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#Rioplus20 text: Big losers sust energy for all by 2030, renewables and energy efficiency commitments - all gone. Fossil subsidy reform weak
Quark Soup by David Appell: Global Warming Skepticism to Be Over by Christmas?
If there is a strong El Nino later this year -- chances are said to be 50-50 -- this AGW skepticism thing could be over by Christmas.
See The Devastation For Yourself | Real Science
The super-duper 50,000 acre mega-fire of 2012, which our greenie friends are hysterical about. Over 100 houses were lost, because some people like to build wood houses in the middle of a forest which naturally burns about once every twenty years.
The panorama above is Lory State Park at noon today, which was reported burning this week. The only fire scars visible in the park are ones which are decades old. The forests on distant ridges on the right side were burned a few days ago. Almost no smoke is visible.
The Ultimate MMORPG? « Quid Sapio's Climate Stuff
It’s almost as if at some level they know it’s untrue and don’t want to have it pointed out. Makes you look again at the cosy church-like ethos of the Believing paradigm.What do you get when you sign up?
A sense of virtue ; the warm glow of being a person of conscience – and yet not having very much required of you as a result, beyond deploring the lack of action on the part of governments, and maybe putting a brick in your toilet cistern.
A sense of martyrdom; of being unfairly persecuted for your lofty conscience – without any of the inconvenience attendant upon actually being even slightly persecuted.
A sense of belonging; of joining virtual hands with a network of fellow “martyrs”, all standing backs to the wall against the evil onslaught of Denial and Darkness. It’s the Fellowship of the Ring without the orcs. It’s the spirit of the Blitz with no danger of anything nasty actually dropping on your head.
Human-caused catastrophic global warming exposed as big lie - Coeur d'Alene Press: My Turn
Worldwide funding for climate research increased by a factor of more than 30 since the early 1990s, all of the increase was driven by the false fear of climate disaster, Rutan said. The people who were really manipulating data falsely were rather small in number, Rutan found.
"The 2,500 scientists from IPCC do not support the predictions of catastrophe," he said. "That is not a consensus at all, and never was."
The actual 'consensus' is that nearly all scientists agree that the planet has warmed in the last 50 years and that at least some of that warming was due to human emissions. Only a tiny faction - acting out of greed - showed that the warming was dangerous and that stopping human CO2 emissions was a critical need, he said. Now, after 15 years of no global warming while human CO2 emissions continue to increase, there is no consensus that we risk catastrophe.
IPCC is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change established by two United Nations organizations in 1988. That was just four years before the first Rio Conference in 1992 when Agenda 21 was formulated.
Rutan thought he could use his findings to convince some global warming alarmists online but instead he was personally attacked with brutal name calling.
"I found out real quickly that with these people, it's their livelihood and it's like a religion to them," he said. "They don't look at the facts.
"They call us deniers and it's them that are denying the data."
Energy Etch A Sketch - NYTimes.com
Mr. Romney has plainly decided that satisfying his party’s antiregulatory base is essential to his political future. But the policies he espouses would be devastating for the country and the planet. If there are doubts on that point, the most recent findings from the International Energy Agency should dispel them: the agency reports an alarming one-year increase in global greenhouse gas emissions, largely because of increasing coal use around the world.
Climate change on agenda in Square | This is Nottingham
ENVIRONMENTALISTS are to hold a climate change awareness event in Old Market Square today.
The Stop Climate Chaos event will feature Latin American music, masks, a samba band and dancing.
The event will begin at 3.30pm, when people will start dancing and waving green materials.
How did ancient societies interpret catastrophic weather events?: Information from Answers.com
Different cultures developed wholly unscientific explanations for dramatic weather events or other natural phenomena-explanations typically rooted in the existing mythology or folklore of its people. For example, the ancient Maya (in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and in parts of Central America) believed that earthquakes were the gods' way of thinning out an overcrowded population. Indians in central Mexico are believed to have worshiped the grasshopper-or locust-after swarms destroyed their crops. One Japanese myth maintained that the entire island string rested on the back of a giant catfish who would grow restless and flop around when the gods were displeased, resulting in an earthquake. According to Hawaiian myth, the volcano goddess Pele causes Mount Kilauea to erupt whenever she has a temper tantrum.
Crime on the high seas - committed for decades by the EU's Common Fisheries Policy - Telegraph
When I heard the BBC’s Today programme banging on last week about the need to end the scandal of “discarding” – the practice whereby fishermen are forced to chuck millions of dead fish back into the sea – I could only give a weary shrug.
Year after year in the 1990s I exposed the horror story of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), based on an utterly cynical (and illegal) trick whereby, in 1971, it was made a condition of Britain’s entry into the Common Market that we should hand over the richest fishing waters in the world as a “common European resource”. No aspect of the CFP was more criminal than what I first described in 1993 as an “ecological catastrophe” – the pointless destruction, every year, of fish in their “billions” (as an internal European Commission document admitted in 1991).
Minister sees Green ideas in action (From The Oxford Times)
Barbara Hammond, director of Low Carbon Oxford, said: “There’s so much going on in Oxford that it has been hard to select projects for the minister to visit. There are 60-plus active low carbon community groups in the county and 25 pathfinder organisations, all committed to dealing with climate change.”
...Mr Tanner said: “We are thrilled to have Greg Barker visiting Oxford. Low Carbon Oxford is leading the way to a flourishing and fair low carbon economy.”
Coal hard light of day for dud scheme
Kevin Rudd's decision to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on technology to capture and store carbon has failed to deliver.
They've conferenced in empire-style Parisian ballrooms and dined in Kyoto on food cooked by a genuine Iron Chef. But deeply disgruntled former staffers believe Australia's $300 million Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute has not achieved very much.
...The institute has 78 staff, including nine permanent employees overseas - two in Washington, three in Tokyo and four in Paris. Former senior employees say its first chief executive, the British businessman Nick Otter, was paid well over $500,000 a year - more than the Prime Minister.Page insists he has "no idea" what his predecessor was paid and his own salary is "nothing like that". The institute's five board members are paid from a budget of $400,000 a year and are entitled to first-class air travel.
Anthropogenic Global Warming: Wrong Again | Power Line
While global warming alarmists cloak themselves in the mantle of science, the truth is that there is nothing scientific about their enterprise. The models that are the sole basis for global warming alarmism have been proved conclusively to be wrong. That really is all that needs to be said about the matter. The fact that alarmists and their supporters in the media and in politics continue to try to foist discredited theories onto the public shows that their real interest is not science, but politics and power.
Madonna's Crazy Tour Demands - In Touch Weekly
If her MDNA tour demands are any indication, it seems Madonna is still a Material Girl! In Touch has learned the pop star’s backstage rider states she is traveling with a whopping 200-person entourage including 30 bodyguards, personal chefs, a yoga instructor, an acupuncturist and even an on-site dry cleaner.
...“She requires all furniture be removed from the rooms and replaced with her own pieces that she has shipped in,” reveals another insider to In Touch.
2007: Madonna brings Live Earth London to its climax | News | NME.COM
Moments later Madonna opened her set with 'Hey You', a brand new song written especially for this event, which was also used as the bridging music between bands all day at Wembley.
The screens showed images of world leaders were transposed with natural disasters.
...She followed this by declaring: “We’re starting an avalanche of awareness that we are running out of time. Tonight's concert, and the concerts going on around the world, are not just about entertainment, they’re about starting a revolution! Amen!"
Linking Hurricanes With Global Warming And CO2 | Real Science
It has been almost seven years since a major hurricane hit the US, the longest such period in US history. It has also been seven years since Florida was hit by a hurricane, the longest such period in Florida history.
By contrast, during the year 1886 the US was hit by seven hurricanes, including two major hurricanes. Hansen says that 1886 was one of the coldest years on record.
DAVID Karoly’s paper - which claimed the past 50 years in Australasia was the warmest on record - had been peer-reviewed and published online by the Journal of Climate last month to widespread acclaim.
Now it’s been quietly removed and “put on hold” after Canadian skeptic Steve McIntyre - of hockey stick debunking fame - pointed out it contained a whopping big error. Or what Karoly and his young co-author Joelle Gergis, call a ‘’data processing issue’’.
Lovelock goes mad for shale gas – Telegraph Blogs
My only criticisms of Lovelock's recantations are that a) they couldn't have come a few years earlier (they would have been a lot braver – and more devastating – when the global warming craze was at its peak and that b) they seem to have been prompted at least partly by self-interest.
Socialism, taxes & Castro - Day 2 Video from Rio+20
We're still at the planning conference for major groups. This weekend, 45,000 more people are traveling to this UN summit. It is hard to imagine what we are seeing and hearing multiplied by that kind of magnitude, but that is what's coming.
Take a look at our video blog from day two and sample the tone of this conference. It's just the tip of the (not melting!) iceberg.
Haggard outlined the science and the outlook for climate change Friday at the annual meeting of the Disaster Emergency Response Association International, which returned to its Asheville roots for its 50th anniversary.
With warming temperatures, scientists expect more extreme weather events, sudden downpours and extended droughts, which in turn could mean more flooding or more wildfires, Haggard said. “Stay tuned to the Weather Channel or the NCDC.”
Remarks on Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
[Todd Stern, Special US Envoy for the Climate Change Hoax]: Thanks, Valerie. There are certainly – the phrase “common but differentiated” is certainly sprinkled through this text in any number of places, and we have fairly strong and developed views about that idea in general. I am extremely familiar with it from the climate context. And what we have been very firm about in that context is that the idea, the phrase taken to mean a firewall between developed and developing countries, is completely unacceptable to us. If it ever made sense, it doesn’t make sense anymore in the context of a world that is so dynamically and rapidly evolving, and where some of the biggest economies and biggest users of resources -- in the climate change world, biggest producer of greenhouse gases -- and so forth, is on the developing country side of the line.
JET-SETTING bureaucrats have been slammed for raking up 6.5 million kilometres in air travel - amassing 1000 tonnes of carbon emissions...
Officials from the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency spent $3.274 million last year, travelling the world to speak about the perils of a warming planet.
...The department also spent $265,000 accommodating its delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban in 2011.
The department's staff took in some of the world's premier holiday destinations, including Cancun in Mexico, the Maldives, Vanuatu, Miami and Grenada and Guyana in the Caribbean.
...There were trips to Africa and South America, plus the standard trips to London, Barcelona, Los Angeles, Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo. More than 42 flights cost more than $10,000, with one flight from Sydney to Bali on March 23 costing $15,311, while another to Seoul from Canberra on October 25 cost $15,688.
The department defended the expenditure as critical to advance Australia's interests by representing it at crucial climate change negotiations.
Wolf Population on Isle Royale Drops to Lowest It Has Ever Been | Michigan Tech News
The weather during this year’s winter study was very mild with relatively little snow, which usually works to the advantage of moose. The average daily snow depth was 36 centimeters, well below the 1974-2011 average of 44 centimeters. In early March, warm weather quickly reduced the snowpack, Vucetich and Peterson note in their just published annual report.
...Predictably, with fewer predators, the moose population is increasing. The scientists, who count moose during their annual winter study, believe there are now approximately 750 moose on Isle Royale.
2007: Wolves, ticks thin Isle Royale moose herds - JSOnline
Since 2002, the number of moose on the island has declined from 1,100 to 385, following a dramatic increase in winter ticks.
Denali wolf kill 2 0f 2 - YouTube
Denali National Park and Preserve's Grant creek Alphas and sub-adults kill young moose calf
Mt Washington B.C. ski area open today and tomorrow
In the middle of June! Happy Fathers Day!
Mount Washington on Vancouver Island is open for skiing this week end and they have a 1.5 meter snow base, says reader Steven Rowlandson.
ATH Resources shares plummet after coal price warning - 268996
ATH Resources shares plunged by more than 47% after it warned that weakening coal prices and the cost of buying carbon credits would have a material adverse impact on its trading performance.
The company points out that international coal prices have fallen by some 21% since the beginning of the calendar year and by over 28% since the beginning of the group's financial year.
Take little steps on climate change, says polar adventurer | Eco-Business.com
He has also found that relating his experiences in the North and South Poles is a useful way to show listeners how the effects of climate change are already beginning to devestate parts of the globe.
For example, he once had to scare off a polar bear who, hungry and grumpy after a long hibernation, eventually lumbered off in search of a seal. [Did CO2 really cause that incident?] The pack ice where the seals congregate are drifting south, and polar bears have to swim increasingly longer and more dangerous distances to find their main food source.
Richard Muller: Yep, Still Skeptical | KQED's Climate Watch
CM: And solar thermal, these, as opposed to photovoltaic panels that you put on your roof and elsewhere. These big arrays in the desert that use mirrors to concentrate the solar energy to heat up something. No?
RM: It’s been working in California, in Spain, elsewhere. Only where it’s been heavily subsidized. It will not work in China where we really need solar. The reason is, it’s basically bricks and mortar. And where as the price of solar cells is dropping, the price of big, large-scale construction is not. I do not expect it to get cheap enough to be used without subsidies.
Analyzing AGW skepticism: missing the point? | Climate Etc.
Much of the climate community continues to view AGW skeptics as anti-science, fossil fuel funded troglodytes (Mike Mann’s book is a prime example of this view). As typified by Chris Mooney, many of the social scientists and journalists have come around to the view of AGW skepticism as “motivated reasoning”, which is not really connected to corporate interests, and acknowledges that many skeptics are well educated and knowledgable about AGW science. Well this is a step in the right direction: away from the idea that AGW skepticism is driven by corporations. Some social scientists seem to be moving in the right direction. Akter et al. refreshingly acknowledge the multi-dimensional nature of AGW skepticism. But none of the academics seem to acknowledge reasoned skepticism (such as described by Geoff Chambers) by knowledgeable and well educated people as having an actual scientific basis; as such, they are “missing the point.”
The Canadian Olympic team goes green to London for Summer Olympics
The Canadian Olympic team and support staff will generate a carbon footprint equivalent to the annual emissions of nearly 300 mid-sized vehicles when they travel to and from the Summer Olympics in London this summer.
But they plan to offset that 1,500 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions with carbon credits — the first Olympic team so far opting to be carbon-neutral for the London 2012 Games.
...The credits will be given to the Canadian Olympic Committee without charge, said Offsetters CEO James Tansey, noting the carbon credits retail for $20 per tonne based on Offsetters' prices...
But critics of the carbon offset credit system liken it to the medieval European practice of buying papal indulgences to absolve sins — a comparison rejected by the David Suzuki Foundation.
Global Warming Psychological Babble
The most egregious stretch of manufactured global warming effects is a 55-page report published in February 2012 by the National Wildlife Federation titled, “The Psychological Effects of Global Warming on the United States: And Why the U.S. Mental Health Care System is Not Adequately Prepared.”
Let's Go! Social Ad Gallery | Shell
Below are some of the ads that users like you have created for Shell's Let’s Go! Arctic campaign. Why not create your own, and possibly win an all-expenses-paid trip to see the Kulluk in action?
Carbon tax debate set to warm up in Asia - 268975 - 2012-06-16
China Daily reported that the carbon tax has become one of the most politically divisive and bitterly fought tax reforms of this century and governments around the world and in particular Asia, are debating the issue.
Monday morning June 11, 9:45 a.m., a microblogging account devoted to news about China’s Hubei Province tweeted three photos depicting downtown buildings wrapped in gray-orange haze.
According to the text, they had just been taken in downtown Wuhan, Hubei's provincial capital, population 10 million : “It’s suddenly enveloped by smog and the air is thick with a combustible smoky smell! Is it like this where you are?”
Climate Watch: Conversation With Richard Muller - YouTube
Richard Muller is not a climatologist, yet he is one of the most controversial figures in climate science. Climate Watch Senior Editor sat down with Muller to talk about his upcoming book, "Energy for Future Presidents," his view of global warming as "secular religion." [Maybe I missed it, but I didn't hear Muller say "secular religion" in this one-minute segment.]
Twitter / KHayhoe: RT @CFigueres On my way to
RT @CFigueres On my way to #RioPlus20. I will be looking for true commitment to change.
British Baby-Boomers Are Beginning To Be More Rational About Eco-Hype
More than 1,000 people aged 55 or over - nearly three quarters of them 55 to 69 - responded to the online survey. The greatest number of respondents were from the UK followed by Australia, Canada and the U.S.
Only one in five of those in the UK were very concerned about the effects of climate change on their country, compared to 60 per cent in Australia, 57 per cent in Canada and 50 per cent in the U.S.
To move this partnership agenda forward, King is using his position at the Smith School to next month bring together 250 of the world's most influential politicians, investors and business leaders from developed and developing countries to debate how to re-direct funds into the green economy. Those who have already registered for ReSource 2012 represent more than $4tn in assets.
...King recognises that the power of the fossil fuel lobby is making it hard to make progress but he believes their power is at a high point and will soon start to wane.
"The power of big money has been incredibly successful in destabilising the transition, even more successful than the doubt that was sown between smoking and cancer," he says.
"The scientific community felt very battered by the University of East Anglia climate revelations but they continue to beaver away showing predictions for the next 20 years ago are even worse than predicted and we are faced with a human existential crisis.
"That will be the force that will bubble through. There is only so long you can deny that cigarette smoking is not linked to cancer until it becomes absurd."
...King is famous for saying shortly after 9/11 that climate change was more challenging than terrorism.He says he created that "sound bite" because he felt climate change was not on the public agenda and wanted to create interest in the media and says we need many more people in positions of authority to raise their voices and create a stir.
Greens feast at another Rio trough | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Actually, Lenore is wrong. All those meetings in nice foreign places are exactly the harvest those carpetbaggers were after. That, and free cash.
Fancy having a meeting that would solve everything. There would be no more excuse to go traveling again to some conference that let you preen with the powerful and sound off like Jesus Green Christ, at no cost to anyone but some dumb taxpayer.
The meetings are the whole idea.
Of course, the wheels are now falling off the green bandwagon:
Polar Bears Found Capable of Swimming Long Distances in Open Water | The SPPI Blog
Pagano et al. conclude: “we show that both adult female polar bears and their dependent young possess an ability to swim long distances.” They also state that “most of the long-distance swimming events that we identified involved bears swimming from unconsolidated sea ice to the main pack ice or to land.” In other words, few swims recorded were from land to sea ice, indicating that during the open water season, most southern Beaufort and Chukchi Sea polar bears are on the sea ice, not on land — a point also made by Durner et al. (2011). In addition, the results of this study suggest that despite there being little or nothing for female polar bears and their cubs to eat on shore during the late summer months in the southern Beaufort Sea, the few bears that remain on shore are apparently not so hungry that they are undertaking long-distance swims to the pack ice to relieve their fast, although they appear able to do so. Despite an overall decline in September sea ice levels between 1979 and 2010, this study found no significant correlation between increased long-distance swims and increased amounts of open water in this region over time.
Hickman on Lovelock » Climate Resistance
Lovelock observes, for instance, that environmentalism has developed into something resembling a religion, which is mirrored by a religiosity amongst some sceptics. On the first point, Lovelock is hardly the first to point it out. And though as a description it seems to explain the excesses of environmentalism, it isn’t enough to explain how green thinking developed in this way. And the second point seems to present environmentalists as equal and opposite forces, which is inaccurate, as we know, because ‘scepticism’ simply isn’t a political force — it has very little institutional muscle through which it can assert itself . Similarly, the substance of many arguments on Hickman’s own articles seems to have been that a handful of tiny and barely-funded organisations have been able to thwart the progress of huge NGOs and governments seeking to establish global political institutions to ‘tackle climate change’.
Contrary to what many may believe today, the climate of the Sahara desert is far from being steady. Rather, it has gone through profound cyclic changes over the last 10,000 years. For example it was much greener 8000 to 5500 years ago, a time when it was teeming with wildlife.
What caused the “green Sahara”? The average temperature back then was approx. 1°C higher than today (with atmospheric CO2 concentrations 35% lower). The cause was likely the solar intensity maximum on the northern hemisphere due to the Earth’s orbital orientation (Milankovitch Cycles).
A warmer planet made the Sahara wetter in the past. Is that the case today? How have the Sahara and its neighboring regions changed over the recent years? Listening to the prophesies of some scientists influenced by special interests, you’d think man-made climate change was causing the Sahara to expand catastrophically.
But Lüning and Vahrenholt write that the real picture is entirely different
The carbon tax is now all grab and no planet-save | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Paul Kelly on a ludicrous tax that will not achieve its megalomaniacal aim - a cut in the expected temperature of the world:
A bizarre fate has befallen the carbon tax. It is de-coupled from its purpose. Debate about emissions reduction targets and saving the planet has slipped from the radar. When Gillard appeared on the ABC’s Q&A last Monday she was quizzed about the carbon tax but not climate change. Three years ago climate change would have been the main issue. Now it is about a tax-cash payment policy with Climate Change Minister Greg Combet boasting nine out of 10 households will be better off.
The political transformation is obvious: because people will no longer pay higher prices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the policy has turned into a net tax-transfer bonus that stands and is justified in its own right.
Uganda: Children take on climate change challenge
The green cover also keeps the country’s climate loveable
Poland Blocks EU Endorsement on Climate Change - WSJ.com
Poland fears that long-term goals to cut CO2 emissions would force it to stop using coal and increase the use of natural gas. That poses a danger for the country's energy security because it would mean higher dependence on imports from Russia.
Why are they serving meat at a climate-change conference? - The Washington Post
No one really believes that the Rio+20 meeting will result in a new agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. In that case, the best thing the conference could do for the climate is to remove meat from the menu — and to make a big deal about it....
If the United Nations and all the national delegations and activist groups at Rio+20 were to insist on eliminating meat at all the buffets, private dinners, embassy receptions, luncheons and breakfast briefings, people might start to think that the United Nations takes seriously the damage that human activity is causing to the planet. Yet, at a meeting that prides itself on being “green,” and where environmental advocates will be pushing their agenda, talking about meat seems to be an afterthought, or possibly even taboo.
...By the end of the century, the seas are expected to rise between seven and 23 inches. Islands and low-lying countries may simply disappear.
When is Cheating not a Disgrace? :: Fox&Hounds
The board of the institute should be ashamed. Would the professors who are on the board grant a doctorate to a candidate who cheated in his dissertation? Would the retired businessmen on the board keep an operating officer who lied to obtain a competitor’s secrets? Would the former government regulators give the benefit of the doubt to a business that lied to obtain a permit?
Informed and even strident debate is good for science, and it’s good for public policy. The Pacific Institute has sent a very different message: The ends justifiy the means.
...your local hospital is prepared to treat you after near-inevitable insect-borne disease outbreaks, flooding, and war. Might as well just check yourself in there for the duration.
Rio+20 summit: activists aren't mourning Barack Obama's absence | Environment | guardian.co.uk
From My Cold Dead Hand: Swedish Pols Want to Outlaw Stand-Up Urination - Hit & Run : Reason.com
In Alaska's Bering Sea, receding ice helps fishermen to fill snow crab quota | Alaska Dispatch
Normally, the opilio snow crab season is over by March or April. But this year was different because of ice covering the fishing grounds for much of the season, denying fishermen access to the little opilio, which average 1.2 pounds.
The fishery was set to close on May 31, but Fish and Game gave fishermen a couple of extra weeks, until June 15.
“Record sea ice significantly reduced available fishing grounds through a large portion of the Bering Sea snow crab season. Extensive ice coverage has persisted into mid-May resulting in 23 percent of the snow crab total allowable catch unharvested,” according to the Fish and Game press release announcing the extension.
Fighting Climate Change With Carbon Capture Seen Causing Quakes - Businessweek
Burying carbon dioxide in the ground, considered a promising way to combat climate change, may increase the risk of earthquakes, according to a report.
Flashback: How Climate Change Causes Earthquakes and Erupting Volcanoes | Mother Jones
A changing climate doesn't just cause floods, droughts, and heatwaves. It also brings erupting volcanoes and catastrophic earthquakes.
James Lovelock on shale gas and the problem with 'greens' | Environment | guardian.co.uk
I think the most outrageous example of climate scientists getting it wrong and not admitting it was the 2007 IPPC report. They happily accepted the Nobel prize, but their sea-level rise estimates, according to that very important Science paper by Rahmstorf (pdf), were 100% wrong. They didn't really answer this other than say it's a very complicated business and we've only just started. The IPCC is too politicised and too internalised. Whenever the UN puts its finger in it seems to become a mess. But I wish I knew of a better model than the IPCC.
...The greens use guilt. That shows just how religious the greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting CO2 in the air. We do now know what we are doing when it comes to CO2 [emissions], but you don't have to go right over the top like the greens and shouting, "You're guilty!" I don't like it.
...One thing being a scientist has taught me is that you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. You can only approach it and hope you get a bit nearer to it each time. You iterate towards the truth. You don't know it. It's just the way the humans go that if there's a cause of some sort, a religion starts forming around it. It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use.
...The people who don't believe in the environment and climate science, etc, are the deniers. They are a totally different category [to the greens]. They've got their own religion. They believe that the world was right before these damn people [the greens] came along and want to go back to where we were 20 years ago. That's also silly in its own way. I don't see how any true scientist could be either a believer or a denier. The term "sceptic" has been hijacked, too.
Twitter / grist: Future California surfers
Future California surfers are advised to hang zero toes over acidic waves http://bit.ly/KzBAZK
Painting Out Climate Change With Cool Roofs
It makes so much difference and is so easy to do that NYC is in the midst of a massive effort to paint all its roofs white.
Since 2010, NYC °CoolRoofs has coated 2.6 million square feet of New York City rooftop, and a million more square feet will be painted this year ... all by volunteers.
From this nyc.gov link:
In New York City, for example, roofs constitute 11.5% of the total area, or roughly 944.3 billion square feet.
Rio’s Anti-Democracy Summit « NoFrakkingConsensus
In a world brimming with creativity, diversity, and ingenuity the head of the United Nations is telling us that choices don’t exist. He’s telling us that there’s only one answer.
This is not leadership by the people, for the people. There’s nothing remotely democratic about what’s going on here.
Colorado has already experienced a fire of 52,068 acres as of June 15 west of Fort Collins (see also).
However, it is useful to place fire in the western forests in perspective. In 1910 there was a truly massive fire [h/t Bill Neff]. As written at Wikipedia
The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup or the Big Burn) was a wildfire which burned about three million acres
Climate change will reduce renewable energy capacity, warn scientists - SciDev.Net
But because of the effects of prolonged drought, flooding and temperature fluctuations, the country is expected to witness an overall decline in renewable energy generation.
"Renewable energy seems more vulnerable compared with conventional forms [of energy], and countries must factor this into their development plans," he said.
Brazil "will require about US$503 billion to prepare its energy system to cope with such an eventuality. It will need more investment in natural gas power plants," he added.
The American Spectator : Green Welfare, Green Taxes, Green Poverty
Just the opposite of what the market offers us, these higher energy prices are effectively another huge tax increase on the economy, killing still more jobs, raising unemployment, and inviting America still further into recession. The vast corporate welfare necessary to keep these alternative industries alive represents still another burden on the economy. Obama's EPA cap and trade policies represent effectively trillions more in increased taxes, dragging the economy down further. Instead of a manufacturing renaissance for America with plentiful, low cost fossil fuels, Obama's high cost energy policies mean further manufacturing decline for America.
The rhetoric of green jobs is just a PR slogan designed to trick the American people out of their traditional, world leading prosperity, which President Obama and his far left base considers immoral and unfair to the rest of the world. The reality has already been tried and failed in Europe, where studies show that green energy subsidies result in 2 to 9 jobs lost for every green job created. The reality is already in evidence in Great Britain, where brain dead devotion to windmills to power a modern economy has the nation on track for fuel poverty for half the nation, with more than 10 percent of their incomes consumed by high energy costs alone.
Twitter / wattsupwiththat: Study shows the Arctic was
Study shows the Arctic was much colder while Earth was warmer during Eemian warm period http://wp.me/p7y4l-h5G
Twitter / billmckibben: Ocean acid wrecking west c
Ocean acid wrecking west coat fishing ports--I guess we should turn them into coal ports instead http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/20 …
Twitter / fredthompson: Researchers: climate chang
Researchers: climate change drove woolly mammoth extinct. Obviously brought on by a lack of CFL bulbs in Fred Flintstone's house. #tcot
Déjà Vu at Rio+20 | Mark Hertsgaard - The Nation
Rio+20 is only talking about the end of the world as we know it. A new study in the journal Nature warns that Earth is approaching a “tipping point” that could lead, within decades, to irreversible degradation of the natural systems that provide humans with food, water and other vital services. A team led by Anthony Barnosky of the University of California, Berkeley, found that the rapidly warming climate, the disappearance of countless plant and animal species, the spread of toxic “dead zones” in the oceans, and other disturbing trends could trigger a transition to a radically less hospitable planet that would be “extremely difficult or even impossible” to reverse.
...As frustrating as it is to see the solutions ignored, it is also instructive. Environmental and development advocates often act as if the problem is a lack of information: give leaders more facts and they will make better decisions. But the world doesn’t work that way. Fighting climate change and poverty requires dismantling political and economic practices that are lucrative to powerful interests and replacing them with alternatives that serve the commonweal. No politician will take such steps lightly, for the powerful retaliate.
All the way back on May 9th 1992, UN defined “climate change” as man-made.
Al Fin: A Few Ways in Which Climate Models Fail to Account for What is Happening in the Real World
Here is a very short list of a few important omissions from modern climate models.
These elderly fatality statistics may spoil your affection for big box stores | Grist
There’s a slight (actually, not-so-slight) correlation between strip malls and big box stores and increased deaths among the elderly.
Why The Media Can’t Be Objective About Mann and Ornstein, or About The Republican Brain
Before Current and MSNBC, The Daily Show served as the de-facto news source for people seeking dissenting views from conservative conventional wisdom
Climate change: Cold comfort | The Economist
By the end of this century, maybe much sooner, there will be frequent Arctic summers with almost no sea ice at all.
The science: Uncovering an ocean | The Economist
...According to the IPCC, the last time the polar regions were significantly warmer was about 125,000 years ago...
Biodiversity: Pity the copepod | The Economist
Up to 20% of the tundra is estimated to have switched to a boreal-forest climate since the 1980s.
Biodiversity: Pity the copepod | The Economist
How badly the bears will be hit by global warming is unclear. There is little evidence to support claims of bears drowning as the ice melts, but assertions that they are thriving are also nonsense. By one estimate, they gain two kilograms of body weight a day out on the ice, feasting on seals, and lose a kilogram a day on shore, scavenging for barnacle goslings and eggs, as the dearth of sea ice is increasingly forcing them to do.
The polar bear should not become extinct. Recent DNA testing, reported in Science in April, suggests that the species is 600,000 years old, much older than previously thought. That means it would have survived previous warm spells when there was probably less summer sea ice than there is today. But the DNA tests also provided evidence of evolutionary bottlenecks when polar bears were reduced to very low numbers, very likely in those same hot spells. That may happen again.
A record of the swimming feats in the Beaufort Sea of 52 polar bears fitted with radio collars, published in the Canadian Journal of Zoology in May, shows their resilience to reduced sea ice. A third of the bears logged swims of over 50km, and one swam 350km over nine days. But she lost 22% of her body mass and her cub drowned. [How, specifically, does anyone know that the cub drowned?]
One man and his dogs | The Economist
The Inuit represent less than half the Arctic’s indigenous people, who in turn account for only 10% of the region’s population. Yet they still hog the headlines because their culture is under attack from climate change. So is that of Arctic herders, such as the Sami of Russia and Scandinavia, whose reindeer populations are crashing as the tundra thaws. Yet the Inuit’s plight is especially graphic. No sea ice means no seal hunt, which can mean no meat for sled-dogs.
They are also suffering a wider cultural decline that shows up in a high incidence of alcoholism, obesity and suicide. In Russia, where indigenous people get no special recognition, the outlook for all Arctic people is grim. Yet elsewhere the Inuit—by the admittedly miserable standards of indigenous peoples—are pretty well off. Because Europeans came late to the Arctic, the Inuit got rights, not smallpox-infected blankets. In Alaska most have a share in local companies, often worth several thousand dollars a year in dividends. Most Canadian Inuit, following a landmark reform in 1986, live in semi-autonomous provinces, with pipeline and mining revenues.
I spoke recently with Kathy Gerwig, KP’s Environmental Stewardship Officer, to find out. I expected a more typical answer about achieving GHG reduction goals or doing the right thing. What I got instead was one of the most straightforward statements about the role of climate change in public health and in corporate strategy.
As Gerwig put it, “there’s credible evidence of significant climate change that will impact our ability to provide quality health care.”
…”What we know so far about the repercussions of climate change isn’t good,” Gerwig says, “such as water shortages and increased wars over resources, and all the health issues that go along with those.”
Climate Change Leads to Difference on the Golf Course - AccuWeather.com
The above video features warmist David Biello from "Scientific" American, who babbles something about CO2-induced sea level rise allegedly swamping golf courses and "ultimately, golf".
Doubling Down on Pascal’s Wager | @ActonInstitute PowerBlog
I think among those at synod who were (or are) inclined toward skepticism “on much of this,” Zwart’s sentiment was likely broadly shared. What, indeed, do we have to lose?
iowahawk: Your 2012 Iowahawk Earth Week Cruise-In Grand Champion Carbonator
And let's not forget our other co-titleist: the United States Department of Energy. If not for the support and loan guarantees of Washington DC's craziest venture capitalists (led by Nobel-certified braniac Steven Chu) Solyndra might have died in the crib before revolutionizing Northern California's unsellable commercial real estate market.
But that supporting role not the only reason for their selection to our Olympus of Carbon. The DOE is ready for their star turn as well: this humble federal department, in charge of hectoring Americans for their energy use, maintains its own fleet of 15,108 vehicles - for a workforce of 15,000 employees. Now that's what I call a company car kinda company!
An Example Airport Issue | Musings from the Chiefio
There’s a degree or two variation in what is the same air basin with the same weather. Exactly which of these is correct? How can we say that any given basin has “warmed” by a degree or even two when we can get that much change just out of minor siting variations and nearly ALL stations have had changes of about that magnitude?
Why Joe Romm Doesn’t Follow Up With His Stories | Real Science
Over most of the past decade, exceptional drought has declined – except for the one date which Romm chose to cherry pick.
Cherry Picking The 1980s | Real Science
Why our friends like to choose 1980 as the start date for their western drought/fire stories
What's So Scary About Carbon? | Sustainable Business Forum
Perhaps it is time to jettison the metaphors and euphemisms. There was a time when we focused on "toxic dumps", "noxious emissions", "sludge", "pesticides", "oxides", etc. Contrast those with "footprints", "greenhouse", and "warming". Taken together they evoke a walk in the garden on a spring day. If we want people to pay attention to climate change we'll have to give them more pressing images...perhaps some snakes in that garden.
Balance Needed on Coverage of Sea Level Rise
Axel-Morner based his findings on “clear observational measurements,” including rate of acceleration. That’s all that the sea-level legislation now before the full North Carolina General Assembly requires — science based on observations. No hype or exaggeration need apply, at any price.
Bank Of America Gives $50 Bil In Payola To Green Lobby In New Shakedown - Investors.com
Activism: First the affordable housing crowd shook down banks for mortgage payola for the poor. Now the environmental lobby is shaking them down for cash to underwrite President Obama's risky green agenda.
In a strange announcement, Bank of America this week pledged an eye-popping $50 billion in loans for "renewable energy" projects — windmills, solar panels and hybrids — over the next 10 years.
Understanding climate scepticism: a ‘sceptic’ responds | Talking Climate
[Geoff Chambers] I agree with you that turning up the volume on the science is unlikely to reduce scepticism about climate change, but not for the reason you give. The more people learn about the science, the more they see how dodgy is the climate science responsible for rising energy prices. One of the results of the Kahan study you refer to was that the more scientifically literate tend to be more sceptical.
...My earliest research into the question of climate change was conducted in the pages of the Guardian, and I was shocked to see this once liberal broad-minded paper adopting a Pravda-like policy of news filtering and censorship, with George Monbiot, a journalist I’d admired, conducting petty vindictive campaigns against fellow-journalists and, after being the first journalist to acknowledge the seriousness of Climategate, making a Maoist-style confession of his error. I’m not personally the least interested in the science of climate change. I’m very interested in the existence of a rational left-of-centre press.
AR5’s coming – get busy: why scientists must get better at communicating uncertainty | Carbon Brief
Scientists are able now to create a greater range of projected climate outcomes because they're now able to introduce "known unknowns", Maslin said.
Nine climate change pictures I really don't need to see again | Carbon Brief
Communicating the fact that climate change will be disruptive to human society while not overplaying the science is hard. What to
do? Focus on specific, easy to remember facts. Like, as successive IPCC reports haven't shown, climate change will turn you into a fish wearing a terrible shirt. Oh dear WWF Belgium.
The melting north - James Astill - The Economist
Greenland, the world’s biggest island, is six times the size of Germany. Yet it has a population of just 57,000, mostly Inuit scattered in tiny coastal settlements. In the whole of the Arctic—roughly defined as the Arctic Circle and a narrow margin to the south (see map)—there are barely 4m people, around half of whom live in a few cheerless post-Soviet cities such as Murmansk and Magadan. In most of the rest, including much of Siberia, northern Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland and northern Scandinavia, there is hardly anyone.
...There is no serious doubt about the basic cause of the warming. It is, in the Arctic as everywhere, the result of an increase in heat-trapping atmospheric gases, mainly carbon dioxide released when fossil fuels are burned.
That keeps the average annual temperature for the high Arctic (the northernmost fringes of land and the sea beyond) at a relatively sultry -15°C; much of the rest is close to melting-point for much of the year. Even modest warming can therefore have a dramatic effect on the region’s ecosystems. The Antarctic is also warming, but with an average annual temperature of -57°C it will take more than a few hot summers for this to become obvious.
...The efficient north-south mixing of air may also play a part in the Arctic’s amplified warming. The winds that rush northwards carry pollutants, including soot from European and Asian smokestacks, which has a powerful warming effect over snow....High-Arctic species, including the polar bear, are struggling....These new Arctic industries will not emerge overnight. There is still plenty of sea ice to make the north exceptionally tough and expensive to work in; 24-hour-a-day winter darkness and Arctic cyclones make it tougher still.
Flashback: THE ECONOMIST’S JAMES ASTILL WINS $75,000 GRANTHAM PRIZE
NARRAGANSETT, RI — September 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Metcalf Institute for Marine & Environmental Reporting presented The Grantham Prize for Excellence in Reporting on the Environment to James Astill of The Economist at the 2011 Grantham Prize Awards Ceremony. Astill received US$75,000 for “The World’s Lungs: Forests, and How to Save Them,” a commanding 8-part special report on the state of global forests and the rising threats they face from human exploitation and climate change.
Asserting the importance of cash and intellectual property to implement the proposed measures for a sustainable economy, a senior Brazilian negotiator warned against using Europe's financial crisis as an excuse for inaction and underfunding at the Rio+20 conference in Brazil Thursday.
Protesting the reluctance of the rich nations in funding environment projects and transferring technology that would help achieve the goal, diplomats from developing nations temporarily walked out of a working group on the "green economy," underscoring the friction between the negotiating nations.
The G77 developing nations and China have proposed a global fund for sustainable development with an initial annual budget of $30 billion, the Guardian reported. However, wealthy European nations, battling the global economic meltdown, are hesitant to loosen purse strings.
Brazilian diplomat Luiz Alberto Figueiredo, undersecretary at the Brazilian foreign ministry, dismissed austerity measures as an excuse to avoid funding the projects saying, "We cannot be held hostage to the retraction resulting from financial crises in rich countries. We are here to think about the long term and not about crises that may be overcome in one or two years."
Junk Science Week: Money corrupts peer-review process | FP Comment | Financial Post
Interestingly, Albert Einstein’s famous 1905 paper on relativity was not peer-reviewed. It is therefore quite clear that peer-review is not a precondition for excellent, indeed epoch-making, scientific research.
Forest Service: Wildfires intensify need for forest management | JunkScience.com
Service chief Tom Tidwell says forests need to be returned to a more natural state to prevent so-called “super fires.”
The NO CARBON TAX Climate Sceptics Blog: Climate Expertise and Cherry Pickers
He would also dismiss:-
- James Hansen - astrophysicist - head of NASA:GISS;
- Rajendra Pachauri chairman of the aforementioned IPCC - an engineer;
- Ross Garnaut - author of the Garnaut Review - an economist;
- Nicholas Stern - The Stern Review - an economist;
- Tim Flannery - Australia's part-time Panasonic Climate Change Commissioner - mammalogist - previously his writings have been exposed by "The Weather Makers Re-examined;
- Michael E. Mann - of the flawed "hockey stick" - Physicist and Geologist;
- Gavin Schmidt - NASA:GISS - Applied Mathematics;
- Joseph Fourier - Mathematician and Physicist;
- Peter Gleik - Scientific Ethics and Integrity- excuse me, I had to go outside and laugh at that one;
- Kevin Trenberth - Meteorologist; "it's a tragedy..."
- and most of the people of the ClimateGate CRU.....
Scientists urge Rio moves on population and consumption | JunkScience.com
More than 100 science academies around the world have called on world leaders to take action on population and consumption at the Rio+20 summit.
2 warmest winter months in Midwest history may have connection | JunkScience.com
This past March was the second warmest winter month ever recorded in the Midwest, with temperatures 15 degrees above average. The only other winter month that was warmer was December of 1889, during which temperatures were 18 degrees above average.
Really? ‘Climate Change Causing Blackouts’ – but see the real culprit | Watts Up With That?
hat 0.8C of temperature increase in the last century is doing. Who knew the global electric grid was so fragile that it couldn’t handle such massive temperature increases? /sarc -Anthony
The New Nostradamus of the North: New research: "Green economy" increases poverty
The "green economy" is another favorite slogan of the enviro-fundamentalist movement. However, new studies show that this trendy catchword is anything but beneficial
Clarity would be abandoning the catch-all, and undefined term "climate change" as the universal "explanation" for these observations, and justification for political action. Satellite data from the University of Colorado shows a relatively constant rate of sea level rise for the past ten years, and a more recent negative sea-level-rise trend. Fifteen years of global cooling debunk any simplistic cause-and-effect link to increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide.
Yes, it is time to deal with reality.
Green insanity: Navy Sails to Greener Future | JunkScience.com
Sen. McCain and other critics were most upset by the cost of the alternative fuel needed for this summer’s green-fleet exercise: $12 million for 450,000 gallons, or $26 a gallon—about five times the price for regular fuel.
Twitter / ret_ward: Aussie broadcaster who pro
Aussie broadcaster who promotes climate change denial reprimanded by regulator for falsehood: http://bit.ly/KLnn5y
Got food scraps? Hail a ‘Compost Cab’ | Grist
“We’re like the Robin Hoods of trash,” Jeremy says.
Drama on the TV Show "Dallas" Goes Green, Following Hollywood Trend | Ecocentric | TIME.com
All these films come in the wake of Al Gore’s 2006 documentary An Inconvenient Truth, which opened audience’s eyes to the nightmarish consequences of global warming.
Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: EPA should check water in
EPA should check water in Delaware. Current sen wants to have USPS buy a fleet of electric cars powered by wind turbines.
Twitter / omnologos: Am so glad I don't live in
Am so glad I don't live in @MichaelEMann 's world, forever "misrepresented" by evil enemies lurking everywhere http://po.st/MvLZ6R #agw
Twitter / carbonbrief: More Polar Bear recycling
More Polar Bear recycling - pretty sure 'Peppy' is an old picture as well. Odd. http://bit.ly/LYMMdS (@leohickman)
It reminds me, as I am reminded often, of Henry Thoreau’s famous quotation from Walden:
“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life…”
Cold weather ignites greater fire risk | Geelong, VIC, Australia
"Sadly, these things are becoming common as people try to keep warm the best they can heading into winter," Mr Fitzgerald said.
Britain Urged to Rethink Environmental Taxes by Business Lobby - Bloomberg
The number of green levies has tripled in the last two decades and contribute about 8 percent of the country’s total tax revenue, the CBI said in a report published today.
“Well-designed, environmental taxes can be a useful tool to help firms improve their performance and unlock significant business investment,” Ian McCafferty, chief economic adviser at the CBI, said in an e-mailed statement. “However, poorly planned environmental taxes have damaged businesses and made the U.K. tax system less attractive to would-be investors.”
Australia trims number of firms liable for carbon tax - 15 Jun 2012 - News from BusinessGreen
The number of companies expected to be affected by Australia's carbon tax has been almost halved, suggesting Prime Minister Julia Gillard is keen to mitigate the economic impact of the controversial policy.
Lehman College prof’s accidental discovery makes plants climate-change resilient - NY Daily News
"We ended up with these cold-tolerant plants,” said Bradbury. “It was also tolerant to a lack of air, which is something that happens when plants are in flood conditions.
"If we're thinking global warming, its biggest impact will be its tolerance to flooding."
Twitter / carbonbrief: Do you have examples of ov
Do you have examples of overused climate change images? Send them to us and we will write an irreverent blog post about them, maybe.
Twitter / BarryJWoods: THAT Polar bear image, tak
THAT Polar bear image, taken on an expedition (with unusually heavy ice) @carbonbrief @leohickman
photo, Amanda Byrd, http://web.archive.org/web/2004092608 …
The IPCC predictions of severe weather events, such as droughts, floods, storms and etc. due to global warming has been a rather embarrassing failure - and another study confirms that extreme climate change is not happening as result of warming
[Mann et al, published Feb 2012] Our findings suggest that the evidence from tree rings is consistent with a substantial climate impact2, 3, 4, 5 of volcanic eruptions in past centuries that is greater than that estimated by tree-ring-based temperature reconstructions.
Twitter / alexwitze: .@MichaelEMann now talking
@MichaelEMann now talking about "missing" volcanic cooling in tree ring record. @NatureGeosci paper here http://bit.ly/xJHVWP #AGUVolcAtm
Twitter / alexwitze: D'Arrigo: @MichaelEMann pa
D'Arrigo: @MichaelEMann paper is "highly questionable." Questions entire science of tree ring dating. Misleads public. #AGUVolcAtm
The green movement at 50: Can the world be saved? - Climate Change - Environment - The Independent
...this is the third reason – the warming process appears to have paused.
No-one really knows why. A good guess is the gigantic cloud of sulphur emissions from Chinese power stations, which doubled their output of waste gases between 1996 and 2006: the sulphur particles have the opposite effect of the carbon emissions, and reflect back the sun's heat. But unless the laws of physics are altered, those global carbon emissions, now 33 billion tons annually and rising at six per cent a year, are going to make world temperatures rise considerably in the coming decades with potentially disastrous consequences.
Michael McCarthy - The Independent
Michael McCarthy, the Independent's Environment Editor, is one of Britain’s leading writers on the environment and the natural world. He has three times been Environment Journalist of the Year (1991, 2003 and 2006)
1938 : A Forest Fire Every Three Minutes In The US | Real Science
Graham Readfearn | Who Is Filling Climate Scientists' Inboxes With Abuse, Intimidation And Hate?
What is now clear is that climate scientists around the world are being subjected to a vicious and hate-filled campaign of intimidation.
Global Warming: Lucky to be Alive - Harder Scrutiny May Kill it Outright | RedState
Skeptic scientists have exposed the IPCC’s faulty science for two decades. Any ordinary citizen can easily spot massive faults in the efforts to smear skeptics.
We don’t need to solve a climate crisis. We instead have a politically-driven agenda begging for a top-to-bottom investigation.
UK - Forecasters predict 'once in 50 years' storm - Worst June since records began
Temperatures up to 10C below normal and sunshine down 60 per cent.
Union of Concerned Scientists Admits It Was Wrong - Hit & Run : Reason.com
So the question remains: What about getting the UCS to stop its denialism with to the scientific consensus with regard to biotech crops?
US conservationist to tell his stories - Carbon News
American conservation biologist Guy McPherson is to visit New Zealand to talk about global warming and the world’s decline in energy resources.
McPherson is unequivocal on the issue of global warming and the role capitalism plays, saying “we are headed sooner than most believe to a planet that is uninhabitable by humans unless we almost immediately terminate the industrial economy."
Plankton Bloom in Arctic Signals Major Climate Change Impact
Phytoplankton form the base of the Arctic food web, affecting the health and numbers of wildlife from fish and birds to polar bears.
Feature: “ Climate change can be an opportunity for Africa ” | VibeGhana.com
[Q] What if negotiators fail to agree on a suitable successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which seeks to curb emissions of the “greenhouse gases” that harm the earth’s ozone layer?
Naidoo: The answer is simple: They then will be admitting that governments and political leaders are sleep walking us into a crisis of epic proportions, putting the future and lives of our children and grandchildren in jeopardy and great danger.
Making the poor feel cold is the big green idea | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Former Environment Minister Graham Richardson still doesn’t realise the whole point of Labor’s global warming policies is to produce exactly what disturbs him
Climate change drives researcher | Indianapolis Star | indystar.com
Clutching his remote control, Steven C. Amstrup watches the news of killer tornadoes, destructive hurricanes, hot and cold temperature extremes -- and wishes he could put words into the mouths of those reporters and weather forecasters.
"They should add on the end of every one of these stories . . . 'these sorts of events will continue to increase in number and severity as the world continues to warm,' " Amstrup said from his home in Kettle Falls, Wash.
...The $100,000 award, presented by the Indianapolis Zoo every other year and funded by the Lilly Foundation, is given to the nation's top scientists and researchers who advance the cause of animal conservation...Instead, his passion has shifted to educating people -- from average Joes to trained weather forecasters to even some scientists -- about the threat of global warming and how best to change the perception of the problem.
..."If we don't mitigate greenhouse gas rise, all the polar bears will ultimately disappear," he said. "We will no longer be polar bear researchers. We'll be polar bear historians."
...It was one of the many things he would learn and then use to predict in 2007 that two-thirds of the world's polar bears could disappear by midcentury, and all of them by the end of the century, if behaviors are not changed and greenhouse gas emissions not lowered.
..."We will certainly be donating some of the money to causes we think are important, but we also desperately need a more economical car," said Amstrup, who lives in the town of 1,600 with his wife, Virginia.
"When we lived in Anchorage, we had a pickup truck, but we mostly rode our bike to work because we lived downtown. But here in this rural area, in order to get to any place, we have to drive. It's 10 miles to the grocery store.
Indianapolis Prize Honorary Co-Chairs
Harrison Ford
Marvin Hamlisch
Flashback: Harrison Ford Flies Jet To Buy Cheese Burger!
[Ford] I often fly up the coast for a cheeseburger.
Both Stephen Lacey and Brad Johnson were there to report on protests along Michigan Avenue from the Hilton Chicago, where the conference was held. Lacey says about 60 people showed up to protest the billboard
Oil Companies That Caused Climate Change Now Fear Its Financial Impacts | ThinkProgress
So the next time you pass a gas station, ask why climate change is serious enough for oil companies to spend money preparing for it, but not serious enough to call for a rapid transition to renewable, sustainable energy.
Once cast aside even by his own party for being Washington's loudest climate-change denier, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee ranking member James Inhofe, R-Okla., is now the driving force behind GOP attacks on President Obama's energy and environment agenda.
"Even the Republican Party was afraid to invite Inhofe to speak on global warming and environmental issues because they considered him outside of the mainstream," said Marc Morano, who was Inhofe's communications director and speechwriter from 2006 to 2009. "Now he is the new normal. He is the new mainstream."
The positions of Inhofe haven't changed. Republicans have just moved closer to Inhofe.
Nucor CEO: Funding Of Heartland Institute's Climate Denial 'Is Entirely Appropriate' | ThinkProgress
Al Fin: $100 Billion And All I Got Was This Lousy Climate Model?!?
Since 1989 the US government has spent almost $100 billion on climate studies, modeling, prediction, regulations and more. In the end, the best models developed so far do 2 - 3 X worse than chance alone! As real world temperatures continue to diverge wildly from climate model projections, US taxpayers are starting to wonder where there money is going.
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