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Saturday, April 06, 2013
Obama : No Money For White House Tours – Lots Of Money For Green Energy Scamsters |
Fisker Automotive — the electric-car maker that was granted a half-billion-dollar federal loan and on Friday dismissed about 75 percent of its remaining workforce — is purportedly facing a lawsuit from the same firm that sued the government-funded Solyndra company.
Eco-Terrorists Attack Conservatives in New Film | NewsBusters
http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/mike-ciandella/2013/04/06/eco-terrorists-attack-conservatives-new-film
Rosebraugh, the film's director, has been an outspoken activist for both the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front, both of which are classified as domestic terror groups by the FBI. In a press release on both groups, the FBI stated that "eco-terrorists and animal rights extremists are one of the most serious domestic terrorism threats in the U.S. today."
Rosebraugh, the film's director, has been an outspoken activist for both the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front, both of which are classified as domestic terror groups by the FBI. In a press release on both groups, the FBI stated that "eco-terrorists and animal rights extremists are one of the most serious domestic terrorism threats in the U.S. today."
Hottest year ever update: "South Dakota prob see winter storm conditions for 3-full days starting Monday evening"
 | Ryan Maue (@RyanMaue) |
South Dakota prob see winter storm conditions for 3-full days starting Monday evening. ECMWF 12z has 2'+ in snowfall | |
Save Kolkata's soul from being sullied: Rajendra Pachauri - The Times of India
KOLKATA: Rajendra Pachauri, chairperson of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the 2007 Nobel peace prize with former US vice-president Al Gore, is saddened by the city's dissociation with environment in its quest to become another modern metropolis. He hopes it can resist the temptation to be a me-too city sans character with an unsustainable development model.
Environmental Agenda Unnoticed In Pakistan Polls
http://www.eurasiareview.com/06042013-environmental-agenda-unnoticed-in-pakistan-polls-analysis/
The environment has never been matter of concern for Pakistan and the tendency goes further chronic as all mainstream political parties, bracing for participation in the forthcoming polls, have placed environment issues at the bottom of their draft manifestos for 2013 elections.
The environment has never been matter of concern for Pakistan and the tendency goes further chronic as all mainstream political parties, bracing for participation in the forthcoming polls, have placed environment issues at the bottom of their draft manifestos for 2013 elections.
Beware the wrong kind of Leafs on the road - Booker - Telegraph
While David Cameron and the BBC promote battery-charged electric cars, do they realise how dotty and ineffective they are?
Polar Bear Blog – "one of the best cub years in at least a decade"
http://www.polarbearalley.com/blog/index.php/2013/04/06/polar-bear-blog-muskrat-reindeer-polar-bear/
Yesterday, we drove the ice road to Tuktoyaktuk. It is still -30C up here, unseasonably cold, the Inuvialuit (western Inuit) are not overly thrilled, it is hunting time. The hunters up in Tuktoyaktuk are having a tough time getting at polar bears this year. Some years the sea ice is good and other years, like this one, the sea freezes rough and travel is almost impossible.
...I was chatting with Chuck Gruben, one of the top hunters in the area, and he mentioned that he thinks this is one of the best cub years in at least a decade. He said it is still a strange year as they are not seeing many ringed seals – likely due to the cold and heavy ice on the coast. They see bearded seals but this is not really a prime target for mothers and cubs. Still, it should be a good year for bears, provided it warms up a bit!
New Hockey Stick Sent to the Permanent Penalty Box | Heartlander Magazine
Wow! According to the author of the paper himself, the very portion of the paper alarmists and the media have been proclaiming as the climatic equivalent of the Zombie Apocalypse "cannot be considered representative of global temperature changes." So all we are left with is a temperature reconstruction that shows temperatures by 1900 A.D. had sunk to their coldest levels since the last ice age epoch ended 11,000 years ago. Perhaps maybe a little twentieth century global warming may have been just what the planet needed after all.
Understanding Global Warming Theory | Real Science
Falling temperatures mean global warming has slowed
Dyson: Climatologists are no Einsteins
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LuboMotlsReferenceFrame/~3/h4B6PX3NtVM/dyson-climatologists-are-no-einsteins.html
Needless to say, my description of the situation of the "hardcore alarmed climatology" was way too kind because they don't even verify the single only "calculated" result – the climate sensitivity. When it differs by a factor of 3 from the observations, they just don't care. So they don't predict anything. They have absolutely no data – no "threats" for their pet ideas – that could direct their construction and improvement of the theories.
Needless to say, my description of the situation of the "hardcore alarmed climatology" was way too kind because they don't even verify the single only "calculated" result – the climate sensitivity. When it differs by a factor of 3 from the observations, they just don't care. So they don't predict anything. They have absolutely no data – no "threats" for their pet ideas – that could direct their construction and improvement of the theories.
The Looming Population Implosion
UN estimates that by 2100 the Earth's population will be 6.2 billion, if low fertility and birth rate continues on its current path, below the 7 billion we are at now.
Global Warmed--life in a warm city
http://thelukewarmersway.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/global-warmed/
Aside from the statistics, what anyone can see in a taxi ride from the airport to the hotel is people living a very normal, if very different life. Whatever problems they face, and they face a myriad, climate and climate change is not very high on the list. They look animated, healthy, vibrant and completely engaged in life.
Aside from the statistics, what anyone can see in a taxi ride from the airport to the hotel is people living a very normal, if very different life. Whatever problems they face, and they face a myriad, climate and climate change is not very high on the list. They look animated, healthy, vibrant and completely engaged in life.
Friday, April 05, 2013
Filmmaker Who Immersed Himself in Homeless Life as Part of Journalism Job Application Apparently Froze to Death
http://m.gawker.com/5993777/filmmaker-who-immersed-himself-in-homeless-life-as-part-of-journalism-job-application-apparently-froze-to-death
Though an official cause of death has yet to be released, friends of 26-year-old Lee Halpin believe he froze to death after overnight temperatures in Newcastle (UK) dipped well below zero degrees Celsius (32F).
Though an official cause of death has yet to be released, friends of 26-year-old Lee Halpin believe he froze to death after overnight temperatures in Newcastle (UK) dipped well below zero degrees Celsius (32F).
Birdbrain feminist in NYTimes: “Women can be the ‘canaries’ for climate change”; Calls for “climate justice” |
http://junkscience.com/2013/04/05/birdbrain-feminist-in-nytimes-women-can-be-the-canaries-for-climate-change-calls-for-climate-justice/
Of course, the lives of third-world women sucked before "climate change" and would continue to suck even if climate didn't change. In fact, climate change has nothing to do with the quality of their lives. Poverty is the problem, not climate. Even Hillary Clinton gets this
Of course, the lives of third-world women sucked before "climate change" and would continue to suck even if climate didn't change. In fact, climate change has nothing to do with the quality of their lives. Poverty is the problem, not climate. Even Hillary Clinton gets this
NASA Global Warming Extremist James Hansen Leaves To Fight Canadian Pipeline
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/040513-650859-nasas-hansen-quits-to-fight-keystone-pipeline.htm?p=full
Climate Change: The man who once compared coal trains to Nazi boxcars headed to crematoria leaves government service to fight what he calls the "pipeline to disaster" and promote his brand of climate quackery.
Climate Change: The man who once compared coal trains to Nazi boxcars headed to crematoria leaves government service to fight what he calls the "pipeline to disaster" and promote his brand of climate quackery.
Russian Scientists Warn Global Temperatures To Fall 1.5°C By 2050. Strong Doubts About Warming
Yesterday Germany's No. 1 daily (circulation over 3.5 million), Bild online, carried the shock headline story: "Russian scientist sees next ice age approaching. Starting in 2014 it will start getting colder and colder +++ migration of people cannot be excluded".
Global Warming and Climate Science; Science and Politics
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2013/04/global-warming-and-climate-science.html
A magnicent new paper by Emeritus Professor Cliff Ollier.
A magnicent new paper by Emeritus Professor Cliff Ollier.
Obama-backed green automaker lays off most staff in 'strategic' step - The Hill's E2-Wire
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/292149-obama-backed-electric-automaker-lays-off-most-staff-
Fisker Automotive, a federally backed maker of plug-in hybrid cars, laid off 75 percent of its workers Friday as it struggles to stay afloat and find new capital, according to press accounts.
Fisker Automotive, a federally backed maker of plug-in hybrid cars, laid off 75 percent of its workers Friday as it struggles to stay afloat and find new capital, according to press accounts.
Global warming: time to rein back on doom and gloom? - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/9974397/Global-warming-time-to-rein-back-on-doom-and-gloom.html
Climate change scientists acknowledge that the decline in rapid temperature increases is a positive sign
Climate change scientists acknowledge that the decline in rapid temperature increases is a positive sign
NOAA: ‘Climate literacy’ for kids includes knowing both the Mann and Marcott hokey sticks
http://junkscience.com/2013/04/05/noaa-climate-literacy-for-kids-includes-knowing-both-the-mann-and-marcott-hokey-sticks/
The IPCC has abandoned Mann's. Marcott has debinked his own. Why is NOAA teaching this junk?
The IPCC has abandoned Mann's. Marcott has debinked his own. Why is NOAA teaching this junk?
Climatologists Are No Einsteins, Says His Successor
"It's certainly true that carbon dioxide is good for vegetation," Dyson said. "About 15 percent of agricultural yields are due to CO2 we put in the atmosphere. From that point of view, it's a real plus to burn coal and oil."
In fact, there's more solid evidence for the beneficial effects of CO2 than the negative effects, he said. So why does the public hear only one side of this debate? Because the media do an awful job of reporting it.
"They're absolutely lousy," he said of American journalists. "That's true also in Europe. I don't know why they've been brainwashed."
Four Penn State profs to bicycle to DC to raise awareness on climate; ‘A journey of faith’
Faith is what it takes to believe Penn State's own Michael Mann.
Scientists dismiss claims coal is good for the climate
"We have an initial benefit of 'greening the planet', only to pay later by having a much less predictable climate," says Dr Martin Lukac, a lecturer in crop science at the University of Reading.
Warmist Phil Plait: Still defending the Marcott et al blade after Marcott et al abandoned it
Recently, a big study was released which showed that the warming we are seeing over the past century is unprecedented for at least the past 11,000 years, and while there were warmer periods in the past, the rate of current warming is what's so scary.
This study was well-done, carefully referenced, and clearly worded. So of course it's under vicious attack by the usual suspects.
WaPo Op-ed: Relying on renewable energy ‘unwise’, ‘far from realistic’; Carbon reduction ‘more sensible’ way to win race against global warming’ | JunkScience.com
"Worldwide coal production increased about eight times faster than solar- and wind-power generation last year."
Is a Game of Thrones Winter Coming?: English major Chris Mooney suggests that global warming causes frozen sheep
Frozen sheep, slowing jet streams, record snowfalls—all signs, climate scientists say, of a stark new reality.
If global warming would save lives in the UK, should we spend enormous amounts of money in futile attempts to stop it?
www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2013/04/is-it-worth-tackling-climate-change-now
The biggest possible benefit for the UK appears to be reduced winter mortality - Defra predicts there could be between 5,000 and 24,000 fewer premature deaths from the cold.
But on balance, it's doubtful the benefits of climate change will outweigh the risks in the UK - even below two degrees of warming, according to Defra's report. While we may be experiencing better wheat yields in the 2080s, it looks like there will be plenty to worry about: Defra says possible impacts will water shortages, and an extra 1,000 to 6,000 summer deaths.
No Sea Level Rise In California For Half A Century | Real Science
One year ago, government funded climate experts told us to expect a massive rise in sea level in California by 2030.
CET March 2013
The annual anomaly is now running well below average, at –1.40C, a figure not seen since the 19thC.
Warmist scientists on increased polar bear population: "That doesn't matter"
mediamatters.org/mobile/blog/2013/04/04/8-tips-from-scientists-on-covering-polar-bears/193443
What climate deniers like to pull out is that there are more polar bears now than in the 1960s. That doesn't matter...
What climate deniers like to pull out is that there are more polar bears now than in the 1960s. That doesn't matter...
Climate change may be irreversible, but we control the future trajectory
If emissions were to cease abruptly, average global temperatures would eventually stabilize, and remain stable for centuries
Gavin Schmidt and Kerry Emanuel selling looming CO2-induced water crisis?
climate.yale.edu/event/ycei-annual-conference-water-looming-crises
Public discussions of climate change often focus on greenhouse gases and rising temperatures, but the most severe and immediate societal impacts of global warming are likely to be associated with changing hydrological conditions. Disruptions in water supply, extreme storms and record droughts may impact every aspect of rural and urban society: from agriculture and manufacturing to housing, energy and human health.
Public discussions of climate change often focus on greenhouse gases and rising temperatures, but the most severe and immediate societal impacts of global warming are likely to be associated with changing hydrological conditions. Disruptions in water supply, extreme storms and record droughts may impact every aspect of rural and urban society: from agriculture and manufacturing to housing, energy and human health.
[Fake] Nobel prize winner talks climate change in Billings
http://www.ktvq.com/mobile/news/nobel-prize-winner-talks-climate-change-in-billings/
Dr. Running said it's important to stop burning coal, even if it has negative effects on our economy.
Dr. Running said it's important to stop burning coal, even if it has negative effects on our economy.
Wind Power, Bats, and the Ecological Double Standard
http://www.masterresource.org/2013/04/wind-power-bats-double-standard/
"It's high time that people's safety – and truly devastating impacts on important bird and bat species – stopped taking a back seat to political agendas, crony corporatism, and folklore environmentalism."
"It's high time that people's safety – and truly devastating impacts on important bird and bat species – stopped taking a back seat to political agendas, crony corporatism, and folklore environmentalism."
Articles: 'Trust Us, Skeptics Are Crooks'
One of the most overlooked aspects of the anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming (AGW) issue is the way it defends its science conclusions by saying nobody offers valid scientific critiques. The science is settled.
Anyone suggesting otherwise is branded an anti-science heretic, with the mere mention of the words "skeptic climate scientists" bringing on withering accusations about skeptics being paid by the fossil fuel industry to lie about the issue.
As thaw sets in, farmers are left to count the cost of the heavy snowfall on their livestock - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk
Desperate farmers continue to battle through snowdrifts of up to 30ft in search of their animals with many fearing they face financial ruin.
Now That’s Cold… | Musings from the Chiefio
Note, too, that it WAS this cold in 1916, so this is not "unprecedented" cold. Neither is it a "warming cold" or a Global Warming Chilling (or however they are trying to package the bald faced lie that Global Warming manifests as being colder…
No, this is just your garden variety "Once in a 100 years miserably cold UK".
Thursday, April 04, 2013
Greens Against Growth – Except Their Own
If "constant growth" is bad, why does the David Suzuki Foundation keep getting bigger and bigger?
WaPo Omits Bad Pew Study Numbers On Global Warming | NewsBusters
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-vespa/2013/04/03/wapo-omits-bad-pew-study-numbers-global-warming#ixzz2PVRXzG7S
in four years, the urgency of trying to combat global warming never broke the 30 percent mark.
in four years, the urgency of trying to combat global warming never broke the 30 percent mark.
Optimism, blogging and the big green killing machine.
http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/optimism-blogging-and-the-green-killing-machine/
By now, it's become obvious to even the most fervent true believer that the mass opinion of the world is changing its view fundamentally about things like the credibility of the science underpinning global warming, the self-proclaimed superior morality of environmentalism and the whole political subtext. Increasingly, people are not only resentful and suspicious of the whole package but idly wondering if it even has any relevance to anything that actually matters to them.
By now, it's become obvious to even the most fervent true believer that the mass opinion of the world is changing its view fundamentally about things like the credibility of the science underpinning global warming, the self-proclaimed superior morality of environmentalism and the whole political subtext. Increasingly, people are not only resentful and suspicious of the whole package but idly wondering if it even has any relevance to anything that actually matters to them.
Zappos CEO wants to lure Las Vegas residents out of their cars
grist.org/cities/zappos-ceo-wants-to-lure-las-vegas-residents-out-of-their-cars
The idea is to provide an alternative to personal cars that is fast, flexible, multi-modal, and personalized — something that is easy the way returning shoes to Zappos is easy. It's called Project 100. Ace reporter Katie Fehrenbacher has agreat write-up of the plan, but to quickly summarize, Hsieh wants to populate downtown Las Vegas with:
- 100 Tesla Model S sedans with professional drivers...
Poll: 3 in 8 Americans Believe Global Warming A Hoax | Weather Underground
Dr. Jeff Masters, co-founder and director of meteorology atWeather Underground, isn't hedging his bets:
"So, who is more likely to be correct -- the 97% of all publishing climate scientists, who view the evidence as showing that humans are primarily responsible for global warming? Or the 37% of the public who view global warming as a hoax, who have been subject to a massive PR campaign by the richest industry in human history, to make them believe just that? I'll go with the 97% of climate scientists."
Inslee’s emissions proposal is unrealistic
http://sppiblog.org/news/inslees-emissions-proposal-is-unrealistic
The question is whether these reductions, even if they could be achieved, would actually have any measurable effect on global climate — and to what extent would the state's economy and the lifestyle of its citizens be impacted. The answer is troubling.
The question is whether these reductions, even if they could be achieved, would actually have any measurable effect on global climate — and to what extent would the state's economy and the lifestyle of its citizens be impacted. The answer is troubling.
Marcott Monte Carlo
http://climateaudit.org/2013/04/04/marcott-monte-carlo/
can this set of proxies realistically tell us the mean Temperature more than 5 millennia back within .18 degrees with 95% confidence?
can this set of proxies realistically tell us the mean Temperature more than 5 millennia back within .18 degrees with 95% confidence?
Live With Your Answers – “Occupy” A World Without Oil
http://sppiblog.org/news/live-with-your-answers-occupy-a-world-without-oil
After one week of living without oil and its products, ask them to talk about the advantages of their "twelfth-century chic" lifestyle. I say to them and their kind; live with your answers before you preach and force them on others.
After one week of living without oil and its products, ask them to talk about the advantages of their "twelfth-century chic" lifestyle. I say to them and their kind; live with your answers before you preach and force them on others.
Caldeira: The Great Climate Experiment | Planet3.0
http://planet3.org/2013/04/04/caldeira-the-great-climate-experiment/
The greenhouse that is forming now will have consequences that last for hundreds of thousands of years or more.
The greenhouse that is forming now will have consequences that last for hundreds of thousands of years or more.
New World Bank chief: Global temps could increase 4-degrees C by 2060; Asks “What’s the plan?”
http://junkscience.com/2013/04/04/new-world-bank-chief-global-temps-could-increase-4-degrees-c-by-2060-asks-whats-the-plan/
"If you believe the science it is about family values," says Jim Yong Kim.
"If you believe the science it is about family values," says Jim Yong Kim.
Former EPA Climate Adviser Rips Obama Over Environmental Regulations | Mother Jones
In a stinging critique at the Yale Journal on Regulation, one of the EPA's former top officials on climate change argues that the Obama White House has been the biggest impediment to tough regulations.
Intellectually Incurious Today Show Hosts are Shocked That So Many People Know Global Warming is a Hoax - The Rush Limbaugh Show
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/04/04/intellectually_incurious_today_show_hosts_are_shocked_that_so_many_people_know_global_warming_is_a_hoax
RUSH: Do you realize, ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna try and be nice here. This is the weatherman of the Today show, Al Roker. Now, everybody knows the manmade global warming thing is a hoax. There's another story about it today about a firm that has been caught lying about its data and falsely interpreting its data, which shows a temperature plunge. They changed it to show a massive temperature increase over some historical period. They have admitted the lie. We have the e-mails from East Anglia, it is, for those engaged in intellectual inquiry, a hoax. The whole thing is made up. It was phony from the get-go.
RUSH: Do you realize, ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna try and be nice here. This is the weatherman of the Today show, Al Roker. Now, everybody knows the manmade global warming thing is a hoax. There's another story about it today about a firm that has been caught lying about its data and falsely interpreting its data, which shows a temperature plunge. They changed it to show a massive temperature increase over some historical period. They have admitted the lie. We have the e-mails from East Anglia, it is, for those engaged in intellectual inquiry, a hoax. The whole thing is made up. It was phony from the get-go.
Bummer: Some idiot thinks that CO2 may cause the collapse of civilization
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2013/04/04/keystone-xl-climate-change-agriculture-montana_n_3013985.html
"The collapse of our civilization is a real possiblity if we continue down this path, building things like Keystone, and yet, the only thing the State Department seems to be worried about is whether the damn thing will leak," added Sikorski.
"The collapse of our civilization is a real possiblity if we continue down this path, building things like Keystone, and yet, the only thing the State Department seems to be worried about is whether the damn thing will leak," added Sikorski.
Climate Ethics Prof: ‘U.S. emissions in Pennsylvania are causing floods in other areas’
http://junkscience.com/2013/04/03/climate-ethics-prof-u-s-emissions-in-pennsylvania-are-causing-floods-in-other-areas/
Don Brown lectures, "We will only solve this problem when we have a social movement that demonizes the unjustifiable use of energy."
Don Brown lectures, "We will only solve this problem when we have a social movement that demonizes the unjustifiable use of energy."
Silence of the lambs
http://diggingintheclay.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/silence-of-the-lambs/
I apologise up front for the title of this post, but it aptly describes the impact of this snowy spring on Britain's hill farms. The point of this post is to show the severity of this weather event
I apologise up front for the title of this post, but it aptly describes the impact of this snowy spring on Britain's hill farms. The point of this post is to show the severity of this weather event
Climythology
http://www.quadrant.org.au/blogs/qed/2013/04/climythology
The warming monster inspires barely a yawn these days, except from professional alarmists like the ever more manic Tim Flannery. If climate change does pose a threat, it is that governments will continue to fund its shrieking priests and tax-hungry apostles
The warming monster inspires barely a yawn these days, except from professional alarmists like the ever more manic Tim Flannery. If climate change does pose a threat, it is that governments will continue to fund its shrieking priests and tax-hungry apostles
Hansen - Keystone XL: The pipeline to disaster
The science on climate change has been in for a quarter of a century. There are no more mixed messages, just catastrophe after catastrophe. The president stands at a fork in the road: Rejecting the pipeline will show the world we are serious and determined to be on the right side of history. Approving it will signal we are too entrenched with business-as-usual to do what's right by the people, planet and future generations.
All of President Obama's achievements will fade if he doesn't act swiftly and decisively on climate change. Rejecting Keystone is the first step.
NRDC tries deflecting racism charges by claiming ‘deep connection’ between global warming and MLK on 45th anniversary of assassination
http://junkscience.com/2013/04/04/nrdc-tries-deflecting-racism-charges-by-claiming-deep-connection-between-global-warming-and-mlk-on-45th-anniversary-of-assassination/
Memo to NRDC: Carbon dioxide emissions have nothing to do with air pollution. Try again, please
Memo to NRDC: Carbon dioxide emissions have nothing to do with air pollution. Try again, please
Climate Teachers: have you seen any of this absurd assurance in your curricula?
http://climatelessons.blogspot.com/2013/04/climate-teachers-have-you-seen-any-of.html
The gap between reality and the glib assurances of those choosing to believe in a CO2-driven climate crisis is perhaps most apparent when they cannot resist making verifiable predictions.
The gap between reality and the glib assurances of those choosing to believe in a CO2-driven climate crisis is perhaps most apparent when they cannot resist making verifiable predictions.
Too Much Secrecy From Obama's EPA Nominee
http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/344681/too-much-secrecy-obamas-epa-nominee-greg-pollowitz
McCarthy — who has been EPA's assistant administrator for the office of air and radiation since 2009 — too often operates behind closed doors in an agency with such immense regulatory powers that nothing less than maximum transparency is required to assure accountability.
McCarthy — who has been EPA's assistant administrator for the office of air and radiation since 2009 — too often operates behind closed doors in an agency with such immense regulatory powers that nothing less than maximum transparency is required to assure accountability.
Obama’s Climate Hypocrisy: We Need People In DC ‘Willing To Speak Truth To Power … To Take Some Risks Politically’
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/climateprogress/lCrX/~3/3PUeFIwAWAs/story01.htm
the President never gave one single speech on the subject, he didn't lead, and he wouldn't twist arms in the Senate on climate the way he did on health care
the President never gave one single speech on the subject, he didn't lead, and he wouldn't twist arms in the Senate on climate the way he did on health care
Planetary Boundaries as Power Grab
http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2013/04/planetary-boundries-as-power-grab.html
For the proponents of planetary boundaries as political authority, issues of legitimacy and accountability are easily dealt with through the incontestable authority of science
For the proponents of planetary boundaries as political authority, issues of legitimacy and accountability are easily dealt with through the incontestable authority of science
Coal Makes A Comeback In Europe As Conventional Gas Dries Up
http://www.climatechangedispatch.com/11124-coal-makes-a-comeback-in-europe-as-conventional-gas-dries-up.html
Europe is in a quandary. For years, it has claimed to be a global leader in fighting climate change and slashing carbon emissions. Now it finds itself running out of conventional gas and turning back to dirty coal
Europe is in a quandary. For years, it has claimed to be a global leader in fighting climate change and slashing carbon emissions. Now it finds itself running out of conventional gas and turning back to dirty coal
Database Suggests Downward Trend in Times Coverage
http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2013/04/database-suggests-downward-trend-in-times-coverage/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=database-suggests-downward-trend-in-times-coverage
An 'imperfect' but well-regarded analysis of New York Times environment and climate coverage points to a decline in number of stories published in recent years.
An 'imperfect' but well-regarded analysis of New York Times environment and climate coverage points to a decline in number of stories published in recent years.
The Coming Global Warming Voter Backlash
While our economy is struggling and our nation in debt, Democrats squandered tens of billions on a climate change hoax. How many voters are unemployed due to climate change polices? Unnecessary regulations are strangling people's jobs and their lives. And then one must wonder: what else were Democrats unbelievably wrong about?
Can Democrats hide by claiming that climate change hysteria was an innocent mistake? It was never a credible story. Democrats, journalists, and liberal commentators went way out on a limb. Like the collapse of ENRON or Bernie Maddoff's Ponzi schemes, political fortunes have been built on the shifting sand of bad science. Japan's Society of Energy and Resources in February 2009 declared the myth of man-made global warming to be like "ancient astrology."
Arctic Forgot To Read The NSIDC Report
http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/arctic-forgot-to-read-the-nsidc-report/
The experts at NSIDC told us that Arctic sea ice has been melting since March 15, but the Arctic seems to have different ideas, and is very close to it's winter maximum and 30 year mean.
The experts at NSIDC told us that Arctic sea ice has been melting since March 15, but the Arctic seems to have different ideas, and is very close to it's winter maximum and 30 year mean.
Fuller: "I would much rather see Gleick, Lewandowsky, Mann and others of their kidney retire and take up knitting"
So while I still feel that actors on the climate stage are exhibiting infantile or criminal behavior, this issue stays alive for me. And to connect it to recent events, I would much rather see Gleick, Lewandowsky, Mann and others of their kidney retire and take up knitting, I am sorry to see James Hansen retire from NASA. He is foregoing a role that gave him a bully pulpit in favor of a more personally satisfying, but far less effective role as an activist.
Any fool can get arrested. It takes a career to get to a position where you can influence public policy. Adopting the first at the expense of the latter is a sad turn of events for both science and politics.
Coal's Comeback. ETS a big flop in Europe
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2013/04/coals-comeback-ets-big-flop-in-europe.html
Eva Filzmoser of Carbon Market Watch in Brussels declared the Carbon Dioxide trading Market a big flop.
Eva Filzmoser of Carbon Market Watch in Brussels declared the Carbon Dioxide trading Market a big flop.
The End of an Illusion | RealClearPolitics
So here's the state of play of climate science a third of a decade into the global warming hysteria. They don't have a reliable baseline of global temperature measurements that would allow them to say what is normal and natural and what isn't. Their projections about future warming are demonstrably failing to predict the actual data. And now they have been caught, yet again, fudging the numbers and manipulating the graphs to show a rapid 20th-century warming that they want to be true but which they can't back up with actual evidence.
A theory with this many holes in it would be have been thrown out long ago, if not for the fact that it conveniently serves the political function of indicting fossil fuels as a planet-destroying evil and allowing radical environmentalists to put a modern, scientific face on their primitivist crusade to shut down industrial civilization.
But can't we all just stop calling this "science" now?
Obama on climate change: ‘The politics of this are tough’ - The Hill's E2-Wire
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/291787-obama-on-climate-change-the-politics-of-this-are-tough
Obama said earth's temperature probably isn't the "number one concern" for workers who haven't seen a raise in a decade; have an underwater mortgage; are spending $40 to fill their gas tank, can't afford a hybrid car, and face other challenges.
Obama said earth's temperature probably isn't the "number one concern" for workers who haven't seen a raise in a decade; have an underwater mortgage; are spending $40 to fill their gas tank, can't afford a hybrid car, and face other challenges.
Canada March 2013 – The Cold Stations
http://sunshinehours.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/canada-march-2013-the-cold-stations/
254 stations are part of the Normals. 92 were colder than -1C below the 1970-2001 average. 64 were warmer.
254 stations are part of the Normals. 92 were colder than -1C below the 1970-2001 average. 64 were warmer.
Climate Science Humiliated…Earlier Model Prognoses Of Warmer Winters Now Today’s Laughingstocks
http://notrickszone.com/2013/04/04/climate-science-humiliated-earlier-model-prognoses-of-warmer-winters-now-todays-laughingstocks/
What follows are dozens of predictions for warmer, future winters made not long ago during the 2000s, many by leading scientists. What started as a simple Google search, turned into a list of false winter predictions for Central Europe, particularly Germany. By sheer coincidence reader Jimbo sent over his own list of false wintertime predictions made by "experts" in the US and Great Britain. I've combined the two lists and present one long list to you.
What follows are dozens of predictions for warmer, future winters made not long ago during the 2000s, many by leading scientists. What started as a simple Google search, turned into a list of false winter predictions for Central Europe, particularly Germany. By sheer coincidence reader Jimbo sent over his own list of false wintertime predictions made by "experts" in the US and Great Britain. I've combined the two lists and present one long list to you.
Ex-professor tells senators climate data manipulated |
"They have frankly tampered with the data ... Mine is the original data,'' Easterbrook said at one point. Pressed on this by Ranker, he added it wasn't anything "scurrilous" done by the science panels but he insisted that data had been "adjusted" in ways that made it less accurate than his interpretations.
His own reading of data, Easterbrook said, showed there were 20 periods of global cooling and heating over the past 500 years with the most recent cooling trend beginning in 1998 and likely to last up to 25 or 30 years. He asserted that his work was peer reviewed and indicated that he could provide that information to Ranker.
Wednesday, April 03, 2013
Antarctic penguins climate change winners - World News | TVNZ
A colony of Antarctic penguins could be excused for feeling like climate change's big winners.
A study has found a group of Adelie penguins on Beaufort Island in the Ross Sea, 3500 kilometres south of New Zealand, has significantly boosted its numbers as nearby glaciers have receded.
How the Hockey Stick Crumbled: A Post Mortem | Power Line
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/04/how-the-hockey-stick-crumbled-a-post-mortem.php
This appears to be one more in a long series of frauds and hoaxes perpetrated by climate alarmists. This one unravelled faster than most; nevertheless, it served its purpose. Newspapers and magazines around the world trumpeted Marcott's findings, and reproduced his hockey stick graph, as though it were solid evidence of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. Now the question is, will they leave their readers with this false impression, or will they publicize the fact that they were had, once again, by climate alarmists?
This appears to be one more in a long series of frauds and hoaxes perpetrated by climate alarmists. This one unravelled faster than most; nevertheless, it served its purpose. Newspapers and magazines around the world trumpeted Marcott's findings, and reproduced his hockey stick graph, as though it were solid evidence of catastrophic anthropogenic global warming. Now the question is, will they leave their readers with this false impression, or will they publicize the fact that they were had, once again, by climate alarmists?
Feds project climate change will double wildfire risk in forests - The Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_22943189/feds-project-climate-change-will-double-wildfire-risk
The Forest Service scientists project that, by 2050, the area burned each year by increasingly severe wildfires will at least double.
The Forest Service scientists project that, by 2050, the area burned each year by increasingly severe wildfires will at least double.
The Low Information Voters Will Inherit the Earth
After seeing the very funny Penn and Teller episode (where they have environmental activists signing a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide), I am not surprised that people did not get the joke. The amazing thing is the fact that the radio station, and society in general, felt the need to pander to this ignorance by actually suspending the radio show hosts. In effect, they were forced to apologize for the public's appalling ignorance.
Obama’s Fundraiser for Energy-Gobbling Green One Percenters
President Obama, scourge of the One Percent and friend of the earth, burned 230 tons of carbon dioxide aboard Air Force One (a gallon of jet fuel a second) on a six-hour commute to a Democratic fundraiser in the California home of green activist Tom Steyer — private equity billionaire and founder of Farallon Capital Management.
We're not making this up.
Climate-change hysterics: Meet reality
Exclusive: Joseph Farah spotlights latest evidence against 'pseudo-scientific narrative'
Record snowfall in Syracuse New York
Most snow in one day for April since records began in 1902 (111yrs)!
Spiegel Stops Believing…”Hot Debate Over Climate: How Reliable Are The Prognoses?” Growing Doubts Over Models!
Remember, admitting you've been wrong for a quarter century takes time.
Mafia caught laundering $1.7b through “renewables”
Real markets have real customers, who notice when things don't add up. Fake markets are an invitation to criminals.
The state forced payments from citizens for the wrong reasons, to solve a non-problem with the wrong method.
In this case, state organized crime meets independent organized crime.
What the Auditor Didn’t Say | NoFrakkingConsensus
http://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2013/04/03/what-the-auditor-didnt-say/
Is British Columbia's carbon offset scheme really just a green slush fund – one in which the well-connected receive money that should have been spent on sick people?
Is British Columbia's carbon offset scheme really just a green slush fund – one in which the well-connected receive money that should have been spent on sick people?
Oreskes and Conway: Days of Future Passed
Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway strike again, with a wonderful and terrifying history of the recent past and near future as told from the far future, entitled "The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future" in Daedalus.
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A key attribute of the period was that power did not reside in the hands of those who understood the climate system, but rather in political, economic, and social institutions that had a strong interest in maintaining the use of fossil fuels.
Climate Alarmists Goes Nuclear
http://theresilientearth.com/?q=content/climate-alarmists-goes-nuclear
For Hansen, starting his new career as a green activist off by endorsing nuclear power—which has been anathema to greens everywhere since the 1960s—seems an odd move. But then he has never been rational when it comes to his fear of CO2. If his new stance on nuclear power pits environmentalists against each other so much the better. In the end, much of the world is going nuclear, while idiot governments in the developed countries ruin their economies pursuing unworkable green energy schemes.
For Hansen, starting his new career as a green activist off by endorsing nuclear power—which has been anathema to greens everywhere since the 1960s—seems an odd move. But then he has never been rational when it comes to his fear of CO2. If his new stance on nuclear power pits environmentalists against each other so much the better. In the end, much of the world is going nuclear, while idiot governments in the developed countries ruin their economies pursuing unworkable green energy schemes.
Thin clouds drove Greenland’s record-breaking 2012 ice melt | JunkScience.com
http://junkscience.com/2013/04/03/thin-clouds-drove-greenlands-record-breaking-2012-ice-melt/
And cloud formation is affect by Solar activity
And cloud formation is affect by Solar activity
Al Roker Appalled by Poll Showing 37 Percent Believe Global Warming is a Hoax
m.newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2013/04/03/al-roker-appalled-poll-showing-37-percent-believe-global-warming-h?utm_source=co2hog
To which Roker responded with an audible, "Wow!" and then later scolded global warming skeptics: "Okay, two words: Superstorm Sandy!"
Attack of the 500-Pound Poison Ivy | OnEarth Magazine
"If you want to deal with a problem, you have to know what size problem you're dealing with," Mycka says. "These plants are so powerful to start with, it doesn't take much of a touch from carbon to make it much worse."
That's exactly what scientists found when they planted poison ivy in an experimental forest at Duke University, piping in carbon dioxide to artificially raise the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere to the levels it's expected to be by about 2050. The result, published in 2006: like other plants subjected to a high-CO2 environment, the poison ivy plants grew 150 percent bigger, with 153 percent higher concentrations of their oil, called urushiol.
James Grundvig: The Whole Story of Climate Book Throws Climate Change a Curveball
In the twelfth millennium since the melting of the last age of glaciers and ice sheets, we humans have changed the clock that was supposed to descend us back into bitter cold. What shutoff the switch between the hot and cold climates?Lies, damned lies and hockey sticks | Rob Lyons | spiked
The exposure of yet another dodgy piece of climate-change alarmism shows the need for serious scepticism.Survey Finds Most Republicans Seek Action on Climate Change - NYTimes.com
[Revkin] It’s time for that national “listening tour” on energy and climate, President Obama.Flashback: Majority of Republicans believe global warming a hoax - The Hill's E2-Wire
Fifty-eight percent of Republicans believe that global warming is a “hoax,”
Michael Mann defends Marcott with ‘Just who is Marcott Extended Hockey Stick attack dog Steve McIntyre?’ | JunkScience.com
Yesterday we challenged Mann to provide examples of how McIntyre “spun falsehoods” about the Marcott hokey stick. So far, this is his response.Recursive Fury Backfires | Planet3.0
Way to keep it ad hominem, Mikey.
[Michael Tobis] The attacks on Marcott et al have been ludicrous and laughable...The whole episode just makes the denier world seem every bit as ridiculous as it ought to look.
Poll: Majority of Republicans believe global warming a hoax - The Hill's E2-Wire
Fifty-eight percent of Republicans believe that global warming is a “hoax,” compared to 11 percent of Democrats, according to new polling that underscores political divides over climate change among U.S. residents.Gardeners asked for climate change views by University of Reading
Dr Claudia Bernardini, a climate change plant scientist at The University of Reading’s Department of Agriculture, said: “Over the past three winters many optimistic gardeners have seen borderline hardy plants such as the Canary Island date palm (Phoenix canariensis), Soft tree fern (Dicksonia Antarctica) and Hardy banana (Musa basjoo) killed by severe frosts and snow.Fargo, N.D., Seeks Flood Protection - NYTimes.com
“Yet, despite this, climate models continue to predict a warming of the climate and we are told to prepare for much hotter summers in the medium term.
FARGO, N.D. — Just last fall, the reservoirs and rivers here in the Red River Valley were so low from drought that Mayor Dennis R. Walaker of Fargo was concerned that the faucets and shower heads in his city would run dry.
Now, Fargo residents are bracing for water that is expected to come rushing over those once-parched riverbanks.
Second snowiest snow season for the Northern Hemisphere on record ( 3 of the top 5 in last 4 years)
The hemispheric snow extent for the November to March snow season was the second highest on record behind only 1977/79. 3 of the top 5 snowiest such periods have occurred in the last 5 years amazingly.Charging fatter people more to fly? It's Samoa Air that should be ashamed | Ally Fogg | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Airlines are often accused of treating their passengers like pieces of meat, but Samoa Air have broken new ground. With an innovative ticket-pricing policy, the company are now not only weighing their customers' baggage at check-in, but weighing the person too, and charging a variable rate per kilo per mile.Flashback: Fat people blamed for global warming - Telegraph
Basic physics confirms that the weight of passengers does affect the fuel costs of flights, and one can understand why obesity is a particular problem for airlines in the South Pacific. Samoa is the second most obese country on earth, squeezed between the neighbouring island nations of Nauru and American Samoa.
British scientists say they use up more fuel to transport them around and the amount of food they eat requires more energy to produce than that consumed by those on smaller diets.Instapundit » Blog Archive » #GREENFAIL: Solyndra 2.0: Fisker Automotive is teetering. How many others in the government loan p…
#GREENFAIL: Solyndra 2.0: Fisker Automotive is teetering. How many others in the government loan program that funded Solyndra will eventually fall? But the connected folks got their money out first. That’s what matters.Ethanol Fraud and Why You Pay More at the Pump
Why in the world is the government still forcing ethanol down the gas tanks of American consumers? Ethanol was meant to help clean up the air and to keep gasoline prices in check. It does neither. Instead, it degrades the environment and is currently boosting gas prices. Talk about a teachable moment. No program could better explain why so many Americans oppose Big Government.
Most Americans probably assume that corn-based ethanol is “green” -- it is not.
Why spring in Moscow is utter hell | The Guardian
This year, winter in Russia, as in Europe, has been particularly long and cruel – or so Russians say...Twitter / ToryAardvark: UK rewards polluters & ...
Russians have been complaining en masse, convinced that this year's winter is dragging on longer than usual. Last Friday, a lone picketer went so far as to strip down to his tight blue bathing suit, cocktail in hand, to protest in front of Moscow's main meteorology centre with a sign reading: "Summer Better Get Here Soon". The fact of the matter is, they complain every year. And nearly ever year, it snows in April.
UK rewards polluters & locks up people who want to save the planet http://gu.com/p/3epft/tw locks up criminals driven by Green stupidityClimate chiefs face Tony Abbott's axe | The Australian
A COALITION government would dismantle the climate change bureaucracy and put commissioners including Tim Flannery out of a job, Tony Abbott predicted yesterday as a report painted a gloomy picture of the future.Hair spray targeted by Utah air pollution regulators: ‘There will be a lot of angry women’ | JunkScience.com
The Opposition Leader, who vows to remove the carbon tax if elected in September, said there would be no further need for the bureaucracy that supports it.
“This just wrecks the hair spray and it doesn’t help the inversion.”
Guardian article: Sheep dying by the hundreds in spring snowdrifts up to 20 feet deep should convince us that CO2-induced overheating is a bigger threat than World War II?
Let's not bet the farm | Colin Tudge | Comment is free | The Guardian
How should we – not just the farmers but all of us, in Britain and worldwide – respond to the report from Wales that sheep are dying by the hundreds in snowdrifts up to 20 feet deep?
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Secondly, we should at last acknowledge that climate change is real, and prepare for it as urgently as our grandparents prepared for the second world war (except that the present threat is bigger).
Pielke Jr suggests that he helped convince the White House that we can prevent CO2-induced bad weather by making Americans pay a carbon dioxide tax?
The Breakthrough Institute - Climate Pragmatism in the White House
When it comes to carbon dioxide emissions, PCAST notes that putting a price on carbon makes good sense, as we have recommended...
Overall, while there are a few differences in tone and nuance, the report of PCAST represents an emerging, pragmatic perspective on climate policy that has been years, if not decades, in the making. Perhaps our efforts have contributed in some small ways to helping shape that agenda. Of course, good ideas are the offspring of many proud parents.
Warmist AMS president Marshall Shepherd digs in deeper: Now he suggests that cuts in fossil-fueled warmist junket travel are like "cuts to a Fire Station station staff...particularly at a time when a rash of arson incidents were happening"
Tornadoes and Sequesters - StormWatch 7 | WJLA.com
A community would be outraged at cuts to a Fire Station station staff near them, particularly at a time when a rash of arson incidents were happening.
...I am fearful of what is happening in our community with draconian sequester cuts, challenges to travel/science meeting attendance (I spoke on this last week in a blog at the AMS Front Page, http://blog.ametsoc.org/columnists/for-science-and-discovery-videoconferencing-wont-get-it/), and other stresses on science/R&D support within the National Weather Service/NOAA (journal publications, fees, etc).
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End Note: I am aware of the challenges related to travel and emissions. Three points are worth noting: 1. AMS has a Green Meetings initiatives (http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/greenconferenceguidelines.html), 2. Large shifts to videoconferencing are not completely immune as energy is still required to support increased computing/IT requirements for these activities, and 3. Videoconferencing may be highly appropriate for smaller committee and board type meetings but not large scientific meetings, which was the point of my aforementioned blog on the Front Page.
Breeding birds vulnerable to climate change in Arctic Alaska
"This assessment tool melds computer modeling with expert opinion in a way not often realized," said Balogh...Among the commonalities seen among the more vulnerable species was a strong orientation to the coastline exposing them to climate-related changes in coastal disturbances linked to storminess, erosion, and ice cover. Generalist species (those that can adapt to a wide variety of conditions) were less affected and, in some cases, predicted to thrive in a warming climate.In a new study, James Hansen pushes nuclear power as saving more lives than it has harmed | Watts Up With That?
Using nuclear power in place of fossil-fuel energy sources, such as coal, has prevented some 1.8 million air pollution-related deaths globally and could save millions of more lives in coming decades, concludes a study.One Weird Trick for Getting Republicans To Care About Climate | Mother Jones
[English major Chris Mooney] New survey results suggest that with the right spin, even Republicans can be convinced to support climate action.
Global Warming: Was It Just A Beautiful Dream After All? - Forbes
After all this time, when the continuation of industrial civilization itself is on the table, shouldn’t there be some palpable, observable effect of the disaster that we are supposed to sacrifice our futures in order to avoid? Shouldn’t the doom-sayers be saying “We told you so!” backed up by a torrent of youtube videos of submerged locales and media stories reminding us about how it used to snow in Massachusetts?Scientists on climate change: Er, never mind!
Climate panic, after all, is fear of dramatic, life-altering climate changes, not about tenths of a degree. We are told that we must “take action right now before it’s Too Late!” That doesn’t mean: before it’s too late to avoid a Spring that comes a week earlier or summer heat records of 103 degrees instead of 102. It’s to fend off utter disaster that we needed the Kyoto Treaty, carbon taxes, and Priuses.
The authors of the study quietly admitted last weekend that their claim of surging temperatures can’t be supported by their data.Three iconic graphs showing the climate fix we’re in. – Significant Figures by Peter Gleick
The establishment media outlets that reported the study with such fanfare have been largely silent on the stunning admission, although the Washington Post did report today that there is now a “controversy” over the data.
Read ‘em and weep.Quadrant Online - The very model of a modern climate scientist
In addition to a charming photo of Steffen enjoying a gropup hug with a bevy of young warmists (above), the Climate Commission web pages describe him as a "climate change expert and researcher". So how can entirely typical meteorologic conditions be overlooked, or the difference between climate and weather confused?
Extreme Exaggeration of the Climate Commission.
Violent Environmental Problems With Wind Turbine Operation: From Avian Mortality to Catastrophic Failure — MasterResource
Australia has had many floods, droughts, heatwaves, worse than what we are seeing today. The CC’s fear-mongering is ideologically based and part of the AGW scam.Watch Now: Climate Depot’s Morano on Fox News on electric cars vs. SUVs/Trucks: ‘Americans want cars that are practical, big, safe. They don’t want to make anemic political statements driving around in these small electric cars’ | Climate Depot
After the 14 September, closing the CC should be the first step towards reinstating a rational basis to science in Australia.
Violent Environmental Problems With Wind Turbine Operation: From Avian Mortality to Catastrophic Failure — MasterResource
Renewable energy wind turbines as electricity sources possess extreme environmental problems not found in their renewable energy rival–solar photovoltaic. These problems are due to rotation of 130-foot or more long, thirteen-ton turbine blades with tip speeds of 200 miles per hour.BBC Environment Correspondent Matt McGrath states Dr James E Hansen was a leading voice...in er....the science of "Global Warming"! | Climate Realists
An unavoidable problem of wind turbines is killing flying creatures.
I'm not so sure this summary from the BBC of Dr James E Hansen retirement announcement has done them any favours. The area that may backfire is that their Environment Correspondent Matt McGrath mentions the term "Global Warming" instead of "Climate Change" and at the end of the article they (BBC) have acknowledged world temperatures have remained at a "standstill", thus agreeing there is no "Global Warming" currently going on.
Update: Lewandowsky et al paper on conspiracist ideation “provisionally removed” due to complaints | Retraction Watch
Today, Frontiers posted a note to readers on top of the paper’s abstract:Arctic to experience explosive "greening” while Antarctic sea ice grows to record levels - both due to global warmingThis article, first published by Frontiers on 18 March 2013, has been the subject of complaints. Given the nature of some of these complaints, Frontiers has provisionally removed the link to the article while these issues are investigated, which is being done as swiftly as possible and which Frontiers management considers the most responsible course of action. The article has not been retracted or withdrawn. Further information will be provided as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience.
Both assertions in the SAME article! Talk about having it both ways!EPA-funded study: Urban trees associated with increased childhood asthma; Says global warming may be more important than child health | JunkScience.com
Yum, this is among the best tasting irony we’ve ever had.Twitter / RichardTol: We have 44 months left to save ...
We have 44 months left to save our climate! http://www.onehundredmonths.org/ Silly me, thought all was lost in Berlin, Copenhagen, Bali, Durban ...Solid Proof Of Global Warming: HadCrut Recent Global Trend Shows Little Ice Age Conditions By 2070!
Of course, crackpot warmists will say that 10 years is not enough, that is unless the trend is the other way. Heck, for them one single storm is already enough for proof, let alone a few winters.
Climate Granted A 44 Month Reprieve | Real Science
Hansen said that the climate ran out of time in January 2013, but apparently we actually have 44 more months.Six Weeks Of Above Normal Sea Ice | Real Science
Global sea ice area has been above normal for 43 straight days. This is due to the unprecedented polar meltdown which is going to drown us all.Jennifer Marohasy » The Apple on the Banana Again: Marcott Admits Temperature Spike Not Robust
In summary, Dr Marcott created the perception of a spike in temperatures the same way Michael Mann did in that first hockey stick paper that featured so prominently in the third IPCC report, by comparing apples and oranges… or perhaps best described as grafting an apple onto the end of a banana.Turkish president visits Latvia under heavy snowfall
“A cyclone (hurricane) has brought heavy snowfall to Latvia and the snow will last for some time,” says reader Argiris Diamantis. This news is not picked up by the MSM, and if it weren’t for the wife of the Turkish president sliding on the icy stairs (and almost falling) when she was descending from the plane, we would never have known that there was such heavy snowfall in Latvia.NOAA Feb 2013 Northern Hemisphere Trend cooling at -.27C / Decade (1998 – 2013) | sunshine hours
Huge anti-fossil fuel rant on left-wing fringe site RealClimate: "CO2 is forever...it is far from clear that a 2 degree warmer world is one that we can adapt to...from here on in, coal is all bad"
RealClimate: Movie review: SWITCH
[Raymond T. Pierrehumbert] There are some oblique references to CO2 emissions, but no mention of the essentially irreversible effect of these emissions on climate...CO2 is forever
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You begin to suspect something is really wrong when the first guy on screen to say something about climate is Richard Muller, of Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature Project fame, who managed to convert himself from a climate change denialist to a lukewarmer by arduously and noisily rediscovering what every working climate scientist already knew to be true. What Muller has to say about climate is that burning fossil fuels will cause the Earth to warm by about 2 degrees (“if the calculations are right”), but it’s going to be too expensive to stop it so we’ll just learn to live with it. There are so many things wrong with Muller’s statement that I hardly know where to begin. First, it is far from clear that a 2 degree warmer world is one that we can adapt to
SWITCH is made to appeal to fans of an “all of the above” energy strategy, but it never confronts the fact that if we want to preserve a livable climate, “all” simply cannot include continued (let alone expanded) use of fossil fuels for very much longer. The biggest challenge we face is not learning how to extract every last scrap of fossil fuel, but learning how to leave most of it in the ground...from here on in, coal is all bad, and the less of it anybody burns, the better.
...SWITCH never tells you that China could attain the standard of living of France without increasing its emissions at all, just by increasing the carbon efficiency of its economy to the current French level...The fact that we will all pay for the consequences of a wrecked climate never figures into any of the costs mentioned in this movie.
...the sooner SWITCH disappears from the public discourse, the better.
East German March 2013 Coldest In 130 Years. “Dramatic Temperature Deviations” All The Way To Siberia!
The Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (Central German Newspaper) reports on Europe’s extended brutal winter. In today’s online article, it reminds us that the cold is not only a phenomenon that is isolated in Central Europe, but one that is widespread and extends all the way across Russia to Siberia.The Reference Frame: Italy seizes $1.7 billion from Sicilian counterpart of Al Gore
This guy with unsurprisingly close ties to the Mafia (including Matteo Messina Denaro, the widely believed Sicilian Mafia godfather) – which has an intertwined history with "renewable energy" – is accused of being the "Lord of the Wind" and the "King of Alternative Energy". The confiscated assets include 43 wind and solar companies, 98 real estate properties, and 66 banking accounts (it must be handy to have this many).The New Nostradamus of the North: Sir Nicholas Stern - a leading contemporary charlatan - has again been performing one of his confidence tricks
With the knowledge that "global warming" stopped at least 16 years ago, it is becoming increasingly difficult to understand why a charlatan like Stern is still invited to speak as an "expert" at IMF and other similar gatherings. Most likely these people actually want to be conned, in order to be able to avoid making real decisions about real global problems.- Bishop Hill blog - First day in court
An email correspondent writes to say that he has learned that the first day of hearings in the Mann/NRO libel case will be on 11 April in the District of Columbia.Thinning Arctic Ice; More Al Gore Aided and Abetted Misinformation?
Maybe Al Gore, whose credibility is on very thin ice, can explain how polar bears survived the 1817 conditions or any of the other variations of weather and ice in the historic record.
President Obama should talk about climate change. A lot.
activists could make clear to candidates seeking Democratic nominations in 2014 (when candidates are particularly responsive to party pressure) that detailed, vocal positions on climate are a top priority.Migratory birds will not survive continuing cold weather - Austrian Times Online News
Ornithologists are warning that icy temperatures, snow and strong wind are extremely stressful for migratory birds. If the thaw period does not start soon, many of the birds will die.Twitter / WarrenPearce: Just gave paper on climate ...
... The combination of extraordinarily long frost, snowfall and the lack of food takes away the birds’ energy.
Several hundred dead song thrushes have been found in Styria and Lower Austria.
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However, many birds die from starvation. Ornithologists like Hans-Martin Berg from the Natural History Museum Vienna have never experienced this in Austria before.
Just gave paper on climate critics like @aDissentient & @clim8resistance as "Uninvited Public" at #BritSoc13 #STS stream. Good feedback.Is the carbon price floor going to push 60,000 households into fuel poverty? | Carbon Brief
The extra cost of the policy is expected to to push the wholesale price of electricity up by 17 per cent in the next three years, according to the thinktank the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), with that cost passed on to the consumer - pushing more households into fuel poverty.
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