Afternoon Invocation | Real Science

Always remember the CO2 commandments – carved in ice.

A record Arctic minimum is proof of global warming
A record high Antarctic maximum is none of your business
Whatever the current weather is, we predicted it all along
Snow is a thing of the past
The record low Arctic minimum means lots of snow
The southern hemisphere is filled with savages and is none of your business
Hot weather is climate
Cold weather is none of your business
Global cooling causes extreme weather
Global warming causes extreme weather

The bonus commandment for NOAA – adjust the numbers as much as needed

Shock News : Australian Climate Change Has Nothing To With Your SUV | Real Science

Apparently it is too much to expect that climate experts might actually know something about climate.

Climate hoax promoter Gavin Schmidt takes fossil-fueled trip to Kentucky for NASA-funded climate hoax symposium; suggests that CO2 might cause temperatures to rise 10 degrees in the next 88 years

Computer models help scientists make sense of complex climate | The Courier-Journal | courier-journal.com

Computer models show Kentucky and Indiana by 2100 might be about 10 degrees warmer, assuming nothing is done to slow the burning of fossil fuels and other human causes of climate change, a NASA climate scientist told a Bellarmine University audience on Saturday.

Northern regions of the globe would warm even more, said Gavin Schmidt, the keynote speaker at a day-long climate science symposium hosted by Bellarmine University’s Center for Regional Environmental Studies.

“That would be a whole ’nother world,” Schmidt said. “That’s a very, very large change.”
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More than 100 people attended the symposium, which funded by a grant from NASA.

Democratic campaign committee offers you a chance to win a completely unnecessary fossil-fueled trip to have lunch with warmists Gore and Pelosi!

Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi Lunch Offered As Prize To Democratic Donors

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced Saturday that people who donate money to it could win a free trip to New York City, and lunch with Gore and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

"Vice President Al Gore is joining me for lunch in New York ... Will you join us?" Pelosi says in the DCCC email. "We’ll cover hotel and travel for you and a friend. You just have to figure out who you will bring!"

Climate change denial and the abuse of peer review - YouTube

Professor Stephan Lewandowsky discusses the tactics of climate change deniers.

GM discounts Volt, showing that electric cars must be cheaper for people to buy them | StarTribune.com

GM executives have conceded from the start that they were losing money on the Volt, and that was before the big discounts.

Now the losses could be even higher. It costs $60,000 to $75,000 to build a Volt, including development, manufacturing and raw materials, estimates Sandy Munro, president of Munro & Associates, a Troy, Mich., a company that analyzes vehicle production expenses for automakers. Much of the cost comes from an expensive combination of two power systems — electric and gasoline. With a sticker price of $40,000, minus the $10,000 the company pays in incentives, GM gets roughly $30,000 for every Volt. So it could be losing at least $30,000 per car.

Twitter / MCNisbet: Nice round up by Deb Blum on ...

Nice round up by Deb Blum on scientists using embargo strategy to drive narrative and then activists taking up effort: http://ksj.mit.edu/tracker/2012/09/rancid-corrupt-way-report-about-science …

In case you missed it: In 2009, policy-neutral "Rajendra Pachauri on behalf of the IPCC" signed a remarkable warmist memorandum calling for "an effective and just global agreement on climate change"

May 2009: St. James's Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium — Nobel Cause Symposium

As in Potsdam, the Symposium concluded with a memorandum – the St. James’s Palace Memorandum – that has now been signed by 60 Nobel Laureates with Prizes in Chemistry, Economics, Literature, Medicine, Peace and Physics (list of signatories).

Gore's Climate Reality: Overuse of fossil-fueled vehicles may cause people to take less unnecessary trips to view leaves from their fossil-fueled vehicles

Twitter / ClimateReality: Climate change may put a damper ...

Climate change may put a damper on fall foliage--and the flow of tourism money into local economies http://ow.ly/dRwks

Preventing CO2-induced bad weather can be a little inconvenient: "When there are no spaces and no available plugs, she said, she takes her car to the nearest Nissan dealership and leaves it there to charge"

The Etiquette of Electric Car Ownership - NYTimes.com

5 UNL scientists seek steps on climate change - Omaha.com

“The scientific community is behind this. It's not some random couple of people thinking about climate change,” Rowe said.
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“The time for debate is over. The time for action is here,” the statement concludes.

While climate change is politically polarizing, those interviewed said they don't see their statement as a political act.

“I see this as a scientific statement,” said Shulski, who teaches a class at UNL on climate change. “My job as a scientist is to see what the data show. So I view this as a chance to let the community know what I see as a scientist.”

Workshop on attribution of extreme events | Climate Etc.

extreme event attribution is at the heart of the ‘climate service’ concept

World Climate Report » Agriculture: Tropical Cyclones are Welcome Visitors

tropical cyclones often deliver widespread drought-busting rainfall during the crucial late-summer period when field crops are maturing

Matt Ridley on Global Warming and Sea Ice | Mind & Matter - WSJ.com

In the Holocene Optimum there was no collapse of the polar-bear population or "point of no return."

PBS Ombudsman | Climate Etc.

IMO, Watts handled himself very well in the on-air interview and also in the extended written interview. Nothing that he said was unreasonable. It is rather bizarre that on this particular show, I came across as the ‘denier’ and Watts as the ‘lukewarmer.’
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The outrage over Watts seems to be not so much what he said, as over his being given any airtime at all. On a program discussing climate science, is Watts the appropriate spokesperson? I would say not. However, on a program discussing the public debate over climate science, Watts should be front and center. His blog WUWT has far and away the largest traffic of any climate blog in the world (as per Alexa). As such, Watts is a figure of central importance in the public debate on climate change. To those who don’t like this fact, I advise you to take the time to understand why WUWT is so successful and maybe you will learn something about the public debate on climate change.

Veracity Free Discussion Of Sea Ice | Real Science

Mark Serreze explains how an upwards trend is actually a slow downwards trend.
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This is complete bullshit. In 2007, EPA published this Hansen map predicting peak ice loss in the southern hemisphere.

Chavez's Electric Power Problem - NYTimes.com

If you want to know why, despite committed followers and a fast-growing economy, Hugo Chávez faces real competition in Venezuela’s Oct. 7 presidential election, just flick a switch. Something may or may not happen; it’s hard to predict.

Blackouts occur in nearly every area of the country several times a week. Sometimes they last a few minutes, sometimes a few hours, sometimes a few days. It drives people crazy. Last May, a power shortage hit right in the middle of the Venezuelan basketball league’s final series.

Flashback: Hugo Chavez gets thunderous ovation in Copenhagen with anti-capitalism remarks

There is an old proverb that says you can tell a lot about a person by the people they associate with. This has never been more apparent than at the Copenhagen climate summit. There, dictator Hugo Chavez got several standing ovations for attacking capitalism and wealthy nations. During his speech he said, "our revolution seeks to help all people…socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that's the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell....let's fight against capitalism and make it obey us." That comment nearly brought down the house, but what would you expect from a bunch of people who believe in climate change theories that have been fabricated for decades?

Polar sea ice could set ANOTHER record this year • The Register

The world's media is extremely excited at the thirty-year record low extent of sea ice at the North Pole which occurred just days ago: but almost nobody is reporting on the fact that something almost equally unusual is going on down around the coasts of Antarctica.

NOAA Becomes Veracity Free | Real Science

In line with the veracity-free Obama White House philosophy, NOAA has taken climate fraud to new levels this year. They added three degrees on to YTD temperatures (relative to 100 years ago) to get 2012 up to the #1 spot.

How the NSF allocates billions of federal dollars to top universities by Lee Drutman | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

The entire article with the tables is very worth reading.

Survey participation invited: Does fear of CO2 cause extreme voting? « The View From Here

...inspired by Lewandowsky’s (highly unscientific) survey techniques …

I invite you to step outside the earth bound voting booth and imagine a virtual constituency for which an election is pending. Your slate of candidates is limited to James Delingpole and Andrew Weaver. But – unlike any other pre-election poll in which I’ve ever been asked to participate – you may also choose “neither”. Please select the option that most closely resembles your views.

Global Warming and Shrinking Manhood - By Mark Steyn - The Corner - National Review Online

Readers have asked me for an update on climate scientist Michael Mann’s threatened lawsuit against National Review for mocking his hockey stick.

I don’t really have anything new to report on that front, but I heard Rush mention this story the other day – CBS News, in an alarming story headlined “Male Genitalia Shrinking“, is reporting that global warming may be responsible for a ten per cent reduction in male private parts over the last fifty years.

Are we all OK with left-wing Alliance for Climate Education assemblies in our high schools, with the express purpose of generating votes for left-wing climate hoax "solutions"?

The Journey From High Schoolers To Climate Leaders In Two Semesters Or Less | ThinkProgress

...as we, the Alliance for Climate Education (ACE), start back up, we’re getting climate change to top of mind, too.

Since 2009, we’ve been working with high schoolers – with an assembly, student action programs and leadership trainings – in climate science and solutions. We’ve reached more than a million high schoolers and seen the first of this generation of leaders step up to tackle some issues that people twice their age are intimidated by.
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They’re vocal. They’re influential. And, they’re able to vote for the first time in the next four years — some are getting ready for their first election in less than 50 days. Victories such as California’s Prop 23 movement and local coal plant closures are rooted in young, diverse audiences caring and being connected. So we want to make sure that there’s a steady stream of young, diverse audiences engaged on the solutions to climate change.

About ACE | ACE

ACE educators present climate science that resonates with students via an award-winning in-school assembly that blends storytelling, cutting edge animation, music and video...

When the ACE Assembly ends, many students are ready and eager to take action, and our Student Action Programs help get them started.

'Imagine there's no shale gas…' – Telegraph Blogs

how good John Lennon must be feeling right now as he looks down from his heavenly cloud to observe his caterwauling beloved and their ubertalented progeny Sean Ono Lennon carrying on the fight against the Evil Cheap And Abundant Energy Menace They Call Shale Gas.

Solar Influence On Winter Severity In Central Europe, Dispels Junk Claim A Warm Arctic Causes Cold Winters

We’ve been hearing a lot of bogus “model science” asking us to believe the preposterous notion that a warm Arctic and reduced sea ice there “could” lead to bitter cold winters across Europe and North America. In summary the new science insists warming leads to more cold. Now there’s a new paper out in the Geophysical Research Letters titled: Solar influence on winter severity in Central Europe, which tells us this is a load of BS.

Arctic IcePack to be back to normal in December | Climate Realists

I noticed yesterday that the Arctic Sea Ice Extent Is Increasing at very fast rate, my take on this is that the overall impact from the large area of the broken icepack from the "massive cyclone that blew over the central Arctic Ocean" during August, looks to be coming to a very fast (maybe a record) end.

Fruit flies at boiling point

IN A world first, researchers have shown that many species of fruit fly won't survive even a modest increase in temperature. Many are close to or beyond their temperature safety margin - and very few have the genetic ability to adapt to climate change.
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The research - published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Monash University, the University of Melbourne and Danish collaborators - is part of an ongoing project to identify signatures of extinction risk, at the genetic level. This will indicate what life forms will be the first-stage losers in a climate of greater extremes - heat, cold and dryness.
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Vanessa Kellerman, of Monash University's Molecular Ecology Research Group, said the scientists looked at the heat resistance of 100 different species of fruit flies. ''This involved putting them in a water bath and slowly ramping up the water temperature over a three- or four-hour period until they started literally falling over.''

7 Things You Can’t Say in Canada | Reader's Digest

From global warming to farmed salmon and genetically modified crops, David Suzuki has just one message: The End is Nigh.

He is our homegrown prophet of doom who preaches the essential wickedness of the human race. Like a modern Savonarola, he warns that unless we cast our material possessions into the bonfire, we’re all going to hell.

The trouble with this apocalyptic vision is that people are starting to tune out. [Via Hilary Ostrov]

Twitter / JoanneNova: Big Sigh. Site hacked again? ...

Big Sigh. Site hacked again? No details, so I cannot confirm. But on the plus side, we are moving. I will update as news comes. Sorry. Jo

- Bishop Hill blog - Lean over the top

Geoffrey Lean's latest article has an air of panic about it as it becomes increasingly clear that his battle to prevent the shale gas revolution is being lost. Accusing the Conservatives of insanity, he goes on to launch a barrage of disinformation on the new energy source

Coal Era Beckons for Europe as Carbon Giveaway Finishes - Bloomberg

European utilities are poised to add more coal-fired power capacity than natural gas in the next four years, boosting emissions just as the era of free carbon permits ends.

Hollande Faces Defeat on Energy Price Caps as Gas Suppliers Sue - Bloomberg

French President Francois Hollande has made capping energy prices a centrepiece policy to help households pressed by stagnant economic growth. It’s a campaign he’s likely to lose.

Freezing temperatures expected Saturday night for most of Iowa | Des Moines Register Staff Blogs

Nearly all of Iowa will be under a freeze watch Saturday night through Sunday morning, when temperatures are expected to fall to near-record-low readings, according to the National Weather Service.

The first freeze in Des Moines typically falls around Oct. 14. But the record low for this weekend in September is 31 degrees.

Indian municipalities lack understanding of effect of climate change

In fact, as per Dr Mutz, in the whole of India, only 3-5 percent municipalities are aware of the impact of climate change to municipal infrastructure.

Zero Recalls Electric Motorcycles that May Stall in Traffic - Driver's Seat - WSJ

If the signal drifts outside of certain parameters, the motor controller may shut off, causing the motorcycle to lose power unexpectedly. A sudden loss of power can increase the risk of a crash.

Hottest year ever update: Duluth gets early snow

Snow already? Duluth gets light dusting overnight | kare11.com

DULUTH, Minn. - Duluth residents have already gotten their first dusting of snow of the season. It's the area's earliest measurable snowfall in 17 years.
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The last time the area got snow this early in the year was in 1995. The average date by which Duluth gets its first measurable snow is Oct. 24.

Another Spectacular Green Failure | Via Meadia

Greens have an odd knack for developing useless and expensive government policies. Ethanol, ballyhooed as a way to reduce greenhouse gasses, raises food prices for the poor and, in the U.S., actually increases greenhouse gas emissions at great cost. Costly programs to create “green jobs” seem to produce more scandals than jobs. And now we have a subsidy program for electric cars that costs money but otherwise gets nothing done.

Danny Alexander: Tories must stop trashing green agenda | Politics | The Guardian

Alexander describes how the government is having to deal with Tory backbenchers – including those he calls "luddite" climate change deniers – opposing green technologies such as windfarms. "I just don't think the British economy can any more afford to have a blue roadblock to green growth," he says.

Tax Credit in Doubt, Wind Power Industry Is Withering - NYTimes.com

At its peak in 2008 and 2009, the industry employed about 85,000 people, according to the American Wind Energy Association, the industry’s principal trade group.

About 10,000 of those jobs have disappeared since, according to the association, as wind companies have been buffeted by weak demand for electricity, stiff competition from cheap natural gas and cheaper options from Asian competitors.

Twitter / ret_ward: Excellent @Revkin blog post ...

Excellent @Revkin blog post on media shenanigans by researchers keen to prevent criticism of their work: http://nyti.ms/NHiWja

"The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Saturday that would shield U.S. airlines from paying for their carbon emissions on European flights"

Senate votes to shield US airlines from EU's carbon scheme | Reuters

(Reuters) - The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Saturday that would shield U.S. airlines from paying for their carbon emissions on European flights, pressuring the European Union to back down from applying its emissions law to foreign carriers.

Climate Sacrifice Is Needed | Real Science

It has long been known that the climate responds favorably to human sacrifice.
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We may have our differences, but we can all agree that restoring the climate of the 1930s is a worthy goal. Let’s make the sacrifices which the experts demand.

Stanford Students Tackle [CO2-induced bad weather] - YouTube

Graduate students at the 2012 Energy@Stanford & SLAC conference participated in an unusual contest to identify the most effective tactics to combat climate change. [Quote by brainwashed student at the 1:35 mark: "I was surprised by how difficult it was to lower the temperature"]

Global warming could awaken the Arctic's ancient forests

soon enough the area will be able to support the same kind of life found in the region over 2.5 million years ago.

Stupid polar bears refuse to die in response to tweaks in atmospheric CO2: "a very nice mother and cubs season. A lot of healthy looking bears"

Polar Bear Blog – Pre-Season | Polar Bear Alley

Reports coming from Nanuk Lodge down by the Nelson River are of a very nice mother and cubs season. A lot of healthy looking bears so it seems like pretty good news to me.

With an election looming, John Kerry backs away a bit from the global warming hoax: "There are ways to do fossil fuels responsibly"

John Kerry on why we need fossil fuels (for now) and climate action (for real!) | Grist

[Q] Why has this issue [the global warming hoax] fallen off the Democratic agenda?

A. For several reasons. No. 1, because huge amounts of money were spent to purposely discredit the facts. Some of the coal industry, some of your old power-plant owners, put money into branding cap-and-trade as cap-and-tax. The British university emails were exploited by the opponents very effectively, and a kind of pejorative set in about climate science as a result. I think the climate issue lost 20 or 30 points of support in the public arena.

So once the House of Representatives passed cap-and-trade, this onslaught of negative activity took place which had an impact. The people who claimed it was a hoax, nothing more than a liberal conspiracy to have a government takeover, spent a lot of money scaring our colleagues. And that’s what happened, they scared them. They created a certain credibility [problem] that was never answered. There was no counter.
...I’m the most ardent advocate up here for doing something about climate change, but you’re nevertheless gonna have to use fossil fuels. The question is, can you use them in clean and manageable ways? The answer is, Yes, you can, if you make the right sort of requirements.
...There are ways to do fossil fuels responsibly.
...the folks down in New Orleans understand [that CO2 caused Katrina?].
..Can you share any insights about [Romney's] former life as an advocate of global-warming solutions?

A. Barely perceptible. He went along because the legislature pushed it. He never led on it. We had environmental activists in the state, we had a Democratic legislature, and they led the fight, but he’s never been an advocate. I’ve never heard his voice on it.

Hurray! If you buy enough non-locally grown coffee from these guys, they say that they will attempt to prevent CO2-induced bad weather by transporting the coffee to you using wind power!

Carrotmob | Buy Coffee to Fight Climate Change!

IF our mob spends $150,000 at Thanksgiving Coffee
THEN Thanksgiving Coffee will attempt to become the first coffee company in modern times to transport its coffee using wind power.

Winter to blast in early | UK News

BRITAIN is braced for winter to roar in with a vengeance this weekend.

A blast of cold air from Iceland is expected to send temperatures plummeting as low as -5C.

[Warmist Tom Bowman:  It's a "mistake" for you to drive your car today; it's evidently not a "mistake" for his wife to take a completely unnecessary fossil-fueled trip to Talkeetna, Alaska]

My wife called from Talkeetna, Alaska, about a week ahead of schedule. She was on an expedition to climb Denali
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This is a good description of humanity’s response to climate risks. Sure, I can drive my car today and leave extra lights on all over the house. I can run the air conditioner instead of opening windows. As a society, we can kick the climate can down the road for the next President and Congress to deal with.

Heck, you can’t even tell that these things are mistakes. But these misjudgments have been piling up for decades. In aggregate they are overwhelming the climate system.

[Warmist Tom Bowman:  Politicians who don't fear CO2 are just like sailors who drink their fill of salt water]

Meanwhile, the captain and mate continued down a psychological spiral until, one day, they decided to die. To the horror of the others, they stuck their heads into the sea and drank their fill. Salt and dehydration mixed to brew delusions...
This is a true story about a sailing adventure gone wrong, but Gonzales could just as easily have been writing about climate change.

In the climate version, our sailboat is still afloat, but our leaders are behaving just as the captain and mate did.

EPA, Sierra Club Force Expensive Power Plant Settlement in Wisconsin | Heartlander Magazine

Dairyland Power Cooperative of Wisconsin reached a joint settlement agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Sierra Club over alleged clean-air violations. The power provider will be required to install $150 million in emissions controls, invest more in solar power, and reduce its use of affordable coal power. The settlement will directly cost the average Dairyland Power customer $250 and will drive up future electricity prices.
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“While the EPA is busy punishing commercially competitive sources of energy, the Department of Energy under President Obama has been acting like the world’s worst venture capital fund—picking winners and losers, but mostly losers, by spending recklessly on uncompetitive alternatives,” [Paul] Ryan added.

Grist: You know what makes summer too hot and winter too cold? Carbon dioxide

Farewell, summer from hell | Grist

Today is the last day of summer in these United States. It has been a crappy one.
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Seriously, make the most of it. Because winter’s going to suck, too.

Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren debate climate change | Grist

For neither candidate was climate change or the environment a key point to attack or defend

California Air Resources Board asked to ease cap-and trade program - San Jose Mercury News

SACRAMENTO -- Dozens of people, some wearing red "Save Our Jobs" T-shirts, packed a public meeting Thursday to testify that a key component of California's landmark greenhouse gas emissions law will impose enormous costs on them and consumers.
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Supporters of the auctioning of allowances say making all of them free, as the industries want, would nullify the point of the program: to put a price on carbon.

Friday Funny Bonus – Forget to pay your bill fellas? | Watts Up With That?

Jim Hoggan’s flagship propaganda outlet, releaser of the Gleick stolen files, Desmogblog.com – is D.O.A.

Climate [hoax] funding for China raises questions

The European Commission is giving tens of millions in aid to China to help the world's second biggest economy combat climate change, a move critics questioned at a time when most European Union member states are imposing budget cuts.
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The huge growth in Chinese exports has allowed Beijing to amass the biggest foreign exchange reserves in the world.

Its coffers now hold $3.2 trillion - a sum 33 per cent larger than the entire British economy.

Given that China commands such immense financial resources of its own, critics questioned whether the country should receive aid from the EU.
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He added that it was "typical" of the commission. "Climate change is a trendy subject so they'd give money to anything to do with it," he said.
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Catherine Ray, a spokesman for the development commissioner, said that helping China to fight climate change was "definitely in the interest of EU - and UK - citizens as much as China's." The EU will stop giving aid to China in 2013, she added.

Global Warming Victims in Alaska Lose Lawsuit Over Shrinking Sea Ice

U.S. District Judge Philip Pro, sitting on the panel by designation from Nevada, highlighted the lack of standing in a concurring opinion.

"Kivalina has not met the burden of alleging facts showing Kivalina plausibly can trace their injuries to appellees," Pro wrote.

"By Kivalina's own factual allegations, global warming has been occurring for hundreds of years and is the result of a vast multitude of emitters worldwide whose emissions mix quickly, stay in the atmosphere for centuries, and, as a result, are undifferentiated in the global atmosphere. Further, Kivalina's allegations of their injury and traceability to appellees' activities is not bounded in time. Kivalina does not identify when their injury occurred nor tie it to appellees' activities within this vast time frame. Kivalina nevertheless seeks to hold these particular appellees, out of all the greenhouse gas emitters who ever have emitted greenhouse gases over hundreds of years, liable for their injuries."

"It is one thing to hold that a state has standing to pursue a statutory procedural right granted to it by Congress in the CAA to challenge the EPA's failure to regulate greenhouse gas emissions which incrementally may contribute to future global warming," he added. "It is quite another to hold that a private party has standing to pick and choose amongst all the greenhouse gas emitters throughout history to hold liable for millions of dollars in damages."

"Scientific" American: "Fox News Distorts Climate Science; in Other News, the Pope Is Catholic"

Fox News Distorts Climate Science; in Other News, the Pope Is Catholic | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

The [Union of Concerned Scientists] found that, in 37 of 40 instances, Fox News programs misled viewers about climate science—mainly, by broadly dismissing it....The WSJ opinion pages fared a bit better: only 81 percent of the 48 references to the climate key words were misleading, according to the UCS analysis.
...I suspect that most of the 1.9 million viewers of Fox News primetime tune in to confirm their biases and bolster their belief that government and its regulations are forces for bad. The task ahead is to show that climate change is even worse—a tall order, for sure.


Philip YamAbout the Author: Philip Yam is the managing editor of ScientificAmerican.com.

Was This Summer A Climate Change Event?: Scientific American Podcast

http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=was-this-summer-a-climate-change-ev-12-09-21
James McCarthy, professor of biological oceanography at Harvard, says this summer's record heat and dryness could have occurred with lower atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations--but it would have been highly unlikely. Steve Mirsky reports

PBS Ombudsman: "I had never heard of Watts before this program"

http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/2012/09/climate_change_creates_a_storm.html

Arctic to be ice-free all year by 2030

http://m.watoday.com.au/environment/climate-change/fourdegree-rise-demands-90degree-rethink-20120921-26byz.html
on current trends the Arctic will be ice-free in summer by 2015 and ice-free all year by 2030

Spoiled opportunity: Harvard expert bemoans squandering of model for cap and trade

"If it is easy to demonize cap and trade as a tax, it's a lot easier to demonize a tax as a tax," Stavins said. "That probably means, given the political challenges of a carbon tax, the outlook for national policy is not good."

Revkin: "there’s no way to honestly make greenhouse-driven climate change visceral for those who matter"

Collide-a-scape » Blog Archive » Collide-a-scape >> The Search for a Winning Climate Change Frame

Andy Revkin also chimed in:

It would, in the end, have to be a trick (not Phil Jones’ usage), because there’s no way to honestly make greenhouse-driven climate change visceral for those who matter (climate-insulated prosperous folks and energy-impoverished developing folks with other far more visceral priorities).

UNL Climate Experts say 'Climate Change is Real' - Nebraska

Climate experts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln say the climate debate is over- climate change is real. Friday UNL faculty released the following statement regarding their stance on climate change...

Arctic Looting - New Worlds to Loot and the New Normal on Climate Change - Esquire

Pretty soon, I expect to see someone get rich on malaria futures.

Senate Candidates Debate Energy, Revealing Clear Differences - Free Press Online - Rockland, ME

Angus King looked up a graph of the last million years of CO2 emissions on his smartphone while Summers was speaking and cited from it that emissions started going up in 1860, in line with the industrial revolution, and have been "going up like a hockey stick ever since."...
Cynthia Dill said climate change was the biggest threat to society and that the cap-and-trade approach was an excellent model to reduce the nation's carbon footprint.

Snow falls in Winnipeg on last day of summer - Manitoba - CBC News

Chinese climate hoax negotiator: "developing countries are committed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 70 percent"

BRASILIA, Brazil: 4 nations wants global warming commitments | Health | The Sun Herald

BRASILIA, Brazil — Brazil, South Africa, India and China are urging developed countries to adopt more ambitious goals to reduce global warming.
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Chinese climate negotiator Xie Zenhua told reporters that while "developing countries are committed to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 70 percent, developed countries are committed to a 30 percent reduction." He says that's insufficient.

Glacier Retreat Prompts Vatican Approval of New Alpine Ice Prayer - NYTimes.com

In 1818, the farmers who ranged cattle on the steep mountainsides above Brig, a small town in southern Switzerland, organized a religious procession to deter a looming catastrophe. They marched from the church up a steep valley to the Aletsch, the largest glacier in the Alps. The 16-mile-long river of ice, 3,000 feet deep at its center, was fed by the endless snows falling on the two-mile-high ramparts of the Aletschhorn, Jungfrau, Munch, and adjacent peaks. Through more than a century of unusually cold weather, [If more than a century of unusually cold weather can be natural, how do we know that a few decades of warm weather isn't natural?] glaciers throughout Europe had been advancing steadily, and now the great, grinding mass of the Aletsch was uprooting a forest and threatening to overwhelm the farmers’ summer cottages and cow pastures.

Meteorologist Joe D'Aleo: 'We hear a constant hyping of new low arctic ice record & ignoring of the simultaneous increase of Antarctic ice which appears heading towards a near new record high' | Climate Depot

'If CO2 warming was the climate driver for the polar ice, both the Antarctic an arctic would be diminishing...The last arctic minimum in 2007 coincided with the southern hemisphere record high...Arctic ice is not unprecedented or unexpected. The arctic temperatures and arctic ice extent varies in a very predictable 60-70 year cycle'

Twitter / ClimateReality: .@AlGore will be making a big ...

.@AlGore will be making a big announcement at the Social Good Summit. Be sure to watch at 2:45pm ET on Sunday! #SGSGlobal

The Coldest Journey on Earth - NYTimes.com

It is such an extreme undertaking that certain technology had to be invented for this expedition. For instance, a Finning (U.K.) Caterpillar track-type tractor has been adapted so the team members can move across the continent. In doing so, they will endure the coldest temperatures on earth — below minus 80 degrees Celsius (minus 112 degrees Fahrenheit), with wind chill below minus 100 degrees Celsius (minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit) — as well as more than three months of darkness.

How ‘Silent Spring’ Ignited the Environmental Movement - NYTimes.com

Carson was among the first environmentalists of the modern era to be charged with using “soft science” and with cherry-picking studies to suit her ideology. Fifty years later, the attacks on Carson continue. Her opponents hold her responsible for the death of millions of African children from malaria; in Michael Crichton’s novel “State of Fear,” one character says that “banning DDT killed more people than Hitler,” a sentiment Crichton publicly agreed with. The Web site rachelwaswrong.org, which is run by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market advocacy group based in Washington, makes a similar charge: “Today, millions of people around the world suffer the painful and often deadly effects of malaria because one person sounded a false alarm.”

Allergies blamed on global warming: NBC - Video Dailymotion

Seasonal allergies aren’t showing any sign of dissipating as pollen levels remain high across the country. NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports. [Via DB]

Climate change in the spin cycle | iPolitics

[Elizabeth May] Every day it seems there is new evidence, always more worrying. Climate change is no longer creeping slowly. It is galloping, spurred on by dangerous feed-back loops. The Arctic ice is shrinking in ways that spell danger for all of us, permafrost is melting threatening the release of vast deposits of methane (a very powerful greenhouse gas), oceans are acidifying, food production is threatened, and around the world lives are lost in extreme events from floods to fires to mudslides to tropical storms and tornadoes. We should be talking about how we can reduce greenhouse gas emissions as fast as possible in hopes of avoiding ever-more-likely runaway global warming. I don’t like thinking about- or worse, talking about, the worst case scenarios of global warming. But former French President Sarkozy was right: the survival of human civilization is at risk...Yesterday, I couldn’t finish asking a question due to the heckling of the NDP caucus. What was the trigger for otherwise civil folks, many of them people I love, to act out so rudely? I had the effrontery to mention that there had once been a plan to meet Kyoto targets. 

The New Nostradamus of the North: Latest warmist scare: Brain-eating Amoebas!

The list of all the horrors caused by global warming/climate change seems to be endless. The latest warmist scare is about brain-eating amoebas:

Another Obama Venture Bites the Dust | Real Science

Siemens Layoffs: Wind energy company to lay off 400 at Fort Madison, Iowa, wind turbine blade plant

Climatologist Dr. John Christy demolishes warmists' claims in testimony to Congress: 'Extreme events, like the recent U.S. drought, will continue to occur, with or without human causation' | Climate Depot

'These recent U.S. 'extremes' were exceeded in previous decades' -- 'The expression of 'worse than we thought' climate change as documented in [James] Hansen's OpEd does not stand up to scrutiny'

Doomed Arctic Gains Four Thousand Manhattans Of Ice In Two Days | Real Science

A new Manhattan of ice is forming in the Arctic every 43 seconds. This must be terribly confusing to the Polar Bears, which all died this summer due to ice-free conditions.

Arctic Ice Compared to AMO « sunshine hours

Looks like AMO has an effect on Arctic Sea Ice.

Greenland's 'Ice Quakes' May Set a Record - NYTimes.com

One of the more amazing facts about the ongoing destruction of the Greenland ice sheet is that it is producing earthquakes that can be detected worldwide.

Elizabeth Warren Warns GOP-Controlled Senate Would Make Climate Denier Jim Inhofe Head Of Environment Committee | ThinkProgress

Talking about climate is a winning issue for candidates.

Goddard: "Since I started writing this post, six new Manhattans of ice have formed in the Arctic"

I Predict Final Collapse Of The Global Warming Scam Within Four Years | Real Science

Antarctica currently has the most sea ice ever recorded for the date, which is 17,000 Manhattans larger than the greatest amount of sea ice ever recorded in the Arctic. Most geographers actually consider the southern hemisphere to be part of the globe.

In 2007, Wadhams made the identical prediction for 2012/2013. Perhaps he is facing the final collapse of his funding?

9th Circuit Court rule against Alaska coastal village of Kivalina in global warming lawsuit

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal appeals court has ruled against the northwest Alaska village of Kivalina, which sued energy companies over claims that greenhouse emissions contributed to global warming that is threatening the community's existence.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday upheld a U.S. District Court ruling that Kivalina didn't have standing to sue oil, coal and power companies.

PBS Ombud: NewsHour Climate Change Report Worth Criticizing | Blog | Media Matters for America

A PBS NewsHour global warming report that allowed a climate change contrarian to "counterbalance" mainstream scientific opinion is worth criticizing, according to PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler, who said he received hundreds of emails and calls about the program.

Getler said he is penning a column on the issue that is likely to be posted late today or Monday, and hinted it will be critical.

"There's just a lot of...hundreds of emails about it," Getler said when asked why he is writing about the issue. "Commentary about it all over and it's interesting."

Getler declined to offer specific views on the NewsHour report, which aired last Monday. But when asked if he has found elements to criticize, he said: "Oh yeah, of course there's material to be critical about."

When Media Matters first called this morning, Getler said he had been contacted by many viewers since Monday about the issue: "It's what everyone's calling about, the global warming thing."

Comment: Why Russia's climate change policy is like a cargo cult | RTCC - Responding to Climate Change

Sure, there is climate change skepticism in Russia, a lot of it, actually, but as we all know, climate policy is not about science, it’s about money.

Shell sues Greenpeace to stop Arctic protests

the trigger for Friday's lawsuit was a Dutch demonstration on Sept. 14, in which Greenpeace protesters blocked more than 70 Shell gas stations in the Netherlands for several hours, draping banners and clamping gas pump handles together with bike locks.

Warmist Doug Craig: You know what Anthony Watts is like? A dark figure with no wood who tears your home down every night

Redding.com Blogs: Doug Craig's blog

Imagine you are building a house and at night while you are sleeping someone destroys all your work. Each day you return to build your home and each night, dark figures tear it down. Anthony Watts and others like him have nothing to build. They have no scientific "wood." They create nothing while they destroy everything.
...Like the cancer victim who refuses treatment because they deny they are sick, Watts is that voice of denial that prevents us from decisive action on behalf of our children and their future. The lie lives. The saboteurs are free and in control of this false debate.

Quiz: How many climate deniers could you fight off? | Grist

PBS NewsHour Science Reporter Miles O'Brien: Climate Denier Segment A 'Horrible, Horrible Thing' | ThinkProgress

The general public has spoken out as well, with over 15,000 [aren't there a lot more than 15,000 people in the general public?] people signing a Forecast the Facts petition to PBS ombudsman Michael Getler demanding an investigation of how this violation of PBS journalistic standards made it to broadcast.

It's all so confusing: Warming allegedly both decreases and increases cold snap odds

RealClimate: Why bother trying to attribute extreme events?

odds for cold snaps have decreased

Flashback: Sea Ice and Snowfall Connection - Global Warming - AccuWeather.com

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have found further evidence of a link between low sea ice cover in the Arctic region and an increase in cold and snowy outbreaks in the northern hemisphere.

My advice for encounters with rabid warmist Jeff "The house all of humanity lives on is on fire" Masters: Back away slowly, don't make eye contact

Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog : Earth's attic is on fire: Arctic sea ice bottoms out at a new record low | Weather Underground

Antarctica has actually been warming in recent years. In fact, the oceans surrounding Antarctica have warmed faster than the global trend, and there has been accelerated melting of ocean-terminating Antarctic glaciers in recent years as a result of warmer waters eating away the glaciers...To me, seeing the record Arctic sea ice loss of 2012 is like discovering a growing fire burning in Earth's attic. It is an emergency that requires immediate urgent attention. If you remove an area of sea ice 43% the size of the Contiguous U.S. from the ocean, it is guaranteed to have a significant impact on weather and climate. The extra heat and moisture added to the atmosphere as a result of all that open water over the pole may already be altering jet stream patterns in fall and winter, bringing an increase in extreme weather events. This year's record sea ice loss also contributed to an unprecedented melting event in Greenland. Continued sea ice loss will further increase melting from Greenland, contributing to sea level rise and storm surge damages. Global warming doubters tell us to pay attention to Earth's basement--the Antarctic--pointing out (incorrectly) that there is no fire burning there. But shouldn't we be paying attention to the steadily growing fire in our attic? The house all of humanity lives on is on fire. The fire is certain to spread, since we've ignored it for too long. It is capable of becoming a raging fire that will burn down our house, crippling civilization, unless we take swift and urgent action to combat it.

Businesses attack California's cap-and-trade auction - Business - The Sacramento Bee

Just weeks before California embarks on a historic effort to reduce greenhouse gases, regulators and business executives are at war over whether it will work.

The rift was on full display Thursday. Dozens of factory managers, refinery workers and others descended on a California Air Resources Board meeting in Sacramento to demand changes in the state's cap-and-trade carbon market.

They said the market, which kicks off Nov. 14, will impose a $1 billion-plus annual tax that will curb economic growth and chase companies out of the state.

"What we're concerned about is keeping the jobs," said Lisa Bowman, an employee at a Phillips 66 refinery near Los Angeles.

UPS Makes No Left Turns In Quest to Deliver Sustainability; Q&A - Bloomberg

Scott Wicker, chief sustainability officer for UPS, said aviation biofuel is currently about seven times the cost of regular jet fuel...The cost of an alternative fuel vehicle is often two to three times the cost of a diesel or gas counterpart, and the infrastructure is often not there.

Twitter / ret_ward: Now that UKIP officially rejects ...

Now that UKIP officially rejects a scientific approach to climate change, will it also endorse homeopathy, astrology, etc?

UKIP's New Energy Policy seeks lower energy prices, rejects wind power as expensive and inefficient. | PoliticsHome | Press Release | PoliticsHome

It argues that the theory of man-made climate change is unproven and implausible, and that even if the theory were valid, the costs of the Climate Change Act and other measures designed to reduce climate change will greatly exceed any foreseeable benefits.

Conspiracy-Theorist Lewandowsky Tries to Manufacture Doubt « Climate Audit

Lewandowsky’s results are bogus because of his reliance on fake and fraudulent data, not because of replication issues in his factor analysis. Nor do I believe that there should be any “doubt” on this point. In my opinion, the evidence is clearcut: Lewandowsky used fake responses from respondents at stridently anti-skeptic blogs who fraudulently passed themselves off as skeptics the seemingly credulous Lewandowsky.

Twitter / RichardTol: RT @richardabetts: Arctic summer ...

Arctic summer sea ice is declining, but will it really be gone by 2015? Met Office thinks *not* & gets called "denying" http://www.countercurrents.org/ccr200912.htm

Watch Now: EPA Gives Grants To China While it Closes U.S. Coal Plants: Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) Questions EPA About Grants to China for Coal Production | Climate Depot

Rep. Morgan: 'I don't understand why we are giving them grants to help them in their industries...We are taking money out of the pockets of the mines in U.S. while we are giving money to help the Chinese mines figure out their problems'

1934 as Art (NOAA data) « sunshine hours

Notice how each month there are dozens of states temperature moving in the same direction, but there are large numbers of states going in the opposite direction.

Notice how one month into 1934, half the states were -10 to -14F colder than the long term average and others were over 5F above normal.

Global warming makes me buy "snow tires" - HinesSight

I'm not kidding, despite the title of this blog post. This year I really am strongly leaning toward getting snow tires for my 2011 Mini Cooper S, and part of the reason is global warming.

Climate sceptic? You're probably a 'Birther', don't vaccinate your kids • The Register

Obviously being only a psychologist Lewandowsky has nothing useful to tell us as to whether the menace posed by greenhouse gas emissions has been overblown, or not. Rather more disappointingly for the taxpayers who support him, he doesn't seem to have much grasp of psychology either: unless of course it was always his plan to trigger a storm of outrage and a serious hardening of attitudes among the climate-sceptics of the world. But since he claims to be trying to develop ways of winning them over, it seems more likely that he's just really bad at his job.

This is not even to mention the way he (and all too many of his fellow fuzzy-studies academics) are slowly but surely discrediting the terms "scientist" and "peer review". This sort of tripe - basically an amazingly lengthy and turgid rant to the effect that if you don't agree you must be a Nazi or something: the argumentum ad hominem applied shotgun style to all the members of an entire school of thought, topped off with some everyday marketing homilies - this isn't science. If it was, which we would not for a moment accept, science would be bullshit and scientists not worth listening to.

Press and Journal - Article - Climate-change centre gets new United Nations home

A Forres-based climate-change institute is to be represented in a new United Nations centre in Edinburgh.

CIFAL Scotland, an institute for training and research, is one of eight organisations to gain a place within UN House Scotland at Hunter Square, Edinburgh.

Twitter / ForecastFacts: More than 15k signatures on ...

More than 15k signatures on our petition to PBS ombudsman http://bit.ly/UhmSVZ  Forecast the Facts members rock! RT to help us reach 20k!

Twitter / RyanMaue: .@ForecastFacts could you publish ...

.@ForecastFacts could you publish the petition list online -- and make it searchable? Thanks in advance!

Wisconsin 45 Degrees Cooler Than 1936 | Real Science

The low temperature at Darlington , Wisconsin on September 23, 1936 was 65 degrees. This year it is forecast to be around 20 degrees.

NOAA tells us that this is the hottest year ever in the US.

2,000 Manhattans Of New Arctic Ice Today | Real Science

The doomed Arctic gained more than 2,000 Manhattans of ice today.

Your Great-Great Grandfather Did This | Real Science

In 1886, the US was hit by a record seven hurricanes, including two major hurricanes. Your family ate way too many beans that year, and caused the disaster. I consider them to be guilty of climate crimes.

Britain needs to embrace the global shale gas revolution | City A.M.

America is leading the way: shale gas on the other side of the Atlantic now accounts for an astonishingly high 23 per cent of domestic gas production and 22 per cent of consumption.

Scientist claims Earth may run out of plants - CBS News

In fact, said Steven Running, a professor in the university's College of Forestry and Conservation, humanity may realistically have only 10 percent or so of our planet's annual plant resources in reserve, with little ability to boost yearly growth.

Michael Savage on how media ignoring record levels of Antarctic ice, due to "global warming" bias - YouTube

Global Warming Alarmists Skip Over Data That Show Antarctic Sea Ice Is Setting Record Highs - Investors.com

Is Antarctic sea ice a "critical climate indicator" now?

The real crisis is not the heating of the global climate but a fear campaign coming unglued. The alarmists' bible has turned out to be full of false prophets.

Thomas Jefferson Confused UHI with Global Warming, Until Noah Webster Sorted Him Out | Real Science

Thomas Jefferson was an ardent believer in global warming, until Noah Webster demonstrated that he was confusing UHI effects with climate.

Antarctic Ice Area Sets Record High | Scoop News

Coalition chairman, Hon Barry Brill, says the most remarkable aspect is the extent to which the 2012 area exceeds normal Antarctica averages. “The sea ice cover yesterday was 311,000 square kilometres above the 1979-2012 average. The surplus ice is more than twice the area of New Zealand”.

Most boring "horror movie" ever: Over the course of a century, weather gets slightly nicer; plants grow slightly better

Is progress on climate change an illusion? - AlertNet

For China, its per capita CO2 emissions increased by 9 percent over the past year...Birol asked, “what happens if governments do not change their policies as of 2011?” He answered his own question by saying that he sees “the chances to go to two degrees or 450ppm fading away.” He described the scenario as “a horror movie.”

If you are good at running, it can be faster than taking the subway | Grist

Davis’ experiment yielded three key findings:

If you’re traveling under five miles, it’s faster to run than to take the train.
You get really, really sweaty doing that.
Carrying stuff sucks.

Polar Bear Propaganda: Tim Ball - FCPP - Frontier Centre for Public Policy

A Useful Tool for the Promotion of Environmental Hysteria and Politicized Science

Review: Bullying and climate change entwine in clever 'If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet' - Yahoo! OMG! CA

Brian F. O'Byrne gives an aloof, slightly goofy air to George, an environmental scientist obsessed with global warming. He's preoccupied with writing a book that he hopes will change the world, about the carbon emissions attached to everyday objects. But knowing that a single latte a day is attached to as much CO2 as a "60-mile drive in the average car" could potentially render people as inert as Anna's helpless parents.
...
The combined inability of these three adults to understand and act upon the depth of Anna's growing misery sparks a cataclysmic situation, much like CO2 piling up in our atmosphere.

Climate change threatens children’s health - The Washington Post

The Sept. 18 Health & Science article “Severe strain of childhood virus emerges” noted that an unusual form of hand, foot and mouth disease has hit the United States. My pediatric practice in Alexandria saw three times as many children with this disease in the first half of this year as in all of 2011.

Nature: Don’t be so quick to blame extreme weather events on climate change | Examiner.com

As Nature points out, there is no empirical evidence that stands up to scrutiny and claims to the contrary only look foolish.

Global Warming Causing Economic Development in Northern Canada - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Mine, baby, mine!

Air pollution chief rejects calls to change California's new greenhouse gas program - Business - The Sacramento Bee

Mary Nichols, chair of the California Air Resources Board, said the carbon market is designed to minimize the impact on businesses.

A "Mean Green", Obama Wages War Against Cheap Energy - Forbes

It wasn’t that long ago that Al Gore and other mean greens designated natural gas as the fossil fuel of the future, but now that it is turning out to be superabundant, and therefore has become dirt-cheap, they have turned against it with a vengeance. The Sierra report announces, “We’re going to be preventing new gas plants from being built wherever we can.” More quietly, White House energy aide Heather Zichal followed up with an announcement this summer that Salazar’s Interior Department will unveil new rules regulating “fracking” sometime after the election.

Fair-and-balanced Revkin writes a long article on polar ice; conveniently forgets to mention Antarctica

Pondering the Path To an Open Polar Sea - NYTimes.com

Global warming from the human-driven buildup of heat-trapping greenhouse gases is seen by virtually all Arctic scientists as playing a growing role in driving the shift in summers toward a largely open sea at the top of the world, with plenty of variations along the way.

Coldest winter in over a century in Minnesota - Video

“If this is global warming, I’d sure hate to see what global cooling looks like.”

Video from Minnesotans for Global Warming (M4GW).

Professors stock Obama's campaign war chest - Washington Times

The elite fundraising committee through which President Obama solicits his largest campaign donations relied overwhelmingly on professors from equally-elite universities last month.

Pacific Swell : Down to the wire, cap-and-trade carbon market is unpopular with California's manufacturers, refiners, some businesses | 89.3 KPCC

Manufacturers, oil refiners, and other business groups really, really, really don't want the state of California to cap carbon emissions and enable trading for them, a carbon market the state intends to establish in just a couple of months.

Report: Climate change means taxpayers could pay for more disaster cleanups - The Hill's E2-Wire

Democrats have linked this past summer’s weather events to climate change. They have called for more action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, fearing coastal regions will become increasingly exposed to natural disasters as sea levels rise and that drought might become more frequent.

Panel sets floor votes on climate science, EPA mine veto power - The Hill's E2-Wire

House lawmakers will battle over climate science when they debate GOP legislation to roll back White House policies that Republicans blame for the coal industry’s woes.

Rep. Henry Waxman’s (D-Calif.) amendment to uphold a federal finding on the threat of greenhouse gas emissions is among 13 amendments the House Rules Committee has approved for debate.

Daily Theology Column | Real Science

Woe unto the apostates who dare to gaze at the southern ice anomaly. The high priests have warned that only the northern anomaly may be seen by mortals.

All who turn their head to look at the southern anomaly, shall be transformed into a pillar of salt.

I Am One Of Four People Who Control The Climate | Real Science

Planetary Emergency | Real Science

The fact that a thin layer of ice is not present for a few weeks this year in certain areas of the Arctic – means we are all doomed.

Russell Cook: History of PBS previous lack of climate skeptics on PBS’s ‘Newshour’ « Tallbloke's Talkshop

This is a repost of a 2009 American Thinker article by Russell Cook documenting his attempts to find out why PBS’s ‘Newshour’ programme, famous for its ‘tell both sides’ approach to controversial issues, stopped interviewing man-made climate change skeptics for a long time after 2002, until the recent interview with Anthony Watts. PBS deserves some credit for reintroducing skeptics to the media presented ‘debate’ though they still have some way to go in ‘deprogramming’ themselves from the years of agenda setting of talking points by the AGW propaganda pushers in my opinion. Nonetheless, I wrote to PBS ombudsman Getler to thank him and PBS for re-opening mainstream media presented debate on climate related issues.

Go west, young climate hoax scam swindle fraud litigation parasite

Law: Lawyers go west as climate litigation warms up -- 09/20/2012 -- www.eenews.net

"California is becoming the second primary node for climate litigation," said Michael Gerrard, director of the Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School. "Previously, it was mostly in Washington."

Smithsonian suggests that you do an enormous amount unnecessary of fossil-fueled travel before CO2 causes New York City and Houston to be "swallowed by the sea"

Six Things to Do and Places to See Before Climate Change Swamps the Party | Off the Road

For the polar bear, extinction is the worst possible, and perhaps likely, outcome—while speciation is another...Other cities that could be swallowed by the sea include New York City, Houston, Bangkok and New Orleans.

Let those global warming dollars flow | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

One of the weirdest (and by that I mean most ridiculous) claims I’ve heard from global warming deniers is the idea that somehow there is a cabal of scientists making up all the information we see about climate change.

First, scientists aren’t very good at that sort of collusion. As Ben Franklin said, "Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead." Scientists as a rule tend to abhor misleading people or out-and-out lying. And those who do tend to be caught by the peer-review process.

Anyway, ignoring the idea that tens of thousands of scientists are playing a Jedi mind trick on the rest of us without a single one of them betraying the secret (and no, Climategate and its sequel don’t count since that was all trumped up smoke and mirrors by the denier crowd), the real reason this claim is ludicrous is because of its supernova-bright irony: a lot of the deniers can be traced to having fossil fuel funding...Mind you, this isn’t supposed to be evidence that global warming deniers are paid frauds. It’s simply using Occam’s Razor, asking which makes more sense. Taken that way, it just shows the idea that scientists are on the wrong side of this is really silly.

The slaughter of polar bears that rarely gets mentioned (ca. 1890-1930) | polarbearscience

In summary, commercial whalers and fur traders slaughtered a huge number of polar bears world-wide, especially between 1890 to 1930, when more than 60,000 bears were harvested over a 40 year period. Polar bears share this history with many other marine mammals – they are not unique in that respect. However, in contrast to those other species, the modern literature on polar bears is largely silent about that black period of its history (except for Stirling 2011), to the detriment of modern polar bear research.

It is hard not to wonder why that is the case.

Grill a Burger, Go to Jail? | Power Line

Just watch: after they come for our burgers, they’ll come for our grilled chicken, too

Umbra’s second helpings: Unplug your vampire appliances [VIDEO] | Grist

Did you know that three-quarters of the energy your appliances burn is used while they’re turned off? It’s true.

Climate scientist Andrew Weaver to run for B.C. Greens in Oak Bay-Gordon Head

Andrew Weaver is most famous as a climate scientist. In 2007, he shared the Nobel Peace Prize alongside Al Gore and fellow members of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The University of Victoria professor is considered one of the leading, and most-outspoken, experts on global warming.

Isn't that Special.mpg.FLV - YouTube

AFP: 'Planetary emergency' due to Arctic melt, experts warn

Caroline Cannon, a leader of the Inupiat community of Alaska, reminded the participants that her indigenous community, including her nine children and 25 grandchildren, depend on Arctic fishing and hunting for survival.

"My people rely on that ocean and we're seeing dramatic changes," said Cannon. "It's scary to think about our food supply."

Chicago Disappears | Real Science

Earlier this year, Chicago represented the global climate. Record cold this weekend has caused Chicago to disappear from the global climate map.

Planes of the future could fly on sawdust or straw | Reuters

(Reuters) - Passenger jets could be chomping on straw or flying on fuel extracted from sawdust in coming years as the search widens for cleaner alternatives to kerosene, French scientists say.

Warmist strategy: When Arctic sea ice extent increases, claim that sea ice volume is "much more useful"; when Arctic sea ice extent decreases, try not to mention sea ice volume

Thinning ice probably explains record low Arctic sea ice coverage | Carbon Brief

Sea ice extent has undergone a dramatic decline this year, but it doesn't necessarily follow that the volume of sea ice has declined dramatically.
...Axel Schweiger, principal oceanographer at the Polar Science Center told us:

"With respect to ice volume from PIOMAS for this summer (and we are not finished), the change from 2011 to 2012 looks actually much less dramatic than the ice extent change and rather in line with previous year to year losses."

2010:  RealClimate: An icy retreat

However, in March temperatures suddenly dropped for a couple of weeks, in particular in parts of the Barents Sea and in parts of the Beaufort Sea. This in turn lead to the formation of a thin ice cover in these regions, which caused a marked increase in observed sea-ice extent. For the measurement of this extent, it doesn’t matter at all how thick the ice is: any ice, however thin, contributes to sea-ice extent. Therefore, only considering a possible “recovery” of just the extent of Arctic sea ice always remains somewhat superficial, since sea-ice extent contains no information on the thickness of the ice. A much more useful measure for the state of Arctic sea ice is therefore the total sea-ice volume.

Shock News : Destroyed Arctic Gains 1000 Manhattans Of Ice Overnight | Real Science

The Arctic, which which destroyed by the global warming death spiral this summer, has mysteriously gained 1,000 Manhattans of ice overnight.

A Blog Memo to Kevin Trenberth – NCAR | Bob Tisdale – Climate Observations

Thank you for confirming that the combined effects of the 2009/10 El Niño and the 2010/11 La Niña were responsible for the 2010 Russian Heat Wave and other climate extremes of 2010.

Thank you for confirming that your belief that the “very high sea surface temperatures” in specific regions were caused by “global warming from human influences” has its basis in blatantly and fatally flawed climate models.

Shock News : Destroyed Arctic Gains 1000 Manhattans Of Ice Overnight | Real Science

The Arctic, which which destroyed by the global warming death spiral this summer, has mysteriously gained 1,000 Manhattans of ice overnight.

Climate Change Dispatch - How to get ineffective, unsightly windfarms into local communities

You simply pay them off. Win-win.

Arctic v Antarctic Temperatures « NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

1) Arctic temperatures are only slightly higher now than they were in the late 1930’s.

2) While temperatures have increased in the Arctic since 1980, there have been similar decreases in the Antarctic.

3) The biggest increases occurred in the Antarctic before 1980, although the amount of missing data there in the 1930’s and 1940’s must place a question mark over the accuracy of GISS data.

Heavily Funded Deniers | Real Science

I receive exactly $0.00 per year to do this.

However, the University of Colorado received almost a million dollars to study the effects of global warming on Prairie Dogs in Boulder, despite the fact that Boulder is cooling.

The Reference Frame: Insane reaction to the PBS interview with Anthony Watts

These people simply don't belong to the Western civilization with its traditions of freedom, democracy, and enlightenment. They belong to a medieval civilization controlled by ultimate cults that can never be questioned, divine entities and beliefs that have the right to create a whole hierarchy of power here on Earth.

Whistleblowers at CSIRO forced out and 'bullying rife' | brisbanetimes.com.au

TWO of three CSIRO employees who blew the whistle on alleged ''criminal or civil breaches of the law'' by the scientific organisation were later made redundant, it has been revealed.

But those officials who were the subject of the complaints remain employed, the CSIRO has confirmed.

The details have emerged after a group of former CSIRO employees began a campaign for a change in culture at the science agency, alleging mismanagement and bullying are rife.

Last Thursday, a parliamentary inquiry examining workplace bullying in Commonwealth agencies published the group's submission. It claims the group is aware of 60 cases involving top-flight scientists and other officials who were bullied or otherwise forced out of the organisation.

How the temperature datasets tell us extra CO2 has little effect « Tallbloke's Talkshop

But how come this energy being emitted into the atmosphere from the oceans isn’t being trapped by the extra co2 and then re-radiated back down to the surface and warming it up?

The answer is that it is trying its best, but the effect is much less powerful in relation to the effect of a more active sun in the warming period and a less active sun now, than the warmist theoreticians believed. This is because they didn’t take into account the effect of the active sun causing diminishing cloud cover, and so the sea surface and ground is cooling and the heat is escaping back to space now the sun has become much less active, but is keeping the troposphere at cloud level warm on its way.

Nissan Leaf battery degrades quickly in hot climates - Wry Heat

Heat isn’t the only problem suffered by Leaf owners. It seems also that cold weather and running the heater greatly decreases range also.
...
American taxpayers have “invested” $1.4 billion in loan guarantees for the Nissan Leaf. Considering the poor sales record, the demand for electric vehicles appears so far to be only a niche market. The reduced range due to rapid aging of the battery in hot climates could become another embarrassing episode in the green car saga.  [Via Climate Change Dispatch]

Uncertainty in health impacts of climate change | Climate Etc.

This paper is an excellent example of application of postnormal science ideas to policy making. Relative to the UNFCCC/IPCC model, this method places uncertainty front and center, uses a carefully crafted expert elicitation (rather than a group consensus building process targeted at a specific policy, and matches the policy options to the level of uncertainty/ignorance.

Urban Heat Islands of the Anatolian Peninsula

they say that all of the urban sites, as well as the differences between urban and rural pairs, show significant increases in temperature, indicative of a strong urban heat island (UHI) effect over the region. In fact, as they describe it, the average "urban station is over 4°C warmer than rural."

Darryl Hannah on Alernative Energy - YouTube

There's a surplus of corn that could be converted into fuel

Twitter / sunny_hundal: Daily Politics: Climate change ...

Daily Politics: Climate change denier Andrew Neil interviewing fellow CC denier Richard North on new book. No hard questions #leftwingBBC

Twitter / skepticscience: I respond to all the nutty ...

I respond to all the nutty conspiracy theories about @skepticscience http://bit.ly/Qn5SfV

Twitter / MichaelEMann: @skepticscience Not all of ...

@skepticscience Not all of them. What about the one involving reptilian overlords using a time travel machine purchased by George Soros?

Tortoises Manhandled for Solar Splits Environmentalists - Bloomberg

The green backlash against sacrificing habitat and wildlife to curb global warming parallels polls finding that the public rates climate change low on a menu of environmental problems and has doubts whether it can be fixed. In a March Gallup survey, the issue ranked last among seven environmental concerns, with just 30 percent saying they worried about it “a great deal.”

Roll on, climate hoax gravy train: Maldives gets another $8.5 million

Climate Change Trust Fund receives money for new projects | Minivan News

The Maldives government and its international partners today announced the launch of three projects under the World Bank administered Maldives Climate Change Trust Fund (CCTF).

A total of US$8.5million has been contributed by Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) and the European Union (EU) to the CCTF to assist with these projects.

Flashback: Maldives Plans For Drowning By Building Huge New Airport Next To The Ocean | Real Science

They are obviously really worried about global warming and sea level rise and any other way to scam money out of stupid bankrupt western governments.

Fresh off a Greenpeace ship, warmist Julienne Stroeve promotes the climate hoax at a Greenpeace event with Greenpeace International head Kumi Naidoo

Arctic Sea Ice Levels Hit Record Low, Scientists Say We're 'Running Out Of Time'

“The loss of summer sea ice has led to unusual warming of the Arctic atmosphere, that in turn impacts weather patterns in the Northern Hemisphere, that can result in persistent extreme weather such as droughts, heat waves and flooding,” NSIDC scientist Dr. Julienne Stroeve told Greenpeace in a press release.

Wednesday morning, a group of climate scientists and activists met at a Greenpeace International panel in New York to strategize on potential responses to the changing Arctic climate...

[Hansen] attributed the rise in carbon dioxide concentrations largely to the burning of fossil fuels. "It's crystal clear. If we burn all the fossil fuels, we create certain disaster," he said.

Despite the fact that "we have a planetary emergency," Hansen explained, "It's hard for the public to realize, because they stick their head out the window and don't see much going on."

Having just witnessed climate change in action on an Arctic campaign, Greenpeace International head Kumi Naidoo professed, "I am shit scared."

Daily Kos: Santa Claus Is About To Drown, The North Pole Is Melting.

The longer we play the, Yes Global Warming is happening, No it isn't, yes it is, no it isn't, game with the Republican moron puppets of the fossil fuel industry, the more your children are at risk of experiencing a collapse of civilization.
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We've seen the Wall Street casino and what it can do to the worlds economy, but that is absolutely nothing compared to what will happen if we continue to turn our climate into a giant Casino.

President Obama has stepped forward on a couple of politically difficult issues this year. It's time for him to bring this up in the debates and in his campaign speeches. It's vital to our survival as a nation, and it's a winnable political issue to hammer the Republicans with.

Starting to tackle climate change - The Hill's Congress Blog

While the Republican National Convention was revving up, for example, General Electric announced it had teamed up with renewable energy firm Urban
Green Energy to produce a gadget that sounds like it's straight out of science fiction -- a wind-powered electric vehicle charger.

The Sanya Skypump can recharge an electric car's batteries without connecting to the power grid.

David Whitehouse: Extreme Views About Extreme Events | The Global Warming Policy Foundation

Nature says that attribution is in its infancy. How does that square with recent comments by Nasa’s James Hansen, “We are certainly seeing climate change in action…This year has been exceptionally unusual throughout the United States.” Writing in this morning’s Guardian Connie Hedegaard, the European Commissioner for Climate Action, says that ‘extreme’ weather is the new normal: “We are now confident about linking individual events to climate change,” she maintains.

Perhaps she should read the Nature editorial.