But of course: "warming trends are clearly leading to more powerful winter weather" [in spring]

Snowy soccer is just a taste of what climate change will do to sports – Quartz

March snow in the northern hemisphere, let alone in a high-altitude city like Denver, Colorado, may not seem unusual, but it is. Denver doesn’t usually get blizzards this time of year, which may be why FIFA felt comfortable scheduling a match there on the second day of spring. And while it’s impossible to attribute any particular storm to climate change, warming trends are clearly leading to more powerful winter weather. Denver will get a foot of snow before this storm is over.
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Another World Cup qualifying match scheduled yesterday, between Northern Ireland and Russia in Belfast, was postponed due to snow and ice. The weather there was also unusual—and expected to continue today—and it was the first time an international soccer match had been cancelled in Belfast.

William Finnegan: Gina Rinehart, Australia’s Mining Billionaire : The New Yorker

Another major Rinehart theme is climate-change denial. Members of a government climate commission warned this month that Australia needs to brace itself for a “climate on steroids.” January, 2013, was the hottest month in the country’s recorded history. The nation has been wracked by floods and bushfires. Rinehart is unconcerned. She wrote, in one of her columns, “I am yet to hear scientific evidence to satisfy me that if the very, very small amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (approximately 0.83 per cent) was increased, it could lead to significant global warming. I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change.”

Twitter / SpencerWolfePtL: #HowToMakeALiberalCry Tell ...

#HowToMakeALiberalCry Tell him about the Earth's radical history of natural climate change and that his Smart Car is not saving the planet.

Key phrase trends in climate change research and communication | Earthzine

All data sources indicate climate change discourse peaked around 2008 to 2011

Man dies in deep snow as UK's cold snap continues - ITV News

A 27-year-old man has been found dead in deep snow as the cold snap continues to hit communities across Britain.

Senate gives a big, fat thumbs-up to Keystone XL | Grist

The vote was non-binding but all too telling.

UK's coldest spring since 1963 claims 5,000 lives: Pensioners worst affected - and experts say final toll could be 'horrendous' | Mail Online

2,000 extra deaths registered in just the first two weeks of March
And for February, 3,057 extra deaths registered in England and Wales
Campaigners warn weather could prove deadly for thousands more

NBCNews.com video: Study: Climate change will spawn more ‘Katrina events’

A new study suggests we could see up to 7-times as many hurricanes with equal size and intensity to hurricane Katrina as the climate warms. National Journal’s Coral Davenport joins MSNBC’s Alex Witt to discuss the report.

Twitter / RyanMaue: 30s in Orlando (KMCO) March ...

30s in Orlando (KMCO) March 27-28 would break record lows, which are in the low 40s. pic.twitter.com/YAId7ARHsx

Twitter / RyanMaue: 4-consecutive freezes for ...

4-consecutive freezes for late-March in Atlanta -- don't bother planting anything outside. pic.twitter.com/y3yhaQF55Q

Twitter / RyanMaue: Thursday morning lows 15-25°F ...

Thursday morning lows 15-25°F below normal as chill covers SE & makes into Central America pic.twitter.com/zKYkS4Q6X1

India: Manager of compost plant chuckles after being awarded UN bad-weather-prevention credits

Notes from a compost pit - Indian Express

Two weeks ago, when the Okhla compost plant in Delhi was awarded carbon credits by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 35-year-old Leju Valson, Manager (Operations) at the Okhla plant, had quietly chuckled.

Boulder buried under near-record snowfall; children won't know what Kevin Trenberth looks like?

Winter springs late encore, buries Boulder under near-record snowfall - Boulder Daily Camera

The city had recorded 8.8 inches of snow by 10 a.m., according to Boulder meteorologist Matt Kelsch. The record for the date is 9.4 inches in 1929.

"So, we're not there yet, but I think we'll get there," said Kelsch. "We might just barely get there, but I think we'll set that record. We have another inch or two to go."

Kevin Trenberth’s REAL travesty | Climate Sanity

[Trenberth, 2009] Well I have my own article on where the heck is global warming? We are asking that here in Boulder where we have broken records the past two days for the coldest days on record.

Is This How An Ice Age Begins? | Real Science

The last ice age began when winter snow accumulation in Canada started exceeding summer melt. Are we headed in that direction? Canada is covered with very thick snow this spring, which is going to take a long time to melt.

Trend To Colder Winters Continues in UK | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

The winter ranked 43rd coldest since 1910, and continues the trend towards colder winters. In the last five years, only 2011/12 has been above the 1981-2010 average. The average over these five years has been 3.03C.

Interestingly, the average winter temperature for 1911-2013 stands at 3.52C, so by 20thC standards the last few years have been genuinely cold.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Greens want to put the climate of Switzerland on the UNESCO World Heritage list

Christopher Booker: It’s payback time for our insane energy policy | Climate Realists

An obsession with CO2 has left us dangerously short of power as coal-powered stations are forced to close

An Hour of Self Delusion | NoFrakkingConsensus

It’s time WWF activists and sanctimonious IKEA executives stopped deluding themselves. There is no evidence whatsoever that the public is prepared to endure “large scale change” in order to combat global warming.

Twitter / RichardTol: #EarthHour a resounding success ...

#EarthHour a resounding success in Africa pic.twitter.com/mO4l8Fc1Ly

Major winter storm to pound Colorado, Kansas and the Ohio Valley

Temperatures 10-30 degrees colder than average through March.

Denver can expect 5 to 8 inches of snow, with some parts of the High Plains of Colorado and northwest Kansas getting a foot or more tonight and Sunday, said Michael Palmer of weather.com.

Living The Green Dream | Real Science

During the 14th century, the residents of Frijoles Canyon in New Mexico had the privilege of living in these nice solar heated homes, and dying by age 30. It was always Earth Hour.

Energy, Security, and Climate » Bad News for Pessimists Everywhere: Malthus Was Wrong

in this line of reasoning, unless we start consume less of a given non-renewable material, it will forever and ever get more expensive.

The logic appears unimpeachable at first glance. But it’s wrong.

Newsmaker: Billionaire plans effort to calculate cost of inaction on climate -- 03/22/2013 -- www.eenews.net

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- A billionaire environmental activist from California will launch an effort to quantify what inaction on climate could cost the country, a study that could land just before the 2014 election.

Sports reporter replaces Juliet Eilperin on environment desk at the WaPo | JunkScience.com

The food critic apaprently was overqualified. And who is Lenny Bernstein married to?

Twitter / billmckibben: The great rabbi Art Waskow ...

The great rabbi Art Waskow arrested at the WH KXL protest waving a branch of bitter herb and matzos https://theshalomcenter.org/arrested-palms-matzah-globe-and-white-house …

Former Sierra Club chief Carl Pope: Did we say that we needed to make oil more *expensive* to fight bad weather? We meant that we need to make oil *cheaper* to fight bad weather

The road to climate heaven is paved with ever cheaper oil | Grist

Ironically, the best way to keep most of Greenpeace’s “no return” oil deposits safely in the ground is to bring the producer price of oil down.

Attention, Topeka residents: Scottish councils are allegedly playing a "crucial role" in that lack of CO2-induced bad weather that you've no doubt noticed

Raise profile of Scottish councils tackling climate change, report says - LocalGov.co.uk

The crucial role Scottish councils play in tackling climate change remains unrecognised and risks the success of green initiatives, according to a report.

Earth Hour is a good example of coordinated effort to fight climate change: Ban-Ki Moon

"We participate with an undimmed determination to take action on climate change," said Ban, who has been urging the UN to "lead by example" in reducing its carbon footprint.

Did Global Warming Spark the Syrian War? | Planet3.0

Should we count 70,000 mortality from climate wars already?

Twitter / IanGWoolley: It's Earth Hour Day! Remember, ...

It's Earth Hour Day! Remember, as the bitter cold bites at your door, energy consumption is decadent and vulgar. #EarthHour #shalegas

Greens speak out for climate action: May explains her new Private Members' Bill C-484 | Green Party of Canada

"With Canada's high GDP and abundance of renewable energy sources we should be natural leaders in clean energy generation,” said Andrew Weaver, Green Party candidate for Oak Bay-Gordon Head and one of Canada’s leading climatologists.

Twitter / billmckibben: 17 Dem Senators and the whole ...

17 Dem Senators and the whole GOP show us what Big Oil $ can buy. It doesn't change the KXL story, but what jerks

Katharine’s Imaginary 100 Year Rain Event

All in all, there are, in fact, 42 days with over 3” of rain. So, what Katharine has interpreted as a “100-year event”, turns out to be more like a one in two year event.

A Good Week For Hansen To Chain Himself To A UK Power Plant | Real Science

British gas reserves could run dry in 36 HOURS after freezing householders turn the heating up

Apple Says Data Centers Now Use 100% Renewable Energy | JunkScience.com

Everyone that believes this stand on your head.

“Berlin Freezes In 100-Year Winter”…”Record Snow” Blankets Germany, Bitter Cold Grips Europe

"...Lots of snow and bitter cold until the end of March – Berlin hasn’t seen this in more than 100 years.”

30 Days Of Above Normal Global Sea Ice | Real Science

According to Masters, the odds of this happening are a billion to one (2^30)

GISS Figures Out For February | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

The line at the top of the map shows that there is an anomaly of 0.10C – in other words, the Dec 2012 – Feb 2013 temperature is a mere 0.10C higher than the 1981-2010 baseline.

Yes, a mere 0.10C. And this during a winter when ENSO conditions have been neutral, so alarmists cannot even hide behind La Nina excuses.

It is time to wind up the scam now.

Doomed Mississippi River Up 30 Feet | Real Science

One month ago today, Joe Romm warned that the Mississippi River was soon to dry up.
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The Mississippi River is 30 feet deeper now than it was in December.

Coldest March 23 In Fort Collins Since 1952 | Real Science

On March 23, 1910 the temperature in Fort Collins was 80F. This afternoon it is 19F. Our maximum temperature for the day was 26F, which occurred right at midnight.

The official high is the coldest since 1952, but afternoon temperatures are the coldest since 1898.

The NO CARBON TAX Climate Sceptics Blog: Global Temperatures according to Mr Peter A. Stott

Is Mr Stott coming in from the cold or in fact starting to turn his back on Global Warming Alarmism?

Snow blocking many roads around Belfast

“It’s 10am in Belfast. It has been snowing all night and it’s still snowing. The temperature is sitting at 0C. I can verify that this has been the coldest March since 1962. This winter has been so very long and cold.”

Climate change: and the snows kept coming

Still though, the local council spends about £300,000 a year on the salaries of climate change officials.

NOAA decadal scale rainfall trends found to be ‘wildly wrong’ | Watts Up With That?

I have good news and bad news. The good news is that USA rainfall is, according to NOAA, rising at 6.5 inches per century. The bad news is that this number is wildly wrong. I also have some observations about temperature

MUST SEE YOUTUBE: The Following YouTube from the Met Office displays total ignorance about how our Climate Works | Climate Realists

Met Office chief Science Officer Julia Slingo talks about 'dangerous' climate change & extreme weather and climate modelling resolutions. She still mentions co2 reduction as if it controls our climate and that is after her Met Office have now divulged that we have had 16 years with NO world temperature increase with also 16 years of extra co2 put into the Earth's atmosphere...

AVOID symposium - Panel discussions - Met Office

Permanent Earth Hour In The UK | Real Science

The UK celebrates Earth Hour by running out of fossil fuel during their coldest March weekend in two generations.

UK Achieves The Green Dream | Real Science

Greens have dreamed of a cold world, with a late spring and no fossil fuel. The UK has achieved that wonderful dream.

Energy: gas rationing

But what the paper doesn't seem to realise is that gas is already being rationed. Mains pressure has been reduced. Householders are finding that gas ovens are taking longer to cook food, while fires burn less brightly. And companies with interruptible supply contracts are already on notice for Monday, that gas will not be available.

And, of course, it is not helping that the coal estate is being shut down, although we are currently getting 42 percent of our electricity from coal, compared with 20 percent from gas. In a week's time, the equation will have changed yet again and the generators could be in real trouble.

Discovery Channel celebrates Earth Hour 2013

This year, as India joins billions of people across the globe to observe the Earth Hour to combat the threats of global warming, Discovery Channel pledges to support the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) campaign.

What happened to “Earth Hour”? Celebrate: It’s the “Power Hour” tonight! « JoNova

Remember all the fuss? What happened to Earth Hour 2013?...there is nothing like the hype of previous years

Second Coldest US March Since 1969 | Real Science

With one week left in the month, US March temperatures remain as the second coldest since Nixon’s presidency.

Arctic Ice Coverage Almost Identical To 1989 | Real Science

Senator Blunt Introduces Amendment to FY14 Budget to Prevent Carbon Tax - Electric Light & Power

"Families and job creators in Missouri and nationwide rely on affordable, abundant energy sources. A carbon tax would burden every American with higher energy costs - especially the poorest families who simply cannot afford to pay more to fill up their gas tanks and heat their homes," said Blunt. "This onerous tax would negatively impact U.S. manufacturing, and would specifically hurt states like Missouri that are heavily reliant on coal for affordable power."

Finland earmarks 21 mln euros to spend on U.N. carbon credits - News - Point Carbon

LONDON, March 22 (Reuters Point Carbon) – Finland has allocated 21 million euros ($27.2 million) to spend on carbon credits to help it meet its 2020 emission target under the U.N.’s Kyoto Protocol, a government paper showed, signalling fresh demand in the vastly oversupplied offset market.

Prosumis to fund majority of New Carbon Credit Fund

Stedman Van Swalt, Director of Regulatory Affairs at Prosumis said: "Investing in reductions at this time is clear statement of Prosumis' confidence in the increasing role for carbon markets in addressing climate change for the future. Overall this is a tremendous business opportunity. We feel that investing with the European Energy Assembly provides us with a solid co-pilot while flying into new territories."

BBC News - Sydney dims down for Earth Hour climate change protest

A small crowd cheered and applauded as the skyline went dark.

Paul Hudson: More snow as March set to be coldest since 1969 | Climate Realists

Russia to shut off Kremlin lights for Earth Hour

The International Space Station itself will not be turning off its lights, a source in the space industry told the RIA Novosti news agency.

Let’s count the ways Keystone approval helps us | Grist

Because it will take the wind out of the sails of America’s first real citizen climate movement (that demonstration on the mall was worrisome), and reduce pressure on President Obama to be bold on climate change and clean energy during his final term in office.

The Climate Hockey Stick is Wrong! – Greg Laden's Blog

This is the Grim Reaper’s Scythe:

Does Marijuana Cause Global Warming? | Tory Aardvark

A study has been done of the carbon footprint of home grown medical marijuana, and there is bad news for the earth mother loving hippies, the carbon footprint of a joint (never in his wildest thoughts did Aardvark ever think he would write that!) is 2 pounds of CO2. and then there is the CO2 produced during growing, a single plant requires 70 gallons of fuel:

Senate Puts Carbon Tax on Back Burner - Washington Wire - WSJ

The U.S. Senate still has little appetite for imposing a carbon tax on fossil fuels, but lawmakers want to keep the option on the table.

The Senate on a vote of 58-41 rejected an amendment from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., R.I.) that was viewed as a proxy for establishing a tax on carbon.

Google Explains Why The Future Of Energy Is Green - Forbes

“While fossil-based prices are on a cost curve that goes up, renewable prices are on this march downward,” said Rick Needham, director of energy and sustainability at Google

Renewable energy losing its shine in Europe

Across the English Channel, Germans consumers are waking up to the costs of going green: As of Jan. 1, they are paying 11% more for electricity than they did last year thanks to government plans to replace nuclear plants with wind and solar power that requires significant and constant public money to be made cost effective.

Flip it and reverse it: Remix climate change with new music video — The Daily Climate

o break through the climate-ADD, a new interactive music video mixes catchy beats, creative lyrics and a hands-on experience to explain simple concepts in climate science. The video, by Explainer Music, isn't meant to be an exhaustive look at climate change, but rather a fun way to answer questions such as, "How do we know to blame you and me?"

Twitter / BarackObama: Tell Senate Republicans: We ...

Tell Senate Republicans: We should invest in clean energy and combat climate change—not gut the progress we've made. http://OFA.BO/jspT6i

Opera House glows green for Earth Hour

"What started as an event in Sydney in 2007 with 2 million people has now become a tradition across the country and across the world," Dermot O'Gorman, head of the World Wildlife Fund-Australia, said.

The other side of the sea-level rise debate

Two scientists say predictions of drastic sea-level rise and climate change are bad science. During a forum sponsored by the Positive Growth Alliance and the Caesar Rodney Institute, the pair distanced themselves from widely-held claims surrounding pending environmental changes.

Willie Soon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said dire predictions of accelerated sea-level rise over the next 100 years were based on flawed data.

Joining him as a featured speaker, David Legates, a University of Delaware professor of climatology and state climatologist from 2005 to 2011, said there are no clear signs sea-level rise is accelerating. In fact, Legates says, Delaware is sinking at about 1.7 mm per year.

Warming World Caused Southern Ocean to Exhale - ScienceNOW

But the Southern Ocean plays a more benign role in the global carbon budget: Its waters now take up about 50% of the atmospheric carbon dioxide emitted by human activities, thanks in large part to the so-called "biological pump."

Science Magazine: [paywalled]

A More Modest Climate Agenda for Obama's Second Term?
Science 22 March 2013:
Vol. 339 no. 6126 pp. 1372DOI:10.1126/science.339.6126.1372

Giant Sequoias Face Looming Threat from Shifting Climate by Bruce Dorminey: Yale Environment 360

The threat to sequoias mirrors a growing danger to trees worldwide, with some scientists saying rapid warming this century could wipe out many of the planet’s old trees.

Bummer: Trace amounts of CO2 may cause "great harm to our lifestyle"

Comment: Let's keep politics out of climate change education

Without a well-informed younger generation, able to distinguish science from the trumpeting of vested interest, we could be at risk of not taking seriously the risks of great harm to our lifestyle. Climate change is a perfect case in point.

I hate it when that happens: Polar bear population is "stable" while also allegedly being decimated by climate change

Inuit, the Polar Bear and Climate Change - The Ecologist

The Greenlandic government, a largely autonomous Inuit outfit, have been garnering condemnation from environmentalists for years over its whaling, fishing and hunting practices and its reluctance to cooperate with internationally enforced restrictions. Its members argue, alongside the Canadian Inuits, that the polar bear hunt is sustainable and the bear’s population stable...
Isolated from external factors, the arguments hold up. It is not hunting that is decimating the polar bear population but climate change, while whales, similarly affected, have suffered the additional pressure of decades of over fishing from foreign boats.

Lew and Cook: recursion in the climate ghetto – Shub Niggurath Climate

If we accept that Betts is not a ‘conspiracist theorist’, then the same would apply to other contributors found by the authors’ searches as well. The Betts comment is qualitatively no different from the others.

It would be interesting to see how Lewandowsky and his co-authors show this not to be true.

Senate backs Keystone Pipeline in bipartisan vote

The Senate voted 62 to 37 Friday in favor of constructing the Keystone XL pipeline, the controversial project that would transport heavy crude oil from Hardisty, Alberta, to Gulf Coast’s refineries.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Another day - another solar energy failure: German Bosch quits the solar business

It is time to say bye, bye to another major solar energy business. This time it is the German engineering giant Bosch, which is throwing in the towel:

Corn Ethanol Fuels Riots | Via Meadia

Corn ethanol gets just about everything wrong: it increases emissions, it starves the world’s poor, it isn’t efficient, and it drains billions of taxpayer dollars in subsidies. As it turns out, it might also be responsible for last year’s violent labor protests in South Africa and food protests in Haiti and Argentina.

Ron Arnold: Climate hustlers destroying our civilization for a lie | WashingtonExaminer.com

"What if climate change appears to be just mainly a multi-decadal natural fluctuation? They'll kill us probably."

This private musing between climate scientist colleagues first surfaced along with a whole raft of embarrassing material in 2011, when the anonymous Climategate leaker "Mr. FOIA" leaked his second set of emails from Britain's disgraced Climate Research Center at the University of East Anglia. Last week, Mr. FOIA emerged for a third time, sharing with the world not only his entire batch of 220,000 encrypted emails and documents, but also, for the first time, his thoughts.

What the President Can and Should Do About Climate Change | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

First and foremost, the 19 advisors note that it’s past time for the nation to prepare for climate change, because climate change is already upping the odds of weather havoc like Superstorm Sandy.

Al Gore says Los Angeles's plan to go 'coal free' makes it one of top 5 cities fighting global warming | 89.3 KPCC

The LADWP currently gets 40 percent of its energy from coal-fired plants in Utah and Arizona. The utility voted on Tuesday to amend its contract with Intermountain Power Project in Utah to use its natural gas plant instead.

The hypocrisy of Obama’s energy boasts - Wry Heat

The Wall Street Journal reports: “Mr. Obama has blocked exploration and production on significant areas of the Outer Continental Shelf, and the few leases he has put up for auction contain land that is of little value to drillers….The U.S. oil and gas boom has been a rare bright spot in the otherwise gloomy Obama economy. Imagine how much more energy the U.S. could produce, and how many more high-paid jobs it could create, if the Obama Administration stopped being an obstacle.”

Obama proposes green energy subsidies at lab that has failed to produce green energy | Washington Free Beacon

The University of Chicago-based lab where Obama spoke has partnered with a company to develop batteries for electric vehicles. However, the stimulus-funded manufacturing facility that was supposed to produce the batteries—themselves the product of stimulus subsidies for research and development—has yet to furnish a single one.

"according to the BLS, the septic-tank and portable-toilet servicing industry has nearly three times as many green jobs as are in the solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass power utilities combined"

Green Jobs Bunk: Trash Collection Outpaces Green Energy

the BLS definition of green jobs is so bizarre that the total counts are meaningless. For instance, according to the BLS, the septic-tank and portable-toilet servicing industry has nearly three times as many green jobs as are in the solar, wind, geothermal, and biomass power utilities combined. Not only that, but the lead appears to be widening.

... The new study will also tell the careful reader (almost all the fun stuff is in Table 3) that not only are there more than three times as many green jobs in trash collecting as there are in scientific research and development services, but the increase in green trash collecting employment outpaced the green employment increase in the scientific R&D services by nearly 3,700 jobs. So, if more septic-tank pumpers, garbage collectors, and used merchandise retailers (think Salvation Army and used comic book stores) are the new green jobs you’ve been hoping for, this most recent BLS green jobs report will bring you great comfort.

"only 500 green jobs in solar electric power generation, but 886,000 green jobs in government"

Green jobs haven’t lived up to Obama’s promise - Diana Furchtgott-Roth - MarketWatch

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — America can boast only 500 green jobs in solar electric power generation, but 886,000 green jobs in government — many for passage of environmental laws, enforcement of environmental regulations, and administration of environmental programs, according to the new count of green jobs for 2011 released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this week.

The Reference Frame: Margaret Thatcher as the first climate alarmist

I couldn't resist to find a video with Thatcher talking like an authoritative climate alarmist about the climate hysteria.

- Bishop Hill blog - The futile gesture of Earth Hour

Bjorn Lomborg is more seriously minded of course, and his take on the annual switch-off is here. There is a related video.

McTwitten At It Again | Real Science

Most of the US is locked in a deep freeze with no sign of spring, and McKitten says pollen levels are “off the charts”

Tamino loses the plot with new hockeystick | Tallbloke's Talkshop

here’s my take

Britain faces the prospect of gas rationing for the first time

Britain faces the prospect of gas rationing for the first time as a perfect storm of prolonged cold weather and disruptions to Norwegian supplies push the energy grid close to breaking point, experts warned.

Power Hour: Catastrophic Global Warming with Joanne Nova | Center for Industrial Progress

This week’s Power Hour features Joanne Nova, a prominent commentator from Australia, known for her criticisms of catastrophic global warming claims. Alex and Joanne discuss the media portrayal of science, how to process the information we get about global warming, and the “skepticism” related to it.

Priceless Entertainment from SKS « the Air Vent

It is obvious to any non-plant life that Dr. Betts was clearly picked up with the rest of us by accident, and the authors including Cook look like the complete incompetent idiots they are.

Massive Monsoons Sweep Across Northern Hemisphere: Increased Rainfall Not Caused by Global Warming : Nature & Environment : Science World Report

it may be natural fluctuations that could have the most impact in some regions. [Ya think?]

Expecting standards of academic probity from Lew psychology – Shub Niggurath Climate

Thinking your colleague’s paper didn’t get published, because of how bad it is, is placing faith in the academic peer-review process, yet. Where one hopes reviewers and editors would see questions and criticism raised about the paper. Your commenters and critics come from a place where higher standards reside.

What zombie films tell us about climate change: there's no one happy ending | Christopher Shaw

http://m.guardiannews.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/22/zombie-movies-climate-change-no-one-happy-ending
When the four-degree limit is breached, anyone still left alive can set a new six-degree limit, ad infinitum through to extinction.

Global Study of Monsoons Finds Ocean Variations Have Driven Recent Shifts - NYTimes.com

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/global-study-of-monsoons-finds-ocean-variations-have-driven-recent-shifts/
In my query to climate scientists, I noted that the work appeared to raise significant questions about the limits of climate models and pose a challenge for anyone arguing that recent shifts in monsoons are due to human-driven climate change.

Erin Brockovich Debunked in Discover magazine | JunkScience.com

http://junkscience.com/2013/03/22/erin-brockovich-debunked-in-discover-magazine/

Weather.com: "10 of the 12 warmest springs in Georgia came before 1960"

Global Warming: States Most and Least Affected in Spring - weather.com

Georgia: Fastest-Cooling Springs

Despite its warmest spring on record last year, overall Georgia is on a long-term cooling trend, losing 0.6 degree per century in the spring months.

If you look at the blue dots carefully, you'll notice that 10 of the 12 warmest springs in Georgia came before 1960.

Real market forces now drive action on climate change | Graciela Chichilnisky - guardian.co.uk

Fifteen years after the Kyoto protocol was signed and just months after being extended, a true global carbon trading marketplace may finally be within the world's grasp.

It is as though a line of dominos has suddenly appeared, awaiting the slightest push to set off a chain reaction. When the dominos begin to fall, the world will suddenly have a powerful and effective tool to reduce carbon emissions, one of the most environmentally destructive aspects of modern human activity.
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A global carbon market will create a new global system of economic values. Cleaner nations will become richer and their economies grow faster than dirty nations.

Carbon tax on hold : TTR Weekly

BRUSSELS, 22 March 2013: The EU will put its controversial carbon tax on intercontinental airline flights on hold for a year to give time for international talks to reach a compromise on the issue, a European source said Thursday.

U.S. Wind Industry Hangs on IRS Defining ‘Construction’ - Bloomberg

Uncertainty last year over whether it would be renewed is a key reason the U.S. is expected to install 4,800 megawatts of turbines this year, down from an estimated 11,800 megawatts in 2012, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said in a November report.

Norwegian Glacier Retreating To Levels That Were Normal During Roman Times | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

A pre-Viking woolen tunic found beside a thawing glacier in south Norway shows how global warming is proving something of a boon for archaeology, scientists said on Thursday. Norway’s Lendbreen glacier, where it was found, has not been so small since 300 AD.

The Trend In Global Drought Over The Past Six Decades | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Therefore, even in a situation where it had been thought to have been demonstrated that global warming promotes global drought, such is now known not to be correct.

Renewable Energy Losing Its Shine In Europe | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

European governments have realized that the growth in green energy subsidies – with consumers footing the bill for investors’ soaring profit margins – is out of control: The UK and Czech Republic have already cut their subsidies in half, while Italy imposed a cap on new renewable energy providers. Germany cut subsidies by up to 30%.

Mpls to Turn Out Lights for 'Earth Hour' Saturday | KSTP TV - Minneapolis and St. Paul

The City of Minneapolis will turn off all non-essential electricity in major municipal buildings from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.

CO2 investors disband JI lobby on bleak prospects

LONDON, March 21 (Reuters Point Carbon) – Developers of Joint Implementation (JI) emission reduction projects are to dissolve a lobby group promoting the U.N. mechanism and many are abandoning the scheme entirely because they see no prospect of a recovery in rock-bottom CO2 offset prices.

China needs $243 bln a year low-carbon investment by 2020-report - Reuters News - Point Carbon

LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) - China will have to raise up to $243 billion a year by 2020 to finance clean energy development, said a report commissioned by Beijing which will be presented to the government this month.

Cold weather delays strawberry harvest | WVEC.com Norfolk - Hampton Roads

Even with the row covers, the frigid temperatures have already stunted the crops' growth and caused harvest time to be pushed back from April to May.

Renault: When we advertised that you could use our planet-healing car for 130-mile trips, we forgot to mention that in cold weather, you might have to walk the last 70 miles

Renault reveal electric car Zoe can only achieve a range of 60 miles in cold weather and 90 miles in warmer climates

British drivers are not expected to warm to the new Renault Zoe, an all-electric city car, after Renault today revealed it can only achieve 60 miles in cold weather and 90 miles in normal conditions.

While its advertised range is 130 miles, in the real world, suburban use will take its toll on that figure.

The Inconvenient Skeptic » Introducing the Marcott 9

The end-point strategy for this paper was full of shenanigans.

Energy: the fast approaching crisis

As we gaze on the worst global warming of the season, with driving snow and deep drifts, so come the now ritual warnings about shortage of electricity capacity, on top of which – with the unseasonable weather - we face a gas crisis as supplies near exhaustion.

- Bishop Hill blog - Climategate: the role of the social sciences

'Climategate: the role of the social sciences', by Myanna Lahsen of the Brazilian Institute for Space Research, opens with an absolute howler

...there was a well-organized PR campaign ready to go at the time the emails were released (Pearce 2010a, 180), aimed at shaping public perceptions of ACC and undermine efforts to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases.

Twitter / kuminaidoo: You can't end #poverty without ...

You can't end #poverty without tackling #climate change http://huff.to/1489OeP  via @HuffPostGreen

If You Can’t Stand the Heat: Why Washington is Stuck on Climate Change (Part 1) | Environmental Defense Fund

It may be hard to pass climate change legislation by working with conservatives, but it will be nearly impossible to do so without them.

Twitter / DrShepherd2013: is "warmist" in the dictionary, ...

is "warmist" in the dictionary, since I noticed that adjective attached to my name in a blog somewhere... I prefer "peer-reviewist"

Twitter / RyanMaue: @DrShepherd2013 warmist is ...

@DrShepherd2013 warmist is less pejorative than denier, wouldn't you agree?

COLUMN: Vitali touts bills in fight against climate change - delcotimes.com

“Over the past year, we’ve seen record-breaking heat and drought across the U.S., devastating wildfires out west, and here in the east, the tremendous flooding and damage associated with the unprecedented Superstorm Sandy. Collectively these events are symptomatic of the warming of our planet and the changes in climate and weather patterns resulting from our continued burning of fossil fuels,” stated distinguished Penn State Climate Scientist Michael Mann at a recent Harrisburg press conference.

Theater of the Absurd Seasons, Revisited | Power Line

Last night the low temperature where I live was one degree...People sometimes lose sight of how remarkably variable the weather is.

Frackwater and Greenpeace Updated | Power Line

Writing about Greenpeace over at the Breakthrough Institute’s website, Matthew Nisbet points out, among other things, that Greenpeace is bigger than either the American Petroleum Institute, or the U.C. Chamber of Commerce. In fact, Greenpeace enjoys higher revenues than many major league sports franchises:
...Maybe we should say Greenpeace is the New York Yankees of environmentalism. Because everybody hates the Yankees.

Ann Widdecombe: Climate orthodoxy enforced with all the rigour of communism or fascism | Tallbloke's Talkshop

Recently retired MP and former minister under the Major government Ann Widdecombe comes right out and says it like it is. And gets it printed in a daily. Is the UK print media ‘coming over the wall’ in retaliation for Leveson?

Here comes Team Obama's carbon tax | Fox News

The Treasury Department’s Office of Environment and Energy has finally begun to turn over documents about its preparations for a carbon tax in response to transparency warrior Chris Horner’s Freedom of Information Act request. The documents provide solid evidence that the Obama administration and its allies in Congress have every intention of implementing a carbon tax if we fail to stop them.

[Wait, I thought Tom Friedman told us that we should model the U.S. after "green" China]: As Pollution Worsens in China, Solutions Succumb to Infighting - NYTimes.com

A haze akin to volcanic fumes cloaked the capital, causing convulsive coughing and obscuring the portrait ofMao Zedong on the gate to the Forbidden City.

Twitter / mark_lynas [No longer throwing pies in Lomborg's face?]

Think @BjornLomborg makes a good point on energy access & the pointlessness of Earth Hour lights off: http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/project_syndicate/2013/03/earth_hour_is_all_wrong_we_need_more_electricity_not_less.html …

Harvard Paper Examines Bill McKibben as Journalist, Public Intellectual and Activist | Center for Social Media

As I describe in the paper, McKibben is an example of a “knowledge journalist,” a special class of public intellectual who writes journalistically, but who unlike most of their journalistic peers specializes in the translation of complex subjects, often championing specific policy positions or causes.

Thousands sign school climate change petition started by 15-year-old | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Esha Marwaha from west London says she is outraged that climate change has been scaled back in national curriculum

Climate Change and the Integrity of Science redux – Significant Figures by Peter Gleick

Nearly two years ago, Science magazine published the following Lead Letter, signed by 255 members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences addressing attacks on the integrity of climate science. The science has continued to strengthen, the evidence in real world observations has become even stronger and more obvious.

SciAm: Mathematicians Unite to Tackle Climate Change | JunkScience.com

Of course, if these “mathematicians” could do simple math, they’d move on to some less futile problem.

We Don't Need No Stinking French Fry Grease - Small Dead Animals

The New England Complex Systems Institute has become the latest organization to charge that by turning almost 50 percent of our corn crop into auto fuel, America is causing food shortages in the poorer nations of the world. The UN Food and Agriculture Association has been saying the same thing for ten years, calling biofuels "a crime against humanity." But this time the authors are not simply making the accusation. They are providing correlations to back it up.

No Money For White House Tours, But $850,000 For Prairie Dogs | Real Science

CU to study impact of climate change on Boulder prairie dogs
Researchers in Boulder, Kansas receive $850,000 grant for project.

Colorado’s Skiing Devastation Continues | Real Science

Only 28 feet of snow so far this winter

CO2 Is A Chameleon | Real Science

Climate change can change colors, any time it feels its funding is threatened by reality.

Stations in Three Virginia TV Markets to Try Expanding Climate Coverage | The Yale Forum on Climate Change & The Media

The next step in the program, underwritten in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation and by additional private donations, will involve the partner organizations’ providing weekly materials to the participating broadcasters for their use on- and off-air, for instance on blogs, websites and social marketing media TV mets appear to be increasingly turning to. Additional information about the program is to be made available over time at Mason’s “4C” website.

GOP Congressman: 'The Best Thing About The Earth Is If You Poke Holes In It Oil And Gas Come Out' | ThinkProgress

Stockman asserts that liberals hate science, he refers to the scientific reality of anthropogenic climate change — something that could kill millions of people in the next two decades alone and ultimately destroy our livable climate — as “the new fad thing.”

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper corroborates Svensmark's theory of cosmoclimatology

A paper published today in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics finds "strong evidence" of a link between thunderstorm and solar activity in Brazil from 1951-2009. According to the authors, thunderstorm "behavior with respect to the 11-year solar cycle suggest a global mechanism probably related to a solar magnetic shielding effect acting on galactic cosmic rays as an explanation for the relationship of thunderstorm and solar activity," which would corroborate Svensmark's theory of cosmoclimatology.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds models don't reproduce climate changes of the Holocene Climatic Optimum

A paper published today in Climate of the Past finds climate models are unable to reproduce known climate change during the mid-Holocene Climatic Optimum, a warmer period than the present.

Climate Change Dispatch - Carbon's Wrongful Conviction

carbon dioxide is always released from the vast oceans when natural global warming occurs. Blaming increased carbon dioxide for global warming is like blaming wet roads for rain.

Quark Soup by David Appell: First they Came for the Political Scientists....

Yesterday the U.S. Senate voted to restrict NSF funding for political science.

How Greenpeace Defines Happiness | NoFrakkingConsensus

Greenpeace says we should deprive ourselves and harm our communities.

Theda Skocpol Doubles Down With Self-Contradictory, Blame-The-Victim Misanalysis Of Cap-And-Trade Failure | ThinkProgress

[Joe Romm] Not one single person I know in any established environmental NGO is “happily reveling” in the grim situation we are now in. Quite the reverse, they are all despairing of it and trying to figure out a new strategy.
...Tellingly, she calls me “Cap-and-Trader Joe Romm.” The last thing in this world I am is a “cap-and-trader” — indeed, I have been one of the harshest critics of that term in the world...

- Bishop Hill blog - Bad to worse

National Grid have spoken out before, but now the power companies are starting to voice their concerns over the shambles that successive governments have made of the power sector and the very real possibility that we may soon see the lights going out.

Front Page News: Blizzards, 60mph gales and panic buying: 36 hours of snow chaos on the way

HEAVY snow is expected over the next 36 hours as Britain shivers on the coldest March weekend for 50 years

Record snow leaves many in dark, and with plenty of spoiled food | Where's my Global Warming Dude? By Global Freeze

Power failures created by last Wednesday’s storm mean that many people are dumping spoiled food from refrigerators and freezers.

Bloom off of global warming on first day of (brrrr) spring - Politics - The Detroit News

“First day of spring?” said a WWJ-Detroit Radio forecasterWednesday morning in frigid, below-normal, 21-degree, Midwest temperatures with little relief in sight. “Feels more like the first day of January.”

ICSC MEDIA RELEASE - “EARTH HOUR” SHOULD BE REPLACED WITH "ENERGY HOUR"

Ottawa, Canada, March 21, 2013: “Earth Hour is a poignant symbol of how climate activists have hijacked the environmental movement,” said Tom Harris, executive director of the Ottawa, Canada-based International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC). “Most people do not realize that, when they turn out their lights for sixty minutes on March 23, they are not supporting science-based environmental protection. Participants in Earth Hour are unwittingly helping prop up one of the most threatening scientific hoaxes in history—the idea that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activities are known to be causing dangerous global warming and other problematic climate change.”

Balliol College: Master’s Seminar in Brussels | Roger Helmer MEP

So to my question (as near as I can remember):

Professor Henderson: You just showed a slide of temperature over the last 600,000 years, showing four previous interglacials. These earlier interglacials look almost exactly like the current one — except that two clearly show a slightly higher peak than today’s temperature. So what exactly is the exceptional event which needs an anthropogenic explanation? Isn’t the current temperature entirely consistent with patterns we have seen for hundreds of thousands of years?...

Lights On! Human Achievement Hour Tomorrow Night (March 23: 8:30–9:30 pm EST) — MasterResource

[Lomborg] “If we really want a sustainable future for all of humanity and our planet, we shouldn’t plunge ourselves back into darkness. Tackling climate change by turning off the lights and eating dinner by candlelight smacks of the “let them eat cake” approach to the world’s problems that appeals only to well-electrified, comfortable elites.”

Climate Denial Think Tank's Plans To Abolish Climate Change Departments in Australia | DeSmogBlog

Pretty much every other federal government function to administer climate change policy, research global warming, ensure sustainable development or support renewable energy gets chopped under Moran's plan.

Of Springtime, Flowers, Birds, Snow… | Musings from the Chiefio

There’s something going on here, but it fer dang sure isn’t warming.

Global Warming No Longer Measured By Temperature | Real Science

Temperatures have failed to rise during the current millennium, so the criminals behind this scam have switched over to naming every ordinary weather event as historic or unprecedented, and blaming it on democracy and free speech.

These fraudsters need to be prosecuted, and sooner or later they will be.

Climate Alarmists Repeating The Same Nonsense Since Nixon Was President | Real Science

02 Feb 1972 – Scientists fear for Arctic Sea ice

Gerard Wynn: UK Carbon Tax to be levied from April Fools Day – Get Ready for More Fuel Bill Hikes | Tallbloke's Talkshop

Despite the complete lack of evidence that human CO2 emissions cause any warming of the atmosphere, millions will be driven into fuel poverty as the snow continues to fall on chilly Britain.

IPCC Lead Author calls Lewandowsky “deluded” « JoNova

When Betts was informed about this by Barry Woods, he tweeted “Lewandowsky et al clearly deluded!”

Recursive Fury: Facts and misrepresentations

One misrepresentation of Recursive Fury is that we accuse Professor Richard Betts of the Met Office of being a conspiracy theorist because one of his quotes appears in our raw data. This inclusion of a relevant comment in the raw data of a Supplementary Material document was reported in hyperventilating fashion by one blogger as a spectacular carcrash. However, there is no mention of Professor Betts in our final paper and we are certainly not claiming that he is a conspiracy theorist. To claim otherwise is to ignore what we say about the online supplement in the paper itself. The presence of the comment in the supplementary material just attests to the thoroughness of our daily Google search.

La, la, la. I can’t hear you, I’m not listening. | Pointman's

The hard data quite simply doesn’t support the theory of global warming. The theory and all the models are wrong. There hasn’t been any of the predicted warming in nearly two decades but that doesn’t matter if you can get your fingers in your ears quick enough and do a bit of chanting. For supposedly scientific people, what they don’t appear to understand is actually quite simple. If you try to positively test a fundamentally wrong theory, then it’s easy for someone to pick out the flaw in your supposed proof. It’s for that simple reason, we win every time, Buster, every time.

The NO CARBON TAX Climate Sceptics Blog: Wind Turbines kill up to 39 million birds a year!

The Greens are all for wild life and the preservation of natural things. We must surely soon see the Greens campaigning against the terrible slaughter of 39 million birds a year.

WWF Slaps Down Polar Bear Protection Bill So it Can Keep Using Them as Global Warming Mascot | hauntingthelibrary

Most shockingly of all, though, is the cynical maneuvering of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). Faced with the possibility of increased protection under the CITES rules on trading animal furs and parts, the WWF said they would OPPOSE any such increased protection.

Evasive reply from Bureau of Meteorology to my question re a 2011 fault in Perth Metro temperature data

What does it all mean ?
My take is that I pinpointed a data fault that they do not want to address – and now they hope I will go away.

How Many “Top Threats” Do We Have? | Real Science

The military says that global warming is the top threat to US security. DHS says that veterans and people with Ron Paul bumper stickers are the top threat to US security, and now NSA says that they have to read your E-mail in order to protect you.

Quadrant Online - Right wing? No, I'm a liberal and proud of it

The polemical nature of the IPCC reports, the way in which opponents have been systematically vilified and denied access to funds and publication, the absence of any critical third party evaluation of the models, all imply an illiberal and political agenda. Certainly scientists need to seek funds and to put their best foot forward in doing so, but the way in which the climate people are using Green hysteria to attract massive funding amounts to nothing less than the prostitution of science. It is illiberal to the core.

No, I am not right wing. I am a liberal.

Al's Journal : "Time has come" for a carbon tax

Last weekend, the Financial Times published a must-read editorial on the need for a national carbon tax:

Coldest UK March in 50 years

With conservationists warning that the prolonged winter weather is damaging wildlife, Britain is on track to suffer its coldest March in more than 50 years.

CapitalClimate: Think It Was Cold Today, DC? Not Your Great-Great Grandfather's March of the Penguins

the afternoon high did reach 41°. This was well below the historical average of 58° in Washington, DC

I hope this GCM is wrong, yet more cold weather | Tallbloke's Talkshop

Growing conditions continue to be bad, running about a month later than last year here in southern England.

So cold in Minnesota NOAA runs out of colors

It is the second day of spring and most of Minnesota was below zero this morning but you wouldn’t know it from NOAA’s real-time temperature map. This was from 9:12 this morning when it was -14º F below zero in Bemidji Minnesota, according to this color chart it looks like it was a whopping 0º in Bemidji. There should be at least 2 more levels of colors that would go down to -20º. Is NOAA trying to hide the decline?

Jared Diamond, Yesterday’s World, Today’s Perceptions, Tomorrow’s Climate

it was largely unheard of in traditional societies for anyone to traipse more than a few dozen miles from home turf, for fear of being killed or otherwise harmed for trespassing on the neighboring society’s land.  [Wait, didn't Scientific American just tell us that we have "more mobility constraints" nowadays?]

Study Shows Southwest Droughts Of The Past “Were More Severe, Persistent Than Any Of The Last 100 Years”!

Well imagine that! All this when atmospheric CO2 concentrations were at the “desirable 280 ppm...

Warning Signs: An Hour of Darkness. Or Light!

Earth Hour is just one more way for the Greens to continue spreading their lies about fossil fuels, plastic, and chemicals they want to demonize despite the advances in health and longevity, the manufacture of products we use, and the extraordinary lifestyle we enjoy with abundant food and protection against the multitude of insect and rodent pests that afflict us, along with the many species of weeds that affect crops.

McKitten Stupidity Expected To Worsen In 2013 | Real Science

What a world class maroon. With all the frozen ground and snow, floods are much more likely than drought this spring.

Fargo flood coming?

Chances of a top-five flood increased with near-record cold temperatures that have delayed the snowmelt, which isn't expected to begin until the first week of April, NWS officials said. The chances of major rainfall totals also increase around that time.

In defense of environmental extremism

[Marc Gunther] Had Barry Goldwater been an environmentalist, he might have said that extremism in defense of the earth is no vice and that moderation, when it comes to climate change, is no virtue.

WaPo: ‘Yes, conservatives can be environmentalists. Here’s how.’ | JunkScience.com

Poor Jonathan Adler, formerly of the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute and now a law professor at Case Western University, has forgotten whatever it was he learned while at CEI and has now embraced free market-flavored central planning.

Note in the interview, that Adler also embraces climate alarmism and a carbon tax.

Video: Nuremberg-Trials-for-Skeptics-Guy says Earth’s surface temp may reach 180-degrees F by 2300 without emissions curbs | JunkScience.com

But the Earth only re-radiates so much radiation for CO2 to absorb and there’s already a surfeit of CO2 in the atmosphere.

North Dakota Shatters Cold Records | Real Science

A RECORD LOW TEMPERATURE OF -13 DEGREES WAS SET AT GRAND FORKS INTL AP THIS MORNING…BREAKING THE PREVIOUS RECORD OF -7 DEGREES SET IN 1965.

Nunavut (Canada’s Arctic) Temperature Falling From -8C to -12C Per Decade For Last 3 years | sunshine hours

Temperature is falling. From -8C to -12C per decade. Amazing.

Sure. Only 3 years. But did anyone else tell you this news?

UK Pays A High Price For Listening To NASA Snake Oil Salesman | Real Science

Energy bills to rise £100 next winter, official forecasts suggest – Telegraph

GISS February Is In! | Real Science

Below Scenario C. It is looking bad for Hansen, but March will be even worse.

I'm confused: If warm weather is so bad for our health, why did warmist Jonathan Overpeck choose to live in Arizona and then take his family to Australia for months during their hot summer?

Thinking about heat – real heat

The timing of this piece, and Mike’s question, was strangely coincidental for me. On sabbatical in Melbourne, Australia, my family and I just finished weathering our second record heat wave in the two months we’ve been here. Although 100+ degree F heat is very unusual here, and the week we arrived the entire country peaked at over 100 degrees F.

Punxsutawny Phil sentenced to DEATH: Ohio court indicts famous groundhog with misrepresentation of Spring after cold weather continues | Mail Online

Punxsutawney Phil, the famous Groundhog whose job it is to predict the start of Spring, has been sentenced to the death penalty after the rash of cold weather we've been having.

Polar Bear Blog – We Learned Something About Bears!

It was previously believed that a 50% ice concentration signified ‘breakup’ now it looks more like Churchill’s bears need only 20-30% ice cover. In the fall, they only need about 10% ice on Hudson Bay to leave… but if you’ve been reading polar bear alley for a while, you knew that too!

Here are a couple of weather experts who actually believe in climate change | Grist

The National Weather Service’s spring outlook, by the way? “Above-normal temperatures” for the vast majority of the country.

Polar bears of W. Hudson Bay came ashore in 2009 as late as in 1992 | polarbearscience

http://polarbearscience.com/2013/03/21/polar-bears-of-w-hudson-bay-came-ashore-in-2009-as-late-as-in-1992/

The study also confirms that there has not been any kind of spectacular retreat of sea ice breakup dates – coming earlier and earlier in the season – over the last 19 years and that polar bears did not arrive on shore in 2009 until very late – approximately 22 August – the same date they came ashore in 1992.

Sub-zero Temps in Minnesota

http://M4GW.com/sub-zero-temps-in-minnesota/
Bemidji Minnesota woke up to -14º this morning in fact most of the state is below zero this morning on the second day of spring.

Vestas Opposes Investor Call for Probe Into Accounting Change - Bloomberg

Vestas Wind Systems A/S (VWS), the unprofitable Danish wind turbine maker, is fighting an attempt by investors to probe a change in its accounting policy that they say damaged the company’s share price.

China’s Solar Billionaire Undone as Banks Push Suntech to Brink - Bloomberg

Shi Zhengrong, once China’s richest man, saw his fortune further unravel yesterday as the solar company he founded allowed its main unit to tip into insolvency.

China reports big drop in new carbon offset projects - News - Point Carbon

BEIJING, March 21 (Reuters Point Carbon) - The number of new carbon-cutting projects launched in the world’s biggest-emitting nation has dropped to a fraction of previous levels as developers struggle to find a market for their carbon credits.

Future World carbon credit scam took victims for £2.5m - Investigations

The following bilge would be ­laughable if it hadn't conned victims out of their life savings.

"Our aim is to build long-standing client relationships based on integrity and reward," gushed World Future Limited, which flogged green investments called carbon credits.

Myrtle Beach area under freeze warning, elevated fire danger through Friday | Crime | MyrtleBeachOnline.com

Sensitive vegetation may be damaged or killed by the unseasonably cold temperatures, according to the forecast.

Oceans May Absorb More Carbon Dioxide: Scientific American

Plankton may absorb more of the CO2 causing climate change than previously thought, according to new research

Twitter / MichaelEMann: Attacks comments on ...

Attacks comments on @YaleAlumniMag profile prove thesis of both the piece & my book (http://bit.ly/sRasaq ) #HSCW http://fb.me/M2ke8YSo

Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog : An unusually quiet March for tornadoes--only 6 so far | Weather Underground

Since 2000, the U.S. has averaged 89 tornadoes each March, so we have a long way to go to reach average.

RABBI JUDY WEISS: Climate change liars will have their sins to answer for - News - Quincy, MA - The Patriot Ledger

Thanks for the review of “Greedy Lying Bastards.” It got two things wrong – the filmmaker doesn’t think climate deniers are morons; he thinks they lie intentionally, as part of a planned conspiracy. It also called the movie partisan. That’s wrong because climate science, loyalty to country and devotion to truth are not partisan. However, the film may appear partisan because so many Republicans are greedy, lying (expletive) – for example, George W. Bush, Sen. Inhofe, Justice Thomas, Myron Ebell, David Koch, Philip Cooney, Mitt Romney and the astroturfers of the tea party.
...
They will one day meet their maker and will have their sins to answer for. In the meantime, we have work to do.

March 21 – Not A Peep Out Of Hansen | Real Science

GISS is almost two months behind on their published temperature anomaly, which will probably be more than 50% below zero emissions scenario C.

Abu Dhabi mega solar plant will free up oil to export | Grist

It’s the biggest plant of its kind in the world, it cost an estimated $750 million to build, it should power 20,000 homes, and it’s expected to save 175,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year.

Twitter / AGW_Prof: Note to climate experts: Talking ...

[retweeted by Michael Mann] Note to climate experts: Talking to David Rose of Daily Mail is like being a little piggy who answers the door when Big Bad Wolf knocks.

What’s in a Standard Deviation? | Read the Science

Remember how I said keep in mind that 99.7% of all data points in a population are within three standard deviations on a bell curve? That’s because we are currently heading off the edge of the chart for weird and unprecedented climate, beyond even the 0.1% chance of occurring without human carbon pollution.

Climate change: Is it game over for Earth? - San Francisco Climate Change | Examiner.com

Cattle Slump on Outlook for Slow Grilling Demand

Cattle futures extended a decline on speculation that persistent cold weather in the U.S. will keep consumers from grilling outdoors, signaling lower meat demand.

Illinois: Unseasonably cold weather hurts some local businesses

it's especially frustrating for companies who rely on warmer temperatures to make money this time of year.

Spring Break Chicago! Tourists react to the cold weather that just won’t go away | WGN-TV

This morning we went out to Michigan Avenue to see how people were coping with the absurdly cold weather. Wind chills were right around zero degrees at that time. Yes, it’s March 20, the first day of Spring, and it felt like ZERO POINT ZERO outside.

US Second Coldest March Since 1969 (So Far) | Real Science

At inaugural Mass, Pope Francis calls for defending environment, poor

The pope’s homily was striking for its repeated references to environmental protection, highlighting what is likely to be a central theme of his papacy and setting up the 76-year-old pope as a leading activist against climate change.

When mankind fails to care for creation and for the weak, “the way is opened to destruction and hearts are hardened. Tragically, in every period of history there are ‘Herods’ who plot death, wreak havoc, and mar the countenance of men and women.”

Deniers Be Warned: You’re Paying for Global Warming Like Everyone Else

A new video from ‘The Climate Reality Project’ proves that we’re paying for the sins of two corrupt industries.

Adopt A Polar Bear? Have You Seen What They Do? | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Save the whale? That’s so 1970s. Now it’s the mighty polar bear that has become the poster child of the environmental movement. But are polar bears really facing extinction, or are they just a photogenic vehicle for promoting alarm about global warming?

Longer Allergy Seasons Mean More Anti-allergy Efforts, From the March 2013 Harvard Health Letter - Yahoo! News

Boston, MA (PRWEB) March 21, 2013
Although snow still blankets parts of northern states, spring allergy season is already underway in many parts of the country. It's starting earlier each year due to warmer weather patterns, reports the March 2013 Harvard Health Letter.

Northeast Ohio forecast is for cold temperatures and snow, possibly 8 inches in snow belt | cleveland.com

Cold snap delays peak bloom of D.C. cherry blossoms

The Park Service moved back the peak bloom, that's the moment when at least 70 percent of the blossoms are open, from April 3 to April 6.

The peak had been expected to begin on March 26, but that was before the recent cold snap.

There Is Only One Way To Educate These People | Real Science

The whacko left is convinced that the cost of fossil fuels far exceeds its benefits. They won’t understand their mind-boggling stupidity until the light and heat goes off.

Enviro frets in Nature mag: ‘Poverty alleviation could undermine’ sustainable development | JunkScience.com

Reminds me of the infamous enviro sentiment concerning the use of DDT to control malaria in Africa: The poor are “better off dead than riotously reproducing.”

Tom Steyer: Billionaire Investor Turned Climate Activist: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA

[audio] Thomas Steyer, co-founder Next Generation, a research and communications organization focused on climate change and families; founder and former co-managing partner of Farallon Capital Management

Kevin Anderson, adviser (as of 2009) to the British Government on climate change: "I see imperialism thriving – with the new and much more invidious ‘Church of Mammon’ fossil-fuelling the crusade"

Mar 2013. Presentation at Joseph Rowntree Foundation event on climate and fairness | kevinanderson.info

I see imperialism thriving – with the new and much more invidious ‘Church of Mammon’ fossil-fuelling the crusade. Until we acknowledge this dogmatic Zeitgeist along with the scale of the challenge we face, our blinkers will remain firmly in place and we’ll fail to conceive of an alternative low-carbon and climate-resilient future.

Flashback: Warmist Kevin Anderson on his personal efforts to prevent CO2-induced bad weather: "I’ve done without a fridge for 12 years, but recently relented...I’ve cut back on washing and showering"

Flashback: Warmist Kevin Anderson: "I think it’s extremely unlikely that we wouldn’t have mass death at 4 degrees"

Kevin Anderson (scientist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Professor Kevin Anderson is the Deputy Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research;[1] holds a joint chair in Energy and Climate Change at the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester and School of Environmental Sciences at University of East Anglia; and is an honorary lecturer in Environmental Management at the Manchester Business School.[2][3] He is an adviser to the British Government (as of 2009) on climate change.