Read all of Monckton's reply to Skeptic magazine, and become a "skeptic" worthy of the name.
Dulles running over 20 degrees below normal for mid afternoon. lower than any above average any time this summer. Havent seen any headlinesWeather Forecast Dulles Airport, VA | Dulles Airport Weather | Wunderground
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One of the most bizarre features of the Climate Change Act – put through by Ed Miliband when he was our first climate change secretary and passed almost unanimously by MPs – is that it was largely drafted by a young green lobbyist, Bryony Worthington, seconded to the Civil Service from Friends of the Earth, where she had been in charge of their global warming campaign. On YouTube you can see a talk she gave last year to another campaigning body, funded by the Department for International Development, in which she tells the extraordinary story of how the Act that commits the UK to these pie-in-the-sky targets came about.Eaton to Buy Cooper for $11.8 Billion as Power Unit Grows - Bloomberg
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The point about the Climate Change Act – which, according to the Government’s own figures, will cost us up to £18 billion every year until 2050 – is that it sets a target which cannot be achieved without our country committing economic suicide. One cannot expect a young climate zealot to understand that. But what is terrifying is not just that such a person should have in effect been put in charge of our country’s energy policy, but that there appears to be scarcely a single MP who can see why this is utterly insane. If these zombies were replaced by 650 men and women chosen at random off the street, the silliest and most destructive law ever passed by Parliament would be repealed within days.
Eaton Corp. (ETN) and General Electric Co. (GE) are working on competing projects to develop a $500 home natural-gas fueling station, enticing car owners to switch to a fuel that has become cheap because of shale drilling.
Their efforts are part of a U.S. Energy Department push to reduce the cost of such stations, which can sell for more than $5,000, and the time it takes to refuel as a way to attract more people to drive natural-gas-powered vehicles.
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An affordable natural-gas station for homes could “revolutionize” how Americans commute, Dane Boysen, director of an Energy Department program to encourage use of the fuel in vehicles, said in a statement today from Cleveland-based Eaton.
“My hope is that these advanced technologies will enable us to use our abundant domestic supply of natural gas for transportation, diversifying our nation’s fuel and refueling portfolio for the future,” he said in the statement.
Compressed natural gas sells at retail for the equivalent of about $2.09 a gallon, according to Chesapeake Energy Corp. The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline was $3.45 a gallon as of yesterday, according to AAA.
"The UK government will sacrifice $4.5 billion to spend on climate change projects around the world in next few years. Some of this money we hope to spend in Southeast Asia and Thailand as well," John Pearson, head of British government’s Southeast Asia Climate Change Network told The Nation in special interview.
YOU don’t have to be a climate scientist these days to know that the climate has problems. You just have to step outside.
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Over the last several years, the governments of the United States, Europe and China have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on clean-energy research and deployment. And despite some high-profile flops, like ethanol and Solyndra, the investments seem to be succeeding more than they are failing.
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Even natural gas, a hotly debated topic among climate experts, helps make the point. Thanks in part to earlier government investments, energy companies have been able to extract much more natural gas than once seemed possible...
At the recent peak, in 2009, all federal spending on clean energy — including money for research and subsidies for households and businesses — amounted to $44 billion. This year, Washington will spend about $16 billion. The scheduled expiration of a tax credit for wind, originally signed by the first President George Bush in 1992, would help reduce the total to $14 billion next year, and current law has it continuing to fall in 2014.
...This summer’s drought has affected as much of the country as the Dust Bowl drought.
In a telephone call with reporters on Thursday, the navy secretary, Ray Mabus, and Obama administration officials made their most public effort to date to head off moves in Congress to block the navy's biofuels project.Twitter / jamestaranto: If global warmists lie lik ...
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A bill before the Senate, supported by Republicans Jim Inhofe and John McCain, would ban the navy from buying more biofuels unless the price drops to the same prices as conventional fuels. It also seeks to block the navy from spending on biofuel refineries – support that could help speed up the commercialisation of biofuels.
McCain argues the project is just too expensive."I was just reading, it's the cost of one destroyer - $1.8bn extra - they want to spend on this green technology," he told Reuters. "The fact is, I just do not believe that we need to spend that kind of money on it," McCain said.
Mabus said the entire navy was behind the project to reduce dependence on oil by developing new sources of energy, such as biofuels. He said the navy was making energy savings, taking advantage of the tides, waves and wind, to save some $150m a year on fuel costs.
"The whole navy is committed to pursuing alternatives to foreign oil and the whole navy believes it is critical to our national security and combat capability," said Mabus. He also tried to reassure Republicans, saying there would be no major purchases of biofuels until they became cost-competitive with conventional diesel and aviation fuel.
If global warmists lie like this, why shouldn't we assume global warming is a Big Lie? http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/making-sense-of-news/181706/journalists-beware-shell-arctic-hoax-signals-move-from-subtle-spin-to-activist-deception/ …
According to USHCN raw daily data, 1936 had the hottest summer and the second coldest winter in US history. These are exactly the sort of extremes which climate alarmists like to blame on CO2, even though CO2 was only 310 ppm at the time.French Study: Mediterranean Storm Activity Linked To Solar Activity, Has Nothing To Do With CO2
Proving once again that climate alarmists are a bunch of superstitious, dishonest, criminally inclined buffoons.
Sebastian Lüning recently wrote a piece on a new study by a French team of scientists. Conclusion: Mediterranean storm activity decreases during warm periods and there appears to be a solar link.Twitter / MichaelEMann: @MichaelEMann @nytimes @fr ...
@MichaelEMann @nytimes @fredguterl Projecting changes in Asian Summer Monsoon fraught as models disagree. Our article: http://bit.ly/LJjPTyThe Questions That Were Never Asked « Climate Audit
Andrew Montford’s FOI request for emails between the UEA and Outside Organisation ( who were represented by Neil Wallis, charged in the phonehacking scandal) has turned up a remarkable list of questions, the questions that should have been asked by one of the “investigations”, but were never answered.
corn production suffers although analysts predicted record production at the start of the yearWe’re All Climate-Change Idiots - NYTimes.com
The mental habits that help us navigate the local, practical demands of day-to-day life, they say, make it difficult to engage with the more abstract, global dangers posed by climate change.Top Ten Record Breaking Years For Heat All Occurred Before 1955 | Real Science
Robert Gifford, a psychologist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia who studies the behavioral barriers to combating climate change, calls these habits of mind “dragons of inaction.” We have trouble imagining a future drastically different from the present. We block out complex problems that lack simple solutions. We dislike delayed benefits and so are reluctant to sacrifice today for [alleged] future gains. And we find it harder to confront problems that creep up on us than emergencies that hit quickly.
The graph and table below shows the number of current all-time record daily maximums held or tied, ranked by year. The current year is not included, because the data is not available yet.Lisa Jackson : Heatwaves And Droughts Were Much Worse During The 1930s | Real Science
When the data becomes available, it will become clear that the summer of 2012 was not remarkable compared to the summers prior to the 1960s global cooling. That isn’t going to stop the usual suspects from lying about it however.
From the EPA web site. Curious that Lisa is trying to regulate the US economy into oblivion – over a phenomenon which her own agency says isn’t occurring.New York Times – All The Lies That Are UnFit To Print | Real Science
What a load of crap. Even Hansen has 2012 on track to be the second coldest year since 2004. Where does the New York Times find these morons?
[retweeted by Michael Mann] Was #climate science the real reason the strategic dynamos on UVA's board wanted president Sullivan gone? http://www.daskrap.com/2012/7/mann-and-corporate-person-uva … @MichaelEMannmann and corporate person at uva | DASKRAPITAL
Was climate science the real reason the strategic dynamos on the UVA board wanted president Teresa Sullivan gone? The fund manager behind the coup is "very, very angry" that I would even ask…
When I first heard news of the coup attempt at the University of Virginia, I wondered if it had anything to do with climate change.
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But not a month later, hostilities were flaring again, when the UVA environmental sciences department voted to hire Michael Mann back to UVA, a development that quickly leaked to “Drudge of Denial” Marc Morano and began making the rounds on the right wing Virginia state politics blogs, with anti-commuter rail crusader D.J. McGuire dubbing the news “beyond belief” and “a slap in the face to the voters and taxpayers of the Commonwealth” and the anonymous Blue Ridge Mountain-based blogger From on High scoffing that he himself wouldn't hire Mann “to trim my lawn, much less represent my once-prestigious university to the scientific world” and adding:Some wonder why Mann isn't in prison for having fostered and perpetrated[sic] the most egregious scientific fraud in the history of the planet…Let's hope this is a vicious - and false - rumor. The University of Virginia has too good a reputation to be going down this road (though this character did, not long ago, stain its halls with his presence). Might UVa make the same mistake twice? Might the university rehire the one man most responsible for the scandal that is global warming theory? Stranger things have ha ... Well, no they haven't. The disgraced Michael Mann being invited back to UVA would truly be a bizarre act on someone's part. Stay tuned. This may get weird.It never did. Within days, Mann was told that he hadn’t gotten the job, that it had been “bogged down” by Dean Meredith Woo...
But Mann still didn’t get the job, and not six weeks after that Teresa Sullivan was sacked at the hands of the very vice rector who had put up the funds for Mann’s would-be professorship, the Alexandria money manager Mark Kington. In the publicity frenzy that followed, however, only the professional climate science denialist Anthony Watts drew any connection between the two events, expressing mild dismay that the fellow had executed the plan so clumsily...And then [Mark Kington, the board’s vice rector] mentioned “libel” again and accused me of diminishing his deep “commitment to climate change.”
Many temperature stations are located in urban areas with the consequence that they report artificially higher temperatures. These high temperatures are averaged (or homogenized) into regional data sets that then get reported as more “global warming” than actually occurs. And that is one reason why 50% of warming claimed by IPCC is fake.City takes your collected trash, gives you fresh food in return | Grist
A growing number of cities in Central and South America are giving residents what may be the best deal ever made: You give us trash, and we give you food.Winter of 2009-2010 Was The Sixth Coldest In US History | Real Science
According to USHCN raw monthly data, the winter of 2009-2010 was the sixth coldest in US history, and the winter of 2010-2011 was the 12th coldest...July 21, 1934 – The Hottest Day In Ohio’s History | Real Science
Our friends on the left are hoping that you are stupid and have a very short term memory.
The temperature at Gallipolis, Ohio on July 21, 1934 was 113 degrees. Weather Underground is forecasting that it will be 25 degrees cooler today than it was in 1934.
According to the monthly maximum thermometer data reported by USHCN, four of the five hottest summers in US history occurred during the 1930s. The other was in 1988.July 24, 1936 – The Hottest Day In Nebraska History | Real Science
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The summer of 2012 has no chance of cracking the top five. It won’t even be close.
Weather Underground forecasts that it will be 19 degrees cooler this year on July 24 than it was in 1936. The Washington Post’s Andrew Freedman says that temperatures are much hotter now.Spreading Hopelessness To Children | Real Science
While we can’t tie any specific massacre to green’s efforts to demoralize children, we can say that the Aurora massacre is exactly the sort of behavior we would expect in a world where selfish self-serving adults devote their life to making children feel doomed.Quggin, our new carbon tax commissar, admits error. But, but, but | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Professor John Quiggin has seriously misled his readers about the Gillard Government’s global warming policies.The First Solar Swindle - Marita Noon - Townhall Finance Conservative Columnists and Financial Commentary - Page 1
His error is even more serious and egregious given that Quiggin was recently appointed by the Gillard Government to advise it on how deep to make future cuts.
In past posts I’ve noted Quiggin’s estimate of the effect on the temperature of the Government’s proposed cuts to our emissions - 0.02 degrees by 2100- is five times higher than the most generous estimate even of IPCC warmist Professor Roger Jones.
Jones, assuming a strong causation between emissions and temperature, calculated the true effect to be a mere 0.0038 degrees by 2100.
As we dig deeper in the green-energy crony corruption-story, it begins to sound more and more like the making of a big-budget Hollywood thriller. Today’s installment on First Solar includes billionaire investors, corporate welfare, favoritism, threats, exaggerations, lawsuits over inferior quality, layoffs and outsourcing, and even a romantic dalliance. The screenplay would be riveting. Too bad it is not fiction. The film would have to be a documentary.
Our friend and comrade Alexander Cockburn died last night in Germany, after a fierce two-year long battle against cancer.Alexander Cockburn, Dec. 2009 - Anthropogenic Global Warming is a Farce
The global warming jamboree in Copenhagen was surely the most outlandish foray into intellectual fantasizing since the fourth-century Christian bishops assembled in 325 AD for the Council of Nicaea to debate whether God the Father was supreme or had to share equal status in the pecking order of eternity with his Son and the Holy Ghost.Flashback: The Reference Frame: Some alarmists are waiting for skeptics to die off
One group led by David Roberts of Grist argues that the alarmists should wait for all the climate skeptics to die off
According to Deering, too many people believe that the End Times are here. A recent poll showed that 10% of people believe the Mayan Calendar will bring about the end. 25% of people believe global warming will bring about the end of civilization within our lifetimes and 40-45% of Christians expect Jesus to return by the year 2050.
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Weston, FL -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/16/2012 -- The end of the world is not going to happen within our lifetimes. That’s the word from Justin Deering, author of The End of the World Delusion: How Doomsayers Endanger Society.
The second point is how we know that climate change is a bad thing — a question I sometimes get asked. The questioners wonder why the fact that, say, more of Canada becomes agriculturally viable doesn’t offset the damage in places that get too hot.
My first-pass answer is that we have a global economy that is adapted to historically normal climate — not just in terms of what is grown where, but in terms of where we locate our cities. In the long run, after a couple of centuries’ worth of urban development and infrastructure has been drowned by rising sea levels and/or made useless because previously habitable regions need to be abandoned, we might be able to reconstruct an equally productive economy; but in the long run …
The weather this summer has been so extreme that it has rivaled the most destructive and unbearable summers in U.S. history, years that are infamous in weather lore. Those years include 1934 and 1936, which were in the middle of the Dust Bowl era, as well as 1954 and 1988, which was the year that Yellowstone National Park burned and NASA scientist James Hansen first warned the U.S. Senate about the consequences of manmade global warming.U.S. Climate Extremes Index
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The U.S. Climate Extremes Index, which tracks the highest and lowest 10 percent of extremes in temperature, precipitation, drought and tropical storms/hurricanes, was a record-large 44 percent during the January-to-June period. That was more than twice the average value, driven largely by warm daily high and warm overnight low temperatures.
A newly discovered water source could supply half of Africa's driest sub-Saharan country with 400 years of water, reports Matt McGrath of BBC.
Just eight grasshoppers can eat as much as one cow, according to experts. But they aren't even the biggest problem this year.
Roughly 40 percent of Africa is now affected by desertification and according to the UN, two-thirds of Africa's arable land could be lost by 2025 if this trend continues.
Senegal is one of 11 countries in the Sahel region of Africa looking towards the same solution to the desertification problem: The Great Green Wall. The goal of the project is to plant a wall of trees, 4,300 miles long and 9 miles wide, across the African continent, from Senegal to Djibouti. African leaders hope the trees will trap the sands of the Sahara and halt the advance of the desert.
It is not that conservatives are anti-science. It is just that it is hard to take seriously any scientific theory that has Al Gore as the chief spokesman.- Bishop Hill blog - A trickle of further information
The disclosures reveal several instances of government funded scientists working with environmental pressure groups. In one case, Greenpeace activists are seen helping CRU scientists to draft a letter to the Times and in another working closely with the World Wildlife Fund to put pressure on governments regarding climate change.Coincidence? | Climate Nonconformist
Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore explains how watermelons came to be.Twitter / omnologos: You know AGWers have lost ...“World communism failed, the wall came down (in 1989) and a lot of peaceniks and political activists moved into the environmental movement, bringing their neo-Marxism with them, and learned to use green language in a very clever way to cloak agendas that actually have more to do with anti-capitalism and anti-globalization than … ecology or science.”
You know AGWers have lost the plot whenever they mention "monsoon failure" @RyanMaueTwitter / aDissentient: Comment at ClimateAudit: " ...
Comment at ClimateAudit: "For a bureaucrat, any sufficiently competent person is indistinguishable from a mastermind."The Heretic Coming to Manchester September
SANTA MONICA BLVD — As she did research for her sci-fi novel, "While Rome Burns," a look at a world devastated by climate change, Santa Monican Laura Matthews discovered a new passion — fighting global warming.Flashback: New technique shows Roman Warm Period Warmer than Present Day
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Matthews and others from the Citizens Climate Lobby will first advocate for the creation of a revenue-neutral carbon fee. This way if a company decides to spew carbon, they have to pay for it. This would encourage them to find an alternative to this harmful practice, Matthews said.
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In Matthews' novel the hero gets vaulted back to ancient Rome through time travel and tries to find out what needs to be done to prevent this climate change disaster.
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Matthews tries to get everything done by foot. She only put roughly 4,000 miles on her car last year.
Between 230 BC and 40 AD there was a period of exceptional warmth in Iceland that was coincident with the Roman Warm Period in Europe that ran from 200 BC to 400 AD. This Icelandic shell data series suggests that the RWP had higher temperatures that those recorded in modern times.Gillard dodges the bottom-line question on her useless tax | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Every numerate person would know that Everingham’s question goes to that very claim: how much lower will the temperature be, because of the tax, than it would be without it. To the nearest 1000th of a degree.Articles: EPA: Thou Shalt Purchase Fuel That Doesn't Exist
And still Gillard refuses to tell you.
She’d die of shame if she had to. You are being denied the most basic fact about the carbon dioxide tax, because the truth would make you realise it is absolutely useless.
ultimately, we will pay $6.8 million to the EPA because of Jackson's stupidity.
The U.S.'s first utility-scale, commercial "wave park" is now moving through the final permitting stages. Located 2.5 miles offshore near Reedsport, Oregon, the park will generate about 1.5 megawatts, enough to power more than 320 homes, using 10 massive "PB150s," power buoys. The buoys, 115 feet tall, will float almost entirely under the surface. Only a small yellow buoy is seen from above. As waves roll past, the rise and fall of the buoys drives an internal generator, which sends electricity back to the mainland grid.
German solar firms are preparing anti-dumping litigation against China in an effort to curb cheap panel imports often backed by state subsidies. The German government is supporting the move. Meanwhile, the Chinese government appears determined to retaliate as it announced Friday it would open an investigation into imports of solar-grade polysilicon from the US and South Korea.Climate change a farmer’s nightmare - Africa
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China's solar companies hold more than 60 percent of the global market - a position that industry analysts say the country gained through lavish credit lines and other state subsidies to its solar firms.
In Germany, which is one of the world's largest solar energy markets, cheap imports of solar equipment from China have led to a series of bankruptcies of solar firms.
One day there is too much heat and the other day it is too cold and this has disastrous effects on the crop
Climate change causing global food crisis. Deniers like Rupert Murdoch & Paul Gigot at WSJ must be held to account. http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/9989dc80-d1c5-11e1-badb-00144feabdc0.html#axzz21AUYxXVB …Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: Sorry @JeffDSachs but "wor ...
Sorry @JeffDSachs but "world food crisis" is not "cause by climate change" -- calling for "deniers to be held to account" is irresponsibleProf. Jeffrey Sachs, Director - The Earth Institute - Columbia University
Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned professor of economics, leader in sustainable development, senior UN advisor, bestselling author, and syndicated columnist whose monthly newspaper columns appear in more than 80 countries. He has twice been named among Time Magazine's 100 most influential world leaders. He was called by the New York Times, "probably the most important economist in the world," and by Time Magazine "the world's best known economist." A recent survey by The Economist Magazine ranked Professor Sachs as among the world's three most influential living economists of the past decade.
Of course you can use your carbon tax money to “get your breasts enhanced”.Greenpeace Mounts Fake Shell Oil Billboard in Houston - Softpedia
This is precisely the sort of activity it was designed for – after all, it’s not called a compensation package for nothing!
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Look on the bright side. Automobiles are smelly, horrible things responsible for global warming and the end of life on Mother Earth as we know it, so losing your job at Ford is good news for saving the planet.
The shock waves from the price slide are continuing. On one Chinese media estimate, about half the projects launched in China on the assumption that carbon credits would be cashed out into Europe's system are being renegotiated, in limbo or at risk of failing...In other words, if the EU does not find a way to intervene in the market and crush the number of permits on issue, Australia is on a pathway to a trading system that will have next to no effect on emissions.Round up: tackling climate change | Local government network | Guardian Professional
Tony Abbott may be promising to kill off a scheme that is headed for oblivion anyway.
Tackling apathy: Lack of interest is going to be a major hurdle when attempting to roll out large community projects, such as insulated council housing stock.Khosla-Backed Coskata Shelves IPO, Shifting Focus to Gas - Bloomberg
Coskata Inc. (COSK), a biofuel company backed by venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, shelved its $100 million initial public offering and is seeking investors for a plant that will convert natural gas into ethanol.Sen. Merkley, citing climate fears, wants big study of coal export plans - The Hill's E2-Wire
The letter notes that some communities see big economic opportunities from the proposed projects. “At a time when we need to be doing everything possible to promote economic development and get Oregonians back to work, the proposals could have benefits for our state,” it states.
[Oct 21] Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore will address the audience with his presentation, ‘Thinking Green: Economic Strategy for the 21st Century2007: Al Gore's $100 Million Makeover - Current TV - Generation Investment Management - An Inconvenient Truth | Fast Company
for his $175,000 speaking fee, he tells this story
The city of Vancouver has designed a climate change “adaptation” strategy to tackle a potential increase in street flooding, sewer backups, damaged forests and heat-related illnesses by 2050...
“The climate is clearly changing and, in many instances, we are observing changes at the most extreme end of the projections made a decade ago,” the report states.
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She wouldn’t say how much the strategy was expected to cost, saying much of the work is based around policy decisions and work that is already being done. The report suggests costs could be as high as $750,000 for a coastal flood risk assessment and $200,000 for an urban Forest Management Plan.
“It [a climate change plan] literally saves lives,” Reimer said. “What we know from science is that you can’t ignore these changes.”
Climate change-related events have already cost the city. At the peak of the 2006 windstorm, 250,000 BC Hydro customers in the region were without power — many of them for multiple days — while the city spent more than $10 million to deal with the problem. And in September 2010, heavy rainfall in Vancouver prompted 173 claims against the city and an additional 23 flood reports.
The thickest ice in a decade, along with problems in obtaining a permit for a 4,700-ton oil spill containment system, pushed Shell’s July 15 start date back three weeks...Twitter / PaulREhrlich: If you really want to get ...
On top of logistical and regulatory difficulties, an unusually cold winter has left more multi-year ice in place, delaying drilling in the two areas where Shell holds federal leases....
This year, Shell’s hopes have been high, but it is under other time pressure. Because of temperatures that drop as low as 56 degrees below zero, the ice-free drilling season is limited to July to October. Usually. The amount of ice fluctuates from year to year and this year is has been abundant.
If you really want to get depressed read the [1300+] comments after the McKibben article. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-20120719#disqus_thread …Spot how hard China is slashing emissions, too | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Climate Change Minister Greg Combet should be laughed out of town for trying to pretend China is matching our expensive (and futile) effort in cutting emissions...The New Nostradamus of the North: Study: The "most scientifically literate and best-educated generation in American history" not interested in global warming
No sound public policy should need to be sold with so much deceit.
A paper published today in Climate of the Past finds that Total Cloud Cover (TCC) has significantly decreased over Spain by about 4% since 1960, the same period during which the IPCC claims there is no explanation other than man-made greenhouse gases to account for global warming. Poorly-understood natural fluctuations in cloud cover could alone account for global warming or global cooling, as discussed by Dr. Roy Spencer in his book...Drought, Climate Change, Corn Prices, Ethanol and Biofuels - Forbes
[Worstall] The reason we’re against climate change (and let us just pretend that this drought is a result of it) is because it will have undesirable effects upon human beings. Most especially poor human beings, the rich will adapt well enough. It just seems very strange indeed to use the ethanol program, supposedly a method of beating climate change, to make sure and certain that those same poor are going to suffer from the drought possibly climate change caused. That policy doesn’t even work within its own logic let alone on any other.
There’s a whole lot of cold water hanging out off the western coast of the United States and Europe, even off Africa’s western coast.Quark Soup by David Appell: Bill McKibben Makes a Bad Mistake
Do you suppose that humans are causing it? I mean, if we cause ocean warming, couldn’t we also cause ocean cooling?
Making basic mistakes about climate is not a good way to make your point about climate change.Green Weenie of the Week: Enemies List Edition | Power Line
McKibben is billed as “scholar in residence at Middlebury College,” which description I presume means he doesn’t actually teach many courses at the tony private college that is known for being the most expensive in the nation (current tuition and room & board: $55,570. Textbooks another $1,000). His bio lists lots of honorary degrees from honorable places, but makes no mention of any advanced degree in any field that would qualify him to teach regularly in the classroom. From the online catalogue, it appears that he occasionally teaches a seminar, but most of the Middlebury environmental studies curriculum appears to be activist propaganda rather than a serious course of study. Course titles include “Environmental Justice,” “Corporate Social Responsibility,” “Sustainable Television,” “Class and the Environment” (which seems to be merely “Environmental Justice” by a different title—why not just title it in French?), and “Youth Climate Movement.” The only course it appears McKibben has taught recently is ENVS0340, “Social Movements,” which isn’t about the environment at all, but appears to be just community organizing by a different name. In other words, McKibben has a nice cozy sinecure, from which he gets to pontificate and organize green activism, such as leading the White House protests last fall to block the Keystone XL pipeline temporarily.When Drought Strikes, Should U.S. Policy Endanger Hungry People?
Even if made more flexible, the RFS would still flout a bedrock principle of our constitutional system: equality under law. Why as a matter of law should ethanol producers get first dibs on the U.S. corn crop? Why should their interest legally trump that of every other industry and consumer affected by corn prices? Why should they have a legal privilege to jump to the front of the line ahead of meat, poultry, and dairy producers, or those who export grain to hunger-stricken countries?
Barrow has less than 5,000 residents, yet they have a very large Urban Heat Island Effect.Smoking Gun : Hansen Lying About UHI | Real Science
It is also curious how the raw data is higher now than it was 13 years ago. Perhaps Hansen went back in time and remeasured the temperatures.More on Koutsoyiannis and the homogenization of temperature data – plus some comments on blog review | Watts Up With That?
Koutsoyiannis makes an interesting point about blogs -vs- traditional peer review. Traditional peer review is a slow and arduous process, taking months, sometimes years, and in my opinion is a holdover from a much slower time pre-Internet and email. Usually less than a dozen people are involved in that process. Blog review of papers, presentations, and topics is like an insta-launch, where citizens and scientists alike spar in sometimes a gladiatorial style over broad issues as well as minutiae. Hundreds and often thousands of eyes and minds are brought to bear, often picking the carcass clean of errors until nothing is left.Denialists will soon run the show? Not at all. Those in denial are losing to the realists. « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
For all its warts, science blogging has a purpose and a place in today’s world.
What is the outlook for the rest of the year?
“NOAA has officially declared an El Niño watch, which means that it thinks there’s a better than 50 percent chance of El Niño forming within the next six months,” Nielsen-Gammon said. “This tends to mean a damp and cool winter is in store, which I think most of us have learned to appreciate.”
In fact, we’re already topping Dust Bowl temperatures in many places – and the Earth has warmed only about 1 degree Fahrenheit since the 1930s Dust Bowl. Yet we are poised to warm some 10 degree Fahrenheit this century if we stay on our current path of unrestricted carbon pollution emissions...Much of our country would see far higher temperatures. The recent heat wave would be considered a pleasantly, cool summer...If we fail to take action, many scientists predict ruin for large parts of this country – ruin for large parts of your districts – ruin that lasts 50 generations. Americans have fought for generations to defend government of the people, by the people, for the people. In the hour of crisis, we need that government to do its job. Now is that hour.
This could be one of the coldest mid afternoon July readings in central parks weather records. Anyone want to see if they can find lower?Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: The 3pm reading at Central ...
The 3pm reading at Central Park at 61 is further BELOW NORMAL, than any hour was above normal during the heat wave, night or dayTwitter / BigJoeBastardi: Jamstec says the cold se ...
Jamstec says the cold season starts fast and will last. Fall and winter over N america opposite last year pic.twitter.com/YjBZ1BuB
The main problem isn’t the oil itself—although, of course, if the 90 billion barrels of oil believed to be obtainable in the Arctic are burned in cars or trucks, the carbon released will help undoubtedly help intensify climate change. It’s chiefly the natural gas that will be produced along with that oil. Natural gas is essentially methane—and methane is a powerful, albeit short-lived greenhouse gas, with more than 20 times the warming potential of plain old carbon dioxide. By some estimates, there’s as much as 1.7 trillion cubic ft. of natural gas to be found in the Arctic.Making Light: Cutting a great road through the truth to get to the Devil
The second, larger problem, is that Greenpeace lied to us. This wasn’t a nod-and-a-wink parody; this was a dedicated effort to deceive. They played the public for patsies and herded them like sheep. That kind of contempt for the people whose support (financial and otherwise) they need is inexcusable. For me, it puts them in a box with people like Bush and Blair, who were also flexible with the truth for the greater good.Twitter / RichardTol: Subsidy junkies worried ab ...
Basically, Greenpeace polluted the information stream. Now, I know that our common discourse is already thoroughly befouled. But that does not mean it’s OK to add yet another dose of rainbow-shining toxic sludge to the mix, not even in the cause of righteousness. Indeed, especially not in the cause of righteousness.
We need more truth, not less. Don’t lie to me for my own good and expect my support, Greenpeace. Just don’t.
Subsidy junkies worried about the reliability of their dealer: Energy subsidy row 'may deter UK investment’ http://soc.li/EK4ZHdJTwitter / PaulREhrlich [allegedly brilliant scientist is constantly tweeting about reading things to IMhofe]
#climate WONDERFUL must read @BillMcKibben article -- pls read it slowly to Imhofe and Rush. http://act.350.org/signup/reckoning/?akid=2085.362209.Pz0TO_&rd=1&t=2 …Eagles are soaring into wind energy battle | WashingtonExaminer.com
Kelly Fuller, wind campaign coordinator for ABC, said in a news release, "It's ridiculous that Americans have to sue in order to find out what their government is saying to wind companies about our wildlife."
Summer may have finally reached B.C., but lingering snow on hiking trails in some parks across the province and Western Canada could spell disaster for careless outdoor enthusiasts.Alaska weather: From snow in Barrow to 60 degrees in Fairbanks, just another cold summer | Alaska Dispatch
June’s unusually cool weather left some of last winter’s snowpack intact in some high elevations, posing significant risks to hikers who are ill-equipped to handle the icy remnants.
In Interior Alaska summer feels like it's over. Meanwhile, Southcentral Alaska is in the middle of possibly the chilliest July ever, while Southeast has mournfully reported the lowest summer-time temperature recorded in over 65 years.The Climate Change Tipping Point - NYTimes.com
The acid test will be whether the real world behaves the way Mr. Lenton says it will.Twitter / PaulREhrlich: @keithkloor I just wish mo ...
@keithkloor I just wish most were half as scared as I. #climatedisruption may not be the worst of what we faces but likely catastrophic.
#facepalm RT MikeElk CBS News hires climate change denier as network expert on severe weather http://bit.ly/ONw0xYCBS's Anti-[Junk-]Science Weather Expert
Bernard, who has appeared on CBS News programs scores of times in recent years to talk about extreme weather events, according to the Nexis news database, has never once uttered the word "climate"--let alone "climate change" or "global warming."
This omission makes sense when you understand what Bernard thinks of the foremost scientific issue of our era.
Bernard's Twitter feed (@DavidBernardTV) displays his strong feelings on climate change. He retweets messages from the likes of right-wing climate denier Marc Morano, plugs articles from various climate-change denying pundits and generally derides the notion of global warming:
Being represented by experienced defamation lawyer John B. Williams of Cozen O'Conner in #NationalReview matter. http://fb.me/Ohl6IK3SCozen O'Connor People: John B. Williams
In 2001, John successfully represented R.J. Reynolds in the three-month Blue Cross/Blue Shield RICO trial before Judge Jack B. Weinstein.$5.1 million defamation action could reopen Watergate | Lubbock Online | Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
Advertising Litigation — John has significant experience in all types of advertising litigation, including cases brought by the Federal Trade Commission, cases brought by the state attorneys general, consumer class actions, and private Lanham Act litigation. He successfully defended R.J. Reynolds in the commercial speech case filed by the Federal Trade Commission challenging the cartoon character, Joe Camel. He successfully defended Mobil Oil Corporation when seven state attorneys general, as well as the FTC, challenged Mobil's Hefty degradable bag claim...
Antitrust Litigation — John represented Lukens Steel, Bethlehem Steel, and Mobil Oil Corporation in a series of bid rigging cases in the electrical construction industry...
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First Amendment Litigation — John has represented plaintiffs and defendants in libel and slander cases. He represented G. Gordon Liddy in his 10-year lawsuit against John W. Dean and Ida Maxie Wells arising from Liddy's endorsement of a revisionist theory of Watergate...On the plaintiffs' side, John represented Dr. Steven Levin in the "Dirty Doctor" case, in which Levin was unjustly accused by WJLA of sexually abusing his patients. The jury returned the largest defamation verdict ever affirmed on appeal in the commonwealth of Virginia.
"This is the first time, frankly, that the purpose of the break-in will be litigated in court," said Liddy attorney John B. Williams.
Williams said Tuesday that the conservative talk-show host is not liable for defamation because what he has said is true.
Earlier this month Prof Kevin Leyden of West Virginia University was at a lecture on climate change by the contrarian Dr Stephen Peck, who said it had “everything to do with the cycles of the sun” rather than anything we humans had done or were still doing. This very comforting view is a recipe for business as usual.Biofuels Disaster: Soaring Corn Stirs Up Calls To Curb Ethanol
“I let him have it, but he said the IPCC” – the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – “is ‘full of priests’ etc,” says Leyden. “Turns out that most of the crowd were sympathetic to the ‘natural causes’ theory and [think] that we can wait and see if the ‘doomsayers’ are right – and then we can work on adaptation.”
Much of the media has turned off the issue, even though it must be seen as the greatest single threat facing life on Earth...
There is no doubt that climate-change denial has grown, infecting the corridors of power and inhibiting action by manufacturing doubt...
The world is running short of corn. That is the message being delivered by the market, where on Thursday prices pushed above $8 a bushel for the first time. The biggest potential for a reduction in corn demand comes from the ethanol industry, which is using roughly 5bn bushels of corn, or nearly 40 per cent of the US corn crop, each year to make fuel for cars and animal feed.
Mike Williams, chief of the Yupit Nation in Akiak, Alaska, said in the informational Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing, that villages are literally being wiped out by coastal erosion. Williams said he can cast a net and catch salmon at his childhood home because the home is under water, he said. He also described how the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, in which he participates, has been moved because of lack of snowfall and that dogs must run at night to stay cool.March 2012: Iditarod to Begin Saturday Despite Record Snowfall
Despite a year of record snowfalls across Alaska, the Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race has no plans to delay its start on Saturday, March 3.July 9, 2012: 80-foot snow pile left in Anchorage | WOODTV.com Blogs
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Despite being the snowiest period on record for Anchorage since records have been kept, conditions look good for the race, which will be commemorating its 40th anniversary this year.
This is a picture of a huge snow pile 80-feet high on the Fourth of July (from KTUU). It’s left over from the snowiest winter that Anchorage ever had (132.6″). They estimate the pile is 280,000 cubic yards! Anchorage has had high temps. of 58-56-55-55 the last 4 days (average high 65) and for the year so far they are 2.5 degrees cooler than average.Coldest July in history for Anchorage? | Watts Up With That?
Seager’s own research has revealed a disturbing history of North American “megadroughts” that have lasted for decades, making the current event look quaint by comparison...Unlike the droughts of the 1930s, this one is occurring in a much warmer climate, a byproduct of manmade global warming. Seager said that although it most likely didn’t trigger the drought, it’s possible that global warming is making this drought worse than it would otherwise be.
Lisa Jackson details the EPA's founding under Richard Nixon, the importance of healthy communities, and the effects of mercury on children's IQ.
Hansen pulled the same trick in Tokyo that he did in Phoenix. The black and white is his 1999 UHI adjusted graph, and the blue is his current graph. He cooled the past by about a degree in order to create a non-existent warming trend.In wake of Fukushima, Japanese village goes all-solar - Technolog on NBCNews.com
hey got a quote, got another quote, and started building in January with estimated costs of around ¥17 million, roughly $215,000.
The array went live at the end of March, and is now fully operational. It generates 40,000 kilowatt-hours per year, enough to power the needs of 11 households and 42 people, but not much more. And at the moment, it does not directly power the town
At various points in Earth’s history, dust fell into the ocean and fed algae, which gobbled up carbon dioxide and sank to the bottom of the sea, taking greenhouse gas with them and cooling the world. That’s a key conclusion scientists are drawing from an unusual 2004 experiment in which they grew a massive algae bloom in the Southern Ocean. Data from the experiment may also tell researchers whether seeding the seas with iron is a good way to curb global warming.Animation Of Hansen Vs. Hansen | Real Science
...“The source and sink of carbon from glacial to interglacial periods is the holy grail of oceanography,” says oceanographer Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany, who led the EIFEX expedition and was the lead author on a paper about it published online today in Nature. “It still hasn’t been found, [but] with this paper we are showing that this is probably the place to look.” [Via Mike M]
The black and white image in the animation below is what Hansen said Phoenix should like after UHI adjustments – almost no trend.Mann invokes the Streisand effect on Twitter | Watts Up With That?
The blue line is how Hansen currently shows Phoenix – a sharp warming trend. Apparently the UHI effect in Phoenix has disappeared since he wrote his 1999 paper. He cooled the past by about a degree and warmed the present by almost that much.
Now that Dr. Mann has drawn attention to it, even more people will want to read the National Review article “Football and Hockey” to find out what he’s so upset about. I didn’t even know about this article until Mann tweeted this demand announcement today [me neither]. This announcement on Twitter is probably a bad move on Dr. Mann’s part. Here’s why...More Heavy Rain For The Southwest Permanent Drought | Real Science
Last week the experts told us that the southwest fire season was just beginning.
Not sure I’d have extended that metaphor all the way into the locker-room showers with quite the zeal Mr Simberg does, but he has a point. Michael Mann was the man behind the fraudulent climate-change “hockey-stick” graph, the very ringmaster of the tree-ring circus. And, when the East Anglia emails came out, Penn State felt obliged to “investigate” Professor Mann. Graham Spanier, the Penn State president forced to resign over Sandusky, was the same cove who investigated Mann. And, as with Sandusky and Paterno, the college declined to find one of its star names guilty of any wrongdoing.I have formally... | Facebook
If an institution is prepared to cover up systemic statutory rape of minors, what won’t it cover up? Whether or not he’s “the Jerry Sandusky of climate change”, he remains the Michael Mann of climate change, in part because his “investigation” by a deeply corrupt administration was a joke.
[Michael Mann] I have formally demanded a retraction of, and apology for, this defamatory piece about me by National Review. I have retained counsel to pursue my legal rights.
JUST OUT ON WEATHERBELL. Jamstec backing my idea on fast start to much colder winter season. MODEL LOOKS OPPOSITE OF LAST YEAR over N AmerTwitter / BigJoeBastardi: Cold October may play righ ...
Cold October may play right into the hands of those of us explaining the cyclical nature of weather. in time for electionTwitter / PaulREhrlich: Chronicle of Higher Educat ...
Chronicle of Higher Education attempts to use Sandusky scandal to attack climate science. SHAME! #climatedisruption. http://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/a-culture-of-evasion/33485 …Twitter / keithkloor: @PaulREhrlich Agreed. But ...
@PaulREhrlich Agreed. But climate folks often piggyback on all manner of disaster & tragedy to make climate link--no matter how tangential.
BIRMINGHAM, England — News reaching the Jamaica Observer team are that while the Jamaican track and field athletes who have arrived at the training base are competing with poor weather conditions, the British track and field team as well as members of the USA and other countries have sought warmer climates to continue their preparations.
The weather has been very cool here with the weak sun coming out for short periods only to be covered by thick grey clouds with periods of intermittent rain.
The temperature plummeted yesterday and at least three athletes, who were among a group that went to a popular shopping mall in the centre of the city, complained of being 'cold' and wore heavy sweat suits.
Is France beginning to see the light with regard to shale gas and oil exploration?:- Bishop Hill blog - Interview with Julian Gregory
If I'm reading this correctly, the police didn't even ask Mosher about his ideas. Given that he has written a book about Climategate, this is rather surprising. I would have thought it was worth the effort of an email.German Green Foundation Annual Report Calls Skeptic Organization EIKE “A Setback For Climate Policy”
Green foundations in Germany, many supported by hundreds of millions of euros in funding from large corporations and political parties, are attacking skeptical European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) for daring to practice the principles of science.
In essence, the demands of politicians (and farmers) have, once again, turned a food problem into a food crisis [by burning 40% of the US corn crop]Cold Water Could Have Been Factor in Post-Oozy Dolphin Deaths, Scientists Say | NOLA DEFENDER
You would have thought that after the UN referred to biofuels as a "crime against humanity" there might have been at least a pause for thought. It seems, however, that pork barrel politics can win out over pretty much anything and the headlong rush to reduce the supply of food and to increase the supply of ethanol continues unabated.
unusually cold weather in 2010 is being considered as a factor that could have weakened the dolphinsBega shivers as temperature plunges overnight - ABC South East NSW - Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Record low temperatures for the year are being recorded in the New South Wales south east this morning.India: Govt approves crop damage due to cold wave eligible for relief
The proposal was taken by the GoM upon requests from the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, which faced damage to rabi crops like wheat and pulses last year due to extreme cold weather.BBC News - Cold weather kills three Kielder osprey chicks
Britain's wash-out summer has been blamed for the deaths of three out of six osprey chicks in Northumberland.
Scientists project water in Puget Sound will rise 12 to 14 inches in the next 10 to 15 years.
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After the Quinault adopted a comprehensive climate change policy in 2008, tribal leaders traveled to U.N. climate talks in Poznan, Poland, hoping to compare notes with a variety of nations -- including the United States.
"When we arrived at the United States' door, we got the '6 inch' treatment -- the door opened 6 inches, and they asked, 'What do you want?'" Sharp said. "When we went to Denmark and Germany, the door was open. They gave us cookies. They wanted to have a nice conversation about climate change."
Crop insurers may face their first underwriting loss since 2002 as the worst Midwest drought in more than two decades threatens the U.S. harvest, according to Iowa State University’s Bruce Babcock.
“The only way they would make a profit is if they saw this disaster coming, because of the low water tables and the low soil-moisture levels at the beginning of the season, and they opted to minimize their exposure in the Corn Belt,” Babcock, an economics professor at the Ames, Iowa-based university, said today. “But the companies have made money year after year after year maximizing their exposure to risk in the Corn Belt because it’s been such a good run of years.”
[Q] Have you kept on top of all the internet speculation and commentary surrounding this case?
Firstly, you can't investigate what's said online. Secondly, you look at those blogs and most of it is speculative, uninformed and, occasionally, ridiculous.
[Q] But did you keep an eye on it in case someone came up with a possible lead or sensible theory, or did you see it as nonsense and a distraction?
The latter. I think it was Steven Mosher who said he knew who it was, or had a theory, at least. Maybe he does. Maybe he doesn't. Where does that take you? And is he likely to tell the police? The difference between the police and, say, journalists, is that we won't embark on a number of lines of enquiry because, ultimately, you can see that in terms of getting to where we need to get to - which is beyond reasonable doubt - it's not going to get you there. The fact that things are "interesting" is not always enough.
"Generation X", as marketing people call the generation after the Baby Boomers, aren't buying it, despite the fact that awareness campaigns about global warming have gone on for most of their lives.
...Basically, if you are a liberal, you are more trained to obey experts and elites.
Don't like that phrasing? I know how you vote.
...when it came to Democrats, 86% believed no matter what term was used. They believed what the question told them they were supposed to believe and you could have written 'Smurfs are causing the planet to warm and it is caused by man's effect on the environment' and they would have checked that True box. That isn't being smarter than the other side, it is being intellectual sheep.
Does this mean Generation X is more intellectually independent than prior or more recent generations? There is no evidence for that. Scientific literacy is growing, no matter how much self-loathing you read in mainstream media about how stupid people are. Adult science literacy has tripled since I graduated college...And being a parent makes no difference, so it isn't like we can just appeal to letting future generations enjoy nature - people with young children were less likely to be worried about climate change than single people or childless couples in the new Generation X report.
It also must be considered that as scientists became more politically one-sided, and more politically active, people became less inclined to believe scientists were being impartial.
WASHINGTON — Climate change is sweeping indigenous villages into the sea in Alaska, flooding the taro fields of native Hawaiians and devastating the salmon population from which Indian tribes in Washington state draw their livelihood, tribal leaders testified Thursday at a Senate hearing.2010: Record sockeye salmon run brings optimism to Canada | The Fisheries Secretariat
"The ocean is important to all of us," said Billy Frank Jr., chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, a group of 20 Washington state tribes with treaty rights to salmon fishing. "It’s dying. And who the hell is in charge? Nobody that I see."
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But Frank said the EPA and other agencies still aren’t paying enough attention to tribal input.
"You don’t listen to us when we talk," Frank said. "We tell you what has to be done."
After dire warnings that the future of the Fraser River sockeye salmon was under threat, 34 million returned to spawn this year, making this the biggest run for over a century, according to the BBC “Newsnight” TV program.
One Republican (now out of office) retains sanity. The plutocrats will most likely get him. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/238773-gop-right-wing-is-serious-about-disabling-government …Bill Nye the Obama Guy - Page 1
Bill Nye, that quirky science guy of 1990s TV fame, is taking his colorful bow ties and sweet science tricks on the road as another famous face of the Obama campaign...Nye is a long-time Obama supporter
Energy and climate change secretary Ed Davey is to look into claims of bullying by the company behind plans for a wind farm near Gargrave .Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Worst of summer over in th ...
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Mr Smith said that the family, whose farm is next to the proposed site, had received an offer of £275,000 and had also had “late night bullying calls”.
“This behaviour is happening right across North Yorkshire. Does the minister agree that the only way to fix it is to drastically cut the subsidy paid to these companies.”
Worst of summer over in the northeast. DC 5-10 more days 90, but NYC less than 5 Trough develops ne US for August, mitigating heatTwitter / CHedegaardEU: Numbers speak for themselv ...
Numbers speak for themselves:Chinese & EU emissions per capita now equally big. That's why we need a new climate regime http://bit.ly/Q6uWezTwitter / CHedegaardEU: Merkel very clear at #Pete ...
Merkel very clear at #Petersberg Climate Dialogue: as we can't continue BAU there's nothing to gain from playing with time #climatechange
Those were the words of UNFCCC Chief Christiana Figueres as she addressed an audience at the Rio+20 Earth Summit.
“Today I got green thread tied around my wrist by a youth who said Christiana please help us make green sexy,” she said.
Italy’s perfect storm of so little electricity at so much cost had three causesIndia to pip US as 2nd largest carbon emitter from fuel | JunkScience.com
Long before the age of government-mandated low-flush toilets and low-wattage light bulbs, William F. Buckley captured the essence of modern nanny-state liberalism with his comment that a liberal is someone who wants to reach in and turn down your shower. People are wise to the endlessly meddling ways of modern liberalism, which is why there is so much resistance to the plans of electric utilities, thoroughly socialized and housebroken by decades of regulation, to introduce “smart meters” to private residences. I get the idea behind “smart meters,” and like them in the abstract. But a lot of people understand that smart meters may be the first step to enabling the Thermocrats to dial back your power usage remotely if they think you are using “too much” electricity to, say, keep yourself cool during hot summer afternoons. Utilities already try to persuade people to volunteer to allow them to cycle off your appliances remotely during periods of peak demand in return for a slight discount on your bill. But things that start out voluntary have a way of becoming mandatory with liberals, and smart meters are a step to enhancing the power of environmentalist Thermocrats.Guest Post: Oil and Gas – An American Jobs Producer? | Plugged In, Scientific American Blog Network
Investments in renewables and other industries is critical, as I mention in other posts, but if oil and gas production is good for the economy and good for jobs, why would we spend approximately $1 billion per day importing oil? Instead, we should reinject as much of that money as we can back into safely and responsibly producing domestic petroleum, and creating American jobs.
Our friends get hysterical when they see runoff or icebergs calving from Greenland.My Arctic Forecasts | Real Science
I’m curious what they think is supposed to happen? More than 400 billion cubic meters of snow falls on the Greenland Ice Sheet every year. That snow has to go somewhere, or it would eventually pile up to the top of the troposphere.
Obviously that isn’t what happens. The snow turns to ice and finds its way to the sea, where it melts. More than 400 billion cubic meters of snow returns to the sea every year in Greenland.
For our scientifically and mathematically challenged friends on the left, this is called the law of Conservation Of Mass. So I respectfully ask them to stop peeing in their pants every time they see physical law behaving normally.
There will be an increase in the amount of five year old ice this autumn. NSIDC won’t be able to use thatItalian PM Hopes to Attract $18 Billion Investment by Relaxing Offshore Oil Ban | JunkScience.compropagandatalking point any more.
The sea ice extent trend line will flatten some over the next two weeks.
After the Gulf of Mexico spill in 2010, Italy’s then Prime Minister, Sergio Berlusconi, put a ban on all offshore gas exploration in Italian waters, fearful of a similar disaster. The new Prime Minister, Mario Monti, in an attempt to stimulate the economy and aid the debt crisis, has proposed to relax the ban.Media Questions and Answers from the Norfolk Police regarding the closing of Climategate | Watts Up With That?
We identified that the attackers breached several password layers to get through and they got to a position where they employed different methodologies to return the data. We identified a significant quantity of data that was taken in this way, certainly in excess of that which was subsequently published in the two files in 2009 and 2011.
Then earlier this month, ATI sent a second information request to Texas A&M expanding the emails it sought from Dessler's account to include any exchanges with New York Times reporter Justin Gillis, who wrote the Lindzen story, as well as any communications with the PBS investigative journalism show Frontline, Frontline producer Catherine Upin, Associated Press science reporter Seth Borenstein, and Suzanne Goldenberg, U.S. environment correspondent for the British newspaper The Guardian. Also covered in that request were any communications Dessler had with the watchdog group Union of Concerned Scientists and Richard Ades, a public affairs professional who directed the Project on Climate Science, which worked to disseminate high-quality scientific climate research to media and lawmakers.Carol Pierson Holding: Could Summer's Devastation Provoke Environmental Action?
Who hasn't seen the photos that woke us to the inequity in civil rights -- not just the riots, but the conditions under which many people of color had to live?Twitter / MichaelEMann: Rachel @Maddow is going to ...
Who hasn't seen photos of the gross inequity brought about by climate change over this summer? Environmental injustice didn't happen here in the Pacific Northwest, but we all hurt watching it unfold on TV. It's not the impressive intellect of Al Gore's scientists or the facts that tell us how bad the ultimate outcomes might be. It's the sight of human suffering that galvanizes citizens to action.
Rachel @Maddow is going to be talking about my good friend (http://bit.ly/MLmMTk ) #KenCuccinelli (aka "Cooch") later this hour. Can't wait!Twitter / BadAstronomer: I quoted you, @MichaelEMan ...
I quoted you, @MichaelEMann, in my glacier piece: http://is.gd/2FmFtw Watch the comments for teeth-grinding fun.
Global warming alarmists point to wildfires in the western United States and say, “This is what global warming looks like.” They are right. This is what global warming looks like. According to a recently published paper in the peer-reviewed Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, wildfires in the western United States are currently at a 3,000-year low. Similarly, data from the National Interagency Fire Center show the number of U.S. wildfires is on a 35-year downward trend. Alarmists point to the few times and places where wildfires have recently occurred and scream, “The sky is falling!” Objective, real-world data, however, tells an entirely different story. Yes, Reggie, this is what global warming looks like.UK Temperature Trends « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
Temperatures in the 1730’s were pretty much the same as now.Medieval Warm Period found in 120 proxies. Plus Roman era was similar to early 20th Century. « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax
Climate models cannot explain what caused the warming 1000 years ago, nor the cooling 300 years ago, so they can’t rule out the same factors aren’t changing the climate today (though they claim they can). If climate models can’t explain the past, they can’t predict the future.
The phrase “climate change” or any analysis of causation for the current drought was absent from the public discussion. This was a meeting about row crop agriculture and related agricultural producers and it was intended to deal with the as-is situation.Twitter / ret_ward: Have climate change 'scept ...
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During the public comment section, a truck driver who had just delivered a load of grain stood at the microphone and demonized the environmental groups for trying to influence food production. It got the biggest applause at the event and the governor jumped on board reminding us of his joining a lawsuit in Nebraska against an environmental group.
Have climate change 'sceptics' made any efforts to bring to justice the UEA email hacker(s)?PAM DZAMA | Climate change and angry 'earth gods' » Kitsap Sun Mobile
The writer praises Bill Nye the Science Guy and his experiment with a jar filled with CO and says the increased temperature generated by a light shined into the jar "... mimics what we do every day when we pour 88 million tons of CO into ... our atmosphere ..." He concludes by asking, "Why care about a little thunder and lightning? Because it is our country and our world that are hurting. The earth gods are angry."Smoking Gun For UHI In California | Real Science
Not to insult any polytheistic readers out there, but I don't believe a summer storm, complete with lightning and thunder, was caused by angry "earth gods" and portends the demise of the Earth.
The summers of 1917 and 1931 had the second and third hottest maximum temperatures in California, but all of the top three summer average minimums occurred during the past decade. Urbanization is making nighttime temperatures warmer – an inconvenient fact which the “experts” choose to downplay or ignore.
Cognitive psychologist Stephan Lewandowsky of the University of Western Australia has been studying climate deniers and conspiratorial thinking -- and the link between the two. He suspected that climate deniers -- as opposed to climate "skeptics," who actually use the tools of science to verify facts -- are highly prone to unrelated kinds of conspiracy thinking, and also to a conservative, pro-business ideology. He decided to test these ideas by questioning people who write and read blogs related to global warming.LORD STERN ELECTED BRITISH ACADEMY PRESIDENT
He chose blogs because people with an anti-science bias have found a welcoming home on the Internet. Science denial is difficult to practice in the mainstream, peer-reviewed literature, but such contrarian views can be freely expressed in the blogosphere, where conspiracy theorists can feed one another's feelings of persecution.
Professor Lord Stern of Brentford was today elected as the next President of the British Academy. Nicholas Stern will succeed the current President, Sir Adam Roberts, in a year's time.Flashback: Grantham climate hoax promoter Nicholas Stern still babbling something about CO2-induced "massive loss of life" and "Southern Europe looking like the Sahara desert"
Fun to see green writers & climate pundits talk up U.S. carbon emission reductions that is largely due to natural gas they are hostile to.Twenty Times More Likely (Not): The Science | Climate Abyss | a Chron.com blog
Substitute “distinctly more probable” for “20 times more likely to occur”, and add at the end, “with global warming being a contributing factor”, and you have an accurate and defensible summary of the paper. But that’s not what the NOAA press release said.
So, NOAA, now you have the more gullible members of the public believing that the heat wave really was proven to be 20 times more likely because of global warming, and we have the more skeptical members of the public believing that research produced by NOAA doesn’t even pass the smell test. At least you got good press coverage, and all publicity is good publicity, right?
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