But in each of these important fields where dissent has been treated as thoughtcrime, the world has moved on - and very much as the heretics were urging for so long. The global warming scare has not continued to unfold as projected by those bent computer models on which it rested. Temperatures have not risen as predicted, the ice caps aren't melting, nor sea levels rising, nor hurricanes, droughts and heatwaves intensifying as we were assured they would.
The Obama administration's record is terrible on pretty much every issue, but energy is one of the worst. Obama appointed a Secretary of Energy whose avowed goal was to raise the price of gasoline. Obama himself promised to make the price of electricity "skyrocket." Unfortunately, those wishes have come true. One especially damaging aspect of Obama's War on American Energy is his effort to drive coal-fired power plants–the nation's biggest source of electric power–out of business.
The Republican National Committee put out this short video to remind Ohio voters of the Obama/Biden administration's awful record when it comes to coal
The highlight of the early morning sessions was a presentation by Nobel Laureate and renowned climate change expert Dr. Michael Mann, who provided a historical perspective on climate change and how it could ultimately affect water levels and the environment as a whole if left unchecked.
Mann also discussed how the biggest obstacle to reversing climate change is often human rather than environmental, whether it's the resistance of the masses to change their everyday practices, or scientists who'd rather swim upstream for the sake of notoriety than deal with the science at hand.
"We can't downplay the importance of what has been an extremely well-organized, well-funded disinformation effort that has been financed by fossil-fuel industry groups, front groups who advocate for their interests to cloud the public discourse on this issue," Mann said. "Some of the attacks against the science are actually thinly veiled attacks against the scientists who are just like me out there doing research. They use words like 'hysteria' and 'fraud' and try to paint this picture of climate scientists as being part of some sort of conspiracy to take away their liberty to emit CO2 into the atmosphere. I don't think real people worry about that."
As for those real people, Mann said, finding solutions to climate change is often a matter of doing the things they know they should be doing every day to help the environment, but on a large-scale basis, which often takes some sort of outside influence.
"There are things we all know we ought to be doing," Mann said. "They're all the things we ought to be doing anyway because they're good for the environment, they're good for our health and they're good for our personal economies. But the sad fact is that we often need to be prodded. There are so many challenges in our lives, and it's easy to sort of shove these things aside as this long-term problem that's way off in the future. That's where it become essential that policy-makers help us establish incentives."
Barrow made it above freezing yesterday for the first time in seven months. This marks the official beginning of the Polar Bear drowning season.
We need two new earths or we'll die (poll) - TOWN HALL - Colorado Springs Gazette, CO
Do you believe the following statement? "We will need two Earths by 2030." Vote in poll to the right. Must vote to see results.
Is the holocaust denial/climate change denial comparison apt? : denialism blog
I don't contribute to the literature, and I don't have the technical expertise needed to challenge real climate scientists that are the true experts in this field. I am something of an expert in crankery though, so when you have cranks like Christopher Monckton, who asserts he's a member of parliament when he's not (they even had to send him a letter telling him to stop), who routinely makes the same debunked arguments over and over, and makes other bizarre claims like that he's discovered a cure for HIV, then I'm going to weigh in and call bullshit. Part of the problem is the Dunning-Kruger effect, people who are incompetent have a great deal of difficulty recognizing competence in others, while inflating estimates of their own competence. Cranks and denialists are probably incapable of judging whether someone is a legitimate source or authority. This is where crank magnetism comes from, as long as an "expert" agrees with them, their otherwise ludicrous views and behavior have no bearing. Intellectual consistency and expertise in the field in question has no relevance in their eyes as long as they spout out BS that fits with their ideological biases... Climate change denialism does not meet the standards for legitimate debate, it relies on conspiracy theories, bogus experts, cherry-picked data, crank journals, and appeals to the almighty.
Is New Green Law Creating More Green for Logging Companies? | NBC Bay Area
While Cap and Trade is being sold as the first step towards reversing global warming, NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit discovered some critics who point to the very law and say there are loopholes built into it that allow the program to be "gamed" to make some companies millions of dollars without significant benefits to the environment or significant reductions in greenhouse gases.
...Basically, these critics say the logging companies benefit twice under the current Cap and Trade rules, first by cutting the trees, then by getting paid through carbon offsets to r
"You hear the critics," Stock said. "If you're doing business as usual how do the rules improve the environment if you're not taking more carbon out of the air?"
"Right," Young answered. "But you're not doing business as usual. We have very strict rules. You have to grow trees bigger, you have to manage the trees better."
Companies that harvest timber like Sierra Pacific Industries, also known as SPI, admit they stand to gain tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars through carbon offsets.
Cold weather is here, wrap up | The New Age Online
"In South Africa, many people are not adequately clothed and sheltered against the cold weather of winter..."
Ravaged by freeze, farmers may get federal aid for fruit | Star-Gazette | stargazette.com
"The worst year I've ever seen," said Martin Schutt, owner of Schutt's Apple Mill in Webster. "I just don't know what we're going to do. Cherries, peaches, and apples, we have a total loss on all of them."
Climate engineering report ranked among top government priorities
Bickel and Lane's report ranked first among the four papers solicited on climate change, and 12th overall on a priority list released this week by the Copenhagen Consensus.
High chance of Bangladesh sinking under rising sea levels
...a particular example for which Schneider presents some numbers should frighten all of us. For low-lying countries like Bangladesh, one of the critical questions of climate change is how high sea level rise will be. The answer to this actually depends on whether or not the Greenland ice cap melts; this event would release enough water to raise global sea levels about 25 metres (about 80 feet). This would be the end for Bangladesh, sinking perhaps 75% of the country. It would also be the end of most of the world’s coastal cities like New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC and London. Here are Schneider’s estimates of how likely this is:
“For Greenland to irreversibly melt, my own [estimate] would be roughly a 2 to 5% chance that it is already too late and it will happen over the long run. At 1 degree Celsius more warming, I’d raise the odds to 25% ...” (page 274).
So this is the problem of climate science in a nutshell; the likelihood of a major catastrophe like 25 meter sea level rise could be theoretically be as low as 2 to 5%. So in the US, Republican politicians like George W. Bush as well as numerous Democrats whose political campaigns rely on donations from oil and coal companies will always focus on the 2% probability and dismiss climate change as a waste of time. However, for those of us who have not been paid off and can think for ourselves, the rest of the sentence should be shocking: “... and at 2 degrees Celsius to 60%, at 3 degrees Celsius to 90%, and so on” (page 274 continued).
Is climate change research holding back advances in weather forecasting? | JunkScience.com
Mass contends that the Federal emphasis on long-term climate prediction is a mistake, and that improving our short-term weather forecasts should be a much higher priority.
- Bishop Hill blog - Jeff Masters on Mann and PCA
So the world's leading expert on principal components analysis says that data analysed through Mann's "modern-centring convention" are uninterpretable. They are meaningless. Dr Masters says, nevertheless, that Mann has given one of the best explanations of the technique he has ever seen.
Perhaps Dr Masters needs to find himself a friendly statistician.
UK attracts CCS funding interest from 16 bidders | JunkScience.com
Britain’s energy ministry has registered interest from 16 bidders to enter its one-billion pound competition to fund one or more carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, the department said on Wednesday.
The New Nostradamus of the North: The EU global warming mafia wants to punish Poland
Let us hope that the mess created by the failed euro currency and the increasingly negative EU growth numbers will make it easier for the Poles to stand by their views against the ever more desperate Brussels global warming mafia.
Greenland Ice Melting At A Staggering Rate | Real Science
It is that new kind of ice which melts really fast at -32C.
Arctic To Be Ice-Free By The Year 2000 | Real Science
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Bill Nye 'The Science Guy' Challenges Harvey Mudd College Grads To Address Global Warming
Global Warming Scary For Plants | TheLedger.com
Boston University biology professor Richard Primack, quoted in the April 2012 issue of "Natural Awakenings," said, "There are a lot of things you can grow now that you couldn't grow before. People don't think of figs as a crop you can grow in the Boston area. You can do it now."
...But assisted colonization — moving plants to higher elevations that, due to climate change, might soon be suitable for long-term survival — is already being done by botanists desperate to stave off plant extinctions.
The Reference Frame: Where and why people's reasoning starts to diverge from the physical one
the people who try to link the atmospheric physics to conspiracy theories about tobacco industry or the Big Oil are real nuts.
Hardly revolutionary | JunkScience.com
As a piece of public education, the hopeless wind turbine exercise in Huddersfield seems to have been spot on.
German Energiewende: From Megashift To Megaflop? | JunkScience.com
When Chancellor Angela Merkel sacked her environment minister, Norbert Roettgen on May 15th this was not only for his failure as the CDU party’s main candidate in regional elections in North Rhine Westphalia, but, as many observers said, was also because Rottgen was the federal minister responsible for implementing the green energy transition. As political analysts noted, this sacking was probably an attempt by Merkel to blame Röttgen for Germany’s botched energy policies.
- Bishop Hill blog - Rand Simberg reviews the Yamal story
Rand Simberg at PJ Media reviews the Yamal story, quoting extensively from yours truly.
But at a minimum [Yamal] should be the final blow to the hockey stick, and perhaps to the very notion that bristlecone pines and larches are accurate thermometers. It should also be a final blow to the credibility of many of the leading lights of climate “science,” but based on history, it probably won’t be, at least among the political class. What it really should be is the beginning of the major housecleaning necessary if the field is to have any scientific credibility, but that may have to await a general reformation of academia itself. It would help, though, if we get a new government next year that cuts off funding to such charlatans, and the institutions that whitewash their unscientific behavior.
New study offers more evidence that historical fire suppression is the main contributing factor in today’s big southwestern fires
WARNING: Do not accept any criticisms of this list without first reading the notes...
The documentary offers the hard evidence that spreading environmental hubris and climate lies is a most
lucrative business. It also provides the proofs that public donations are not used to save troubled and endangered species that feature in their lavish
commercials. On the contrary WWF is exposed as a big promoter of the palm oil plants, a bio-fuel which is a major factor in habitat destruction and a primary cause of growing
global hunger and food inflation. But what’s even worse is the fact that they are a big promoter of carbon taxes and other green lies about fossil fuels that
undermine the very future of the people who donate money to this Green Dragon of Lies.
Headed for a cooler climate, say experts
Both global warming and global cooling “are the result of long-term climatic cycles, solar activity, sea-surface temperature patterns and more,” say climatologist Cliff Harris and meteorologist Randy Mann.
This graph shows those cycles.
Note the huge increase in volcanic activity during each of the cooler periods.
Twenty Five Years Of Ice Gain At The North Pole | Real Science
During the year 2000, an IPCC lead author hallucinated that he was participating in a 50 million year event.
Chief Scientist Needed For Large Country – Competent And Sane Need Not Apply | Real Science
January 19, 2009
...if you lose the summer sea ice, there are phenomena that could lead you not so very long thereafter to lose the winter sea ice as well. And if you lose that sea ice year round, it’s going to mean drastic climatic change all over the hemisphere.
-John Holdren, Obama’s science adviser
She plans to attend the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research this summer and fall in Germany, where she will study with a climate physicist and complete her senior thesis. "I'll be studying those tipping points in climate change that completely flip over the weather in a country," she said.
Her work overseas has helped solidify her future goals. Versteeg plans to pursue a PhD in climate physics or coastal engineering.
@HeartlandInst @MarkJWeather ex:. How do you not look at this and at least have doubt about co2 caused warming #ICCC7 pic.twitter.com/H4CdO3WB
Her name is Elizabeth Keadle — better known as Liz — a well-heeled Democratic donor from Southern California in her 50s with a background in science and a devotion to environmental causes.
The relationship is solid enough that she accompanied Gore, 64, and an eclectic group of experts and VIPs (Richard Branson, singer Jason Mraz, actor Tommy Lee Jones) on a trip to Antarctica in January to raise awareness of climate change.
Fueling Arctic warming: Seasonal ice absorbs more solar energy | Alaska Dispatch
This spring, the extent of Arctic ice was greater than any late winter since the early 2000s...
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...I would have preferred that Mann had stopped with the quote above, but he added
“I will call people who deny the science ‘deniers.’ I won’t be deterred by the fact that they don’t like the use of that term and no doubt that just endears me to them further. It’s frustrating of course because a lot of us would like to get past this nonsensical debate and on to the real debate to be had about what to do.”
While sharing Mann’s frustration, we now avoid using the term “denier” at ClimateBites. Though accurate and concise, labeling people “deniers” simply shuts many more doors — and minds — than it opens. I have heard several anecdotes about partially open-minded skeptics, including meteorologists, taking offense at the label, which they associated with Holocaust denial. No doubt, at least some undecided onlookers feel the same way, and that’s our real audience. Bottom line: In most situations, the costs of branding people “deniers” simply outweighs the benefits.
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Feds spent nearly $70B on 'climate change' since 2008 | The Daily Caller
The Congressional Research Service estimates that since 2008 the federal government has spent nearly $70 billion on “climate change activities.”
Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe presented the new CRS report on the Senate Floor Thursday to make the point that the Obama administration has been focused on “green” defense projects to the detriment of the military.
Cold, Wet and Miserable | Digging in the Clay
You probably don’t need to be told this, but May 2012 is ontrack to become the coldest for over three hundred years.
Billboard Wars, Chapter 2 (or Is It 3?) - NYTimes.com
Forecast the Facts, which is seeking to persuade corporations to end their donations to Heartland, would have presented the Pfizer pharmaceutical company’s logo alongside similarly imposing red letters reading: “We still support Climate Deniers. Do you?” Just below, Pfizer’s 2010 donation to the Heartland Institute, which a document circulated this spring put at $130,000, would be shown in small white print.
Leading members of prominent Indian NGOs have slammed the UK government’s “racism” in directing “tens of millions of pounds” to sterilise India’s poor in what they say is a misguided attempt to combat global warming. The UK government has been funding agencies that promise to carry out a certain number of sterilisations, a quota they have apparently been fulfilling with total ruthlessness and an appalling callousness, according to a report on the international RT Today news channel:
Move over climate change | Climate Nonconformist
Greenies are talking about it more? That means it must be a problem.
Afghan Refugee Children Perish in Harsh Winter - NYTimes.com
KABUL, Afghanistan — After a harsh winter killed children in refugee camps around the Afghan capital and brought attention to poor conditions there, a new study by a French aid agency said the disaster was more extensive than originally thought, with at least 100 young children claimed by the cold.
Can anybody explain to me how such an insignificant quantity of a gaseous substance can possible heat up the entire column of air . . . by re-radiation?
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Televised book event for "The Hockey Stick & Climate Wars" on CSPAN 2 Book TV (Sunday 7am & 10pm ET) #HSCW fb.me/1xLu2Jloe
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Heard this morning that another big company is going to go "carbon neutral" - are we seeing a trend? businessgreen.com/bg/james-blog/…
After two years of research, UCS found that the most important strategies for reducing a person’s carbon footprint are to change “what and how you drive, the energy you use at home, and what you eat.”
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Make you voice heard -- support the Carbon Pollution Standard: bit.ly/JTxsQh
Twitter / @borenbears: Too hot? Get used to it. # ...
[AP Warmist Seth Borenstein] Too hot? Get used to it. #NOAA Summer weather outlook for US seems like its from Sonny&Cher: And the Heat Goes On. apne.ws/J2Y0gx
QUT leads research to give farmers more carbon credits
The projects are part of a $70 million research program aimed at lowering agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, funded by the Australian Government.
Canada axes green advisory body | Environment | guardian.co.uk
The Canadian government is to mark the 25th anniversary of its green business advisers by shutting the agency down
Global Warming Makes Maple Syrup 'Yucky,' Ruins Breakfasts Everywhere
syrup output is down as much as 40 percent, and a lot of what was produced tastes gross
2012: Maple syrup season more sticky than sweet - Petoskey News
Michigan broke maple syrup production records last year, as well as in 2008 and 2009, according to the Michigan Agricultural Statistics Service.
Tracking The 97% Ice Free Arctic Expert Consensus | Real Science
According to Fortier, the Arctic has been possibly ice free since 2010. Zwally gives it possibly another twelve weeks and Maslowski possibly another year. Barber says it has been free of multi-year ice since 2010.
97% of the consensus of experts is 100% behind the fact that the Arctic is free of ice.
The Stable Climate Of The Past | Real Science
Hansen tells us that the climate was stable in the past, before man started tinkering with it. Jeff Masters tells us that the pleasant weather of spring 2012 was the most extreme weather the US has ever experienced.
More Evidence That Climate Science Is Just A Reaction To Weather | Real Science
Joe D’Aleo sent this over. California had a dry winter, so Scripps declares permanent drought.
Another Smoking Gun That Jones And Hansen Are Lying | Real Science
Below are some highlights of extreme weather from the supposedly very cold 1880s.
Temperature Trends for the last 180 months – HadCrut « Digital Diatribes
What is presented here is the trend over the last 180 months, the slope of which has been in very consistent decline over the last five years. The current slope itself is -.0106, and it is the second month in which the trend line is negative. The current slope is the lowest value for a 15 year trend line fitted since February 1977 (back when people were concerned about another ice age).
Q. and A.: How to Save Bangladesh? - NYTimes.com
Vast areas are underwater half the time, so farmers can’t go into their fields or grow anything then; they have to rely on something else for most of the year.
These things have always happened in Bangladesh, but with climate change it is expected that these flash floods will occur more frequently, and rainfall will be more intense and erratic.
Flashback: Bangladesh gaining land, not losing: scientists
DHAKA (AFP) — New data shows that Bangladesh's landmass is increasing, contradicting forecasts that the South Asian nation will be under the waves by the end of the century, experts say.
Scientists from the Dhaka-based Center for Environment and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS) have studied 32 years of satellite images and say Bangladesh's landmass has increased by 20 square kilometres (eight square miles) annually.
Climate Change Dispatch - Giving The Global Warming Bully A Free Pass
The disconcerting reality, however, is that the most vocal critics of the billboard campaign do not apply their offense and outrage equally against all parties. The alarmist global warming movement is heavily populated with hateful extremists who routinely insult and defame skeptics in the most repugnant of manner. The media and most global warming activists unfailingly give these extremists a free pass for their hateful and incendiary rhetoric, yet they have stoked a witch hunt mentality against the Heartland Institute now that the Institute finally succumbed to the bully’s own tactics and punched back.
A Million People tell EPA to Adopt Proposed Carbon Pollution Rule | ThinkProgress
Make your voice heard by clicking HERE to submit a favorable comment to the EPA today!
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: US Presidential candidates far apart on CO2 regulations
Analysts note that public support has waned for both cap-and-trade and climate policy more generally over the past three years: “I think we need to wait for the pendulum to swing back, and that’s going to take a while,” says Emilie Mazzacurati, head of carbon analysis at Point Carbon.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Analysis: Electricity from solar costs 4 to 5 times more than from natural gas
According to an analysis published today in New Energy, the cost of generating electricity in the US over the plant lifetime is approximately 4 to 5 times higher for solar sources vs. conventional natural gas. Onshore wind sources are about 1.7 times more expensive and nuclear twice as expensive as a conventional natural gas plant.
We could be at the doorsteps of another Ice Age | The Next Grand Minimum
People are being lured to look in the wrong direction by MSM, IPCC and others, but the facts are very clear and show a completely different problem that humanity will have to face very soon.A problem of much colder weather worldwide, not hotter.
NOAA : “When We Cheat Hard Enough, We Win” | Real Science
NOAA tells us every month ad nauseum, that temperatures have been above normal every month since 1985. Given that they now add more than half a degree on to all recent measured temperatures – this isn’t particularly surprising.
Most of us learned not to cheat as children. The rest became government scientists.
Emotions and climate change | mydigitalfc.com
A recent poll showed that climate change ranked the last among the public’s list of top policy priorities.
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Given the several problems associated with excessive reliance on emotional appeals, there are a number of suggestions for attracting public attention to climate change. Climate change communicators need to decide what portfolio of risks they want to make the public more aware of and then demonstrate the connection between those risks; for example, the relationship between climate change and disease.
William M. Briggs » Holocaust Survivor Compares Climate Skeptics To Hitler Deniers
To call a skeptic a “denier” is rank abuse, because as we have seen the word is a stand-in for vile intent. To compare “climate genocide” “deniers” with those who—what exactly? Supported Hitler? Enabled the man? Remember Tomkiewicz implied “deniers” in 1933 were responsible for Hitler—ah, the whole thing is asinine.
Fossil Raindrops and the Faint Young Sun | The Resilient Earth
Good science with interesting results often does not rise to the level of a clarion call for action.
Still, those whose reputations and livelihood depend on government money aimed at “fighting global warming” will become ever more strident in their warnings as we near the release of yet another IPCC report next year. Should you be worried about human CO2 emissions ruining Earth's fragile climate? Let me put it this way—I just bought a new SUV.
Guest | New National Standards Ask Schools to Teach Climate Change
In the standards for middle school, for example, one of the core ideas is that “human activities, such as the release of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels, are major factors in the current rise in Earth’s mean surface temperature (‘global warming’).” The standards for high school note that “changes in the atmosphere due to human activity have increased carbon dioxide concentrations and thus affect climate.”
Parts of Japan see record-high CO2 levels : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)
The average monthly concentration of carbon dioxide has topped 400 parts per million in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture, the first time this level has been reached in Japan, raising alarm about greenhouse gases that can cause global warming.
How Long Will Global Warming Remain Center Stage? | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media
But climate change campaigners might well reflect on the disappearance of biodiversity from the national conversation, and consider the possibility that in ten or fifteen years, global warming may be where biodiversity is today — largely ignored by the media and relegated to the sidelines by environmentalists.
Not that climate change will go away (if anything, it’s likely to be much more pressing), any more than threats to wildlife have. But let’s face it: all mass media stories have a finite shelf life, and the public too often has a short attention span. Let’s keep checking back over the next decade or so.
What Is Behind The Fall Of Germany’s Eco-Minister?
Norbert Röttgen, Angela Merkel's Environment Minister, was - until a few hours ago - the face of Germany’s green energy transition. He aligned himself with a goal which can be stated politically, but which cannot be reached technically. His sacking was therefore inevitable. He is the first political victim of the green energy transition - he will almost certainly not be the last.
Yesterday, I discussed a blog post from University of Washington’s Cliff Mass which argued computer resources for models of climate change are unjustifiably far greater than for weather forecasting.
China Is Developing a Grid Better for Coal Than Renewables: Scientific American
While newer and in many ways more technologically advanced than the U.S. grid, China's system is nevertheless being built to perpetuate the use of coal and large hydropower projects.
BBC News - Councils 'must lower carbon emissions'
Local authorities across the UK should have a statutory duty to combat climate change, government advisors recommend.
Christopher Monckton Challenges Scott Denning Posting | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media
Monckton’s views are unlikely to come as news either to those who accept or those who reject them and who have followed his frequent public presentations over the past few years in the U.S. and overseas. They are views that the scientific establishment by and large has repeatedly evaluated and found unconvincing based on the broad understanding of relevant scientific evidence.
Clouds and Climate, Redux - NYTimes.com
The most fundamental question about global warming is how much these feedbacks will exacerbate the rise in temperatures caused by the human release of greenhouse gases.
Rather than recognize that climate of the past does provide essential information to plan for the future, the article makes the erroneous assumption that climate was stationary in the past. Climate has never been stationary.
The FAO soil survey project for Tanzania involves 16 field teams which have been working for two years, collecting data from 3,400 sites.
The World Is Running Out Of Energy Scares | JunkScience.com
Methane hydrates constitute the world’s No. 1 reservoir of fossil fuel. Ubiquitous along vast stretches of Earth’s continental shelves, they hold enough natural gas to fuel the world for a thousand years – and beyond.
Andrew McKillop: What was Global Warming? | Climate Realists
Relatively soon, this question will be asked: global warming has traced a wipeout curve like any failed Great Cause, mixing junk science, porkbarrel politics, cash-gouging corporate greed and deliberate promotion and falsification of any real danger or risk for society by self-serving media barons seeking the latest Big Thing to bemuse what they cynically treat as their witless "media consumers".
Global warming was custom made to fill all those roles. At its high point it was able to bridge and converge extreme right and extreme left political strands, it could amuse, thrill and distract the "media consumers" from any and all other real problems, other and real crises, while generating massive profits for the nimble, greedy and deceitful who always ride the curve of any fake Great Cause, like the parasites they are. Underneath all this however, a critical pinch of credibility was needed: when it disappeared, the "great cause" was doomed.
Arctic To Be Ice Free By 2010 – First Time In A Million Years | Real Science
Seth Borenstein – Cold Is A Thing Of The Past | Real Science
According to our top scientists, human beings are now defined by a claimed half degree rise in temperatures. i.e. we have severely mentally ill people teaching our children at universities.
Veracity Death Spiral: More Bad News About Dishonest Climate Reporting | Real Science
First year ice forms every winter, and has since water first appeared on the surface of the planet. The author is providing absolutely no useful or new information about the state of Arctic ice and is just cranking out another content free global warming fairy tale.
Getting funnier by the day: MWP 1238-1267 | JunkScience.com
Aussie temperature reconstructers redefine Medieval Warm Period as AD1238-AD1267. How prescient was Viking Eric The Red, leading colonists to Greenland more than 240 years prior to the warming of Greenland that made it hospitable and managing to establish settlements and farms to occupy just a 29-year climate window? Must have been some real estate salesman, eh?
Less Meat, Less Global Warming - NYTimes.com
...few people take the role of livestock in producing greenhouse gases seriously enough. Even most climate change experts focus on new forms of energy — which cannot possibly be effective quickly enough or produced on a broad enough scale to avert what may be the coming catastrophe — and often ignore the much easier fix of adjusting our eating habits.
It’s good that we’re eating somewhat less meat, but it still amounts to something just shy of a staggering 200 pounds per person per year. And no matter how that number changes domestically, on the world scale there’s troubling movement in the wrong direction. Meat consumption in China is now twice what it is in the United States (in 1978 it was only one-third).
UN talks take first steps on 2015 climate deal - Times LIVE
Speaking for small island states, Marlene Moses of Nauru warned that the "ambitions gap" was now so wide that by 2015, the
negotiations could be talking about how to relocate people from countries that had become inhabitable.
Are climate scientists a self-selecting set of climate activists? | Australian Climate Madness
The majority of climate scientists are funded by governments which are committed (to different degrees) to taking "action" on climate change. At no point do I allege that people are changing their views because of the funding they receive (something that I do not believe happens on either side of the debate), merely that they are a self-selecting group based on prior beliefs. Which would explain why environmental and climate science departments are full of AGW believers.
And it would also explain why environmental journalists are AGW believers too. If you weren't, why would you become an environmental journalist in the first place?
It's the final extrapolation of confirmation bias - you choose your entire career based on your beliefs.
Rio + 20, Spiked » Climate Resistance
I’m predicting that Rio will go the way of Copenhagen… It will again expose the incoherence of environmentalism, and the self-serving agendas of those present, but will be rescued at the last moment by some kind of fudge, as was found at Durban. But perhaps I will be surprised.
Another thing I think will happen is an attempt to reinvent the environmental scare stories of yesteryear, such as population growth and resource depletion. The climate thing is looking worn out at the moment — not quite a busted flush, but climate alarmism is passé.
Cancellation for field study in climate-change project | News | The Engineer
A field study for a geoengineering project aiming to mitigate the effects of climate change has been cancelled.
As the World Warms: Trees and Shrubs Proliferating in Sweden
they state that the change in shrubs and small trees they observed is "consistent with anticipated changes due to climate change and reduced herbivory," which change in climate, in their words, "could be interpreted as an ongoing natural re-establishment of plants at higher altitudes due to a natural increase in the temperature since the 'Little Ice Age' (Kammer et al., 2007)."
Tree Growth in the Swedish Sub-Arctic: Setting New Records
Hedenas et al. write that in spite of the increased browsing pressure provided by an increasing reindeer population over the period of their study, as well as periodic outbursts of geometrid moths - which severely defoliated the birch trees in their study area in 2004 (Babst et al., 2010) - "there has been a net increase in biomass - and carbon drawdown - of 19%." As for the cause of this welcome phenomenon, they say "it has been suggested that increased nutrient availability associated with higher soil temperatures, and a longer growing season could underpin increased tree and shrub abundance and biomass in the Arctic (e.g., Chapin, 1983; Weih and Karlsson, 1997; Hartley et al., 1999)," as a result of "a delayed re-expansion of shrubs and trees following the 'Little Ice Age'," as suggested by Grubb (2008). And, of course, we have the ongoing and ever-increasing aerial fertilization and transpiration-reducing effects of the concomitant rise in the atmosphere's CO2 concentration, which must be playing significant roles as well, as the remarkable Greening of the Earth continues.
Dust Deposits at the Bottom of the Aral Sea
As the four researchers explain it, the temporal variations in the dust deposition are consistent with the changes in the "mean atmospheric temperature of the northern hemisphere during the past 2000 years, with low/high annual temperature anomalies corresponding to high/low dust supplies in the Aral Sea sediments, respectively," which finding reinforces the reality of a non-CO2-induced millennial-scale cycling of Earth's surface air temperature, and thus provides no need whatsoever for any greenhouse-gas-induced phenomenon to explain the planet's current level of warmth or when it began.
ENSO: A Permanent Feature of a Future Warmer World?
there was robust ENSO variability in past 'greenhouse' episodes
Evolutionary and Adaptive Responses of Coral-Algal Symbioses to Potential Future Warming
Clearly, we are only just beginning to appreciate the many different ways in which Earth's coral-algal symbioses are capable of coping with significant changes in the planet's climate. They are true survivors.
Rapid Physiological Responses of the European Green Crab to Rising Temperatures
it is yet another example of a species demonstrating that it has the capacity to do what it needs to do to successfully cope with projected global warming, and without the need to migrate to accomplish it.
Hudson Bay Ringed Seal Populations Declined Significantly Due to Heavy Ice in the 1990s
In summary, heavy shorefast ice has been shown to be associated with devastating declines in pup production for nearshore-breeding ringed seals in two regions of the Arctic (western Hudson Bay and the Beaufort Sea). These heavy ice conditions are known to have occurred during each decade between the 1970s and the 1990s. Because female polar bears that den close to shore are dependent on nearshore-breeding ringed seals to successfully rear their cubs, polar bear numbers have also crashed dramatically during heavy ice years, although so far this has only been documented in the Beaufort Sea.
Of course, “detrimental actions to the future of our planet” is a term so broad and sweeping that it can mean essentially anything. Is gas exploration detrimental to the future of our planet? If so, what about someone using more gas than perhaps they should? You can see the extremely problematic implications of this down the road. The guarantee, hitherto, was that personal freedoms and civil rights were guaranteed by the government which could be voted out, or at least protested. But when the laws are set and enforced by the Environmental Security Council of the UN and the local police have no choice but to carry out there orders - what then?
Global Warming, Redux | World Policy Institute
Four hundred years ago, winter conditions in Manhattan might not have been that different. The Medieval Warming Period around the 12th century had a profound effect on the course of civilization. Today, with another global warming period on the horizon—this one accelerated by human activity—national futures may again be driven by the rapidly changing climate. This time, however, climate change will produce no winners.
...The Medieval Warming Period is believed to have led to the rise of Europe as a political, technological, and colonial superpower. Europe lagged behind all major nations in the world in terms of population, culture, military, and technology before this natural event. The warming climate reduced the swamps on the European continent and opened up more land for agriculture. Subsequently, agricultural production doubled during this period and population growth increased dramatically. Because of the increase in population, Europe entered a period of unprecedented prosperity epitomized by the Renaissance and the great ocean exploration.
Of course, “detrimental actions to the future of our planet” is a term so broad and sweeping that it can mean essentially anything. Is gas exploration detrimental to the future of our planet? If so, what about someone using more gas than perhaps they should? You can see the extremely problematic implications of this down the road. The guarantee, hitherto, was that personal freedoms and civil rights were guaranteed by the government which could be voted out, or at least protested. But when the laws are set and enforced by the Environmental Security Council of the UN and the local police have no choice but to carry out there orders - what then?
Global Warming, Redux | World Policy Institute
Four hundred years ago, winter conditions in Manhattan might not have been that different. The Medieval Warming Period around the 12th century had a profound effect on the course of civilization. Today, with another global warming period on the horizon—this one accelerated by human activity—national futures may again be driven by the rapidly changing climate. This time, however, climate change will produce no winners.
...The Medieval Warming Period is believed to have led to the rise of Europe as a political, technological, and colonial superpower. Europe lagged behind all major nations in the world in terms of population, culture, military, and technology before this natural event. The warming climate reduced the swamps on the European continent and opened up more land for agriculture. Subsequently, agricultural production doubled during this period and population growth increased dramatically. Because of the increase in population, Europe entered a period of unprecedented prosperity epitomized by the Renaissance and the great ocean exploration.
Food Waste, Climate Change Top Agenda at FAO Near East Conference - FoodIngredientsFirst
16 May 2012 --- Measures to improve regional food security by cutting food losses and waste and by mitigating and adapting to climate change will be considered by FAO's Regional Conference for the Near East.
Glikson says, rightly: “Opinion and “belief” are no substitute for evidence. Those who doubt the basic laws of nature and empirical data are always welcome to submit research to peer review journals…”
To which Jo Nova says to Dr Andrew Glikson, “Skeptics can name 900 papers that support our views. And you still haven’t found that one mystery paper with observations that suggests CO2′s effect will be catastrophic eh? Is there any evidence?“
Glikson can name (as he did in our debate) hundreds of papers that are irrelevant, not based on observations, or are based on a logical fallacy. Climate models are not observations of the real world. Glikson’s faith in his theory is unscientific.
Before Glikson demands we disprove him (and we can) he needs to show he has some observations that support him. Until then, man-made global warming is just another religion.
Conflict of Interest in Hansen’s NYT Op-ed | JunkScience.com
There is no mention whatsoever of any venture capitalism interests in the original Op-ed.
New York Times Caught With Their Knickers Down | Real Science
Joe from Pickin’ Cherries posted these pictures of Waikiki Beach in 1930 and now. The beach looks bigger now than it did 80 years ago.
Climate change is a serious issue, but a couple of recent studies remind us that it may not be the biggest threat to life on Earth as we know it. It may in fact be essentially a symptom of a broader problem, one which hasn't gotten nearly as much attention from either green groups or the environmentally oriented press. What's the issue? Loss of biodiversity, also known as extinction. And ignoring it to focus on climate change can have dire consequences, especially in the California desert.
Twitter / @ooooItsBertie: CLIMATE change activists. ...
CLIMATE change activists. Feel less guilty about travelling by plane by breathing more shallowly whilst on holiday.
Dr. Charles David Keeling was the Paul Revere of his time, warning the planet of its fate with rising carbon dioxide levels leading to global warming — and the fossil fuel industry has been the primary reason why there has been little change, author Bill McKibben said at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Keeling Memorial Lecture on Monday.
A sharp-eyed Power Line reader directed us to this C-SPAN video featuring Van Jones, President Obama's short-lived "green jobs" czar, admitting around the 19:14 mark what is plain to anyone who pays attention, namely, that the environmental movement is basically an adjunct of the Democratic Party:
"I make my 'climate change denier' claim for one reason," wrote Micha Tomkiewicz, the Director of Environmental Studies at Brooklyn College and himself a Holocaust survivor.
"It's easy today to teach students to condemn the Holocaust, but it's much more difficult to teach them how to try to prevent future genocides...I don't want my grandchildren to die in a climate change genocide that we could have helped head off," he continued.
Tomkiewicz, also warned that failure to take decisive action on global warming could result in the death of "billions of people."
This from ESI-Africa, a website focused on energy issues for Africa.
Ambassador Richard H. Jones, deputy director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), opened the IEA's April conference by-lined Clean Energy Progress, by saying global temperatures are "probably" going to rise by "six degrees Celsius" by about 2050.
I find it hard to believe that Schmidt seriously believes that climate scientists have reacted to suspicion by saying "take a look". The pages of Climate Audit are replete with one incident after another, where climate scientists have taken precisely the opposite attitude.
That includes the present case. The sane resolution of the present FOI request would have been for East Anglia to just send me the data, even if they felt that they didn't "have" to. The best way to remove suspicion would have been to say: "Here, Steve, take a look". If Schmidt thinks that that's what CRU has done in this case, then he's the one in tin foil country.
Marc's views are his own — and, as always with him, an invigorating read. Those who are subject to easily getting the vapors over such things should probably not heed the advice "click to continue" below. For the rest, here is the full-and-raw Marc Morano, who called out — and answered — some egregious examples of global warming alarmists using "provocative communications" about skeptics that the MSM seems to have missed:
"This is so silly. Every day now, skeptics are compared to Holocaust deniers and the media yawns. But Heartland does an edgy billboard accurately reflecting the views of those featured in it and the media acts as though they are offended?
"Here are a very few examples of this week's Holocaust denier comparisons and other nasty stuff by warmists – just this week! Please show some balance!"
Globally the trend is upwards for agricultural production in the BRIC nations and around the world. The Ukraine, China, India, Eastern Europe, and Latin America are increasing their agricultural output.
How's that for discrediting the Malthusian prophets of the past decade and longer? As of 2012, the world is continuing to advance in its capacity to feed its growing human population.
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