Germany’s nuclear power phaseout turns off environmentalists | JunkScience.com

After Germany last year committed to closing its nuclear reactors, it’s relying more on coal and importing power from neighbors that use nuclear energy.

Twitter / @omnologos: Most of the #climate chang ...

Most of the #climate change discourse is just a repeat of hundreds of years of English chit-chat whingeing about the weather. #agw

AD 1764-1791: The First Climate Change and Geoengineering Acts | Omnologos

Have environmentalism and climate change fear always been based on an unproven ideology full of hate against humanity and its material progress?

Yes.

Apocalyptic Weather Fools Americans Into Thinking Climate Change Is Real

it seems that the never-ending string of Rick Perry’s failed rain dances, the recent creepy tropical winter experienced by most of the country that is confusing the hell out of farmers’ crops, and all those thousands of category-one-million tornadoes mowing down large swaths of Real America are all conspiring to make your fellow citizens a tad suspicious about the alleged fictional nature of climate change.

Aristotle’s climate | FP Comment | Financial Post

Two surveys have purported to show that 97% of climate scientists supported the “consensus.” However, one survey was based on the views of just 77 scientists, far too small a sample to be scientific, and the proposition to which 75 of the 77 assented was merely to the effect that there has been warming since 1950.

The other paper did not state explicitly what question the scientists were asked and did not explain how they had been selected to remove bias. Evidentially, it was valueless. Yet that has not prevented the usual suspects from saying — falsely — that the “consensus” of 97% of all climate scientists is that man-made global warming is potentially catastrophic.

James Blalog : Another Boulder Climate Expert | Real Science

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the glacier at Glacier Bay, Alaska retreated thousands of feet per year. Is it possible that yet another Boulder climate expert has no idea what he is talking about?

Dina Cappiello: In ’72, EPA battled pollution; now it’s politics | JunkScience.com

Wrong. The EPA has only ever been a political animal, created by Nixon as a greenie distraction from the highly unpopular Vietnam War. Industrial progress and pollution reduction was already well in hand without these interfering show ponies. Now they are nothing more than a misanthropic hinderance to humanity and the environment.

- Bishop Hill blog - Stern's wheat graph

From the minute you read the title, you get a sense that all is not quite well with Lord Stern's work.

Mark Serreze – The Skeptic | Real Science

Twenty years ago today, Mark Serreze was still a serious scientist.

University of Colorado researcher Mark Serreze has found no evidence that Earth is suffering from the greenhouse effect.

Connect the Dots | Digging in the Clay

Let’s make it our own. There are so many “connect the dots” in skepticism…

Al Gore says sea level is gonna rise twenty feet. . . . Al Gore recently bought a $8 million oceanfront mansion in Montecito, California – connect the dots.

White House Shock News : New York To Run Out Of Water By 1966! | Real Science

Sun may soon have four poles, say researchers - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

The sun may be entering a period of reduced activity that could result in lower temperatures on Earth, according to Japanese researchers.

Officials of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the Riken research foundation said on April 19 that the activity of sunspots appeared to resemble a 70-year period in the 17th century in which London’s Thames froze over and cherry blossoms bloomed later than usual in Kyoto.

In that era, known as the Maunder Minimum, temperatures are estimated to have been about 2.5 degrees lower than in the second half of the 20th century.

The only proper response to a green is scepticism | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

More green scaremongers held to account, as the green movement becomes even less credible than used-car salesmen

Zwick – If I Only Had A Brain | Real Science

He must be referring to the longest period on record without a major hurricane strike in the US. Or perhaps the decline in severe tornadoes?

On the plus side, there’s no reason for William M. Connolley to comment here anymore | Watts Up With That?

I get such a kick out this, especially since Connelley has shown that he’d rather just dismiss everyone with a wave of the condescending hand.

Arson, Forgery, Fraud, Protection Rackets, Murdering Schoolkids – For The Good Of The Planet | Real Science

The New Nostradamus of the North: A doomsday prophet celebrates Earth Day

It´s really that simple - we can save us from ourselves by giving James Hansen, Michael Mann and Al Gore dictatorial powers! 

Loss Of Old Ice In The Arctic From 1988 To 1996 | Real Science

Now that the PDO is shifting to negative, Arctic ice is starting to increase again. Nothing magical about it, and nothing to do with global warming.

"As part of the effort to mobilize the public to tackle climate change, several U.S. environmental groups plan to launch a large initiative in 2013 based around engaging young people through social media..."

Earth Day's ups and downs reflect changing environmental movement - World - CBC News

As part of the effort to mobilize the public to tackle climate change, several U.S. environmental groups plan to launch a large initiative in 2013 based around engaging young people through social media and crowdsourcing ideas on green technologies, renewable energy and others means of mitigating the factors contributing to climate change.

The aim, says Hayes, is to create "a huge public consensus-building exercise that hopefully will have some political consequences."

"In a sense, it's a climatic Arab Spring," said Hayes. "Climate has been mostly a television issue. It's something where people preach at other people or, in the case of Al Gore's movie, they provide a film, and you go and you watch it. But it's not a computer kind of issue where you are involved and engaged in doing something yourself.

WA backflips on carbon tax compensation

The West Australian government has backflipped after saying it would take a quarter of carbon tax compensation payments from pensioners who live in public housing.

Greenhouse uses captured CO2 to grow food

"We are taking the carbon and instead of letting it go into the atmosphere, we are converting it to food and eating it," Krahn said.

"We are eating our way to a carbon-negative future."

Plants need carbon dioxide, light and heat to grow and the more CO2 they can absorb, the more productive they are, Krahn said.

Flashback: Susan Solomon thinks you're stupid: Report claims that trace amounts of CO2 may lower US corn yields by 15%

“We have to think about [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

InvestigateDaily – Century old map throws new doubt on climate change sea level claims

A new book on the history of New Zealand has inadvertently stirred the climate change debate by revealing a near zero sea level increase over the past century.

Where eagles dare not fly: Waterloo looms as wind farms power town revolt | The Australian

A DEAD wedge-tailed eagle, chicken eggs without yolks and a dysfunctional village with residents bursting to flee. This is the clean-energy revolution Waterloo-style, where the nation's biggest wind turbines have whipped up a storm of dissent.

Beyond Australia’s carbon price | Green Left Weekly

Australia’s mainstream political debate on climate change is a fake debate. You could say it is a debate between the climate deniers and the climate pretenders.

'Green' boom turned to bust for local vehicle maker | FortWayne.com - Fort Wayne IN

If the government doesn't pay people to make or buy green cars, they probably won't.

Wanted: fewer religious zealots, more environmentalists | The Chronicle Herald

Indeed, Kareiva says polls show the credibility of the environmental movement has been in decline for 25 years. Today, even David Suzuki suggests the cause has hit a dead end, and Stephen Harper can safely streamline the regulatory process while ridiculing environmentalists for impeding progress.

It’s not fair to throw all environmental activists into the same dory and float them out to sea. But it’s clear that the movement in general has lost public trust; grown too shrill; and attached itself to too many fictitious causes like stopping a non-existent baby seal hunt.

Mayday Malone back on the bottle?: Ted Danson argues that we can prevent bad weather by eating more wild seafood

Ted Danson: Wild Seafood: An Unlikely Key to Combating Climate Change

we can drastically improve our chances of battling climate change if we start thinking seriously about wild seafood.

Watch Sam [Mayday] Malone's Sports Editorials Online

Expert reviewer for IPCC and one of Discover Magazine's 50 Best Brains in Science: Research shows Texas is not warming

Research shows Texas is not warming - San Antonio Express-News

He found that San Antonio has warmed when compared with its smaller neighbor. San Antonio might be several degrees cooler today than in 1885 if no new buildings and roads had been constructed. Why do some scientists insist that Texas is warming when the data show a negligible increase? I don't know. But I do know that a National Science Foundation program officer told me that applications for atmospheric science grants that do not include a global warming theme stand little chance of acceptance.

Climate scientists are right to be concerned about droughts, especially since no Texas drought since precipitation records were begun around 1870 matches the megadroughts revealed in the rings of bald cypress trees. Those droughts occurred hundreds of years before SUVs and power plants began pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, a process blamed for global warming that has not yet arrived in Texas.

Forrest Mims III, an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, was named one of the 50 Best Brains in Science by Discover Magazine.

Mark Serreze : Arctic Melt Accelerating | Real Science

You can visualize the meltdown in the graph below, in that Arctic ice area is almost one standard deviation above normal, and Alaska has the most sea ice ever measured.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Poland leads the fight against EU`s disastrous global warming policy

Poland again shows the way in the fight against the European Union´s disastrous and stupid climate change/global warming policy:

Celebrating Earth Day: Is Another Half-Acid Apocalypse On the Way? - Forbes

For most of the last hundred million years, the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has been higher than it is today.

City snow budget sees big savings in mild winter — Evanston news, photos and events — TribLocal.com

The mild winter helped Evanston save about $192,000 in its 2011 snow-removal budget, city officials announced.

International Conference on Climate Change | Speakers
Rio+20 Agenda: Trillions Per Year In Green Taxes, Transfers And Price Hikes

The upcoming United Nations environmental conference on sustainable development will consider a breathtaking array of carbon taxes, transfers of trillions of dollars from wealthy countries to poor ones, and new spending programs to guarantee that populations around the world are protected from the effects of the very programs the world organization wants to implement, according to stunning U.N. documents examined by Fox News.

Zoologger: Meet the polar bear's replacement - environment - 20 April 2012 - New Scientist

We don't know what the new top predator will be once the Arctic summer sea ice has disappeared – something that could happen within decades. But the little-known Greenland shark is a good candidate.

Twitter / @climatebrad: What's your dream lineup f ...

What's your dream lineup for Heartland's climate-denier conference? scr.bi/HYmkEC

 Retweeted by Michael E. Mann

NYC ‘Eco Nightclub’ Gets Down for Earth Day - Earth911.com

Greenhouse nightclub takes being green-chic to a new level. The two story, 6,000 square foot New York City nightclub was the first hotspot of its kind to seek LEED certification, a buzzworthy status that led Mary Kate Olsen, Colin Farrell and, perhaps along more environmental lines, Al Gore, taking notice, according to the club.

'Wheelie bin tax will hit you' | Ipswich News | Local News in Ipswich | Ipswich Queensland Times

RATEPAYERS have been warned they face a minimum $40 'wheelie bin surcharge' as a result of the incoming carbon tax.

Councillor David Pahlke has hit out at the carbon tax, saying it is deeply unpopular with residents and will cost the Ipswich City Council millions.

Obama may blow off the Earth Summit | Grist

When the leaders of more than 100 countries meet this June to discuss the small matter of the Future of Life on Earth, President Obama might be there. Then again, maybe he’s got a golf match scheduled that day. He’s not saying.

My Earth Day wish: A better human brain | Grist

We have a great deal of intellectual difficulty understanding threats like climate change

Sainsbury's slimline toilet roll to wipe 140 tonnes from carbon emissions | Environment | The Guardian

Supermarket launches new roll with 11mm shaved off cardboard tubing, meaning about 500 fewer lorry trips a year

Open access will be crucial to maintain public confidence in science | Professor Peter Coles | Science | guardian.co.uk

I believe all data resulting from publicly funded research should be in the public domain, for two reasons. First, it's public money that funds us, so we scientists have a moral responsibility to be as open as possible with the public. Second, the scientific method only works when analyses can be fully scrutinised and, if necessary, replicated by other researchers. In other words, to seek to prevent your data becoming freely available is plain unscientific.

The New Nostradamus of the North: "Special price only for you" - but who would like to buy a loss making wind turbine giant?

Vestas, the worlds largest manufacturer of wind turbines, is up for sale. But who would like to buy the loss making Danish giant at a time when there is more than enough of good, inexpensive and clean energy (like shale gas) available? At the same time governments are either reducing or eliminating subsidies to wind energy - the only reason why turbine manufacturers have been able to show profits. 

CO2 Causes Solar Storms! | Musings from the Chiefio

What I found surprising was this chart of the sunspot cycle vs geomagnetic storms. While the sunspots mostly cycle, with some ebb and flow, the magnetic storms ramp rather nicely just like CO2 does over the same period. As we have a ‘wiggle match’, the AGW folks would happily claim CO2 causes solar storms (just as they claim all sorts of other nutty things from wiggle matches, often just wiggle matches of computer models and not even real data. This is real data.)

Connect The Dots : The Dust Bowl Caused Hitler | Real Science

Today is Hitler’s birthday. The 1930s was the hottest and driest decade in the US. Half of the lower 48 states set their all-time high temperature record during the 1930s.

Coincidence? I think not. Hitler was Toto’s fault.

Discovery’s ‘Frozen Planet’ Is Silent on Causes of Climate Change - NYTimes.com

Others said that the series was a lost opportunity for climate change education.

“It’s kind of like doing a powerful documentary about lung cancer and leaving out the part about the cigarettes,” said Bill McKibben, a scholar and climate change activist. “There’s no scientific mystery here: the poles are changing because we’re burning so much carbon.”

New iPad App Uses Photo Timelines to Show Climate Change - Forbes

Two climate scientists, Katharine Hayhoe of Texas Tech University and Todd Stanford at the Union of Concerned Scientists, served as content consultants for the app. Dr. Hayhoe shared in the Nobel Prize awarded to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007.

...Red Hill Studios will donate half of the money it receives from Apple for downloads of the $1.99 app to the Union of Concerned Scientists to aid its research on the effects of climate change on our planet.

Warmist movie reviewer Chris Hewitt argues that when children watch nature movies, "we need those young viewers to get mad" about the prospect of CO2 destroying the planet

'To the Arctic 3D' review: Filmmaking and narration so good, it will give you the shivers - TwinCities.com

I do sometimes wonder, though, if nature films that deal with climate change - basically, every nature film that has been made in the past several years - should be angrier and more alarmed than they are.

Perhaps because they're aimed at the youngsters who will be here to face the long-term effects of climate change, most nature movies strive harder to reassure than to call to action. I'd argue that we need those young viewers to get mad.

...Should you go? Yes, and then visit a site such as panda.org or greenpeace.org to learn more about slowing global climate change.

Discovery News : Good Weather Is Bad | Real Science

This past winter was extreme because of nice weather, so it follows that the previous winter must have been mild because of very cold weather.

Countdown to one of the coldest May's in the UK pt1: The Met Office 30 day forecast (ending 18th May) | Climate Realists

Atwater ethanol plant pays Minnesota $800,000 for violations, lying - TwinCities.com

Bushmills Ethanol has been hit with an $800,000 fine for wastewater discharge violations at its Atwater, Minn., plant and for lying to state regulators.

Weather-hit palm trees in park are being felled - Isle of Man News - Isle of Man Today

The trees have been severely affected by last winter’s exceptionally cold weather.

- Bishop Hill blog - Strange fellows

Via Leo Hickman I note a list of new fellows of the Royal Society. Familiar names are:

• Paul Ehrlich, best known for his hopelessly incorrect predictions of famine
• Steve Jones, familiar to readers here for writing an integrity-free report about science at the BBC
• Ralph Cicerone, also familiar from his role in trying to save the Hockey Stick for the IPCC.

It really confirms the case I made in my GWPF report on the Society's decline into a rather grubby advocacy outfit.

Misc : Stoat

The Policy Lass is sick of arguing with stupid people. Anyone who has been to WUWT and the comment threads there will empathise. It is all a hopeless morass of nonsense; it cannot be fixed, only risen above. And indeed (as I've tried to tell them) the science just goes on without them. But I'll still visit occaisionally in case there is anyone there who wants to listen.

Arguing With Stupid People | The Policy Lass

Research shows that stupid people — people who truly are ignorant — tend to think they know far more than they do. They are also more likely to think informed people know less than they do. It’s the D-K effect and it’s rampant at both CA and WUWT and Climate Etc. If you’ve ever haunted those sites, you know what I’m talking about.

I’m always tempted to go to there and look for ‘teh stupid’ so I can mock it, but as the Twain quote says, they just bring you down to their level. Admittedly, there is a certain pleasure in mocking teh stupid, but life is short and its unnaturally warm outside. Time’s a wasting.

Infinite Taxpayer Money Needed for Electric Truck Company's Survival | National Legal and Policy Center

Smith-U.S. even has “incentives specialists” as part of its sales team to make sure every government dollar is found to pay for its trucks. Aren’t you glad you’re invested? 

European Big Brother: CarbonSat Surveillance Satellite Aims “To Hunt Down Climate Violators” GLOBALLY By 2017!

German warmist website CO2 Handel here tells us how Europe intends to make sure the rest of the world complies fully to climate treaties: Human society will be reduced to color pixels and be constantly watched by a satellite launched and run by climate Eurocrats in Brussels. Carbon Big Brother is coming.

The Scottish government must now prove they acted in good faith. | ScottishSceptic

The balance of evidence is now wholly against the present Scottish policy on so called “climate change”. The evidence is there. The onus is not now on us sceptics to prove our assertions. The evidence the policy is wrong is there for anyone who looks. It is so palpably wrong in so many ways. The science is wrong, the economics was wrong, we were lied to about jobs, we were even lied to about the amount of CO2 reductions of wind. Now we have a legacy of a ruined countryside, a electricity grid on the verge of collapse and no doubt we will continue for decades paying through the nose to the very culprits who were most responsible for the scam and destroying the scenery of Scotland. Unless or until we can find some politicians with the guts to prosecute those who are most responsible.

John Christy’s Comment On “If You Want To Roll The Climate Dice, You Should Know The Odds” | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Now if we start after the effects of Mt. Pinatubo (say around 1996) to avoid having to calculate the volcanic impact, we have the following. The model goes from +0.2 to +0.5 in 16 years (i.e. trend of about +0.19 at the surface or +0.23 C/decade in the troposphere) while observations show UAH +0.11 C/decade and RSS +0.04 C/decade.  Quite a difference between models and observations!

Scientific American : Global Warming To Unleash Deadly Microbes | Real Science

There is no reason to worry, because this same phenomenon wiped out humanity decades ago.

Tiger Moms Craving SUVs Drive Next Wave of Chinese Demand: Cars - Bloomberg

SUV demand in China jumped 20 percent last year, more than triple the growth in total passenger-car deliveries

Mexico passes climate-change law : Nature News & Comment

“We’re very good at making laws. And then the problem is enforcing them,” says Juan Bezaury, an expert in Mexican public policy with the Nature Conservancy in Arlington.

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: @GarethPhoenix Hah! no. Bu ...

@GarethPhoenix Hah! no. But [Bill Clinton] did remember citing my work in his 2000 SOTU address, and kindly mentioned me in his speech :)

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Please consider voting on my @TheMarkNews commentary at Reddit! #HSCW fb.me/1jwSA3Xad

NASA GISS Director James Hansen Plays Climate Science Victimization Card.

His efforts include arrests for public protests; giving testimony at a trial in England on behalf of Greenpeace protesters; tampering with data; claiming, falsely, he was “muzzled” by the Bush White House; and claiming climate change was morally comparable to slavery. His political activism recently prompted 50 fellow NASA scientists and engineers to sign a protest. It’s a disgrace he hasn’t been challenged for behaviour unacceptable for a bureaucrat and possibly in violation of the Hatch Act.

World Climate Report » For Wheat and Rice, CO2 is Nice

We have written about the biological benefits of elevated temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels hundreds of times, and we will never run out of new material! Evidence the results of two recent article showing how CO2 improves the yield of wheat and the competitiveness of rice.

Religious Leaders in Iowa Sign Global Climate Change [Hoax] Statement :: Southeastern Iowa Synod

 Iowa Interfaith Power & Light released “A Statement by Religious Leaders in Iowa on Global Climate Change,” which was signed by 56 clergy and other faith leaders representing 13 different religious traditions and 42 congregations or organizations in Iowa.

Flashback: Survey of more than 1000 Iowa farmers: 90% don't believe that climate change is caused mostly by human activities

Dutch count cost of winter damage | Horticulture Week

While UK growers adjust to early bud burst brought on by the mild, dry winter, continental growers are counting the cost of much harsher weather conditions.

"The total damage will run into tens of millions of euros," Dutch fruit growers organisation NFO said in a statement. Pears have been hit particularly hard, it added, with losses of 30 per cent or more in the provinces of Flevoland and North Holland.

"A number of growers will have no harvest at all," the NFO said, blaming not only bud loss but more critical damage to tree trunks.

Children won't know what grape juice tastes like

Welch’s Says Freeze Damages Grapes Used to in U.S. Juice - Bloomberg

An April freeze damaged grape crops from Michigan to New York that last year supplied about two- thirds of the U.S. fruit used to make non-alcoholic grape juice, government and industry officials said.

About 90 percent of juice-grape crops were damaged in Michigan, the third-largest U.S. grower, and as much as 50 percent were hurt in New York, the No. 2 producer, and in Pennsylvania and Ohio, said Rich Erdle, the director of member relations for the National Grape Cooperative Inc., the owners of Welch’s juices and jellies. Cold weather destroyed the primary buds on plants, and secondary buds will produce 35 percent of normal output, Erdle said.

Polar bears may have survived multiple warm and ice-free episodes, so The Independent assumes they are at even greater risk | JunkScience.com

Polar bears are 450,000 years older than we thought – Endangered predator may be particularly vulnerable to rapid climate change in Arctic, experts fear

M4GW On The Radio - Special Earth Day Program - Minnesotans For Global Warming

Elmer will have his guitar and will be revealing his new Earth Day Song.

Rapid Glacial Retreat At The Bottom Of The Hockey Stick | Real Science

Smoking gun that hockey team “climate science” has absolutely nothing to do with science. Alaska’s most famous glacier retreated an astonishing five feet per day at the bottom of the hockey stick.

Die Klimazwiebel: Good science on Himalayan glaciers

It is well known that the mass balance of some glaciers are more strongly driven by precipitation than by temperature. During the Little Ice Age , for instance, some Norwegian glaciers gained mass, whereas other glaciers from surrounding regions lost mass, probably reflecting a shift in the weather patterns that brought moisture to those glaciers.

William M. Briggs » Steve Zwick Says Burn The Deniers (Metaphorically)!

There is a scene in Woody Allen’s Radio Days in which we see a diminutive old man from Rockaway Beach who, one day, snaps and runs out of his house in his underwear—t-shirt, shorts, socks with garters. He stops every so often, turns and waves a butcher’s knife. The old man desires to menace and terrify, but he comes off like a confused, impotent old man. It is a comical performance.

And in yet another instance of life imitating art, the scene was played out yesterday in Forbes by Steve Zwick, who played the old man. Poor Zwick’s unfortunate weapon of choice is purple prose, which of course is never very frightening. However, Zwick’s apoplexy appears to have unhinged his faculties so he may not be responsible for his actions.

A Tennessee Fireman's Solution to Climate Change - Forbes

NOTE: After reading the comments, it’s clear I need to, well, clarify a few things.

First, I’m not advocating anyone go out and burn someone’s house down, just as the firemen didn’t burn anyone’s house down but rather withheld a service from people who didn’t pay their fair share.  (A friend of mine did actually have his house burned down by a deranged animal rights activist, so I know there are crazies on both sides of this debate.)

Wildlife thriving after nuclear disaster

Radiation from the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear accidents may not have been as harmful to wildlife as previously thought.

Doug Ross @ Journal: Totalitarian Climate Kook Wants Warming Deniers' Homes to Burn

Tell you what, Zwick -- if that is your real name -- how about you warmists go without fossil fuels instead? See, we Constitutional conservatives aren't wannabe totalitarian despots like you nuts. We just want you to live as if there really is a climate crisis.

So, if you want to impress us, we want to see you living without electricity, without food shipped by truck, without the use of automobiles, without using plastics, without jetting around the planet, without all of the wonders provided by our magnificent civilization.

And this, we know, you will not do.

Which is why you and your unscientific religion of Eco-Statism must be dismissed.

Smith stares down global-warming cultists

If anything, all this hoopla over Danielle Smith’s views on global warming confirms her courage. By facing down the criticism of the converted. For daring to say what she believes and echoing what many people think.

This isn’t just an Alberta election story. It’s an environmental story that has national implications.

Danielle Smith Wildrose win in Alberta election would be “scary prospect” for BC | The Vancouver Observer

Hudema says the possibility of having a climate skeptic as the next premier will not only hurt environmental policy, but could also be severely detrimental to the province’s international reputation.

Twitter / @MichaelEMann: My interview today on Siri ...

My interview today on SiriusXM Stand Up! w/ @PeteDominick fb.me/1MVUrNtdx

John M Broder: U.S. Caps Emissions in Drilling for Fuel | JunkScience.com

Oil and gas companies will have to capture toxic and climate-altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines under new air quality standards issued on Wednesday by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Dalai Lamas as a high priest of the global warming cult

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, has always been highly respected in the western world for his principled championing of the Tibetan cause. Sadly though, he has recently turned himself into a high priest of the global warming cult. Californians are, of course, always an excellent audience, when a celebrity wants to spread the cultist message:

Deja Vu In Texas | Real Science

Joe Bastardi sent this over. The 2011 Texas drought was a repeat of 1954, and the wet weather in 2012 is a repeat of 1955.
Dessler doesn’t seem to like to look at data before 1970, which is why he is so clueless about climate.

Prison Planet.com » Climate Alarmist Calls For Burning Down Skeptics’ Homes

ClimateDepot.com’s Mark Morano is encouraging AGW skeptics to politely inform Steve Zwick ( info@ecosystemmarketplace.com) that calling for people who express a difference of opinion to be tracked and have their houses burned down is not a rational argument for the legitimacy of man-made global warming science.

NSIDC Timeline | Real Science

The timing of this error looks very suspicious, because the data would have nearly touched the mean today – which hasn’t happened for for many years.

Freeze damages grape juice crop | The Salt Lake Tribune

About 90 percent of juice-grape crops were damaged in Michigan, the third-largest U.S. grower, and as much as 50 percent were hurt in New York, the No. 2 producer, and in Pennsylvania and Ohio, said Rich Erdle, the director of member relations for the National Grape Cooperative Inc., the owners of Welch’s juices and jellies. Cold weather destroyed the primary buds on plants, and secondary buds will produce 35 percent of normal output, Erdle said.

Everything about the Transportation Bills Is Bad Except for the Energy Parts, Which Are Great

*After three years of extensive environmental review, the State Department in late October, 2011, determined that Keystone XL would have “no significant impact” on the environment. This finding was the final procedural step in the permitting process. All that remained was the President’s decision, which had to be based on whether the project was in the national interest.

It should have been a no-brainer. For starters, it’s a top diplomatic priority of our closest ally, Canada. More to the point, the project would contribute more than $20 billion in new spending for the U.S. economy. This spending, in turn, would generate $585 million in state and local taxes to states along the route. Most importantly, it would create 2,000 shovel-ready jobs. In a depressed economy, Keystone XL would provide a huge stimulus, one that cost taxpayers nothing.

Windy Waffle » Climate Resistance

Renewable UK are terrified that a spontaneous movement of people will deprive them of the uncontested favour that they have enjoyed from the current and previous government. They are worried that the voices of thousands of individuals from across the UK — without substantial resources — will form a single voice, which will inevitably attract the attention of politicians and the media. They are worried about what the continuation of their undignified PR campaigns will look like, when people realise it’s a case of big energy companies versus ordinary people, with genuine grievances. It’s a simple mathematical matter: the more people who find themselves unhappy with energy policies and rising prices, the more people will lend their support. And the more people there are, the harder it will be to mock comments from stolen emails, and to dismiss their concerns as unfounded.

Abbott: I’ll kill tax within six months of being elected | Climate Nonconformist

I’ve been heartened by Tony Abbott’s steadfast commitment to repeal the carbon tax. After his “pledge in blood“, it became apparent that the Coalition would stand up resolutely for the majority of Australians who don’t want the carbon dioxide tax. Now, we have another assurance.

BOOK REVIEW: “Just don’t be so silly” - The Tech

In light of such an Alice in Wonderland scenario, there are two calls I hope Americans would heed. The first is Stenger’s request to keep religious faith out of the debate on global warming and other high-stake policy issues.

Al's Journal : Faith and the Climate Crisis

it is inspiring that some of those people, as well as many more, have joined together to organize five days of faith-based activities calling for action on climate change in Washington, D.C. April 22 to 26. The Interfaith Moral Action on Climate Change is playing a key role in organizing and connecting these activities."

New CU-NOAA monitoring system clarifies murky atmospheric questions | JunkScience.com

Hmm… I think I might have titled this release somewhat differently, something along the lines of “Pointless monitoring system seeks to answer questions no one should give a crap about” but NCAR/UCAR has very different ideas:

Aus: Rampant environmentalism being beaten back | JunkScience.com

Painfully slowly but inexorably, obstructionist green misanthropes are seeing their carefully constructed web of human-hating anti-development legislation eroded. This process of returning humanity to the pinnacle of consideration will accelerate when the Coalition takes government at the next election.

Arctic sea ice extent nearly at 30-year average...

Arctic sea ice extent nearly at 30-year average for this time in April. As I wrote in 2007, don’t be surprised by variations up and down even as greenhouse heating builds.

PlanetSKI | News | Skiing restarts in Scotland

The latest cold weather has refreshed slopes with new snow allowing three of Scotland's five mountain ski areas to open, or consider opening, for business.

High snowpacks increase risk of floods

Cooler spring temperatures have created a higher-than-normal snowpack throughout the province, increasing the risk of flooding in the next two months, according to a B.C. River Forecast Centre report.

There are higher-than-normal snow-packs along the entire length of the Fraser River, from the Fraser Valley to Prince George.

Snowpacks in the Upper Fraser in northern B.C. are at record levels, noted the report, based on April 1 snowpack levels.

'Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie': an activist's legacy | Movies | The Seattle Times

He vividly remembers the bitter cold of the camps

New Report: “No Debate” on Clean Energy Savings for New Yorkers

"Proceeds from the Reggie auctions are being invested in energy efficiency and renewable energy; New Yorkers will be saving over $46 million in energy-bill savings over the next 10 years."

The Environmental Advocates' report says that state has raised more than $360 million from auctioning carbon dioxide permits to pollute, and reinvested more than $30 million in weatherization and energy-efficiency programs for New York homeowners.

National Park Foundation Grants Help Parks Develop Climate-Change Programs For Youth | National Parks Traveler

Eight units of the National Park System are splitting $164,000 for use in developing climate-change programs that teachers can use to help their students understand the changing world around us.

Donald Trump Warns Scotland Against Wind Farm 'Suicide'

Donald Trump has warned MSPs that Alex Salmond’s plans for a rapid expansion in wind energy will destroy Scotland’s countryside forever and kill off the tourism industry.

EU Parliament Shoots Down Commission’s Green Energy Tax Plan

Conservatives in the European Parliament delivered a setback for European Commission plans to erase tax benefits for diesel fuel, saying that a period of austerity and high fuel costs is not the time for such moves. The vote also calls for changes to the Commission's proposed minimum carbon tax on emissions from households, farms and the transport industry not already covered under the EU’s Emissions Trading System

Grading our 2011-2012 winter forecast - Capital Weather Gang - The Washington Post

To our knowledge, no one predicted the extremely warm and nearly snowless winter that we experienced and a number called for a cold and snowy winter, which we did not. But let’s not start with the excuses.

...What went wrong this winter? The answer is actually quite simple. The NAO (North Atlantic Oscillation).

We need this key commitment to climate action | Nick Clegg and Edward Davey | Comment is free | The Guardian

This week ministers from across Europe are meeting to tackle a threat to our shared prosperity: the crashing price of carbon.

Twitter / @BigJoeBastardi: @Revkin Its been a cold ...

@Revkin Its been a cold winter globally, we were the only warm land area.. NOT NEXT YEAR! Jamstec has shades of 76-77 pic.twitter.com/VYGDpnXb

Nick Clegg calls for tougher carbon penalties for businesses | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Nick Clegg has stepped into the growing row over the coalition's green policies to call for companies to pay much higher penalties for the carbon dioxide they emit.

He said there was an urgent need for the government to impose regulations on business, in order to meet environmental objectives.

Lead by Example, Clinton Tells Sustainability Forum - NYTimes.com

He encouraged his audience of business and environmental executives to lead “by argument and example” to convince people that sustainable growth is the only kind of growth that makes sense in the long run.

“Keep doing the little things that add up,” he said.

Flashback:  Indian Billionaires and Their Private Jets | Indulge | Luxpresso.com

Anil's Global Express is an ultra-long range business jet developed by Bombardier Aerospace. The Bombardier can fly over 5,950 nautical miles. It boats a 14.73 m-long cabin and is equipped with noise and vibration control system, which makes it easier to hold meetings on board. It also has customised interior layouts including an office and a stateroom. Bill Clinton and Steven Spielberg are among the few who own such jets.

U.S. Defense Department Maps Future Climate Turmoil in Africa | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

The Department of Defense is funding Climate Change and African Political Stability (CCAPS), part of its university-based research program for national security issues known as the Minerva Initiative, to predict how climate upheaval might strike the African continent.

Setback for UK wind industry as Doosan scraps investment plans | Environment | The Guardian

Britain's nascent wind industry has received a serious setback after a major foreign investor scrapped plans for a research centre and turbine factories that would have created 1,700 jobs – 12 months after giving them the green light.

Doosan Power Systems of Korea blamed deteriorating confidence in offshore wind for its decision to suspend construction of a £170m "centre of excellence" in Glasgow and long-term plans for manufacturing.

Obama Faces Defeat On Keystone Pipeline As Democrats Defect

While much of the political world obsesses over Twitter fights and Seamus the dog, Barack Obama has set himself up for a high-profile defeat on one of the most important issues of the campaign. The president has put his feet in cement in opposition to the Keystone oil pipeline. But on Capitol Hill, more and more Democrats are joining Republicans to force approval of the pipeline, whether Obama wants it or not.

Climate change denial not just for fools

The failure of the left to win the climate-change debate should be the catalyst for a post-left movement, abandoning the moribund assumptions of green-left politics and starting this ideological project afresh.

Twitter / @SustainableOS: @MichaelEMann Here's your ...

@MichaelEMann Here's your photo with President Clinton! Thanks for being a part of #SOSNYC pic.twitter.com/9zhU9PmH

Carbon: the case for tree change | The Australian

Carbon dioxide is already the fastest-growing commodity trade in the world. As the federal Minister for Climate Change, Greg Combet, recently pointed out, the World Bank's 2011 report on carbon markets showed a near 13-fold increase in four years - from about $US11 billion in 2005 to $US140 billion in 2009-10. "The sheer scale is amazing," Grant says. "It has the same growth dimension as social networking."

Planting trees is, however, very "land-hungry". As part of its voluntary carbon reduction program in 2007, Qantas offset its carbon emissions from a single day of domestic and international flights - 40,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases produced by 950 flights carrying 100,000 passengers.

Environmental Finance | News | Fund to invest €45m in African carbon credits

French institutions have collaborated with the West Africa Development Bank to launch a fund that will invest in carbon credits from projects that reduce emissions in Africa.

Britain for negotiated settlement of aviation tax | TwoCircles.net

Despite opposition from over two dozen countries, including the India, US, Australia, Russia and China, the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) came into force on Jan 1.

Palmerston North City Council To Avoid Carbon Credit Debt... | Stuff.co.nz

Palmerston North City Council is close to escaping a $622,000 penalty for the likely shortfall.

New Carbon Credit Market in the USA - MarketWatch

Vecron Lordstock Group announced today that it reached an agreement with the European Union's (EU) most respected Carbon Credit trading group, to exclusively market its inventory of Voluntary Carbon Credit Certificates in the USA under the trade name "Vecron Carbon Market."

Precious comment from warmist James Cameron: "There are too many people making money out of the system the way the system works right now"

Titanic Too: James Cameron Sails Towards Global Warming | CNSNews.com

“We’ve got the starving millions that are going to be most effected by the next iceberg we hit, which is going to be climate change. We can see that iceberg ahead of us right now, but we can’t turn. We can’t turn because of the momentum of the system, political momentum, business momentum. There are too many people making money out of the system the way the system works right now. And those people frankly, have their hands on the levers of power and aren’t ready to let them go,” Cameron says.

2011: James Cameron Earned the Most Money in Hollywood Last Year - The Hollywood Reporter

With $257 million to his name in 2010, James Cameron was the top earner in Hollywood last year, according to Vanity Fair. This list was limited to creative figures.

Futurity.org – Climate threat worst at seasonal icy spots

Animals like American pikas, potato-sized denizens of alpine talus slopes in the West, need heavy snowpack to insulate them from cold winters as they huddle in hay piles beneath the rocks.

"Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith was roundly booed and mocked at an Alberta election debate Thursday for questioning climate change"

Catcalls greet Wildrose stance on climate change | Metro

EDMONTON – Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith was roundly booed and mocked at an Alberta election debate Thursday for questioning climate change, with Premier Alison Redford suggesting Smith in the province’s top job would be a national embarrassment.

“There is still a debate in the scientific community,” said Smith before being drowned out by a chorus of boos and catcalls from hundreds of people who attended a leaders debate outside CBC’s downtown studio.

“And we’re going to continue to watch the debate in the scientific community,” she said raising her voice to be heard...The climate-change debate was among the most spirited.

...“Rebates are not going to fix this problem,” NDP leader Brian Mason shot back.

“In my opinion, the science is completely settled. The only people that are disputing it are the phoney scientists funded by the oil industry,” he said to cheers. “We need to get serious about it.”

...“There are a lot of things that could be done that should have been done a long time ago, but denying the science of climate change is just foolish.”

Redford said if Alberta has a premier questioning climate change, it won’t be taken seriously on the national or international stage.

“When I go to Washington and I talk to people in the White House, at Capitol Hill, and I’m trying to talk to them about why we need Keystone, they don’t want to hear that I don’t believe in climate change,” she said.

What – you mean we aren’t controlling the climate? | Watts Up With That?

Correlation of Net CO2 emissions with climate properties shows that the growth in CO2 may be natural

Renewables are unsustainable | CFACT

“Renewable” energy subsidies may sustain the jobs of lobbyists, activists, politicians, bureaucrats and politically connected companies. But they will kill millions of other people’s jobs.

Climate Craziness of the Week – Forbes Steve Zwick loses it | Watts Up With That?

People who doubt the magnitude of CO2/AGW driven climate change broke the climate?
I suppose then that Mr. Zwick has never driven a car, never taken an airplane trip, never heated or cooled his home, never bought products produced overseas and shipped here, never grilled at a BBQ, or never used electricity to power his computer to write his litany of hate for Forbes. No, he’s apparently not used any CO2 producing modern convenience at all, which is why he bizarrely believes he has some sort of moral high ground.

Twitter / @eilperin: Mexico has just passed a n ...

Mexico has just passed a national climate bill, which CCAP prez Ned Helme calls "the toughest law passed by any developing country."

Juliet Eilperin (eilperin) on Twitter

Most insane quote from sparsely-attended Senate global warming hoax meeting?: "Not only are the skies falling, but the seas are rising," says Dr. Leonard Berry

Daily Kos: Rising Sea Levels: Should We Do Something, or Not? A Live Blog

11:15am - Dr. Ben Strauss says the low end of temperature increase scenarios right now is 4 degrees Fahrenheit within the next 90 years. The last time temperatures were that high, sea levels were 20 feet higher than they are now...

11:06am - The poor attendance at this hearing really illustrates the climate disconnect inside the Beltway. While the public understands more than ever how global warming is impacting the United States, members of Congress are paying little notice - and the national media has virtually tuned out altogether.

...10:49am - Scary scenario laid out by Dr. Janetos: Pacific Northwest gets a massive earthquake every 300-500 years. These earthquakes not only generate tsunamis, then tend to lower the land by several feet. Global warming-fueled sea level rise is raising the launching pad for those tsunamis.

Oh, and the last major quake was around 1700.

10:46am - Sen. Murkowski leaves, meaning there are now no Republicans in the committee room for this hearing. Not much better a showing from the media - only six people at the press tables.

10:42am - "There are very few elements of our lives that will not be impacted by climate change," says NYC's Adam Freed.

...10:06am - "Not only are the skies falling, but the seas are rising," says Dr. Leonard Berry...

9:38am - Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) gavels the hearing open, you can watch it live here and follow the hearing on Twitter at #sealevelrise. Says "several feet of sea level rise are possible" due to global warming but that's not quite accurate - that much sea level rise is virtually guaranteed in the short term, and it's possible that we could be talking about 20 feet or more after 2100.

Penn State warmist Richard Alley: "Today's youngsters might live to see so much warming that the hottest summer now on record becomes commonplace or even cool in many places"

Column: Why the extreme weather? – USATODAY.com

...[Richard Alley] we're rolling the dice in a serious game where the "jackpot" means we lose...There's very high scientific confidence that our fossil-fuel burning and other activities, which add carbon dioxide to the air, are turning up the planet's thermostat. In a warmer world, we expect more record highs and heat waves but fewer record lows, just as we're observing. Warmer air can carry more water vapor, so a warmer rainstorm can deliver more inches per hour. Hair dryers have a "hot" setting for good reasons, and warmer air between rainstorms can dry out the ground faster.

Thus, we expect rising CO2 to bring more floods in some places and more droughts in others, with some places getting more of both. That might seem contradictory, but it's not.... Today's youngsters might live to see so much warming that the hottest summer now on record becomes commonplace or even cool in many places.

Penn State Live - Richard Alley

Richard Alley, Evan Pugh Professor of Geosciences, Penn State, is a recipient of a $100,000 Heinz Award for being a leader in climate and polar ice studies.

Warning Signs: Genocidal Green Quotes

“It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.” - Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day in 1970.

Twitter / @dbiello: too late to prevent an "ex ...

too late to prevent an "extinction spasm" but still time to keep it from getting worse bit.ly/HVIo2M

Polar Bears Did Not Descend From Brown Bears, DNA Study Indicates - NYTimes.com

Polar bears, long thought to have branched off relatively recently from brown bears, developing their white coats, webbed paws and other adaptations over the last 150,000 years or so to cope with life on Arctic Sea ice, are not descended from brown bears, scientists report.

DNA Study Finds Deeper Antiquity of Polar Bear Species - NYTimes.com

A fascinating new paper makes a strong case, using new genetic clues, that polar bears have been around a lot longer, and thus endured more climate vagaries, than most previous estimates...Those questioning the vulnerability of this species to warming will point to its successful survival through two previous warm intervals between ice ages as evidence the bear can deal with reduced ice and other big environmental shifts.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » When the Media Loses Its Skepticism – High Speed Rail Edition

I have said for a long time that I don’t really think there is a lot of outright media bias in the sense of conspiring to bury or promote certain memes.   But there are real issues with the leftish monoculture of the media losing its skepticism on certain topics.

For example, high speed rail is one of those things we are just supposed to do, from the Leftish view.  Harry Reid’s justification for a high speed rail line is typical:  he wants to see  ”America catch up with the rest of the world”.  Everyone else has these things, so it must be some failing of ours that we don’t.  For the left, the benefits of high speed rail are a given, they are part of the liturgy and not to be questioned.  Which means that it is up to outsiders to do the media’s work of applying some degree of skepticism whenever a high speed rail project is proposed.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds Urban Heat Island effect should not be 'considered exclusively a nighttime phenomenon anymore'

A paper published today in the Journal of Climate uses a new method comparing satellite and surface temperature observations to assess the Urban Heat Island [UHI] effect. The paper finds "UHI is stronger during the day and summer than during nighttime and winter," which is the opposite of the predictions of computer models and assumption of most climate scientists heretofore that UHI is a "nocturnal phenomenon."

Burn those deniers houses down « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Dear Steve,

I’ve got great news for you, all you have to do to avert a global catastrophe is to find peer reviewed papers that support the models. I’ve been asking for two years, three months and four days, and no one can find one that suggests CO2 will cause much more than 1 degree of warming at most.

A Vivid Reminder of How The Climate Debate is Broken - Forbes

I was  working on an entirely different column about entrepreneurship and state tax policy when I read another Forbes contributor (Steve Zwick) this morning suggesting my house should be allowed to burn down in response to my global warming views.

Allegedly reincarnated guy takes fossil-fueled trip to California, claims that CO2 may affect "billions and billions" of Earth's 8.7 million species; audience members wipe away tears

Dalai Lama Talks Global Warming - Lemon Grove, CA Patch

The audience was soon hushed, however, as the Dalai Lama began to talk about the perils of global warming, including rising sea levels and poor air quality. Using a simple but powerful metaphor, the Dalai Lama illustrated just how critical he feels the issues are.

“Look at birds: Even they respect their nests because they know their survival depends on it," he said. "This small blue planet is our only home. If we do not respect it, the entire planet and billions and billions of species will be affected. This is a question of life, a question of survival for the entire planet.”

As he spoke, audience members sat captivated, some wiping away tears or closing their eyes to better absorb what he was saying.

How many species on Earth? About 8.7 million, new estimate says

ScienceDaily (Aug. 23, 2011) — Eight million, seven hundred thousand species (give or take 1.3 million).

During UCSD visit April 18, Dalai Lama says science and religion not incompatible in curbing global warming | La Jolla Light | La Jolla Light

During his opening remarks, Somerville said the Earth’s climate has always changed from natural causes. What is different today, he said, is that human activities have become the dominant factor.

“Our generation today now controls what the climate will be for our children and grandchildren,” Somerville said. “We did not seek this power but we have it because we have long used the atmosphere as a free dump for the side effects and waste products of human activities.

...Climate change, said the Dalai Lama, “is a question of our life, our survival. … This is something, very, very serious.”

14th Dalai Lama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tibetans traditionally believe Dalai Lamas to be the reincarnation of their predecessors, each of whom is believed to be a human emanation of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. A search party was sent to locate the new incarnation when the boy who was to become the 14th was about two years old.^[8] It is said that, amongst other omens, the head of the embalmed body of the thirteenth Dalai Lama, at first facing south-east, had mysteriously turned to face the northeast—indicating the direction in which his successor would be found. The Regent, Reting Rinpoche, shortly afterwards had a vision at the sacred lake of Lhamo La-tso indicating Amdo as the region to search—specifically a one-story house with distinctive guttering and tiling. After extensive searching, the Thondup house, with its features resembling those in Reting's vision, was finally found.

Thondup was presented with various relics, including toys, some of which had belonged to the 13th Dalai Lama and some of which had not. It was reported that he had correctly identified all the items owned by the previous Dalai Lama, exclaiming, "That's mine! That's mine!"^[9]

BBC News - EU climate change 'worse for women' claim row

A new report from a European Parliament committee has prompted scathing criticism from Conservatives with its suggestion that women will be more at risk from climate change than men.

"Global warming is not some male plot to do women down. The climate is the same for males and females, so far as I know. When it rains we all get wet."

This is how a British Conservative MEP, Marina Yannakoudakis, has responded to a report published by the women's rights committee, of which she is a member, at the European Parliament.

Her fellow committee members have gone "bonkers", she suggests.

Can We Stop The Collapse of Federal Clean Energy Support Without Talking About Climate Change Or A Carbon Price? | ThinkProgress

For science deniers, clean energy is just another special interest, hardly different from, say, natural gas or, for them, even oil and coal.

Watch Now: Sen. Inhofe may be joining Climate Depot at UN Rio Earth Summit in June! Inhofe: 'I think Marc Morano and I will probably go down to that one' | Climate Depot

Warmist Al Franken: "climate change-induced sea level rise is clearly impacting the health and security of our nation"

Sen. Franken chides GOP no-shows at hearing on impact of climate change - The Hill's E2-Wire

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) chided Republicans Thursday over their absence from a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the effects of rising sea levels on energy facilities and other infrastructure.

“But ironically there’s an elephant in the room,” Franken said after noting the lack of GOP members. “Climate change is the elephant, and climate change-induced sea level rise is clearly impacting the health and security of our nation. But this is a fact of life that is going unnoticed by too many Americans because science is taking a back seat to politics.”

Andy Revkin praises Penn State meteorologist Douglas Paul Kruhoeffer for allegedly talking the opposite of nonsense on the climate change hoax using a pseudonym

More on Global Warming from a Republican Meteorologist - NYTimes.com

The meteorologist and energy entrepreneur Paul Douglas is keeping up his valuable effort to depoliticize the science pointing to a growing human influence on the climate....The Web site Forecast the Facts, which was set up to criticize meteorologists who talk nonsense on climate change, would do well to credit Douglas and others who do the opposite.

Climate Change Has Nothing to Do With Al Gore (Part 1): Paul Douglas - Bloomberg

[Paul Douglas] I’m a Penn State meteorologist.

Paul Douglas (meteorologist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

real name Douglas Paul Kruhoeffer

Bio

In 2009 Douglas co-founded a new company, Smart Energy LLC, focusing on high-resolution weather forecasts and visualization systems for wind farms, utilities and energy traders across North America.

BW Online | March 28, 2001 | The World Wide Web's Local Weatherman

Meteorologist Doug Kruhoeffer and his latest venture, Digital Cyclone, are bringing highly personalized forecasts to the Net
...Today, he works as the weatherman for WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, using the name Paul Douglas. "Doug has always loved the weather," says Bob Michaels, a high-school buddy. Michaels ought to know: He got Kruhoeffer his first radio job and helped him choose the pseudonym (his full name is Douglas Paul Kruhoeffer) while the two drove Michaels' VW Microbus to the job interview in 1975.

Rebecca Tanui: the dangers of gases emitted into the environment cannot be over-emphasised

allAfrica.com: Kenya: Climate Change to Blame for Western Famine

Speaking at a workshop in Kakamega yesterday, the group's coordinator Rebecca Tanui said small scale farmers in the region are not aware of the effects of climate change.

"This explains why they continue with their cropping seasons unabated when agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change," she said.

She said the dangers of gases emitted into the environment cannot be over-emphasised and accused developed countries including the United States and Japan of "double speak", arguing they must commit themselves to signing legal frameworks to control the emissions.

"Reducing immigration won’t solve global warming, but it is part of the solution"

Anti-Immigrant Group Runs False TV Ad Blaming Global Warming On Immigrants Entering The U.S. | ThinkProgress

MAN: Immigrants produce four times more carbon emissions in the U.S. than their home countries. [...] Reducing immigration won’t solve global warming, but it is part of the solution.

Dem senator: Romney in 1 percent on wealth and 3 percent on climate change - The Hill's E2-Wire

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) accused Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, of joining a small minority questioning
climate science because of the Republican primary. 

...Whitehouse said that Romney is in the small group of the wealthiest Americans and added that he's also in a small minority on climate change.

Twitter / @LynnRedl: Prarie climate change: "In ...

Prarie climate change: "Instead of 50-100 native plants in our grasslands, we'll have 1 invasive plant" says Dr. Jeff Thorpe @SRCnews #yxe

A chat with Chris Mooney about The Republican Brain | Grist

I would agree with you that liberals are better optimized psychologically for dealing with a problem like climate change.

Warm spring boosts rare butterflies | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The Duke of Burgundy, the second rarest butterfly in Britain, increased in number by 65% last year compared with 2010, and the endangered pearl-bordered fritillary – traditionally known as a friend of the woodcutter for its habit of colonising forest clearings – bounced back with a 103% increase.

Taxpayers Reward Executives for Failure as Green Jobs are Slashed | National Legal and Policy Center

First Solar, the beneficiary of at least $3 billion in Department of Energy loan guarantees, paid its former CEO $32 million over two years as he stewarded its stock price from $143 to below $100. Today it sells for less than $21-per-share, hitting a 52-week low last week, and yesterday the company announced it would slash global payroll by 2,000 workers in Malaysia, Europe and the U.S.

Boardman, Ore., Considers a Future in Coal - NYTimes.com

Just outside Boardman, on a plateau surrounded by wind turbines and cattle ranches, a coal-fired power plant is still in operation, but not for much longer.

Under pressure from the public, Portland General Electric, which owns the plant, has announced that it will shut it down by 2020.

It is the only coal-fired plant still operating in Oregon.

The planned shutdown frustrated local residents who have been grateful for its cheap power and the jobs it provides. Many blame outside groups for the shutdown — and they presume protesters eventually will appear here to fight the coal export facility.

“It won’t be from within,” said Chet Phillips, the mayor of Boardman.

Twitter / @SFGreenFilmFest: @michaelemann: "We can hav ...

@michael "Robust Debate" mann: "We can have a good faith debate on solutions to climate change. We cannot have a good faith debate on its reality." #sosnyc

Healing the planet is expensive: Australian taxpayers cough up more than $1 million to measure the effectiveness of carbon dioxide hoax swindle propaganda

Adding up carbon tax blitz costs | thetelegraph.com.au

THE Gillard government has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars measuring the "impact and effectiveness" of its multi-million dollar carbon tax ad blitz.
The government entered into two contracts - costing taxpayers more than $1 million - for market research related to its "clean energy future" advertising campaign.

Warmist Steve Zwick in Forbes: "We know who the active denialists are – not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies. Let’s start keeping track of them now, and when the famines come, let’s make them pay. Let’s let their houses burn"

A Tennessee Fireman's Solution to Climate Change - Forbes

the denial machine is ratcheting up its disinformation campaign, and therein lies the problem. Every time someone validates or fine-tunes the science, ten or twelve well-funded and active propagandists pop up to distorting it – usually by twisting the attempts at fine-tuning into “proof” that the models are fundamentally useless, and then launching childish attacks on the scientists themselves.

This propaganda has already set us back two decades, during which the costs of dealing with climate change have risen and our chances of curtailing it have diminished...Let’s take a page from those Tennessee firemen we heard about a few times last year – the ones who stood idly by as houses burned to the ground because their owners had refused to pay a measly $75 fee.

We can apply this same logic to climate change.

We know who the active denialists are – not the people who buy the lies, mind you, but the people who create the lies.  Let’s start keeping track of them now, and when the famines come, let’s make them pay.  Let’s let their houses burn.  Let’s swap their safe land for submerged islands.  Let’s force them to bear the cost of rising food prices.

They broke the climate.  Why should the rest of us have to pay for it?

...The models have proven incredibly accurate when it comes to projecting the overall rise in extreme events, they still can’t tell you exactly which specific storms arose from climate change and which would have happened anyway – and they probably never will. They also can’t tell us which company’s emissions caused which change in temperature – and that’s something they’ll never be able to do, because CO2 emissions all get mixed up in the air.

But they can tell us how many extreme events would happen each year on average without manmade greenhouse gasses, so we can see what percentage of the damage is caused by man and what percentage is caused by nature. This gives us a global amount of damage that can be attributed to man.

Forbes » Contributor Profile » Steve Zwick