Tanker carrying supplies for stranded Alaskan village gets stuck in thick ice flows as it crosses the frigid Bering Sea | Mail Online

A Russian tanker carrying desperately-needed fuel supplies for the far northern Alaskan city of Nome keeps getting stuck in thick ice flows as it crosses the frigid Bering Sea in the dead of winter.

Fortunately, the 370-foot tanker Renda is escorted by a specially-designed Coast Guard ice breaker, the USCGC Healy, whose extra-thick hull is capable of crashing through ice several feet thick.

But that means going is slow. The two ships are covering just five to six nautical miles a day, even though they still have more 300 miles of sea ice to burst through before they can reach Nome.

Sceptic offers top dollar for climate change deniers - The Himalayan Times (Mobile)

“Steve Milloy is trying to pack the room with climate deniers at a State Department expert panel discussion and film on Himalayan glacier melt Monday. He’s offering $500 to anyone willing to show up at the event and shoot video with a hand held mobile device,” wrote Jeff Nesbit, Executive Director of a New York-based environmental organisation.

Govt can't sell carbon tax - Turnbull | Finance | BigPond News

Opposition frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull says the federal government has done a terrible job in selling the carbon tax.

'This mob could not sell fresh fish to starving seals. They are the worst advocates I've ever seen,' Mr Turnbull told ABC Television.

Twitter / @PeterGleick: Like vampires, climate den ...

Like vampires, climate deniers can't stand the light of day. Or the light of good science.http://huff.to/y5sOzk

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: @wmconnolley on #deniers " ...

 @wmconnolley on #deniers "Who needs paid advocates when you have useful idiots?" Discusses Wegman plagiarism case too bit.ly/z5i5C8

Cooling Planet – Joe Bastardi Reports

Joe Bastardi at WeatherBell here brings us two short reports that show cooling is in, and warming’s out. Bad news for Rob Honeycutt and the warmists who bet on a warmer second 21st century decade.

Deep Freeze Maybe Headed For Western Europe

Note how the cold plunges through Eastern Europe and makes its way deep into Germany. After 14 days, much of Europe is forecast to be gripped by bitter cold

| Planet3.0

An astonishing and remarkable bunch of “doomiest” pictures of 2011, i.e., some of the ways Nature is fighting back, appeared on Desdemona Despair on New Year’s Eve.

Heavy Snow Fall Disrupts Life, Avalanche Warning Issued

Srinagar, Jan 06: Heavy to moderate snowfall at several stretches along the Srinagar-Jammu highway forced the closure of 296-kilometer road link, connecting Kashmir valley with the rest of India, for traffic on Friday.

Due to the closure, around eight hundred vehicles were stranded on the highway, official sources said.

Cool Job : Getting To Be Head Coach, Referee, Scorekeeper, And League Historian | Real Science

Through reanalysis, Sir Alex Hansen has determined that England actually won the 1970 World Cup. Pele’s missing goals were masked by a retroactive volcanic eruption – which has affected the scorekeeping for the past 40 years.

How Much Warming Over The Next 100 PPM? | Real Science

If current trends continue, we can expect another catastrophic -0.1 warming by the year 2040. Of course, a large volcanic eruption could make it much cooler. Hansen has lucked out so far with volcanoes, but sooner or later a big one is going to blow him deep into retirement and scientific oblivion..

Chris Huhne is piling on the make-believe - Telegraph

The Government's latest report on our future energy supply is a tissue of
unproved assumptions and wishful thinking.

Climate change castaways? « Hot Air

If the Maldives are in imminent danger of going all Water World on us, why are they building a new airport?

Carbon dioxide super-scrubber? Potential good news in global warming fight. - CSMonitor.com

Using cheap, readily available materials, a team of chemists has developed a new compound for drawing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Twitter / @cwotd: Sitting outside in a tshir ...

Sitting outside in a tshirt in Brooklyn NY for brunch, thank u 80's hair metal bands for your ozone killing/global warming hairsprays!

Twitter / @DaveLozo: I'm pretty good at pretend ...

 I'm pretty good at pretending global warming isn't happening, but pretending I'm not living under water in 40 years will be more difficult.

Twitter / @mattyglesias: I wish I didn't know about ...

  I wish I didn't know about climate change so I could just enjoy this freakishly warm day and not worry about methane feedback loops.

Masters/Mann/Field continue to promote the greatest scientific fraud in human history; Field suggests that emitting CO2 is like talking on a cell phone while driving

Wild weather hits Latin America - CBS News

"We're seeing an increase in extremes of high temperatures, an increase in extremes of heavy precipitation, an increase in the length and severity of droughts," said Chris Field, director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University.
...Jeff Masters, director of meteorology for the website Weather Underground, said it's unlikely so many extremes would naturally occur in such a short period. He cited two major droughts in the Amazon in 2005 and 2010, and Colombia's 2010 rains, which were the heaviest in at least 42 years.

"I think you really have to point the finger at human-caused climate change as having tipped the scales to make previously unprecedented weather events more possible, and multiple unprecedented weather events like we're seeing," Masters said. "There is so much regular variation in the weather, and it's hard to pick out the signal from the noise. But the signal's sure getting pretty strong now."

Field likened the influence of global warming to talking on a cell phone while driving. "There are always traffic accidents, but if you throw people talking on cell phones in the mix, you increase the probability," Field said. "The role of climate change and weather-related extremes is similar."

Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University, said a warming climate has become "part of the fabric — the background state — in which all weather happens."

"The overall character of weather events, with each passing year, is being more and more influenced by human-caused climate change," Mann said.

Snowfall at Himachal Pradesh after 35 yrs : Nagaland Post: National News

For the first time in over 35 years, towns in the sub-tropical zone of Himachal Pradesh’s Kangra district had snowfall Saturday, a weather official said here.

Rasmussen: Only 30% of US likely voters think global warming is a very serious problem

Energy Update - Rasmussen Reports™

30% Say Global Warming A Very Serious Problem

Is It Time For Chevy To Pull The Plug On The Volt - YouTube

Manhattan Institute's Robert Bryce on the poor sales and recalls for Chevy's electric car the Volt.

Record air pollution hammers Calif's ag heartland - US news - Environment - msnbc.com

Violations doubled in some areas and were up to five times higher in others last month as the district cracked down during unseasonably cold weather.

"When we have weather conditions like this, there is nothing we can do really to meet the federal standards," said Seyed Sadredin, executive director of the district. "Even if we shut down I-5 and (U.S. Highway) 99 and shut businesses we would still violate the standard because there's no dispersion. The best we can do is to minimize the damage, and the best way to do that is with the fireplace rule."

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: @JohnNCoupland @clasticdet ...

@JohnNCoupland @clasticdetritus @drskyskull Tweeted yesterday. KH [Hayhoe] is an effective communicator, thus natural target of industry front groups

RealClimate: An Arctic methane worst-case scenario

But the methane worst case does not suddenly spell the extinction of human life on Earth. It does not lead to a runaway greenhouse. The worst-case methane scenario stands comparable to what CO₂ can do. What CO₂ will do, under business-as-usual, not in a wild blow-the-doors-off unpleasant surprise, but just in the absence of any pleasant surprises (like emission controls). At worst comparable to CO₂ except that CO₂ lasts essentially forever.

Congratulations Watts Up With That.com | Digging in the Clay

A great big pat on the back to Anthony for his curiosity, enthusiasm for science and especially for standing up for his beliefs and opinions; for the vision he has had in creating and developing WUWT and the SurfaceStations project and showing the world he has staying power.

WUWT played its own (major) part in my ‘conversion’ – I wonder how many others it has influenced in the same way.  So a big round of applause to all the post authors, commenters and the other moderators. It makes me really proud to be a (small) part of it.

"Try to forget that the money one wishes to use for beer was allocated by the United States Congress to the Department of Energy to further the pursuit of climate science"

Whining and Dining — Part 1 |

When you’re a climate scientist on top of the world, using taxpayer dollars to socialize with your friends is easy. You just have to be careful to call the social events “symposiums.” What’s not easy, evidently, is using those same taxpayer dollars for beer and wine. Ah, the humanity!

An e-mail sent on June 16, 2008, from Ben Santer to Kevin Trenberth makes this painfully clear:

Anjuli has informed me that it will be possible to use up to $10,000 of my DOE Fellowship for the purpose of funding the Symposium. I’m assuming there may be DOE restrictions on using that money for purchasing wine and beer. I’ll check into this.

Hansen Claims That The Climate Was Mild From 1951-1980 | Real Science

Hansen has been releasing a lot of wildly dishonest news stories recently, claiming that the climate was mild and stable from 1951 to 1980, and that only 1% of the land surface was affected by bad weather  during that time. This is an interesting position, given that the tens of millions in China died from drought induced famine during the 1960s, and that the CIA, Ehrlich, and Holdren warned that we were all going to die due to climate change.

We're all wet: flood of 2011 was not that unusual after all, researcher argues - Winnipeg Free Press

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/were-all-wet-136866703.html?device=mobile&c=y

How About Taking Responsibility For Your Own Self? | Real Science

[Kerry Emanuel] forecast that hurricanes would be come more intense. It has been almost seven years since a major hurricane hit the US – the longest period on record.

The rest of the Republican party is stupid, but Kerry and Jon know the troooooth.

Anthropogenic climate change set to trigger tipping points

The fact humanity is pouring 10 billion tonnes of CO2, a key greenhouse gas, annually into the Earth's airshed does not require scientists to tell us this will cause global warming. A child could tell you it's going to have a major effect.

Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 This addition, about 3% of annual natural emissions as of 1997^[update], is sufficient [or not] to exceed the balancing effect of sinks

Join Russia, prepare for a cooling climate » The Gisborne Herald | Gisborne's latest News, Sport, Family Notices, Photos and Events

Meteorologist William DiPuccio, USA, states: “The heat deficit shows that from 2003-2008 there was no positive radiative imbalance caused by anthropogenic forcing, despite increasing levels of CO 2 . Indeed, the radiative imbalance was negative, meaning the Earth was losing slightly more heat than it absorbed.”

Doctor of Meteorology Joe D’Aleo, USA, states; “Given the current global cooling is now in its eigth year, declining ocean heat content at least in its fifth year, sea level rises which have slowed or stopped, record rising Antarctic ice extent and rapidly recovering Artic ice since the 2007 cycle minimum, a sun in a deep slumber. Increasing evidence that CO 2 is a harmless gas, that in reality, is a highly beneficial plant fertiliser.”

2011 Nearly a degree cooler than 1999 in the US « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change

Despite claims that it continues to get warmer and warmer, this table from NOAA/NCDC indicates that 2011 was in the middle of the pack, going all the way back to 1980 (the start of the “global warming era”). Such remote years as 1981, 1986, 1987, and 1990 were hotter.

Southern US was hotter in 1921 Than 2011 « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change

All summer long global warming alarmists kept harping on the hot, dry Texas summer as evidence that climate change is happening now. Well the annual temperature record is in and yes, while 2011 was relatively warm for the south region, several years – including 1921, 1954, 1933, 1934, & 1938 – all pre-”global warming” years – were hotter. Relative to 1998, the south region of the US is half a degree F cooler. Yet we are told “global warming continues unabated”.

Don’t Build Your House On Sand Next To The Ocean, Dumbass | Real Science

Let’s shut down the world economy, to pretend we are helping some morons in Alaska.

Obfuscating Pinatubo | Real Science

Last week, Hansen made up some world class bullshit about a 20 year old volcanic eruption being responsible for the missing heat. The graph below shows what would really happen if we had another Pinatubo eruption now.

William M. Briggs, Statistician » Statistics Compared To Ladies Of Ill Repute?

Brean is joining in on the laughs we’re having after discovering that Diederik Stapel lied, cheated, and bamboozled his way through a slew of social psychology papers. Stapel got away with it so long because he had a keen awareness of what his audience hoped to see. His “findings” include things like advertising makes women feel bad about themselves, white men are homophobic, messiness induces racism, and so forth.

Stapel used statistics to “prove” theories which he and his colleagues hoped were true or that would play well with reporters anxious to write “Stunning new research shows…” The shock to the system after his shenanigans were discovered was so great that even the New York Times was forced to admit that the field of social psychology “badly needs to overhaul how it treats research results.”

TNAU student selected as Internatiional Climate [Hoax] Champion, IBN Live News

Coimbatore, Jan 7 (PTI) A 3rd year B Tech girl student in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) has received a unique distinction of having been selected as the 'International Climate Champion-2011' by British Council. Harshita Mehta, doing Energy and Enviornmental Engineering course, was on the top 17 to get selected as ICC-2011, among 400 competitors from all over India, a TNAU release said here today. ICC is a youth oriented programme run by Council in partnership with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and the programme is part of Council's global project called 'Climate Generation,' which is delivered through the network of climate champion across the world, it said.

Oklahoma Was Hotter In 1954, 1934, 1956, 1933, 1921 …… | Real Science

Seven of Oklahoma’s ten hottest years occurred before 1960.

As far as drought goes, all ten of Oklahoma’s driest years occurred before 1970. Oklahoma’s driest year occurred more than 100 years ago. Only a moron (see above) would claim that heat and drought in Oklahoma have anything to do with CO2.

Alaskan Are Wimps | Real Science

The permafrost is rapidly melting in Siberia and oozing out CH4 – which makes temperatures even warmer there. Without the 0.0000015 mole fraction of methane, Siberia would be averaging -59F, instead of -59F.

Norwegian Minister Sees Arctic Warming As Beneficial, And Wants It Reversed | Real Science

Minister argues with himself in Houston.

NM Has Coldest December Since 1932 « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change

Bad things often go out with a whimper | Victor Davis Hanson

Solyndra, Climategate II and the discovery of massive new deposits of American gas and oil have for now postponed the promised era of the government-subsidized windmill and solar panel. In 2011, there was no more talk of cap-and-trade and new public/private green companies, but instead discoveries of oil and gas in unlikely places such as the Dakotas and Ohio. None of this was supposed to happen: Energy Secretary Steven Chu had dreamed of $9-a-gallon, European-priced gas to soften our carbon footprint. Candidate Barack Obama had long ago promised that our electricity bills would skyrocket. We are still supposed to buy Chevy Volts and not incandescent bulbs. But for now, entrepreneurial ingenuity may have cooled our new government-run green lifestyles.

Africa's Rainforests 'More Resilient' To Climate Change

Tropical forests in Africa may be more resilient to future climate change than the Amazon and other regions, a gathering of scientists has said.
An international conference agreed that the region's surviving tree species had endured a number of climatic catastrophes over the past 4,000 years.

U.S. weighs retaliation over Europe aviation law | Reuters

GLOBAL OUTRAGE

The United States, China, India and others have attacked the scheme, saying it infringes on their sovereignty. They argue the EU should not act alone and instead work through the United Nations to resolve the problem.

 ..."We're unhappy that we get all this resistance when we're talking about a problem that needs addressing," Günter Hoermandinger, environment counselor for the EU's Washington delegation, told Reuters.

Matt Ridley: Taking Fears Of Acid Oceans With A Grain of Salt

In a recent experiment in the Mediterranean, reported in Nature Climate Change, corals and mollusks were transplanted to lower pH sites, where they proved "able to calcify and grow at even faster than normal rates when exposed to the high [carbon-dioxide] levels projected for the next 300 years." In any case, freshwater mussels thrive in Scottish rivers, where the pH is as low as five.Laboratory experiments find that more marine creatures thrive than suffer when carbon dioxide lowers the pH level to 7.8. This is because the carbon dioxide dissolves mainly as bicarbonate, which many calcifiers use as raw material for carbonate.

Thing of the past: Now only 272 inches of snow this season at Valdez; "more snow than anybody's ever seen" at Cordova

Snow buries Cordova, Valdez; Nome is cold | Anchorage Daily News

As of 2 p.m. Friday, the National Weather Service office reported a season total of 272.1 inches of snow. An accumulation of 19.2 inches was recorded for Thursday....The Richardson Highway, the only road into town, was closed by multiple avalanches in Thompson Pass. The Department of Transportation said it was "shooting" avalanches, using explosives to purposely set off snow slides that could be cleared before they became an unpredictable hazard, and hoped to have the road open by 8 p.m. on Friday. .

Cordova Mayor Jim Kallander issued a disaster declaration...

"It's more snow than anybody's ever seen," Kallander said. "Cordova's a very resourceful community, and it takes an awful lot for us to have to go ask for help."

Flashback:  Impacts of global warming in Alaska

In many ways, Alaska is the “Paul Revere of Global Warming”, and serves as a sentinel for the impacts of global warming...Because of warmer temperatures, there has been less snow to protect the tree roots and also early dehardening of the foliage.

Solar Power Could Pave Way for "Greener Dialysis" | MedIndia

Solar power can make hemodialysis treatments more environmentally friendly, according to a new study.

Will Droughts And Floods Eventually Occur More Than 100% Of The Time? | Real Science

As CO2 passes 0.0004 mole fraction, I expect that all places on Earth will simultaneously experience drought and flood.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper shows sea level rise of less than 7 inches per century with no acceleration

A paper published today in the Journal of Geophysical Research analyzes sea level change from 10 New Zealand tide gauges and finds the sea level rise over the past 50 years to be only 1.7 mm/yr [i.e. less than 7 inches per century] with no evidence of acceleration.

Global Sea Ice Area Above Normal | Real Science

The death spiral continues. Dr. Hansen, the world’s greatest climatologist, predicted massive sea ice loss at both poles – particularly in the Antarctic.

FOIA – Stupid, Crap « Musings from the Chiefio

I suspect that the items that caused The Team the most heartache and drove them most to cursing will likely be a fertile ground for finding “interesting topics”…

Learning To Distinguish Between Low CO2 And High CO2 Droughts | Real Science

Droughts on the left side of the blue line were below 350 ppm CO2, and droughts on the right side were above 350 ppm. Before you can distinguish between them, you need to accurately determine how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Then you have to tell the press that droughts seem like they are getting worse.

Learning To Distinguish Between Low CO2 Tornadoes And High CO2 Tornadoes | Real Science

Tornadoes to the left of the pink line are below 350 PPM tornadoes, and tornadoes to the right are high CO2 (supercharged) tornadoes. Can you spot the difference?

Climate Common Sense: China plays warmist nations for the gullible fools they are!

In announcing a possible minute carbon tax of $1.55 per ton the world's largest emitter China has signalled to our gullible politicians that they are going to do something in the future and that we should all carry on committing economic harikiri over global warming. By setting the tax at one fourteenth of Australia's ridiculous $23.00 they have covered their bases so even if forced to implement it it will have negligible effect on their own economy.

Biblical Insights - The Daily Breeze

And [Jimmy Carter] said it would be "foolish" for the devout to deny global warming.

"While we may disagree on the causes or rate of global warming, shouldn't we all agree that we have a responsibility to take care of the Earth?"

Fastest warming place on Earth: Nome has now seen -30F only ten days in a row; only 252 inches of snow so far this season at Valdez

Snow keeps piling up in Valdez; cold snap sets records in Nome: Severe Weather | Alaska news at adn.com

The [Valdez] season total stood at 252.8 inches and the snow depth stood at an even 6 feet.

...Other extreme weather is hitting Nome, where, for the first time in 13 years, the temperature hit 40 below zero. The low was recorded just after 10 a.m. Thursday. The last time it was this cold in Nome was Feb. 1, 1999. The last time a minus 40 reading was taken on Jan. 5 was in 1917.

Temperatures in Nome remained "firmly in the 30s below zero" on Friday, according to the weather service, making it the 10th consecutive day with temperatures below minus 30. Temperatures of minus 38 on Jan. 3 and minus 38 on Jan. 4 broke the previous low temperature records for those days.

This is the longest severe cold wave since a record-breaking 16-day stretch from Jan. 15 to 30, 1989. That epic spell saw two days tie Nome's all-time record low, 54 below zero.

...Nome has not seen temperatures above zero since Dec. 23.

Michael E. Mann retweet

[Christopher Hayes] I am stunned by how low on the list of priorities global warming is for most progressives.To me it's the most important issue by quite a bit

Climate dogma stops Americans being informed about threatening disasters – Telegraph Blogs

There is of course a legitimate, vigorous debate to be had about whether most – or indeed any – of last year’s disasters were due to global warming. No-one can prove that they were – or weren’t, for that matter – and it is foolhardy to promote a firm view either way. Most scientists believe that such events will increase as the world warms up, but even that is open to argument.

Fidel Castro - Old Watermelon

 "Many dangers threaten us, but two of them, nuclear war and climate change, are decisive and are drifting further away from a solution," he wrote in an article entitled "The March Towards the Abyss."

The Wind Turbines That Can't Cope With The Wind

The impact of the devastating weather which has swept the country is shown by the state of these wind turbines - which couldn't withstand the strength of the gales. The huge blades - 15ft long - flew off three turbines including one on the aptly-named Windmill Lane in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. The firm which made the turbines in the Hepworth and Upper Cumberworth areas of the town has promised a full investigation. Concerned villagers in Hepworth, where the blade from one turbine was flung across a road, warned: 'Someone could have been killed'.

Ah, the good old days, before you sinned and ruined the weather: 1703 storm in Britain so non-extreme that only 8,000 people died

UK weather: This week's gales are nothing compared to the storm that drowned Britain | Mail Online

• 8,000 lives were lost, a large swathe of the Royal Navy was wiped out and the Eddystone lighthouse off Plymouth was obliterated
• Bishop was found 'with his brains dash'd out' after trying to flee from bed
• Torn from its moorings in Cornwall, one ship with its crew still inside ended up on Isle of Wight's coast - 200 miles away

January 4, 2012: Rick Santorum speaks sensibly, at length, about climate change

New Hampshire Primary 2012: Green: In NH, Rick Santorum Talks Climate change - Video and Transcript

Rick Santorum: The question is on how do I get my policies with climate change science.

I get asked this question a lot, and you look at the data and you can see some change in the climate.

But then again, pick a point in history where you haven’t seen a change in the climate.

The climate does change.

The question is, what is causing the climate to change.

And I think most scientists, in fact, I assume all scientists would agree there are a variety of factors that cause the climate change.

I don’t think any scientist in the world would suggest there isn’t a variety of factors, and I think the vast majority of scientists would say there’s probably a hundred factors that cause the climate to change.

And so why have we decided that this one particular factor, carbon dioxide, is in fact that tip of the tail that wags the entire dog.

Why from a scientific point of view do we make the assertion that this is in fact what is the case when there is a whole lot of other factors out there that could be affecting it...

Question: If warmist Hayhoe isn't an "activist", why does the Guardian say she tweets and makes regular appearances "...to try to persuade the public to act on climate science"?

Climate scientist disowned by Newt Gingrich speaks out over book spat | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Hayhoe is well-known in the relatively small world of climate scientists for her willingness to engage with the public on climate change, especially with conservatives and faith-based communities...

Hayhoe has a higher public profile than many other climate scientists. She tweets and makes regular appearances at community events – church suppers, book clubs, seniors' homes, Christian colleges – to try to persuade the public to act on climate science.

Again, note that in the photo of Hayhoe trying to convince us that CO2 might kill us all, she's both smiling and clutching some planet-killing bottled water.

Flashback: Foaming-at-the-mouth warmist Katharine Hayhoe thinks she's "squarely in the middle" on the global warming hoax debate

For example, with this freedom of interest request, they were trying to show that I was an activist, because I wrote a book chapter in my field to be published by an academic press.And by that token any professor can be called an activist, and that’s a very dangerous, slippery road to be on.....

Dispatch from Planet Hayhoe: "the science is fact — like the sky is blue, the grass is green and the temperature of our planet is increasing"

Climate scientist spurned by Gingrich laments ‘politicization’ - The Hill's E2-Wire

A week after GOP White House hopeful Newt Gingrich said he nixed plans for a chapter on climate change in his new book, the author of the chapter is lamenting the “politicization and polarization” of the issue.

“I really, really deplore the politicization and polarization of this issue,” Katharine Hayhoe, a well-known climate scientist who had been tasked with writing a chapter on climate change for Gingrich’s new book on the environment, told The Guardian, a British newspaper. “There are these increasingly unprincipled attempts to polarize the science when the science is fact — like the sky is blue, the grass is green and the temperature of our planet is increasing.”

Flashback: Wow: Check out climate hoax promoter Katharine Hayhoe's 2010 "Mother of All Hockey Sticks"

FOIA – Select UV and Tree Rings « Musings from the Chiefio

[ This one is interesting as it gives a nice laundry list of things they know are wrong with the present method of using tree rings. UV is included on the list. So much for that whole "settled science" meme... -E.M.Smith ]

The Communist Chevy Trabant – GM Back In The Fast Lane! (To Failure)

So get your new Government Motors Chevy Volt today, and relive the good ol communist days! Folks, this is what the state-planned, government-run economy can deliver – if only you’ll just give it the chance.

The new climate dice | Climate Etc.

The problem that I have with the paper is that the analysis does not support some of the inferences.

View From Ice-Free Nome | Real Science

A pleasant -37F at 8AM. They are running out of evil fossil fuels, and the UnChristian AntiScience Monitor tells us that Nome is threatened by a lack of sea ice - which is only about 150% of normal.

“I am Spartacus!”: Stand up and be counted for science « Tallbloke's Talkshop

IPCC should not only be defunded, it should be deleted as an agency. The reason is its misuse of the concept of science. It has never been meant to rely on correct science and uses science for one simple reason. People believe in science, since people have seen the result of powerful applications of it during 100 years. IPCC uses this fact to “sell” its political message to get support from ordinary people. Science is a “brand” for selling propaganda. The only way to keep the IPCC is for it to skip any claim of being scientific at all and clearly declare what it really is: a political organization.

My tutor when writing my exam paper in meteorology was Bert Bolin, the founder of IPCC. He was for sure a screwed influential politician and a dishonest and ordinary scientist.

Hans Jelbring, BSc, meteorologist, Stockholm University, Civil engineer, electronics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, PhD, institution of Paleogeophysics & geodynamics, Stockholm University.

Rethinking the Effects of Aerosols - NYTimes.com

In an article in the Atmospheric Environment journal, she and her colleagues projected that the elimination of atmospheric aerosols over the eastern United States would increase ground temperatures across the region by 0.4 to 0.6 degrees Celsius (0.7 to 1.1 degrees Fahrenheit) and increase the severity of heat waves by 1 to 2 degrees Celsius (1.8 to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).

The Reference Frame: Is a "Republican" a good word for Kerry Emanuel?

 And what about a guy with a clash of financial interests and the spouse of a radical Marxist wife?

Hansen et al: "Extreme Heat Waves ... in Texas and Oklahoma in 2011 and Moscow in 2010 Were 'Caused' by Global Warming" | ThinkProgress

We conclude that extreme heat waves, such as that in Texas and Oklahoma in 2011 and Moscow in 2010, were “caused” by global warming, because their likelihood was negligible prior to the recent rapid global warming. 

How We Know That Warm Temperatures Cause Severe Weather | Real Science

The link between severe weather and warm temperatures is well established. For example, warm Hawaii sees continuously violent weather- while the cooler Arctic is known for calm, pleasant weather.

Stabilizing The Climate At 310 PPM | Real Science

I think we can all agree that the weather was much better in the 1930s, other than the worst floods, hurricane, droughts and heatwaves in modern history.

Emanuel’s wife really ‘ashamed to be an American’ | JunkScience.com

Kerry Emanuel may simply say he is ‘ashamed to be an American‘ because of Republican climate skepticism, but his wife may take the cake.

Emanuel’s wife, the Boston-born Susan Boyd-Bowman, actually surrendered her U.S. citizenship to become a UK citizen. Unconfirmed rumor is that Boyd-Bowman never got over her 1960s-era anti-US militancy.

New York governor Andrew Cuomo: "One hundred year floods happen every two years now, so something is going on"

NCPR News - After Irene, Cuomo calls for revamped state emergency response program

"I don't want to get into a long debate about global warming, whether it's happening or whether it's not. But I can tell you this. One hundred year floods happen every two years now, so something is going on."

Climate alarmist Emanuel is director of offshore insurance company | JunkScience.com

Is Emanuel helping an offshore insurer profit from the scare he’s helping to foment?

FOIA – Anthony Watts « Musings from the Chiefio

without further ado, here is the list of emails that talk about Anthony

The Golden Eagle In Peril Due To Wind Farms

Save the Eagles International (STEI) is hereby issuing a biodiversity warning concerning the United States. Contrary to dubious studies financed and controlled by vested interests, the population of golden eagles in the Western States is on the decline. Wind farms are the main cause. The issuing of licenses to kill will accelerate the decline towards extinction.

Scientists Criticise Hawking's Doomsday 'Hype'

 "It is possible that the human race could become extinct but it is not inevitable. I think it is almost certain that a disaster, such as nuclear war or global warming, will befall the earth within a thousands years," Professor Hawking, the Cambridge University cosmologist and theoretical physicist said.

Amanda Carey: Green Movement Dead In The Water

 Greens reacted to these developments not by toning down their rhetoric or reconsidering their agenda in a manner that might be more palatable to their opponents. Instead, they made ever more apocalyptic claims about global warming claims that were increasingly inconsistent, ironically, with the scientific consensus whose mantle greens claimed.

In 2012, it's clear that scare tactics and apocalyptic predictions have failed to persuade. The environmental movement is not gaining traction with either legislators or the public. As Tom Borelli puts it, "They're now going to be playing defense. And they're not used to that."

Earn $500 in JunkScience.com’s Himalayan Glacier Melt Challenge | JunkScience.com

Glacier-hard cash in your pocket… all you have to do is attend a movie screening, ask a question and send us a video.

NRSC: Claire McCaskill's Revisionist History Tour Continues - Power Engineering

Claims To Oppose Cap-And-Trade After Voting For It, While Continuing Silence On Obama EPA's Harmful Policies

Oh my: Boston Globe endorses … Huntsman « Hot Air

He has stood up far more forcefully than Romney against those in his party who reject evolution and the science behind global warming…

Climate change 'will boost British farmers’ - Telegraph

Climate change will be good for British farming, according to Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary, with exotic crops such as melons already
thriving...In a speech at the Oxford Farming Conference, she said that, although problems such as droughts would become more frequent, warmer weather would also mean a longer growing season and less frost damage, allowing the introduction of crops such as peaches, maize and sunflowers. Already 10,000 melons are expected to be harvested in Kent this year.

Race to keep the elderly warm and well (From Northwich Guardian)

Age UK launched the campaign last year in response to the needless deaths of more than 200 older people per day in the cold weather.

The aim is to stop unnecessary suffering and preventable winter deaths.

Winter a tough time for Fla. tropical fish farmers - Boston.com

"We have tremendous challenges with the cold," said Drawdy, who has owned the central Florida farm with her family for 40 years. "Our prayer was that we wouldn't face that this year. We were just really starting to recover."

Drawdy is referring to 2010, when many Florida ornamental fish farmers lost between 80 and 100 percent of their stock. That year, temperatures stayed below 50 for 11 days straight in January and then another cold snap in December struck the area.

"The last three winters in a row it seems like we have been just clobbered," said David Boozer, executive director of the Florida Tropical Fish Farms Association, a group that counts 231 farmers as members.

Report: No Global Climate Deal If Obama Loses Presidential Election

Prospects for striking a binding global climate deal by 2015 are probably toast if President Obama loses in November.

Thanks to climate change, maple syrup faces a sticky future [VIDEO] | Grist

If we continue warming the planet at the same rate, most sugar maples will be gone by 2100. But it's not just a future danger we're talking about. In fact, Carlson breaks down the way sweetness in maple sap has already begun to decline (along with a 2.8-degree-F rise in temperature since 1970); today's maple sap has gone from 3.5 percent sugar to just 2 percent sugar in the last 40 years.

NH maple syrup production hit record in 2011 - NashuaTelegraph.com

When it comes to maple syrup production, sometimes Mother Nature giveth and sometimes Mother Nature taketh away.

In 2011, she gave in bucket loads – quite literally.

Terrific weather throughout the season resulted in a huge boost for New Hampshire’s maple producers, who generated a record amount of syrup this year.

At about 120,000 gallons, this was the first year the state topped 100,000 gallons.

The only drawback is that production also boomed throughout New England and in other syrup-producing parts of the country, according to tallies from agriculture officials, which could dampen prices.

Send in the Clown, Again - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Like Charlie Sheen, Stephen Chu was one of 2011′s Losers of the Year. Obama’s Energy Secretary presided over the Solyndra debacle. His prediction that America demanded electric cars went up in flames with the Chevy Volt. His declaration of a post-carbon economy made him a laughingstock as America struck — make that fracked — gold with another century’s supply of oil and natural gas.

But in the Obama White House — like the Sheen camp — failure is winning. So the president is sending his EnergySec to take a victory lap at the Detroit Auto Show next week.

After all, cluelessness runs in the administration family. Asked by oil mogul Harold Hamm if he were aware of the oil and gas revolution marching from the Dakotas across Pennsylvania, Obama reportedly replied: “Oil and gas will be important for the next few years. But we need to go on to green and alternative energy. Energy Secretary Chu has assured me that within five years, we can have a battery . . . with the equivalent of 130 MPG.”

Global Weirding Strikes Greenland | Real Science

In December, 2010 Greenland was 4C above normal, proving that the climate is warming dramatically and that the ice was going quickly collapse at -20C .

In December, 2011 Greenland was 4C below normal, proving that the climate is cooling and  we are all going to freeze to death.

Massive 400 Year Long Hurricane Has Temperatures 250 Degrees Below Zero | Real Science

Our top scientists tell us that hurricanes are due to global warming, which makes perfect sense given that Jupiter has had an Earth sized hurricane raging for 400 years – with temperatures at 250 degrees below zero.

Valdez, Alaska - Snowiest December - and maybe season - on record

“December has gone down as the “snowiest” December on record with 152.2 inches measured.”

Fastest-warming place on Earth?: "Nome, Alaska, preliminarily reported its coldest January 5 ever, by a margin of 3.7 F"

| Planet3.0

Climatesense-norpag: Comment on Dot Earth 1/4/12

Andy - At various times over the last year you have appeared to consider climate science more objectively - yet here you go again with the notion of a "fundamental Republican science problem " . The Hadley Sea Surface Temperature data is the best metric for climate change . The 5 year moving SST temperature average shows that the warming trend peaked in 2003 and a simple regression analysis shows a nine year global SST cooling trend since then

What Financial Meltdowns Teach Us About the IPCC « NoFrakkingConsensus

According to Pachauri, we should all trust the IPCC’s findings because thousands of people take part in the process that produces them. He would have us believe it isn’t possible for a large group of individuals to delude themselves, to be mistaken about important matters.

But that reasoning is flawed. We now know that entire countries can – and do – fall under a spell. We know that entire societies tell themselves fairy stories that aren’t remotely true. We know that entire populations are capable of exercising monstrously bad judgment.

The mere fact that lots of people took part in the delusion didn’t save Iceland, Greece, or Ireland from their day of reckoning. Nor will it save the IPCC.

See page 4 of this PDF for Michael Mann’s claim that the computer code which produced the hockey-stick graph – the most important piece of visual information in the 2001 IPCC report – is “a private piece of intellectual property.” Backup link here.

Report Challenges Ambitious Plan for U.S. Climate Research - ScienceInsider

The NRC committee—chaired by climate modeler Warren Washington of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado—commends the
21-year-old U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) for proposing to broaden its scope beyond coordinating basic climate research. Its new draft
strategic plan includes research that would support society's efforts to reduce the magnitude of greenhouse warming and other climate change -- and to
adapt to any unavoidable change. "Now that we have a pretty good handle on the climate science," says Washington, it is appropriate that USGCRP begin
fulfilling Congress's intent in 1990 legislation that created a federal interagency group to coordinate research.

...USGCRP principals are "very pleased with the NRC report," says Timothy Killeen, assistant director in the Directorate for Geosciences at the National

Science Foundation and the USGCRP vice chair who led development of the strategic plan. "We do recognize there are some gaps in our capacity."

Coordinators plan to bring in more expertise from USGCRP agencies and nonmember agencies, academia, and state agencies, says Thomas Armstrong,
executive director of USGCRP. Interagency working groups are also being formed that include program managers and scientific experts "who know the
science and can write the checks," says Armstrong.

Scientists Back 'Broadening' Of Climate Research - Orlando News Story - WESH Orlando

(CNN) -- U.S. scientists want to expand research into climate change to focus on its social effects and ways to adapt to a changing planet, but tighter budgets may crimp those plans, the National Academy of Sciences reported Thursday.

US Tornado Trends–Updated to 2011 « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

There has been no significant trend in F1+ tornadoes since 1980, and each decade since then has been less than the 1970’s. The 2000’s show more F0 tornadoes, but this is the first decade Doppler systems have been fully operational, so we should now have a good basis for the future.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Greenpeace´s Naidoo: "We´re not going there and having fun on these ships"

let´s have a reality check regarding Naidoo´s claim that "we are not going there and having fun on these ships".

Field Organizer for Environmental Defence on bringing up climate change at the dinner table: "...perhaps the climate change discussion is best left to another time"

Ian Carey: How Do You Bring Up Climate Change at the Dinner Table?

Ultimately, we each get to decide whether or not we are comfortable bringing up the topic of climate change at the dinner table. And even while we endure the climate crisis, it is important to stop and be thankful for those people you care about.

If having a conversation about CO2 emissions prevents you from doing this, then perhaps the climate change discussion is best left to another time.

Investment Bank Says Future Global Climate Agreement Hinges on U.S. Presidential Election | StateImpact Pennsylvania

A report out Thurs­day by the invest­ment bank HSBC pre­dicts the global econ­omy will con­tinue it’s slide, and an inter­na­tional deal on curb­ing cli­mate change could depend on who enters the White House a year from now. The “Cli­mate Invest­ment Update,” pro­duced by ana­lysts with HSBC Global Research says three wild cards could impact  the “cli­mate economy.”...  If Obama gets reelected, expect a deal.

Occupy D.C.’s new battle? Cold. - The Washington Post

Usually, the Occupy D.C. protesters battle corporate greed and taxes. This week, their biggest battle has been against hypothermia.

As temperatures dipped into the teens, the city’s two Occupy encampments began to resemble ghost towns, with protesters fleeing to bunk on friends’ couches or in church shelters. Tent covers surrendered themselves to wind gusts, only to reveal no one snuggled underneath them.

Error cascade | Climate Etc.

JC comment:  I think the the concept of error cascade is interesting and relevant to climate science.  I think this particular article goes over the top in essentially dismissing all of AGW as junk science, but I think his perception is correct in that once you start invoking scientific consensus and deniers, you lay yourselves open to the charge of junk science.

...With regards to this statement: “Eventually, one of the factoids generated by an error cascade is going to collide with a well-established piece of evidence from another research field that is not subject to the same groupthink.”  It seems to me that any such challenge from outside the field would most likely come from the solar community.

Obama Flops - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Solyndra. The Fiat 500. Obamacare. All spectacular product failures from an administration that has staked billions on its expertise in picking the future. Add one more. As Pollowitz points out nearby, the Chevy Volt — one reason that the White House deemed GM’s bailout as essential to America — is #3 on Yahoo! Finance’s list of Worst Product Flops of 2011

Ha ha Warmist losers. For you the war is over – Telegraph Blogs

[Delingpole] One of my resolutions this year is to write as little as possible about global warming. Not only will it make my wife much happier but it will also free me up to talk about more important things such as monetary collapse, hyperinflation and the imminent end of Western civilisation. Oh and also there's hardly much need for my input on climate change any more. That's because, basically, my side has won...We're on the lying liars' case. As we saw in Climategate and Climategate 2.0 the Warmist establishment – and that's everyone from the climate "scientists" at the CRU to the IPCC to the Royal Society to the EPA to the entire Obama administration – is so slippery and devious it makes Wormtongue look purer than Sir Galahad. But these days they're so discredited that their bluster, appeals to authority and outright lies just don't seem to work any more.

Warmer Temperatures + More Rain + More CO2 = Less Food | Real Science

There is nothing that plants hate more than warmth, water and fertilizer. They prefer cold, dry, nutrient deficient conditions. Every global warming reporter understands that.

List of my last 250+ posts on ClimateGate

Update: I've added a link to the "outed" emails to the upper right side of the screen. I've also added a link for emailing me news tips.
-----  
A reader suggested that it might be useful to have a list of "outed" ClimateGate emails, all in one place.
I'm testing a new widget (right side of this blog; scroll down) that lists the titles of my last 250+ ClimateGate posts. Please let me know if it's helpful. If someone else is working on a list like this, please let me know--I'd like to link to it.

Fair-and-balanced left-wing hypocritical anti-science ideologue Revkin: The Republican field of candidates deserves Peter Gleick's "2011 Climate B.S. Award"

Still Searching for Republicans With Climate Concerns - NYTimes.com

Oddly, the marching orders for Republican presidential candidates appear to be out of sync with attitudes of most members of their party, outside a small fringe that is obstructionist on anything smacking of an energy policy. This makes the field of candidates deserving of the 2011 Climate B.S. Award (B.S. for “bad science”) that they received today from the environmental analyst and blogger Peter Gleick.

I’m sure Marc Morano of Climate Depot will be able to keep collating, and taking credit for, Republican statements of climate doubt at least through the end of the primary season.

Perhaps once the silly season is over, and the surviving candidate starts seeking broader support, climate-smart energy policies could be mentionable once more. Until then there remains a “fundamental Republican science problem.”

Kenya: "Worst ever" case of frost hits the country

The Standard | Frost curbs Kenya's January tea production

Kenya, the world's biggest exporter of black tea, has lost a significant part of its tea production for this month due to severe frost in key growing areas, which could cut its foreign exchange earnings, a major industry group said on Thursday.
In this week alone, about 20 million kg of green leaf was damaged by frost, which occurs when temperatures plunge at night after hot days, said Alfred Njagi, general manager of operations at the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA).
..."We are looking at about 20 million kg of green leaf we have lost, whose value is in the region of Sh1 billion ($11.4 million)," Njagi said, adding that this was the worst ever case of frost to hit the country.

Overheated planet update: North Carolina area still not warm enough to prevent large numbers of sea turtles from being stunned by quickly dropping water temperatures

Cold-stunned turtles washing ashore

The cold snap plaguing large areas of the Tar Heel state is causing problems for sea turtles, who have begun washing up on shore in large numbers after being stunned by quickly-dropping water temperatures.

As of Thursday morning, 19 marine reptiles – three loggerheads, 16 green turtles – had been found on regional beaches, mostly in the Cape Lookout area.

Twelve of the green turtles died Wednesday night, but Jean Beasley, director of the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Topsail Beach, said the rest of the group was showing some signs of life.

Defund the IPCC Now | Watts Up With That?

[Willis Eschenbach] The latest 2011 GAO Report says the US government has not changed their ways. They have been clandestinely providing about half the operating funds for the IPCC for the last decade. In other words, the IPCC funding arrangements are of a piece with their “scientific” claims and their other actions—secretive, shabby, with a hidden agenda, and full of disinformation.

...The report says that the State Department provided $19 million dollars to the IPCC. Thanks, guys. Foolish me, I hadn’t realized that paying for bureaucrats to go party in Cancun and Durban was part of the function of the United States Department of State.

Honda being sued in small claims court by woman they ignored over hybrid gas-electric mileage claim | Watts Up With That?

This is novel. A woman who is upset with Honda over lack of promised gas mileage on her HondaCivic Hybrid. It seems as the battery aged, the mileage went from the EPA sanctioned 51mpg highway sticker value to about 30. Honda ignored her complaint, and now she has a real chance of winning a landmark case in small claims court and Honda is taking a PR hit as the issue goes viral. A video report follows below.

Warmist Obama voter Kerry Emanuel: "I'm one of the rare examples of a scientist who's a Republican"; lack of AGW belief among Republican candidates makes him feel "to some extent ashamed to be an American"

GOP Climate [Bedwetters] Caught On Video | Mother Jones

Watch: New Hampshire Republicans fed up with anti-science rhetoric want their party back.

Various shots reveal a lot of empty seats at this event.

Around the 4:08 mark, "Republican" (and Obama voter) Kerry Emanuel says "I'm one of the rare examples of a scientist who's a Republican."  He suggests he's going to
vote in the New Hampshire Republican primary, and says that on the climate issue, he likes Jon Huntsman. Speaking of the lack of AGW believers among Republican candidates, Emanuel says this makes him feel "to some extent ashamed to be an American."

Flashback: MIT Professor Emanuel won’t vote for climate change deniers | Watts Up With That?

As a lifelong Republican, Emanuel admired Reagan, opposes gay marriage,  backs a strong military, yet voted for President Obama.

Global Warming Weekly Round-Up, Jan. 5th 2012 « The Daily Bayonet

After nearly four years, the round-up is no longer the ‘global warming hoax weekly round-up’, because hoax doesn’t really express what is going on in the wacky world of global warming . It’s a swindle, a circus and in some areas outright fraud. But since none of those labels manage to catch it all, the KISS principle has been applied and now your weekly dose of celebrity misbehavior, media hysteria and hippie-skewering snark is just the weekly round-up.

“I am Spartacus!”: Stand up and be counted for science « Tallbloke's Talkshop

We have been through a dark time when blacklists of scientists who disagree with the IPCC climate orthodoxy have been drawn up, editors have been threatened with being forced out of their jobs for allowing dissenting papers to be published in journals, correct science which disproves the orthodoxy position has been ignored and witch hunts on skeptical scientists and bloggers have been promoted

Wind farms blasted | London | News | London Free Press

RIDGETOWN - Southwestern Ontario's flourishing wind energy industry came under fire Wednesday from the co-founder of Greenpeace.

Dr. Patrick Moore told more than 1,000 area farmers the industry destroys more jobs than it creates, and causes energy prices to climb for all users.

“The industry is a destroyer of wealth and negative to the economy,'' said Moore, speaking at the 19th annual Southwest Agricultural Conference at Ridgetown campus of the University of Guelph.

Stunning 16 year decline in Southwestern Winter Temperatures « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change

AP Source: GM to call back 8,000 Chevy Volts - Yahoo! News

DETROIT (AP) — A person briefed on the matter says General Motors will ask Volt owners to bring their electric cars into dealers to strengthen the structure around the batteries.

The move is similar to a recall and involves the 8,000 Volts sold in the U.S. in the past two years.

The climate change message is not being heard. Here's how to change tack | Sunny Hundal | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Asked if we worry too much about the environment and not enough about prices and jobs, a decade ago 50% of Britons disagreed. Now that number is down to 34%. "People may be less likely to change their behaviour for the sake of the environment if this will cost them money, time or effort," said the BSA report.

The change in attitudes has been starker in the US: the percentage of Americans who believe climate change is taking place has plummeted from 71% to 51% in recent years.

The 2011 Climate B.S.* of the Year Awards - Forbes

Steve McIntyre
And finally, the “dishonorable” mention of the year goes to Steve McIntyre for his despicable smear of climate scientist Dr. Michael Mann of Penn State University (and to Anthony Watts for amplifying that smear) by drawing a parallel between the Penn State pedophilia investigation and their separate scientific investigation of questions about climate research (in which Professor Mann has been completely and repeatedly exonerated). Joe Romm discusses this disgusting case here.

The 2011 Climate B.S. of the Year Award was prepared by Peter Gleick with an independent group of climate scientists and communicators serving as nominators, reviewer, and voters. Thanks to all who participated this year. See you next year.

The Reference Frame: Chinese airlines refuse to pay EU climate change levy

Chinese airlines won't pay the fee that the carbon criminals in the Brussels would love to call a "law".

Why Keith Olbermann Didn't Appear on Current TV's Iowa Coverage - Ricochet.com

Here's the full article in the Reporter.  And here's one of its most interesting facts: 

Countdown is the highest-rated show on Current by far. On Dec. 15, the program averaged 52,000 viewers among news’ target demographic of viewers ages 25-54. The network’s two-hour post-Iowa GOP debate analysis on the same night had 4,000 viewers in the demo, while the 2 a.m. rebroadcast of Countdown pulled in 11,000.

Only 52,000 viewers?  And it's the highest-rated show on Current "by far"?

New York Times admits that CO2 levels and seal populations don't correlate well: "seal populations declined from 1950 to 1972 and then gradually recovered from 1973 to 2000"

For Seal Pups on Thin Ice, a Short Childhood - NYTimes.com

In correspondence with to patterns of the North Atlantic Oscillation, seal populations declined from 1950 to 1972 and then gradually recovered from 1973 to 2000.

“It’s interesting to see how the abundance of animals tends to fluctuate in sync with the North Atlantic Oscillation,” Dr. Johnston said. “This suggests that climate has been an important factor in shaping populations.”

Ian Hill: There have only been 78 other heatwaves like that in Adelaide… 51 were hotter « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Ian Hill went back through the records to find that not only have there been 79 heatwaves in Adelaide since 1887, but there have been 51 heat-waves that were hotter since 1887.

The Magic Of Hansen’s Red Crayon | Real Science

Hansen, being the honest guy that he is, chose to fill in the missing Arctic data with imaginary data. He could have chosen to fill it in with blue, but instead chose to go for red. He even made the rapid cooling in Svalbard disappear!

Scafetta: IPCC Warming Claim Is “Erroneous…IPCC Projections For The 21st Century Cannot Be Trusted”

It’s not a secret that the IPCC models are all rigged to make CO2 look like the culprit for the last 150 years of warming. We say this because we now know their models complete ignore, or selectively distort, the potency of an array of drivers and amplification mechanisms.

Stone Cold Irony

The world is cooler today than 8,000 years ago, and practically no one knows it.

Yowza: Foaming-at-the-mouth warmist Katharine Hayhoe thinks she's "squarely in the middle" on the global warming hoax debate

Katharine Hayhoe Q&A: Climate change science in the USA | RTCC

RTCC: You strike me as someone who isn’t necessarily a polarising character….

Hayhoe: I don’t see myself as being on any one side of this divide, but what people are doing is forcing a decision. I put myself squarely in the middle – my husband is a pastor, a Christian author and I share most conservative values with people.

I’m a Christian myself but at the same time I am a climate scientist, and I study what’s really going on in the world, which I believe the truth has been revealed in God’s creation…so these are terms that people can identify with.

I am a person in the middle, but for some people that is not an acceptable place to be. You’re not allowed to be in the middle, you’re not allowed to bridge the gap – unfortunately that’s one of the risks of what I do.

...Hayhoe: Oh my goodness – that’s not a hyperbole at all. For example, with this freedom of interest request, they were trying to show that I was an activist, because I wrote a book chapter in my field to be published by an academic press.And by that token any professor can be called an activist, and that’s a very dangerous, slippery road to be on.....

I open up my mail in the morning and delete 10, read one, delete 10 more, read one. There are blogs that are devoted to blogging about how I’ve lied about X, Y and Z. Somebody filed a complaint with the Press Complaints Commission in the UK stating I had lied, by saying that winter temperatures in Texas are getting warmer, which they certainly are.

The abuse, the virulence, the hatred is astonishing. And much of it is coming from people who share much of the same values as I do, and that’s what is so hurtful about it. It’s a wholestyle rejection – you can be right for 99/100, but if you differ on point 100 you deserve anything that people give you.

...But I think it is a little unusual for this to be happening to a woman, and also to someone who is trying to bridge the gap...I feel like what has happened to me is that it is unacceptable for anyone to be moderate, to be sensible, to be logical, to be conservative and in the middle.

It’s unacceptable right now for anyone to be in the middle, so everybody is being pushed to one side or the other, being stereotyped or caricatured really. It’s happening everywhere, in every form.

Wow: Check out climate hoax promoter Katharine Hayhoe's 2010 "Mother of All Hockey Sticks"

Global warming evangelist has a message for West Texas - Los Angeles Times

"A one- or two-degree increase in the world's temperature may not seem like much," [Hayhoe] tells the students in the chilly auditorium, most paying attention rather than sleeping or texting. "But think of your own body when your temperature goes up by one and a half degrees. It means you're getting sick."

Climate Depot's full list of postings on Climategate 2.0

Here.

Environmental Defense Fund aids Mann in rebutting McKitrick / McIntyre

From email 3738:

"EDF wants to try to help me get a response to the USA Today opinion piece by Nick Schulz..." (Op-ed by Schulz was on McKitrick and McIntyre's work. - AJ)
 
"I'm going to try to work w/ Annie Petsonk* at EDF to incorporate their suggestions w/ those you guys have provided..."
 -----

*(AJ here) From the EDF website:  Annie Petsonk coordinates EDF's advocacy efforts on international environmental law, international agreements and institutions.
 
How much did Petsonk help?  Here's a draft of what she prepared for dissemination to reporters and congressional staff posted at Steve Schneider's .edu website.  When compared they're almost identical.

(Via reader AJ)

Without U.S. Funding IPCC Would Be Broke

A study by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined that the United States funded the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations’ authority on alleged man-made global warming, with $31.1 million since 2001, nearly half of the panel’s annual budget.

The GAO also found that this funding information “was not available in budget documents or on the websites of the relevant federal agencies, and the agencies are generally not required to report this information to Congress.”

Seven charged with climate [hoax] quota fraud - Aftenbladet.no

 The scam involves transactions for a value in excess of a billion kroner. It was carried out by selling the same quotas several times, VG reports.

Investigators claim a 55-year-old man, presumed to be the mastermind, used several companies to trade 602 million kroner’s worth of quotas illegally. His son is indicted for fraudulent deals of 294 million. A third man was also allegedly one of the main participants.

Chinese Airlines Boycott EU Carbon Tax

The association that represents Chinese airlines, including Air China, China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and Hainan Airlines, has said its members will
not abide by the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, which on January 1, 2012, was extended to international airlines that use European airports.

Airlines’ latest fee hike exposes flaws of carbon trading | Loren Steffy | a Chron.com blog

But Delta’s fee scheme represents more than just another indignity for passengers.  It lays bare the entire carbon-trading boondoggle. If airlines simply foist the fees off on customers, then they have no incentive to actually reduce carbon emissions. Other fees, however exorbitant, at least are tied to a passenger benefit — a checked bag, a meal, a change of itinerary. What do passengers get for a carbon fee? The right to fly on an airline that pollutes more?

And what if the carrier pollutes less? The fees, at least in Delta’s case, are added up front. What if the airline winds up coming in under its carbon limits? It would actually then make money by trading its excess carbon credits, yet still collect fees from passengers as if it weren’t in compliance. In the end, the EU’s new rules underscore the fundamental problem with carbon trading — it creates far more profit-making opportunity for the traders and the companies that game the system than it does carbon-reducing opportunity for society.

Retreat of sea ice fuels spike in seal deaths, study finds

Shrinking sea ice cover in the North Atlantic over the past three decades due to warming has led to a "dramatic" spike in deaths among seal pups, a new U.S. study says, offering a glimpse into a population issue while numbers are still abundant.

The study from Duke University in North Carolina warns climate change and disappearing sea ice off Canada's east coast could prove to be a more dire challenge for the animals going forward, with entire year-classes of seal pups dying as a result of diminished breeding spaces.

Schweppes Loses Australia Sales in Fizz Shortage With Coke on Edge: Retail - Bloomberg

Schweppes Australia, the nation’s second-largest soft-drink maker, which also has the Australian bottling rights to Pepsi
and Sunkist, said production is being hampered by a lack of carbon dioxide because of plant shutdowns by Orica Ltd. (ORI) and
Origin Energy Ltd. (ORG)

Susan Solomon on CO2

“We have to think about it [carbon dioxide] much more like nuclear waste than, like say, smog or acid rain,” explains one of the world’s top atmospheric scientists, Susan Solomon, Senior Scientist for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

Bill Maher Slams Republican Climate Change Skeptics - YouTube

[2009] On "Real Time" Bill Maher pilloried climate change skeptics, particularly skeptics in the Republican party, insisting that they must "stop pretending climate change is a future problem." Maher directed his criticism at Republicans such as Sen. James Inhofe, who has previously referred to global warming as the "greatest hoax," despite having no science background. [Maher suggests that there will be "hundreds of climate scientists assembled in Copenhagen" (Dec '09)]