Most U.S. State Maximum Temperatures Occurred Before 1990

http://davidappell.blogspot.com/2013/04/most-us-state-maximum-temperatures.html

Major winter storm to dump up to 12 inches snow on North Dakota

http://iceagenow.info/2013/04/major-winter-storm-dump-12-inches-snow-north-dakota/

New Zealand Paper: ‘Lord Monckton could be proved right in some regards’

http://junkscience.com/2013/04/13/new-zealand-paper-lord-monckton-could-be-proved-right-in-some-regards

Mid-April update from Barrow, the fastest-warming place on Earth: Powerful blanket of CO2 results in a windchill only about 100 degrees F. colder than normal room temperature

Attention, Barrow residents: Try to get outside this afternoon and enjoy today's 10 degree F. "high", because it might not get that warm again for another week or so.

Barrow, Alaska (99723) Conditions & Forecast : Weather Underground [Temperature -14F with a windchill of -31 F as I write this]

Sen. Bernie Sanders: The 'Hoax'

...I want the EPA to be vigorous in protecting our children and future generations from the horrendous crisis that we face from global warming

Investors pull back from clean tech amid weak CO2 targets: survey - News - Point Carbon

LONDON, April 12 (Reuters Point Carbon) – Four fifths of companies that have invested in U.N. emission reduction projects have cited weak government targets to cut emissions as a barrier to investing in clean technology, according to a survey of 17 investors published Friday.

Alaska Borough Approves Coal Mine Near Denali | Heartlander Magazine

Near Unanimous Support

Former Navy rear admiral David Titley suggests that if Atlanta runs out of water, we might be convinced that CO2 is dangerous; Yale's Dan Kahan suggests that Texans blame fires on gay marriage, rather than correctly blaming trace amounts of CO2

Santa Barbara conference tackles skepticism about global warming

“We may do it with duct tape. It may take a new kind of disaster, such as Atlanta running out of water, to fully get our attention, and we’ll probably spend more money on it than we need to,” [former Navy rear admiral] David Titley said at a conference on sea level rise at UC Santa Barbara. “But in the end, I think we’ll figure this out.”
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“I’ve told the Navy and Congress that we should expect a global sea rise between now and the year 2100 of about 1 meter,” Titley told a hall full of students and others Friday who attended the conference, called “Risk and Uncertainty and the Communication of Sea Level Rise.”

“If I’m wrong, I’m probably wrong on the low end,” he said.
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From the academic community, Dan Kahan, an expert on communication of science from Yale University, said the perception of risk is governed by an individual’s cultural outlook, not by a lack of knowledge.

“If you go to Texas, they have major fires, but that’s not convincing to them that climate change is happening,” he said. “They’re more likely to blame gay marriage. We’ve done polling. What is going on here? People are forming perceptions that reinforce their connection to their cultural group. It’s not a lack of science.”

The Fossil Fuel Resistance: Meet the New Green Heroes: Tar Sands Blockade: The Monkey-Wrenchers | Rolling Stone

blockaders are drawing attention to the environmental racism they say is endemic along the pipeline route. "The communities that bear the brunt of pollution caused by oil sands development are poor people of color," says a blockader called Rue

The Fossil Fuel Resistance: Meet the New Green Heroes: James Hansen: The Voice | Rolling Stone

If Paul Revere had said, "We can say with some confidence that some portion of the imperial forces stationed in Boston may have mobilized," the Minutemen would have taken days to arrive. It's a good thing he and Hansen both spoke plainly.

The Fossil Fuel Resistance: Meet the New Green Heroes: Tom Steyer: Daddy Greenbucks | Rolling Stone

"The goal here is not to win. The goal here is to destroy these people." That sounds like the credo of an environmental radical – in fact, it's the war cry of one of the Resistance's most unlikely new leaders. Tom Steyer retired last fall from the San Francisco hedge fund he'd built into a $20 billion leviathan
...he brings the climate movement the big-money political firepower that helped catalyze the success of the gay-rights movement. Plus he almost looks presidential, which, if climate turns out to be the key issue . . .

The Fossil Fuel Resistance: Meet the New Green Heroes: Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr.: The Minister | Rolling Stone

The Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr. is the only pacesetting climate activist who might casually begin a day talking to Biz Markie and end it chatting with Al Gore. "We need to break down the silos that segregate activism – with police brutality here, gay rights there, immigration over there," says the 43-year-old minister. "I founded the Hip Hop Caucus to bridge the gaps so we can fight poverty and pollution at the same time."

The Fossil Fuel Resistance: Meet the New Green Heroes: Kevin Grandia: The Muckraker | Rolling Stone

Grandia had spent three days reading all of the [ClimateGate 1.0] emails, which totaled 20,000 pages, and he knew that the supposed scandal was nothing more than a few quotes taken out of context...
When DeSmogBlog started seven years ago, Grandia says he had to call reporters to get them to pay attention to his research, and many hung up. "Now we've got staffers in D.C. calling us, politicians in Canada, the UK, looking for information. We have producers at ABC News and the BBC asking for help on research," he says. "There's still a lot of work to do, but we think the tide is turning."

Birds could have been affected by prolonged cold snap | UK

THE recent cold snap could have a big impact on wildlife, according to an expert.

Freezing temperatures and snow has reduced the natural food sources for wildlife, particularly birds.

Twitter / RyanMaue: [Children won't know what Colorado looks like]

That square covered in snow in 5-day GFS forecast is known as Colorado. pic.twitter.com/dgIxeBD0rB

Twitter / keithkloor: Fascinating to see the pushback ...

Fascinating to see the pushback on the NOAA/Hoerling drought report. I guess inconvenient #climate change truths really are inconvenient.

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi [Children won't know what spring looks like]

Yr without a spring plains Arctic blast next week may outdo what just happened ECMWF dy 4-8control 35 below ave pic.twitter.com/hQmYacTQN3

Twitter / RyanMaue: GFS 00z takes Denver below ...

GFS 00z takes Denver below 0°F in forecast -- 2.4'' QPF mostly frozen. pic.twitter.com/LJDzqKIMGD

Are we all OK with hospitals being forced to spend their cash on carbon dioxide hoax scam swindle fraud rip-offsets?

Carbon credits bigger scam than AirCare

If Fraser Health was not obligated to spend over $1.5 million on phony, non-existent carbon credits, then maybe there would be more money to spend on running the hospital. Carbon Credits are a bigger scam than AirCare.

Unprecedented Cold In The Great Plains | Real Science

Almost halfway through the month, North Dakota is obliterating all previous records for springtime cold.

Coal to stay important in U.S. energy mix -environment agency pick - Planet Ark

President Barack Obama's pick to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told a Senate panel on Thursday that coal will remain important in the U.S. energy mix and that the EPA will be flexible in applying new pollution rules for coal-fired power plants.

2008: [Obama's former DOE chief] Steven Chu: ‘Coal is My Worst Nightmare’ - Environmental Capital - WSJ

he’s really, really not a big fan. “Coal is my worst nightmare,” he said repeatedly in a speech earlier this year outlining his lab’s alternative-energy approaches.

At long last the mainstream media are paying attention to global warming sceptics » Spectator Blogs

[Andrew Montford of Bishop Hill] There are overwhelming interests vested in maintaining the momentum of the global warming bandwagon and the fight to keep the flow of soft government money to environmentalists and scientists will therefore be fought tenaciously. Journalists who step out of line can expect the same treatment as that received by the Economist.

Keith the seal feared to have froze to death in River Severn

following weeks of sub-zero temperatures there are fears Keith may have fallen victim to the unseasonal weather.

Russ Blinch: Why Don't We Tax Carbon Like We Tax Cigarettes?

A carbon tax is like a tax on tobacco. We need to make sure we are paying the full cost of something that is going to cause havoc down the road.

350.org funder Jeremy Grantham is bullish on natural gas; also evidently doesn't believe that CO2 is going to destroy our crops: "If we have a reasonable season we will drown in grain"

Buy natural gas, Jeremy Grantham says - The Globe and Mail

Jeremy Grantham, the famed and gloomy U.S. contrarian investor, has a few hot tips for people who want to make a lot of money over the next few years: Buy natural gas, copper ore and phosphorus miners.
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While many investors have been bullish on corn and other agricultural products, Mr. Grantham says that after three consecutive years of relatively poor harvests and sharply higher grain prices, it’s unlikely that the world will make it four in a row.

“If we have a reasonable season we will drown in grain,” he says.

More information about super-rich warmist Jeremy Grantham

He has written large cheques for the Carnegie Institute of Science, the Smithsonian, 350.org, WWF, Greenpeace

Poll: 4% of Americans list "Environment" as their highest priority for government spending

Poll: Americans oppose exporting natural gas, support of fracking regulation, and accept climate change | Plugged In, Scientific American Blog Network

When asked where the government should spend tax dollars, respondents listed job creation, social security, and military as priority items. Infrastructure, energy, and the environment rounded out the bottom of the priorities list (while infrastructure is listed as the least desirable use of tax dollars).

Dr. Willie Soon- Global Warming is not man made. on Vimeo

[1-hour video] “What you really need to know about CO2 and Climate Change. Lessons from the mistakes by world’s top experts”
Dr. Willie Soon, a professor of Astrophysics and Geophysics at Harvard University lectures on Global Warming at the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities.

Kent, Redford lost in Wonderland - Winnipeg Free Press

[Tom Harris and Tim Ball] They tell us that we are facing a CO2-induced global warming crisis even though warming stopped 17 years ago. This lack of warming while CO2 levels rose almost 10 per cent was not predicted by the computer climate models that are the primary basis of the alarm. Yet Redford and Kent expect Canadians to support their spending billions of dollars more on the issue because the same computer models forecast climate Armageddon for later in the century.

Twitter / BarackObama: [It's time to stop the denial on climate change]

- Bishop Hill blog - Gavin and straw men

...Just don't expect us to believe the output is a valid forecast (in Gavin's words) without some evidence.

- Bishop Hill blog - Potsdam and the scientific method

So, the empirical evidence suggests climate sensitivity is low. A hypothesis based on "quantum physics and thermodynamics" suggests it's higher. And Professor Levermann thinks we should accept the hypothesis until the deviation from reality is explained.

Scientific method fail.

Jefferson Monument, 2013 & after 25 foot sea level rise - The effects of global warming: How American cities will look if sea level rises - NY Daily News

Is global warming a hoax? Catholic Online interviews a skeptic - Green - Catholic Online

[Dr Mark Hendrickson] Is the theory of man-made global warming a hoax? I think so. Let's say either a hoax or an error.

‘Terry McAuliffe’s Solyndra’ - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online

Running for governor of Virginia, the Democrat’s main business credential is fast turning into a crony-capitalist embarrassment.

Natural Resources Minister under fire for climate-change comments - The Globe and Mail

Just as one federal cabinet minister is urging a more sophisticated tone to the climate-change debate, a second cabinet minister has found himself trying to prove he is not a climate-change denier.

Sci-Jacked | The Lukewarmer's Way

There is apparently a time limit–a half life–for public scare stories. Eventually, like Wakefield’s lies about vaccines and autism or the phony claims about GMOs, things like the Hockey Stick Chart, Gleick’s theft and forgery of opposition documents and the bland overconsumption of energy by those championing its restriction undermine the scare stories and leave the public numb.

Errors in IPCC climate science » Blog Archive » Proposal that there is a long standing mathematical error in IPCC’s AGW theory

Japanese scientist Kyoji Kimoto proposes that there is a long standing error in IPCC AGW theory.

Climate Conversation Group » Lord Monckton complains to VUW

These documents posted two days ago on the NZ Climate Science Coalition’s web site record Christopher Monckton’s complaint against Victoria University of Wellington for refusing him access to its campus, for dishonesty and for slandering him.

Harvard Climate Statistician: Tree-ring temperature proxies ‘carry significant uncertainties’ | JunkScience.com

No doubt Martin Tingley will soon be trashed by Michael Mann et al. The countdown begins… Ten… nine…eight

Blizzard warning crushes Sweden's spring hope

Just when Swedes were getting their hopes up for some spring sunshine – after all, it is April 12 – they’ve been warned that more fresh snow is on the way.

BC Canada 1988-2012: 124 out of 143 stations last 5 years have been the coldest (or 2nd coldest) out of 25 years | sunshine hours

The province of BC in Canada has really cooled off in the last 5 years. This post is an attempt to quantify it.

World climate change goal at risk as emissions surge – UN | Firstpost

OSLO (Reuters) – A global goal for limiting climate change is slipping out of reach and governments may have to find ways to artificially suck greenhouse gases from the air if they fail to make deep cuts in rising emissions by 2030, a draft U.N. report said.

Instapundit » Blog Archive » LAST CALL FOR ETHANOL? Is The End In Sight For America’s Biofuel Boondoggle?

The federal government’s ability to force green technologies into the marketplace has failed pretty much everywhere.

Joshua Trees In Rare Bloom, Possibly In An Attempt To Survive Climate Change (VIDEO)

Some biologists think the blooms are a stress response by the trees to climate change -- specifically, to much less rain.

Warmer, colder, whatever - it’s global warming | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

In 2006, Met Office meteorologist Wayne Elliott told the BBC

“It is consistent with the climate change message. It is exactly what we expect winters to be like – warmer and wetter”

Declining Spring Snow Cover Brings Above Normal March Snow | Real Science

Three out of the last four years have had above normal March snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere.

More snow for Eastern U.S.A. today - Even more coming next week

In case you hadn’t noticed, it is almost mid-April.

More snow for Northern Minnesota

Duluth could see snow every day for the next 7 days, says the National Weather Service – Don’t you just love this global warming?

The New Nostradamus of the North: Another green energy failure: FBI investigating company which was supposed to install hundreds of charging stations for electric cars in 20 U.S. areas

There seems to be no end to the failures in the "green" energy business. The latest greenie flagship project to fail is the "rollout" of hundreds of charging stations for electric cars in Chicago and 19 other U.S. areas.

It’s official: EPA delays global warming rules for new coal plants; No timetable set for issuance | JunkScience.com

“On Friday, an EPA official who asked not to be identified confirmed that the agency would not finalize the controversial proposal on time.”

Why Jim Hansen Stopped Being a Government Scientist [Video] | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network

He’s worried about preventing “climate chaos” and instead preserving the relatively stable climate of the past 10,000 years—when human civilization developed and flourished—for his five grandchildren.
[Hansen]  "If you get asthma from air pollution, you pay the health cost, not the fossil fuel company.”

Why Joe Barton's biblical flood comment is so illogical - CSMonitor.com

It turns out that lots of things – not just fossil fuels – can make our planet go warm or cold, or wet or dry. These include volcanic activity, plate tectonics, meteor impacts, the wobble of our planet as it spins on its axis, magnetic activity on the sun, and even the location of our solar system as it circles the Milky Way.

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: We are all pragmatists now, ...

We are all pragmatists now, EU --> "Any new carbon or clean-energy targets should be more "modest and pragmatic"" http://on.wsj.com/14X0ye1

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: EU-> "We are looking at ...

EU-> "We are looking at climate protection in its entirety, taking into account that energy has to remain affordable" http://on.wsj.com/14X0ye1 

Twitter / RyanMaue: Wasn't this the null hypothesis ...

Wasn't this the null hypothesis -- oh wait, we changed scientific method for leftist climate advocacy a while back. http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/12/us/drought-study/index.html …

Warmist Kevin Anderson suggests that he somehow prevented some CO2-induced bad weather by taking fossil-fueled trains for 10 days each way between the UK and Shanghai?

Revisiting the ‘climate-academic’ on a plane argument | kevinanderson.info

Let’s say the plane took two days – one day each way (UK to Shanghai), while the train took a total of 20 days (10 each way), leaving an opportunity cost period of 18 days... the 20-day train journey easily trumped the two-day flight.

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"

As spring heat rises in Baltimore, so do violence, shootings - baltimoresun.com

"The more you have different people interacting, the more chance you have for beefs."

Where did global warming go? The deep ocean, experts say - Science

Kevin Trenberth and colleagues at the National Center for Atmospheric Research reanalyzed ocean temperature records between 1958 and 2009. They found that about 30 percent of the extra heat has been absorbed by the oceans and mixed by winds and currents to a depth below about 2,300 feet.

Oceans are well-known to absorb more than 90 percent of the excess heat, but its presence in the deep ocean "is fairly new, it is not there throughout the record," Trenberth said during a teleconference with reporters on Thursday. "So the question is: What happened to produce this?"  [Hey Kevin:  Can I see all of the historical data that you allegedly have for ocean temperatures below 2,300 feet?]
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"So, some of this heat may come back in the next El Niño event … but some of it is probably contributing to the warming of the overall planet, the warming of the oceans. … It means that the planet is really warming up faster than we might have otherwise expected," he said.

Lawrence Solomon: When Will Green Journalists Learn Their Lesson? | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

The Economist and other journalism icons are beginning to reassess their position on global warming. An evolution in thinking among environmental journalists would bring them into the mainstream of society.

Twitter / wattsupwiththat: Climate Craziness of the week ...

Climate Craziness of the week - with the physical signature of UHI staring them right in the face Mann, Borenstein go with their 'gut'…

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: You would think if coldest ...

You would think if coldest March-Apr in 50 yrs for plains n of I-80 was on way,NOAA would have said something. Instead arctic ice nonsense

Carbon may fall below 1 euro if vote blocks EU plan

LONDON, April 12 (Reuters) - European Union carbon permits could fall below 1 euros a tonne if the European Parliament votes against a Commission plan to remove some permits from the Emissions Trading System (ETS), analysts at IHS Global said.

400,000 Lost Jobs by 2016 — Heritage Study of Boxer-Sanders Carbon Tax Proposal

Using an energy model derived from the Energy Information Administration’s National Energy Model System (NEMS), the Heritage scholars calculate that, compared to a no-carbon tax baseline, the Boxer-Sanders proposal would:

Reduce the income of a family of four by more than $1,000 per year.
Reduce employment by more than 400,000 jobs in 2016.

Crews recover body of Utah avalanche forecaster killed in snow slide | The Salt Lake Tribune

Search and rescue workers located and recovered the body of a state avalanche forecaster early Friday morning, about six hours after he had been reported missing in a Big Cottonwood Canyon snow slide.

Twitter / MichaelEMann: #HeartlandInst/#Koch climate ...

#HeartlandInst/#Koch climate change denial machine strikes again. Received by several colleagues, unsolicited: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=515611208495086&set=a.221233134599563.54502.221222081267335&type=1 …

Children won't know what hockey sticks look like: Heavy April snow causes roof collapse at Saskatchewan hockey rink

Sask. sees two more roof collapses at garden centre, hockey rink

Wednesday afternoon, part of the roof at the Bredenbury hockey rink caved in due to excess amounts of snow.

Hottest year ever update from the fastest-warming place on Earth: Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks hits -23F, six degrees colder than the 1955 record

Winter just won’t let go in Interior Alaska | Alaska Dispatch

Winter just won’t let go in Interior Alaska. On Thursday morning, the Fairbanks International Airport recorded a low of minus 21 degrees, the first time the April temperature has dipped below minus 20 since 1992.

Thursday’s cold doesn’t approach the record low for the day, set in 1911 at minus-32. But two other nearby stations did hit record lows. At the Eielson Air Force Base southeast of Fairbanks, temperatures dipped to minus 23, breaking the old record of minus 17 set in 1955. At the College observatory on the University of Alaska Fairbanks, located on a hill above the Tanana Valley, a low of minus 15 broke the old record of minus 7, set in 1985.

Super-rich warmist Jeremy Grantham: Skeptics are allegedly led by a "little army of non-scientific, persuasive loony lords"; he's got nearly $400 million to fight their alleged "misinformation machine"; also, he recently became a fan of the oil and gas companies

Jeremy Grantham, environmental philanthropist: 'We're trying to buy time for the world to wake up' | Environment | The Guardian

He finds climate sceptics – led by a "little army of non-scientific, persuasive loony lords", as he characterises them (a barely disguised reference to the former Conservative chancellor Lord Lawson and Ukip's Lord Monckton, both of whom promote, to varying degrees, climate-sceptic views) – a frustrating ideological phenomenon. "They have profound beliefs – as opposed to knowledge – that they are willing to protect by all manner of psychological tricks..."
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At the same time, he has poured an ever-larger amount of his personal wealth into his Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment, which he runs, with family input (his children are trustees) and minimal staff, out of GMO's Boston headquarters. The foundation's latest tax filing shows that in 2011 he increased the fund's coffers by $46m (£30m), bringing the total to something approaching $400m (£260m), up from $106m in 2006. Ever the wise moneyman, he has largely reinvested this money, in order to guarantee the foundation's long-term security. But he also spends around $17m annually on his chosen causes, in the process becoming, according to one magazine, the "world's most powerful environmentalist".

Run your finger down the tax document and you see why. In 2011 alone, his foundation gave $1m to each of the leading US conservation charities, the Sierra Club and Nature Conservancy, as well as $2m to the Environmental Defense Fund, where his German-born wife Hannelore is a trustee and where Isabel has also worked. He is perhaps best known in the green world for funding the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment ($2.2m in 2011), and Imperial College London's Grantham Institute for Climate Change ($1.9m in 2011), but he funds climate researchers in India, too. He has written large cheques for the Carnegie Institute of Science, the Smithsonian, 350.org, WWF, Greenpeace and, keen to counter what he calls the "misinformation machine", funds environmental journalism at National Public Radio, the Center for Investigative Journalism, grist.org, Media Matters and the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media. Until last year (when he decided investigative and environmental journalism was "dying out" due to cutbacks), he funded the world's most lucrative journalism award, the annual $80,000 Grantham prize for environmental reporting.
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More awkwardly, he insists his substantial investments in oil and gas don't contradict his green views. "We need oil. If we took oil away tomorrow, civilisation ends. We can burn all the cheap, high-quality oil and gas, but if we mean to burn all the coal and any appreciable percentage of the tar sands, or even third-derivative, energy-intensive oil and gas, with 'fracking' for shale gas on the boundary, then we're cooked, we're done for."

Tom Nelson: Epic cage match: Planet-healing warmist Jeremy Grantham versus super-evil, greedy planet-destroying fossil fuel investors like Jeremy Grantham

[2011] Grantham has become a fan of the oil & gas companies

UVermont students stage ‘die-in’ to ‘highlight deadly effects of climate change, fossil fuel use’ | JunkScience.com

“Climate change contributes to at least 400,000 deaths annually worldwide, approximately one death per minute.”

Why are carbon markets failing? | Guardian Sustainable Business | Guardian Professional

Carbon markets have lost us more than 15 years in the battle against climate change yet we continue to plough forward with scaling them up. Why?
...carbon markets have been infested by corruption and non-transparency. When studying one project in India, my research team realised that the Mumbai office of a major international consultancy appeared to have copied and pasted large chunks of documentation from one CDM project to another.
...Carbon markets have given the appearance of us doing something about climate change, while actually legitimising the constant rise of emissions. We need to go back to the drawing board and come up with solutions that actually work in practice.

Two Feet Of Snow Forecast For Fort Collins Next Week | Real Science

Weather Underground is forecasting in the neighborhood of two feet of snow here, starting Sunday night.

April 10 Global Sea Ice Area 8th Highest On Record | Real Science

Climate experts tell us that the poles are melting down, which is why global sea ice area is eighth highest on record for the date.

All You Need to Know About RECs (Renewable Energy Certificates) — MasterResource

The government has created a market in “Renewable Energy Certificates,” also known as a “Renewable Energy Credit.” RECs are yet another way that renewable energy sources take advantage of the public’s good graces, and the propensity for some politicians to be fooled into creative ways to burden unsuspecting citizens.

Oh, For The Love Of Peat! | Musings from the Chiefio

What I find amazing about this paper is two fold. That it is clearly good and honest Science being done by someone at NASA GISS with Hansen Trolling the halls. With only a minor sop to the Global Warming gods… Then, that it actually saw the light of day. Perhaps in 1998 the “peat guys” were not yet thought of as a climate issue.

Remarkable stuff from Michael Mann and Dana Nuccitelli: Hey, did we mention that natural variability is important, and maybe we didn't account correctly for volcanoes, and maybe the heat is hiding in the oceans, and maybe even small amounts of warming might be devastating to human civilization?

How The Economist got it wrong – Opinion

One likely culprit is that the role of natural climate variability, which is particularly important on timescales of a decade or less, was not properly accounted for in the analysis.
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Yet another recent study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters has argued that previously unaccounted-for effects of low-level volcanic eruptions may have offset more of the warming than scientists realised over the past decade.

And still another study published recently in Geophysical Research Letters suggests that any slowing of surface warming during the past decade may have been associated with a recent accelerated penetration of heat into the deeper oceans.
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The instrumental temperature record alone, it turns out, is an especially poor constraint on climate sensitivity because it is so short, and because there are multiple natural and human factors at work over the past century.
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Given that it will take a significant effort to avoid doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, from a policy perspective arguments about the precise climate sensitivity are somewhat irrelevant. Even at the lower end of the estimated sensitivity range, the projected impacts of climate change are likely to be devastating to human civilisation and our environment...

Dutch March Flower Exports Fall 10% as Cold Weather Hurts Demand - Bloomberg

The Netherlands’ flower and plant exports, the world’s biggest, dropped 10 percent in March after shipments of potted plants slumped to most European destinations on freezing weather.

Why Obama's Environmental Pick Drives Republicans Crazy - Management - GovExec.com

“I am concerned that the central functions of the agency have been obfuscated by ideology, frustrated by a severe lack of transparency, undermined by science the agency keeps hidden, and implemented without regard for economic consequences,” Vitter said. “The EPA eschews at all costs economic modeling that would verify the true impacts of the regulatory agenda that now provides this country with the lowest workforce participation rate since the Carter Administration. Cost/benefit analyses as required under various executive orders and as required by the Clean Air Act…yet EPA remains intransigent in its opposition to having a transparent economic analysis process.”

Quorn Encourages Sustainably Grown Meat Alternatives to Offset Global Warming

Quorn, a healthy food advocate, recommends consuming more meat alternative products to prevent global warming.
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Instead of eating [David Wilson, a representative from healthy food manufacturer Quorn], Wilson says people should switch to meat alternative products. “Quorn products are delicious and taste better than meat,” he says.

Video: Nurseries forced to dump millions of pounds of plants due to cold weather - Telegraph

Gemma Neech from West Kington Nurseries admits that sales of plants have been hit hard by the cold weather and many are simply being thrown away.

The Insiders: Climate change and Mitch McConnell

First, Ed [Rogers] and I have had a little back and forth on climate change. It’s probably tedious to some of you; I believe it is a massive threat worthy of a massive response. Ed believes it is vastly overrated and a plot by big government and rich liberals to raise energy prices and impose a lifestyle of want on those who cannot afford the gas guzzlers and private jets of their oppressors. I like Ed. He’s smart, and often right about politics. But, on this one, he’s in bad company.

Has Obama Already Given Up on Climate Change? : The New Yorker

the budget released this week makes it clear that Obama’s surprising appeal to Congress was an empty piece of rhetoric. The phrase “climate change” appears twenty-nine times in the new budget, but there is no new plan for Congress to take up in Obama’s otherwise ambitious legislative blueprint. There are some worthy energy initiatives that could achieve modest reductions in emissions, but the budget is silent on what Obama will do to aggressively reduce carbon pollution by the biggest emitters, like power plants and automobiles.

A Nobel Prize Idea: Connecting Global Warming and Beer

So here’s my hypothesis: maybe we should track beer consumption instead of degrees Fahrenheit to get a better feel for temperature patterns.

Ceres: Climate Change a Bigger Cost for American Taxpayers

As Tax Day approaches, Americans should be aware that a hefty chunk of their tax dollars is now going to pay for the impacts of climate change.

Stephen Harper’s energy minister denies climate change science | canada.com

Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver is casting doubt on climate change science.

“I think that people aren’t as worried as they were before about global warming of two degrees,” Oliver said in an editorial board interview with Montreal daily newspaper, La Presse.

“Scientists have recently told us that our fears (on climate change) are exaggerated.”

United Nations News Centre - Sustainable development of oceans key to ending hunger, says UN official at Pacific meeting

12 April 2013 – The fight against hunger and climate change will hinge on the success of sustainable development of oceans and fisheries, a top United Nations official stressed today, adding that there can be “no truly ‘green economy’ without a ‘blue economy.’”

Global Warming Over Land Is Real: CU-Boulder, NOAA Study

Compo, in an email, stated that the actual number the 20CR analysis showed for warming since 1952 was 0.78 degrees Celsius, which he termed "statistically indistinguishable" from 1.18 degrees Celsius.

Environmental Questions Take Back Seat at Hearing for E.P.A. Nominee - NYTimes.com

Senator Bernard Sanders, independent of Vermont, tried to turn the hearing into a seminar on global warming but few of his colleagues on either side of the aisle were willing to engage.

Less Than Half in U.S. and Britain Believe in Man-Made Climate Change | Angus Reid Public Opinion

In the United States, most residents of the Northeast (53%) and Midwest (52%) think global warming is caused by emissions, but their counterparts in the West (47%) and the South (42%) appear more skeptical.
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In Britain, no survey conducted in the past five years has yielded a majority of respondents expressing belief in man-made climate change

Remember when the Arctic was going to be ice-free by the year 2000? Now it's allegedly going to be almost ice-free by 2050, and that's allegedly sooner than previously estimated

Climate Change Seen Leaving Arctic Ice-Free by 2050 - Bloomberg

The Earth’s northern polar region will be almost ice-free in the warmest months by 2050, sooner than previously estimated, according to a study by two federal government scientists who work on climate change.

Ice Free Arctic Forecasts | Real Science

Dangerous idiocy: In order to prevent imagined CO2-induced bad weather, high-flying warmist Bill McKibben wants the poor world to "leapfrog the fossil-fuel age and go straight to renewables"

The Fossil Fuel Resistance | Rolling Stone

For the poor world, the much harder goal is to leapfrog the fossil-fuel age and go straight to renewables – a task that those of us who prospered by filling the atmosphere with carbon must help with, for reasons both moral and practical...global warming is starting to pour seawater into subways
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That same day, scientists announced that Earth was now warming 50 times faster than it ever has in human civilization, and that carbon-dioxide levels had set a perilous new record at Mauna Loa's measuring station. Right now, we're losing. But as the planet runs its spiking fever, the antibodies are starting to kick in.

Hey Bill: Why don't *you* leapfrog the fossil-fuel age and power your own life using only renewables?

Michael Mann claims that a new warmist study is important because it "formalizes what many scientists have been sensing as a gut instinct"

Borenstein:  Greenhouse gases make high temps hotter in China

WASHINGTON (AP) — China, the world's largest producer of carbon dioxide, is directly feeling the man-made heat of global warming, scientists conclude in the first study to link the burning of fossil fuels to one country's rise in its daily temperature spikes.

China emits more of the greenhouse gas than the next two biggest carbon polluters — the U.S. and India — combined. And its emissions keep soaring by about 10 percent per year.

While other studies have linked averaged-out temperature increases in China and other countries to greenhouse gases, this research is the first to link the warmer daily hottest and coldest readings, or spikes.
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The study by Chinese and Canadian researchers found that just because of greenhouse gases, daytime highs rose 0.9 degree Celsius (1.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in the 46 years up to 2007. At night it was even worse: Because of greenhouse gases, the daily lows went up about 1.7 degrees Celsius (3 degrees Fahrenheit).
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"The study is important because it formalizes what many scientists have been sensing as a gut instinct: that the increase in extreme heat that we've witnessed in recent decades, and especially in recent years, really cannot be dismissed as the vagaries of weather," said Pennsylvania State University climate scientist Michael Mann.

New paper finds another non-hockey-stick in Russian Subarctic, 'temperatures at least 1°C higher than the present' during Holocene Climate Optimum

A paper published today in Quaternary Research reconstructs temperatures in the Russian Subarctic over the past 10,000 years and finds "The regional Holocene Thermal Maximum, characterized by maximum warmth and dryness occurred at 7900–5400 calendar years before the present. During this period, July temperatures were at least 1°C higher than at present."

Sanders: McCarthy hearing is really about global warming | WashingtonExaminer.com

“Barrasso has made it clear this discussion … is not about Gina McCarthy,” said Sanders. “It is a debate about global warming and whether or not we listen to the leading scientists in our country who tell us that global warming is the most serious crisis we face.”

Sanders gave a long list of global warming’s effects, including droughts and floods, and called out Sen. James Inhofe for describing global warming as a hoax.

Is the North Pole Going to Melt entirely? asks Newspaper in 1923 | Tallbloke's Talkshop

As the northern melt and polar bear worrying season gets underway, a timely reminder of the repetitive nature of ‘unprecedented’ climate happenings.

Climate Conversation Group » Climate forecasts fulfilled or what?

Earlier today someone mentioned to me that a Guardian article confirmed the remarkable claim that climate models correctly predicted the evolution of this century’s temperatures. By implication, either they predicted the hiatus or the hiatus hasn’t occurred. I was intrigued.

Government report says don't blame global warming for freak of nature 2012 US drought

[Seth Borenstein] WASHINGTON - Last year's huge drought was a freak of nature that wasn't caused by man-made global warming, a new federal science study finds.

AP’s Seth Borenstein in July 2012: This U.S. summer is ‘what global warming looks like’ — ‘Horrendous wildfires. Oppressive heat waves. Devastating droughts. Flooding from giant deluges’ | Climate Depot

'And a powerful freak wind storm called a derecho. These are the kinds of extremes climate scientists have predicted will come with climate change, although it's far too early to say that is the cause' -- UN IPCC's John Christy Counters: 'The guilty party in my view is Mother Nature.'

Global Warming Not Significant in 2012 Drought: Report | Climate Central

To find that global warming signal in a particular summer in the Central Great Plains, Seager said, “You’re looking for a tree within a forest of natural variability.”

Climate change curriculum for American kids watered down | Grist

Perhaps most disheartening, one notorious group of climate deniers doesn’t hate the standards.

A postcard from warmer climes. | Pointman's

[Warmist propaganda outlets are] shouting evermore louder to get people’s attention back again but all that’s happening is they’re looking more and more extreme, which brings me round quite nicely to what I think is the change in tenor of the skeptic blogs.

Mostly, they’re laughing at the alarmists, or to put it more bluntly, taking the piss out of them. Sure, the usual bedrock stream of articles debunking the Manny Mouse science is there but increasingly there’s a feeling of flogging a dead horse – the science is so laughably crap, what the hell, you might as well have a lark and poke some fun at it. It’s not exactly us occupying the higher moral high ground but then they’re in such a shambolic situation, it’s in some ways a little bit more humane. However, finish up that beer, stub out that smoke, and let’s get back to work. We will have to harden our hearts and finish them off in the end.

At some point, that magic sea change in perception has come about, and increasingly they’re the ones not being taken seriously, rather than us skeptics. This new world is going to take a bit of getting used to, I can tell you.

Thing Of The Past Kills 5,000 In The UK | Real Science

5,000 lives believed to have been lost due to bitter March | Metro News

EU Experts : Melting Glaciers To Drown The UK | Real Science

there has been no change in sea level rise rates.

The Dam is about to Break: ‘The continuing pressure of the non-warming will soon crumble’ the global warming establishment | Climate Depot

Dennis T. Avery: 'The public is waiting for the same mainstream media that declared the false emergency to tell us when it’s over! Naturally, the 'journalists' are waiting as long as possible before admitting their culpability, hoping we will forget or they will retire'

Rapidly Melting Arctic Has Normal Sea Ice | Real Science

The normalcy is unprecedented

IMF Pushes Carbon Tax as Energy Subsidy “Reform”

The IMF seeks to shame U.S. policymakers into enacting carbon and coal taxes by redefining the absence of such taxes as energy subsidies.

The Reference Frame: Accidents killing professional climate alarmists

This blog entry will review some recent sad events.

Prior To Hansen Tampering, 1970 Was Cooler Than 1900 | Real Science

Twitter / WaxmanClimate: Today, #SafeClimateCaucus ...

Today, #SafeClimateCaucus challenged @HouseCommerce members to a debate on #ClimateChange Call on them to respond! pic.twitter.com/T1DaO7dZjW

ABC News Watch: Ignoring history-Thatcher and Climate Change

Amazingly this piece omits Thatcher's comments made in her 2003 book "Statecraft" in which she almost completely recants the views contained in ABC's op ed. ABC's writer and editor willfully ignore the facts for the sake of spruiking their own agenda. Once again ABC's audience left in the dark.

Phony email account used by recently-resigned EPA administrator was NOT standard practice and broke federal law, researcher responds to Sen. Barbara Boxer | Mail Online

Lisa Jackson resigned from EPA's top post after her 'Richard Windsor' alias was exposed
Researcher who found the account says Jackson created an entirely new EPA employee profile to shield her correspondence from the public

Bummer: On warmist Andrew Weaver's website, Merran Smith suggests that trace amounts of CO2 may "wipe out up to one quarter of [British Columbia's] hard-earned wealth"

Major BC Parties Weigh in on Climate Leadership - Andrew Weaver for MLA in 2013

“It is exciting that we’re starting to see a recommitment to climate leadership,“ said Merran Smith, director of Clean Energy Canada at Tides Canada.
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“Inaction today will hit British Columbia families in the pocketbook tomorrow,” said Smith. “Studies have shown that without dramatic reductions in carbon pollution, climate disruption will wipe out up to one quarter of our province’s hard-earned wealth.”

Warning Signs: Relentless Liars: The Great Green Edifice is Crumbling

The old guard of the environmental movement is passing from the scene and the entire edifice of the global warming hoax is crumbling. Jim Hansen, the head of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) since 1981 has announced his retirement...

Severe blizzard in North Iceland

On Þverárfjall mountain pass between Blönduós and Sauðárkrókur, Northwest Iceland, a search and rescue team drove off the road in a severe blizzard which hit the region today.

Snubbed by the Arctic Council, we forge ahead on the ice conveyer | Greenpeace International

I’m standing up here at the top of the world, 89.7 degrees North. It’s -31 degrees Celsius this morning and my fingers are frozen — but my blood is boiling.

Like thieves in the night, the Arctic Council have snuck in and left without meeting us.

At the North Pole, A New World | Greenpeace International

This region is warming faster than any other on earth, marking the release of each new iPod with a new record in temperature extremes, habitat loss, environmental crashes.

Warmist Congressman Blumenauer: "Time after time after time, Dr. Hansen has been proven correct"

Blumenauer Leads Climate Change Special Order - YouTube

[47-minute video] Congressman Blumenauer is joined by Representatives Paul Tonko (NY-20), Steve Cohen (TN-09), and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), Ranking Member of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee's Subcommittee on Environment, to discuss some of the vital climate change issues that are facing the country.

USDA Climate Head suggests that CO2-induced warm weather will kill our farm animals

USDA Climate Head: Global Warming To Bring More 'Miserable Days' - US News and World Report

The director of the United States Department of Agriculture's Climate Change Program said Wednesday that global warming will cause an increase in the number of "miserable days" over the next several years.
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"As that index gets higher and higher, you see reductions in production and then you see mortality [in farm animals]," he said at Washington, D.C.'s Wilson Center during a discussion on climate change's impacts on public health and agriculture.

2010:  20 million farm animals freeze to death

UP to 20 million farm animals may die in Mongolia before spring as the fiercest winter in living memory grips the country, International Aid Agencies warned today.

Admiral Samuel Locklear, head of U.S. Pacific Command, still suggests that CO2-induced bad weather is "the biggest long-term security challenge in the Pacific region"

'Tell me about climate change ... no, stop!' | Jay Bookman | www.ajc.com

INHOFE: "Admiral, I'd like to get clarification on one statement that was I think misrepresented. It was in the Boston Globe it reported that you indicated, and I'm quoting noew from the Boston the Globe now, the biggest long-term security challenge in the Pacific region is climate change. I'd like to have you clarify what you meant by that. ... "

Locklear did not back down, saying that the Pacific Rim is an area of high population growth, and that much of that growth is occurring in coastal or litoral areas, where people would be vulnerable to storms, flooding, rising sea level and other problems. He went on:

"From 2008 to 2012, about 280,000 people died (in natural disasters in the Pacific region). It was not not all climate change or weather-related, but a lot of them were due to that. About 800,000 people were displaced and there was about $500 billion of lost productivity. So when I look and I think about our planning and I think about what I have to do with allies and partners, and I look long-term, it's important that countries in this region build capabilities into their infrastructures to be able to deal with the types of things ... "

Inhofe on climate 'hoax': Don't forget Soros, MoveOn.org - The Hill's E2-Wire

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) said Thursday that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) accurately summed up his views on global warming, but left a few things out.

The liberal Sanders, at a hearing to vet the White House nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency, noted Inhofe has called global warming a huge “hoax” fueled by Al Gore, the United Nations and the “Hollywood elite.”

Sanders asked his conservative colleague if that was a fair summary. “Yes, [but] I would add to that list MoveOn.org, George Soros, Michael Moore and a few others,” Inhofe replied, drawing laughter.

Evironmental Studies panel: global warming is real threat - Seton Hall University

There were a number of theo­retical and moral solutions dis­cussed at this panel as well. It was mentioned that global warming was defined as the “human domi­nation of nature.”

The panel concluded by ex­plaining to students that the ac­tions performed by past genera­tions are now irreversible and it takes an estimated 1,000 years for bits of carbon to be released from earth’s atmosphere.

Washington Post Insiders: "climate change is probably leaving the stage as a political issue — just as President Obama is trying to gather momentum for a major push"

The Insiders: Democrats’ lost momentum on climate change

As I said last week, fewer Americans view global warming as a “very serious problem” today than just six months ago. In October, 39 percent of Americans viewed global warming as a very serious problem, compared with 33 percent who believe that to be true today.
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Higher energy prices and the Democrats’ pointless follies on global warming, when combined with our fragile, discouraging economy, means that climate change is probably leaving the stage as a political issue — just as President Obama is trying to gather momentum for a major push. It’ll be interesting to see whether the White House gracefully goes quiet on the issue.

The Democrats are increasingly preaching to the choir about climate change, partially because of the state of the economy but also because of the hypocrisy that surrounds the issue. People notice that those who preach the loudest seem disproportionately to fly in private jets, sleep in mansions, float on yachts and otherwise lifestyles that produce high levels of carbon emissions — the occasional pious Prius puttering along in Hollywood or elsewhere notwithstanding.

The Cap-and-Trade Bust

Will California’s legislation lower greenhouse gas emissions? Precedent says no.

Twitter / kgrandia: Climate change a boom for the ...

Climate change a boom for the barf bag industry http://www.flyingclean.com/turbulence_in_the_air_and_on_the_ground_for_airline_industry … via @FlyingClean

Kevin Grandia

Kevin is the President of Spake Media House Inc. a consulting firm that brings online power to non-profits, campaigners and advocacy groups.

He is formerly the Director of Online Strategy at Greenpeace USA

Hey Kevin:  Far be it from me to be critical of ultra-stupid green claims, but do you have any actual data supporting the idea that people "barf" more on planes at 500 ppm CO2 than they did at 370 ppm CO2?

A Normal Day in Climate Science | NoFrakkingConsensus

Don’t believe everything you read – especially about the supposed link between global warming and natural disasters.

WASHINGTON: White House honors Florida scientist Jennifer Jurado for work on climate change | Politics | Bradenton Herald

WASHINGTON — The White House on Thursday honored a Broward County, Fla., scientist who helped launch a multi-county initiative to address sea level rise and other consequences of climate change in South Florida.

Actual headline on Smithsonian.com:  "Climate Change Could Make Us Choose Between Wine And Pandas"

while the choice between wine and pandas is a particularly difficult one to deal with, these are the sort of compromises that we’ll have to make as the planet changes in order to keep growing the food we need to survive.

Minnesota Media’s Double Standard on Global Warming

What a difference a year makes, last year in Minnesota we had an unusually warm winter and an early spring and all you heard from the mainstream press was Global Warming all the time. This year we are having a colder than normal and longer than normal winter and the word Global Warming is never uttered, just crickets. No one is asking the obvious question “What happened to Global Warming?”

GenevaLunch news » “Swiss Climate Change 2013″ report shows warmer rivers, more mountain flora

Changes shown include ... an increase in the number of flowers found in high altitude areas.  [I'm supposed to be terrified when I read that, am I right?]

Biggest Shocker at EPA Confirmation Hearing: Obama nominee doesn’t know global temp trends

Gina McCarthy pled, “Don’t look at me as a climate scientist.”

39 Years Since The Worst Tornado Outbreak On Record | Real Science

1974 was the peak year of the ice age scare. It was also the year of the worst tornado outbreak in history.

Sessions points out flat global temps: McCarthy says “I’ll take a look at that” | JunkScience.com

From the confirmation hearing.

Die Klimazwiebel: A bumpy ride

This study is maybe of use for the air industry, but its potential to educate people is of limited value, if at all.

Besides the danger of overselling, the pedagogical use of these studies brings also a problem for the credibility of climate science.

China - Dozens of vehicles stranded in the snow - Video

Chengde, Hubei Province, China – 9 Apr 13

Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Startling increase in amount ...

Startling increase in amount of snow covering n Hemisphere vs this date in 2007. pic.twitter.com/Fvkj87jtZj

Satellite shelved after 2000 election to now fly

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is proposing dusting off and finally launching an old environmental satellite championed by Al Gore but shelved a dozen years by his 2000 rival George W. Bush.

Vitter: EPA ignored 3.75 of 5 requests made 3 weeks ago in face-to-face meeting | JunkScience.com

From Vitter’s opening statement at today’s confirmation hearing.

Failure to fix EU scheme may hit other CO2 markets: S. Korea - News - Point Carbon

BERLIN, April 11 (Reuters Point Carbon) – Failure by MEPs to pass an EU Commission plan to prop up carbon prices in Europe’s Emissions Trading Scheme could weaken the ambition of carbon markets being designed in other countries, South Korea’s deputy environment minister said Thursday.

Coldest April On Record In Minnesota (So Far) | Real Science

Temperatures so far this month are the coldest on record in Minnesota. This will change as the month progresses, but this week they are likely to decrease further.

Merkel’s No-Nuke Stumble May Erode Re-Election Support - Bloomberg

Merkel’s subsidies to renewable-energy producers are fueling runaway electricity costs and posing a threat to the stagnant German economy. Consumers pay for the subsidies through a surcharge on their bills. The fee had surged 47 percent on Jan. 1 from a year earlier. In three years, it had more than doubled.

President Obama's budget promises action on climate change - POLITICO.com

the budget offers no details on new big-ticket efforts to reduce emissions, and it backs off any specific mention of EPA’s expected efforts to restrict greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

Carbon tax helps flow of ice cream exports to Asia | The Australian

SOUTH Australian ice cream brand Golden North is looking to break into Southeast Asia with an expansion plan partly funded by the carbon tax.  [I'm confused--will I notice a drop in CO2-induced bad weather from this?]

Republicans Seize What They See as Keystone Momentum - Bloomberg

Some backers say they have momentum following a bipartisan, though nonbinding, vote in the Senate favoring Keystone, and a State Department report that showed the project presented no significant environmental risks.

Cold Snap Could Devastate Oklahoma's Top Crop

Icy weather from Wednesday and Thursday could mean total devastation for farmers growing Oklahoma's number one crop. This time of the year, winter weather conditions can wipe out entire wheat fields, according to experts.

Those who don’t learn from Yamal, are condemned to repeat it – Marcott’s YAD061

Steve McIntyre points out the YAD061 equivalent in Marcott et al, where a single sample contributed the majority of the uptick.

The Carbon Tax Is Overrated - Bloomberg

Nobody knows how big carbon's negative externality -- if any -- really is.
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The trouble with the carbon tax, for all its strengths, is that we don't know enough about the climate's future to set it correctly.

New Method Proves—Again—Climate Change Is Real: Scientific American

Another issue, said Christy, is the role of maximum and minimum temperatures. Minimum temperatures have risen more than maximum temperatures, possibly due to land-use changes, which, as Christy pointed out in his Senate testimony, can be problematic when creating warming trend lines, since temperatures are calculated as an average of minimum and maximum.

Green Weenie of the Week: The United States! | Power Line

These are grim times for the climate campaign, as we’ve noted here repeatedly. Cap and trade failed in the Senate, and isn’t ever coming back. The White House pre-emptively ruled out a carbon tax. The EPA, according to several reports, is going to miss a deadline this Friday on the next step in its coal-killing regulatory agenda, apparently because it has noticed that its proposed rules are unlikely to survive a court challenge in their form. And the UN’s Kyoto Protocol process has entered its full zombie mode, still walking around undead but incapable of sentient cognition.

But the real capper is that the United States actually achieved its (unratified) Kyoto Protocol target without the help of environmentalists.

We're saved! High-flying warmist Michael Mann endorses a book about trying to raise a baby without emitting any CO2

The Zero Footprint Baby

”If you are parent, or an expectant one, and care about the world we leave our children, then read this book. It will change the way you view your role as both a parent and a citizen of planet Earth.”—Michael E. Mann, Distinguished Professor, Penn State University and author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars
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The Zero Footprint Baby: How to Save the Planet While Raising a Healthy Baby shows how to raise a child with little to no carbon footprint. This timely book covers every issue new parents face, including pregnancy (what kind of birth has the lowest impact?); what to feed your baby (breastfeed, formula, or both?); childcare (who should take care of the baby, and how?); and of course, diapering.

Early spring storm breaks Denver cold temperature records

Denver’s official temperature as measured at Denver International Airport dropped to 9 degrees just before midnight last night. This sets a new record low temperature for April 9, easily besting the previous record of 12 degrees set in 1959.
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As the cold front moved out, the chilly temperatures lingered into the morning of April 10. The mercury at DIA dropped to 6 degrees thus setting a new record low temperature for the date. The previous record was 7 degrees set in 1959.

R-r-regina sets second temperature record in two days

REGINA -- Another day, another weather record we’d rather not have.

Regina’s temperature dropped to -18C between 6 and 7 a.m. Wednesday, breaking a 31-year-old record for the low temperature on April 10.

Extreme Record U.S. Temperatures Could Affect Wheat, Corn And Natural Gas Market - Seeking Alpha

In the past 7 days alone, there have been 64 record high temperatures across the U.S. and 319 record low minimum temperatures.

Lubbock temperatures hit April record low - The Daily Toreador: News

Charles Aldrich, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Lubbock, said the city hit a record low of 22 degrees, while the previous low was 26 degrees.

Russian Academy Of Sciences Experts Warn Of Imminent Cold Period: “Global Warming Is A Marketing Trick”

The article writes that Russian scientists are predicting that “a little ice age will begin in 2014“. The article adds:

"They reject the claim of global warming and call it a marketing trick.”

Greedy green land grabbers

On Sunday, February 28, 2010, armed troops evicted villagers in Uganda’s Mubende district, to make way for a tree plantation. The troops were acting on behalf of a British forestry company that claims it fights global warming. The trees will supposedly absorb carbon dioxide, so that carbon-credits can be sold to transnational polluters, to stave off “dangerous manmade climate change and disruption.”

Long-time villagers in thriving communities were beaten by gun-toting soldiers who burned homes, destroyed crops and butchered livestock. Eight-year-old Friday Mukamperezida was sick in bed at home and was burned to death, while his mother was out getting medicine for the boy.
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So not all green grabbing is about “global warming control” – just enough to highlight the perfidy of the whole concept. Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels climbed steadily for the past 17 years, but planetary temperatures did not budge. That is sending carbon traders into full panic mode. Billions in paper climate credit fortunes stand to evaporate like Enron stock shares, if the CO2-temperature disconnect continues.

Rupert Darwall: The Age Of Global Warming

For what distinguishes the age of global warming is that scientists — particularly climate scientists — had more impact on public policy and on the destiny of nations than in any other era. Karl Marx wrote that great world historic events happen twice – the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. With global warming and the role of scientists in directing the future of society, Marx’s formulation can be reversed: First the farce, then the tragedy.

Snow causes roof of grain warehouse to collapse : South Dakota

The storm claimed one victim in the Panhandle. The body of 37-year-old Lisa Conrad of Berea was found Tuesday about 5:40 p.m. by snowmobilers searching an area west of Highway 385 in the Berea area in Box Butte County. Conrad had been reported missing earlier after her vehicle became stranded.

Planet-healing coolant might prevent bad weather in 2075, but it also might catch fire right now and burn your face off while emitting "a chemical far more deadly to humans than hydrogen cyanide"

Public Safety Announcement: Ozone Friendly Coolant May Eat Your Face Off | Tallbloke's Talkshop

“This new chemical helps fight climate change and ozone depletion,” McCarthy said of HFO-1234yf in 2011 while serving as administrator of the EPA’s Air and Radiation office. “It is homegrown innovative solutions like this that save lives and strengthen our economy.”

Is any of that true, though? Last August at Mercedes-Benz’ test track in Sindelfingen, Germany, engineers simulated a crash in which the refrigerant was sprayed onto the car’s hot engine.

The result?

The substance burst into flames as soon as it made contact.

Not only that, as it burned it emitted hydrogen fluoride, “a chemical far more deadly to humans than hydrogen cyanide, emitted in such amounts that it turned the windshield white as it began to eat into the glass.”

EU carbon falls 13 pct as bulls turn bears over market fix

LONDON, April 10 (Reuters Point Carbon) – EU carbon dropped by as much as 13 percent on Wednesday to a fresh two-week low as traders sold off long positions on fears that a bill to cut permit supply and prop up prices might be voted down by lawmakers.

Renewable power: Germany’s energy gamble : Nature News & Comment

An ambitious plan to slash greenhouse-gas emissions must clear some high technical and economic hurdles.

Long Winter Harming German Economy - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Winter's hold on Germany lasted longer than usual this year, taking its toll not just on the moods of residents, but also on a number of economic sectors. Construction, agriculture, service and retail are all suffering, and experts warn the effects could be long-term.

Opinion: McCarthy needs to open the windows at the EPA, letting in press and public — Environmental Health News

The Obama administration has been anything but transparent in its dealings with reporters seeking information, interviews and clarification on a host of environmental, health and public lands issues. The EPA is one of the most closed, opaque agencies to the press.

EU’s Chief Science Advisor Gives Shale Gas Go-Ahead | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

The EU’s chief scientific advisor has said that evidence allows the go-ahead for extracting shale gas, the energy source at the centre of a European policy tug-of-war.

Ongoing Cold Weather Can Affect Mental Well-Being

Take a walk along the Wausau Riverwalk and you will find things looking pretty empty. The boat launch is still iced over, the benches are wet, and at the farmers market there are piles of snow when their should be piles of fresh vegetables. After months and months of cold weather, the lack of outdoor activities leave many people feeling depressed. That's been especially true this year as temperatures have remained well below normal.

Climate Change 'Causing Colder British Winters' Says Met Office Chief Scientist

The chief scientist at the Met Office has called an urgent meeting to discuss the effects of climate change, saying the melting of the arctic may be causing the UK's recent spate of perishing weather.

After a winter in which temperatures dropped as low as −15.6C, Dr Julia Slingo told ITV News global warming may be responsible for the extreme weather, saying she would be convening with top scientists to try and understand how the arctic melt was affecting the UK.

She told the broadcaster: "If this is how climate change could manifest itself, then we need to understand that as a matter of urgency

DailyTech - Warming Evangelist Hansen Retires; Researchers Advise Panic Despite Flat Temps

Critics seize on cooling; warming theorist say models may need "readjusting"

New paper shows natural climate cycles can change the pace of atmospheric warming | Carbon Brief

The research suggests that we're in one of these so called hiatus periods at the moment. But what's causing it? According to the new paper, understanding natural variability in the climate system could be key to finding out.  [Ya think?]

Chicago School 'Market Socialism' by Thomas DiLorenzo

In the April 8 issue of the Wall Street Journal George Schultz and Gary Becker advocated a massive new carbon tax. Their arguments are based on very poor economic reasoning and an extremely naïve view of politics and politicians.

Playing Hockey Without Any Ice | Real Science

The hockey team says that current temperatures are the highest in at least 100,000 years.
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Apparently the melting point of ice must have changed, because Dr. Walt Meier at NSIDC says that the Arctic used to be ice free.

Cold snap will add £200 on to energy bills this year as price rises kick in for millions of homes | This is Money

Households spent an extra £40 heating their homes last month as temperatures dropped

Cherry-pickin' English major Chris Mooney argues that climate skeptics are obsessed by Al Gore by using 2007-2010 data from one website where Gore was not even mentioned in 54% of climate change op-eds

Al Gore Is Fat, Therefore Global Warming Doesn't Exist | Mother Jones

Ever notice that when conservatives want to attack the science of global warming—or the idea that we ought to do something about it—they almost always find a way to rope in Al Gore?
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Elsasser and Dunlap demonstrate as much based upon analyzing the content of the website Townhall.com, a widely trafficked repository of conservative punditry. The scholars found 203 conservative op-eds about climate change published between 2007-2010...they were utterly obsessed with Al Gore: 93 of the 203 columns discussed him.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: The Medieval Warm Period was global & explains the Current Warm Period

we here review the findings of several studies that have found evidence for the Medieval Warm Period in a region that is as far away from lands bordering on the North Atlantic Ocean as one could possibly get, i.e., Antarctica.

- Bishop Hill blog - Crop yields and dumb farmers

Matt Ridley points me to a paper published a few days ago, which finds that, despite the impact of climate, variability in crop yields has not changed.

Watch Now: Climate Depot’s Morano on Fox News about Global Temperature Flatline | Climate Depot

Morano: 'UN IPCC's Kevin Trenberth came out this week and announced global warming doesn't mean rising temperatures. In other words, warming doesnt equal warming'

Twitter / Revkin: Munich Re has work to do to ...

Munich Re has work to do to build credibility on global warming conclusions http://rogerpielkejr.blogspot.com/2013/04/fool-me-once-munich-res-thunderstorm.html?spref=tw&m=1 … after this @rogerpielkejr post

Warm and well fed, or hungry in the dark?

Politicians are continually increasing the risks of electricity blackouts with their dangerous climate policies. It is foolish in the extreme to believe that humans can change the future climate by collecting carbon taxes and covering the hills with wind turbines.

We should ask them: which is worse - gradual man-made global warming or sudden electricity blackout?

Polar Bear Blog – Spring Seals, Wolves and Rangers

You will see that there is a really nice floe edge formed from the mainland to Banks Island and even further north. This is actually good for the bears hunting chances – heavy, multi-year ice is just not what bears or seals want so in a weird way ‘less ice’ in the arctic is good for polar bears… Of course, no ice is pretty effin’ bad but we have a ways to go before that happens, I think…usually around this time of year, the top polar bears will just take the prime parts of seals when they catch them. This is usually the fat – bears get their protein and even hydration from it. They kind of peel the seals like bananas, eat the fat and move on. There have even been reports of polar bears just eating the brains of seals and leaving the rest… ever picky!!!

Warmer summers now? An amusing bit of cherrypicking

Anybody wondering why they went back only 600 years for comparisons? Easy-peasy: They avoid the Medieval Warm Period that way. There's no such thing as an honest Warmist. There probably was once but not in the present era of climate stasis

White Men : Wrecking The Climate For 200 Years | Real Science

11 Mar 1846 – ON THE CHANGE OF CLIMATE.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: WSJ: 'Many EPA regulations chase microscopic benefits at maximum cost'