In public, Dr Mann is a-huffin' an' a-puffin' that this is just more smears from Koch-funded climate deniers. But, behind the scenes, a lot of quiet airbrushing of the record seems to be going on. Two days ago, his Penn State bio said he had been "co-awarded" the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, now merely that he "contributed… to the award" (whatever that means). Over at Wikipedia, they're arguing over ever more unwieldy rewrites. Editing a false legal complaint is trickier but by now someone may have snuck into the DC court clerk's office with a gallon of White-Out and amended "defamation of a Nobel prize recipient" to "defamation of a man who received one of two thousand photocopies of a commemorative thank-you certificate run off at the IPCC branch of Kinko's".
So let's see: A week ago, Michael Mann accused us of damaging his reputation – and seems to have made it a self-fulfilling prophecy. A week ago, he was a "Nobel prize recipient". Now he's not. Great work, Mike!
The airline industry expects Congress to enact, and President Barack Obama to sign, legislation authorizing the U.S. to prohibit airlines from complying with European Union emissions regulations, an industry lobbyist said.Windmills Overload East Europe’s Grid Risking Blackout: Energy - Bloomberg
The bottleneck is one of many in the last eight years as $460 billion of wind farms were built worldwide on plains, hills and at sea before networks were fully expanded to deliver the power to consumers. Upgrading Germany’s system alone to address capacity and technical shortfalls will cost at least 32 billion euros ($42 billion), its four grid operators said in May.BP Cancels Florida Ethanol Plant, Extends Renewable Exit - Bloomberg
BP Plc (BP/), Europe’s second-biggest oil producer, is abandoning a cellulosic ethanol project in the U.S., its second move in a year to scale back in renewable energy.
The company canceled plans to build a $300 million cellulosic ethanol plant in Highlands County, Florida, to focus on “more attractive” projects, according to a statement on its website today.
Katherine Hayhoe is convinced that heavy rainfall events in West Texas are due to global warming. The closest USHCN station to Hayhoeville is at Crosbyton, and it shows no evidence to support her claim. Two of the three heaviest rainfalls they have received occurred in 1913, including the record on June 30, 1913.NYSE Euronext to Shut Carbon-Trading Exchange in Europe - WSJ.com
I watched the Texas Tech soccer game on TV last night, and everyone was bundled up in the record cold. This is also due to global warming.
NYSE Euronext NYX +0.32% will close a European carbon-trading exchange following a decline in trading and a series of scandals that rocked the region's emissions market in recent years.Europe Looks to Fix Problems with its Carbon Emissions Trading System - SPIEGEL ONLINE
Europe's carbon market is in deep trouble and it's not just environmentalists sounding the alarm.Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: What is Wrong with Embellishing Science?
So long as some climate scientists are willing to talk about their work as being "correct" in scare quotes in the context of a desire to shape public opinion, they are going to face credibility problems.
Well, well, well.Twitter / RyanMaue: Europe enjoying trough on other ...
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Europe enjoying trough on other side of the block -- record cold for France -- widespread cold most of Europe.Lord Patten is the last man I'd choose to clean up the BBC - Telegraph
Patten has long been a global-warming zealot. Last year he endorsed an absurd report for the Trust which called on the BBC to show more bias on climate change, rather than less.Global warming convert's natural-gas sales push | South China Morning Post
Professor Richard Muller's U-turn on global warming made headlines, but was it a publicity stunt to push natural gas?
This mega-storm is just one more sign of the new normal that will continue as long as we keep avoiding addressing climate change.Save The Coal – Kill and Burn Trees Instead « sunshine hours
How insane. The Green AGW Cult is killing whole forests in North America and shipping the dead trees all the way to Europe to be burned for electricity instead of burning coal which has been dead for millions of years.Environmental Justice – free government money | JunkScience.com
The EPA is offering $1.5 million in grants to promote “environmental justice.”Twitter / ClimateSilence: One of these has to give: ...
One of these has to give: ExxonMobil or our planet's natural weather systems.‘Frankenstorm’ more Perfect Foil than Perfect Storm?#ConnectTheDots#ToomuchCO2#Frankenstorm
‘Frankenstorm’ trumps all the names they came up with for the Great Lakes Storm back in 1913 when there was no Internet or bloggers.
... The closer we come to the election, the less we hear about green and the more we hear about brown, about oil and gas drilling. Obama wants to win in November, and he's clearly made the (correct) choice that he can't do it if he continues to be the green candidate.
This is a testament to the spectacular failures of the environmental movement to articulate any policies that aren't political suicide for those who support them. When Obama was elected, many Greens felt that their time had come, that one of their own was sitting in the Oval Office. But it only took two years of political defeats and embarrassments to convince the president and many of his party colleagues that the green movement's polices of choice are political non-starters.
With President Obama doing his best to obscure or deny his hostility to coal in the closing weeks of this campaign, herewith Sir Winston in 1928 on the importance of utilizing coal as an alternative to importing oil from you-know-where
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Met a person that works at the UN when I was at Fox today who thinks global warming is a scam. Has to be one of the only UN people that does | |
Mother Earth: I have begun to get a bit of a fever because some of the people who live on me are making me sick with the dirty gas in their cars, stinky smoke that comes from factories, and icky garbage. You might have felt this way once if you ever got into a car that had been sitting parked in the sun for a long time with the windows shut. When it gets this hot inside of a car the ice cream melts, the flowers you picked bend over and lose their petals, and you feel really uncomfortable because it is SO hot.
I am getting warmer and warmer, just like this car and the reason I am getting hot is because when certain things called fossil fuels are burned the smoke from the burning goes up into the sky to create a kind of a roof on top of the sky! Can you imagine what a roof on top of the sky would be like? The gas people put into cars is a fossil fuel and when you drive around in the car, all the smoke that comes out of the pipe in the back goes up into the sky. When so much smoke goes up into the sky it builds a big roof over the sky and this roof keeps all the hot air from going back out to space, just like the roof of a car! With this roof and heat, I am starting to get sick and my sickness is called Global Warming. I came to you because I knew you would understand and I know how smart you are, and I know you can help. A lot of grownups are helping too. But, I need the help of all the little children of the world to make me better because, if we work together, we can make me a happy and healthy place to live for all the little children and animals in the world. [via GH]
Mann - who pointed out that Obama has made some climate change achievements, such as stricter emissions limits for coal-fired power plants and automobiles - said he thinks there is a "timidity" among Democratic politicians to address climate change. "I think they're fearful that there's so much money on the other side that they'll lose the fight anyways," he told Al Jazeera, "and [that] they will lose political capital in the process of trying to fight that fight".
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And at some point in the last 15 years, you know, the man, so to speak, in the education establishment became Mr. Environmental Over-the-Top Guy or Gal, and they began forcing this movie down our kids' throats. My kids, my twin boys, who graduated from high school this year, they had to watch An Inconvenient Truth four times since eighth grade. Four times. And it became a joke at high school, a joke. …
I didn't have anything to that. I do not have to do some nefarious plot to undermine An Inconvenient Truth. When you tell a kid who's 14, 15, 16, 17 they have to watch the same movie as gospel four times in five years, they are going to laugh at you at a certain point.
...[Soccer star] David Beckham flies back and forth London to L.A. three, four times in a week and then lectures average folks on doing less. I mean, give me a break. It's laughable to people. I think that's the other big problem they have is they are hypocritical.
The Black Eyed Peas, they sing — by the way, I like the Black Eyed Peas; they are on my iPod. But that guy flies a private helicopter from downtown London out to a global warming awareness event in the suburbs of London, and then you wonder why support is fading for this stuff.
A disgruntled Olbermann was cut loose in March of this year. Next came a new waving flag logo, which did not help because not long after, Current shuttered its UK feed and office.
Despite personalities including Cenk Uygur, Jennifer Granholm, Eliot Spitzer, Joy Behar, and Bill Press, and a blue-chip pedigree, the channel consistently struggled for ratings and, well…currency. Whether it gets sold or folded remains to be seen.
The question, Suzanne writes, is how much climate change might be to blame for storms like Sandy:
Climate change certainly makes strong storms even stronger. There is ample evidence that global warming is responsible for the increasing intensity of Atlantic hurricanes and a longer hurricane season – but no single storm can be attributed to global warming.
Scientists who argue for human-caused climate change published twice as many papers and are cited 64 percent more often than researchers who doubt climate change.
Mann believes an Obama second term could signal a renewed effort to address the issue, but acknowledges that in the face of fossil fuel groups who are "paying tens of millions of dollars" to lobby against progressive measures, this would cost political capital: "If Romney wins it's clear there will be no progress possible for at least four years", he said.
The barrage of climate denial does seem to be claiming scalps in the USA – notably in the form of budgets for climate research. Extra funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's climate service was blocked this year, while campaigns to extend the Keystone Pipeline and stop what Republican Congressman Fred Upton calls the "War on Coal" have further polarised the debate.
But while Mann appears undeterred, arguing that it is vital to "stand up for science when it is under cynical attack", he says many fellow scientists are not willing to take the flak, a decision that could in the longer term impact international climate policymaking.
"I am worried abut the effects of the attacks and the fear of being attacked," he said.
"I see this with individual scientists, I know this is happening because I talk with colleagues – they are afraid to talk to the media, afraid to weigh in on the side of climate change being a problem, because they know they will immediately be the subject of attack from right-leaning websites, subject to a slew of orchestrated, angry and nasty emails and calls to departments calling on them to be fired".
Bernstein: 'Eventually, the Chairman of the IPCC (Pachauri) sent an e-mail to all of us who had worked on the reports, explaining that we really couldn't claim that we had won the Nobel Prize, only that we had contributed to the IPCC's winning the prize. And, by the way, the prize money was going to an education fund for climate change researchers in developing countries. We weren't going to get any of it'
What more needs to be said? One of the lead authors of the ‘hard science’ section of the upcoming IPCC report is deputy leader of a political party that fancies itself a beacon of leadership in an otherwise irresponsible world. This man sees himself as a messiah.
Founded in 2005 by Al Gore, Current TV quickly made a name for itself as a go-to source for environmental incoherence, Democrat lunacy, and far-left diatribes. If providing an outlet for liberal kooks was the goal, it succeeded admirably. However, if it was trying to attract viewers, well, it's had some difficulty. Now, it's up for sale.
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The network began its life by focusing on young, high school and college age, liberals. Predictably, its early crusade against global warming failed to attract eyeballs, so it began to reinvent itself as a standard, left-wing, talking head channel - packed with a host of zany pundits that even MSNBC had rejected.
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All of these programs boast ratings which are regularly dwarfed by those earned by Dukes of Hazzard reruns.
Current reaches approximately 60 million homes, earning 12 cents per cable subscriber or a little more than $80 million a year. It generates a measly $16 million a year in advertising revenue.
The challenge facing the world from climate change has been described by Professor Stephen Hawking as ‘the greatest ever threat to humanity’. The Government's Department of Energy and Climate Change says average temperatures may rise by up to 6C by the end of this century - and yet many people are sceptical that climate change is real.
VoR’s Tim Ecott discusses this with his guests; Lord Christopher Monckton, British politician and public speaker (UK Independence Party); Bob Ward from the London School of Economics; and Joan Whally MP, Chair of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Select Committee.
Geir Lundestad, Director, Professor, or The Norwegian Nobel Institute emailed me back with the following:
1) Michael Mann has never been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.Lundestad goes on to say that, "Unfortunately we often experience that members of organizations that have indeed been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize issue various forms of personal diplomas to indicate that they personally have received the Nobel Peace Prize. They have not."
2) He did not receive any personal certificate. He has taken the diploma awarded in 2007 to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (and to Al Gore) and made his own text underneath this authentic-looking diploma.
3) The text underneath the diploma is entirely his own. We issued only the diploma to the IPCC as such. No individuals on the IPCC side received anything in 2007.
What is clear, they contend, is a profound lack of understanding about how we are going to deal with the loss of huge land areas, including some entire island nations, and massive migrations as humans flee areas no longer suitable for sustaining life, the inundation of coastal properties around the world, and so on ... and on ... and on.Twitter / RyanMaue: Someone tell Michael Tobias ...
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"As far as global warming is concerned, the developed world is becoming irrelevant," Muller insists in his book. We could set an example by curbing our emissions, and thus claim in the future that "it wasn't our fault," but about the only thing that could stop it would be a complete economic collapse in China and the rest of the world's developing countries.
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"By the time you read this, China's yearly greenhouse gas emissions will be double those of the United States, perhaps higher," he contends. And that's not likely to change.
"China is fighting poverty, malnutrition, hunger, poor health, inadequate education and limited opportunity. If you were the president of China, would you endanger progress to avoid a few degrees of temperature change?" he asks.
Someone tell Michael Tobias can't use my#Sandy weather graphics (w/o permission) if going to spout nonsense AGW connex http://planet3.org/2012/10/25/grim-trajectories/ …
It had nothing to do with seven years of record heat and drought. Evil white men caused it.2012 – Fewest Forest Fires In Decades | Real Science
Italy is to experience a deterioration in the characteristics typical winter temperatures will fall everywhere, from north to south, up to 15 ° C below compared to the average for the period, with snow from a very low altitude.PUC asked to push Xcel over retiring coal plants - TwinCities.com
The debt Xcel incurred to build Sherco's two old units will be paid off by 2022 and 2023, but they could continue to operate for decades.
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"There's very strong public opinion that we move faster," [Is there? Ask Minnesotans this question: Are you willing to fork over a good chunk of your own cash to close down a perfectly good power plant in an insane attempt to prevent CO2-induced slightly warmer weather?] said J. Drake Hamilton, science policy director for the advocacy group Fresh Energy.
After all, it is the content that matters, right?Twitter / PeterGleick [suggests that carbon dioxide causes storms]
"Washington politicians are ignoring climate change? Well, ignore me." Hurricane Sandy.ScienceDebate 2012 | Congressman Hall's Answers 2012
[Congressman Ralph Hall, R-TX-4] As Chairman of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee I have had the opportunity to hear from widely respected scientists on all sides of this [climate change] question. The only thing that is clear is that there continues to be great debate and uncertainty among these experts regarding the extent of natural climate variability versus human impacts, and what, if anything, enactment of economy-wide greenhouse gas regulations might do to alter our changing climate. I do not ignore those who, like former Vice President Al Gore, warn us about the seriousness of global warming. We should get the best science and stay abreast of any threat from human impacts, but I am disturbed that we have spent over thirty billion dollars studying climate change and have little to show for it.Children Just Aren’t Going To Know What Snow Free Octobers Are | Real Science
More importantly, however, science alone does not and cannot tell us if cap-and-trade or other greenhouse gas regulatory regimes are a good idea; many other factors—particularly economic consequences—must be considered to answer this question. Unfortunately, this Administration has pursued a regulate-at-any-cost agenda with respect to greenhouse gases, completely disregarding the harmful impacts on our long-sputtering economy. Until we have a better handle on these issues, I will continue to oppose regulation of greenhouse gases because of the significant threat it presents to American jobs, the economy, and energy affordability and reliability.
Europe-wide Next 3 Days Accumulated Snow
As you travel the inter-tubes in search of learned discourse, understanding and information to prepare you for the coming climate cataclysms, you will see many curious creatures, some common, some rare, who are here for the sole purpose of deterring, deceiving and confusing you. Some will pray on your admitted ignorance or uncertainty.[Tobis: You know what's new? Bad weather. Therefore, CO2 caused it] | Planet3.0
It’s not happened yet that one of the new-style extra-large hurricanes arrives late in the season to collide with a deep cold trough...Climate related? Well, Sandy is one of the new breed of very geographically large tropical storms.UCSC conference looks at tension between development, climate change - Santa Cruz Sentinel
Also participating will be Ross Clark, the city of Santa Cruz's climate action coordinator, and Lacey Raak, UCSC's climate action manager.In A Shift From 2008 Race, Obama's Hush On Climate | NCPR News from NPR
"The president has a bully pulpit, so he could make it a top 10 issue if he chose to do so," Pica says.
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And if those undecided voters are feeling put off by the relentless conversation about jobs, the economy, health care and the other top-tier issues, Leiserowitz says, they might just respond with a pitch on climate change. But with the days ticking down to the election, there seems to be little inclination to introduce this potentially divisive issue into the conversation.
A council leader who questioned whether global warming existed was accused of being a climate Nazi.Twitter / CMIANZorg: #Carbon Expo is on next week ...
Writing on his blog, Cllr Nick Clarke said he had received a deluge of messages – supportive and critical – since the News reported on an earlier posting in which the Tory said climate change “may not exist” and “is not caused by human activity” if it does.
One correspondent claimed the leader of Cambridgeshire County Council was “redolent of the Third Reich”.
Cllr Clarke wrote: “I have had lots of support for raising the question, far more than I expected. Many are experts, some are industrialists but most are ordinary people who feel frustrated that questioning climate change is so difficult.
“Interestingly, the common message from this group is a reflection on how fed up they are with the climate change lobby.
Twitter / Luigo_Legna: FREE #Carbon Trading Guide ...#Carbon [Dioxide Hoax] Expo is on next week [GE is a sponsor!]@carbonexpo_oz http://www.carbonexpo.com.au
FREEMike Haseler: The Norfolk Police were just making it up « Tallbloke's Talkshop#Carbon Trading Guide shows you how anyone can make a regular income with minimum funds http://tinyurl.com/9bvjc5u @_info_investor
The “Significant commercial” interests was particularly interesting to us, because the Norfolk police in their investigations had identified sources of funding which we were not aware of and as SCEF is almost broke this had to be followed up. So, we sent off an FOI asking for any details.
Arctic Sea Ice Extent supposedly bottomed out around 2.5 million sq km according to the old chart posted by DMI for months.
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Imagine my surprise when today the Sea Ice Extent bottomed out at 4 million sq km
Pocket protectors are flying.Twitter / RyanMaue: West Virginia would be buried ...
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Cato maintains that there’s no conspiracy or attempt to mislead readers afoot. The similarities (and calling the report an “addendum”) were meant to illustrate that they believed the 2009 document was incomplete, says Patrick Michaels, the report’s principal author.
“I’m amused that the authors feel the need to state the obvious, and that many of my colleagues on climate issues are casting this as some kind of attempt at counterfeit,” Michaels says. “The use of the Cato Institute name and logo throughout the product ought to have been a clue.”
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[13-minute audio. RealClimate's Rahmstorf says it's a good thing that any recent warming is allegedly caused by humans, because if it was natural, we couldn't stop it! He says that "skeptics do a very good job in their PR machine". Around the 8:20 mark, the interviewer says "You've kind of highlighted to me just how mobilized the skeptics are, whatever the agenda may be, whether you believe there are, you know, "powers that be" behind the skeptics...". Rahmstorf says that his job requires quite a bit of flying, to do it effectively, he does "have" to go to conferences.]
Here’s a stronger indictment: a cottage industry of well-funded climate denial advocacy groups has been highly successful in intimidating politicians. On October 23, a PBS Frontline special called Climate of Doubt documented how a shadowy blend of nonprofit and political groups have deliberately created a political atmosphere where the most popular position on global warming is avoiding it altogether.Texas sparks international row with election observers - The Hill's Global Affairs
Texas authorities have threatened to arrest international election observers, prompting a furious response from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).Flashback: Durban Climate Conference
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) also weighed in, tweeting “No UN monitors/inspectors will be part of any TX election process; I commend @Txsecofstate for swift action to clarify issue.”
Typically UN climate summits are annual cliffhangers – with negotiators huddled in hallways and making last minute deals behind closed doors, and this year’s meeting in Durban was no exceptionTwitter / jpodhoretz: Apparently Mann hit himself ...
Apparently Mann hit himself on the head so often with that hockey stick he bruised his brain. http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/331592/when-nobel-fantasists-attack-mark-steyn …Petermann Glacier | ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers | TIME.com
[Warmist Bryan Walsh on his excellent fossil-fuel-guzzling adventures] I’ve been fortunate enough to travel around the world as TIME’s environment correspondent: to rainforests, Himalayan mountains, coral reefs.
Sinclair, who in his blog and videos cleverly juxtaposes scientific findings against those denying climate change as a problem, said he started doing climate change videos to help scientists. “I realized that scientists were absolutely getting slaughtered on the internet. And the reason, I think, was because they did not know how to speak the language that the internet speaks. The internet is this sort of scorning, subconscious, paranoid thing that we’re still trying to get our arms around,” Sinclair said.Frontline’s ‘Climate of Doubt’ — Enough Time for ‘Skeptics’ to Self-Destruct? | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media
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“With energy, we’re looking at solutions on long timeframes, 20, 30 years,” Hayhoe said. “If we go 30 years with no climate policy, with carbon emissions unchecked, we will be facing a world that is very radically different from the world that we live in today, with very serious consequences for the U.S. and abroad.”
The question for some is whether the program and correspondent John Hockenberry set out — or ended up — giving his subjects enough rope to figuratively hang themselves. And whether, in the eyes and minds of viewers, they then did so.Critique of PBS Frontline’s ‘Climate of Doubt’ Program
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“There are holdouts among the urban bi-coastal elite,” the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Ebell tells Hockenberry when asked about public attitudes on climate change. “But I think we’ve won the debate with the American people in the heartland, the people who get their hands dirty, people who dig up stuff, grow stuff, and make stuff for a living, people who have a closer relationship to tangible reality, to stuff.”
[Tom Harris] There are many serious, and obvious, biases in the program. Did anyone else note how they allowed alarmists to answer skeptics’ claims, but never vice versa? Or how about all the info about skeptics’ funding sources but nothing about the thousand times more funding of alarmists? Or the assertion that the purpose of the skeptics’ funding was “to confuse the issue” (the science is confusing and the skeptics are right to point that out). Or the sneaky analogies to tobacco, which has nothing to do with the issue. Or silly statements like “the scientific community says”. Or the bogus 97% consensus issue. Etc., Etc. What a disgrace, PBS.
(Pierre, SD) -- The Republican Party of South Dakota (SDGOP) launched a new webvideo that looks at the different backgrounds of this state's two congressional candidates.
"South Dakotans need to remember that while Kristi Noem was working here on the farm Matt Varilek was gallivanting around the globe in support of radical environmental policies and throwing wild Washington parties," Tony Post, Executive Director of the SDGOP, said today.
A bill stopping the expansion of the emissions trading scheme sparked impassioned debate, including claims from Labour MP David Cunliffe that his two "wonderful young sons" face "extinction" from climate change.
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"Small point. Extinction for us. And it just happens to be in the lifetime of my two little boys or their children," Cunliffe said.
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In a speech to Parliament on the bill yesterday, Labour's economic development spokesman David Cunliffe pointed to the Government benches and said they "should be ashamed".
There was debate about whether there would be anywhere between one degree and six degrees of warming in the next century.
"That may make the difference between the continuation of the human species or not," he said.
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"Those changes gut the ETS. They are going to result in clear felling of more timber, they are going to result in under-investment in clean technology, they are going to result in New Zealanders paying more in our lifetime and our children's lifetime to adjust to the climate change that is certain - not probable - but certain to come."
People overseas would "die in their millions" from mass famine as a result of climate change.
"Here, we will just put up with tornadoes, thunder storms, droughts, floods and reduced agricultural production. ... People are going to die around the rest of the world and we are going to face refugee flows into New Zealand as a result." [But maybe trace amounts of carbon dioxide will kill them all before they can get to New Zealand?]
CERs for December delivery have plunged 89 percent in the past year and are trading at a record-low of 80 euro cents ($1.04), according to data compiled by Bloomberg.U.N. central GHG bank not enough to rescue CDM: observers - News - Point Carbon
LONDON, Oct 25 (Reuters Point Carbon) - Negotiators at U.N. climate talks will next month discuss proposals to buy up massive amounts of carbon credits to help prices recover from record lows, but the measure is unlikely to salvage the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) from collapse, observers told Reuters Point Carbon.Fossil-fuel boom in OH and PA may lead to Obama Re-election - Video
The irony is that the fossil fuel boom in those two states could fall victim President Obama’s policies in a second term, says journalist and filmmaker Phelim McAleer.Climate change report calls Utah policies ‘risky’ | The Salt Lake Tribune
The report summarizes regional data that shows Utah’s average temperatures are increasing at more than double the national rate, rising by as much as 8 degrees by the end of the century.
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"The time to debate is passed," the report says. "The time to prepare has begun."
Previously published scientific studies put the optimal temperature for malaria transmission from mosquitos to humans at 31 degrees C (88 degrees F), but according to a new mathematical model, the temperature for peak transmission of the parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is much, much lower.Sorry Folks, But Poland Does Have A Veto On EU Energy Policy | GWPF
Poland’s use of a veto to block the EU’s draft energy roadmap for 2050 has no legal basis, according to internal legal documents from the Council of the European Union, obtained by EurActiv. There is only one problem with this interpretation: It is outdated. The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Article 194 (2) gives member states a veto over the choice between different energy sources and the general structure of energy supply.Lord Monckton public lecture/debate Gibraltar October 2012 - YouTube
[3+ hour video] Lord Moncktons public lecture and debate on the truth behind the inconvenient truth. What you are not being told about climate change and Al Gore's environmental message. Location - Gibraltar, October 2012.Carbon Tax: Will Tweedle Dum Snatch Defeat From the Jaws of Victory? - Forbes
The only thing Republicans would gain from destroying their bona fides as the anti-tax, pro-energy party is faint and fleeting praise from cocktail party ‘progressives’ and the liberal media. If Republicans consider that a good bargain, they deserve to be called the stupid party.
"The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that maximise the expectation of calamity should alert us that groupthink is driving the movement."
Comment From Gary Anderson
What is your opinion about the United States being the only country that has an organized effort to deny global warming?
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USA not the only one. China has an institutional push-back on global warming related to the perception that it is a ruse for the industrialized world to hold China back.
[Hockenberry] The saddest thing about this story is that we heard mostly absolute certainty and dismissive confidence among our skeptic friends while it was our scientist friends were quick to say that doubt is how science is conducted, people questioning each other's work all the time. The doubt of the scientists was always real but was always about how much we know about the planet and need to know not about the trend of global warming.
Their search for truth and quest to challenge each other's findings was exploited as "debate" and "uncertainty" by people in the political world. In some ways the scientists didn't have a chance in this battle... but that is my personal opinion and some of our scientists would not have agreed with me.
Comment From Julie Fanselow
How *do* we move forward from here given the deep divide and the politicization of the issue?
John Hockenberry:
Julie, I think the planet will answer that question. In many ways "Climate of Doubt" is the story of how difficult it is for a democracy to act in a crisis until the fire is in the stairwell. Coll says it well at the end of our story. Circumstances will move us forward if people on their own, can't.
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Do you not know that the 97% claim of the warmists is the result of an ambiguous survey by a MSc student that whittled 3000+ reponses down to 77. 75 of the 77 gave the politically correct answer leading to 75/77 = 97%. Hardly a reassuring endorsement, even if science were to be done by a show of hands.
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John Hockenberry:
It seemed to us that the burden of proof that there is a sizable scientific movement to say that climate change is not worthy of action or that it is not human caused is on the skeptics and they did not meet that burden by a longshot. The peer-reviewed study you cite is only one of the sources on scientific consensus that we offerred.
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John Hockenberry:
The internet clearly helped in distributing all of these messages. Al Gore's movie benefited from its viral interest on the Internet as did the skeptics. I would say the skill of the skeptics was more responsible than the mere presence of the Internet in spreading the message. As for the media being to blame..... that is always an easy charge but rarely useful in figuring out how to move forward.
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Comment From Tom Barney
Why did you obscure the signature of a very prominent scientist on the Oregon petition while at the same time implying few credentials were necessary?
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John Hockenberry:
Elizabeth, I am not comfortable characterizing the mood or morale of scientists but we did hear from multiple sources that young students and grad students were openly expressing doubts about their choice to go into climate science based on the events of the past 4 years.
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Catherine Upin:
Tom, this was a late stage production decision that was not made on the basis of any one individual signature or to make an editorial point. Our focus was on the requirements for signing the petition. In retrospect however we believe that obscuring the signature was a mistake.
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John Hockenberry:
I would say that tactics, style, and personell from the tobacco initiatives to influence science and public opinion were all found among these skeptics. It was something laid out for us by Steve Coll of the New Yorker and confirmed by our reporting.
“On climate change, the political discourse here is massively out of step with the rest of the world, but also with the citizens of this country,” said Andrew Steer, the president of the World Resources Institute and a former special envoy for climate change at the World Bank. “Polls show very clearly that two-thirds of Americans think this is a real problem and needs to be addressed.”Twitter / JohnKerry: Climate change risks to MA ...
Mr. Steer noted that climate change was no longer a partisan issue in Europe and that China, Japan, Australia and South Korea had recently taken significant steps to reduce emissions and invest heavily in clean energy technology.
Climate change risks to MA indisputable: http://1.usa.gov/QIlFb1Jimmy Savile and the dangers of received wisdom » Spectator Blogs
What does the Jimmy Savile case tell us about received wisdom? Over the last few weeks it has become clear that one of the most famous people in Britain was known by very many people to be an active, abusive paedophile.
Many other people in broadcasting knew it. People in charities he was associated with knew it. People in hospitals he was associated with warned child patients about how to get around it. The person who founded Childline, no less, had heard about it. But nobody did said or did anything.
At the end of next year, Qatar Airways is scheduled to open a new airport that will include a 25-meter swimming pool and squash courts, among other amenities. But it will also be extraordinary from an energy standpoint because it will pump airline fuel made from natural gas.“The Air Is Gone” From Climate Change Issue, Says Veteran German Journalist. Ohio Is To Blame Claims Warmist
Qatar has relatively little oil and vast supplies of natural gas. Oil goes on tankers to distant destinations, but moving natural gas is much harder for the Persian Gulf emirate. So Royal Dutch/Shell built a gas-to-liquids plant called Pearl that makes a variety of liquid fuels.
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Meanwhile, Qatar Airways is lamenting the European Union’s taxes on carbon dioxide emissions by foreign carriers that fly in and out of its airports. Qatar has moved some of its power plants to burn natural gas instead of oil, Mr. Al Baker said, and as a result can assign some carbon credits to the airline.
But he said he was rooting for the United States, which has taken an aggressive stand against the airline carbon taxes in a long-running battle. “We are a small country, and we cannot get into battles with large countries like the E.U.,’’ Mr. Al Baker said.
“We will let somebody else do our battle, then benefit,’’ he said.
The dead silence we’ve seen on the climate issue during the 2012 Presidential campaign is getting a strong reaction in Germany. Today I’m presenting 2 short views on this. One from a German skeptic, and one from a devout treehugger/climate crisis believer.Snow Day and Bear Day | Polar Bear Alley – Guide to the Polar Bears of Churchill
Well, the snow seems to have arrived pretty much on time. I think the 28th was our first real snow day last year and Halloween is sort of the benchmark now for snow and the arrival of winter. So I guess you could say the season is early based on its newly revised schedule…
But the climate campaigners are most disappointed with the media, who have Let Them Down. And really, who can blame the climateers? What good is a lapdog mainstream media if they won’t carry water for you any more? But that’s what’s happened: the media have grown bored with climate apocalypticism, as they eventually do with most forms of Green Doom Flavor of the Month. (Isn’t “Green Doom” a Ben and Jerry’s blend?) Newspaper endorsements are ignoring climate change, the frantic folks at Grist.org have found, noting that in 2008 climate got a lot of love from editorial writers.Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: "Can India realistically hope ...
Math is hard: Obama tells Leno, ‘I’m pretty lost’ when it comes to ‘math stuff’ | Twitchy"Can India realistically hope to keep its economy growing at 8% or more a year if it can’t keep the lights on?" http://www.management-thinking.org/node/130
Leno asked the president a viewer’s question about what subjects he struggles with when he helps his daughters with homework. ”Well, the math stuff I was fine with up until about seventh grade,” explained Obama. “But Malia is now a freshman in high school and — I’m pretty lost.”Oops! Obama Says He Wants Wind Turbines 'Manufactured Here in China' - President Obama - Fox Nation
The President goofed up when talking about the desire for wind turbines being manufactured in America, saying he wanted them manufactured "here in China."
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