politician that jumps on this solar tariff bandwagon will be saying “My statements about wanting to see more solar usage is just a bluff, I only really care about subsidizing a few selected businesses.”

D’Aleo on ozone hole: “It is very likely to have been there forever” | Watts Up With That?

Ozone holes in Antarctic and Arctic relate to cold rebounds from warming events

Healing the planet: Warmist Hillary Clinton travels in a 55-foot tall plane that can burn over 35,000 gallons of fossil fuel between refills

Inside Hillary Clinton’s C-17 to Libya - ABC News

The C17 is cavernous. More than 55 feet tall and 174 feet long, the four-engine, multi-service military-transport aircraft can carry a cargo of wheeled U.S. Army vehicles in two side-by-side rows, including the U.S. Army’s main battle tank, the M-1, according to the manufacturer’s website.

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Payload: 170,900 lb (77,519 kg) of cargo distributed at max over 18 463L master pallets or a mix of palletized cargo and vehicles
Length: 174 ft (53 m)
Wingspan: 169.8 ft (51.75 m)
Height: 55.1 ft (16.8 m)
Wing area: 3,800 ft² (353 m²)
Empty weight: 282,500 lb (128,100 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 585,000 lb (265,350 kg)
Powerplant: 4 × Pratt & Whitney F117-PW-100 turbofans, 40,440 lbf (180 kN) each
Fuel capacity: 35,546 US gal (134,556 L)

Why Take Science Seriously?

To ridicule climate science in the face of definitive scientific consensus: the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and every other scientific academy around the world, not to mention the unpaid global work of thousands of scientists for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is heartbreaking. We’ve seen the science of the greenhouse effect for 200 years. Use of fossil fuels for the past 150 years has been proven to produce greenhouse gases that are warming the planet to disastrous levels. This is an unequivocal scientific fact. We must look to science for the difficult answers to this situation and take action. Working against the tides of science deniers, many of which have been shown to be compensated to question the scientific facts, makes this task so much harder.
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Ronnie Citron-Fink is a writer, editor and educator.

PennFuture's 2011 Southeast Pennsylvania Global Warming [Hoax] Conference

Climate, changed: Extreme weather and the need to take action
...Cullen is the author of The Weather of the Future: Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet.

Ex-UN climate [hoax] chief ‘appalled’ at Green Climate [Swindle] Fund

 Ex-UN climate chief ‘appalled’ at Green Climate Fund

One of the things that really appalls me in the climate change process at the moment is around climate finance,” said de Boer, now a global advisor on climate change and sustainability at accountancy firm KPMG.

Speaking at a UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative event in Washington, DC on Wednesday, he told delegates that the GCF “is going to be governed by a bunch of climate change negotiators, rather than by a lot of people that understand economics..."

In an attempt to promote the global warming hoax, NPR blogger quotes Galileo: "Think for yourself! Don't take what people tell you at face value. To not bow blindly to dogma!"

Why The U.S. Needs To Learn More Science : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR

Even that early, reasoned logic was seen as the antidote against irrational fears based on blind faith in superstitious beliefs. Science is a direct consequence of this deep shift of attitude: no more cowering in fear from nasty deities!
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Under this view, science is more than a collection of explanations about the natural world: science is a means to freedom, offering people a way to control their destiny, to choose wisely in what to believe. As Galileo insisted at the dawn of modern science, "Think for yourself! Don't take what people tell you at face value. To not bow blindly to dogma!" And mind you, Galileo was a religious man. Being pro-science does not necessarily makes you anti-religion. Paraphrasing Galileo, "if God gave us a mind to understand the world, He surely would be most pleased if we did so."

We live in times when, wanting it or not, science plays a major role in our present and will play an even major role in our future. Take, for example, the question of energy and global warming. What choices of energy are better for the planet and future generations? Which political candidates align with what choices? How can we think critically about the results from the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change and the litigious nature of some of its critics, including presidential-hopeful Rick Perry's recent comments? As an antidote to Perry's and others that don't take science seriously, I suggest reading Lisa Randall's essay recently published in Time Magazine.

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Oct. 20th 2011

http://dailybayonet.com/?p=9143

The PJ Tatler » Romney’s Bad Appointments Are Starting to Add Up

So we’ve learned over the past few days that a trio of Mitt Romney’s chosen advisers helped the Obama administration craft ObamaCare. And on top of that, that Gov. Romney sought the advice of Malthusian green activist John Holdren, when Romney was considering a cap and trade regime for Massachusetts. Holdren hails from the radical side of the green and AGW movement. Today, Ed Morrissey points out that Romney also worked on that same cap and trade idea with Douglas Foy. Another global warming proponent, Foy was a member of Romney’s cabinet, and helped out in crafting a vigorous cap and trade scheme for Massachusetts.
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Though he takes pains to sound conservative now, over and over again, when he had real political power Mitt Romney appointed liberals to positions of influence and authority. Why? And shouldn’t he have to answer for his own record and actions in the only elective office he has ever held?

Eco loons go bat crazy – Telegraph Blogs

The warped mentality that puts the (imaginary) needs of bats perfectly capable of looking after themselves before those of humans differs little from the warped mentality which demands that stretches of countryside be carpeted with environmentally unfriendly, economically ruinous wind farms in order to appease the non-existent deity some men do call ManBearPig.

Climate change didn’t ‘go,’ it was pushed | Grist

Turns out it's not "America" that has lost its belief in climate change and its will to take action. It's not "America" that's the global outlier. It's the Republican Party.

Spanish Wind Energy Companies Distressed By Subsidy Cuts

Spain’s Industry Ministry has upset the country’s burgeoning wind power sector by announcing that it intends to slash subsidies by 40 percent.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: UK Fuel Poverty Solved!

The UK coalition government and their creative policy analysts have come up with a solution for this difficult situation -- they are proposing to redefine "fuel poverty" in a manner that shows it to be decreasing, not increasing...

Voila, problem solved!

Nature’s Sneak Peek into AR5 « the Air Vent

ature magazine has given us an article by a Qin Dahe which provides a preview of the upcoming AR5 report. The article is a piece of triple A rated, (alarmist, advocate, activist) – of course – but it confirms our suspicion that the reasonable critiques of the alarmism are having no appreciable impact on the “science” or the cloak under which it is performed.

EU Referendum: Unravelled Green

that makes it about thirty months from inception to total collapse of this absurd policy. God only knows how much money has been wasted on it.

With this though, and many other issues, we begin to see the Green agenda unravelling with increasing speed. Despite the continuing flood of scare stories, they no longer have any heat or political traction. The scare is dying on its feet.

The really interesting thing here are the political implications – at national and EU level. As the agenda slides towards oblivion, The Boy's credibility can only be damaged, even more than it is already. Far from being the husky-hugging greenest government ever, it may well go down as the administration that finally junked the Greens.

Comment On The Quality Of The 2007 IPCC WG1 Report In Response To A Post On Climate Etc | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

The 2007 IPCC WG1, in my view, was a failure in the assessment of the understanding of the human role in the climate system, as well as the extent to which the natural forcings and feedbacks influence the climate.

Sudden winter weather causes Bulgarian mayhem

A sudden onset of harsh winter conditions caused transport chaos in Bulgaria on Tuesday, with one man freezing to death, eight people missing in mountains, 600 villages without power and schools closed.

A Green Whitewash | CNSnews.com

Walter Cronkite's longtime producer Leslie Midgley once wrote that, "News is what an editor decides it is." News today is what TV producers decide can help President Obama. News that hurts isn't news at all.
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Now there's Solyndra. Team Obama doesn't want anyone "politicizing" Solyndra or trying to coin "Solyndranomics." They want minimalist coverage, and that's precisely what they're getting.

Since its Aug. 31 bankruptcy filing, ABC, CBS and NBC have filed a grand total of 15 stories on Solyndra. That's an Enron-to-Solyndra comparison of 24 to 1.

California Green Tax Breaks in Question - CNBC

In just a year, a little-noticed state panel created with bipartisan legislative support worked briskly to authorize $104 million in tax breaks to help "green" companies in California buy equipment and add jobs.

But the program was halted last month following the bankruptcy of Solyndra, a Fremont solar company that received $25 million in state tax breaks and, more notoriously, a $528 million federal loan guarantee despite its precarious financial state. The Solyndra debacle is being investigated by Congress.

The California program has been frozen to new applicants amid questions about how the recipients were chosen.

Articles: Subsidies Have Consequences

The trouble with the ruling class is that it doesn't have a clue about business.

Articles: The Bizarre World of Radical Climate Science

The reports of the International Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) are often taken as the authoritative last word on climate change. These reports are are disorganized and unfocused. As a result, most people go no further than the introductory Summary for Policy Makers. If you dig deep into the reports, solid scientific support for the claims of impending catastrophe is not there. Computer models are the shaky foundation of global warming. Models from different modeling groups disagree with each other by wide margins. As the IPCC admits, the models have serious deficiencies. The IPCC uses misleading graphical illustrations to make it appear that the models can accurately mimic the Earth's climate.

Professor Judith Curry: IPCC “WG2 And WG3 Reports Pretty Much Belong In The Dustbin”

Donna appears to have set something into motion. The books are well-priced and I suggest readers buy extra copies and give them away as birthday or Christmas presents – or give them to your political representatives. Ask your pol if they can do better with our money.
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PS: Donna Laframboise is the midwife of NoTricksZone. I was one of her “citizen auditors” which she mentions in her book and she invited me to WordPress. The rest of the story you know.

Oh the irony! Pine Beetle outbreaks help cool the planet | Watts Up With That?

From Oregon State University College of Forestry some news that some people who want to blame pine beetle outbreaks on global warming won’t like. It seems there is a benefit.

The 99% Movement and Environmentalists | Planet3.0

As someone who has always believed that writers and artists and even philosophers are the canaries in the coalmine, I have been wondering if the current resurgence of progressive activism provides any reason for hope that the environmental movement might catch on with a group wider than the aging population that has been sustaining it. Demographic information about most environmental organizations makes it pretty clear that us baby boomers haven’t exactly passed along the torch.

Cities' role in global warming said to be minor

A neat and unsurprising demolition of a straw man.
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Urban expansion means that urban heat is captured much more in actual temperature measurements than it would be in a ideal world...the tiny increment (measured in tenths of a degree) in global temperature over the last century or so could be entirely due to the steady encroachment of urban areas into what were once rural locations

Energy Department Altered Loan-Related Releases - US Business News - CNBC

Both were changed to remove the name of a company that has received negative press attention in recent days, SunPower, and replace it with the name of another company, NRG Energy
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Update: On Wednesday evening, a Department of Energy spokesman said that the press releases had been returned to their original content as a result of CNBC's inquiry about the changes.