Twitter / caerbannog666: Nick Stokes

[retweeted by climate hoax promoter Michael Mann] Nick Stokes explains raw v. adjusted NMS data availability to WUWT'ers. He may as well read Shakespeare to cows -- http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/01/phi  …

More Exclusive Photos from NDTV Greenathon 4 - BollySpice

The NDTV-Toyota Green Campaign was the first ever-nationwide campaign to save the environment. Launched in April 2008, the Campaign was aimed at creating awareness about the environment, by involving the people of our country to make a difference, and is supported by Dr RK Pachauri and TERI.

Remarks by Secretary of State Clinton With Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere

And the United States and Norway are committed to promoting responsible management of those resources, and to do all we can to prevent and mitigate the effects of climate change. I’m highlighting a new partnership that I started called the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, and we’re very pleased that Norway is a member. And it is to focus on what are called short-lived climate pollutants – methane, black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons – which make up at least 30 – somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions. And they are actually released into the atmosphere during the extraction and production of oil and natural gas, among other activities. In fact, in addition to the impact on global warming, they cause millions of premature deaths and 30 million tons of lost crops each year. And we just heard the impact of burning (inaudible) fuels and putting all that black carbon and soot into the air. It then lands on the ice and you know rest.

So I want to thank Norway for joining the Climate and Clean Air Coalition and making an initial commitment of one and a half million dollars, and also a pledge by Norway of one million dollars specifically to target black carbon across the Arctic. I’m very grateful that we had a chance to meet with the head of Statoil and representative of new Norwegianers and ExxonMobil to talk about ways that oil and gas companies are already reducing methane and black carbon emissions from their own production, what more they believe can be done, and how we can bring other companies into this effort to capture your vented, leaked, and flared natural gas, and to cut emissions by up to one-third with no net cost at all. That would make a significant impact on climate change without hurting any oil or gas company’s bottom line, and it’s exactly the kind of private and public cooperation we need to pursue and that this new coalition is determined to try to bring about.

Polar Ice Passes Its Physical – With Flying Colors | Real Science

Polar experts have tried to blame the growth in Antarctic ice on man-made ozone, but the record shows very clearly that Arctic and Antarctic anomaly trends move opposite each other. Why are climate experts so averse to actually doing science?

From the first IPCC report – the graphs NSIDC doesn’t want you to see or think about. Prior to 1979, Arctic ice was increasing and Antarctic ice was decreasing.

Lukewarm This ….. | Real Science

Hansen decided a few months ago that the people of Iceland were too stupid to read thermometers, and took it upon himself to go back in time and produce the correct temperatures there. That inconvenient warmest decade of the 1930s had to be eliminated, just as Hansen had already done to the US temperature record – another country he believed was populated by inferior intellects who can’t read thermometers accurately.

"The leftist “victory” over Heartland is all in their heads"

Reports of Heartland’s Demise Are Greatly Exaggerated

In short, exactly the opposite of what leftist activists intended – let alone claim to have achieved – has actually occurred. If you think 2012 marks the “demise” of The Heartland Institute, I suggest you check back with us in five, 10 or 20 years. We’ll still be here, fighting for smaller government, individual liberty and free markets – just as we have for the last 28 years.

And I’m betting Forecast the Facts won’t exist anymore in three years. Any takers?

We might have more to say about this, and in greater detail, at a later date. But know this: The leftist “victory” over Heartland is all in their heads.

If you’d like to make a tax-deductible donation to The Heartland Institute, visit this site.

 

Adieu, green revolution - NYPOST.com

It looks like the “green revolution” has entered the long slide into “What was all that about?”

In January, the Spanish government removed lavish subsidies for its renewable-energy industry, and the industry all but imploded. You could say it was never a renewable-energy industry at all, but a government-subsidy industry: The government gave the makers of inefficient windmills and solar panels piles of cash that consumers never would.

...The Spanish example shows how the whole green-energy “revolution” was really an ideologically driven boondoggle from the start.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Weather getting Colda an

Weather getting Colda and Meana down in Argentina! pic.twitter.com/dH95CKeQ

Twitter / caerbannog666: CRU now uses NMS homogeniz

[Retweeted by Michael Mann] CRU now uses NMS homogenized data. Want NMS raw data? Ask NMS's for it. WUWT'ers too dumb to figure that out.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/06/01/phi …

Twitter / MichaelEMann: @edbegleyjr @B4Blast @Piac

@edbegleyjr @B4Blast @Piacats Right back at you Ed :) Here's the other photo. After a few drinks I think... pic.twitter.com/05N6lbmp

Park Rapids hits record low of 33 | Park Rapids, Minnesota

Wednesday morning many locations in northern Minnesota dropped into the lower 30s. Hallock fell to the state low with a reading of 32 degrees. Park Rapids dipped to 33 degrees. That was a record low for Park Rapids as the old record was 36 degrees set-in 1966.

Jarvis Cocker: the iceman cometh | Music | The Observer

But we are about to see another side of Jarvis: as a (softly spoken) ambassador for the environment. Greenpeace is preparing to launch what it hopes will be the ecological campaign of our generation, and Jarvis is the frontman of the UK part. As you may have deduced from Jarvis's iceman get-up, this seminal campaign concerns the Arctic, which is losing ice and gaining unwanted attention. Temperatures in the region are rising faster than anywhere else on earth, causing the ice cap to melt. Scientists think the North Pole could be ice-free in summertime within 20 years...According to Sauven at Greenpeace, its new campaign will require unprecedented global public support, and we will have less than three years to come together to avoid catastrophic ecosystem destruction. "If this campaign is successful," Sauven says, "it will be because people like Jarvis have lent their support and their ability to reach out. We urgently need this to happen globally."

... Of the Arctic sea ice, 75% has been lost over the past 30 years.

 

How convenient: The anthropogenic climate signal allegedly showed up immediately after the coldest year in the Arctic temperature record.

The Joy Of Satellites | Real Science

NSIDC claims that the modern satellite record began in 1979. This is a pretty marginal claim, given that we have accurate satellite data going back a decade earlier.

But 1979 is a very convenient year for them – because it was the coldest year in the Arctic temperature record.

...By starting in 1979, they are able to produce all kinds of seemingly suitable funding graphs.

How convenient: Interview with Christopher Castro

....entirely consistent with the conclusion of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report that the anthropogenic signal in climate becomes statistically discernible after about 1980 or so.

Al's Journal : 12,000 People - $100 billion

"Each year almost 12,000 people are hospitalized because of pollution from coal plants. If pollution from coal plants remains unchecked it could add an astonishing $100 billion to our annual healthcare bill."

North Pole Disappearing at Rapid Pace « Reasonable Doubt on Climate Change

A comparison of north pole sea ice on May 31, 1990 (left) and May 31, 2012. What were all those people at National Geographic whining about again?

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds climate warmed 3 times faster from 1862-1961; also 2007 temperatures same as in 1736

In another blow to the alarmist fallacy that the current warming period is 'unprecedented' or 'unusual,' a paper published today in the journal Climate of the Past finds that winter temperatures in China warmed at a rate almost three times faster over the 100 year period from 1862 to 1961 [1.89◦C/century] than over the 100 years from 1901 to 2000 [0.66◦C/century]. Furthermore, the reconstructed temperature anomaly at the beginning of the study period in 1736 [during the Little Ice Age!] was the about the same as in 2007.

IPCC Control Calculations of Annual Human CO2 Production For Political Agenda

A partial explanation for the IPCC error is because climate science assumes change and variability are abnormal as the diagram illustrates. They don’t show the error in the estimates of volumes, which in at least three instances, atmosphere, oceans, and vegetation/soil detritus, exceed estimates for total human production. This is true even with IPCC’s claimed annual increase.

IPCC wanted to prove human CO2 was causing global warming as part of their belief that industrialized populations would exhaust all resources and had to be shut down. Their only objective was to show human production was steadily, inexorably increasing. Their calculations predetermine that, because human CO2 production is directly linked to population increase. A population increase guarantees a CO2 increase. It is another of their circular arguments that has no basis in science.

1933 : Hottest June On Record In The US | Real Science

Temperatures in the center of the country were twelve degrees above normal, and CO2 was a very safe 310 ppm at the time

The New Nostradamus of the North: Hillary Clinton hosted by the Arabs of the Arctic

One must admire Norway´s socialist Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and his government. They manage to make all the politically correct "progressive" noises about global warming and sustainability while at the same working tirelessly to cash in on the sale of fossil fuels from Norway´s territorial waters. 

- Bishop Hill blog - The gravy train at the Royal Society

Paul Homewood takes a look at the annual report of the Royal Society and finds that wage inflation among its top earners has been quite startling.

Labor MPs taxed over carbon | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Samantha Maiden reports, but no names are given - suggesting a lack of will, courage and numbers:

JULIA Gillard faces growing backbench unrest over the carbon tax with sceptics quietly planning to push for changes to the incoming tax - or the leadership.

GHCN v1 vs v3 North America, Region 4 | Musings from the Chiefio

realistically, the comparison of this graph with the one for Asia or Oceana is just stunning. The vast bulk of any “rising average” is not being carried by the ‘dead flat’ of Asia for 130 years, nor the ’1/2 C wobble with 1/4 C drift” of Oceana. It will come out of places like this where the temperatures are raised dramatically.

But if all the “work” is being done by one or two small geographies in only one hemisphere, is it really Global? And is it really “warming”?

...IMHO the “warming” in North America is entirely an artifact of moving thermometers to airports, swapping to electronic versions that have different thermal issues and different adjustments, Urban Heat Island as we developed more than places like Africa (that has cooled) and perhaps some ‘odd’ data adjustments as the ones here that put more change into the data for the same time and place than the actual ‘warming signal’ we are seeking.

Warmist Christopher Castro: Western culture "has now created an unsustainable, polluted world that threatens the entire planet and the survival of our human species"

Die Klimazwiebel: Interview with Christopher Castro

I have now interviewed Christopher Castro, who is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona....

[Castro] The data from the recent observational record strongly suggests that anthropogenic climate change is already affecting the climate of the western United States, entirely consistent with the conclusion of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report that the anthropogenic signal in climate becomes statistically discernible after about 1980 or so...
Atmospheric science, as a discipline, is a relatively young field. ...the policy changes required to address climate change will necessitate an alteration of our current American way of life, with dramatic changes in the way we produce and use energy....A viewer can choose basically whatever version of “truth” that conforms to their views. If you’re conservative, for example, you’ll watch only Fox News and believe global warming is a hoax and Climategate was some giant scientific conspiracy. If you’re liberal, you’ll watch MSNBC and believe that all Republicans want to dismantle the Environmental Protection Agency and will oppose all efforts to transition to alternative forms of energy. Climate change becomes one of the plethora issues that fall into the “us versus them” mentality that now permeates our politics, and there’s no room for rational and informed discussion lest your side appears weak and compromising. The political polarization on this issue within the United States has really prevented any meaningful legislative action to address it. That situation is, unfortunately, singularly unique to the United States among developed countries. I hope in earnest that this situation may change in the near future. As an American citizen, who cares for the future of my country and the world, I am ashamed and embarrassed for it.

...Is the Native American philosophy inferior, because it was Western culture that “won” as a result of the European conquest of the Americas? Or is actually the better one, since how that Western culture ultimately evolved in the five hundred or so years since has now created an unsustainable, polluted world that threatens the entire planet and the survival of our human species?

I Survived 25 Degrees Of Climate Change – In Three Hours! | Real Science

When I attended Arizona State University quite a few decades ago, I moved there from the mountains of New Mexico. In a matter of three hours I saw climate change of 25 degrees F.

Granted, it was difficult dealing with all the scarcely clothed coeds, river floats down the Salt River (with scarcely clothed coeds) endless keggers (with scarcely clothed coeds) and after-midnight basketball games in the frat house parking lot. But somehow I managed to survive.

Did I mention that there were a lot of gorgeous women in bikinis? ASU is the university of choice for climate refugees from Illinois and Wisconsin .

CBS News hires M. Sanjayan : CJR

CBS News announced in early May that it had hired M. Sanjayan, lead scientist at The Nature Conservancy, as its science and environmental contributor, filling a slot that’s been vacant for almost two and a half years. Sanjayan will cover a broad range of topics across multiple platforms and contribute to CBS News broadcasts, according to the network.

...For his part, Sanjayan says he isn’t concerned about potential conflicts of interest that might arise when covering issues, like climate change, that The Nature Conservancy works on. “I am with CBS News because they value my scientific expertise and my ability to translate that on screen to their audiences in a compelling fashion,” he said. “The Nature Conservancy has me as their lead scientist because I am a conservation scientist by training who can translate good science into conservation action.”

"The Arctic's warming is occurring at least twice as fast as anywhere else, threatening to raise sea levels by up to 5 feet this century"

Clinton urges cooperation in resource-rich Arctic - Gettysburgtimes.com: Business

The Arctic's warming is occurring at least twice as fast as anywhere else, threatening to raise sea levels by up to 5 feet this century and possibly causing a 25 percent jump in mercury emissions over the next decade.

Flashback: Settled science: Can everyplace really be warming much faster than everyplace else?

George Osborne demands massive cuts to windfarm subsidies | Politics | The Observer

Plans for dramatic cuts in government subsidies for onshore windfarms are being drawn up by the Treasury in a move that seriously undermines David Cameron's claim to be running "the greenest government ever".

The Observer has learned that George Osborne is demanding cuts of 25% in subsidies, a reduction the industry says would "kill dead" the development of wind power sites.

"Logging and habitat destruction were the only ''environment'' issues in the top 25 of concern to Australians"

Green fatigue - National News - National - General - Gloucester Advocate

A survey by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) last year found Australians are the least likely to consider energy use when buying a home, and most likely to leave appliances on standby, or drive to the shops. Meanwhile, our concerns about industrial pollution, climate change, renewable energy and depletion of energy resources have plunged in the past five years, according to the recent What Matters to Australians report. Logging and habitat destruction were the only ''environment'' issues in the top 25 of concern to Australians.

May Arctic Ice Extent Higher Than 1989 | Real Science

Debunking A Gish Gallop Of Scientific Denial From The Financial Post | ThinkProgress

If Bob Carter wants to influence the climate discussion, we believe he should subject his arguments to peer-reviewed scrutiny, rather than cobbling together Gish Gallops of scientific denial and misrepresentations for the financial media and denialist blogs.

Climate Change Causing Hummingbird Missed Connections | LiveScience

If spring continues to come early in the Rockies, birds may arrive to find their food source gone, said study researcher David Inouye, also of the University of Maryland. If that happens, "where have all the flowers gone?" may become, "where have all the hummingbirds gone?"

Warmist Elizabeth May: "Of course there's a concerted global multibillion-dollar effort to lie about climate science"

Harper, Tory MPs challenge Kent on climate science, letters reveal

Green Party leader Elizabeth May said she has personally tried to reach out to Conservatives in Parliament to debunk climate myths that she believes are being spread through propaganda funded by industry.

"Of course there's a concerted global multibillion-dollar effort to lie about climate science," May said.

More global warming bad news, well, that is depending on how you view the issue of global warming - Orange Punch : The Orange County Register

If it’s not the global warming schemers deserting the cause, and  global warming profiteers going belly up, and real life contradicting the premise, it’s another bulletin of bad news. Where will it all end for the global warming worshippers?

Popular Technology.net: The Truth about Richard Muller

"If Al Gore reaches more people and convinces the world that global warming is real, even if he does it through exaggeration and distortion - which he does, but he’s very effective at it - then let him fly any plane he wants." - Richard Muller, 2008

..."There is a consensus that global warming is real. ...it’s going to get much, much worse." - Richard Muller, 2006

..."Let me be clear. My own reading of the literature and study of paleoclimate suggests strongly that carbon dioxide from burning of fossil fuels will prove to be the greatest pollutant of human history. It is likely to have severe and detrimental effects on global climate." - Richard Muller, 2003

NOAA Data Show Stagnant Temperatures – Even With “Accelerating Pace Of Emissions”

Global temperatures just aren’t listening to the climate models. And so much for consensus.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Again from Cavuto and vid

Again from Cavuto and video on weatherbell the road map of the 50s.Warmingistas take note, [on US hurricanes] we r way overdue, not co2 pic.twitter.com/sFwFjXyF

Great stuff from the UN climate hoax chief as she brags about allegedly "walking the talk": She's got 500 people on her staff; 97% of their total emissions are from air travel; she's working to raise their awareness

Twitter / CFigueres: Read via Greening the Blue

Read via Greening the Blue how the ‪#UNFCCC‬ secretariat is walking the ‪#climatechange‬ talk http://bit.ly/J6SZ4i  @UNGtB

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) | Greening the Blue

HQ: Bonn, Germany
Number of staff: 500*
Number of locations: 2

..Total emissions: 5,119 tonnes CO2 equivalent

Emissions per staff member: 10.2 tonnes CO2 equivalent
Emissions from air travel: 4,941 tonnes CO2 equivalent
Air travel as a proportion of total emissions: 97%
Air travel per staff member: 9.9 tonnes CO2

• Awareness-raising of staff; introduction of preferential tickets for staff to use public transportation to commute to work (“job ticket”)

Oreskes: "The hockey stick was as close to proof as we get in science"

The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines | Print Edition - Physics Today

The narrative is a deeply honest scientific coming-of-age story...The hockey stick was as close to proof as we get in science.

For Obama, Some Promises Kept, Some Broken - kcentv.com - KCEN HD - Waco, Temple, and Killeen

Cap and trade: Cap and trade, a system which puts a price on greenhouse gas emissions, was a centerpiece of candidate Obama's energy and environmental policy.

"As president, I will set a hard cap on all carbon emissions at a level that scientists say is necessary to curb global warming -- an 80 percent reduction by 2050," Obama said in 2007.

Four years later, cap and trade is still a dream for environmentalists, and there are no prospects for its implementation.

..."Cap and trade is dead," [Joshua Freed, a clean energy policy expert at Third Way, a centrist Democratic think tank] said. "It no longer resonates with voters from either side."

Mild Winter Costs 60% Less For BG - Journal & Topics Newspapers Online: News

The mild winter season produced tremendous cost savings on snow removal for Buffalo Grove.

Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> We Bend Science to our Beliefs

In 1982 (the year synthetic insulin was created via genetic engineering, by the way), 44% of Americans believed that God created humans in their present form some time in the last 10,000 years. Today, according to a new Gallup poll, that view is held by 46% of Americans.

Radiohead and 350.org: Mood music for a climate movement? | Grist

OK, so you still don’t think Radiohead and the climate movement go together? You’re right. They don’t. Which is what might make them a paradoxically perfect fit for this dread-filled, dissonant moment of ours.

Rio+20: don't wait for disappointment from the bureaucrats | Andrew Simms | Environment | guardian.co.uk

[comment] Trouble for you is, if anything, people generally are moving away from the fear of CO2 driven man-made catastrophe.

Kyoto - dead
Copenhagen - disaster
Durban - washout
Rio+20 - good party - CO2 to be sidelined in favour of "sustainability"
GB - greenest government ever? Think not!
Australia - entire population harboring homicidal ideas for green
Canada - no intention of signing emission treaties, ditched Kyoto
India - not going to reduce emissions
Japan - no intention of signing emission treaties
Russia - no intention of signing emission treaties
China - not going to reduce emissions
UEA hacking - Police not looking for anyone
CO2 - Increasing, Temperatures not
MWP - was global
GWPF - donor outed, nothing to do with big-oil
Jones - damaged, quiet.
Hansen - laughing stock
Mann - bricking it
Gleick - bricking it
Lovelock - I was wrong about global warming
Survey - intelligent people are climate skeptics

Your main problem is the dwindling of numbers of believers, I would say.

"Scientific" American blogger: "There is virtually universal agreement among scientists that the sea will probably rise a good meter or more before the end of the century"

NC Considers Making Sea Level Rise Illegal | Plugged In, Scientific American Blog Network

[Scott Huler] There is virtually universal agreement among scientists that the sea will probably rise a good meter or more before the end of the century, wreaking havoc in low-lying coastal counties. So the members of the developers’  lobbying group NC-20 say the sea will rise only 8 inches, because … because … well, SHUT UP, that’s because why...while the rising sea may engender emotion, it exists in a world of fact, of measurable evidence and predictable results, where scientists using their best methods have agreed on a reasonable – and conservative – estimate of a meter or more of rising seas in the coming century. In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change gave a hesitant estimate of up to 59 centimeters of rise —but even two years later that estimate already appeared low and scientists began to expect a rise of a meter or more.

Scott Huler | Scientific American Blog Network

He has written on everything from the death penalty to bikini waxing, from NASCAR racing to the stealth bomber, for such newspapers as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Los Angeles Times and such magazines as ESPN, Backpacker, and Fortune.

Benny Peiser: Media Has A Responsibility To Publish Independent Analysis Of Climate 'Consensus'

The integrity of Western media depends on whether they encourage critique and fault-finding analysis - or whether they will drift more and more towards gullible campaign journalism.

Should critics of renewable energy be allowed to voice their objections in the opinion pages of newspapers? Doesn't the protest against eco-taxes or the attack on wind and solar energy subsidies (and the redistribution of wealth from poor to rich that follows), contravene the media's core principle of "accurate, fair and balanced reporting", as green energy lobbyists complain?

And what about climate sceptics? Should they be permitted to express their doubts in the comments pages of newspapers? After all, probing the conventional wisdom about global warming has been branded as "deliberately misleading" by green campaigners who claim that any scepticism of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change consensus is violating the principle of the media's own code of conduct.

Peruvian Andes elders interpret climate changes

“People are clearly aware that the rains arrive early or late, the wells dry out quickly, frosts come at any time, the soil is more compacted due to the heat and because water does not infiltrate into the soil to the same extent,” sociologist Ricardo Claverías, with the Centre for Research, Education and Development (CIED), told Inter Press Service (IPS).

Flashback: John Vidal thinks you're stupid: It's allegedly too WARM in the mountains of Peru

Generating Support for Cleaner Air through Bike Advocacy | Kelly Henderson's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

What could possibly be a stronger statement that people are demanding cleaner air and a stop to climate change, than 200 cyclists peddling in unison down Constitution Ave. after riding 320 miles from New York City...Through a short series of briefings on two evenings during the ride, my colleague, Geoff Fettus, and I discussed EPA’s proposed Carbon [Dioxide] Pollution Standard, the first ever national carbon standard for new power plants. We explained that this standard is essential to protect public health and our children from dangerous air pollution from industrial power plants.

Pamela Anderson joins forces with Vivienne Westwood to battle climate change | The Sun |Features

The 44-year-old has flown to London from her Los Angeles home to talk about love, life — and, slightly bizarrely, wood.

Some butterfly species particularly vulnerable to climate change | News & Research Communications | Oregon State University

“We’re already expecting localized extinctions of about one third of butterfly species, so we need to understand how climate change will affect those that survive,” he said. “This research makes it clear that some will do a lot better than others.”

C3: Global Warming Science Facts: Modern Temperatures Significantly Below Previous Warmings New Treeline Study Determines

Another study, another nail in the “unprecedented” AGW coffin. New scientific research keeps refuting the claims of IPCC and chicken-little pundits. The empirical evidence is robustly overwhelming: global temperatures were warmer thousands of years ago despite low CO2 levels.

Media's double standards on threats | Australian Climate Madness

But hey, Bolt's fair game right? In the politically correct, groupthink world of ABC and Fairfax, Bolt is the very embodiment of the antichrist. What's wrong with saying he should be done in?

Comments from the consensus side about their desired treatment of sceptics is of course all waved through without protests, such as these examples:

• Final Solution: alarmist wants sceptics to gas themselves
• Climate sceptics should be tattooed on their foreheads
• "At what point do we jail or execute global warming deniers?"
• Hansen's claim for trials for sceptics for "high crimes against humanity"
• A longer list is here.

1931 Flood Left 50 Million Homeless In China | Real Science

Reasons of Decreasing in Iran’s Pomegranate Exports – Kabir News

“Four years ago most of our pomegranate trees in Saveh destroyed due to the cold weather. It takes between four to six years for pomegranate trees to start outputting fruits. So this reduction in Iran’s pomegranate export was expectable and normal.” Hossein Mohajeran said.

“The cold weather also hit Qom, Yazd, Meybod, Ardakan, Shiraz, Mashhad and Kashmar (the provinces produce pomegranates). So we will have shortage of production until the next year. This will cause the reduction on our exports too.” He added.

Obama nostalgic for a GOP opponent like McCain : Madisondotcom

"John McCain believed in climate change," Obama told supporters at a fundraiser in Minneapolis Friday.

Ghana’s rice production will fall due to climate change – Experts

Ghana is likely to experience a shortfall in rice production due to erratic rainfall and excessive heat.

Ghana Milled Rice Production by Year (1000 MT)
          [Up by an order of magnitude since the 1960s]

‘We’re in the coal business’: Campbell Newman slams UNESCO Great Barrier Reef warning | JunkScience.com

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman says he will protect the environment but not at the expense of the state’s economic future.

Clinton to see climate change impact in Arctic - PanARMENIAN.Net

PanARMENIAN.Net - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton flew to Tromsoe in the Arctic Circle to see first hand the way climate change is opening a once frozen region to competition for vast oil reserves, according to AFP.

...And with climate warming opening up some 46,000 kilometers a year that had once been bound in ice, the region is expected to burst open, not just with oil exploration but with East-West trade along a more accessible northern route.

Climate Change Drives Exodus to Jakarta | The Jakarta Globe

Erratic weather in Indramayu affects jobs in Jakarta, which are often on contract. “Until a few years ago, we could be sure of our schedules and sign up for specified months,” says Sudira, a construction laborer.
...
Supali Kasim, chairman of the Indramayu Art Council, explains that female migration from Indramayu goes back to a prolonged drought in the 1960s.

NY mayor blasts sugar ban critics: That's a lot of soda | Reuters

"There's nothing wrong with the products from PepsiCo and Coca-Cola," the former-business-leader-turned-mayor said. "They are responsible companies. They are making stuff that people want to buy. This is not targeted towards those companies. This is targeted the consumer."

Articles: Bloomberg's Coked-Out Nanny State

In the press conference announcing the move, Bloomberg rejected the idea that this would annoy people or store owners.

"Your argument, I guess, could be that it's a little less convenient to have to carry two 16-ounce drinks to your seat in the movie theater rather than one 32 ounce," Bloomberg said. "I don't think you can make the case that we're taking things away."

...New York City's slide toward big government is a foregone conclusion -- this is just the latest Bloomberg crackdown, following beat-downs of alcohol sales, trans fats, and even table salt.  The real question is whether the rest of the country will recognize the danger of this kind of nanny-statism if it comes calling in their own neighborhood.  The American people have to decide whether there is any limit to what the government should be able to tell you to do.

As for me, you can pry this Coca-Cola from my cold, dead hands.

1935 : Russian Ship Sailed 500 Miles From The Pole In Ice-Free Water | Real Science

The Reference Frame: Arctic stratospheric clouds unrelated to tropospheric temperature

Radiative cooling (and warming) isn't a key effect: a piece of the man-made climate change "lore" is shaken

This particular paper which may have isolated a major mistake in the would-be mainstream "lore" of the climate science – and in all the climate models – hasn't gotten a sufficient amount of attention in the climate blogosphere.

Healing the planet: "the U.N. staff delegation to the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20, has been minimised to approximately 1,400"

RIO+20: U.N. Aims To Offset its Own Carbon Footprint - AlertNet

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 1 (IPS) - As the international community readies for a global mega-conference on sustainable development in Brazil mid-June, the United Nations is determined to practice what it preaches to the outside world: improve resource efficiency and drastically reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions.With over 50,000-60,000 participants worldwide scheduled to arrive in Rio de Janeiro, the U.N. staff delegation to the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development, also known as Rio+20, has been minimised to approximately 1,400 - primarily for economic and environmental reasons.

But even so, the 1,400 participants, according to U.N. statistics, will generate an

Marc Morano global warming news podcast: 14.5 minutes

Marc Morano: Global Warming News | Heartland Institute

Marc Morano of Climate Depot discusses breaking news regarding global warming.

The Inconvenient Science of Biomass Power - IEEE Spectrum

New science confirms that burning trees to produce power instead of coal may be a losing strategy for combatting climate change. 

allAfrica.com: Tanzania: WWF Staff in Financial Scam

AN audit report by Ernst & Young has established that 400,000 US dollars (approx. 624m/-) was misappropriated by the WWF local staff who forged hotel, taxi receipts and direct corruption.

Warmist McKibben: Where are "the goddamn [global warming hoax] operas?"

A cold climate in the arts world - Telegraph

'Where are the books? The poems? The plays? The goddamn operas?” So asked Bill McKibben, author and environmental campaigner, venting frustration at the
cultural failure to address climate change.

2009:  An Inconvenient Truth opera director, William Friedkin, has bolted | GORE LIED

The assignment “was not easy,” the insider said: “Nobody wants an opera about global warming

Warmist Mann: Great news; NOAA warmist Jane Lubchenko has named warmist Rear Admiral David Titley new Deputy Under Secretary for Operations

Twitter / MichaelEMann: Great news

Great news. NOAA Admin Jane Lubchenko has named Rear Admiral David Titley new Deputy Under Secretary for Operations: http://1.usa.gov/M7Hoad

Flashback:  A strategic interest in climate change | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Rear Admiral David Titley claims the Arctic will have an “ice-free” summer in 2020

Texas May Triple Power Prices to Avert Summer Blackouts - Bloomberg

Texas, the biggest electricity consumer in the U.S., faces a shortage of power to fuel its growing economy that may force the most extensive overhaul of
the state’s competitive market since deregulation in 2002.

Texas utility commissioners and grid operators are studying whether to allow the nation’s highest peak wholesale power prices to triple, part of a bid to encourage power-plant
construction and avoid blackouts as early as 2014.

Wesfarmers warns on carbon tax price rises | The Australian

THE introduction of the $9 billion carbon tax could send shockwaves through the food manufacturing sector, after the nation's most powerful retailer warned yesterday that it would challenge proposed price increases from its suppliers and would resist passing the cost of the new tax on to consumers.

German Plan to Abandon Its Nuclear Energy Lags - NYTimes.com

BERLIN — More than a year after pledging to drop nuclear power, Chancellor Angela Merkel has acknowledged that her ambition for a Germany that runs on renewable energy is falling behind schedule and faces a range of obstacles, not least the revamping of the energy grid at a cost of billions of euros.

New Scientist : Herbivores Can’t Survive A Warm Climate | Real Science

This explains why herbivores in warm climates are so small and sickly.

RealClimate: What makes sea-level rise?

Last week the science community was shocked by the claim that 42% of the sea-level rise of the past decades is due to groundwater pumping for irrigation purposes. What could this mean for the future – and is it true?

Biofuels or Bust

But the "most striking result," as they continue "may be the lack of evidence that biofuel policies can be expected to achieve significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, and that they may actually increase emissions." Summing things up, therefore, they conclude that "judged on the basis of reducing fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions," their results suggest that U.S. biofuel policies "have been ineffective and highly costly, producing negligible reductions in fossil fuel use and significant increases, rather than decreases, in greenhouse gas emissions."

Isn't it amazing what a feel-good (but irrational) belief in an unverified climatic hypothesis can lead a supposedly enlightened populace (and their elected governmental representatives) to do.

Heartland Replies to The Economist

We have now raised considerably more from current and new donors than we may have lost due to the controversy.

Two directors had to step down from our board, but two new members will be elected at our next meeting to take their place. Attendance at our climate change conference was greater than at three of the seven previous events, and would have been higher were it not for short notice (only three months) and our new policy of not providing travel scholarships to elected officials and allies.

Next round of UN climate talks set for Bangkok | The Australian Eye

A new round of climate talks will be held in Bangkok from August 30 to September 5 to prepare for minister-level negotiations at year end, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) said on Friday.

...The pre-Qatar meeting had been dependent on getting financial support.

“Pledges have been received from the state of Qatar, Norway, Germany, the UK, Japan and Sweden,” the UNFCCC said.

Desmogblog: "What is clear is that for climate change activists to have any chance of getting timely mitigation policies in place, they must curb the impact of free market think tanks"

Taki Oldham | How To Divide And Conquer The Free Market Climate Change Denial Movement

What is clear is that for climate change activists to have any chance of getting timely mitigation policies in place, they must curb the impact of free market think tanks. It is these groups who create the ‘echo chamber’ of seemingly independent experts who appear on TV, testify before Congress and pump out the overwhelming majority of climate change denial literature. For example, without the likes of Heartland, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Institute and dozens of others, the expertly spun and hugely damaging ‘Climategate’ scandal would never have happened.

What the Heartland situation demonstrates is that for those seeking to diminish the impact of free market think tanks in the climate debate, what works best is not science or reason but pressure from donors.

Healing the planet: When Mark Tercek found out that he'd probably be running the Nature Conservancy, he got so excited that he backed his SUV into a tree

Tree-Hitter Tercek Channels Goldman at Nature Conservancy - Bloomberg

On the day in May 2008 when Mark Tercek, a managing director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), got a cell-phone call from a headhunter informing him that he’d likely
gotten the job of running the Nature Conservancy, he was so excited that he backed his Jeep Grand Cherokee into a tree, shattering the back window. Anxious that gouging a tree might be a bad omen, he jumped out to see how bad it was. To his relief, he’d done far more damage to his vehicle than the tree.

Gas Mileage of 2007 Vehicles by Jeep
     [Note that the published MPG of the 2007 Jeep Grand Cherokee was as low as 9 when driven in the city using E85 fuel]

2008: Obama camp spies endgame in Oregon

Pitching his message to Oregon's environmentally-conscious voters, Obama called on the United States to "lead by example" on global warming, and develop new technologies at home which could be exported to developing countries.

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said.

"That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

More evidence that CO2 is clearly the most powerful temperature driver? CO2 forced the high in Waterloo, Iowa all the way up to 54 degrees F. yesterday, while on the same date in 1934, back when CO2 levels were safe, the high only reached 108 F.

Waterloo sets apparent record after chilly day

WATERLOO, Iowa --- Thursday proved cool across much of Iowa and may have set a record for the date.

The temperature topped out at 54 degrees, according to the National Weather Service, an apparent record low maximum temperature for May 31 in Waterloo.

...May also has the potential for extremes in the other direction. The record high for the month in Waterloo is 108 degrees set on May 31, 1934.

The Heartland ads are not the only climate change messages to go wrong | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk

Even more notorious was the No Pressure video, released by the campaign group 10:10. Despite being directed by Richard Curtis and starring a cast of A-list celebrities, the video was a communications disaster – in one gory scene, children in a classroom were shown graphically "exploding" for expressing climate sceptic views. Naturally, climate sceptic groups condemned the campaign – although that didn't stop Heartland going several steps further with its "serial killer" advertisements.

Solyndra Sequel No. 83 – Odersun Bites The Dust – Another 260 ‘Green Jobs-Of-The-Future’ Vaporize

Actually, who’s counting? It seems a major solar company goes bust every other day.

Three Months Of Terrifying Normalcy In Arctic ice | Real Science

Since March 1, Arctic ice extent has been within one standard deviation of normal.

Voluntary carbon offsetting hit $576 million in 2011

The 2011 figure is a three-year high, second only to $776 million in 2009.

- Bishop Hill blog - Joelle Gergis talks up her results

Further to the last post, I came across this recent interview with Joelle Gergis, in which she discusses her recent paper. It's remarkable to see her making the same claims of hockey-stickdom that have caused so much of a furore over the last 15 years or so.

When you realise that the whole thing is based on a logical fallacy, it's hard not to become angry.

Atlantic Array wind farm plan reduced to 278 turbines | JunkScience.com

Plans for a wind farm in the Bristol Channel have been reduced from 417 to 278 turbines after public talks.

Money meant for wind, solar power loses steam as customers shift from utility giants | JunkScience.com

“ComEd, Ameren supply most of budget for Illinois Power Agency, but as customers switch to other electricity suppliers, support for renewable energy dries up“

As dioxycarbophobes have long said, people respond to price cues and they are – by switching to cheaper suppliers and continuing to use energy as before

Car Battery Start-Ups Fizzle | JunkScience.com

Armed With $1.26 Billion in U.S. Grants, Firms Opened Nine Factories; Jobs and Production Lag Goals

Oh… most people really want their money spent fighting the phantom menace – they just don’t say so | JunkScience.com

Researchers see a silent majority supporting climate change action as a ‘social issue’ – America’s “silent jury” on climate change is seen by some researchers as an important majority that could swing society into action to confront rising temperatures.

Has the Cologne Carbon Dioxide Hoax Expo really dwindled from 7887 attendees last year to 2600 attendees this year?

Trade show: CARBON EXPO - Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference Cologne - m+a expoDataBase.com

The trade show CARBON EXPO - Global Carbon Market Fair & Conference takes place in Cologne, Germany. The frequency of the trade show is annual.

In 2011 219 exhibitors seized the trade show CARBON EXPO as a presentation platform for their products and services. With their trade show participation exhibitors occupied 2222 sqm. 7887 visitors attended

CARBON EXPO Cologne, Germany 2012, 30 May - 1 Jun

No. of Attendees: 2600

Carbon Expo 2012 web site | Home

Myles Allen Calls For “Name and Shame” « Climate Audit

Unlike their earlier articles, Gergis et al at least archived the 27 “temperature-sensitive predictors”. But like Jacoby, they did not archive the 35 “climate proxies” that they didn’t use. I asked them for these other proxies. While I was at it, I also asked them for digital versions of the proxy networks used in Neukom and Gergis 2011 (Holocene), Neukom et al 2011 (Clim Dyn) and Neukom et al (2010).
...Joelle Gergis has responded blowing off my request. She says that I should try to get the unarchived data from the original authors, saying snottily that this is “commonly called ‘research’” and that they “will not be entertaining further correspondence” on the matter.

Twitter / PingMedina: Major thanks to Sen. Juan

Major thanks to Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile & Cong. Erin Tanada as champions of the People's Survival Fund Bill (protection from climate change)

Twitter / newscientist: A warmer world might be a

A warmer world might be a poisoned one: ‪#Climatechange‬ will create a toxic brew for herbivores http://bit.ly/L2NiXu  ‪#AGW

Twitter / grist: Study finds large-scale ir

Study finds large-scale irrigation causes more sea-level rise than climate change, yet Big Ag gets a thumbs up: http://bit.ly/NkuOUV

Twitter / coralsncaves: Me: We clean up our trash

Me: We clean up our trash so the planet can breathe. Isaac: Mommy, the planet doesn't breathe. It doesn't have a mouth. But it has thoughts.

Twitter / WWF_Australia: Help WWF fight for the sur

Help WWF fight for the survival of the polar bear by keeping pressure on govts to address climate change ‪#Survival‬ http://flic.kr/p/bYW92Y

Twitter / GeorgeMonbiot: Vote here for a @38_degree

Vote here for a @38_degrees campaign against the ‪#EnergyBill‬'s shredding of ‪#climatechange‬ targets: http://38degrees.uservoice.com/forums/78585-c  … From @tmyoungman

Twitter / TEDxExeter: International Conference o

International Conference on Tourism, climate change & Sustainability @bournemouthuni 13-14 Sept http://bit.ly/JULFvp  @UNWTO@unescoNOW

Jon Stewart: Mayor Bloomberg's large soda ban would combine the draconian government overreach people love with the probable lack of results they expect.

Drink Different - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart - 05/31/12 - Video Clip | Comedy Central

Quit Complaining About Mayor Bloomberg’s Soda Ban, Fatsos

If you think that a ban on large sodas is somehow an affront to America freedom, I have news for you: You don't live in a free country. You never have and you never will. That's an illusion. You are not free to murder people in America.

Texas’s Solyndra: Will CREZ Launch Cruz to the U.S. Senate? ($7 billion wind transmission project a defining intra-Republican issue) — MasterResource

CREZ, which stands for Competitive Renewable Energy Zones, is a $5 billion-turned-$7 billion project to get (uneconomic) wind energy from nowhere (where the wind regularly blows) to somewhere (population centers). Some of the wind capacity the line is counting on to carry may never be built due to the low cost of natural gas. [2] It will cost every Texas electricity ratepayer north of $5 per month for years to come on each electricity bill.

C3: Myles Allen, Climate Doomsday Scientist, Proves Unable To Defend Bogus 'Hockey Stick' Global Warming
Articles: Romney's Historic Opportunity: Low-Cost Energy Fuels Economic Recovery

He should pledge specific goals: lower gasoline prices, cheaper household electricity, cheaper fertilizer for farmers and lower food prices for everybody, cheaper transport fuels for aviation and for the trucking industry, lower raw material costs for the chemical industry.  He should also indicate the kind of people who would be part of his team, who would fill the crucial posts and carry out these policies.  His running mate should have a record of endorsing these goals.

Biodiversity Loss: How Accurate Are The Numbers?

 But if it's really true that up to 150 species are being lost every day, shouldn't we expect to be able to name more than 801 extinct species in 512 years?

Quadrant Online - The Integrity of the Australian Academy of Science

Using the same letter code to the Royal Society’s tract, we read in the Academy booklet:
(a) “Could changes in the sun be causing global warming?” Answer: Not much of it, if any.

Deadlocked: Europe's Green Policy Shambles

Talks are stalled and could be shelved until next year.

A controversial proposal to impose energy efficiency savings across the European Union is at risk of being neutered or abandoned, even though it has been identified as essential for encouraging economic growth.

Irish Met Office: No Evidence That Global Warming Is Changing Rain Pattern

AVERAGE TEMPERATURES and rainfall are up, according to the latest Met Éireann statistics. Yet there is no evidence in these figures to prove that global warming is at play.

Pagan Cult Member Turns IPCC Lead Author

IPCC Lead Author member of group that preaches “Revolt and Remember”. Resilience Alliance talks of “destabilization” and “destruction” leading to “reorganization”. Group inspired by “hoofed, horned, hairy and horny” pagan god, Pan: symbol of the “all pervasive spiritual power of nature” in his “destabilizing role” of spreading “panic”.

Twitter / RyanMaue: NOAA and NWS are top heavy

NOAA and NWS are top heavy bureaucratic nightmares -- lots of dead wood. Senority based promotion gets u mediocre pension-seekers.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: I would just like to know

I would just like to know if POTUS ever looked or listened to other side on AGW. If not, its classic Dunning Krueger. Baffling

Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their mistakes.^[1]

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Tue/Wed in NYC may only b

Tue/Wed in NYC may only be in 50s! wasnt kidding around about that. Boston could have day like Chicago had today... 40s

British bufferfly population fell more than 20% between 2010 and 2011; Butterfly Conservation has blamed the decline on "last year's record-breaking cold summer"

BBC Nature - UK butterflies continue to decline

Butterfly Conservation has blamed the decline on "last year's record-breaking cold summer", but also said there was a long-term and "ongoing deterioration of suitable butterfly habitat across the countryside".

Veterans targeted in carbon tax scam

Veterans are being ripped off by scammers posing as government officials promising carbon tax compensation and asking for their personal details.

Daniel Souweine: The People-Power-Inflicted Downfall of Heartland

It has been a rough few weeks for the Heartland Institute, the "intellectual" nexus of the fossil fuel-powered machine to disparage climate science in the United States.

Another insane headline at New "Scientist": "Climate change will create a toxic brew for herbivores"

Climate change will create a toxic brew for herbivores - environment - 01 June 2012 - New Scientist

A WARMER world might be a poisoned one. A compilation of studies suggests that as temperatures rise, herbivorous mammals will suffer greater effects from the toxins they eat, with animals living in dry regions at particular risk.

Louise Gray suggests that Nasheed's warmism led to his removal from power following a military coup

Hay Festival 2012: The Island President, review - Telegraph

For a small man from a small island state, Mohamed Nasheed has had a big impact on the world. The former President of the Maldives was instrumental in
securing a global deal on climate change at the Copenhagen Summit in 2009.

...You are left with the awful sense that this man's fight to save his people, by politely asking the rest of the world to reduce carbon emissions, may just have been too much for more powerful forces to take.

Obama's Spain problem

FAIL. Obama’s Favorite Green Energy Success Story – Spain – Halts All New Renewable Energy Projects | The Gateway Pundit

Remember how Barack Obama repeatedly lectured us on how we had to be more like Spain?

Obama loved Spain’s green energy policy despite the fact that every job created in the sector cost 2.2 private sector jobs.

AFP: Investors flee Spain as financial crisis spirals

MADRID — Spain battled to contain fears of financial collapse Wednesday, scrambling to fund a major banking rescue as its debt risk premium rocketed to a euro-era record.

- Bishop Hill blog - AR5: dead in the water?

...Is is possible to argue in these circumstances that the IPCC remains a credible organisation? I would say not. I wonder if the Fifth Assessment Report is dead in the water already.

John Vidal: Pollution suit against UK government dismissed by court of appeal | JunkScience.com

“Challenge brought by Client Earth could go to European court of justice after judges rule European commissioner must decide“

“Client Earth”? Oh puh-lease!

Greenpeace says KFC boxes destroy Indonesia forests | JunkScience.com

Sigh… a rational person would say “KFC buys product to help Indonesia develop and reduce third world poverty” but Greenpeace are rabidly misanthropic

The New Nostradamus of the North: Rio+20 - The last UN mega conference?

 The average cost of a room in Rio during the conference has risen to $818 per night, according to a report this week by Agencia Brasil, the state-run news agency. And some hotels are taking advantage of the shortage of accommodations by requiring guests to book for an.  entire week, even if they intend to stay for just three or four nights.

 With a total of 33,000 beds for the estimated 50,000-plus visitors expected to flood the city for the June 20-22 summit, the mayor has resorted to asking residents to leave town and rent out their apartments to delegates.

Scientists suspect thunderstorms as climate culprit | JunkScience.com

As if there weren’t enough forces spreading pollution around the planet, scientists are looking at one other contributor: thunderstorms.  

Scientists will chase thunderstorms this spring and summer in three states, in part to look at the role the storms play in pulling pollution from the surface up into the stratosphere.

The $10 million field study, known as the “Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry” (DC3) project, started May 15.

Quark Soup by David Appell: Global Warming Isn't Global

So perhaps as warming increases people will tend to move not just away from the equator, but to to small isolated islands, where (I suspect) the warming trend is more like that of their surrounding ocean than of land. Unfortunately, some of those islands will be underwater.

Perhaps really rich people will live on ships, and invite others in order to set them up as small independent countries of their own, a la Blueseed.

C3: Antarctica Global Warming: Advanced Science Methods Establish That Medieval Period Was Warmer

With constant frigid temperatures, the idea of modern Antarctica "global warming" that is "unprecedented" seems rather ludicrous - indeed it is ludicrous, as latest research again confirms Medieval Warming Period was hotter

Sri Lanka says open trade could counter climate change

Surprise! Current Motor Fuel Taxes Exceed the Estimated Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) in Most Industrialized Countries — MasterResource

“Simple math demonstrates that the average taxes (including duties) on gasoline and diesel in virtually every developed country exceed the average U.S. EPA’s (over)estimated global social cost of carbon now and through 2025 (at least). In fact, motorists in most European countries already pay taxes in excess of the upper bound estimate of the social cost of carbon through the middle of this century.”

Wildfires Return … but With or Without Climate Change Component? | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

“Scientists know that they will get jumped on as soon as they make an attribution — especially one related to global warming, where there is a huge crew of contrarians standing by ready to jump on them,” Hansen said.

Still, Hansen argues, the evidence is unequivocal

Roger Revelle's 1980 Discussion of CO2 and Climate Risks - NYTimes.com

Part two describes what was clear about carbon dioxide’s impacts and energy trends 40 years ago, but also the “morass of uncertainties,” many of which remain unclear today

Neil Wagner: Climate Science: The X's and O's of CO2

Climate scientists also write books for general consumption. Enter acclaimed climate scientist Michael E. Mann, the guest star of today's What on Earth comic strip. Mann's book, The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars, lays out the science, the certainties and the uncertainties in climate science today.

...Climate science sounds to me like provable scientific principles that are stringently reviewed by panels of experts. With all due respect to the Chamber of Commerce, I'll look to climate scientists for global warming updates.

What’s the point of the tax if coal mines will flourish? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/andrewbolt/index.php/heraldsun/comments/whats_the_point_of_the_tax_if_coal_mines_will_flourish/

If Combet is truly claiming our coal industry will flourish, not shrink, under his carbon tax, what is the point of that tax? If it doesn't move us off coal, then it is purely another revenue-raising tax or instrument of wealth transfer.

More on IPCC Chapter Head Neil Adger – & Stephen Schneider

http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2012/05/31/more-on-ipcc-chapter-head-neil-adger-stephen-schnedier

In the climate science world anyone who dares to publish politically incorrect content will be boycotted and accused of dishonesty by a ruling clique of scientists who expect them to:

• denounce and withdraw the offending book
• apologize to the scientific community
• and admit to scientific fraud

Dissidents were treated remarkably similarly in Stalin's Soviet's Union. They still are in places like China and Iran today.

A community that regards Schneider's demands as remotely acceptable is a community that's dangerous.

NRDC Points to 150,000 Increased Mortalities by 2100 across 40 U.S. Cities

http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2012/05/nrdc-points-to-150000-increased-mortalities-by-2100-across-40-u-s-cities/
The group's study also calculates the increased mortalities by mid-century and end-of-century for those 40 cities and does so with a seeming numerical specificity that is bound to make many analysts uncomfortable (for instance, 2,994 additional mortalities in Washington, D.C., by 2099, and 7,516 additional mortalities in Minneapolis by then).

Much Buzz Surrounding Communications on Climate Science

http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2012/05/much-buzz-surrounding-communications-on-climate-science/
It's dialogue certain to continue over coming months as experts and nonexperts alike search for keys on how to unlock continuing confusion and ambivalence on a social and scientific issue bound to be front-and-center on the public policy agenda for decades into the future.

Obama Boosts Coal Exports, Prompting Allies’ Complaints - Bloomberg

The U.S. government’s export lender backed $90 million in loans to boost overseas sale of coal, drawing criticism from environmental groups that say the Obama
administration is ignoring coal’s risks to air and health.

Romney Calls Solyndra a Symbol of Failure for Obama - Bloomberg

Mitt Romney visited the closed facilities of Solyndra LLC, the solar-panel manufacturer that went bankrupt after receiving a $535 million federal loan
guarantee, and called the company a symbol of failure for President Barack Obama’s administration.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee spoke today outside the factory Solyndra constructed with government funds at its headquarters in Fremont, California, terming it “the Taj Mahal of corporate headquarters.” The campaign didn’t disclose the speech location until Romney arrived.

“This building, this half-a-billion dollar taxpayer investment, represents a serious conflict of interest on the part of the president and his team,” Romney said.

Twitter / omnologos: How much warmer was Siberi

How much warmer was Siberia 32,000 years ago? MT @Revkin: 32,000-Year-Old Plant Reborn From Ancient Fruit Found in Siberian Ice ‪#agw

Govt Mutiny Against Warmism?! 'Looks like some real scientists have had enough of Hansen's 30 year reign of lies and bullying' | Climate Depot

Old photographs found in basement help scientists unravel warming patterns | Grist

The verdict? Many glaciers in the 1930s were actually melting even faster than they are today.

Twitter / MichaelEMann: Audio link for my intervie

Audio link for my interview this morning w/ @Scott_LaMar on 'Radio Smart Talk' @WITFNews ‪#HSCW‬ http://fb.me/24DAw9Jda

Near-record low for June 1 is forecast for overnight across St. Louis

ST. LOUIS • Temperatures will drop tonight to a near a record low, according to the National Weather Service.

Ag at Large: Homemade trees feed on carbon

In Central California near Selma, a 20-acre stand of hollow-trunked, luxuriously leafed trees called MegaFlora are using their manufactured foliage to scrub the air by removing carbon created at a neighboring dairy.

The trees didn’t grow from seeds, nor will they produce any. They were created by botanist Dr. Ray Allen, using sophisticated artificial plant breeding techniques highly dependent on DNA combinations and tissue analysis. His result is a manufactured tree.

...Since they don’t produce a crop, Dr. Allen envisions them as important elements in the cap-and-trade phenomenon gripping the world. The practice has received the blessing of the Legislature in California, the first state in the country to adopt it officially.

Emerald Energy and the MegaFlora Tree ®

Nanny Bloomberg: 17-ounce pop servings bad; 12-inch donuts good

Trevor Butterworth: Mayor Bloomberg’s Soda Ban: Why It Won’t Work | JunkScience.com

In The Daily Beast: It is hard to think of a better way to turn soda into a symbol for intrusive, meddlesome, government than to have a humorless billionaire poking his finger of disapproval into one’s daily life and arbitrarily saying “your cup shall not runneth over 16 ounces!”

Worried About The Soda Ban? Fear Not, Bloomberg to Support ‘National Donut Day’ Tomorrow | JunkScience.com

At Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s press conference touting his effortsto stop the sale of large soft drinks in restaurants, one reporter in attendance brought up the interesting fact that his administration also supporting “National Donut Day” tomorrow and inquired as to whether that muddled the mayor’s message on the issue.

Indeed, at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow morning, Entenmann’s will be unveiling “Custom-made Entenmann’s large donuts, 1-foot in diameter” at Madison Square Park at the same time they unveil a “Proclamation Letter by Mayor Michael Bloomberg.”