Aimee Mann: "Nobody is talking about global warming anymore. It’s the main thing that we should be concentrating on"

Aimee Mann: Fame is the worst - Salon.com

Nobody is talking about global warming anymore.  It’s the main thing that we should be concentrating on, but you know, Obama’s gotta fucking campaign for a solid year because this is the fucked-up system we have, where anybody can buy an election.

It’s the last phase of the Weimar Republic.

Weimar Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

1933 is usually seen as the end of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of Hitler's Third Reich.

'Til Tuesday - VOICES CARRY - Live 1985 Aimee Mann - YouTube

The Blackboard » Lewandowsky’s rampant snippage.

Based on the moderator response, it appears someone over at Lewandowsky’s blog may think that explaining an obvious design flaw of his methodology that arises from the fact that anyone can use anonymous proxies to enter as many responses as they wish is somehow teaching people how to commit “fraud”. Of course my response to that is to point out that is trivially easy for an academic wishing to conduct a methodologically sound survey to write a script that prevents the vast numbers of people who know how to use free anonymous proxies from doing so. Many people routinely use these — some are required to do so by their employers. The notion that revealing this totally non-secret information is teaching people how to commit fraud is just nuts.

The Fourth Way | Planet3.0

the idea that a corrupt science would or even could concoct such a hoax is already implausible in the extreme. That it has is simply delusional.

Solar Climate Change: A huge arc of plasma-filled magnetism is rising over the sun's western limb | Climate Realists

"It's more than 30 Earth diameters long," says amateur astronomer John Stetson

Twitter / IdiotTracker: @wattsupwiththat Somebody needs ...

[retweeted by Michael Mann] @wattsupwiththat Somebody needs to explain to you guys the concept of "protesting too much." Shaking your tinfoil hats with rage not working

The BRAD BLOG : Mitt Was For the Climate [Hoax] Before He Was Against It

Even John McCain once showed the courage to go into the lion's den of denial and tell the GOP base that climate change was a clear and present danger in 2008. Romney doesn't have a logical excuse not to do exactly the same thing.

The indispensable climate blogger Peter Sinclair has noted that the very same right-wing operatives who downplayed the risk of Osama bin Laden's wrath prior to 9/11 are now downplaying the risk of Mother Nature's wrath, which has been provoked by our endless exploitation of fossil fuels.

Julienne Schmoozing On The Greenpeace Cruise | Real Science

Russian data shows that the ice was just as thin in 1940 as it is now. Models did not predict the record amount of Antarctic sea ice.

Increased ice loading in the Antarctic Peninsula since the 1850s and its effect on Glacial Isostatic Adjustment

Antarctic Peninsula (AP) ice core records indicate significant accumulation increase since 1855, and any resultant ice mass increase has the potential to contribute substantially to present-day Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA). We derive empirical orthogonal functions from climate model output to infer typical spatial patterns of accumulation over the AP and, by combining with ice core records, estimate annual accumulation for the period 1855-2010. In response to this accumulation history, high resolution ice-sheet modeling predicts ice thickness increases of up to 45 m, with the greatest thickening in the northern and western AP.  [Via Marc Morano]

Oklahoma Maximum Temperatures Plunging For 80 years | Real Science
Iowa Maximum Temperatures Plunging For 90 Years | Real Science
Wisconsin Maximum Temperatures Plunging For 80 Years | Real Science
1874 Shock News : Climate Change Threatens Agriculture In Scotland | Real Science

‘…we need a conspiracy to save humanity’ | Watts Up With That?

Here is Glenn Tamblyn (Skeptical Science author/moderator) secretly conversing with his SkS pals on their off limits forum and saying “we need a conspiracy to save humanity”. The Viet Cong comparison is a nice touch too. There’s talk of convening a “war council” too.

Drought of 2012 conjures up Dust Bowl memories, raises questions for tomorrow - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Some 3.5 million people fled their homes in Oklahoma, Texas, and elsewhere, the bone-dry landscape, blistering heat and choking dust storms unfit for growing and raising the crops and cattle they relied on to survive.

Thousands more, many of them children and seniors, could not escape, killed by an infection dubbed "dust pneumonia" and other illnesses tied not just to the extreme weather and poor living conditions but to massive, fast-moving dust clouds.

Twitter / PaulREhrlich: #climate. Pols focus on ...

#climate. Pols focus on retatively trivial problems of debt, which could be solved by negotiation. You can't negotiate with nature!

Climate Change - YouTube

In which Hank details the five scariest things that will likely happen because of climate change.

F10.7 Flux, Sea Level and the Holocene | Watts Up With That?

[David Archibald] I have come to the conclusion that a F10.7 Flux of 100 is the breakover between heating and cooling on Earth. It explains most things to me. My best guess on that at this point is January 2015, following which, two decades of cooling will ensue.

Christopher Booker: Greens Routed As Shale Gas Wins New Enthusiasts | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

Last week saw a truly momentous defeat for the green lobby groups which, in the past decade, have exercised almost complete control over Britain’s future energy policy. The fact that this took the form of a mighty slapdown for Lord Deben (formerly John Gummer), newly confirmed chairman of the Climate Change Committee, makes it all the more telling.

Tracking polar bears across the Arctic ice | John Vidal | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Bears travel big distances, they can swim hundreds of miles, from Greenland as far as Iceland. They are a constant presence in northern Greenland.
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"Each team perhaps has to shoot one only every four or five years, whereas some Inuit communities have licences to kill 30 a year for food. I have never eaten bear.

India should reject CDM Recommendations, urges CSE

New Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) says, report’s recommendations do nothing to correct the drawbacks of CDM. Instead, they are geared towards saving ailing carbon markets and private profits and are completely inadequate to achieve the much-needed real reforms in CDM.

A Story Exposes How the Chinese Government is Fueling Elephant Slaughter - NYTimes.com

the story shows how, at several levels, the Chinese government has cornered the ivory market and, by raising prices, intensified poaching pressure on elephants.

Lewandowsky’s Cleansing Program « Climate Audit

Today, Lewandowsky (who is being assisted by an SkS squadron) liquidated every single comment by Fuller on the entire blog, leaving rebuttals to Fuller in place without the protagonist. This is different from not approving the blog comments: it’s an after-the-fact cleansing of Fuller from the blog.

The University of Western Australia should hang its head in shame at Lewandowsky’s Gleickian antics.

Wait, what?: "We haven't really seen any kind of unequivocal ozone recovery yet"

Antarctic ozone hole smaller than in 2011 | Reuters

(Reuters) - The hole in the ozone layer, the earth's protective shield against ultraviolet rays, is expected to be smaller this year over the Antarctic than last, showing how a ban on harmful substances has stopped its depletion, the United Nations said on Friday.

But the hole is probably larger than in 2010 and a complete recovery is still a long way off.
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"The temperature conditions and the extent of polar stratospheric clouds so far this year indicate that the degree of ozone loss will be smaller than in 2011 but probably somewhat larger than in 2010," the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in a statement.

The Antarctic ozone hole, which currently measures 19 million square kilometers, most likely would be smaller this year than in the record year of 2006, it said. The annual occurrence typically reaches its maximum surface area during late September and maximum depth in early October.
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The Montreal protocol has been a "great success", U.N. weather agency expert Geir Braathen told a news briefing.

"This has prevented a major environmental disaster and globally ozone depletion has leveled off. We haven't really seen any kind of unequivocal ozone recovery yet," he said.

"Ozone depletion has stopped, leveled off," Braathen said.

In the Arctic stratosphere, there was record ozone loss in spring of 2011, but it has returned to more normal conditions this year, he said.

Flashback: Ozone Layer: A Closer Look at the Fraud « The AntiSlave

The Montreal Protocol cost Billions, if not Trillions of consumer dollars. Old air conditioning, freezers and fridges could not be repaired. they had to be replaced replaced (with all the environmental implications of having to produce more steel, use energy to manufacture more units,…). CFCs were so valuable that criminals made a very good living out of smuggling 20 lb tanks of CFCs from mexico into Canada at $600 per tank.
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So how is it that the hole in the ozone layer is bigger than ever before but nobody is screaming out headlines of environmental disaster of global proportions and the extinction of mankind any more?

Well guess what – it wasn’t the CFCs after all. The ozone layer is not being depleted. The “hole in the ozone layer” over antartica is caused by nitrogen oxides being pushed into the lower atmosphere by solar winds!

Its a natural process that has always occurred and will always occur.

Messaging fail: If the Arctic is currently so ice-free, why is there so much ice in this photo of Greenpeace's fossil-fueled Arctic Sunrise, hundreds of miles from the north pole?

Also, did they use a fossil-fueled helicopter to take this photo?

Arctic sea ice hits record low: live updates and reaction | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Greenpeace MY Arctic Sunrise ship expedition to the Arctic to document the lowest sea ice level on record, Arctic Ocean, 12 September 2012. Photograph: Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace

Sept 14, 2012: The staggering decline of sea ice at the frontline of climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk

We are a few hundred miles from the north pole.

Profits plunge for Chinese wind turbine manufacturers: "Whether you’re a Chinese company or not, It’s unsustainable not to earn money”

Vestas Says Chinese Market Shifting to Higher Quality Turbines - Bloomberg

Now, even the Chinese manufacturers are “challenged” by falling profitability, said Albaek.

Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., China’s biggest maker of wind turbines by market share, on Aug. 24 said first- half profit fell 83 percent because competition intensified. Sinovel Wind Group Co., the second-biggest, two days later said first-half profit declined 96 percent.

“If you look at the reports from Goldwind, Sinovel and other large manufacturers, you can see they are challenged like the rest of the global wind industry,” Albaek said. “Their earnings are dropping. Whether you’re a Chinese company or not, It’s unsustainable not to earn money.”

Imagine If Climate Scientists Actually Used Their Brains | Real Science

Antarctic ice area once again set a post-1979 record high for the date today, and is closing in on the September 20, 2007 post-1979 record high.

Does that date sound familiar? It should, because it was the same week as the previous post-1979 record low Arctic ice area.

Global warming theory requires that both poles warm, but we are seeing the exact opposite – the poles move opposite each other.

And prior to 1979, Arctic ice was increasing, while Antarctic ice was decreasing.

Putin Turns Photo Ops Into Soviet-Style Agitprop : NPR

It is rare to hear a politician say, "Of course it was a set up." But Russian President Vladimir Putin told a Russian journalist that many of his most picturesque media appearances — shooting a tranquilizer dart into a tiger who appeared about to pounce; tagging a wounded snow leopard; and, just this week, wearing a feathery white suit to pilot a glider to guide a group of cranes south for the winter — were staged.

"Of course there are excesses," he told Masha Gessen in Bolshoi Gorod magazine. But they were constructive deceits, he said, because they called attention to endangered wildlife.

A lot of Russians had been skeptical about President Putin's highly publicized displays of environmental daring.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: They yap about record heat ...

They yap about record heat in sw,but ignore most of nation well below normal, with more rec cold on way. Typical pic.twitter.com/jZ0quQwj

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: You can call it nothing but ...

You can call it nothing but what it is.Like it or not,the 2 meter global temp against the 30 year mean is only plus.009 pic.twitter.com/0MCckF2p

- Bishop Hill blog - A new typology for the climate debate

This is a guest post by Lloyd Robertson.

I think we need a new typology for people who comment on climate--better than warmists vs. skeptics or any other "teams". I propose three main analytical categories:

state of mind
whether still learning or not
communicating with public/media honestly or dishonestly.

BS detectors | Climate Etc.

Here is an alternative hypothesis: the motivation reasoning is on the other side, the liberal defenders of the CAGW consensus. Once the ‘consensus’ argument stepped beyond climate science into the realm of ‘dangerous’ impacts and ‘solutions’ involving global changes in governance and energy policy, BS detectors were triggered in people who didn’t share that motivation.

It 's already winter in Iceland: blizzards and blackouts throughout the region. Thousands of sheep still buried by Renato Samson | Climate Realists

Here's an amazing video that shows the rescue of a specimen buried by snow.

Piers Corbyn: The Arctic story - BBC-warmist cover-up for Global warming failure | Climate Realists

Whatever the detail the BBC-Greenpeace idea that records of the ~30 years of ice indicate anything about climate is delusional nonsense. Their own 'definition' of climate requires 30year averages so their ice data gives a ONE POINT ice graph. Only somebody with serious learning problems can deduce a trend from a one point graph. However can anything be concluded about Arctic ice from what has been going on in the Northern hemisphere on longer records? The answer is yes. It is almost certain that Arctic ice, like all the other 'big picture' meteorological parameters in the northern hemisphere to which it is connected [eg Pacific (PDO) and Atlantic (AMO) circulations, Tibetan plateau temperatures, USA temperatures], has a ~60year (solar-lunar) cycle so a 30yr decline in ice is just one half of the story. The next 30 years (or more probably the 30 yrs from 2007) will see Arctic ice expand as we head into the new Little Ice Age.

Solar Cycle 24 "Maxima" moves from Spring to Autumn 2013 or has it already happened? | Climate Realists

The current predicted and observed size makes this the smallest sunspot cycle since Cycle 14 which had a maximum of 64.2 in February of 1906.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: UK beware. a heck of a winter ...

UK beware. a heck of a winter is lurking. Water temps resemble what is going on around Alaska pic.twitter.com/EKZBoarx

We're Still Standing | The Resilient Earth

this study shows that stone-age man rolled with the punches and shrugged off the sudden shifts in climate. This new evidence flies in the face of modern predictions that a shift of a few degrees in average yearly temperature will decimate human populations world wide.

MEP Roger Helmer: “Vahrenholt A Star Of The Climate Sceptic Movement…Time To Reject Climate Alarmism”

The mainstream media, and I’m sure many within Fritz Vahrenholt’s own party, have been expending huge effort to keep his message and his sceptic book Die kalte Sonne bottled up. That effort has failed. Vahrenholt is getting his message out.

Attention journalists: Write about climate change for a chance to win $1200 and a fossil-fueled trip to Antigua!

CARDI, CTA launch media awards on climate change reporting | Antigua Observer Newspaper

“There will be one overall winner in each category. The winners will each receive a cash prize of US$1,200 and a trip to Antigua to participate in Caribbean Week of Agriculture activities during the first week of October, 2012,” the communiqué read. “Separate arrangements will be made for winners from Antigua.”
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Climate Change is defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the “adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities.”

Settled science: Less Arctic ice this year means a warmer winter, which is bad; it also means a colder winter, which is also bad

Arctic Sea Ice | NRDC

A warmer Arctic will also affect weather patterns and thus food production around the world. Wheat farming in Kansas, for example, would be profoundly affected by the loss of ice cover in the Arctic. According to a NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies computer model, Kansas would be 4 degrees warmer in the winter without Arctic ice, which normally creates cold air masses that frequently slide southward into the United States. Warmer winters are bad news for wheat farmers, who need freezing temperatures to grow winter wheat.

Feb. 2012:  Unusual weather: Arctic sea ice decline may be driving snowy winters seen in recent years in N. Hemisphere

"Our study demonstrates that the decrease in Arctic sea ice area is linked to changes in the winter Northern Hemisphere atmospheric circulation," said Judith Curry, chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Georgia Tech. "The circulation changes result in more frequent episodes of atmospheric blocking patterns, which lead to increased cold surges and snow over large parts of the northern continents."

Warmist Walt Meier on sea ice: “It used to be that it all hung together like a big herd of animals almost protected. Now there are pieces that are becoming more isolated, almost separated from the herd, and they can be more easily melted"

Arctic sea ice hits record low: live updates and reaction | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Meier went on to explain on of the mechanisms for accelerating the summer ice loss. The older sea ice, which is 3m to 4m thick, is becoming increasingly vulnerable.

Larger expanses of that older sea ice, which is more resistant to melting, is breaking up into more isolated blocks surrounding by thinner summer ice.

“It used to be that it all hung together like a big herd of animals almost protected. Now there are pieces that are becoming more isolated, almost separated from the herd, and they can be more easily melted,” he told Suzanne Goldenberg.

We Saved the Ozone Layer. We Can Save the Climate. | David Doniger's Blog | Switchboard, from NRDC

There’s already been a climate change bonus. The CFCs were also extremely powerful heat-trapping pollutants, and replacing them has slowed climate change by a decade. Had we not acted, the world would already be suffering even more severe droughts, floods and storms. This summer’s extreme weather would have been even worse.

1912 – Melt The North Pole To Improve The World’s Climate | Real Science

One hundred years ago, engineers wanted to melt the North Pole to improve the world’s climate. They were vastly more intelligent than the morons posing as climate scientists today.

Texas Maximum Temperatures Plummeting For 90 Years | Real Science

Twitter / RyanMaue: You'd think physicist Steven ...

You'd think physicist Steven Chu would be criss-crossing the USA touting his Energy Secretary great successes during last 4-yrs.

Global Warming Strikes The Ice Sheets | Real Science

Temperatures were -112F [in Antarctica] on Thursday, and sea ice is currently at a record high for the date.

Being fair though, temperatures are much warmer, and only 56 degrees below freezing, on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

EUtopia: Whatever Happened to Climate Change?

People give me that puzzled look when I explain that I switch off my engine at traffic lights to save petrol

The Blackboard » How are Models Tracking: GISTemp

But everyone should bear in mind, the ENSO charts from NOAA are showing “red” for El Nino influence. So, warming is anticipated. That said, at year end or when I get the tail end of the script double checked, I think we’ll be pointing out that the multi-model mean is outside the range consistent with observations. I’d say the result is getting to be robust to future data

Climate Alarmism: Our Sanity and Wallets Need a Break — MasterResource

“Pick up any 40-year-old science textbook – on chemistry, biology, geology, physics, astronomy or medicine – and you’ll find a slew of “facts” and theories that have been proven wrong or are no longer the “consensus” view. Climatology is no exception.

Energy Policy Divides Governing Coalition in France - NYTimes.com

Desperate to secure the votes needed to defeat Nicolas Sarkozy, the center-right incumbent, the Socialists agreed last year not to field any candidates in around 60 constituencies. In exchange, the Greens accepted the Socialists’ goal of reducing France’s dependence on nuclear power for energy to 50 percent from 75 percent by 2025 — far short of the Greens’ own goal of zero.
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“The Socialists are starting to realize that they gave a very generous gift to the Greens,” said Pascal Perrineau, director of the Center for Political Research in Paris, who noted that the Green presidential candidate, Eva Joly, was eliminated in the first round of voting, with a humiliating 2.3 percent of the vote. “The Greens are a small party, but they have been very well paid.”
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But the nuclear industry employs about 400,000 heavily unionized workers here, and French companies like Areva and Électricité de France are global leaders in the design and operation of nuclear technology.

Why Climate Change Is A Public Health Issue | ThinkProgress

Some public health officials argue that the image associated with global warming shouldn’t be a polar bear surrounded by melting ice caps, but rather a child suffering from heat exhaustion.

Without nuclear, the battle against global warming is as good as lost | Mark Lynas | Environment | guardian.co.uk

the weather systems of the entire northern hemisphere are being thrown into chaos. With nuclear, there is a chance that global warming this century can be limited to 2C; without nuclear, I would guess we are heading for 4C or above. That will devastate ecosystems and societies worldwide on a scale which is unimaginable.
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It is nothing short of insane that politicians around the world, under pressure from populations subjected to decades of anti-nuclear fearmongering by people who call themselves greens, are raising our collective risk of catastrophic climate change in order to eliminate the safest power source ever invented.

More people die each day from coal pollution than have been killed by nuclear power in 50 years of operation, and that is even before factoring in the impact on global warming.

The staggering decline of sea ice at the frontline of climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk

We are a few hundred miles from the north pole. The air temperature is -3C, the sea freezing. All around us in these foggy Arctic waters at the top of the world are floes – large and small chunks of sea ice that melt and freeze again with the seasons.
...In the past Stroeve has shown that ice melt has been happening far faster than the models predicted. Her new research, published last month in the journal Geophysical Research Papers, shows humans may have been responsible for most of the ice loss in recent decades.
"It suggests 60% of the observed decline in ice extent in Septembers from 1953-2011 was due to human activity. [60% seems like a very convenient number.  If the number was under 50% in initial model runs, how many warmists could resist the temptation to tweak something to get a number above 50%?] The decline is linked to the increase in temperatures," she says.
...Sea ice extent has varied naturally over the decades with some Russian data suggesting similar or even greater ice loss in some local areas in the 1930s. But the models are clear, says Stroeve. If you omit the observed records, keeping CO2 levels at pre-industrial levels, then none show a decline of ice cover. When you do put CO2 into the models, they all show a decline, she says.

"Just because there was possibly less ice in some areas at other times, that doesn't mean it's not human-induced now".

- Bishop Hill blog - Paterson - wind will not work

From my own direct constituency experience I don’t personally think that inland wind farms are effective at reducing carbon. I don’t even think they are effective at producing energy.

Ten Lessons of the Solyndra Failure | Energy & Commerce Committee

Solyndra’s rushed approval was for a previously scheduled press event.

UN Climate Chief calls for Africa to drive adaptation agenda in Doha | RTCC - Responding to Climate Change

The World Bank estimates that between $10 and $40 billion will be needed annually for adaptation in Africa by 2020. In 2007, the UNDP said this figure was more likely to be $86 billion by 2015.

Wind farms will not stop global warming, claims minister - Telegraph

“When I was in opposition, we always had very well-meaning, well intentioned Ministers at Defra who were completely urban and completely clueless. That’s not going to happen with me. And I eat meat.”

Carbon [Dioxide Hoax Scam] Trading Shakes Off Its Torpor [California] - WSJ.com

Prices are likely to stabilize between $14 and $18 a ton as long as cap-and-trade looks set to begin in January, said Chris Schaffer, a Houston-based trader for Vitol, one of the world's biggest energy-trading firms.

Twitter / Barrowice: Meanwhile, Antarctic Sea ice ...

Meanwhile, Antarctic Sea ice is currently 1 Million Sq Km's ABOVE Normal!! #agw #globalwarming #globalcooling http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_timeseries.png …

Error found in climate modelling: Too many droughts predicted • The Register

We foretold eight of the last two

A Green Vision For Air Travel: Planes Fly Together In Flocks | Co.Design: business + innovation + design

Airbus says that these flight formations could be effective even with planes separated by about 20 wingspans, which at least seems like a distance where you could look out your window and not be totally terrified by the airplane flying right next to you, just vaguely unsettled.

Vahrenholt Buries Another Climate Scientist In Debate – Claims IPCC Scientists “Have Colossally Exaggerated Warming”

Needless to say the atmosphere was electrified, with an audience of almost 400. Unfortunately there still is no video of this debate, but the online Berner Zeitung daily (BZ) of Bern wrote up a report, and yes, they too had to concede that skeptic Vahrenholt won the debate.

The BZ called Vahrenholt “rhetorically tough” and wrote he needed “only 10 seconds to warm up his argumentation machinery”.

The SkS “Link” to the Lewandowsky Survey « Climate Audit

In my opinion, the evidence is overwhelming that SkS never published a link to the Lewandowsky survey. In my opinion, both Cook’s claim to have published a link and Lewandowsky’s claim to have seen it are untrue. But even if Cook did post a link and then destroyed all documentary evidence of its existence, the situation is equally unpalatable.

Are we cooling the planet with SO2? « sunshine hours

Could it be that if there was no human SO2 it the atmosphere the temperature recovery from the Little Ice Age could have been as high as 4C instead of the .8C claimed?

Maybe all that coal China is burning is saving our planet!

Al's Journal : Denier Conspiracy Buffs

A new study links climate denial to belief in conspiracy theories:

Sea Ice Area Sets New Record High | Real Science

The amount of sea ice around Antarctica is the greatest ever for the date, and the thirteenth highest daily value ever measured. Most of the world’s sea ice is located around Antarctica, and it has been steadily increasing for at least 30 years.

Hansen predicted peak sea ice loss around Antarctica, because he has no clue what he is doing.

Wanted: 1 goat herder, 30 goats at O’Hare Int’l Airport - Chicago News and Weather | FOX Chicago News

"This area over here is very heavily vegetated as you can see from the aerial photograph," says Amy Malick, the point person for sustainability at the department of aviation.

She says the city is looking at a pilot program of getting 30 goats to eat the grass and weeds in one, hard-to-mow area just east of Mannheim.

"They may have steep slopes, very hard to get to with heavy machinery, and those machines also emit pollution," Malick explains. "They're burning fossil fuel. So as a sustainability initiative we're looking to bring in animals that do not have emissions associated with them, at least to the same extent that heavy machinery would."
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The city says they've already received enthusiastic responses from a couple goat farmers interested in the bid, which is capped at $100,000.

What Is Motivating The Ill-Timed Return Of The Economically Damaging Carbon Tax? - Investors.com

This current carbon tax push — although only rumblings at the margins — reveals business models dependent on a carbon price. Billions of public and private funds have been invested in alternative energy with the assumption of an eventual government diktat to increase the price of fossil fuels. Without such a sanction on carbon, it is increasingly obvious that inherently less efficient, far more expensive alternative energies cannot compete.

Stimulated by Solyndra? - Interview - National Review Online

Hope and change is gas and oil.

In the heat of battle - Environment - NZ Herald News

Author and journalist Gareth Renowden, who runs the website Hot Topic and has published a book by the same name, predicts it won't be long before sceptics - who he calls cranks and deniers - won't have much influence.

"My own feeling is that the rate of climate change is going to become so undeniable over the next few years that these guys are going to be just totally irrelevant."

Record low temps across western Canada

“In BC alone, 22 new low record temperatures were broken Wednesday morning,” says Brian Dillon, a meteorologist at The Weather Network. “About 10 were broken in southern Alberta as well.”

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Rename the Chevy Volt to the Chevy Bastiat

This drives me crazy. Of COURSE you are filling the freaking tank. You are just filling the lead-acid (or lithium-ion) one with electrons rather than filling the hollow steel one with hydrocarbon molecules. The only difference is that you don't stand there watching the meter spin. But that should not mean that we pretend we are not filling the car and paying a cost to do so.

By the way, if you have read me before, you know I also have a problem with the EPA equivalent mileage standards for electric cars, which basically inflate the numbers by a factor of three by ignoring the second law of thermodynamics. This fraudulent mileage number, combined with the EPA's crazy-high new mileage standards, represents an implicit subsidy, almost a mandate, for electric cars that gets little attention. And that will have zero effect on energy usage because the numbers are gamed.

Popular Technology.net: Skeptical Science: "[W]e're all a bunch of leftists"

Ironically they were surprised by these results, apparently believing climate alarmism would be more politically "diverse".

Apple’s massive solar farm looks kind of awesome from the air | Grist

At 100 acres, this is going to be the world’s largest privately-owned solar panel farm — you can see from the photo above that it dwarfs the 500,000 square foot data center, which is that white building in the upper middle. When completed, it’ll generate 20,000 MW of power, with backup from a 4.8-MW biogas plant. Which is all very inspiring, but at the same time, the bird’s-eye photos also show why other corporations don’t usually do this. I mean, who has the space.

ETS bill for taxpayer now $1 billion, MPs hear - Environment - NZ Herald News

For the scheme's first year, to mid-2011, the carbon price was stable at about $20 a tonne and money flowed from energy consumers to forest owners with carbon credits to sell.

But since then international carbon prices have collapsed, and New Zealand units can be had for around $4.

Emitters have loaded up on cheap imported carbon [dioxide rip-offsets], prompting calls to limit the extent they can meet their obligations from that source.

Global warming: the heat’s back on - Telegraph

HFCs, are themselves exceptionally potent greenhouse gases, and their rise threatens to undo all the progress made in tackling global warming so far. Frustratingly, they come under the aegis of the climate talks and so are caught up in the logjam that bedevils those negotiations. More than 100 countries want them to be brought under the Montreal Protocol, which is much more likely to take action – but this is being blocked by India and China, which have large HFC industries, with support from Brazil.

It will come to a head at a Protocol meeting in November. Making the change and controlling HFCs would be the fastest and cheapest available means of mitigating global warming, a fitting way of marking the anniversary of a momentous pact.

But of course: Climatelawyers.com post suggests that climate change caused Yosemite hantavirus outbreak

You Want Hantavirus With That View? Contagion Clouds the Air at Yosemite

You may be saying this is all very interesting, but hardly the subject for a blog about climate change. Well that would be wrong too.

New 4-minute global warming hoax video features music and Bill Nye, then directs us to climatecrisis.net

Symphony of Science - Our Biggest Challenge (Climate Change [Hoax] Music Video) - YouTube

A musical investigation into the causes and effects of global climate change and our opportunities to use science to offset it. Featuring Bill Nye, David Attenborough, Richard Alley and Isaac Asimov. "Our Biggest Challenge" is the 16th episode of the Symphony of Science series by melodysheep.

Another warmist expedition sets off in a 311-foot super icebreaker that can carry four helicopters and 35,000 cubic feet of fuel

High-tech Antarctic research expedition sets sail - ABC Hobart - Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The SIPEX 2 expedition sets sail tonight aboard the Aurora Australis on a seven week scientific journey to measure the effects of climate change on sea-ice floes east of the southern continent.
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SIPEX 2 chief scientist Dr Klaus Meiners will head up a team of 50 scientists from eight countries; Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand and the United States.
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It's hoped the expedition will help fill the gaps in knowledge identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Aurora Australis (icebreaker) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Length: 94.91 m (311.4 ft)...Ice class: LR 1A Super Icebreaker
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1,000 m3 (35,000 cu ft) of supply fuel in tanks
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Aircraft carried: Up to four helicopters

The Truth Behind the Shrinking Arctic Ice Cap — The Patriot Post

Over the past 30 years there has been a rise in the southern ice cap! One would never know it given all the hysteria about the northern ice cap, or some spots on Antarctica being warmer than normal ( it can't be cold everywhere).

I spoke on this matter at the Heartland conference ICCC7. Because the southern hemisphere ice cap is surrounded by ocean, the implication of an expanding southern hemisphere ice cap, even though it appears smaller than the northern shrinkage, is that there is no net change in the overall heat capacity of the entire ocean/air system. This would imply the northern shrinkage is simply a cyclical event.

[Michael Mann uses some of his allegedly precious time to respond to a letter to the editor in Hawaii's "The Garden Island"]

Readers interested in the truth behind the science, rather than the falsehoods and smears perpetuated by dishonest individuals like Mr. Burns, should consult scientist-run websites like www.realclimate.org and www.skepticalscience.com, and scientifically-based books on the topic like my “Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming.”

Twitter / kuminaidoo: It’s nothing short of madness ...

It’s nothing short of madness that oil companies drill for the fossil fuels that got us into this climate change mess in the first place

That confuses me.  If no one drilled for oil, where would we get the diesel to fill up the 508,000-liter fuel tanks on Greenpeace's 163 foot steel luxury yacht?

The Long Hot Summer Of Lies | Real Science

All of these summers were hotter in the US than 2012, according to raw USHCN data.

1936 1934 1901 1988 2006 1900 1933 2011 1931 2010 1952 1937 2002 1943 1921

In order to bring 2012 up near the top, they had to add almost two degrees on to the measured temperatures. The adjustments since the year 2000 have been very impressive, increasing the adjustments by almost a tenth of a degree every year.

Antarctic Ice Shelves In Massive Retreat! | Real Science

[1932]

Clothing Deniers Debunked | Real Science

For centuries it was believed that the Emperor had no clothing, but new research indicates that this was based on the testimony of one small child, who had no background in textiles or even retail clothing sales. He also had no formal education in clothing and had never published anything about fashion in a peer reviewed journal.

Furthermore, it has been discovered that more than 97% of the experts at the time agreed that the emperor had clothing. We can therefor safely conclude that the emperor was well clothed, and that the child was not competent to discuss his wardrobe.

Is The North Pole Going To Melt Entirely? | Real Science

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Catastrophic Warming At The Poles | Real Science

[1947]

TEDxYouth@AntarcticPeninsula - Elin Kelsey on hope and the environment - YouTube

Deeply committed to the marine environment, she works as a consultant and academic and is currently engaged with a coalition of 40 aquariums committed to communicating climate change and the oceans

They’ve Moved On From The Texas Drought! « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Texas has had 26.56 inches of rain since last September, which is just about as average a year as you are likely to get, (high rainfall totals tend to be the result of hurricanes!), while the long term trend is, to all intent, non existent at 0.04 inches/decade. How weird is that, Katharine?

This year, of course, the alarmists have moved onto pastures new. I wonder where they will find some unusual weather next year?

Lewandowsky’s Bodge « the Air Vent

The paper was a blatant political attack to attempt to discredit those who disagree with both Lewandowsky’s childlike economic theory as well as his poor grasp of climate science....due to the leading nature of the non-conspiracy oriented questions, I am certain that I would have dropped the survey part way in simply to avoid supporting the undisguised intent of the questions. In other words, it seems highly unlikely that the survey attracted many thoughtful climate skeptics.

Energy Department Touts Solar Power That Generates 0.14% of Electricity

Guardian article disappears: "Our planet is waving the white flag of surrender. But as the polar flag becomes more tattered, with holes scorched by hotter ocean waters..."

Update 2:  Now it's available at the link below.

It was supposed to be at this link, but I get a" 404 Page not found" error at the moment.

Update 1: At the moment, it's still available here:
=== [By Damian Carrington] The planet’s last great global ice melt left a benign and balmy climate in which civilisation was cradled: the new great melting heralds a grave threat to civilisation...In 2007, a new record was set for the minimum summer sea ice cover in the Arctic had halved. This furious flag waving attracted attention. That year, the world’s scientists declared the end of any doubt that our addiction to burning fossil fuels was changing the face of the planet...This new great melting heralds the polar opposite: the gravest of threats to civilisation...Decades from now, will today’s record sea ice low be seen as the moment when our Earthly paradise gave up the ghost and entered a hellish new era? I sincerely hope not, but with this global distress signal failing to attract attention, I fear the worst.

Smithsonian Goes Full Stupid On Global Warming | Real Science

2012 is shaping up to be one of the coolest years of the last fifteen. Are newspapers obliged to lie?

Snowstorms and Climate Change . . . On Mars | Climate Central

now researchers have used NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite to make two key discoveries about how those ice caps grow and shrink.

Were 2009 and 2010 The Warmest Years In India Since 1901? By S. Raghavan | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

the likely errors in the data could be larger than the “expected” warming due to any climate change

Arctic Sea Ice Melt Means A Bad Winter - Business Insider

This was seen in meteorological data from the years 1989-2011: Researchers linked the amount of sea ice in the late summer to longer cold snaps in the winter

Wait, so now colder winters are "bad"? So we don't hope for bitter cold to kill the pine beetles anymore?  Are we no longer suggesting that ski resorts are a critical factor in the economic health of this country?  If this year's winter is colder than normal, doesn't that reduce my chances of getting dengue fever?

Warmist "The Arctic is screaming" Serreze: Polar ice experts "thought that it would be many years until we again saw anything like we saw in 2007"

So when he told us that the ice was screaming and in a death spiral, he actually thought that it would be years before we would see lows anything like the 2007 low? 

Arctic sea ice melt 'may bring harsh winter to Europe' | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Polar ice experts "thought that it would be many years until we again saw anything like we saw in 2007", said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado.
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"We've only had a little bit of global warming so far," Overland said.

2010: Climate hoax promoter Mark Serreze: Arctic ice wasn't in a death spiral, then it WAS in a death spiral, then it WASN'T in a death spiral, now it's again in a death spiral

Even within Mark Serreze's own head, is there any consensus?

Flashback: Check out this 1993 paper--with Mark Serreze's name on it

In particular, we do not observe the large surface warming trends predicted by models; indeed, we detect significant surface cooling trends over the western Arctic Ocean during winter and autumn. This discrepancy suggests that present climate models do not adequately incorporate the physical processes that affect the polar regions.

2008: North Pole may have no ice this summer: US expert

"We could have no ice at the North Pole at the end of this summer," Mark Serreze, a scientist with the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, told AFP in an interview.

"And the reason here is that the North Pole area right now is covered with very thin ice and this ice we call first-year ice, the ice that tends to melt out in the summer."

If the ice, albeit briefly, were to break up completely this summer it would be the first time this had happened in human history.

Serreze put the chances of this occurring at 50 percent -- if it does happen, in September "it's possible" that ships could sail from Alaska right to the North Pole.

April 2012: Mark Serreze – The Skeptic | Real Science

Twenty years ago today, Mark Serreze was still a serious scientist.

University of Colorado researcher Mark Serreze has found no evidence that Earth is suffering from the greenhouse effect.

Feb 2010: Snow Storms: Politics, Science Collide Over Climate Change - ABC News

"This conflation of weather and global climate is a classic ploy by skeptics," said Mark Serreze, a professor at the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center.

"Mother Nature doesn't care about whether you speak in loud voices, or what your political affiliation is. It just does its thing. There is always variability in weather. It's all in the science," he said.

Harvard University paper: Crime decreases when it's uncomfortably cold enough to dissuade people from spending much time outside?

Does global warming increase violent crime? Here's someone who says so. – Telegraph Blogs

He found “a striking relationship between monthly weather patterns and crime rates”, with murders, rapes, assaults and similar crimes increasing in step with temperature. Property crimes, like burglary and larceny, similarly increase as it gets warmer, but only up to the modest level of 40 degrees Fahrenheit, after which the rising thermometer has little effect...violent crime has been decreasing for decades in the US even as global warming has begun to take hold.

UK will lose influence at UNFCCC if it fails to be honest over ambition | RTCC - Responding to Climate Change

Remember two degrees is what scientists deem as ‘safe’. The science is clear, the required policies are clear – but the British government’s position is as clear as mud.

House Republicans scrub climate change concerns from EPA bill - The Hill's E2-Wire

The latest House bill aimed at thwarting climate change regulations drops previous language that acknowledged scientific concerns about global warming and evidence of rising temperatures and sea levels.

Unfair fight: Polar bears battle for food

Bullock believes that thanks to global warming, there isn't enough ice for the bears to fish from

Climate Conversation Group » Sherpas sick of ‘climate change’

The Mount Everest region’s Sherpas have said they are angry at the way studies of glaciers and glacial lakes have been conducted in recent years.

They say the studies do not involve them and that results are often spread through alarmist media reports that cause panic among locals in the area.

- Bishop Hill blog - More evidence that the IPCC is a busted flush

I think it's fair to say that they have an almost comical inability to admit error.

I've gone on the record before as saying that the Fifth Assessment Report is dead in the water already.

It looks like I was right.

A Veteran TV Reporter on ‘Junk Journalism,’ Climate as ‘Too Big to Cover’ | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

It’s not often that a television news reporter gets 2,300 words to tell a story about climate change. Not often as in, like, never … just doesn’t happen.

For veteran ABC correspondent Bill Blakemore, who in recent years had become one of network television’s most ardent watchers of all-things-climate-change, the opportunity arose not on the air but rather on an ABC “Nature’s Edge” blog posting.

Al Jazeera: "Noah didn't have the overwhelming consensus of climate scientists that we have today"

Hurricane season reveals economic perils of ignoring climate predictions - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

The correlation between warming surface waters and tropical cyclone intensity has been scientifically verified. While it's unclear if climate change is causing an uptick in natural disasters, we cannot deny that the percentage of Category 4 and 5 hurricanes has increased since the 1980s. In that same period, sea levels have risen and by some estimates, they have been since 1880. Human activities such as burning fossil fuels and clearing forests release excessive carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, and incontrovertible evidence shows that in the past 50 years, over 90 per cent of this warming has gone into our oceans.
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Humans have failed to prepare for climate crises since the time of Noah, but Noah didn't have the overwhelming consensus of climate scientists that we have today.

Warmist L.A. mayor Villaraigosa: "The mayors are elbowing each other to see who can do the most on climate change"

L.A.’s Villaraigosa, self-proclaimed ‘greenest mayor’ in America, talks election, climate, and bikes | Grist

The national leaders were elbowing each other to see who could do the least and who is most to blame on climate change. The mayors are elbowing each other to see who can do the most on climate change.
...All told, we’re conserving 19 times the energy that we used to...In the San Fernando Valley, we’re gonna triple the number of extremely hot days. In the San Bernardino/Riverside area, we’re gonna quadruple the number of extremely hot days.

Met Office better placed to predict 'big freezes' - Telegraph

Predicting a “mild winter” before the harshest conditions in 30 years was hardly the Met Office’s proudest moment.

Fossil Fuel Industry Opens Wallet to Defeat Obama - NYTimes.com

WASHINGTON — When Barack Obama first ran for president, being green was so popular that oil companies like Chevron were boasting about their commitment to renewable energy, and his Republican opponent, John McCain, supported action on global warming.
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The lopsided nature of the energy messages this year contrasts sharply with 2008. Back then, global warming was a top public concern, and green ads greatly outnumbered those for fossil fuels, $152 million to $109 million, according to the analysis by The Times, which looked at 184 energy-related ads. In 2008, Chevron, one of the nation’s leading oil companies, trumpeted its investments in geothermal power, and Mr. McCain spent millions of dollars on ads featuring solar panels and wind farms as part of a solution to global warming.
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Energy first emerged as a major advertising topic during the last presidential election. Back then, one of the biggest spenders was the Alliance for Climate Protection, an environmental group backed by former Vice President Al Gore that spent an estimated $32 million on ads urging legislation to combat global warming.

This year, the alliance, now called the Climate Reality Project, is not buying television ads at all, focusing instead on social media, training and organizing. “Whatever we would spend, it would just be washed away in this sea of fossil fuel money,” said Maggie L. Fox, the group’s chief executive.

IPCC Refuses to Correct Errors « Climate Audit

Pielke Jr has an interesting post about more IPCC nonsense. He made four proposed error corrections to IPCC, all of which were refused. Which is the worst refusal is a bit of a beauty contest.

On balance, I think that my favorite is their reason for refusing to correct an inaccuracy in an IPCC press release. Their reason:

The January 25, 2010 IPCC statement is not part of an IPCC report, and the error correction protocol is therefore not relevant

IPCC Refuses to Correct Errors « Climate Audit

[comment] Its a political body whose very existence requires the AGW scare , here it just acting in that role .
I wonder having any ‘errors’ ever been seen which don’t support AGW ?

Children won't know what sheep look like: Thousands of sheep buried alive in early September snow in Iceland

Winter Strikes (ESA) - Iceland Review Online

Snow in North Iceland in early September is not unheard of but snowfall of two to three meters overnight at this time of year—when the sheep are still in highland pastures—is highly unusual.
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Snowbound commuters is serious but thousands of sheep buried alive in snowdrifts is nothing short of disastrous.

Farmers in North Iceland, who may be looking at losing their entire livestock, aided by search and rescue workers and other volunteers, have trekked the mountains in difficult conditions day after day to rescue the trapped sheep.

Armed with long sticks as used to look for people buried in avalanches, they have succeeded in finding hundreds of sheep. Although not all have survived, most of these amazingly hardy creatures were alive after days in icy graves.
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Farmers say they have never experienced anything like this in their lifetime and hope they never will again.

An Argument Over Wind - NYTimes.com

The association says that if the tax credit expires, some 17,000 jobs will be eliminated next year and that deliveries of new turbines will spiral to zero.

Ross McKitrick And German Professor In Berlin To Present Mann’s Hockey Stick, GISS Temperature Alterations

Twitter / Revkin: The @IPCC_ch comes off terribly ...

The @IPCC_ch comes off terribly in replies to @RogerPielkeJr critique of its findings on disaster & climate: http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2012/09/ipcc-sinks-to-new-low.html … #agw

Vineyards escape frost damage | Stuff.co.nz

Omaka-based Windhawk Helicopters' owner Ben Barnett said five helicopters were dispatched to work on vineyards between Waihopai Valley and Spring Creek in the early hours of Wednesday and Thursday.

The company was typically busy with frost protection during the last week of September or the first week of October, so the frosts had come a couple of weeks earlier than usual, he said.

A psychologist who appears to know nothing about science

I spent 20 years getting 200+ papers published in the academic journals which pointed out how unscientific existing psychological research was so I am not too surprised by Stephan Lewandowsky -- who as well as being an academic psychologist is also a frantic Warmist.

He has a track record of "psychologizing" climate skeptics. That you have to be psychologically defective to reject warming is his theme. Leftist psychologists have been doing much the same for at least 6 decades to my knowledge but their only real success would appear to have been in convincing one-another. It makes their little bubble-world more comfortable to believe such things

Can Windpower Grow Without the PTC? — MasterResource

Wind proponents cite their industry as one of the fastest growing sectors of the American economy, having doubled U.S. nameplate capacity since 2008. But let’s be clear: that recent growth is largely due to the massive infusion of public cash lavished on big wind under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), which is anticipated to pay out $22.6 billion in direct grants with 85% claimed by wind.

IPCC: 'an embarrassment to science' | Australian Climate Madness

Not only is it an organisation that was established specifically to find evidence to prop up a conclusion already reached (namely that CO2 emissions will cause dangerous climate change), but it is riddled with environmental activism posing as science. Grey literature? Just fine - as long as it supports the Cause, of course.

Dutch greens destroyed | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Climate Skeptics Forget the Obvious Intent of the Website SkepticalScience | Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations

…it’s their idea of comedy.

Lewandowsky gets $1.7m of taxpayer funds to denigrate people who disagree with him « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

The New Nostradamus of the North: German farmers welcome climate change: Harvests to increase by 40%

Germany's National Meteorological Service (DWD) and the
German Farmers´Association (DBV) have just published new research which shows that a warmer climate could increase harvests by up to 40%. An earlier start of the growth season makes it possible to enjoy a second harvest. In addition, it will be possible to introduce new varieties of plants. The DBV is particularly looking forward to an increase in the maize production. Also soya, millet and sugar beet harvests will benefit from a warmer climate.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds Sweden experienced more extreme weather from the 1600's to 1800's than the 20th century

A paper published today in The International Journal of Climatology reconstructs drought conditions in SE Sweden from 1650 to 2002. The authors find that the most extreme drought conditions over the entire 352 year record occurred in the 1660's–1720's, 1800-early 1830's, and in the 1840's–50's. The authors also find the most extreme rainy period took place in the mid-1720's and lasted over 50 years. A graph [below] from the same authors in a prior paper shows a reconstructed drought index in SW and NE Sweden with much more variability of precipitation in the 1700's and 1800's than during the 20th century. Once again, the paleoclimate record proves, contrary to claims of climate alarmists, that there is nothing unprecedented nor remarkable about 20th century extreme weather.

Bummer: Carbon dioxide is allegedly killing large numbers of African lions

Photo of the week #34 – Climate change could threaten the African Lion | RTCC - Responding to Climate Change

It’s one of Africa’s most iconic predators, but even the lion will not be spared the impacts of a warming world.
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The perfect storm of extreme drought followed by heavy seasonal rains is said to have set up the conditions for two diseases – both of which are regularly survived when occurring in isolation – to converge, killing large numbers of the animal.

2005:  Over population forces lion culling | GulfNews.com

The reserves say they have no choice but to kill healthy animals as numbers have grown beyond capacity - and they cannot sell them as there are too many on the market.
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In their natural state, numbers are kept down by the arrival of a new dominant male from outside, which asserts itself by killing the pride leader and all of its offspring.

Skeptical Science author John Hartz on the death of father of four Andrew Breitbart: "Ding dong, the witch is dead"

Popular Technology.net: Skeptical Science: "Ding dong, the witch is dead"

Ding dong, the witch is dead..." - John Hartz [Skeptical Science], March 2, 2012

Articles by SkS author John Hartz

Environmental activist living in Columbia, South Carolina, USA

Andrew Breitbart: 'They couldn't revive him,' father-in-law says - latimes.com

Breitbart is survived by his wife, four children, Samson, 12; Mia, 10; Charlie, 6; and William, 4

Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked – hundreds of files released | Watts Up With That?

[Warmist Phil Jones on the death of John L. Daly] In an odd way this is cheering news !

Gore offers Europe's worst cold snap in a quarter century as global warming evidence

Al's Journal : Timeline of Extreme Weather

In the past half-year alone, millions of people have been affected across the globe – from Europe suffering from the worst cold snap in a quarter century...

Settled science: Hot water obviously can't freeze faster than cold water?

'Horse sh*t!' Declares Climatologist Dr. Patrick Michaels as he shreds claims made by some scientists that 'Arctic Ice Melt Could Mean More Extreme Winters For U.S. And Europe.” | Climate Depot

If you believe that warming causes cold, you're like my neighbors back in Virginia who believed that putting hot water in the ice cube tray results in faster freezing.

Like I said, Horse sh*t.”

Flashback: Why does hot water sometimes freeze faster than cold water? | Brian Emsley | Science | guardian.co.uk

The Royal Society of Chemistry is offering a £1,000 prize to anyone who can crack this age-old ice puzzle
...The moon has been walked upon, Mars has been explored, hearts transplanted – but that old chestnut of ice and hot water still baffles humankind.

Shock: Wind turbine project was supposed to be profitable, but it's not

Electricity rate among highest in state

In 2011, Princeton residents’ electric rates were 36 percent higher than the average rate in Massachusetts. The average PMLD customer using approximately 800 kilowatts per hour of energy a month paid $516 more for electricity in 2011 than the average Massachusetts customer paid.

In 2011, the wind turbine project lost $628,000. From Jan. 1, 2010 through June 20, 2012, the wind turbine project has lost $1,875,000. That is after credits for renewable energy production.

Original projections for the wind turbine project showed that Princeton residents would receive a financial advantage, wrote Allen. “In fact, Princeton residents have suffered a financial loss. The original projections overstated both the kilowatt hours produced, as well as the price of electricity and understated the expenses associated with the project.
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Allen expects the wind turbine losses to continue at the rate of approximately $600,000 a year, assuming current wholesale electricity rates, no need for extraordinary repair and that both wind turbines continue operating. If any major repairs are needed that would mean additional expense. The original warranties on the turbines have expired and extended warranty options are not available.  [Hat tip:  JP]

Wait, what?: Did burning fossil fuels cause a relative lull in hurricane activity?

If so, don't the people of Bangladesh owe reparations to Americans for all those hurricane-preventing aerosols we produced during the Carter administration?

Are hurricanes linked to global warming? | MNN - Mother Nature Network

"It's possible that aerosols over the Atlantic have caused some changes in hurricane activity over time, and I'm thinking specifically of the relative lull in activity in the 1970s and '80s," Knutson tells MNN. "That's an example of a possible anthropogenic effect on hurricane climate activity, but not strictly a long-term trend like you'd expect from the effect of greenhouse gases. There are some preliminary indications that aerosol forcing may have caused that temporary reduction."

That leads some skeptics to argue the past decade's hurricane flurry is just a rebound from this lull, but Knutson says there's little evidence of that, either.

2004:  Burning Fossil Fuels Has A Measurable Cooling Effect On The Climate

Most evidence that increased levels of fossil fuel particles (aerosols) affects the reflectivity of clouds, thereby producing a cooling effect on the climate, has been indirect. "This made it difficult to determine the impact this phenomena, known as the indirect aerosol effect, has on the global climate," Penner said. "Our data makes the direct connection and opens new areas of study."

New Study Shows How Fast Ice Sheets Can Change | Climate Central

a new paper released Thursday in Science says that ice can respond a lot faster than anyone had thought.

During a very brief episode of cooling that happened about 8,200 years ago, glaciers spread across Baffin Island, in the Canadian Arctic, at an almost astonishing pace, said the authors.

DEFRA Reluctant To Reduce Premature Deaths « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

So at the top end of their projections, climate change could result in 18100 less premature deaths. (These figures, incidentally, do not take account of deaths due to traffic and other accidents – milder weather in winter would be expected to lead to many less traffic related fatalities).

And they are trying to stop this happening?

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: The IPCC Sinks to a New Low

Not that the IPCC has shown a commitment to accuracy, but here it relies on a bureaucratic dodge to ignore the false information it put out via press reslease. Not good.

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: If I ever thought that the ...

If I ever thought that the IPCC was capable of reform, I no longer do, it is an embarrassment to science http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2012/09/ipcc-sinks-to-new-low.html …

Warmist Gwynne Dyer gets all excited about a number that Phil Jones said was "plucked out of thin air"; he also compares trace amounts of CO2 to Hitler, his allies, and their armies

Planet could be in 'enormous trouble': Dyer

He said that if the average temperature on the planet increases by just two degrees (Celsius) due to global warming "all hell could break loose" and the impacts may be irreversible.
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"It's a fact that every generation faces challenges," Dyer said to the students.

"The older generations had World War II and the Cold War and the challenge for your generation is climate change."

Climategate 2.0: Jones says 2-degree C limit ‘plucked out of thin air’ | JunkScience.com

USA Today: "Global warming will be a fait accompli in 30 years, and so these urban Americans will raise their own food"

City living will feel like a blast from the past – USATODAY.com

SEASIDE, Fla. -- In the next American metropolis, people will live in smaller homes, relax in smaller yards, park their smaller cars in smaller spots. They will be closer to work, to play and, above all, to one another.

Global warming will be a fait accompli in 30 years, and so these urban Americans will raise their own food, in fields and on rooftops, and build structures to withstand everything from hurricane winds to Formosan termites.
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Twenty minutes east of Seaside on the Gulf Coast is a striking sight: a development, unfinished because of the economic collapse, where all the buildings, including the cement tile roofs, are painted stark white to reflect sunlight. They're made of concrete and steel to resist hurricane winds and "super-termites" that may arrive as the climate changes.

By 2015, you could own an electric Batmobile | Grist

After a long dinner and much wine with my new engineer friends from Honda, one of them leaned in and said, “I have worked on every kind of fuel technology for cars,” he said. “And I am convinced that combustion engines work best.”

Back and forth: Glaciers in the East of the Himalayas are shrinking - but those in the West are growing | Mail Online

The eastern Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau are warming, and the trend is more pronounced at higher elevations. Models suggest that desert dust and black carbon, a component of soot, could contribute to the rapid atmospheric warming, accelerated snowpack melting, and glacier retreat.

IEA: Shale Glut May Kill Green Subsidies | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

Reuters: A new “golden age of gas” could derail global efforts to fight climate change as indebted governments mull a switch to the cheaper fuel, the International Energy Agency’s chief economist said on Thursday.

Europe Hates Green Energy (When It’s From Other Countries) | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

The ongoing sparring between Argentina and the EU over trade reached new heights last month, with Buenos Aires filing a WTO complaint against Brussels regarding Spain’s alleged discrimination against imports of biodiesel originating from the South American nation. Already-produced biofuels are, in effect, blocked from entering the European market.

Obtuse deniers of climate change (1): Doug Craig's blog

I recognize lazy when I see it. I go to a lot of trouble to provide the links to every single one of my scientific sources but the deniers act as if they don't know how to click on the links. In their replies, they often angrily demand to know where I get my information. And then Randy or Renewable Guy will kindly and patiently do the deniers' work for them. Kind of like a sweet kindergarten teacher tying a child's shoelaces as they stand there crying, even though they could do it themselves.

Settled science: Remember when another Ice Age was allegedly starting in the 1970s? Now we're allegedly still 50,000 years away from the next Ice Age

COVER STORY - Climate Change - How climate change could upend the Inland Northwest

Henning, who teaches global warming ethics, says Americans would need to cut between 60 percent and 80 percent of greenhouse gases to stave off catastrophe (species going extinct, global populations being displaced).
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Several factors have been discarded as plausible theories, according to [Gonzaga University Associate Professor Brian Henning]. The changes can’t be coming from the sun, because given its current activity, we’d be getting cooler. And it can’t be from the planetary cycles that cause ice ages and warming periods, because we’re still 50,000 years away from another ice age, he says.

TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Another Ice Age? -- Jun. 24, 1974

when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest.Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.

Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds —the so-called circumpolar vortex—that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought.

California Emitters May Run Short of CO2 Offsets: Camco - Bloomberg

Credits for the state’s market from agricultural methane- cutting projects have surged 27 percent to $8.88 a metric ton since the end of June, according to prices from Karbone Inc., a New York broker. That’s near their average $8.85 a ton in the past year. California allowances for December 2013 slipped 4.3 percent to $16.50 a metric ton since June 30.

Blog: Taxing Mothers' Milk and Our Daily Bread

Two lies are used to promote the world's highest carbon tax - the lie that carbon dioxide is "pollution" and the lie claiming that Australians are "the world's biggest carbon polluters".

Obama, Despite Contrary Evidence, Says Climate Change Is Not A Hoax - Investors.com

Science: The president who said he'd slow the ocean's rise says voters can regulate the weather and stop droughts, floods, wildfires and hurricanes by backing his re-election. Never mind wrecking the economy in the process.

Global Warming Alarmists Seek More Power, Not Emissions Reductions - Forbes

As U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to decline, one would think global warming alarmists would celebrate the ongoing achievement. Instead, alarmists are ramping up their vitriol. The alarmists’ increasing vitriol reveals that for many alarmists, the true goal is not a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, but instead a transfer of wealth and power from individuals to government.

Arctic Ice Melt Could Mean More Extreme Winters For U.S. And Europe

Francis’ work has linked Arctic warming to the unusually cold and snowy winters of 2009-10 and 2010-11, during which the U.S. East Coast and parts of Europe were pummeled by fierce winter storms and experienced cooler-than-average conditions. The winter of 2011-12 was much milder, by comparison, but Francis said it, too, was consistent with her research. Not all meteorologists agree on the Arctic connection theory, but that may change with time.

The Farm Bill Should Help the Planet, Not Just Crops - NYTimes.com

The proposed farm bill — Senate- or House-style, take your pick — would make American agriculture’s climate problem worse, in two ways.

[EU Climate Hoax Commissioner Connie Hedegaard]: Climate Change - Our Common Challenge, Our Common Opportunity

The world also badly needs a new global, legally binding agreement to accelerate cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions. Last year, at the Durban climate talks, it was agreed that such a deal would be finalised by 2015, to take effect by 2020.

We must now start fleshing out this future global climate regime. We have no more time to lose, if we do not want to further reduce the chances to keep global warming below the dangerous ceiling of 2°C.

Twitter / PaulREhrlich: [Children won't *not* know what snow is]

#climate. Don't be surprised if "global warming produces heavy snow this winter." http://www.climatecentral.org/news/astonishing-arctic-sea-ice-melt-may-lead-to-extreme-winter-weather-14989 …

EPA Gives Grants To China, Closes US Coal Plants - Short Video

Rep. Morgan Griffith Questions EPA About Grants to China for Coal Production