Sustainability Now Radio: Confronting the Climate Disinformation Campaign at Penn State: Video

I've only watched about 24 minutes of this 2+ hour video, but it looks like a target-rich environment for skeptical bloggers. Around the 13:00 mark, Donald Brown talks about 15 unspecified lines of evidence for human causation, and thousands of other lines of evidence.
Around 23:00, Brown starts raving about a site that may be Climate Depot

http://sustainabilitynowradio.blogspot.com/2012/05/confronting-climate-disinformation.html

"Here is the video for the free presentation given on April 30, 2012 on Penn State's University Park Campus. Penn State professors Michael Mann, Donald Brown, Janet Swim and Rick Schuhmann, and graduate student Peter Buckland spoke Monday evening at "Changing the Moral Climate on Climate Change," a talk that focused on climate change denial"

IPCC's Hayhoe in her 2009 book: "Water vapor absorbs so completely that, for centuries, scientists thought water vapor was doing all the work of keeping Earth’s temperatures in check."

"The most important gas that helps maintain this much-needed temperature balance on Earth is water vapor. Water vapor absorbs so completely that, for centuries, scientists thought water vapor was doing all the work of keeping Earth's temperatures in check. Not until this last century did they discover that there are other greenhouse gases that also absorb the earth's heat. These other gases, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, account for 15–35 percent of the natural heat-trapping greenhouse effect. This natural greenhouse effect is what makes our planet livable and unique among all the other planets. The natural greenhouse effect is a beautiful example of the care God has taken in creating a planet so perfectly suited for life. Earth has been carefully balanced to provide a comfortable home for the human race."

Germany Faces Energy Disaster Next Winter

http://thegwpf.org/international-news/5697-germany-faces-energy-disaster-next-winter.html

Last winter, on several occasions, Germany escaped only just large-scale power outages. Next winter the risk of large blackouts is even greater. The culprit for the looming crisis is the single most important instrument of German energy policy: the "Renewable Energy Law."

Climate change will transform Windsor before your eyes | Windsor Star

http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2012/05/12/climate-change-will-transform-windsor-before-your-eyes/
It's going to get much, much hotter and much, much drier

Peru's coffee growers turn carbon traders to save their farms from climate change | Environment | The Observer

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/13/peru-coffee-climate-change-carbon-trading

However, thanks to "weather change", a continual topic of conversation in the area, the harvest is unpredictable. Last year, there was too little rain in the region. This year there has been a deluge: in some areas an increase of 500% on the "norm".

"I still think coffee is worthwhile," says 47-year-old Gusto Regis. "It's not yet as bad as 1983." That was when the El Niño weather system hit, and landslides and flooding drove his family away to find work labouring in an adjoining region.

Hayhoe in her 2009 book on how conservatives were allegedly buying the global warming hoax

"Polls show that a growing number of registered Republican voters believe global warming will pose a serious threat within their lifetime. Republicans such as John McCain and Newt Gingrich have issued strong statements regarding the necessity for reducing our environmental impact on the planet. This last decade, we've seen a radical shift in the conservative mind-set."

Hayhoe in her 2009 book "A Climate for Change": "scientists estimate the entire Arctic summer could be ice-free within just a few years"

[page 6] The Arctic ice—where polar bears live, hunt, and even den—has been melting so fast that scientists estimate the entire Arctic summer could be ice-free within just a few years.

Carbon capture fights its corner - The National

http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/industry-insights/energy/carbon-capture-fights-its-corner

Detractors say they pose risks in the case of seismic events and could increase the risk of cancer for people living near to carbon-capture plants.

The multibillion-dollar budgets would be better spent on solar panels and wind farms, critics say.

The Tangled Web Of Deceit In Hansen’s World

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/the-tangled-web-of-deceit-in-hansens-world/

I noticed something in GISS attempt to cover up their Iceland fraud from a couple of months ago. The graph below blinks between the original non-homogenized data, and current non-homogenized data. Note that they have now wiped out the well documented warming prior to 1940.

This is supposed to be the original temperature record. How can the data change ex post facto?

Proposing A Return To 19th Century CO2 Levels

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/proposing-a-return-to-19th-century-co2-levels
Hansen doesn't go far enough. We should go back to the CO2 levels of the last decade of the 19th century, which brought record heat, fire, tornadoes and hurricanes. The hottest decade in Arizona was the i890s. ARIZONA Climate Summary New Mexico's worst forest fire occurred in the 1890s.

How does one trust an Australian climate scientist?

http://nigguraths.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/how-does-one-trust-an-australian-climate-scientist/

Right now, cries of "A-Ha!" by climate skeptics derive mainly from the impact of revelation of facts previously  hidden from public view.  But there is one group who knew these facts all along  -  the climate scientists who originally received these emails.

Even as the spectre of death threats was raised and cynically exploited – perhaps by the university, and by Nature and Guardian, the scientists kept mum. As skeptics said: "the debate may be heated up, but whatever the case, death threats are not acceptable", the scientists knew there were no threats of the sort, but yet kept their silence. They simply let faceless and anonymous members of the public – i.e., skeptics, be tarred.

Climate science in public schools

http://judithcurry.com/2012/05/12/climate-science-in-public-schools/

The Common Room provides a skeptical perspective on the topic: Climate Science in Public Schools, with some egregious examples of what is being taught in some places.  Here is a multiple choice question for you:

Which of These Is Not Causing Global Warming Today?

A. Sport utility vehicles; 
B. Rice fields;
C. Increased solar output.

What's Really Scary - NYTimes.com

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/12/whats-really-scary/

Joe Romm has a great post with a great illustrative figure (is it his own? He doesn't say):

Chelsea Flower Show to combat climate change - Blue and Green Tomorrow

http://www.blueandgreentomorrow.com/2012/05/12/chelsea-flower-show-to-combat-climate-change/

I've no sympathy with softies who cringe at a drop of rain - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/9261087/Ive-no-sympathy-with-softies-who-cringe-at-a-drop-of-rain.html
The incessant rain brought on by the panic-stricken overreaction to a dry winter by the water companies, and the unseasonal chill brought on by global warming (was that an ice floe with a polar bear aboard I saw floating under Maidenhead Bridge the other day?) mean it's no surprise to twitchers that migrating birds are singing their autumnal songs, instead of their melodious spring trilling.

Biden to Students: You’ll See ‘Solar Energy as Cheap as Gas — Uh, Coal, Excuse Me, a…

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/142912/

GAFFE-O-MATIC: Biden to Students: You'll See 'Solar Energy as Cheap as Gas — Uh, Coal, Excuse Me, as Coal.' (A product the vice president views as being as big a terrorist threat to America as…high fructose corn syrup.)

no sign of summer - united kingdom - week ahead

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-app/reports?LANG=en&MENU=203&FILE=awa&DAY=20120512
It looks like we will keep the unsettled and unseasonably cold weather over this upcoming week with no sign of summer at this time. Most places will have rain or showers as areas of low pressure in the north and west dominate the country with temperatures overall well below normal.

Ed Begley Jr. Joins Prestigious Climate Action Reserve Board - Studio City, CA Patch

http://studiocity.patch.com/articles/ed-begley-jr-joins-prestigious-climate-action-reserve-board
Known for turning up at Hollywood events on his bicycle

New EPA Cap and Trade Game! EPA Simulator Shows Potential Cost, Power Losses From Utility CO2 Cap

http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=3e86beba-802a-23ad-4859-4d04a747ca75

Despite widespread political opposition to the concept of a carbon dioxide (CO2) cap-and-trade system, EPA has quietly uploaded to its website a computer simulator allowing users to act as an "environmental compliance officer" at a power plant and take steps to meet an imaginary CO2 emissions cap, highlighting the potential high costs and lost electricity generation possible from some steps to curb utilities' CO2 emissions.

The simulator is already prompting questions from a spokesman for Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), the ranking member on the environment committee and a long-time critic of CO2 caps, who questioned why EPA is "spending time and financial resources developing a global warming cap-and-trade game for the classroom to begin with?"

Jeff Masters Climate Weighting Rules

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/jeff-masters-climate-weighting-rules/
If it is hot in Moscow and cool in Chicago – Moscow makes up 99% of the planet. If it is warm in Chicago, and very cold in Moscow – Chicago makes up 99% of the planet

Sometimes they forget

http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/sometimes-they-forget/
The sophistry here is that we have a history of post-hoc selection of methods (hide the decline), brow-beating of those with different results (the Trenberth travesty), and blocking of papers which refute results (many references). Now we find that many more Yamal region proxy series were available than stated and a reconstruction from such a strong hockey stick temperature region (usually a 3 month project) has taken years to reach the public eye. Unsurprisingly, now that a basic estimate was published by Steve McIntyre, the data doesn't seem to support the six sigma Yamal trend. So, in context, the request is hardly unreasonable.

Environmental groups collecting millions from federal agencies they sue, studies show

http://sppiblog.org/news/environmental-groups-collecting-millions-from-federal-agencies-they-sue-studies-show
Deep-pocketed environmental groups are collecting millions of dollars from the federal agencies they regularly sue under a little-known federal law, and the government is not even keeping track of the payouts, according to two new studies.

Slightly Less Implausible Deniability At NASA

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/slightly-less-implausible-deniability-at-nasa-today/
Earlier this year, GISS cooled the past way down in Iceland, despite the fact that both the Icelandic Met Office and The UK Met Office agreed with the original data. Today, GISS partially corrected the problem, thanks to bloggers...

Flashback 1972 – David Suzuki: Humans are just “maggots” that “defecate all over the environment”

http://hauntingthelibrary.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/flashback-1972-david-suzuki-humans-are-maggots-that-defecate-all-over-the-environment/

A fascinating clip from 1972 has surfaced, giving us a searing insight into how Suzuki really views humanity, and it's not a pleasant picture. In the clip, Suzuki can be heard detailing his world view that people are "maggots" that "defecate all over the environment".  Far from viewing children and the next children as a repository of hope and change, as he's argued in published interviews, he Suzuki explains he sees babies as just like maggots that hatch from the egg, crawl out of the womb and then crawl around like maggots simply eating and defecating all over the environment.

A young woman can be heard murmuring in agreement " . . . the world is overrun with maggots", to which Suzuki nods in agreement and carries on.

Nice huh?

Stocker in Oxford

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/5/12/stocker-in-oxford.html
Now obviously the weakly grounded beliefs of modern climate scientists aren't in the Newtonian league (and nor, equally, is their work) but they do seem to have very strong beliefs based on weak or equivocal evidence. Of course they don't tend to spend their time in hermit-like isolation (see below) but they seldom if ever are obliged to engage directly with lucid sceptics. So I wonder if the reason for the strength of climate scientists' weakly supported beliefs is that not only are they similar to Newton in that they seldom or never face opposition, but they constantly reinforce one another's beliefs.

I also wonder (hope?) if, in some more rational future, "AGW" will be investigated mainly by psychologists as a powerful example of a recurrent and damaging aspect of human behaviour.

Oh, and this is somewhat BTW, and possibly unfair, but I looked at the website for WG1 and came across a list of the meetings and workshops for the group. The noble men and women in WG1 have, since 2009, endured travel to and stay in the following locations: Honolulu, Oslo, Venice, Geneva, Bali, Panama, Boulder, Hanoi, Kuala Lumpur, Stanford, Belgium (hmmm, someone slipped up), Geneva again, Kunming (China), Okinawa, Gold Coast (Australia), Lima, Brest, Kampala and Marrakech. They are plainly terrified of the effect of all those CO2 emissions.

Ed Caryl Responds To Latest Warmist Gaseous End-Of-World Scare Scenario

http://notrickszone.com/2012/05/12/ed-caryl-responds-to-latest-warmist-gaseous-end-of-world-scare-scenario/
GroupThink is a huge problem in climate science. It colors every paper published. Well researched facts are presented in such a way that they support the preconceived idea that AGW is real with a big C in front of it, when they are just facts that have no relationship to that idea. This is proved time after time in paper after paper by all the "fudge" words that are needed to make the facts fit the premise. This problem makes separating the wheat from the chaff in the climate field very difficult. I for one will be very happy to see the premise collapse.

Coal still the most cost-effective baseload fossile fuel in Europe

http://newnostradamusofthenorth.blogspot.com/2012/05/coal-still-most-cost-effective-baseload.html

What about the "green" energy sources, praised by all politically correct EU politicians and executives? Well, the guys at Barclays Capital have done some deep research on this: 

Barclays Capital said in a research note that stronger seasonal winds and longer, sunnier days would help wind and solar power generation take a larger share from coal burn in the summer.

Peiser on journal and media bias

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/5/12/peiser-on-journal-and-media-bias.html

Benny Peiser's review of the way scientific journals and newspapers cover global warming is a must-read:

The integrity of the science media will depend on whether they will encourage critique and fault-finding analysis by consensus sceptics - or whether they will continue their course towards unbalanced campaign journalism. Given the well-documented reluctance of mainstream science media to accept submissions by critical scientists and the aversion to report on critical papers published elsewhere, I remain unconvinced that science journalism will moderate its blinkered attitudes in the near future.

Media Claims Antarctic Ice Crisis, Yet Ice Continues to Grow

http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/home/10176-media-claims-antarctic-ice-crisis-yet-ice-continues-to-grow

Reuters and other media outlets are publishing claims this morning that global warming is threatening Antarctic ice shelves. The rash of media stories perfectly illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of each side in the global warming debate.

Computer models, programmed by global warming alarmists to assume that carbon dioxide causes substantial global warming, keep predicting rapidly warming Antarctic temperatures and melting ice sheets. In the real world, however, Antarctica is not warming at all and the Antarctic ice sheet is in a long-term expansion.

Top 10 misguided energy policies

http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/home/10177-top-10-misguided-energy-policies
Taken individually, the items on this list are outrageous enough; but collectively, these ten examples show how the current administration puts America's energy needs behind the left's obsession with global warming alarmism.

When Global Warming Hits Home (Literally) | The Energy Collective

http://theenergycollective.com/peterlehner/84726/when-global-warming-hits-home-literally

In a recent PBS documentary, the mayor of Norfolk, Virginia, Paul Fraim, talks about how flooding has become a monthly occurrence in his town, and how global warming and sea level rise are as much a daily issue for him as education and fighting crime. In some parts of Norfolk, streets turn into rivers at high tide. Homes are flooded five out of six years. People lose their carpets, their appliances, their savings. And they can't afford to move elsewhere.

Sea levels have risen 14 inches in Norfolk since 1930--almost double the global rate. Part of this alarming change is due to the natural sinking of the area's soggy tidal lands, but part of it is due to the rising sea levels brought about by global warming. Like stranded polar bears in the North Pole, like disappearing island nations in the Pacific, waterlogged Norfolk is yet another symbol of global warming at work. And even though Norfolk is within spitting distance of our nation's capital, Congress still hasn't seemed to grasp the seriousness of the situation.

Sustainability Now Radio: Confronting the Climate Disinformation Campaign at Penn State: Video

http://sustainabilitynowradio.blogspot.com/2012/05/confronting-climate-disinformation.html
Here is the video for the free presentation given on April 30, 2012 on Penn State's University Park Campus. Penn State professors Michael Mann, Donald Brown, Janet Swim and Rick Schuhmann, and graduate student Peter Buckland spoke Monday evening at "Changing the Moral Climate on Climate Change," a talk that focused on climate change denial. Mann is director of Penn State's Earth System Science Center and part of the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Susannah Barsom, with the university's Center for Sustainability, moderated the event, which included a question and answer session.

Electric Car Advantages? Obama's 'MPG' Fraud For EV's Is Ripping Off Consumers - Time To 'Crucify' EPA Bureaucrats?

http://www.c3headlines.com/2012/04/electric-car-advantages-obamas-epa-mpg-fraud.html
Numerous persons, from a wide variety of political persuasions, are making it clear they are not happy with the miles-per-gallon fraud that Obama's EPA is foisting on the public. Simply put, if an all electric vehicle has an EPA mileage rating of 99 mpg (MPGe), such as the Nissan Leaf, in reality it is only getting 36 mpg.

Of Dinosaur Farts and Brain Farts: The Latest Climate Fail | Power Line

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/05/40059.php

I recall Hansen (and Gore) saying back around 2004 or so that we had less than a decade to solve the problem of global warming.  Good to know that they're going to shut up in a couple of years and go away.

National leaders unanimous in their inaction on climate change: Andrew Coyne | Full Comment | National Post

http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2012/05/11/andrew-coyne-national-leaders-unanimous-in-their-inaction-on-climate-change/

No sea ice for seals? They'll adapt and go elsewhere, feds says

http://www.canada.com/seals+They+adapt+elsewhere+feds+says/6608988/story.html
the population has increased in the past four decades - fourfold since the 1970s

NOAA Resuscitates 285 People In St. Louis | Real Science

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/noaa-resuscitates-285-people-in-st-louis/

540 people were killed by a tornado which hit St. Louis in May, 1896.

Revkin’s NYT article disputes the ‘severe weather is climate’ meme, but balance problems remain

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/11/revkins-nyt-article-disputes-the-severe-weather-is-climate-meme-but-balance-problems-remain/

But if he's only offering his students one side of the debate from a politically funded blog, it seems to me he really can't make broad claims of balance with accuracy. If you look at all of his videos here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/anrevk#g/u

You'll also find a video interview with James Hansen and Sir John Beddington, both vocal proponents for climate alarm, but not a single skeptical scientist rates an interview in his video channel that I can find.

How about it Andy? Are you ready to show a skeptical scientist and lend your considerable media clout to making it known worldwide?

An Unsent Memo to James Hansen

http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/an-unsent-memo-to-james-hansen
Climate scientists have to stop treating ENSO as noise, James. The process of ENSO serves as a source of naturally created and stored thermal energy that is discharged, redistributed and recharged periodically. Because these three functions (discharge, redistribution and recharge) all fluctuate (see Note 1), impacts of ENSO on global climate vary on annual, multiyear and multidecadal timescales

Climate change triggers high lightning strikes

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=504993&version=1&template_id=44&parent_id=24
climate change is contributing to its increased frequency as the recent years have seen a greater number of fatal incidents of lightning strike except last year

A heated rant about climate change | Stephen M. Walt

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/05/11/a_heated_rant_about_climate_change
If Hansen is right -- and his track record is pretty good -- this behavior is utterly myopic. I'm not saying that we shouldn't devote some attention to other issues

The Bias of Science

http://judithcurry.com/2012/05/11/the-bias-of-science/

As Sarewitz states, "A biased scientific result is no different from a useless one."

Forecast the Facts Applauds USAA for Pulling Their Support from Heartland Institute - The Paramus Post - Greater Paramus News and Lifestyle Webzine

http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/20120511155001106
"Since the U.S. military has recognized climate change as a key national security threat, it's fitting that USAA has pulled their support for an organization that uses Osama bin Laden as the poster child for global warming," said Forecast the Facts Campaign Manager Brad Johnson.

U.S. – 529 Record Lows in April

http://iceagenow.info/2012/05/u-s-529-record-lows-april/
INCLUDES FAIRFIELD, SC, which, with a low of 19 F on April 14, beat old record by 10 degrees.

“Global Warming Or Not? The Relative Roles Of Externally Forced Versus Internally Generated Decadal Climate ” By Gerald A. Meehl, NCAR

http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/global-warming-or-not-the-relative-roles-of-externally-forced-versus-internally-generated-decadal-climate-by-gerald-a-meehl-ncar/
Finally, this is yet another example of why the use of the global average surface temperature trend (which does not sample this heat when it is used to diagnose global warming) is a very inadequate metric for this purpose.

Critics: Biggest UN summit heading toward failure

http://democratherald.com/news/world/critics-biggest-un-summit-heading-toward-failure/article_e70f060d-89ae-5c59-aa8d-31618c0acda6.html

The largest-ever United Nations conference, a summit billed as a historic opportunity to build a greener future, appears to be going up in smoke.

U.S. President Barack Obama likely won't be there, and the leaders of Britain and Germany have bowed out. The entire European Parliament delegation has canceled.

Record-breaking cold for Montana

http://iceagenow.info/2012/05/record-breaking-cold-montana/

Carbon tax pointless, says miner

http://www.smh.com.au/business/carbon-tax-pointless-says-miner-20120511-1yi9v.html

THE head of Australia's largest coal company, Tony Haggarty, has denounced Australia's carbon tax as ''pointless'' and said he is sceptical about human efforts to control climate change.

In an interview with BusinessDay, the Whitehaven Coal managing director - who this month sealed a $5.1 billion merger between Whitehaven and Nathan Tinkler's Aston Resources - said he did not accept the climate science as ''having proved anything''.

''I don't say that it's wrong, but it's the height of human arrogance to think that we understand climate and, moreover, to think we can control it, I think that's utterly ridiculous. Pollution is bad, I don't think anybody can argue with that. Whether carbon dioxide is the devil, I'm not sure. The root of it, of course, is population growth and the debate ignores that, because it is politically impossible to discuss.''

Varied Views on Extreme Weather in a Warming Climate - NYTimes.com

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/another-view-on-extreme-weather-in-a-warming-climate/

Through decades of work, James E. Hansenof NASA has earned his plaudits as a climate scientist. But his intensifying personal pushfor aggressive cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases has come with a framing of climate science that is being criticized by some respected researchers for stepping beyond what peer-reviewed studies have concluded.

World newspaper coverage of climate change or global warming on decline

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/05/world-newspaper-coverage-of-climate.html

According to a study from the Center for Science & Technology Policy Research, world newspaper coverage of 'climate change' or 'global warming' has been on a declining trend since 2007 to some of the lowest levels since the study began in 2004. Coverage spiked shortly after the premier of Gore'sscience fiction movie An Inconvenient Truth and following Climategate I, but the biggest threat to mankind appears to no longer be as newsworthy.

New paper contends that carbon dioxide causes less than 50% of the greenhouse effect

http://www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=1553

EU’s Hedegaard Says CO2 Auctions Review Is Short-Term Fix

http://junkscience.com/2012/05/11/eus-hedegaard-says-co2-auctions-review-is-short-term-fix/
The European Union's planned measure to delay some carbon auctions is a short-term tool to tackle oversupply and will be followed by talks on further steps to bolster the bloc's climate policies, the EU climate chief said

Aus: Carbon price denounced as ‘unrealistic’ by expert

http://junkscience.com/2012/05/11/aus-carbon-price-denounced-as-unrealistic-by-expert/
ONE of the nation's leading carbon-pricing experts has described as "unrealistic in the extreme" Treasury's budget forecast of a $29-a-tonne carbon price in 2015-16, and warned of a multi-billion-dollar risk to the budget

Boy Sues Government To Stop Global Warming. James Hansen Come Out Of Hiding

http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=5613
Come on, Hansen, old boy. Let's give us a real forecast. Cease this vagaries and put some dates and hard numbers on the doom you see so clearly.

‘Death threat’ guy says the ANU story is bull

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/death_threat_guy_says_the_anu_story_is_bull/#103961
The guy behind the one "death threat" identified has blown the whistle on the hoax

The Virtual Reality Of Climate Science

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/the-virtual-reality-of-climate-science/
Billions of dollars are spent every year to speculate on what the climate would be like below 350 ppm CO2. This is possibly the stupidest venture in scientific history, because we have huge amounts of historical information available...

Germany’s Federal Network Agency: Power Grid “On The Brink” – Thanks To Renewable Energies

http://notrickszone.com/2012/05/11/germanys-federal-network-agency-power-grid-on-the-brink-thanks-to-renewable-energies/

Steffen Hentrich of the Liberal Institute writes on how Germany's once impeccably stable world-class power grid has been transformed and is today just one step away from being a developing-world laughing stock. This has all been accomplished in just a few short years – thanks to the country's reckless and uncontrolled rush to renewable energies, wind and sun, all spurred on by a blind environmental movement and hysteria with respect to nuclear power.

allAfrica.com: Africa: The End of Climate Policy As We Know It

http://allafrica.com/stories/201205111071.html
Since the COP 17 climate negotiations at Durban optimism is back again - at least in public speeches and official documents. But in private, many within the larger climate policy community think that U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations will probably fail again.

Coffee shortages loom as climate change takes hold | News | The Grocer

http://www.thegrocer.co.uk/topics/environment/coffee-shortages-loom-as-climate-change-takes-hold/229070.article
As the eurozone crisis gains pace, climate change is in danger of falling off the agenda

- Bishop Hill blog - RealClimate on Yamal

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/5/11/realclimate-on-yamal.html
Why was Briffa publishing a paper saying there was no evidence of the divergence problem in his boreal forest regional chronologies when he had a Yamal regional chronology in his hand that said that there was such a problem?

An Inconvenient Lawsuit: Teenagers Take Global Warming to the Courts - Katherine Ellison - National - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/an-inconvenient-lawsuit-teenagers-take-global-warming-to-the-courts/256903/

The tall, lanky Loorz is an especially compelling spokesman for the U.S. children's lawsuit. He became a climate activist at age 12, when, like Olson, spurred to action after watching An Inconvenient Truth -- in his case, twice in one evening

Does Your Portfolio Need A Carbon Credit ETF? - Zacks.com

http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/74959/does-your-portfolio-need-a-carbon-credit-etf
With the increasing participation of nations in the guidelines of Kyoto Protocol (KP) and rising social accountability, the emission trading industry has the potential to emerge as a major global industry, despite non-ratification of the Kyoto Protocol by the U.S.

Redford may skip Rio climate change summit for environment minister to attend

http://www.calgaryherald.com/touch/technology/story.html?id=6602263

Premier Alison Redford says she might leave the climate change summit in Rio next month to Alberta Environment Minister Diana McQueen, who represented Alberta at last year's conference in South Africa.

Live-blogging Buffettpalooza - Deal Journal - WSJ

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2012/05/05/live-blogging-buffettpalooza/
Energy independence is "the most ridiculous idea I've ever heard grown people discuss," Mr. Munger says. He says the U.S. should use others' energy supplies and conserve its own.

Bill Nye the Science Guy: Climate change more important than economy [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller

http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/09/bill-nye-the-science-guy-climate-change-more-important-than-economy-video/

Bill Nye the Science Guy told the Daily Caller on Tuesday that climate change is a bigger problem than the economy or high unemployment.

MURDOCK: Spacemen to NASA: Cool it on global warming - Washington Times

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/10/spacemen-to-nasa-cool-it-on-global-warming/
To the long list of right-wing, knuckle-dragging know nothings who dare question "global warming," environmentalists can add six Apollo astronauts, two rocket men who flew aboard Skylab and a pair of former directors of the Johnson Space Center (JSC).

Former Labor minister slams Gillard's green building move | smh.com.au

http://m.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/former-labor-minister-slams-gillards-green-building-move-20120510-1yfnl.html
Master Builders Australia chief executive Wilhelm Harnisch said: ''While moving towards a surplus is important, this is at odds with the government's mantra about having to introduce the carbon tax and to reduce the carbon footprint.''

Shortsighted Republicans Eliminate International Climate Aid Funding. Again. | ThinkProgress

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/05/10/482182/shortsighted-republicans-eliminate-international-climate-aid-funding-again/?mobile=wp

Yesterday, the House Foreign Affairs Appropriations Subcommittee passed the 2013 foreign operations budget, whichfor a second year in a row cut entire programs crucial for helping developing countries address climate change impacts and advance on a low-emission economic trajectory.

2012-05-09 Internationally Renowned Environmentalist Launches Run For U.S. Congress Citing Need For Massive Reorganization Of Government And Business To Deal With World Crises

http://www.gp.org/press/pr-national.php?ID=511
A New York City author whose book and documentary film No Impact Man helped bring climate change into popular consciousness today announces his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives. Colin Beavan PhD will run on the Green Party ticket in New York's 8th Congressional District, following the vacancy left by the retirement of Representative Edolphus Towns.

Us and Them: The Psychology Behind the Heartland Institute Billboards

http://www.desmogblog.com/us-and-them-psychology-behind-heartland-institute-billboards
[Chris "my opponents have defective brains" Mooney] The Heartland Institute is ignoring basic intellectual distinctions and all sense of nuance, and dividing the world up into black and white extremes.

On the climate, the holocaust, denial, billboards, and all that | Watts Up With That?

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/10/on-the-climate-the-holocaust-denial-billboards-and-all-that/
Some folks have suggested that this episode marks "the end of climate skepticsm if Heartland fails". What they don't realize is that Heartland was never the "headquarters" for climate skepticism, only an occasional facilitator for a bringing together a widely diverse set of people. Even if Heartland were to disappear tomorrow, climate skepticism is now a mainstream issue, it will continue. As confirmed by many polls, there are millions of people who are skeptical of the issue like we are here on WUWT. That isn't going away any time soon.

Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation announces $7 million in funding for adaptation projects in Alberta - Business Review Canada

http://www.businessreviewcanada.ca/press_releases/climate-change-and-emissions-management-ccemc-corporation-announces-7-million-in-funding-for-adaptat
EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - May 10, 2012) - The Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCEMC) Corporation is providing $7 million in funding to support three projects that will help Albertans prepare for climate change.

Turning Water Vapor Into Pollution

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CoyoteBlog/~3/3m8mORKDeQk/turning-water-vapor-into-pollution.html

Several years ago I wrote a post about how frequently steam plumes are used as illustrations to articles on pollution.  In the US, if you see a cloud coming out of a smokestack, adds are about 100:1 its steam, not smoke.  Look how many of the results today in Google images for "air pollution" are actually plumes of water vapor.

One trick environmental sites will play is to Photoshop the contrast and darkness of the steam plume to try to make it look smokier.  Here is a good example

15 years later, Bill Clinton returns to Costa Rica

http://www.ticotimes.net/Current-Edition/News-Briefs/15-years-later-Bill-Clinton-returns-to-Costa-Rica_Thursday-May-10-2012

He said he's witnessing a change of thinking in Third World countries, where they're beginning to realize an economy can "get healthy without putting greenhouse gases in the atmosphere."

15 years later, Bill Clinton returns to Costa Rica

http://www.ticotimes.net/Current-Edition/News-Briefs/15-years-later-Bill-Clinton-returns-to-Costa-Rica_Thursday-May-10-2012

The former president apologized for the crisis and for the effects of global warming on Costa Rica, adding that Central America has taken the brunt of the effects of climate change. The region has seen a dramatic increase in the number of hurricanes and floods, disasters experts link with global warming.

Rep. Cravaack attempts to cut climate change education funding - Minneapolis Moderate | Examiner.com

http://www.examiner.com/article/rep-cravaack-attempts-to-cut-climate-change-education-funding

Rep. Chip Cravaack, the freshman congressman (MN-8) from Minnesota, has successfully amended legislation pending before the House to cut funding from a national climate change education initiative.  Not content to simply argue against progress in editorials, Rep. Cravaack has now subtly placed himself on the side of the climate denialists in his weak attempt to remove funding for an educational program that seeks to inform young people about the effects of climate change in their lives.

Lines in the Sand

http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2012/05/lines-in-the-sand-commentary/

So Republicans have their narrative, and they appear to be sticking with it. And on the science landscape, if Hansen's marker in the Times is any indication, the "game over" and extreme weather narratives are becoming equally established.

Jim Hansen’s 1981 Model Prediction Needs Scrutiny

http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/jim-hansens-1981-model-prediction-needs-scrutiny/

Lets see if Jim, Gavin Schmidt, or other weblogs that communicate his viewpoint, such as Grant Foster at Tamino and Skeptical Science, respond to this observational study that illustrates a substantive disagreement with the climate model prediction of global warming.  So far they have ignore this disparity between the real world and the models.

What's up with NYT's Revkin? He touts essay: 'A look at denial, from Holocaust to climate fight' by a survivor of Bergen-Belsen & a warmist physics prof. at Brooklyn College | Climate Depot

http://www.climatedepot.com/a/15837/Whats-up-with-NYTs-Revkin-He-touts-essay-A-look-at-denial-from-Holocaust-to-climate-fight-by-a-survivor-of-BergenBelsen--a-warmist-physics-prof-at-Brooklyn-College

Is featuring an essay linking Holocaust denial to climate 'denial', worthy of a shout out on Revkin's blog? Excerpt: 'Denying the Holocaust today, with all the available factual information, requires denying of all of history... But most of our history is based on flimsier evidence, and climate change deniers like to say that using scientific 'theories' to explain climate change is not really 'proof.'

EU lawmakers won't go to Rio+20, can't afford the hotel

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LuboMotlsReferenceFrame/~3/Jxbp_argxBA/eu-wont-go-to-rio20-cant-afford-hotel.html
The policies resulting from the Rio talks and a few related events brought us to the current world, a world which spends several billion dollars a year for climate change research, about ten billion dollars for climate change analysts and journalists, and... about half a trillion dollars a year for the actual policies trying to curb the CO2 emissions (which don't work but still introduce huge and costly inefficiencies to the system).

Solyndra Update - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/299513/solyndra-update-greg-pollowitz#

The good news: Solyndra is selling assets. For example,

Michael Lohmeyer is launching his own design company. He attended one of Solyndra's auctions and purchased 10 computer screens for $600.

Just $814,999,400 to go!

Fisker Electric Car Burns Down House in Texas?

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/299555/fisker-electirc-car-burns-down-house-texas-greg-pollowitz

Do You Have a Permit to Kill That Bald Eagle?

http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/299567/do-you-have-permit-kill-bald-eagle-greg-pollowitz

Heritage:

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a division of the Interior Department, is considering loosening regulations on the killing of bald eagles, the national bird of the United States, to accommodate the development of wind energy sources.

The administrators' view

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/5/10/the-administrators-view.html

As we know, the Royal Society does not consult its fellows before issuing these dramatic statements. No doubt the other academies are the same. We can safely say therefore that these words represent the view of the academies' adminstrators and not their scientists.

The academies traditionally issue one of these statements before major international summit meetings. They normally involve demands for money and/or political action in line with the philosophical views of the academy administrators. Clearly this one is no exception.

Game Over for the Climate - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/opinion/game-over-for-the-climate.html?_r=1
[Hansen] We can say with high confidence that the recent heat waves in Texas and Russia, and the one in Europe in 2003, which killed tens of thousands, were not natural events — they were caused by human-induced climate change.

California eyes cap-and-trade link with Quebec - 10 May 2012 - News from BusinessGreen

http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2173748/california-eyes-cap-trade-link-quebec

Balance prosperity with emissions, Asian nations warned - 10 May 2012 - News from BusinessGreen

http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2173805/balance-prosperity-emissions-asian-nations-warned

Asian countries have been told a "growth first, clean up later" attitude is not an option and they must strike a balance between rising prosperity and rising emissions.

The warning comes in a new UN report and could represent a departure from the organisation's previous stance on international climate changenegotiations in the lead up to global environmental talks at the Rio+20 summit next month.

Defeated Sen. Lugar laments GOP climate stance - The Hill's E2-Wire

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/226307-defeated-sen-lugar-laments-gop-climate-stance

Lugar is among a dwindling number of GOP lawmakers who has spoken about the need to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Mourdock, in contrast, hasslammed what he calls "junk science associated with global climate change alarmism."

Giant SoCal water agency says global warming law will cost it $10 million to $50 million a year - chicagotribune.com

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-mct-giant-socal-water-agency-says-global-warming-law-20120510,0,4627241.story

Southern California's biggest water wholesaler says it faces an extra $10 million to $50 million in annual expenses to comply with California's global warming law.

Those costs will flow down to ratepayers already stressed by steeply rising bills, said the giant Metropolitan Water District, importer of most of the water used in Southern California.

Death Threats? Just More Lies From The Hockey Team

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/death-threat
Why would the hockey team be any more honest about their death threat claims than they are about science? They called these messages "death threats."

NYT's Revkin Calls Climate Depot's Marc Morano 'Divisive and Toxic' | NewsBusters.org

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/05/09/nyts-revkin-calls-climate-depots-marc-morano-divisive-and-toxic#ixzz1uO6aq23y

So if Morano were to start writing about things Revkin sees important, he "would be constructive and non-toxic."

That's an awfully strange thing for a man now teaching environmental journalism at Pace University.

Or maybe not.

After all, the point of "environmental journalism" is and has been first and foremost to scare the public into believing ecological crises are imminent irrespective of the facts.

Accomplishing this requires "environmental journalists" to whenever possible depict people that don't agree with their view as non-scientists and deniers going against the so-called consensus.

That includes calling them "divisive and toxic."

How nice that a new generation of "environmental journalists" are being tought such a closed-minded and biased way to share their views with the public.

A whole new crop of writers calling anyone that disagrees with them divisive and toxic.

Big donors ditch rightwing Heartland Institute over Unabomber billboard | Environment | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/09/heartland-institute-donors-lost-unabomber-ad

Drinks firm Diageo, which owns brands such as Guinness, Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker and Moët & Chandon, also pulled its funding and told the Guardian: "Diageo vigorously opposes climate scepticism." However, Diageo funding for Heartland was just $10,000 over the last two years.

It was suggested the exodus might force Heartland to cancel its annual climate conference, scheduled for Chicago later this month. But Jim Lakely, a Heartland spokesman, said in an email: "The conference is going forward as planned. Only one (nonpaying) co-sponsor out of 50 has stepped away from the event." He claimed the thinktank hoped to attract more corporate support for the three-day gathering.

Czech president condemns 'aggressive' Heartland Institute adverts | Environment | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/10/vaclav-klaus-heartland-institute-adverts?newsfeed=true
Václav Klaus, the Czech president and prominent climate sceptic, has condemned a controversial billboard campaign used by a rightwing US thinktank to advertise the forthcoming conference at which he is scheduled to give the keynote speech. However, his spokesman said Klaus will not join other speakers who have pulled out in protest and says he still intends to proceed with the engagement.

Mars: climate change faster than thought

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LuboMotlsReferenceFrame/~3/hkKwfLGv2wU/mars-climate-change-faster-than-thought.html
And Mars seems like a more boring, static place than the Earth with its constantly varying cloud cover and turbulence in the atmosphere. The idea that the Earth should be naturally keeping its global mean temperature constant within tenths of a degree doesn't sound sensible given the facts we know, especially the big-picture physical facts that also involve those from other celestial bodies.

Some of the global warming on other planets (and our blue, not green planet) has been attributed to the Sun and/or nearby cosmic rays. The shared positive sign in most cases is suggestive but I remain an agnostic here. The internal, mostly random planetary variability is still a plausible explanation for all the changes.

Phil Agrees That Jim Is Cheating

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/phil-agrees-that-jim-is-cheating/
CRUTEM4v shows that the grid cell which Nuuk, Greenland is located on, has no temperature trend over the last 100 years. GISS used to show the same thing, but Hansen recently corrupted the Nuuk temperature data

A Rather Remarkable Old Article

http://chiefio.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/a-rather-remarkable-old-article/
A remarkable article from 1979 that called warming to 2000, then cooling. Based on cycles observed in isotopes in tree rings and sediments.

Tim Ball: Pre-Industrial And Current CO2 Levels Deliberately Corrupted

http://junkscience.com/2012/05/10/tim-ball-pre-industrial-and-current-co2-levels-deliberately-corrupted/
I've told this story before but it requires repeating because of awareness of climate science corruption. Even skeptics realize claims of incompetence are inadequate. Official Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate science was completely orchestrated for a premeditated result.

IBD: Obama Stalls U.S. Energy Independence, Enemies Smile

http://junkscience.com/2012/05/10/ibd-obama-stalls-u-s-energy-independence-enemies-smile/
Do America's enemies wish us well? It's an important question because they've made a big push to halt U.S. energy production. So why does the Obama administration's policies support their aims?

James Delingpole: Official: Great Barrier Reef doing just fine

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog/~3/aIIPVV8hxSM/index.php
Take it from me: the Great Barrier Reef is going to survive a hell of a lot longer than Catastrophic Anthropogenic Warming Theory.

Worstall and the carbon tax: Have you boiled your head yet? « Shub Niggurath Climate

http://nigguraths.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/tim-worstall-head-boil/

"What are you guys doing with all the money!?

"I don't know. I was for giving it to a windmill charity. My uncle wants to buy a supercomputer for climate modeling. Joe is miffed: ""What're you looking at me like that for? If you don't understand stuff this simple, you can go boil your head."

Evening Express - Article - Skippers slam claims of dwindling North Sea fish stocks

http://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/Article.aspx/2763643
Skippers have described evidence that cod and haddock are shifting to colder waters because of climate change as "utter nonsense, adding a government scientist's claims were based on "ill-informed" findings.

ANU "death threat" emails released | Australian Climate Madness

http://www.australianclimatemadness.com/2012/05/anu-death-threat-emails-released/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anu-death-threat-emails-released

Let's reread the ABC's story on this (my emphasis):

Several of Australia's top climate change scientists at the Australian National University have been subjected to a campaign of death threats, forcing the university to tighten security.

Revkin.net: "A look at denial, from Holocaust to climate fight"

http://revkin.tumblr.com/post/22751917372/a-look-at-denial-from-holocaust-to-climate-fight

A look at denial, from Holocaust to climate fight, by Micha Tomkiewicz, survivor of Bergen-Belsen & physics prof. at Brooklyn College.

Blog: Heartland Institute 'Unabomber billboard' brings out Global Warming Alarmists' One-Trick Pony

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/05/m-heartland_institute_unabomber_billboard_brings_out_global_warming_alarmists_one-trick_pony.html
Yes, the billboard was a gift to alarmists on a silver platter, but ultimately is a fleeting reprieve in the unavoidable collapse of the entire issue.

The issue is only kept alive when people -- whoever they happen to be -- unquestioningly accept a trio of 15 year-old talking points saying "the science is settled, skeptics are corrupted by industry money, and everyone may ignore skeptics because of the prior two points". Alarmists have failed for nearly 20 years to prove the science is settled or that skeptics are unworthy of public trust, but they've only accomplished this by avoiding any debate about those assertions.