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Cold Arctic Air Causing Slow Arctic Melt | Real Science
Hansen says that the Arctic is the fastest warming place on Earth. Dozens of other places are also the fastest warming place on Earth, but the Arctic is particularly important because Hansen has almost no thermometers there.
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In a deal that combines microloans in Mongolia with the sale of carbon credits on the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), Citi’s London-based Environmental Products Trading and Origination team, working with Citi Microfinance, has agreed to purchase 1.17 million metric tonnes of carbon credits over the next seven years from Seattle-based social enterprise MicroEnergy Credits.
Interview: Dr. Michael Mann, Climate War Veteran
If there was a medal for fighting the climate war, Dr. Michael Mann should probably get one.
...Dr. Michael Mann: That’s what book is really about. It’s about this massive disinformation campaign that has been funded by fossil fuel interests, advocates for the fossil fuel industry, front groups and organizations that have sought to manufacture this fake debate about whether or not climate change is real.
...I think in part that’s because there is so much pressure…there really is a machine, a very organized machine out there to make sure that when the NYT runs an article about climate change, you’ll be sure they will get thousands of angry emails from climate change deniers denouncing their (NYT) acceptance of the hoax of climate change. Ultimately their business model relies on advertising and so even the NYT is sensitive to that.3p: Do you think what we have is more of a communication problem rather than a scientific one?
MM: Yes. Sometimes you’ll hear critics say we can’t act until we’re certain, until there’s proof, but science doesn’t work that way. In my book I note that proof is reserved for mathematical theorems and alcoholic beverages. Scientists are skeptics by nature – there’s never been such thing as proof in science, but there’s the weight of evidence and we act on the weight of evidence. Why is it that when it comes to climate change, where there is as much scientific consensus about the reality of human caused climate change as there is about any scientific proposition, critics demand absolute proof?
Use family planning to fight climate change
In my view, we need to change our behaviour of producing many children. The only way this can be possible is by practicing family planning in each and every household.
One way to achieve this is through universal access to contraceptives, massive family planning champagnes, sensitization and legislating number of children per household. If we are to fight climate change, we need to reduce our demographic figures.
Efforts need to be done to increase family planning practice to reduce our household size as well as lower fertility and birth rates.
Biologist Wynne Parry proposes reducing our human size. She suggests that we can alter ourselves through human engineering where one chooses whether to have small size children or not. Smaller in size and height (dwarf-like) to reduce demand.
This would mean instead of having 500 buses in Kampala, we would require 80 of them to solve transport problems in Kampala, one car would be enough for a family of 10 people. Much as this would reduce GHG emission levels, this approach may remain in theory forever.
...The writer is an Academia and Consultant in Environment, Urban and regional planning
1969 : Ehrlich Wanted Government To Poison The Water Supply | Real Science
Modernizing Inuit society 'painful process': scientist
While the accelerating ravages of climate change remained the dominant theme, equally important were questions of what the future holds for the Inuit people who, for centuries, have survived in what is one of Earth's most dangerous climates.
Professor Louis Fortier is head of ArcticNet, which is a $67-million federal project to help modernize Inuit society.
"It's a very painful process," he said in an interview.
Killer health problems such as diarrhoea, malnutrition, malaria and dengue are highly sensitive to climate change and could worsen in the coming decades, health experts agree. But how, where and to what extent remains unclear.
David Evans explains the skeptics case (YouTube) « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
Last week we finished some YouTube versions explaining the skeptical case. These grew out of the interview we did with Nick Minchin and Anna Rose for the ABC documentary I Can Change Your Mind. They are what we would have said, if we’d been editing the documentary
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Remember all those doomsdays predictions about global warming leading to famine and huge harvest failures in India and other countries?
Well, it did not happen:
Yikes! It looks like there isn’t much of one. Temp is going straight down and CO2 continuing straight up!
Boslough: Explain this one « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change
If human activity cannot explain the temperature increase in the 19th century and 1910-1944, why is it necessary to invoke it now? And why is it necessary to invoke doom? I would suggest applying Occam’s razor and getting rid of the human causation hypothesis.
Obama’s Science Adviser Warns Of Ice Free Winters In The Arctic | Real Science
John Holdren is Paul Ehrlich’s lifetime scientific partner, and Obama’s top science adviser.
Up to 16 inches of snow for Montana
The New Nostradamus of the North: The German solar power industry is wiped out
The global solar industry has entered a brutal phase of consolidation and nowhere are the effects as dramatic as in eastern Germany. Several companies have already declared bankruptcy, leaving towns and cities in the region struggling with job losses and tax revenue shortfalls. The future bodes ill.
July Getting Cooler In State College Pennsylvania | Real Science
It is always good to look at the raw data before our friends have had a chance to tamper with it.
State College Pennsylvania has had seven July days over 100 degrees. Four were in the 1930s, and six were below 350 ppm CO2. As you can see in the graph above, the 1930s was by far the hottest decade, and the 1970 passage of the Clean Air Act had no effect.
Would we expect Harvard researchers to actually do some research before publishing?
Global Sea Ice Fifth Highest On Record For The Date | Real Science
The only recent years with more ice than 2012 were 1982, 1979, 2009 and 1987.
Climate experts tell us that global warming causes massive sea ice loss at both poles, in the form of a “death spiral.” They also say that skeptics are “breathtakingly ignorant” about sea ice.
Tolstoy Weighs in on Climate Change « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change
200 years ago Tolstoy foresaw today’s climate scientists promoting global warming alarmism:
Most Men…can seldom accept the simplest and most obvious truth if it obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining and have woven thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
Quantifying The Death Spiral Of Climate Science | Real Science
Since the same date in 2008, Arctic ice has increased by more than 15%. Global sea ice area is fifth highest on record for the date. The breathtaking ignorance of the experts is staggering.
A Closer Look at CRUTEM4 Since 1975 | Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations
The adjustments shown in Figure 14 might lead some readers to believe the Climate Research Unit went to all that work with the single-minded goal of raising the land surface temperature anomalies after 1998 so that their records could show that global warming continued. Yup. Those adjustments just might lead people to believe that. But maybe we also need to consider the locations of the new 5X5 grids that contain data and the land surface temperature anomaly patterns in 1998 and 2007. Figures 15 and 16 present the CRUTEM3 and CRUTEM4 zonal mean land surface temperature anomalies (not trends) for the years of 1998 and 2007. And Animations 3 and 4 present maps of the temperature anomalies, and grids with and without data, during those two years for the two datasets. I’ll let you decide.
(Blurred) Visions of a Sustainable UN | Omnologos
In summary, if we all felt like rubbish and pedalled with our own mug to work by tilling the soil somewhere, the UN will have reached its goal by making our lives unsustainable.
The Green Wave – How Vermont Protects the Environment (Warning: Graphic Photos!)
Last fall I wrote about how self-anointed environmental mastermind politicians in my homestate of Vermont bulldozed public opposition, lots of trees and finally the top of Lowell Mountain to make way for “climate-saving” 400-foot industrial wind turbines. Read here.
Here’s how environmental protection by these political environmental pimps appears so far, hat-tip: energizevermont.org.
Things warmists say | Climate Nonconformist
Here is a compilation of warmist arguments. Collect them all.
PressTV - Climate Action Summit underway in Australia
Several speakers blamed scaremongering by right-wing media & conservative politicians for the unpopularity of the Carbon Tax.
Claims of deniers won't alter the facts
The major climate data sets all show that 2010 and 2005 were the planet's hottest years
James Delingpole with Jon Faine - ABC Melbourne - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Climate skeptic James Delingpole's feisty interview with Jon Faine
Bottom line: On Q&A Nick Minchin said the IPCC predictions were wrong. Matthew England said “Not true” their 1990 prediction was “very accurate”. But the IPCC predicted 0.3C per decade, and we got at most 0.18C per decade.
Video: Rising tide in Norfolk, Va. | Need to Know | PBS
The city is experiencing sea-level rise earlier than most because not only are the seas around the city going up, but much of the land beneath Norfolk is going down.
Arizona Bill Would Eliminate Any State Environmental Funding | Care2 Causes
Given climate change is imminent, it seems strange that any representative would choose to fight against efforts to save the very planet that sustains us.
BBC News - Spanish unemployment hits record 5.64 million
Spanish unemployment has hit a new record high, official figures have shown.
The number of unemployed people reached 5,639,500 at the end of March, with the unemployment rate hitting 24.4%, the national statistics agency said.
The figures came hours after rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Spanish sovereign debt.
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"The figures are terrible for everyone and terrible for the government... Spain is in a crisis of huge proportions," Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said.
2009: Spain's Answer to Unemployment: Go Greener
Here on the sun-drenched and windy Iberian Peninsula, Spain thinks it has an answer: create new jobs and save the Earth at the same time.
Green jobs have become a mantra for many governments, including that of the United States. But few nations are better positioned -- or motivated -- to fuse the fight against recession and global warming than Spain. The country is already a leader in renewable fuels through $30 billion in public support and has been cited by the Obama administration as a model for the creation of a green economy. Spain generates about 24.5 percent of its electricity through renewable sources, compared with about 7 percent in the United States.
But with unemployment at 18.5 percent, the government here is preparing to take a dramatic next step. Through a combination of new laws and public and private investment, officials estimate that they can generate a million green jobs over the next decade. The plan would increase domestic demand for alternative energy by having the government help pay the bill -- but also by compelling millions of Spaniards to go green, whether they like it or not.
In the long term, the government envisions a new army of engineers and technicians nurturing windmills and solar farms amid the orange orchards and carnation fields of Andalusia and Galicia. In the short term, officials say, the renewable-energy projects and refurbishing of buildings and homes for energy efficiency could redeploy up to 80 percent of the million construction workers here who lost their jobs in 2008.
Spain's ambitious effort is being closely watched by the Obama administration and other governments forming their own green-job plans. The U.S. stimulus bill is dedicating billions in grants and loans to renewable-energy projects, marking a shift away from Washington's more passive approach to green growth, which relied largely on tax incentives.
Al Gore at Hampshire College: Global warming is real and needs to be addressed now | masslive.com
Gore said that some claim environmental change is caused by sunspots or volcanoes. ”That’s not true. It’s an urgent problem that requires urgent attention and must be addressed,” he said.
Crisis? What global warming crisis? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
As in: who the hell knows? And as for the apocalyptic danger, forget it, says the commission:
Within limits, the impacts of gradual climate change should be manageable. Few systemic barriers to climate change adaptation have been identified and Australians have a long history of coping with climate variability and structural change.
Uncertainty surrounding changes to the frequency, intensity, location and timing of extreme weather events requires a risk management approach to adaptation.If only the Productivity Commission had been given a brief to audit the warming consensus itself.
Has volcanic activity been increasing?
They do agree that the number of active volcanoes over the last few centuries “shows a dramatic increase.” However, they also note that that increase “is closely related to increases in the world’s human population and communication.”
EPA chief: 'Crucify' comments from official are 'disappointing' - The Hill's E2-Wire
The apology came soon after Inhofe released a 2010 video Wednesday of Armendariz comparing his enforcement philosophy to that of Roman soldiers who crucified villagers in towns they wanted to conquer. He made the comments after calling the oil-and-gas sector an "enforcement priority."
“I was in a meeting once and I gave an analogy to my staff about my philosophy of enforcement. And I think it was probably a little crude, and maybe not appropriate for the meeting, but I’m going to tell you what I said,” Armendariz says in the video.
“It is kind of like how the Romans used to conquer the villages in the Mediterranean — they’d go into a little Turkish town somewhere and they’d find the first five guys they saw and they’d crucify them. Then that town was really easy to manage for the next few years.”
'Crucifying' EPA Regulator was Eager to Inflict Pain | National Legal and Policy Center
The administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 6 office in Dallas, who boasted on video that he sought to “crucify” oil and gas companies as examples much like the Roman empire, has a history of environmental activism and overzealous statements.
U.S. Department of Defense Leading Climate Change Fight « The Center for Climate & Security
Good to see that the DoD’s long-term and thorough approach to planning for different potential futures is being recognized as a strength in combating (and adapting to) the risks of climate change.
The World's Insurers Brace For Climate Change -- Except In America | World | AlterNet
Climate change is increasing insurance costs all over the world. But a recent Ceres report finds that American firms are still in denial.
Video of EPA Official's 'Crucify' Remarks, Removed by Environmental Activist, Reappears Online
We can easily win | ScottishSceptic
Andrew Montford is the only sceptic in Scotland I know who has any kind of income (Monckton is abroad!).
1947 : Arctic Screaming – Manhattan To Drown | Real Science
No worries though. Hansen simply erased the 10F warming. Problem solved.
Harvard : East Coast Pollution Caused Cooling In Wyoming | Real Science
Twenty Percent Increase In Antarctic Ice Since 1979 | Real Science
Leading climate experts tell us that the ocean is heating around Antarctica and making the ice melt. By coincidence, April 20 was also National Marijuana Day.
Category Four Hurricane During America’s Coldest Year | Real Science
Hansen says that 1917 was the coldest year in American history, which explains the 130 MPH category four hurricane in late September.
William M. Briggs » Love Of Theory Is The Root Of All Evil
A climatological version of Stove’s quotation: “Sure, Alaska had one of the coldest and snowiest winters on record, but theory warns us that ________” Fill in the blank yourself: or change the particular weather event with any other.
Lisa Jackson says Al Armendariz isn't going anywhere
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson says she's spoken to Region 6 chief Al Armendariz about his "crucify" comments that have some GOP congressmen calling for his resignation. "I've spoken to Dr. Armendariz. I've made clear to him that I'm glad he apologized because his comments were disappointing; they're not representative of the agency; they don't reflect any policy that we have; and they don't reflect our actions over the past two years. And we'll continue to review and talk to Dr. Armendariz," Jackson said this morning when asked if he is facing any disciplinary action.
Tim Ball: Consensus Argument Proves Climate Science Is Political | JunkScience.com
Claims of a consensus was an early sign climate science was political.
If one accepts the IPCC radiative forcing values of anthropogenic radiative forcings of +1.6 (+0.6 to +2.4) Watts per meter squared and/or the solar radiative forcing of +0.12 (+0.06 to +0.30) Watts per meter squared as correct, what the Levitus et al data shows is that the global radiative feedback is negative(and this necessarily would include the water vapor, sea ice etc radiative feedbacks).
Slanting the debate | Climate Nonconformist
For all the statements that Rose made, including her ad homs on Lindzen and baseless claims against Marc Morano (seriously, what has she been reading about him?), there was one by the presenter that astounded me. “Maybe Anna has made a mistake by giving oxygen to Nick’s scepticism.” This was an indulgement of Ben Goldacre’s point that skeptics are being given a free ride by the media, that this is a “problem”. I would have thought that for something with such massive policy ramifications, greenhouse gases deserve a very serious debate. The suggestion, which was considered by Rose as well as the ABC voice-over, is the antithesis of a free society.
- Bishop Hill blog - Hockey Stick Illusion denial
I came across this review of Michael Mann's book in Times Higher Education. The author, Jon Turney, is a green science writer, so you know exactly what to expect, but the thought struck me that it is completely amazing that Mike Hulme's is still the only review of Mann's book to even mention the Hockey Stick Illusion.
Are they all in denial or something?
The climate science community literally went off the rails with the new 'hockey stick' science introduced by Michael Mann - from utilization of questionable statistical techniques to the ugly Climategate and Fakegate fiascoes, a 'dark science force' was unleashed which is still reverberating
Is climate protest making a return to the UK? | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Did climate protest go away? It certainly did. By 2009 the UK had a worldwide reputation for climate action, but in the years after the UN climate talks in Copenhagen in December of that year it seemed to be melting away.
Climate Camp spent the summer of 2010 up in Scotland, and then decided to not to set up camp at all in 2011. Stop Climate Chaos was stripped down to a skeleton staff, and the head of Campaign Against Climate Change admitted that he was exhausted and "running out of money massively".
The Limits to Environmentalism | The Crux | Discover Magazine
Do green traditionalists have the capacity to shed their long-standing anti-economic growth bias? Do they have the capacity to incorporate some of the modernist outlook and embrace nuclear power and genetically modified crops, two technologies that experts say will be necessary to expand if the worst of climate change is to be avoided? Probably not anytime soon.
Russian Lake Vostok Scientists Say “New Ice Age Is Unavoidable”
Someone forgot to tell the Russians that natural climate factors no longer count for anything, and that from the 20th century on man-made CO2 is the sole driver of the climate – now making the Earth only warmer and warmer.
Great Smoky Mountains Rainfall Measured | Water & Climate Change | OurAmazingPlanet.com
People are often unaware that the Smokies have the highest annual rainfall in the southeastern United States, about 58 to 60 inches (147 to 152 centimeters), greater even than Florida's Everglades, which sees about 54 inches (137 cm) a year. But most of this rain is barely perceptible, misting rain, the new study has found.
"There's always a little bit of fog and low-level clouds and there's always a little bit of rain," said Ana Barros, an engineer at Duke University, who led the study of the Smokies' rainfall.
...The results suggest the area may be more susceptible to climate change than thought; as temperatures rise, more of the fine droplets from light rain will evaporate in the air and fail to reach the ground. Lower elevations will have to contend with not only higher temperatures, but less cloud cover, Barros said.
Ukraine Loses 20% of Winter Grains After Drought, Center Says - Businessweek
Ukraine lost 20 percent of its winter grains after a cold snap killed plants weakened by a drought, and the winter-wheat harvest is set to plunge 44
percent, the national weather center said....Drought last fall damaged about 33 percent of Ukrainian winter grains, Kiev-based researcher UkrAgroConsult said in January. The country was among nations in eastern Europe affected by a cold snap that month and in February that killed more than 100 people, stranded tens of thousands in their homes and hampered road, rail and sea traffic.
The electric car advantages that the Obama administration touts turns out to be a giant scam perpetrated by the EPA bureaucrats - you know, the same bureaucrats 'crucifying' the fossil fuel energy industry in order to make energy costs skyrocket
Carbon Dioxide moves to the back of the bus « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change
Concluding slide from Salby’s talk.
Nanaimo News Bulletin - Climate consensus simply doesn’t exist
The fact that the trace gas carbon dioxide is now a bit less trace than it was in the past millennia is insignificant if CO2 is not a major driver of climate change and so was not mentioned in my guest column.
I plan to be there--I'll be the guy not carrying a large white sack of Exxon cash with a dollar sign on it. If that would work for you, please drop me a comment or email.
The Blackboard » Heartland Climate Conference: Chicago.
Seems we can get in free, but food is on us. That seems fair enough. Plus, if I pay for my own food, I won’t have people suggesting my views were distorted because I ate a sandwich or drank a glass of red wine.
I filled out the form and got an instant response by email.
Especially becuase food is not free, the conference presents us with the opportunity to organize bloggers lunches or after conference drinks. Maybe we could look at the schedule and find some time on Sunday (pre-conference) or Monday or Tuesday climate blog addicts’ get together.
The Blackboard » Hearland Climate Conference: Chicago.
[comment] On the tentative schedule, “http://climateconference.heartland.org/schedule/” they show book signing cash bar at 4-5:30 pm on Monday and Tuesday. That might actually be the time and place to collect together– and we could gather at the Hilton and just have drinks there. Last time this was a crowd though– so we need to plan ahead. Maybe we all need to wear buttons or hats.
Doctors, nurses, and public health experts say carbon pollution is especially dangerous for children, because smog triggers asthma attacks and can permanently damage children’s lungs.
The parents of children who have asthma know how frightening bad air days can be. Eileen Geoffrey lives with her family in Pittsburg, and her twelve-year-old son Daniel almost died from an asthma attack “that left his chest so tight he wasn't even wheezing.” Eileen has to keep the windows of their home closed on most warm days due to the air quality and its impact on Daniel's lungs.
Coping with Asthma During Winter
The cold air that winter brings can set off asthma attacks. Cold air is often directly responsible for the onset of asthma symptoms, but upper respiratory infections that are common in the wintertime can also cause asthma attacks.
Where It Rains, It Will Pour--Otherwise, Tough Luck: Scientific American
Ocean floats provide yet more evidence of global warming, revealing that rainy regions are getting wetter and dry regions drier much faster than predicted
Flashback: Sahara Desert Greening Due to Climate Change?
In 2008 Kröpelin—not involved in the new satellite research—visited Western Sahara, a disputed territory controlled by Morocco.
"The nomads there told me there was never as much rainfall as in the past few years," Kröpelin said. "They have never seen so much grazing land."
"Before, there was not a single scorpion, not a single blade of grass," he said.
"Now you have people grazing their camels in areas which may not have been used for hundreds or even thousands of years. You see birds, ostriches, gazelles coming back, even sorts of amphibians coming back," he said.
"The trend has continued for more than 20 years. It is indisputable."
Climate advisers use dying days to tell firms, government to pull up their socks
Previous analysis done by the round table shows that climate change will drain $5 billion a year from the Canadian economy by 2020. The costs will climb steeply after that, chopping Canadian economy activity by between $21 billion and $43 billion a year by 2050, depending on how much action is taken to reduce greenhouse gases by then.
[Morano] Anna, you should not be affiliated with a movement that proved itself sub-prime science, sub-prime economics and sub-prime politics. You are the face of one of the greatest threats of our liberty, and that is intellectual, international bean-counters trying to control average people's lives because they think they know better how people should live, because people left to their own devices will somehow destroy the planet. It is a mockery. You've been had.
...Producer: Anna I'm curious...you don't want to discuss anything at all?
Anna Rose: I really happy to listen to what Marc has to say, but as I said at the start, I'm not going to be engaging in point-to-point debate because he is known for making things up.
Nick Minchin: What did he make up?
Anna Rose: Do a simple Google search, you'll find hundreds of examples.
Nick Minchin: What did you make up, Marc?
Marc Morano: I don't know. I can't defend myself against non-attacks, which is what she is doing. Basically she's saying I'm a liar so she won't talk to me.
Anna: I just did a simple Google search, and I found zero examples. You are making things up.
Anna Rose - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anna Rose (born 14 April 1983) is an Australian author, activist and environmentalist. She co-founded the Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) in late 2006
...graduated in 2008 with degrees in Law (1st class honours) and Arts....In 2007 Rose went on exchange to Cornell Law School and while living in the United States represented young Australians at the Secretary General's Special Conference on Climate Change at the United Nations in New York on September 24.[7] She also volunteered on the Obama campaign in the New Hampshire Primary.[6]
...Rose lives in Sydney with her husband Simon Sheikh, National Director of online advocacy organisation GetUp!.
Inhofe's office wants answers on vanishing of 'crucify' video
Sen. Jim Inhofe's staff wants to know more about why YouTube took down a video that showed an EPA regional administrator comparing the agency's enforcement philosophy to Roman crucifixions.
The takedown, which POLITICO noticed early Friday, apparently took place at the behest of a "citizen media" activist who had originally posted the video on YouTube, Inhofe spokesman Matt Dempsey said by email.
BBC News - World's glaciers 'out of balance'
Earth's glaciers are seriously out of balance with the global climate and are already on their way to losing almost 40% of their volume.
That is the assessment of scientists after studying a representative group of 144 small and large glaciers around the world.
Their figure assumes no further warming of the climate.
Countries Losing Steam On Climate Change Initiatives | KERA News
It's increasingly hard to see how these nations will stick to their ambitious promises to switch to clean energy in the coming decades.
Amazing Teen Fighting Climate Change in Iowa (Video)
Glori Dei Filippone of Des Moines is 13 years old and she is suing the government for not protecting the atmosphere.
...She’s been working at the Des Moines, Iowa Farmer’s Market since she was eight years old. One day, a blind lady walked up to the stand and picked up an apple. She asked Glori, “Is this an apple?” Glori answered that it was. She then asked if it were red and Glori responded, “Yes.” The blind lady then shared, “It feels very beautiful, I’ll take a bushel.”It really hit home with Glori how this woman didn’t need to see something to believe it was there. Glori equates this with climate change understanding
...Last year, on Mother’s Day, she filed a petition at the Iowa Department of Natural Resources asking the agency to adopt and implement a Climate Recovery Plan. This plan, based on the best available science, would establish peak global carbon dioxide emissions by 2012, reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions by at least 6 percent every year, and commit to widespread reforestation. The petition was denied (and the Chair scolded her for being vegetarian), so she brought her case to court. The district court judge dismissed the case so she is now heading to the Iowa Supreme Court on appeal.
"At best, only a couple of per cent of the world's climate scientists query the basic science so having an equal proportion of sceptics on any programme totally biases the debate," said Professor Andy Pittman, co-director of the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales.
..."The problem with people like Morano is that they have a very forceful way of putting their arguments, even though each one of them is wrong. Because he comes across as very slick, people believe him," [Michael Ashley] said."People watch a programme like this and they think there's a scientific debate. It's a lose, lose situation for climate scientists," he said.
The opinion among scientists may be overwhelmingly one sided, but the Australian public is deeply divided on whether global warming is caused by human activity. Surveys repeatedly show opinion split almost 50:50.
Why I engaged with the sceptics – Opinion – ABC Environment (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I didn't know at the time who Nick would choose to take me to visit. But I knew he would struggle to find credible voices who rejected the science. And I was right. Surely people can see through the kitchen table science of Joanne and David in Perth, the underhanded tactics used by blogger Marc Morano, and the lack of credibility of Dick Lindzen - given his history of habitual contrarianism and the fact that his theory about clouds had been rejected in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.
...And while it didn't make the final cut of the documentary, I believe Nick's admission in London that the climate has warmed and that "human emissions of CO2 probably made some contribution to that" was a major step forward from someone who had previously called climate change some kind of plot "to de-industrialise the western world" and "the new religion of the extreme left". Most hard-core climate deniers refuse to accept any link between carbon pollution and climate change, so Nick's statement represented to me a major step forward.
Corrected: India to urge airlines to boycott EU carbon scheme | NEWS.GNOM.ES
NEW DELHI (NEWS.GNOM.ES) – India will urge its airlines to boycott the European Union‘s carbon charge scheme, raising the prospect of a global trade war over a law requiring flights in and out of Europe to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions.
A senior Indian government official told NEWS.GNOM.ES that India would soon ask local airlines not to buy carbon credits from or share emissions data with the bloc, which says other countries are not doing enough to tackle this source of greenhouse gases.
The FINANCIAL - Africa ready to embrace a low-carbon future
The FINANCIAL -- With a record number of 1,200 registered participants, this year’s Africa Carbon Forum (ACF) demonstrated that Africa represents a golden opportunity for a green future.
Japan Recommends Preferential Rates for Renewable Energy - Bloomberg
A government panel yesterday recommended solar power providers earn 42 yen (52 U.S. cents) a kilowatt-hour for the
electricity they produce, three times the 13.65 yen charged to industrial and commercial users, according to the Ministry of
Economy, Trade and Industry. The preferential rate, known as a feed-in tariff, for solar power was recommended for 20 years.
Things to Know With Jean-Michel Cousteau The Santa Barbara Independent
Jean-Michel Cousteau, eldest son of the late, great Jacques Cousteau, is no stranger to recognition for his ocean-related activism: he’s an Emmy Award winner, a Peabody Award recipient, and a member of the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame. In 1998, Vice President Al Gore gave him the Environmental Hero Award.
...[Q] If there is one single, biggest threat to the oceans today, what is it? I would say chemicals.
Up to a third of some Champagne vineyards have been affected by heavy frosts earlier this month.
2008 : Obama Promises 5 Million Green Jobs | Real Science
I was amazed that anyone voted for this buffoon the first time, but half the country plans to do it again.
Aggie Joke : Dessler Says Texas Droughts Are Caused By CO2 | Real Science
The worst decade for drought in Texas was the 1950s, which had low CO2 and was dominated by La Nina. Almost all Texas droughts have been associated with La Nina events.
CO2 shows no correlation, but La Nina shows almost perfect correlation. Dessler concludes – ignore the data and stick with the failed theory.
The CLIMATE SCEPTICS Blog: Carbon Credit Forests - the CO2.con
Then as the trees mature, growth stops. The aging forest just sits there, some trees growing, some dying and net carbon sequestration ceases. It becomes a sterile shrine to the green religion whose main impact on the biosphere is providing a haven for feral animals and noxious weeds.
Green spruikers claim that they only use land not suitable for anything else. Wrong! Every bit of Australia not covered by road, cities, parks or deserts can support crops, timber-getting or grazing animals. Carbon-credit forests gnaw away at this national land asset every year.
Moreover, CO2.con investors, like all speculators, want quick returns. Their quick return demands rapidly growing trees in arable country - deserts and salt pans are uneconomical. Thus the wheat/sheep belt is shrinking.
Budget kills climate accountability legislation, weakens oversight
The legislation also kills an existing law, the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act, that required the government to publish comprehensive reports on climate change policies, along with an evaluation of results achieved.
Arctic Warmed 18 Degrees From 1910 To 1954 | Real Science
Hansen has been a busy boy, scrambling to erase Arctic history from 1910 to 1945 – because the facts obliterate his life’s work and reputation.
Cut world population and redistribute resources, false prophet urges
That the Guardian is giving space to Ehrlich is yet more evidence that for the Left there is no such thing as right and wrong -- in any sense of those words. Black can be white if it suits the Green/Left. Do I really need to spell out Ehrlich's widely-proclaimed false prophecies in the 1960s? Here's a sample
Who’s really cherry picking? « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change
aren’t they the ones cherry picking? They start all of their measurements from 1850 or 1895 and find the temperature is going up. Well that’s not surprising because a little ice age ended in 1850.
1939 : Time To End The Denial | Real Science
1939 : Climate change, Antarctica melting, desert spreading, ice age coming.
I see the “dismissives” have quickly made their presence felt over the loaded questions – 1929 votes as at 8.45am 27 Apr 2012. Only takes a few minutes – go on – a little chance to strike back at the years of disgusting Govt propaganda on climate.
Articles: Gore and the Democrats' Green Graft Machine
Al Gore's Formula for DOE Green Technology-Scandal
- Form a political partnership with insiders at Company A developing "Green Technology."
- Distribute cheap stock in Company A to political insiders -- with ownership concealed.
- Shower Company A with insider-directed DOE grants, contracts, and loans to artificially pump up its financials and Potemkin-prospects for success
- Tout the ingenuity of Company A in major political speeches -- even if you have to manufacture a global warming "crisis" to justify the company's product.
- Advise political insiders to discreetly dump their overpriced stock a little at a time to avoid a run in the market but well before the inevitable collapse. This gradual insider-trading will not trigger alarm in the market or scrutiny from the SEC, which is normally on the hunt for large stock-trades suspiciously timed to specific events.|
- Collect campaign contributions from gratified and newly enriched political insiders.
- Wash, rinse, and repeat the fleecing cycle with Company B.
The deviousness of this formula is that Treasury funds are not stolen directly.
After Backlash, Ethanol Industry Is Thriving | JunkScience.com
Yet when the ethanol hype went away, the ethanol industry got bigger than ever.
Ford brings contrasts of electric and gas cars into sharper focus | JunkScience.com
Ford will soon begin offering battery- and gasoline-powered versions of its Focus, the first time consumers can compare the two powertrains on the same car.
DOE’s clean-power mandate seen undermining Obama’s sustainability initiative | JunkScience.com
Government contractors are getting progressively concerned about a proposed rule that would require new and significantly renovated federal buildings to eliminate fossil fuel-generated energy use by 2030 — an ambitious mandate they say could derail governmentwide sustainability efforts.
Public split over elimination of U.S. energy subsidies, poll finds | JunkScience.com
Generally speaking we are against subsidies but, as always, define “subsidy”. If you mean punitively discriminating against carbon-dense energy by disallowing the business and development tax breaks all manufacturing and extractive industries get then forget it, that’s just plain stupid. If, on the other hand, you are talking about the absurd largess poured upon solar- and wind-generation over the last 4-5 decades then yes, cease and desist immediately.
A Lethal Beacon for Migrating Birds | JunkScience.com
Oil companies get prosecuted for how many birds dying in a tailings dam? Seems somewhat irrational compared to aerial cuisinarts and constructed obstacles
Progressive Energy vs. “Renewable” Energy — MasterResource
To obsess about whether a given potential energy source will last hundreds of years or billions of years is to neglect the key issue that matters to human life here and now: whether it can actually provide the usable energy that will maximize the quantity and quality of human life.
At the 2:12 minute mark of this recent video, Hansen does his crazy "boiling ocean" hype - it's a total disregard of facts and plausibility. Despite this craziness, there are scads of American coastal elites and lazy (stupid? gullible?) mainstream media types that buy into Hansen's ludicrous, catastrophic warming "science" predictions.
Mooney’s Folly (in two steps) | Omnologos
Just read the “Conclusions” of Mooney’s book on Amazon. He has obviously gone way out of his competency and freely speaks of things he can’t possibly understand. As far as I am concerned, anybody who believes it possible to measure Liberals and Conservatives has an infantilistic view of “measure” and of “politics”.
...Anyway, the icing on the cake is the fact that the Conclusions aren’t that idiotic really, and Mooney says he now admires “conservatives”, and goes as far as to recommend “conservatives” and “liberals” “need be operating together“. Well, Brainy Boy, that’s not achieved really by calling your book “The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science–and Reality“, is it??
Perhaps the defining failure of Barack Obama’s administration has been his ill-fated investment in “green energy.” Much of this investment was rushed through Congress as part of the “stimulus” program with little or no scrutiny, but we can now see where the money went. As this devastating Americans For Prosperity video shows, a lot of it went overseas to create jobs in foreign countries...This video is radioactive; if most Americans see it between now and November, Obama has little chance of re-election.
ABC: even worse than the BBC – Telegraph Blogs
Those of you who don't live in Australia will be lucky enough to have missed last night's travesty of a documentary I Can Change Your Mind About Climate Change by the Aussies' gag-inducingly PC state broadcaster ABC. Better still, they will have been lucky enough also to have missed the even more ludicrously biased panel discussion afterwards in which an outrageously parti-pris greenie moderator, a greenie "social researcher" (whatever that is), a greenie youth activist, the head of the ultra-greenie, even-worse-than-the-Royal-Society CSIR and two more greenie plants in the audience bravely took on an evil mining magnate (my new hero Clive Palmer) and an evil climate change denier (Nick Minchin) in order irrefutably to demonstrate that anyone who does not deny the reality of Anthropogenic Global Warming must perforce be the spawn of Satan. It reminded me so much of the BBC's nuanced approach to the climate change issue it was almost as if I'd flown home 15 days early.
Any Flannery predictions still standing? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Climate Commisioner Tim Flannery’s “permanent drought” has been officially cancelled.
Green energy ‘must be affordable’ – Cameron | JunkScience.com
Renewable energy sources must become “financially sustainable” if they are to meet the world’s needs, David Cameron has said.
Twitter / @MichaelEMann: Cool, panoramic view of #E ...
Cool, panoramic view of #EGU2012 press conference on climate sensitivity earlier today fb.me/1JheYcnvc
NewsRoomAmerica.com - "Warming hole" Delayed Climate Change Over Eastern United States
(Newsroom America) -- Climate scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have discovered that particulate pollution in the late 20th century created a "warming hole" over the eastern United States — that is, a cold patch where the effects of global warming were temporarily obscured.
While greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane warm the Earth's surface, tiny particles in the air can have the reverse effect on regional scales.
"What we've shown is that particulate pollution over the eastern United States has delayed the warming that we would expect to see from increasing greenhouse gases," says lead author Eric Leibensperger (Ph.D. '11), who completed the work as a graduate student in applied physics at SEAS.
...Since the early 20th century, global mean temperatures have risen—by approximately 0.8 degrees Celsius from 1906 to 2005—but in the U.S. "warming hole," temperatures decreased by as much as 1 degree Celsius during the period 1930–1990. U.S. particulate pollution peaked in 1980 and has since been reduced by about half. By 2010 the average cooling effect over the East had fallen to just 0.3 degrees Celsius.
..."No one is suggesting that we should stop improving air quality, but it’s important to understand the consequences. Clearing the air could lead to regional warming," Mickley says.
Stagecraft - By Chris Horner - Planet Gore - National Review Online
TIMOTHY WIRTH: We called the Weather Bureau and found out what historically was the hottest day of the summer. Well, it was June 6th or June 9th or whatever it was. So we scheduled the hearing that day, and bingo, it was the hottest day on record in Washington, or close to it.
DEBORAH AMOS: [on camera] Did you also alter the temperature in the hearing room that day?
TIMOTHY WIRTH: What we did is that we went in the night before and opened all the windows, I will admit, right, so that the air conditioning wasn’t working inside the room. And so when the- when the hearing occurred, there was not only bliss, which is television cameras and double figures, but it was really hot.[Shot of witnesses at hearing]
WIRTH: Dr. Hansen, if you’d start us off, we’d appreciate it. The wonderful Jim Hansen was wiping his brow at the table at the hearing, at the witness table, and giving this remarkable testimony.[nice shot of a sweaty Hansen]
Group: Michelle Obama’s Spain trip cost taxpayers $467k
Among the various travel costs, the group estimated — using the Defense Department’s 2010 published hourly rates — that it cost the government $199,323 to fly to Spain and back to the United States.
The New York Times reported that those on the trip included the first lady, one of her daughters and “two friends and four of their daughters, as well as a couple of aides and a couple of advance staff members.”
Why Is The White House Protecting EPA Official Who Would Crucify Big Oil? - Investors.com
Abuse Of Power: An EPA official who apparently made good on a threat to "crucify" an oil company to make the entire energy industry "easy to manage" should resign or be fired. So why is the White House protecting him?
EPA regional administrator for Dallas Al Armendariz told a city council meeting in a taped speech two years ago that his "philosophy" of enforcement was to single out an oil company, punish it "as hard as you can," and make an example of it to scare others into submission.
Youth and naiveté no match for maturity and experience | Australian Climate Madness
Rose's low point was her introduction to Marc Morano. She refused to engage with someone who was "not a climate scientist". Neither was her first "expert", the farmer, but that didn't stop Minchin from listening politely. Her petulant schoolyard attitude unfortunately betrayed her youth and inexperience, and harmed her cause. Morano was pretty well controlled in the circumstances.
Well well. I just watched the online streaming version. We did 4 hours of footage at our house, and they showed not one single point I made, not one answer to Anna Roses questions. I repeated my favourite lines about 28 million weather balloons, 3000 ocean buoys off by heart at least 4 times. Obviously everything I said was too “dangerous”. But we have the full tape of the whole event, so sooner or later the world will see the parts that the ABC deemed to be not “interesting” to the Australian public. So all in all, pretty much as we expected. They trimmed it down to the point where it’s tame, they gave the alarmists the last word (they always do), and while they were happy to grill us about where our money came from just like Wendy Carlisle, when the question backfires (because we are not shills for anyone) they won’t show it. We can’t let the public know that Jo Nova and David are volunteers.
Since 2007, Alberta companies that annually produce more than 100,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions are legally required to reduce their greenhouse gas intensity by 12 per cent. One option for compliance is payment into the Climate Change and Emissions Management Fund - $15 dollars for every tonne over the reduction limit. By the end of 2010, the Climate Change and Emissions Management Fund had amassed more than $254 million
Koch-backed group hits Obama on green energy waste | Reuters
(Reuters) - A conservative group backed by the billionaire Koch brothers on Thursday unveiled a $6.1 million advertising blitz in eight election swing states that accuses President Barack Obama of wasting billions of dollars on green energy.
The 60-second ad from the Americans for Prosperity group accuses Obama of spending on green energy initiatives that have led to little job creation and says that some of that money has instead gone abroad.
"This administration has had an obsessive focus on their global warming agenda," the group's president, Tim Phillips, told reporters, adding that the ad is a new effort to challenge the "flawed idea from the left that government can create prosperity using taxpayer money."
Warm-mongers exposed again: Kent | Columnists | Opinion | Toronto Sun
It’s handy to have evidence-based arguments when you have to almost daily listen to pan handling scientists with a vested interest in convincing you otherwise.
Lovelock hemlock to climate alarm | Daily Telegraph Miranda Devine Blog
The only tactic they haven’t pulled - yet - is to pick on his age and imply he’s lost his marbles, when he sounds more rational than ever.
Will any of the rats jumping from this sinking ship ever admit what damage they did to the environmental cause by their hysterical overreach, their lies, distortions and bullying abuse of those who don’t fall into line?
They have created a generation of people who don’t care about the environment and don’t respect science.
It’s a huge own goal, but it rebounds on us all.
Review & Outlook: 'Crucify Them' - WSJ.com
It's no secret that the bosses at the Environmental Protection Agency hate fossil fuels. But few are as candid as Al Armendariz, the regional administrator who says the agency's "general philosophy" is to "crucify" oil and gas producers.
A post today by Dr. David Stockwell notes that a recent paper on ocean heat content shows the IPCC has exaggerated the effect of man upon the climate by a factor of more than 5 times [1.6 divided by 0.3]. Climate scientist Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. concurs and states this implies net feedback is negative instead of positive as claimed by the IPCC.
Batman Returns. I guess Earth Day takes a back seat to old Michael Keaton movies:
C3: Electric Car Advantages? How Does Paying $40,000 For A Tesla EV Replacement Battery Sound?
The Tesla electric car's batteries will cost $40,000 to replace when they run out of juice - how appealing are those electric car advantages at resale time?
Stunning ice loss at the north pole « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change
Interesting – the ice in 2012 looks about as healthy – if not more so – than in 1990. Yet the alarmists keep telling us the north pole ice is about to disappear. Can we really trust National Geographic for information?
Global Warming Makes It Rain More, Except Where It Makes it Drier - Technology - The Atlantic Wire
The news from a new study on the earth's rainfall isn't the fact that global warming is making it rain more in wet areas and less in dry ones, it's how much scientists had previously underestimated that trend: By half.
2007: Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?
This week, after reviewing his own new data, NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally said: "At this rate, the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free at the end of summer by 2012, much faster than previous predictions."
Natural Gas Is on a Roll, Executive Declares - NYTimes.com
Mr. Akins said he was somewhat concerned that the nation may end up too reliant on natural gas, particularly given the history of price volatility of natural gas. The price has dropped from $10.8 per thousand cubic feet at the wellhead as of July 2008 to $2.89 as of January.
Warning Signs: Coincidences, Truth, and Propaganda
As for wind energy, Reuters reporter Andy Sullivan recently reported that the industry actually “shed 10,000 jobs since 2009 even as the energy capacity of wind farms doubled.” To put this in context, Sullivan also reported that “the oil and gas industry has added 75,000 jobs since Obama took office.”
Will Mitt Romney Recycle George W. Bush's Global Warming Fiasco? - Forbes
Romney made a tremendous mistake on climate change when he was Governor of Massachusetts, when he tapped John Holdren, a radical population-control advocate, to advise him on his cap-and-trade proposal (!). Holdren is now President Obama’s Science Advisor and is the eminence behind all of the Administration’s green shenanigans.
Needless to say, this, along with his chosen environmental advisors, makes a lot of people nervous, perhaps too nervous to go out and vote. So, in order to calm people’s fears, here’s a series of campaign promises that Mr. Romney needs to make:
More debunking of the ex-NASA 49 climate change deniers | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine
I find a lot of the climate change deny-o-sphere pretty baffling. A lot of the claims are trivially wrong, a lot more are cherry-picked and can be seen to be wrong when presented in the correct context, and others are just spin and rhetoric ("carbon dioxide is plant food!") that is facile at best and outright nonsense at worst. Of course, many of them touted this letter by the ex-NASA 49 as more proof that climate change is wrong. Amazing.
"I can change your mind": if it's experts you're after, look elsewhere
[Michael Ashley] Climate scientists – I’m talking about the 97% or so that agree that humans have a considerable influence on the climate – are very uneasy with the false balance that a program such as this engenders. From the moment a climate scientist steps onto the stage with a climate denier, the audience’s default assumption will be that there is a 50:50 contest going on. It is going to be difficult or impossible for the scientist to win the argument at the 97:3 level that characterises the debate amongst experts, let alone the 99.99:0.01 level as it exists, roughly, in the scientific literature.
...For me, the most surprising part of the documentary was Minchin’s choice of experts: they were all duds who would only influence the gullible or those blinded by ideology. Although, to be fair to Minchin, there aren’t any non-dud experts on his side to choose from.For example, blogger David Evans from Perth showed Rose an aerial photo of a meteorological station near an airport, declaring that half of the world’s “official” thermometers were like this and that they were measuring warming from jet aircraft engines more than anything else.
Rose’s response was “surely you don’t think climate scientists are that stupid?”
And of course Rose is right. Climate scientists aren’t stupid – global warming is clearly measured when only the highest quality rural meteorological stations are used. [Lomborg's] solution now is to spend $100 billion a year in research and development for a magic technological fix, while keeping on burning fossil fuels.
This is like saying “let’s jump out of this airplane without a parachute, and we will research and develop ways of landing safely on the way down”.
Michael Ashley on The Conversation
Michael is also a matchmaker for the Climate Science Rapid Response Team, the aim of which is to connect journalists and government officials with experts in climate science.
Naked Intolerance in the Media « NoFrakkingConsensus
If mainstream journalists routinely described the David Suzuki Foundation and Greenpeace as “notoriously partisan” there’d be no problem. But that never happens.
NSIDC : Arctic Ice Extent Normal – For The First Time In At Least Seven Years | Real Science
NASA experts say that the Arctic may be ice free this summer.
Cain slammed liberals for not wanting to have a debate on the topic and instead wanting to characterize Republicans as anti-science.
On climate, it's Obama vs. 'Gaia' scientist Lovelock
So if the scientists are changing their tune because facts have proven them wrong, why would anyone believe that Obama knows better?
Tough Row To Hoe | Real Science
Thousands of scientists are employed to create a crescendo of imaginary alarm over a fabricated problem. Government and insurance companies finance this as a mechanism to
raise revenuessteal from the public. (Even if the problem was real, they couldn’t do anything about it anyway.)Imagine having your entire career devoted to manufacturing scientific BS for corrupt agencies.
Engineers Cast Wary Eye - WSJ.com
DETROIT—Auto-industry marketers are stepping up efforts to tout electric cars and plug-in hybrids to regulators and consumers, but at a gathering of industry technologists here, senior auto-company executives offered a sharply skeptical view of electric cars, predicting they will remain a marginal part of the U.S. market well into the next decade.
Marc Morano stands up to Australian Youth Climate Coalition's Anna Rose AYCC - YouTube
Finally someone stands up to the Australian Youth Coalition and says what a lot of Australians have wanted to say. Climate Depot 's Marc Morano's fantastic rant from the ABC's documentary "Can I Change Your Mind About Climate" with Former LNP Senator Nick Minchin (an out spoken climate change skeptic) and Anna Rose (founder and chair of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition).
Twitter / @skepticscience: One disappointing element ...
One disappointing element of this documentary - use of term 'believers'. Climate change is about evidence, not belief #qandascientists
Twitter / @skepticscience: Why did online poll show s ...
Why did online poll show so many dismissives? Shows effectiveness of denialosphere blogs of marshalling traffic to polls #qandascientists
Twitter / @keithkloor: Climate activists: It's no ...
Climate activists: It's not the job of journalists to carry water for you.
Twitter / @keithkloor: Environmentalists: It's no ...
Environmentalists: It's not the job of journalists to regurgitate your talking points (though some seem to think it is).
Environmental Finance | News | Court sides with insurance industry in global warming lawsuit
The Virginia Supreme Court has reaffirmed that an insurer does not have to defend its energy client against a global warming emissions case, in a decision favourable to the insurance industry, but baffling to some legal experts.
BBC Props Up The “Orrible Drought” Fantasy « Black's Whitewash
Now that data only goes up to 2010, but look at the pink trend line. Level. Flat. Look carefully at the graph. Then ask yourself, if this is such a mega-bad drought, how on earth did we survive between 1955 and 1995 when it was consistently lower than it has been since 1995. In fact, look at the rainfall from 1995 – 2010. We have had a LOT of rainfall.
A Daunting Emissions Quest for U.S. Cities - NYTimes.com
“The effort required to make significant change is truly astounding.”
Jennifer Marohasy » Unable and Unwilling to Consider the Evidence: Our ABC
many people appear to have a problem with understanding theory and considering it in the context of reality. Consider Anna Rose and her performance on the documentary ‘I Can Change Your Mind About Climate Change’ featured on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) this evening. Ms Rose was flown across Australia and around the world to talk with climate change sceptics but refused to engage constructively on issues of scientific evidence. Yet evidence is central to science and in particular determining whether theory and reality match.
Six reasons to not watch ‘I Can Change Your Mind About Climate’ | Green Left Weekly
Queensland climate activist David White gives six reasons why he will not tune in to the ABC show I Can Change Your Mind About Climate.* * *
1. It is well and truly past the time for debating whether or not anthropogenic [human-caused] climate change is occurring.
2. Continuing to debate the issue gives the contrarians’ [deniers] viewpoint a validity and respectability that it should not have. It just encourages those with delusions and paranoia to continue to promote their fantasies.
Twitter / @MichaelEMann: Press Conference at #EGU20 ...
Press Conference at #EGU2012 involving myself, James Hansen, and Michael Ghil fb.me/107AGEl3E
African Nations Fear Europe's Green Agenda
African leaders have expressed concern about European efforts to seek binding targets on sustainable development, fearing brakes would be applied to their economies by rich countries.
The anatomy of denial: Why truth doesn’t always win | Grist
As I’ve written previously, social psychologists call this idea the “truth wins” assumption — and it rarely pans out.
Twitter / @skepticscience: Last time CO2 levels were ...
Last time CO2 levels were as high as now, sea level was 25 metres higher than now bit.ly/IrvqH2 #qandascientists
So if CO2 is the major driver of sea level rise, why aren't sea levels 25 meters higher now?
Twitter / @skepticscience: Minchin scoffs at 0.04% of ...
Minchin scoffs at 0.04% of warming. Last time CO2 levels were at 0.04%, climate was 3 degrees warmer bit.ly/IrvqH2 #qandascientists
So if CO2 is the major driver of temperature, why aren't temperatures 3 degrees warmer now?
All can agree on green energy, but the rest is alarmist
[Nick Minchin] Conversely, neither Anna, nor those whom Anna took me to meet, could convince me that human emissions of CO2 are driving dangerous global warming.
What I have learnt about science recently is that it is dynamic, that there are always unknowns and that there is in particular much that we don't know about the Earth's climate.
May the debate continue.
Natural climate change does more good than damage | Tulsa Beacon
Though it would be interesting and probably revealing to get the documents and prove Mann’s data to be wrong, intentional or not, to me the real issue is why we are not looking at the facts of climate change, and call it what it is – natural climate change. Furthermore, natural climate change could do far more good for us than we currently think, if only we can get the scientists and politicians to do what is right. What wonders of science and human ingenuity are we missing because we are being forced to believe a hoax?
Climate change debate has moved on – Blog – ABC Environment (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
ACCORDING TO THE Lowy Institute's annual poll, Australians are losing their conviction on climate change. The last poll, published in June 2011 showed that just 41 per cent of those polled agreed with the statement, "Global warming is a serious and pressing problem. We should begin taking steps now even if this involves significant costs" down from a whopping 68 per cent in 2006.
EU climate [scam] chief ‘curious’ to see Obama’s plan - The Hill's E2-Wire
James Inhoffe | EPA | Crucify | The Daily Caller
According to Inhofe, however, the EPA’s actions speak louder than Armendariz’s and Giles’ words.
“Of course they’re not [focused ‘fair and effective enforcement],’” Inhofe said in reaction to Giles’ words. “How can it be fair when they come in and make the accusations without developing the case, without having the evidence, and take enforcement actions that would put the company out of business — when they don’t have the evidence to back that up?”
“Their mission is to put people out of business,” Inhofe added. “Their mission is to kill hydraulic fracturing.”
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