Biomass for fuel could damage furniture industry

The report also explains how the biomass subsidy is having a negative economic impact within the UK furniture industry. Following the introduction of biomass subsidies, wood prices have risen by 55.1 per cent over the past 5 years, having a significant impact on furniture production margins.

Climate change threatens to make polar bears dangerous; action needed:scientist - Winnipeg Free Press

While starving adult males have been known to prey on younger polar bears on occasion, what's new is the killing of small bears when the older predator is still fairly healthy.

Bangladesh:  Cold wave grips nation

Bone-chilling cold and thick fog hit the people hard, especially in the north, yesterday claiming at least three more lives raising the toll to nine in the last two days.

Hundreds, mostly children and the elderly, are suffering form different cold-related diseases due to this spell.

Big storm in the Alps

“I’ve rarely seen so much snow on the roofs in the Alps – it’s more like Yellowstone National Park!,” says reader.

Jeff Masters Explained | Real Science

The record cold in the southwest is being caused the massive loss of ice over the last 15 years, which you can see below – if you squint real hard and take the right hallucinogens.

Which Other Minorities Should Be Blasted into Space? « NoFrakkingConsensus

So I have a question for California governor Jerry Brown, Richard Branson, and the 200 or so others who participated in that event:

Which other minorities should also be disposed of?

How funny would it have been had Pachauri said that gays should be given a one-way ticket to outer space? Or Muslims?

Coal miners to blame for floods - Brown | Year In Review 2011 | BigPond News

In January Greens leader Bob Brown says the coal mining industry should foot the bill for the Queensland floods because it helped cause them.

...'It's the single biggest cause - burning coal - for climate change and it must take its major share of responsibility for the weather events we are seeing unfolding now,' he told reporters in Hobart on Sunday.

'We know that the oceans around Australia are at record high temperatures, and that's causing the moisture in the air which is leading to these catastrophic floods.

'It is costing billions of dollars, besides the pain, the anguish, the loss of life, the destruction and it should not be left to ordinary taxpayers to bear the full brunt of that.'

Jeff Masters Explains How September 2007 Ice Extent Is Causing Record Cold And Snow In New Mexico In 2011 | Real Science

Arctic ice extent is currently the highest for the date in at least five years.

It's A White Christmas! by Sarah Westcott

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog/~3/kx_Z40QHP7g/index.php

BRITAIN looks set for a White Christmas as forecasters last night warned of "killer ice" on the roads with temperatures plunging as low as -10C (14F).

Crackdown – U.S. Representative Ed Markey (D-MA) – It’s time to bring them to justice! « the Air Vent

Of course the police know that it is intimidating to enter a persons home and take all of their personal information but let’s think about this for a moment.  Michael Mann who is largely government paid, has been caught colluding with Phil Jones and others to hide data from the IPCC in order to make a stronger than actual case for unprecedented 20th century warming.  And by caught, I mean really really caught. Instead of actually looking into his other emials, on his government funded computer, they hold multiple completely fake investigations and clear the whole CRUe.  They didn’t go into Mike or Phil’s houses and check their personal computers to find context, instead they go to an anonymous bloggers house and take his machines telling him falsely that he is not a suspect.

Target-rich Business Week article: Jerry Brown on climate science: "It's difficult to see what's not completely obvious; Pachauri suggests that CO2 causes extreme weather deaths; Schwarzenegger compares Solyndra to a failed restaurant

Gov. vows to prepare Calif. for climate change - BusinessWeek

"The greatest obstacle we face is a deep sense of complacency, a sense that things were this way yesterday and were OK and will continue," Brown said.

"It's difficult to see what's not completely obvious ... the buildup of greenhouse gases and climate change, we see it, it's pretty clear," he said.

...Pachauri said UN studies show that 95 percent of human deaths associated with extreme weather events happen in developing countries.

..."At the same time (as Solyndra) there were restaurants that failed, manufacturers that failed ... all kinds of businesses that failed and no one talks about that," Schwarzenegger said during a short interview.

"They did the best that they could and they made mistakes. That's what happens in business -- if you make mistakes you fail."

Hilarious Chevy Volt Commentary - By Shannen W. Coffin - The Corner - National Review Online

Apparently, Audi’s president of North America Johan de Nysschen has derided the Chevy Volt as “a car for idiots.”  He contends that no one “is going to pay a $15,000 premium for a car that competes with a (Toyota) Corolla. . . . So there are not enough idiots who will buy it.”  The Volt, he contends, is simply “for the intellectual elite who want to show what enlightened souls they are.”

But that’s not the funny part.   The funny part is that on a website that apparently is run by GM-cheerleaders, but not directly connected to the company (gm-volt.com), a Volt apologist finds Mr. de Nysschen’s logic internally inconsistent:  “Of course describing the same individuals as both intellectuals and idiots simultaneously doesn’t speak well of this fellow’s logic, which is flawed.”  Now, I’m not going to say that the terms are synonymous, but they certainly aren’t mutually exclusive either.  I’d posit that if you drew an idiot-intellectual Venn diagram, you’d probably get a fair amount of overlap.

Green Christmas: Santa’s carbon footprint [INFOGRAPHIC] | Grist

Ethical Ocean took a look at Santa's environmental impact, and tried to see if they could help him run a slightly more eco-friendly operation.

Warming Arctic Permafrost Fuels Climate Change Worries - NYTimes.com

...researchers say the money and people devoted to the issue are still minimal compared with the risk.

...But those calculations were deliberately cautious. A recent survey drew on the expertise of 41 permafrost scientists to offer more informal projections.

Canada’s message: The world and its climate be damned - The Globe and Mail

According to a recent international poll, Canada has the highest number of citizens (22 per cent) of any economically advanced country who deny that human activity causes global warming. We can fairly presume the vast majority of this 22 per cent are in what we might loosely call the conservative world in Canada. They read the anti-global-warming newspapers and commentators, and they rely on the handful of academics who debunk global warming.

The poll numbers suggest that about half of Stephen Harper’s supporters are climate-change deniers and skeptics. His government pays heed to this core, the world and its climate be damned.

U.K. Police Seize Computers in Climate E-mails Investigation, U.S. Joins In - ScienceInsider

In an e-mail to ScienceInsider, Id, the U.S. blogger, said that he had not been contacted by DOJ, but said he would find such a raid
intimidating and questioned what the police hoped to find. "The only things they could find on Roger's computer that they can't get from Wordpress (our
collective blog host company) would be direct communications with the FOIA group which I have not had, and I am certain that others haven't either," he
wrote. "The link was dropped on our blogs by an unknown person and becomes public the moment it is dropped. There is no mechanism for us to prevent
this kind of thing. … We are simply climate bloggers who got a link showing the corruption of climate science in full view."

Google warmists Page, Brin, and Schmidt believe so strongly in the global warming hoax that they only have eight jets between them

Instapundit » Blog Archive » WILL OBAMA DENOUNCE THESE CORPORATE JETS? Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt have eight jets…

WILL OBAMA DENOUNCE THESE CORPORATE JETS? Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt have eight jets between the three of them, reports Mercury News. Plus a very special “public-private partnership” involving an airbase.

As I keep saying, I don’t want to hear one more goddamn thing about my carbon footprint.

US Navy wastes money on biofuel | Climate Nonconformist

Would you buy fuel priced four-times that of what you would normally pay? The US Navy would.

“Why Do People Still Deny Climate Change?” | Power Line

Professional apocalyptics like Lyons and Gore have no clue that they are the best allies the climate skeptics have.  I hope Gore, Lyons, and others keep writing these kind of articles.  Make our job so easy.  Of course, the purpose of such articles is to serve the needs of moral preening on the part of the author.  It’s hard to believe they think they are actually persuading anyone at this point.

Okay, I guess I have to make this simple for Lyons: no one is “denying” climate change.  Most people have the good sense to notice (or read history) that the climate changes a lot.  What people contest is the opinion that we are going to experience a catastrophic 4 degrees C of further warming 100 years from now based solely on computer models with more flaws than a 50-year old swimsuit model, and still more that people like Al Gore and James Hansen and the UN are the right people to solve the problem even if it were well-founded.  The real denialists are the people who won’t reckon with this point of view.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » AWESOME NEWS IF IT PANS OUT: Spending bill blocks light bulb standards. “The shutdown-averting bud…

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Cindy McNew writes: “While I agree it’s idiotic–it’s more, it’s a first potentially really big in-your-house salvo in the Green religion wars. I don’t mean to sound overly dramatic, but a lot of those folks would like to take away your clothes dryer and your trash can, too, and replace them with a clothesline and a compost bin. Low-flow toilets and shower heads are minor annoyances compared to being required to have a houseful of ugly and dangerous florescent bulbs. The repeal can’t come soon enough. Signing that law and “No Child Left Behind” are really the only things I know for sure that I need to be irritated with President Bush for.”

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CLIMATE-CHANGE STORMTROOPERS GO AFTER VOLKSWAGEN. Ha. Before you followed the link, you thought I was engaging in hyperbole about the stormtroopers, didn’t you? But as you can see, I was merely being descriptive.

More breathtaking stupidity from warmist Gwynne Dyer: Now he suggests that trace amounts of CO2 may cause 500,000,000 Indians to starve

timestranscript.com - Durban climate summit: a global suicide pact?

Three years ago, while I was interviewing the director of a think tank in New Delhi, she suddenly dropped a bomb into the conversation. Her institute had been asked by the World Bank to figure out how much food production India would lose when the average global temperature was two degrees C higher, she said - and the answer was 25 per cent.

This study, like similar ones that the Bank commissioned in other major countries, has never been published, presumably because the governments of those countries put huge pressure on the Bank to keep the numbers secret. But the Indian government undoubtedly knows the truth.

A 25 per cent loss of food production would be an almost measureless calamity for India. It now produces just enough food to feed its 1.1 billion people. If the population rises by the forecast quarter-billion in the next 20 years, and meanwhile its food production falls by 25 per cent due to global warming, half a billion Indians will starve.

Jennifer Marohasy » More Adjusting of Temperature Records

The hottest months by mean max have all been changed. Every single one.

A Lump of Coal - Barrons.com

Were you expecting a Christmas present from the Environmental Protection Agency or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration? Of course not. These are federal agencies devoted to forcing us to do dubious things for the collective good of the country, not to give us gifts for our individual economic well-being.

Foia – README selections « Musings from the Chiefio

So, instead, I’m going to reproduce the whole README here, in two parts. This is part one. These are the particular emails where Foia has decided to pull out a quote for observation. I think these need particular attention. What do they say? Why was it selected? To what behaviour does it speak on the part of the Discredited Team? So I’ll be adding a few comments mixed through the README.

Foia – README part 2 « Musings from the Chiefio

I’m just going to pick up this one in mid-stream…

The New Nostradamus of the North: UK professor thinks it is "completely legitimate" for the BBC to fake scenes in "Frozen Planet"

Light bulb ban NOT repealed | JunkScience.com

http://junkscience.com/2011/12/16/light-bulb-ban-not-repealed/#more-7902

We fell for it, too.

There has been no repeal of the light bulb ban.

The deal agreed to in Congress merely deprives the Department oF Energy the funds to enforce the ban for 2012. The ban is still on the books — so the DOE may very well get the money next year or the year after or who knows when.

2011: Outside The Top Ten

November 2011 was cooler than; 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001.

Expert confirms Republic's first case of fatal virus in red squirrel - The Irish Times - Sat, Dec 17, 2011

One theory being examined by Dr Marnell is the impact of the unseasonably cold winter last year, which may have put grey squirrels under stress, “possibly allowing them to manifest the disease”.

Funny, she doesn't LOOK completely insane: Warmist climate scientist Emily Shuckburgh suggests that by 2100, trace amounts of CO2 could cause a "50% reduction in the suitability of crops"

Future climate change: perspectives from the Polar regions and impacts to global policy - YouTube

Dr Emily Shuckburgh spoke at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Centre for Risk Studies in December 2011 on the subject of future-proof decisions and recommendations.

Why is it so easy to save the banks – but so hard to save the biosphere? | George Monbiot | Environment | guardian.co.uk

So why is it so easy to save the banks and so hard to save biosphere? If ever you needed evidence that our governments operate in the interests of the elite, rather than the world as a whole, here it is.

Twitter / @Revkin: @MarkHertsgaard Waiting fo ...

@MarkHertsgaard Waiting for Pachauri input before I say he should step down from IPCC chair over his Calif. comments: grist.org/climate-skepti…

Twitter / @Revkin: At @Yalemediaforum I reply ...

At @Yalemediaforum I reply to claim that oil money pushed NYT to drop me from CO2 beat & science staff. yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2011/12/a-drum… @keithkloor

C3: Another Scary IPCC Climate Change Bomb Defused - Scientists Say Greenhouse Gas Fear Overblown

Scientists determine IPCC hysteria about global warming causing Arctic methane gas "tipping point" release to be unfounded - it's not happening

Alberta set to fail on emissions targets: Pembina report | The Vancouver Observer

Pembina’s recommendations include strengthening the CCEMC by encouraging involvement from clean economy sectors, along with increasing the current ceiling carbon price from $15 per tonne to $30 or more.

BBC News - Firms say low carbon price threatens EU green targets

EU carbon permits have dropped 55% in price this year, to 6.45 euros (£5.40).

Cold wave pushes up power demand | YONHAP NEWS

SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Yonhap) -- Power demand in South Korea soared Friday as a cold wave hit the country, pushing electricity reserve levels to as low as nearly half the safe levels, officials said.

Must be in my other pants: Warmist Jerry Brown: "The skeptics and deniers have billions of dollars at their disposal"

New approach to climate deniers: Launch them into space! | Grist

"Our biggest problem is to deal with the skepticism and denial of the cult-like
lemmings who would take us over the cliff," said Brown, a Democrat, eliciting
cheers and laughter from an audience of roughly 200 policymakers,
businessleaders, and activists. "The skeptics and deniers have
billions of dollars at their disposal ... But I can tell you we're going to fight them every step of the way until
we get this state on a sustainable path forward." 

The Durban Outcome: End of CBDR? « Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy

In sum: As an institution, the UN climate framework has faced existential questions about its meaning and utility since at least Copenhagen, in 2009.  It’s far from perfect, or good, or probably even adequate, but it’s the most sophisticated international climate communication network we have.  The amount of effort poured into workgroups, subsidiary bodies, contact groups, strategy sessions, reportings, side events, main events, and press events is astounding.  It was hard to walk down the conference center halls and not say a green prayer that all that effort would lead somewhere good.  [I bet I could do it.]

Canada's Approach to Inconvenient Art - NYTimes.com

I’m sure some readers will note that no one is limiting her rights to free speech, just her sources of income. 

Jim Hopkins: Don't fret, global warming's a goner - Environment - NZ Herald News

Global warming has left the building.

Where once there were hundreds of horror stories, a daily dose of frightening features, a nightly stack of belching chimneys on the telly (mainly belching steam, in truth, but they still looked really scary) we've now got, well, (nervous cough, awkward shuffle) ummm, sweet Fanny Adams, to be frank. There has been a trickle of terror but, by and large, the who

The Blackboard » What the FED or Norfolk Constabulary could get from WP.

Depending on what has been stored in WP database tables, investigators might sometimes be able to associate IP, screen-names, email addresses, last and first names, AIM, jabber and other account information with each other.

Pachauri: Give skeptics ‘one-way ticket’ to outer space | JunkScience.com

…More laughter came when [IPCC head Rajendra] Pachauri joked that Branson could give climate deniers tickets on the aviation mogul’s planned flights into outer space. “Perhaps it could be a one-way ticket,” Pachauri said, smiling, “though I’m not sure space deserves them.”n

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Have parts of Victoria cooled since the 19C ?

Week in Review 12/16/11 | Climate Etc.

Randy Olson provides a link to his talk “Dude, where’s my climate movement?” No surprise, it’s about climate communication (24 minutes. V. cool title, and a provocative talk.

Today's burning question: Which type of chicken farming prevents the most hurricanes?

Free-range hens 'boost carbon 20%'

EGGS from free-range hens produce more greenhouse gas than caged birds, a report has found, prompting calls for carbon footprint labelling for all food products in Australia.

The Bulb Is Saved - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

The bulb ban was a dark symbol of the Obama administration’s zealous appeasement of the green god of global warming. It was also a window into Washington crony capitalism as General Electric lobbied for a bulb ban — initially also supported by key Republican lawmakers — in order to force consumers to buy more expensive compact fluorescents (CFLs). Like CAFE laws that force auto mpg improvements, the restrictive energy rules were a sneaky backdoor regulation mandating the amount of energy a bulb used — effectively eliminating the cheap incandescents chosen by 85 percent of American consumers.

“It’s a milestone for personal freedom,” says Freedom Action’s Myron Ebell who fought hard in the trenches to overturn the ban. “This is a significant reversal of Nanny State regulations. Maybe this is a turning of the tide.”

No legally binding pledges by India on emissions

New Delhi: Days after the Durban Climate Summit, Government today insisted that India has agreed to no legally-binding commitments to reduce its emissions in absolute terms in 2020.

We're supposed to think that this black smoke is invisible carbon dioxide, am I right?

Clark admits jobs-[climate hoax] conflict consumes her government - Winnipeg Free Press

In a year-end interview with The Canadian Press, Clark says a team of advisors inside and outside of government are looking for ways to still meet the targets without losing the potential to create thousands of jobs in Kitimat, Fort Nelson and Dawson Creek through natural gas projects.

Clark says she expects to announce her solution within the first three months of the New Year, but adds she doesn't want to lose the jobs or become known as the premier who gave up B.C.'s leadership on fighting climate change.

Another dispatch from the world inhabited by Dave "Climate Nuremberg" Roberts: "the average American -- who gets their news and cultural attitudes from TV -- has not been exposed to anything scary at all about climate"

‘Brutal logic’ and climate communications | Grist

There were occasional newspaper articles, more in the U.K., in which climate scientists waved red flags, but the average American -- who gets their news and cultural attitudes from TV -- has not been exposed to anything scary at all about climate.

Climategate Bombshell: Did U.S. Gov't Help Hide Climate Data? | Fox News

Making that case in 2009, the then-head of the Research Unit, Dr. Phil Jones, told colleagues repeatedly that the U.S. Department of Energy was funding his data collection -- and that officials there agreed that he should not have to release the data.

“Work on the land station data has been funded by the U.S. Dept of Energy, and I have their agreement that the data needn’t be passed on. I got this [agreement] in 2007,” Jones wrote in a May 13, 2009, email to British officials, before listing reasons he did not want them to release data.

Two months later, Jones reiterated that sentiment to colleagues, saying that the data "has to be well hidden. I’ve discussed this with the main funder (U.S. Dept of Energy) in the past and they are happy about not releasing the original station data.”

A third email from Jones written in 2007 echoes the idea: "They are happy with me not passing on the station data," he wrote.

The emails have outraged climate-change skeptics who say they can't trust climate studies unless they see the raw data -- and how it has been adjusted.

Introducing: Don’t Sell Your Coat | talkingabouttheweather.com

[Harold Ambler] What follows is an excerpt from my new book Don’t Sell Your Coat, available here:

...Summing up: Wind turbines do not deliver reliable electric power; the ocean-atmosphere system is not broken; scaring people needlessly isn’t nice – and it distracts them from the actual environmental problems surrounding them.

The Medieval Warm Period in Southern South America

The findings of Neukom et al. go a long ways towards demonstrating that: (1) the Medieval Warm Period was a global phenomenon that was comprised of even warmer intervals than the warmest portion of the Current Warm Period, and that (2) the greater warmth of the Medieval Warm Period occurred when there was far less CO₂ in the air than there is nowadays, which facts clearly demonstrate that the planet's current -- but not unprecedented -- degree of warmth need not be CO₂-induced.

Pollen and Hay Fever in Switzerland

Although many people have claimed that rising temperatures and CO₂ concentrations lead to more pollen and more hay fever (Wayne et al., 2002), the analysis of Frei suggests that such is not the case in Switzerland, as was also supported by the earlier work of Frei and Gassner (2008).

Climate Depot on Gingrich's Global Warming Views: Newt never left Pelosi's love seat! Co-sponsored 1989 climate bill with Pelosi! -- Teams up with Warmist Evangelical Prof. for new book | Climate Depot

Gingrich's top climate advisor Hayhoe asks: 'What would Jesus do on a warming planet?'

Despite claims of global warming, high glaciers remain safe - Green - Catholic Online

The mountains in and around the Himalayas are so high, that unlike in the Andes, the Alps or the Rockies, temperatures remain below freezing point even in the summer. Most of the glaciers don't melt away at all.

"It doesn't make much difference if it gets a little warmer up there because it's still far below zero."

Two Thirds Of Germans Not Willing To Make Sacrifices To Protect The Climate. Most Don’t Fear It.

If the survey says anything, it is that even if you do manage to convince the population, it doesn’t mean they are going to agree to make sacrifices. So, good luck in implementing climate protection policies in countries with high levels of skepticism. First you have to stop the growing trend of skepticism, then you have to convert their beliefs, and then you have to convince them to make sacrifices, which is the hardest thing to do.

On The Slow, Painful (and Deadly) Demise Of The IPCC « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

Climategate 2.0 is helping filling some knowledge gaps, for example in the way the IPCC has been slowing killing itself, and several thousands humans to. The following concerns Regional Projections, and it’s a tragedy of communication.

God, I'm brilliant! – Telegraph Blogs

It's not often you get to appear on Uncommon Knowledge being interviewed by the mighty Peter Robinson. (Our subjects: Climategate; Watermelons; the imminent collapse of Europe)

Interesting Article From Reason.Com On The Relative Roles Of Climate And Societal Influences On Vulnerability | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Poverty, not global warming, is the cause of death and destruction in the face of extreme weather.

The IPCC gives me a shock | Watts Up With That?

I’ve been appointed as an expert reviewer for the IPCC AR5. I’ve viewed the invitation letter and it’s the real deal.

How Dishonest Is NOAA Management? | Real Science

Only 2% Of The Planet ….. | Real Science

Hansen, and his partners in climate fraud, have taken a two pronged approach to fixing their history problem above.

1. Alter the data to cool the past and warm the present
2. Claim that US temperature trends don’t follow global temperature trends

Two thirds of Britons fear that the elderly cannot afford to stay warm this winter - Solar Power Portal

A new survey, released by Friends of the Earth, shows that 66 percent of Britons are concerned about their elderly friends and relatives this winter in light of recent energy price increases. Of the 66 percent who expressed concern, 20 percent indicated that they were ‘very concerned’ about the ability of the elderly to stay warm. 

Russia backs Canada's pullout from Kyoto Protocol | CTV News

Russia's Foreign Ministry has supported Canada's decision to pull out of the Kyoto Protocol and reaffirmed that Moscow will not take new commitments.

The Associated Press: Schwarzenegger: Solyndra debate 'narrow minded'

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a rare public appearance since leaving office, former Republican California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called the debate over bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra narrow-minded in a world moving ever-faster toward renewable energy.

RITESH ARYA - YouTube
Attempt by Dr Ritesh Arya to show global warming natural

Rajandra Pachauri's Glacier Project Killed Due To Funding Cuts

It has recently emerged that funding for Rajandra Pachauri's TERI project was cut by a US-based foundation back in 2010, in the wake of “Glaciergate”, the controversy surrounding inaccurate claims that the Himalayan glaciers would disappear by 2030. But TERI made no public announcement that the project had stopped.

Greenpeace forgives Facebook after clean power pledge | TG Daily

Facebook's agreed to work towards powering all its operations using clean and renewable energy.

Southwest Permanent Drought Area Gets 15 Feet Of Autumn Snow | Real Science

Winter starts in a week, and Wolf Creek Ski Area​ in southwestern Colorado has already received over 15 feet of snow. Climate science’s most brilliant minds tell us that they are having a permanent drought in that region.

EU carbon trading in freefall | Watts Up With That?

Looks just like what happened to the Chicago Carbon Exchange is about to repeat in Europe.

Sen. Franken’s colloquy with Sen. Whitehouse on climate change | Climate Science Watch

On December 14 Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island) took to the Senate floor and the C-Span airwaves to talk about climate change, the scientific evidence for anthropogenic global warming, the problem of the global warming disinformation campaign, and the need for strong US action. These days we too rarely see progressive, pro-science members of Congress speak up to counter the denialist noise machine of Sen. Inhofe and his ilk.

Rajan's Take: Climate Change: Winter may have had a mild start but likely to be progressively harsh

Climate change drops off 'hot topic' list - opinion - 15 December 2011 - New Scientist

This year's British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey comes complete with gloomy headlines on public opinion about climate change. Compared with surveys in 1993 and 2000, concern about the seriousness of environmental threats has decreased, and the number of people saying they were willing to pay more for environmentally friendly services has dropped significantly.

...But how plausible was it that the public would stay that concerned for the half century or more that it will take to really get to grips with climate change? Unlike more immediate threats, climate change will not have a significant effect on the majority of the UK population for some time.

Himalayan Glaciers 'Safe From Warming'

In the first comprehensive study of a part of what is called High Asia, scientists found that 96 percent of the water that flows down the mountains of Nepal into nine local river basins comes from snow and rain, and only 4 percent from summer glacier melt. Of that 4 percent, says Armstrong, the lead author, only a minuscule proportion comes from the melting away of the end points of the glaciers due to global warming.

The Continuing Collapse of the Climate Campaign | Power Line

While many environmentalists and their toadies in the media are trying to paint the latest UN climate meeting in Durban as a significant breakthrough, Nature magazine, which usually follows the talking points of climate orthodoxy slavishly, is having nothing of it.  In this week’s editorial, ‘The Mask Slips,” Nature says “It takes a certain kind of optimism — or an outbreak of collective Stockholm syndrome — to see the Durban outcome as a significant breakthrough on global warming, as many are claiming.”

Capitol Alert: Arnold Schwarzenegger 'proud' of Jerry Brown on environment

Schwarzenegger said he was "proud" of Brown, and Brown's press secretary, Gil Duran, said on Twitter while Schwarzenegger was speaking, "If every Republican was as smart as @Schwarzenegger on the subject of climate change, the world would be a much better place."

Greg Laden: Libellous article « tallbloke's talkshop

Blogger Greg Laden has libelled me in a scurrilous article on his blog.

Sharp eyed contributors to this site have preserved the article as it was originally published and I am now appealing to any UK lawyer who is willing to assist me on a no-win-no-fee basis to contact me via the ‘suggestions’ page of this blog. Their comments, should any be received will not appear in public. Any proceeds which come my way will be used to fill the tip jars of other blogs fighting to raise public awareness of facts which might otherwise be buried.

Twitter / @suzyji [Warmist Suzanne Goldenberg inflates the alleged number of dead birds by a factor of ten]

  Another reason not to shop at Wal-Mart - 15,000 dead birds in the parking lot abcbirds.org/newsandreports… #eg

Region braces for freezing temperatures - Bakersfield.com

Local homeless service providers and farmers with fragile crops are bracing for freezing temperatures this weekend in light of a freeze watch issued by the National Weather Service.

With temperatures expected to fall into the low 30s in Bakersfield proper and the high 20s in outlying areas Saturday through Monday nights, various agencies have warned of the dangers sub-freezing temperatures create for the area's unsheltered homeless population.

Twitter / @Revkin: Coplan of @pacelawschool s ...

Coplan of @pacelawschool sees #cop17 problem: talks leading to 2015 put climate pact in middle of US presidential race: fb.me/GVE4Hp4q

Durban: Where the Climate Deniers-in-Chief Run the Show | The Nation

A different and more dangerous breed of climate denier commanded the stage at the recently concluded international negotiations in Durban, South Africa. These were not the usual cranks blathering fossil-fuel-industry talking points about how the science is all rubbish aimed at fostering a liberty-crushing world government. No, this breed is even more frightening, precisely because its members are not wacko outsiders. Rather, they are Serious People who actually run governments, or at least negotiate on behalf of those who do. They are lawyers, diplomats and government ministers, and they would be very surprised to hear themselves described as climate deniers.
...If people of good will want to halt this train before it’s too late, we can’t leave it to the engineers. More and more of us will have to invade the engineer’s compartment, take over the controls of the train ourselves and steer a path back to life.

To the Guardian: You cannot make good public policy on mistaken premises | Watts Up With That?

[Goklany] Damian Carrington’s Environment Blog at the Guardian proclaims: Climate deal: A guarantee our children will be worse off than us. This myth —perhaps myth-take would be a better word—has been addressed previously at WUWT.

Opponents of Light Bulb Ban Win a Big Round, But Battle Far from Over - Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog - A Conservative Blog

Opponents of the ban should take heart from this news but not rest. Although I have not seen the actual language in the tentative agreement announced tonight, it almost certainly only covers spending money to enforce the ban in 2012. Assuming the agreement is adopted, that gives ban opponents a reprieve but that's it. The ban is still law, it's just a law that is not being enforced at the federal level. To stop enforcement in 2013, we'd need another victory like today's.

Bottom line: As long as the ban is law, ban opponents haven't really won.

Frankly, I'm amazed the Democrats are fighting this as much as they have been. Throughout 2011 I have been on talk radio shows (including many that are not overly political or conservative) all over the country talking about this ban, and I've been struck by how many of those who call in who don't appear to be conservatives, or even particularly political -- but they are strongly against this bulb ban. Sure, it's not as big an issue as unemployment or the deficit or many others I could name, but it matters to people, and, despite what the left keeps claiming, it's a real ban. No, not on every incandescent light bulb, just the ones Americans buy most.

WG1 More Chapters Linked « the Air Vent

Is this a good time?

Additional chapters released from WG1 of the IPCC.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Prediction Evaluation: Carbon Price Edition

On June 16, 2008, the head of Deutsche Bank Asset Management opined in the FT that carbon allowances on the EU ETS were soon to hit 100 Euros

Polar amplification works both ways | Watts Up With That?

[David Archibald] What these eminent scientists are predicting is significant: “We predict an annual mean temperature decrease for Svalbard of 3.5°C from solar cycle 23 to solar cycle 24 (2009–‐20) and a decrease in the winter temperature of ≈6°C.”

A 6°C temperature decrease in under ten years from the present day! This is significant at two levels. Firstly, it is going to get really cold very soon. This predicted cooling is calculated to have a 95% confidence level. Secondly, it gives the sceptic community a climate forecast that is based on physical evidence, with a statistician signing off. When the predictions of these three wise Norwegian are borne out, that is going to be a big thing.

Foia 5335 – FOI answer? Sue them! « Musings from the Chiefio

Not something we didn’t already know, or strongly suspect. Still, it’s a bit disturbing to see it in print.

No wonder they spend so much time and money on FIOA requests. If they would just respond with “OK, release the application for the grant, but take out my email, phone and the proprietary item FOO”, they could be done in less time than they spent looking at skeptic blogs…

But no, they have to natter for a few days and run off to legal and fight it for months…

And folks wonder why I think the state funded university system could use a little privatizing…

Scientific Communication: Preach or Engage (Judith Curry vs. AGU bias) — MasterResource

[Curry] In closing, I will state that I hope to see many more climate scientists developing their voices and communicating publicly in the blogosphere. To quote Chris Mooney: you have nothing to lose but your irrelevance.

NY Times' Leslie Kaufman claims that the ClimateGate II emails "elicited barely a shrug"

More Climategate Patter - NYTimes.com

The e-mails seemed intended to undermine any progress in international negotiations on steps to arrest climate change that were held the following month in Copenhagen. But several inquiries cleared researchers of any scientific wrongdoing.

Another batch of e-mails thought to date from the same time were distributed online last month, just before another global climate conference organized by the United Nations opened in Durban, South Africa. The second trove elicited barely a shrug.

Frances Beinecke, NRDC president, suggests that carbon dioxide is causing increased urban air pollution in the US

A Call for Climate Solutions - NYTimes.com

Climate change is not an elite concern; it is a force upending American lives with crippling drought, increased urban air pollution and devastating floods.

Flashback: Drop in U.S. air pollution linked to longer lifespans - CNN

Americans are living longer because the air they breathe is getting cleaner, a new study suggests. The average drop in pollution seen across 51 metropolitan areas between 1980 and 2000 appears to have added nearly five more months to people's lives, according to a study published Wednesday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The Tallbloke Search Warrant « Climate Audit

The warrant entitles the police to enter and search the premises for “evidence of an indictable offence” referring to section 15 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act. In its Climategate series, even the Guardian was unable to conclude that there had been a crime. So I wonder how the Detective Inspector came to the conclusion that the computers at Tall Bloke’s residence would provide “material that is likely to be relevant evidence and be of substantial value to the investigation of the offence”.

Climate Hawk Tom Perriello To Head Center For American Progress Action Fund | ThinkProgress

Climate Progress readers will remember that Perriello emerged is a true climate [bedwetter] during the  congressional debate over the climate bill.  He famously said, “The Republicans may win some seats because of this vote, but they can’t regain their souls for demagoguing the issue.”

The global warming meltdown that never was -- and never will be - Orlando Seminole County Environmental News | Examiner.com

 So it's time to put pen to paper and continue where I left off:  exposing the greatest fraud in the history of science: the theory (yes, theory) of man-made global warming, aka "climate change" and "climate disruption." (The charlatans and ignoramuses promoting this alarmist nonsense can't decide what name to give their junk science.)

From this day forward, I will endeavor to regularly inform, enlighten and entertain those readers (both skeptics and self-confessed warmists) who are exposed daily to a constant stream of climate change propaganda peddled by lazy, uninquisitive reporters who willingly serve as advocate-stenographers (Andrew Revkin, are you reading?) for global warming alarmism. 

Climategate (Part II) | The Weekly Standard

With a hat tip to the famous Seinfeld episode, Watts wrote: “They’re real, and they’re spectacular!” An extended review of this massive new cache will take months and could easily require a book-length treatment. But reading even a few dozen of the newly leaked emails makes clear that Watts and other longtime critics of the climate cabal are going to be vindicated.
...
the lesson of the Climategate saga is that scientists who become advocates, or allow themselves to become adjuncts to an advocacy campaign, damage science and policy-making alike. They end up being neither effective nor honest. One of the poignant revelations of the new emails is that some of the scientists seem to grasp this. Tommy Wils, a British climate researcher at the University of Swansea, wrote in a 2007 note to a large list of recipients: “Politicians like Al Gore are abusing the fear of global warming to get into power (while having a huge carbon footprint himself).” About Michael Grubb, a prominent climate campaigner in Britain, Tom Wigley (a prominent figure in U.S. climate research circles) wrote in 2000: “Grubb is good at impressing ignorant people. .  .  . Eileen Claussen [then-head of the Pew Climate Center] thinks he is a jerk. .  .  . Basically he is a ‘greenie’; and he bends his ‘science’ to suit his ideological agenda.” Did any of the leading climate scientists ever say this publicly, or call out environmental activist organizations for their reckless distortions of climate change? Had the climate scientists been more honest about their doubts, and more willing to discipline their allies, they might not be going through the present agony of having their dirty laundry exposed.

More from Minnesota warmist Greg Laden: "Gotta get up early for a day with the toddler. Lots of work prepping him for GROWING UP IN A WARMING CLIMATE!!!!"

Laden has now adjusted the language in his post. The original is here.

Computers Seized in Cyber-Thief Investigation (updated) : Greg Laden's Blog

[Laden] There is not, as you know, a valid denialist position. It isn't like there are some "good" denialists who legitimacy question the science. There are just people who are either crazy old men who want everybody off their lawn (again, see above) or people who are very strongly politically motivated, or who are being paid off to carry out harassment of people supporting the science (see above). Why did he not take the comment with the link off line and contact the police? Was he in on it? Did he take this as an opportunity to finish an (illegal) act that someone else started? Maybe. Did he do the right thing? No. If that link was to a set of instructions leading people to carry out a violent crime, rather than the endpoint of systematic harassment, he'd be culpable. I am not interested in excuses.

I think he's a criminal for being a climate denialist. Sue me.

Computers Seized in Cyber-Thief Investigation (updated) : Greg Laden's Blog

[Laden] OK, I'm going to bed now. Gotta get up early for a day with the toddler. Lots of work prepping him for GROWING UP IN A WARMING CLIMATE!!!!

About Greg Laden

I have a very fancy PhD from Harvard...I live in the northern reaches of the greater Twin Cities

Climate of the Twin Cities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

average annual temperature of 45.4 at the Minneapolis St. Paul International airport

Vadnais Heights, Minnesota (55127) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground

15.4 °F [Temperature in the northern Twin Cities as of 4:08am on 12/16/11]

Fmr. Thatcher advisor Lord Monckton to pursue fraud charges against Climategate scientists: Will present to police the case for 'numerous specific instances of scientific or economic fraud' | Climate Depot

Monckton: 'I have begun drafting a memorandum for prosecuting authorities...to establish...the existence of numerous specific instances of scientific or economic fraud in relation to the official 'global warming' storyline...they will act, for that is what the law requires them to do'

Climate change 'a crock' - news - waikato-times | Stuff.co.nz

But councillor Russ Rimmington said the world had moved on from Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth  a documentary on climate change.

Labelling climate change a "crock", Mr Rimmington questioned the future of the Kyoto Protocol  an agreement between signed-up countries to reduce greenhouse gases.

Edward Flattau: The Generals Know Best

So here is the question to pose to our presidential candidates who all yearn to be the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces in 2012: Would they authorize the military to continue allocating resources to address global warming as a national security threat, or order the program shelved as a waste of taxpayers' money?

Quebec to start cap-and-trade climate plan, with California and perhaps nobody else | iPolitics

MONTREAL — With global climate-change talks in limbo, Quebec is the first province to push ahead with its own cap-and-trade program.

The province says it’s emulating California as it becomes the first Canadian province to start enforcing cap-and-trade regulations for carbon emissions.

Twitter / @PeterGleick: Has #climatechange Denier ...

Has #climatechange Denier Karma finally Run over its Dogma? wp.me/pOYWd-2d5 . Catching up with the hidden climate denial machinery?  [What is Gleick imagining here?]

Banks Curb Carbon Trading - Businessweek

The bottom line: Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis and lack of progress in global climate talks are leading some investment banks to ax carbon trading.

Climategate: Obama's boot boys strike back – Telegraph Blogs

Why this is the sledgehammer being used to crack a nut?

We can but feverishly speculate. My personal favourite theory so far – lent credence by several of the wise comments at Watts Up With That – is that it concerns all those encrypted emails that FOIA 2011 claimed to have in his possession when he unleashed Climategate 2.0. In other words, there may be more juicy stuff – much, much more juicy stuff – to come. It may also be that the names incriminated are not merely those of low-rent types like Phil Jones and Michael Mann, but senior politicians and businessmen with much more to lose if they're ever found out.

So let's hope they are, eh?

Climate change: How activists distort climate reports to make global warming sound scary. - Slate Magazine

How activists and the media distort climate reports to make global warming sound scarier than it is.

Warmist Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar suddenly remembers that it still gets tremendously cold here in winter

Klobuchar: Don’t Leave Minnesota out in the Cold- Worthington, Minnesota

“Minnesota may be known as the land of ice hockey, ice fishing and other cold weather sports, but our tough winters can be downright dangerous for families struggling to pay their utility bills,” Klobuchar said. “In cold weather states like Minnesota, home heating isn’t a luxury—it’s a lifeline, especially in the northern part of our state where the average winter temperature is in the single digits, if not below zero. No one should have to choose between buying groceries and heating their homes, and I will continue to fight to make sure the LIHEAP program is fully funded for seniors and working families.”

Flashback: Senator Amy Klobuchar displays her lack of knowledge on global warming

Incredibly, Klobuchar first replied that you only have to go outside or "talk to resort owners" to see the effects of human warming in Minnesota.

Climate hoax promoter Michael Mann calls seizure of Tallbloke's computers a "major lead in apprehending the #CRUHack criminals"

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: #Guardian reports on major ...

#Guardian reports on major lead in apprehending the #CRUHack criminals: bit.ly/tMCArg

Wow: Warmist Michael Mann points us to a blog post by warmist idiot Greg Laden, who accuses Tallbloke of being part of a "band of thieves" "who broke into Unviersity of East Anglia computers in 2009"

(1) Michael E. Mann (michaelemann) on Twitter

Gregladen Computers of Criminal Cyber-Thieves Seized tinyurl.com/6u47ezy

Retweeted by @MichaelEMann

Computers of Criminal Cyber-Thieves Seized : Greg Laden's Blog

Thieves who broke into Unviersity of East Anglia computers in 2009, stealing thousands of private emails thus compromising years of expensive scientific research and causing a fabricated and unnecessary political doo-doo storm, as part of a much larger campaign of harassment, have had some of their computer equipment seized by UK authorities....

Tattersall later whinged on his own blog that "an Englishman's home is his castle ... [but] not when six detectives form the [Met] ... arrive on your doorstop..."

So, apparently it is OK for Tattersall and his band of thieves to unilaterally play vigilante and break into your computer or mine, but when authorities investigating a crime, with proper search warrant, show up to investigate his misdeeds, suddenly he's an "Englishman" in his "Castle." I don't know whether to laugh of to go medieval on him.

..We hope to see arrests over the next few weeks or months.

Backup link for Laden's post is here.

Cops target climate-sceptic bloggers in three countries • The Register

Last week WordPress hosting site Automattic, based in San Francisco, notified several climate skeptics including Tattersall, Id and Canadians Steve McIntyre (Climate Audit) and Donna Laframboise (No Consensus) that the US Department of Justice Criminal Division had requested evidence for the period in November when the second batch of emails were uploaded.

Hacked climate emails: police seize computers at West Yorkshire home | Environment | The Guardian

A spokesman for the University of East Anglia said today: "We are pleased to hear that the police are continuing to actively pursue the case following the release last month of a second tranche of hacked emails from the Climatic Research Unit. We hope this will result in the arrest of those responsible for the theft of the emails and for distorting the debate on the globally important issue of climate change."

Police seize computers in connection with Climategate hacking | Grist

You have to appreciate the irony here -- skeptics hound climate scientists to hand over all their scientific data, then steal their emails. Authorities ask Tattersall to collect all his information, then seize his computers. One hopes they won't be picking through his files, pulling out incriminating-looking sentences to publicize out of context. Except one can't help kind of hoping they will.

Renewable energy: As rooftop solar surges, states hit brakes -- 12/12/2011 -- www.eenews.net

Now, so many Hawaiians have installed rooftop panels that entire neighborhoods -- and soon, entire islands -- have maxed out the amount of rooftop solar power the energy company wants on the electrical grid. Barring expensive studies no one wants to fund, solar development in these areas grounded to a halt. Homeowners' and developers' rush to solar power has run smack into a grid unprepared for their demands.

Capitol Alert: Jerry Brown criticizes 'political lemmings' of climate change

SAN FRANCISCO -- Gov. Jerry Brown railed this morning against politicians who doubt climate change, calling "political lemmings" the chief obstacle in combating global warming.

"The main thing we have to deal with in climate change is the skepticism, the denial and the cult-like behavior of the political lemmings that would take us over the cliff," Brown said at a high-profile conference on climate change at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

Jerry Brown: GOP in 'denial' on climate change - latimes.com

Speaking to about 250 scientists, activists, policy officials and Richard Branson, Brown blasted Republicans for being in "absolute denial" about the risks of global climate change.

He singled out the conservative Cato Institute of contributing to the "cult-like behavior of the political lemmings that would take us over the cliff."

"I know something about cults," quipped Brown, a former seminary student. "I don't want to say my time with the Jesuits was a cult experience, but it was dogmatic, somewhat one-sided to say the least, and not particularly open to contrary opinion."

..."We have to pull together and do everything we can to wake people up" about climate change, Brown said.

Register to become an expert reviewer for IPCC WG1 | Watts Up With That?

Here’s an opportunity for input in the next IPCC report. I encourage all readers with relevant expertise to register.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Nothing Else Matters

At Grist, Dave Roberts explains that sharp emissions reductions "would require substantial institutional reform and possibly even a period of economic contraction."  And Joe Romm explains of climate change, "It is indeed humanity’s self-destruction. We must pay any price or bear any burden to stop it."

In one of Andy Revkin's email chains yesterday, I tried to draw out Dave Roberts and Joe Romm to specify more clearly what they meant by "economic contraction" and "bear any price."  Although the discussion was certainly cordial, neither was forthcoming with a direct reply.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Durban COP17 realities revealed in collapsing Euro carbon price

The one year chart of ICE ECX EUA Futures just says it all about what was achieved at the Durban climate talkfest.

CEI’s Chris Horner Testifies before Ohio House on Folly of Green Energy Policy

Utilities, on legislation to modify the state’s existing green energy production quota by expanding the number of electricity generators that qualify as clean energy.

Below is his presentation and written testimony.

California Gov. Brown called skeptics of global warming a well-funded "cult"

Governor vows to prepare Calif. for climate change - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

SAN FRANCISCO -- The United Nations' top climate change official is in San Francisco to join California Gov. Jerry Brown at a conference addressing the costs associated with preparing for the effects of a warming world.

Brown organized Thursday's conference at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park.

The event includes Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and billionaire Sir Richard Branson. Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger also is expected to attend this afternoon.

...Brown opened the conference by calling for people to wake up to these threats and called skeptics of global warming a well-funded "cult."

Bummer for alarmists: Cannibal polar bears were "all in pretty good body condition"

Is Global Warming Driving Polar Bears to Cannibalism? | LiveScience

"In general, observations of cannibalism may be consistent with the idea that as bears become more nutritionally stressed due to sea ice loss — which there is evidence for in some parts of the Arctic — they will seek out alternative food sources," Regehr said. "However, the bears [in this study] were all in pretty good body condition. A fat bear wouldn't be very motivated to risk attacking another polar bear just for food. So, we should certainly be cautious in interpreting these observations and remain open to other explanations."

Stirling agreed. "We do not have the information to separate those two possibilities."

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Dec. 15th 2011 « The Daily Bayonet

Hippies defend junk science with junk science, a Canadian MP loses his cool and Senator Inhofe accepts a challenge.

C3: The Global Warming Debate Is Over: 'New Scientist' Magazine Admits Modern Temperatures Are Not Unprecedented

Maybe a clear sign of AGW proponents begging for mercy is their new embracement of actual empirical evidence regarding the climate. Enjoy while it lasts.

Climate Change Dispatch - Because the debate is not over

Did the UK Police leave and/or create a security hole on the East Anglia Servers to intentionally catch any 'visitors' by recording IP addresses? Was the aforementioned the security hole WUWT pointed out to Phil Jones in an email exchange with him? Or was it an inside job?

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: The Contrarians Have Better Data

In a letter to the editor published today in the Wall Street Journal, Lord Monckton shoots down Michael Mann's defense of his fraudulent hockey stick graph.

NAS - The National Association of Scholars :: Articles and Archives What’s Going on Behind the Curtain? Climategate 2.0 and Scientific Integrity H. Sterling Burnett

Climategate, both 1 and 2, are textbook cases of gross lapses in professional ethics and scientific malfeasance.  To understand why, one must first understand what science is and how it is supposed to operate. Science is the noble pursuit of knowledge through observation, testing and experimentation.  Scientists attempt to explain, describe and/or predict the implications of phenomena through the use of the scientific method.  

Email 3556: From the inside, another glimpse at "consensus" (and the alleged lack of natural variation before 1850)

Email 3556

On May 22, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Keith Briffa wrote:

please accept - the answer is that it is likely someone who might prefer you not to do it Keith

At 18:00 20/05/2009, you wrote: Keith,

You miserable soul! You didn't even give me time to respond to "Manuscript Central" before you asked me to review a paper one minute later. Who is the author. Frankly, if it is someone from Beijing or Xian who hates Lamont and actively uncuts us for doing work in China, I am inclined to decline. That person can kiss my arse.

Cheers,

Ed ================================== Dr. Edward R. Cook Doherty Senior Scholar and Director, Tree-Ring Laboratory Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Palisades, New York 10964 USA Email: drdendro

...ABSTRACT: A tree ring-width record spanning from AD 1377 to 1998 was developed from Tibetan juniper (Cupressus gigantea) growing at sites north of the deep gorge of the Yarlung Tsangbo River of southeast Tibet. A linear regression model between ring width and mean January- June temperature accounts for 35% of January-June temperature variance for the period 1961-1998. Based on this model, we reconstructed January-June temperature variation history for southeast Tibet during the past 622 years. Warm conditions occurred during AD 1385-1418, AD 1443-1466, 1482-1501, 1523-1548, 1570s, 1705-1759, 1770-1790, 1851-1888, 1910s, and 1938-1965, and periods of relatively cold years are identified for AD 1419-1442, 1470s, 1502-1522, 1550-1569, 1610-1640, 1680-1700, 1760s, 1791-1850, 1900s, and 1965-1995. Spatial correlation between tree ring and observed temperatures indicates that the reconstruction is representative of temperature change for southeast Tibet. Regional cold conditions during around AD 1625, 1685, 1760, 1800-1850, 1890-1930 and 1965-1995, and warm conditions around 1710, 1730-1750, 1850-1890 and 1930-1960 can be identified in the eastern Tibetan Plateau.

Faith on the Front Lines of Climate Protection

the idea that a few thousand jobs is worth permanently destroying the climate on the only earth we’ve ever lived on doesn’t make any sense.
...
I make great use of a book called Climate for Change by Katharine Hayhoe, who is an IPCC Scientist at Texas Tech University in Lubbock and is married to an evangelical pastor.

Indiana Official Indicted After Improper Duke Energy Interactions | National Legal and Policy Center

Boiled down, the leadership of James Rogers has been an ethical, mismanaged and crony capitalistic disaster. His pursuit of financial (tax breaks, incentives, grants) government favoritism, in the name of going “Green,” inflicted considerable harm upon his customers (especially the poorest ones) because of increased costs. That approach led him down the path to Edwardsport, the most expensive plant ever built in the U.S. and a huge liability that he desperately wants paid for. Profits declined 30 percent in the third quarter due to reduced power sales and costs from Edwardsport. And he has poured big dollars into Democrat leadership coffers, and advocated for their causes such as action on climate change, which also drives up electricity costs.

Can the company continue with his bungling any longer?

Senate votes down carbon tax - swissinfo

Switzerland’s parliament has rejected proposals for a tax on fuel as a means of reducing carbon emissions.

The Senate voted on Thursday to reject imposing a tax on fuel, following the example of the House of Representatives, despite having previously been in favour of the proposal.

Inequality and climate injustice: A Durban post-mortem | rabble.ca

It is like being unconcerned about a plane crash because you are sitting at the back of the plane.

Romm : Earth To Burn Up! | Real Science

So far this century, temperatures have declined – with 2008 and 2011 as the two coldest years. But when that heat comes back up from hiding at the bottom of the ocean, it is going to go absolutely nuts and fry the planet.

During the Ordovician, CO2 was 10X of current values, and Earth had an ice age. Must have been caused by Rommulans.

How will climate change affect rainfall? | Environment | guardian.co.uk

So far, any impact that climate change may have had generally on regional rainfall cannot be distinguished from natural variations.

Matt Ridley: Chris Huhne, The Anti-Energy Secretary

WHEN is a job not a job? Answer: when it is a green job. Jobs in an industry that raises the price of energy effectively destroy jobs elsewhere; jobs in an industry that cuts the cost of energy create extra jobs elsewhere.

Phil Jones on NRC/NAS report on the IPCC and global warming: "I also hope that Europeans don't read it"

2001 ClimateGate email

I just hope in the US that people read the full IPCC reports and the summaries, rather than this hastily cobbled together document. I also hope that Europeans
don't read it.  [Phil Jones]

German Solar Troubles - Revkin.net

Headline roundup distributed by Benny Peiser:

- Bishop Hill blog - On Her Majesty's public service

I wonder how the ICO views reports of the IPCC setting up back-channel communication networks?

Overnight, The Arctic Gained A Manhattan Of Ice – Every Three Seconds | Real Science

The Reference Frame: Solar bankruptcies spread to Germany

There are lots of money circulating in this business and the mass demise of these companies could spark a recession. However, one shouldn't forget that their finances ultimately come from subsidies when you trace them. So if the solar industry goes out of business, the corresponding finances should be freed and may be either saved or used for something else.

Laurie David – Lying To Children To Save The Planet | Real Science

Ice core records show that atmospheric CO2 concentration lags temperature by several hundred years. This is proof positive that CO2 retroactively warms the atmosphere, just as the cart pushes the horse above.

Inside COP17 : CJR

DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA—It’s not easy to be a climate reporter. You have to understand the science of climate change, as well as the politics and the economics.