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Are We at the Electric Car’s Tipping Point? - The Daily Beast

According to Hybridcars.com, plug-in models accounted for 7,138 sales in April 2013. That’s tiny.

Miss Fiji to advocate on Climate Change

Caireen who will be advocating against climate change in Indonesia says being from a Pacific country this will be a huge opportunity to get the message across to the rest of the world.

In case you missed it: Jetsetting warmist Elon Musk suggests that burning fossil fuels will "risk the future of all life on Earth"

Twitter / elonmusk

And, since we will run out of oil anyway, why risk the future of all life on Earth simply to delay sustainable energy?

Until now, that is: "In the history of Pyrenees skiing, there have never been slopes open in June"

Making hay while the snow falls: Slopes in France's Pyrenees open for rare June ski weekend

The slopes, which normally close for the season on April 1, are expected to re-open Sunday and again next weekend, station director Eric Charre said. Sales were limited to just over 600 tickets per day, and Charre said both days sold out.

"In the history of Pyrenees skiing, there have never been slopes open in June," he said.

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Chicago students tell President Obama: stop Keystone XL! | 350.org

At each event, I become more confident that there is community that is ready to stop tar sands extraction at any cost.

SELWESKI: Climate change fixes cheaper than storm damage? - Daily Tribune

Maybe we should simply label it as a penny-wise environmental maintenance expense.

Life In Tornado Alley Below 350 PPM | Real Science

In the 1930s, tornadoes were known to be caused by witches. Experts tell us that they are now caused by Republicans.
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I’m not being fair though. People in the 1930s didn’t really blame tornadoes on witches. Our society didn’t get that stupid until James Hansen and Al Gore took over the public education curriculum.

Gerald Warner: Wind of is change blowing - News - Scotsman.com

THE climate is changing – but not in the style prognosticated by the global warmist fanatics.

As the bottom falls out of the man-made climate change industry, those who were among its most bullish investors at the height of the scam are now covering their positions in a bear market.

Great damage was done to this much-hyped imposture by Climategate (“Hide the decline!”), by the discredited “hockey stick”, by the farce over “melting” Himalayan glaciers and the “decrease” in the polar bear population from 5,000 in 1970 to 25,000 today. Yet what has chiefly discredited the climate change superstition is the basic, inescapable fact that there has been no global warming since 1997.

The official face-saving response is that this is a “pause” in an otherwise menacing trend – a pause of a decade and a half. The warmist fanatics will freeze to death in their solar bunkers before they will admit defeat; but the more worldly wise, especially scientists anxious to preserve a vestige of academic credibility, are now striving to effect a withdrawal in good order.

Consensus: CO2 allegedly causes low Lake Superior water levels, with exceptions like during the late 1960s through 1999, water levels were above average, and also water levels jumped more last month than all but one other month since 1918?

2007: Shrinking Lake Superior Also Heating Up

From the late 1960s to 1999, there was a 30-year period with water levels above average, said Scott Thieme, chief of the Great Lakes Hydraulics and Hydrology Office for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Detroit, Michigan. But in 1999, the upper lakes started to fall below average and have mostly stayed that way.

Now:  Lake Superior level rises quickly in May - TwinCities.com

The water level of Lake Superior jumped 9 inches in May, more than twice the normal monthly increase and the second most for any month since 1918.
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The big lake now sits just 7 inches below its long-term average for June 1. It is a full 3 inches above the level at this time last year, the International Lake Superior Board of Control reported Friday.

Gee, thanks, scientists! Now they're trying to reduce the number of fart-induced hurricanes by breeding fartless cows

Scientists plan to reduce greenhouse gases by breeding fartless cows | Grist

It’s silly, but it’s also a big problem.

"From a thermodynamic perspective, you would have a hard time designing a more greenhouse-gas-intensive activity than skiiing"

Green Weenie of the Week: The Downhill Skiing Industry | Power Line

This deserves a whole case of Green Weenies, along with the buns. My old partner-in-climate-crime Ken Green of the Fraser Institute in Canada beats down as only he can:

Now this is corporate cronyism at its finest: ski resorts and corporations asking for climate change legislation. With respect to my skiing friends…

Skiers use energy to haul mass uphill, only to slide back down hill, over and over again. They fly or drive long distances to get to places that are cold (requiring heated facilities). While there, they consume goods that are hauled long-distances and up hill. The perishable goods have to be refrigerated (think about that for a minute). Virtually everything they wear (and their gear) is made from petroleum. From a thermodynamic perspective, you would have a hard time designing a more greenhouse-gas-intensive activity than skiiing. Vanity space flight, perhaps.

But the companies involved would like some green-washing courtesy of the government

Uh oh: Michael Mann goes after Andrew Bolt

Twitter / Jarrapin: 'No other media organisation ...

[retweeted by Michael Mann] 'No other media organisation in any other civilised nation would employ #AndrewBolt as a journalist' http://is.gd/Olcz2y

Twitter / MichaelEMann: Murdoch climate denial henchman ...

Murdoch climate denial henchman #AndrewBolt http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Andrew_Bolt … still peddling discredited (http://www.desmogblog.com/foia-facts-1-more-misdeeds …) Wegman Report! #HSCW

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Hansen’s Magical Time Machine | Real Science

The National Academy Of Sciences published this graph in 1975, showing that the northern hemisphere had cooled dramatically since 1940, and 1970 temperatures were cooler than the year 1900.
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Hansen using his magical powers, was later able to go back in time and determine that none of this ever happened. Global cooling was all in the imagination of the people who suffered through it.
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The MSM is all good with government lying, corruption, forgery, tampering, theft, fraud, blackmail, bribery, intimidation, etc. – as long as it suits the Democratic Party agenda.

Italy - Wettest spring in at least 150 years

‘Cursed spring’ also coldest in more than 20 years.

The End of Snow, 13 Years On | Via Meadia

In any case, happy skiing to our friends in the Pyrenees, and best summer wishes to our UK friends putting a hard and snowy winter behind them. And we wish the global greens a happy summer of announcing every heat wave as proof that the climate disaster is already here—until winter returns and they go back to telling us, correctly, that “weather isn’t climate.”

Twitter / randomxnp

Will Smith's new film is climate propaganda. Guess who chartered a Falcon 2000 jet to fly 75 miles along a motorway? #greensgobyair

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Popular Technology.net: The Statistical Destruction of the 97% Consensus

As Dr. Tol so eloquently put it,
"[Dana] I think your sampling strategy is a load of nonsense." - Richard Tol

Memo to Warmists: Climate scientist Andrew Weaver is not a Nobel prize winner | JunkScience.com

Climate Science Watch’s tagline is “Promoting integrity in the use of climate science by government.” But if it can’t get correct something simple like who is and who is not a Nobel winner, it will be hard to take the rest of what its integrity seriously.

Record rains of the kind they claimed were gone | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Melbourne CBD recorded the wettest June day on record after 48.6mm fell since 9am yesterday.

GISS : 0.3 C Cheating In Just The Last Two Years | Real Science

Climate experts say that the Earth has warmed about 0.7ºC since 1880. In the last two years alone, NASA has created almost 0.3ºC warming – simply by altering their data set.

Hurricane season begins with a new record hurricane drought for the USA | Watts Up With That?

As of today, it has been 2777 days or 7.6 years since the US has been hit by a Cat 3 or greater hurricane. The last such hurricane was Wilma on October 24th, 2005. Each day forward will be a new record in this drought period.

Outright fraud from James Hansen: "The carbon dioxide that we put into the air by burning fossil fuels will stay in the climate system for millenia"

James Hansen: We Are Only Beginning to Feel Climate Change's Impact (May 2013) - YouTube

[7-minute video] This May 2013 speech is a call from Hansen to form the "Centrist Party" to take-back America from corporations and lobbyists...

Tom Segalstad, 2009

In a paper recently published in the international peer-reviewed journal Energy & Fuels, Dr. Robert H. Essenhigh (2009), Professor of Energy Conversion at The Ohio State University, addresses the residence time (RT) of anthropogenic CO2 in the air. He finds that the RT for bulk atmospheric CO2, the molecule 12CO2, is ~5 years, in good agreement with other cited sources (Segalstad, 1998), while the RT for the trace molecule 14CO2 is ~16 years.

Marshall Shepherd Twitter roundup: Right before I told him about the "block" function, he was all about breaking barriers, disagreeing respectfully and finding common ground

Twitter / DrShepherd2013

@tan123 honestly, I am quite reasonable. can disagree and not be mortal enemies, if that barrier is broken, we can find common ground

Twitter / tan123

@DrShepherd2013 Sounds very good! (I must say, I'm impressed that you responded to my questions rather than ignoring them or blocking me).

Twitter / DrShepherd2013

@tan123 wait you mean I can block you? :) just kidding, look we can disagree and be respectful.

Twitter / DrShepherd2013 [right after I asked him why he says the AGW signal emerged in 1850, while Stephen Schneider said the 1980s, he responded by blocking me]

said before, twitter is positive experience like a summer picnic, but there can be some mosquitoes, had to use some "twitter" Off today

Twitter / DrShepherd2013: The block function is a wonderful ...

The block function is a wonderful thing, why hadn't I discovered it sooner...

Head of communications for Greenpeace International's Save the Arctic Campaign: "Climate change is a problem, and we must fix it. But it's certainly not our fault"

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Greenie refuses to feel guilty about burning fossil fuels

James Turner is head of communications for Greenpeace International's Save the Arctic Campaign.

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Oregon coal port gets key draft permit | JunkScience.com

An Australian energy company has cleared a key hurdle for a terminal on the Oregon side of the Columbia River that would ship coal from the Great Plains to Asia.

The New Nostradamus of the North: Apple's greenwashing likely to backfire - Hiring of former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson "will be counterproductive and costly"

So why would Apple hire her? Rago suggests that Apple executives, who are being dragged in front of congressional committees for obeying tax laws and making money, might think bringing Jackson on board would insulate them from the political attacks. At the Washington Examiner, Tim Carney asks: “Will Jackson’s job be about chasing subsidies for the renewable investments Apple is already making?” Whatever the reason, if her past experience is any indication, even with the best of intentions it will be counterproductive and costly.

3 ft of snow in at Wyoming High Country Lodge on May 31st

Winter – WINTER! – weather advisory extended thru June 1st.

Summer Northwest Passage Shipping Update | Real Science

The US military says that Northwest Passage shipping is going to be all the rage.

Summer has arrived, and there is 5,000 km of ice blocking the Northwest Passage. Summer will be over in 90 days.

You can run, Marshall, but you can't hide: Faced with my simple scientific question, AMS warmist Marshall Shepherd calls me a "mosquito" and blocks me on Twitter

Try Marshall's tactic the next time your boss or your wife asks you a simple question:  I won't answer the question unless it's submitted in the form of a peer-reviewed paper.

Twitter / DrShepherd2013

@LesJohnsonHrvat @tan123 I do but that opposition for me is only people that publish their opposing positions in peer review.have a good day

Twitter / DrShepherd2013 [right after he blocked me on Twitter]

said before, twitter is positive experience like a summer picnic, but there can be some mosquitoes, had to use some "twitter" Off today

Tom Nelson: Too funny: When I asked warmist Marshall Shepherd why he says the AGW signal emerged in 1850, while Stephen Schneider said the 1980s, he refuses to answer; tells me to try "publishing your thoughts in peer reviewed journal"

Climate Depot’s Marc Morano Routs Warming Movement

Climate Depot’s Marc Morano Routs Warming Movement…”Suffering The Scientific Death Of A Thousand Cuts”

The effective communication of skeptical science got a major boost when Marc Morano stepped onto the stage. Although Morano had already been active in debunking the AGW scare and the notion of consensus as Communications Director for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee under Senator James Inhofe in the 2000s, it wasn’t until he published his award-winning Climate Depot climate science/news clearinghouse site in 2009 that the message began to be heard in earnest.

With Morano, the science debunking the AGW claim had now found a powerful and talented PR expert who effectively communicated the inconvenient climate science findings to the media and public. Often we find Morano on television, radio and in the print media, nationally and internationally. Since Morano helped fire up the climate science communication machinery, the debate for the skeptics has turned into a virtual rout of the warmists.

Too funny: When I asked warmist Marshall Shepherd why he says the AGW signal emerged in 1850, while Stephen Schneider said the 1980s, he refuses to answer; tells me to try "publishing your thoughts in peer reviewed journal"

Twitter / tan123

@DrShepherd2013 I'm still waiting for your answer: Did the AGW signal emerge in 1850 or the 1980s? http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/05/serious-science-question-for-marshall.html …

Twitter / DrShepherd2013

@tan123I don't debate numerous theories on twitter, but encourage you to consider publishing your thoughts in peer reviewed journal. thx

Tom Nelson: Serious "settled science" question for Marshall Shepherd

How do you reconcile these two very different statements? If the alleged human-induced warming signal emerged from the noise in 1850, why did Schneider suggest that the signal didn't emerge until 130+ years later?

Interesting tweet from warmist Gavin Schmidt: "Perfect maths plus bad assumptions still equals BS"

Twitter / ClimateOfGavin

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PJ Media » Misguided Energy Policy: Alone, Enough to Cause American Failure

[Tom Harris] The only result of a radical change in U.S. energy policy would be one of mass unemployment and millions of Americans joining the billions of people throughout the world already mired in energy poverty. And severe tornadoes and other extreme weather will continue to occur as they always have, with the climatic effect of America’s sacrifice immeasurable in the real world.

Getting American energy policy right will not, by itself, stop the country’s decline. Many problems now weighing you down must be corrected. But following the dangerous approach to energy advocated by Boxer, Whitehouse and other climate propagandists would ensure that the U.S. fails.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds another non-hockey-stick in the Pacific Ocean; cooling over past 7,000 years

A new paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews reconstructs sea surface temperatures over the past 16,000 years and finds that the tropical Pacific has cooled over the past ~7,000 years since the Holocene Climate Optimum. The paper also finds that the frequency and intensity of El Ninos [ENSO] has significantly decreased over the past ~12,000 years, opposite of the claims of climate alarmists. In addition, the paper finds another non-hockey-stick in the North American southwest demonstrating a decrease in both reconstructed temperatures and climate extremes [variability] over the past ~7,000 years.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: The US fossil-fuel industry is driving a long-term economic boom

The domestic energy industry is booming—and driving a U.S. economic revival

As Hurricane Season Starts, U.S. Facing Heightened Risk | Climate Central

[Andrew Freedman] the last major hurricane to strike the U.S. was Hurricane Wilma in 2005.  [Hey, David Appell--remember when you accused Marc Morano of "outright lying" for making a similar statement?]

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Congressional global warming hearing features warmist scientist vs. warmist scientist on key point of whether current Earth’s temps and weather are unprecedented | Climate Depot

Excerpt: Climate Depot's Morano called the event 'refreshing.' 'When actual debate occurs like we saw at the hearing, we see just how much of man-made climate fears are based on 'projections,' 'predictions' and 'maybes,'' Morano said. He pointed out that scientists on the panel did not agree on several key points. 'Team global warming had a scientific civil war going on during the debate about whether there was a current global warming signal in our global average [temperatures] or even weather,' he said.'

RFK, Jr. Exposes Climate Criminals on Ring of Fire Radio

The levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere today haven’t been seen since dinosaurs roamed the earth. As a result, we’ve got rapidly accelerating climate change, more diseases and fewer resources. Ring of Fire host Mike Papantonio speaks with author and Ring of Fire co-host Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to help pinpoint the criminals who are responsible for this.

Banks, investors desert key carbon market event - News - Point Carbon

BARCELONA, June 1 (Reuters Point Carbon) – Governments and voluntary offset sellers took centre stage at a major carbon market conference in Barcelona this week after banks and investors – previously amongst the biggest exhibitors at the annual event – skipped it, in part due to rock-bottom CO2 prices.

German retail sales fall on cold weather - RTÉ News

Economists said the weaker than expected figure was due to spring coming late this year.

Big Lots falls after cutting outlook for year: Associated Press Business News - MSN Money

Weaker sales stemming from cold weather continued into May, the company said on a conference call with analysts.

Strange claim from Public Radio International: Because of CO2, allegedly, "what’s for lunch will and must change"

What's for Lunch: Under Pressure from Climate Change, A Global Tour of Our Changing Lunchscape | @pritheworld

Climate change is starting to reshape the world as we know it, and agriculture — that vast, abstract beast of a process that brings all of us our food and is the basis for all human civilization — is in the cross-hairs. It’s being affected by climate change — by changes in weather patterns, water supplies, growing seasons, ranges of harmful and beneficial insects and just about every natural factor it depends on — and it’s also a major contributor to climate change, through its massive consumption of fossil fuels and its production of greenhouse gases like methane and nitrous oxide.

So coming or going — as both a casualty and a cause of climate change — what’s for lunch will and must change.

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- Bishop Hill blog - #Greensgobyair

I was amused to see that Tom Nelson picking up on a Twitter hashtag I had used a few days ago when I noticed enviro-lawyer Anthony Hobley heading off to Barcelona. Tom had seen Jonathan Overpeck on his way to China and Time magazine's Bryan Walsh on his way to Las Vegas.

I wonder if the #greensgobyair hashtag might take off. If so, expect to see a great deal of Futerra's Solitaire Townsend, whose addiction to air travel seems hard to kick. In February she visited Vienna and San Francisco. In March it was Brazil. She was back in Brazil at the start of May, noting that customs officers were remarking about her regular visits:

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds warming decreases floods

A new paper published in Climate of the Past finds floods are more common during periods of cooling and less frequent during periods of warming, the opposite of the claims of climate alarmists. The paper shows that flooding was more common during the Little Ice Age than during the 20th century or the Medieval Warming Period. The paper adds to many other peer-reviewed publications finding that global warming leads to fewer floods. The authors also find flood frequency is "under orbital and possibly solar control."

Global warming scare coming soon to a senior near you | JunkScience.com

While more elderly tend to die during heat waves, the modern proximate cause is lack of air conditioning brought on by, say, making electricity too expensive.

Warmist blames skeptics for Facebook removing cli-fi novel page | JunkScience.com

Greg Laden offers no evidence but blames skeptics nonetheless. Says skeptics “bully” people.

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Congressman David McKinley : Press Releases : Rep. McKinley: Don't Hurt U.S. Economy Based on Ideological Agenda

[McKinley] “The discussion yesterday reinforced that the science is not settled on the role of humans in climate change. There is no reason to put our economy at risk for the sake of an ideological agenda. Congress cannot let President Obama do this by acting unilaterally on climate change.”

Page 2 - Tesla's Hazard Lights Are Flashing - TheStreet

There is still heavy short interest in Tesla

[Interesting stuff from 2007]:  NASA’s Hansen Mentioned in Soros Foundations Annual Report | NewsBusters

As NewsBuster Jake Gontesky reported, an editorial in Investor's Business Daily Monday claimed one of billionaire leftist George Soros's foundations gave $720,000 in 2006 to the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, James Hansen.

Since this editorial was published, according to LexisNexis and Google News searches, not one major media outlet has reported these allegations.

Maybe even more shocking is that had press outlets looked into this matter - you know, acted like journalists instead of advocates! - they would have found Hansen's name prominently mentioned in the 2006 Soros Foundations Network Report (relevant section on page 123):...  [Via MT]

May 30 update from the fastest warming place on Earth: "Barrow whaling crews still waiting for open water"

In Arctic Alaska, Barrow whaling crews still waiting for open water | Alaska Dispatch

May has come to a close, and crews from Alaska's largest whaling community have yet to find safe enough conditions to make their first spring strike. A lack of open water and persistent winds have kept crews in Barrow coast-bound for several weeks of what is typically active hunting time for bowhead whales.  [Via Polar Bear Science]

Attention, Minnesota parents who've shivered through your kids' soccer and baseball games all "spring": Some guy claims that your life will be "hell" if it warms up by a degree or two over the next few decades

[Investigative historian] Eric Zuesse: Global Warming Will Be Hell, Dramatic New Data Indicate

...This evidence indicates that global poverty will soar as a direct result of global warming.

Already the hottest countries - the ones nearest to the equator - are overwhelmingly the poorest countries, averaging only about 2% of the per-capita annual incomes of countries like in North America, Europe, and Australia, and Japan, all of which are more than 3,000 miles from the equator. Global warming is going to make the climates in the richer countries more like the ones already are near the equator. Given the established relationship between climate and income, the signs of a sharp long-term economic decline in nations such as the U.S. are clear.

John Christy: Climate Change Overview in Six Slides

John Christy: Climate Change Overview in Six Slides

The main takeaway points:

Popular scare stories that weather extremes – hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts, floods — are getting worse are not based on fact.
In the U.S., high temperature records are not becoming more numerous.
Climate models significantly overestimated warming during the past 15 years.
Even if climate models were correct, a 50% reduction in U.S. CO2 emissions by 2050 would avert only 0.07°C of warming by 2100.
If a policy is not economically sustainable, it’s not politically sustainable.
The climate change impact of enhancing CO2 concentrations has so far been small compared to the public health and biospheric benefits provided by affordable, carbon-based energy.

Bummer: Maybe CO2 will make the 2013 hurricane season even more dangerous than the 1780 hurricane season?

How Climate Change And Budget Cuts Could Make This The Most Dangerous Hurricane Season Ever | ThinkProgress

...climate change is fueling more intense and destructive storms. As Kerry Emanuel, professor of atmospheric science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, explains, “Climate change is causing a greater number of intense storms. The total number of storms has remained constant, but the proportion of high-intensity events has gone steadily upward in most parts of the world. Scientific models and real-world observations both suggest that the frequency of intense storms is going up.”

List of deadliest Atlantic hurricanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is a list of the deadliest known Atlantic hurricanes that caused at least 1,000 direct deaths, the deadliest being the Great Hurricane of 1780, with over 27,500 deaths...The hurricane was part of the disastrous 1780 Atlantic hurricane season, with three exceptionally deadly storms occurring in the month of October.

NBC News: Trace amounts of CO2 could cause "political instability, severe drought, famine, ecosystem collapse and other changes that make Earth a decidedly inhospitable place to live"

Forget the movies: 9 real ways the world could end - Science

...here are nine apocalyptic visions that scientists foresee.
1. Global warming
The mother of all apocalyptic fears, climate change is the biggest threat facing the planet, many scientists say. Climate change could make extreme weather more severe, increase droughts in some areas, change the distribution of animals and diseases across the globe, and cause low-lying areas of the planet to be submerged in the wake of rising sea levels. The cascade of changes could lead to political instability, severe drought, famine, ecosystem collapse and other changes that make Earth a decidedly inhospitable place to live.
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9. Snowball effect
Though each of these scenarios could happen, most scientists think a snowball effect of multiple events is more likely, Miller said. For instance, global warming could increase the prevalence of pathogens while also causing widespread shifts in climate. Meanwhile, ecosystem collapse could make it slightly harder to produce food, with no bees to pollinate crops or trees to filter agricultural water. So, instead of an epic catastrophe, several relatively small factors would slightly worsen life on Earth until it gradually degraded, Miller said.
In that scenario, the downfall of Earth is not dramatic, "like being attacked by a saber-toothed tiger," Miller told LiveScience. "It's more like being nibbled to death by ducks."

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Submitted Written Testimony of Climate Depot’s Marc Morano at Congressional Hearing on Climate Change: ‘The Origins and Response to Climate Change’ | Climate Depot

The scientific reality is that on virtually every claim — from A-Z — the claims of the promoters of man-made climate fears are failing, and in many instances the claims are moving in the opposite direction. The global warming movement is suffering the scientific death of a thousand cuts.

Chile Snowstorm Buries Andes

“A full meter of new snow was measured by one ski operator near Santiago,” says Accuweather.com.

Farmers in New Zealand surprised by big snow dump

“It kept coming down. I guess that’s why some people drink.”

Careful What You Wish For - Biased BBC

Journalists like Richard Black (and here a grudging, very grudging, admittance that he had failed to report the truth…forced by reader pressure) and Roger Harrabin were never standing on the side lines looking in observing and reporting the news…they were on the inside creating it, fixing the stories, working with the scientists and the green campaigners to silence critics and pressurise governments.

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Silicon Valley is now paying even less attention to climate change and that sucks — Tech News and Analysis

Following the collapse of the first wave of cleantech investing, and an attention on digital technology, Silicon Valley has moved even further away from using tech to fight climate change. And that’s too bad.

Understanding Man’s Role In Sea Level Rise | Real Science

Alarm Called Off! Leading Swiss Daily NZZ On Otto et al: “Climate Reacts Less To CO2 Than Thought”

What we are noticing from the NZZ article is that overall alarmism in Europe is diminishing, fast, even in the media. The title of the NZZ piece is: “Climate is reacting less sensitive to CO2 than thought“.

Long Term Temperature Trends In Warsaw | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

the interesting thing is that the really significant increase occurred in the late 19thC and early 20thC.

I wonder how many SUV’s there were in 19thC Warsaw?

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The Mouse That Roared – Starring the Marshall Islands | NoFrakkingConsensus

Do the concerns of 70,000 people outweigh the interests of 7 billion?

Norway heading for a grain disaster?

Due to a delayed spring, the grain harvest could be postponed to the weeks in September.

Are Extreme Tornados a Harbinger of Global Warming? - Reason.com

Sen. Boxer is right about this much: Tornados are a kind of extreme weather. But on the evidence so far, she is wrong to suggest that the Moore tornado is related to climate change.

Twitter / nelderini: US http://t.co/sX4wYSVvLM & ...

US http://bit.ly/11clXtD  & UK http://bit.ly/11cm0Wv  to spend billions on CCS, which will never pay off http://smrt.io/15xL4eo  /@Revkin

Hansen et al study: Nuclear Power Has Prevented 1.84 Million Premature Deaths

Yale Environment 360: Nuclear Power Has Prevented 1.84 Million Premature Deaths, Study Says

The use of nuclear power from 1971 to 2009 prevented more than 1.8 million premature deaths related to air pollution and 64 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions, a new study says. Using historical production data and estimates of mortality per unit of electricity generated, scientists from NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University calculated that replacing nuclear energy sources with fossil fuel-burning sources during that period would have caused about 1.84 million premature deaths. By midcentury, they project, nuclear power could prevent an additional 420,000 to 7 million deaths, depending on which fossil fuels it replaces, and 80 to 240 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions. “By contrast, we assess that large-scale expansion of unconstrained natural gas use would not mitigate the climate problem and would cause far more deaths than the expansion of nuclear power,” said Pushker A. Kharecha, who, along with NASA’s James Hansen, co-authored the study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. The study calculated that nuclear power plant accidents caused about 4,900 deaths during the same period.

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Twitter / Pvincell [Why most warmists don't dare to actually participate in those debates that they've already allegedly won?]

@KenCaldeira @Revkin Agreed:nonscientific rhetorical skills "win" debates, not reasoned analysis. Thus, we scientists often avoid outreach.

Joe Brewer on “Why global warming is a lousy meme.” |

Their research shows that the global warming meme has infected the minds of at best 5% of the world’s population.

Land-based carbon offsets: False hope? Forest and soil carbon is important, but does not offset fossil fuel emissions

May 30, 2013 — Leading world climate change experts have thrown cold water on the idea that planting trees can offset carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels.

BBC News - Spring will be coldest in 50 years, Met Office says

This spring is on track to be the coldest for more than 50 years, provisional Met Office figures suggest.

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Axing carbon tax a grey vote winner | The Australian

DITCHING the carbon tax tops the list of vote-switching issues for older Australians, followed by having a world-class healthcare system and a strong economy.

Turkey secures $3 mln from World Bank to develop CO2 markets - News - Point Carbon

BARCELONA, May 30 (Reuters Point Carbon) – Turkey has become the fifth country to receive millions of dollars under a World Bank-steered scheme to help launch pilot carbon markets, a bank official said Thursday.

CVRD finds way to slash spending on carbon credits

At the time, Comox Coun. Tom Grant said the whole carbon offset business really troubled him. It was an emerging industry operating on an international scale in which he believed there were a lot of scams.
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At Tuesday's board meeting, Courtenay Coun. Jon Ambler said at times he thought he was being hoodwinked on issues like carbon offsets. Ten years from now someone might be looking back on this time and concluding it was all smoke and mirrors.

Frost hits tomato crop in Essex County

Frost damage to Ontario's processing tomato crop last weekend could reach millions of dollars if replanting and a perfect growing season can't make up for the unexpected freeze early Saturday morning.

Colorado peach crop will be smaller than usual because of unusually chilly spring

Growers on the east end of the region reported especially heavy damage from the cold snap.

"It's the worst I've seen it," said James Sanders, of the Palisade Peach Shack, who farms 40 acres of peach trees near Interstate 70. Sanders estimated that he lost 90 percent of his crop this year.

Green Germany Ramping Up The Coal Fired Power Plants | Real Science

You can’t actually run a country off of global warming BS

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Climate change linked to more pollen, allergies, asthma

Tests show that the more CO2 in the atmosphere, the more plants generally grow and the more pollen they produce.

‘Too Expensive, Too Utopian’: Desertec Abandons Sahara Solar Export Dream | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

The Desertec Industrial Initiative (Dii) has abandoned its strategy to export solar power generated from the Sahara to Europe, killing hopes of boosting the continent’s share of renewable electricity with cheap external supplies

Global warning: the rise of 'cli-fi' | Books | The Guardian

Polar City Red bombed, selling precisely 271 copies

Coming off fossil fuels is akin to quitting smoking – only harder | Guardian Sustainable Business | guardian.co.uk

Clearly, a physiological addiction to nicotine is not a perfect analogy for a societal-wide dependence on the energy, services and convenience that fossil fuels provide.

Ice going, humanity: Arctic melting at alarming rates | Grist

[Warmist Phil Plait] No one knows when we’ll have the first ice-free Arctic summer — extrapolating into the future can be difficult — but one thing we can bet on is that it’ll be a lot sooner than the year 2100 as originally predicted just a few years ago...the Earth is warming up. That’s melting the ice at both poles

Odd argument from warmist Scott Denning: "I think when people tell scary stories about how our society can't adapt to a changing environment, they do a disservice to the power of the free market"

Rep. McKinley moderates debates on global warming - AP — Weirton Daily Times

There were plenty of opinions and recommendations, though, from professors, attorneys, free-market activists and authors. They ranged from taxation strategies and carbon-capture technology investment to the blunt prescription from climate science denier Marc Morano: Do nothing.

Morano, a former aide to climate skeptic and Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, calls global warming debates a "silly display of politics" built on "sub-prime science." The suggestion that carbon dioxide in particular is fueling climate change "is absolutely not holding up," he argued.
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But Annie Petsonk, an attorney with the Environmental Defense Fund, said government must lead, and the time for change is long overdue.
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"A rate of warming of roughly a tenth of a degree Celsius per decade ... is the rate at which trees can't run fast enough to get away from higher stress," she said...
That drew an immediate retort from Dennis Avery of the Hudson Institute, who said things need not remain unchanged for trees, plants and animals to survive.
"Every organism on the planet is proving they can withstand a 16-degree change," he said, "because they've done it."
"Including the dinosaurs?" Petsonk shot back.
Richard Thomas, biology professor at West Virginia University, has been studying the impact of carbon emissions on forests for years and said the damage is clear.
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But Scott Denning, a professor at Colorado State University's department of atmospheric science, said the anti-regulation camp should stop telling "scary stories." Our ancestors once used candles and horses but adopted new technologies like oil and electricity even when they were more expensive.
"I think when people tell scary stories about how our society can't adapt to a changing environment, they do a disservice to the power of the free market," he said.

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The Reference Frame: AGW: due to cosmic rays and freons?

The apparent observation that no one can really safely show that the paper is wrong and why the paper is wrong highlights the immense degree of uncertainty about the truly dominant climate drivers on the decadal and centennial timescales.

1928 Shock News : Pacific Island Disappeared | Real Science

Your SUV caused this.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Elevated carbon dioxide making arid regions greener

WASHINGTON—Scientists have long suspected that a flourishing of green foliage around the globe, observed since the early 1980s in satellite data, springs at least in part from the increasing concentration of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere. Now, a study of arid regions around the globe finds that a carbon dioxide "fertilization effect" has, indeed, caused a gradual greening from 1982 to 2010.

May 31 News: UN Recommends Big Companies Report Environmental Impacts As Well As Profits | ThinkProgress

A UN development panel concluded that climate change is too important an issue to leave off of corporate disclosure forms.

Twitter / PaulREhrlich: ExxonMobil CEO: ‘What good ...

ExxonMobil CEO: ‘What good is it to save the planet if humanity suffers?' http://soa.li/E0zJ30f  Said head of branch of Murder Incorporated

But of course: As cold weather continues to kill Minnesota birds, warmist Laura Erickson blames CO2: "this freakishly cold spring is consistent with predictions for a steadily warming planet"

Laura's Birding Blog: A very hard spring for birds

This year’s exceptionally cold spring is exacting a toll on many birds.
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We can never blame any particular weather event, or any individual seasonal weather pattern, on climate change, but ironically, this freakishly cold spring is consistent with predictions for a steadily warming planet. Insurance companies are being squeezed by the huge upsurge in weather-related claims, but overall, people seem to feel either complacent or impotent to do anything about how much carbon we continue to squander. Some people have told me they’re just not going to worry about this sort of thing anymore because there’s nothing we can do about it anyway...Every distressed warbler I see reaffirms my commitment to protect these plucky little wanderers and the world we share.

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1970 : 97% Of Experts Agreed That We Would All Be Starving By The Year 2000 | Real Science

Fifteen Foolish Forecasts: How did environmentalists get it so wrong on Earth Day 1970?

Past The Tipping Point : 2014 High School Seniors Have Seen No Global Warming During Their Life | Real Science

Children have been force fed Al Gore propaganda since they started public school, yet none of them have actually experienced any global warming.

They owe us: Why we need to take the climate crisis to the heart of global finance | World Development Movement

So on Friday 14 June, just before world leaders jet in to the G8 Summit, we’ll converge on Canary Wharf to put the climate crisis firmly back on centre stage. We’ll demand that the banks repay their huge debts to society and to the planet.

Global warming initiates crab attack - Living Planet - iTech Post

"We used to take and expect Mother Nature to replenish, but that's a thing of the past," Coffin said

Ghana Business News » New carbon pricing initiatives to enhance development – Report

According to Rachel Kyte, the World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development, “Even as the first generation of the carbon market stutters, a robust price on carbon has never been more important if we are to avert dangerous climate change..."

Politicians, thieves and those greedy pigs in between. | Pointman's

It’s the ones actively involved in setting policy, and who are benefitting massively from it financially, that I reserve my complete contempt for. They’re actually somewhere beneath contempt, if such a thing is possible. In the UK, it’s estimated by various charities that there were between three to five thousand extra deaths from cold related causes last March. A goodly proportion of those deaths can be directly attributed to the poor and elderly, who can no longer afford to heat their homes, because of green taxes lumped onto their heating bills to subsidise the renewables gravy train.

Norman Rogers: "Many climate scientists know full well that a fraud is in motion, but they have no desire to walk into a buzz saw by complaining"

Articles: Science in the Service of Ideology: The National Climate Assessment

Climate science is a mixture of real science and junk science. The real climate science knows a lot about climate, but it doesn't know how to predict the future, and it doesn't have a good handle on the effect of greenhouse gases. The fake "the sky is falling" climate science created a financial and professional windfall for numerous special interests: climate scientists, bureaucracies, politicians, green groups, ethanol producers, and windmill manufacturers, to name a few. The beneficiaries of this windfall are very protective of their empire. A climate mafia protects the windfall by suppressing dissent from the global warming party line. Very few scientists are brave enough and independent enough to publicly dissent. The scientific organizations that are sensitive to government funding gleefully promote the scare story. Many climate scientists know full well that a fraud is in motion, but they have no desire to walk into a buzz saw by complaining.

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Al Gore: ‘Climate crisis shouldn’t be partisan’ — Flashback 2 weeks: ‘GOP deniers willfully blind’ | JunkScience.com

The Great Climate Change Scam – The Decline In A Month Is Incredible | Tory Aardvark

The old saying goes that a week in politics is a long time, well a month in the Anthropogenic Global Warming industry equates to several years of decline, as the move away from Green foolishness and stupidity accelerates in the last bastion of the Church of Climatology, Europe.

Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: The most important thing for ...

The most important thing for economic growth in India? "It's power, power, power" http://on.ft.com/19oHCWa

Obama’s Climate Khmer Rouge: U.S. cons Cambodia into foregoing electricity to cut emissions | JunkScience.com

Cambodians may want to leave while the leavin’s good.

Solar Panel Concerns Fuel Worries about Reliability

Despite the rise in the number of failures and increasing doubts about the solar industry’s viability from the industry’s own executives, the Obama Administration continues to support the solar energy industry. Recently, the President announced a plan to make permanent subsidies for solar panels. In light of these clear concerns, such policies are indicative of the administration’s relentless zeal for ineffective solutions at the expense of taxpayers.

No consensus: People with different incentives value the Alaska pipeline at $2.25 billion, or $7.2 billion, or $13 billion, or maybe $30 billion

Alaska undervalued oil pipeline by billions, state assessment board finds | Alaska Dispatch

The oil producers -- primarily BP, Conoco and Exxon -- argue the pipeline is worth a measly $2.25 billion.
The Alaska Division of Revenue argues it's worth $7.2 billion. The municipal governments, which collect property taxes on the pipeline just like the state, claim the line is worth $13 billion.
The review board issued a decision Wednesday setting the 2013 value of the pipeline at $11.9 billion.
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Use the same method applied for valuing those other pipelines, and the trans-Alaska pipeline would be worth $30 billion.

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Plants that got buried during the Little Ice Age come to life again | Watts Up With That?

From the University of Alberta, this news release is making the rounds, but what many of the alarmists don’t get (Joe Romm for example) is that these plants had to have a warm environment to grow in first, then they were covered by ice, emerging again after the LIA ended. Many reports are only looking at the current emergence in a warmer period as if it is unique. – Anthony

- Bishop Hill blog - Vision of awfulness

...Perhaps then the results are affected by climatologists who lie to promote political action.

Quark Soup by David Appell: Another Movie Gets Climate Change Wrong

Maybe someday someone will make a real movie about a realistic scenario that centers around the future with a changed climate.  [How about a blockbuster centered around the idea that it's the early 22st century, and the weather isn't noticeably different than it was in the early 21st century, after some cold and warm fluctuations in between?]

BoM forecast for Perth 31st May 2013 – “frost possible” – yet Perth central weather stations have not recorded a frost in May in over a century

An interesting call because Perth Regional Office weather station 9034 never recorded a frost in all the years 1897-1992, see my table below.

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Gaia Outs The Liars Yet Again | Real Science

We have been hearing from the usual pack of liars that Arctic ice is the thinnest in human history, and that Arctic temperatures are the highest in human history. The ice seems to have a different theory.

1859 Shock News : Charles Darwin Said That Dramatic Climate Change Was Essential To Natural Selection | Real Science

Record Cold Continues On The Greenland Ice Sheet | Real Science

The summer solstice is three weeks away, and temperatures are still -30C.

Texas Springtime Temperatures Declining For 120 Years – 8th Coldest On record | Real Science

Texas’ warmest spring occurred in 1925

1900 : Hurricane Storm Surge Killed 10,000 People In Texas | Real Science

17 Sep 1900 – CABLEGRAMS. GALVESTON HURRICANE

Climate Conversation Group » Measure, for measures are better

A paper published in Nature on 10 February 2013 could destroy the global warming scare.

It’s called Atmospheric verification of anthropogenic CO2 emission trends...

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Rice’s Baker Institute Climate Embarrassment (Sass’s Ad Hominem response to Rep. Smith) — MasterResource

A Challenge to the Baker Institute

The Baker Institute has some truing up to do in the multi-disciplinary field of climate change. Playing to its strengths, Rice University and the Baker Institute should host its third climate conference, titled something like “New Developments in the Physical Science of Climate Change.” Climatologists such as Judith Curry, Richard Lindzen, Patrick Michaels, and Chip Knappenberger should be invited, as well as James Hansen, Gavin Schmidt, and Kerry Emanuel.

Ronald Sass in his recent op-ed called for an “open, national debate on climate change.” Let Rice University and the Baker Institute lead the way.

D.C. ambulance delay linked to EPA-required filtering system - The Washington Post

The diesel engines at issue are designed to cut power if exhaust filters are not kept clean, a process that requires the vehicles be taken out of service for up to an hour every few days to burn off accumulated soot and allow the filtering system to perform well. The process is known as “regenerating.”

An Artist Talks Nonsense About Green Energy | NoFrakkingConsensus

I am so frakking weary of environmentalists waxing poetic about renewables in Germany. Earth to climate activists: you’re several years behind the times. Green energy hasn’t worked out in Germany. At the moment, that nation is backpeddling furiously.

Pacific islands face a deadly threat from climate change - The Washington Post

For the world’s lowest-lying countries, including my own, this is a death sentence. The only answer is urgent global action, a Marshall Plan for a new low-carbon global economy. And we Marshallese believe we have a big role to play.

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Cheap Chinese Solar Panels Spark An EU Civil War | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Europe is learning the hard way that calling something green doesn’t exempt it from economic realities.

Twitter / AZCat89: "No patience for #climate ...

"No patience for #climate skeptics"? Like these other #science "skeptics": #Copernicus #Galileo #Newton #Einstein? http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/302537-obama-has-no-patience-for-climate-skeptics …

How the Climate Campaign Plans to Get Its Groove Back | Power Line

The interesting part will be to see whether climate orthodoxy proposes a new, and theoretically more plausible, GHG emissions reduction target and timetable, like a 50 percent cut by the year 2060. I doubt it. Hatred of “fossil fuels” is the categorical imperative of modern environmentalism, and it long predates the arrival of global warming as an issue. The original complaint was that that hydrocarbons produced too much conventional air pollution, but once we solved that problem global warming became the fallback position. Nothing will deter environmentalists from this wisp—certainly not facts or progress. I’m betting they’ll stick with the previous 80 by 50 target. But if they come in with a different one, I’ll do the math to figure out what year in the past it will take the U.S. back to: I’ll bet it will still be something like 1925. Stay tuned.

Climate change means death to most native California fish, says study

Extinction looms for 82 percent
• “Replaced by alien fishes, such as carp, largemouth bass, fathead minnows and green sunfish”

Colorado Getting A Climate Change Czar « CBS Denver

Not everyone is sold on the idea, and Republicans who opposed the bill expressed skepticism that climate change is human caused.
Rep. Bob Rankin, R-Carbondale, called the bill a political statement and the position symbolic.

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Lomborg: Getting One Inch Less Of Sea Level Rise By The End Of The Century Will Cost $500 Billion Annually!

Must see 3-minute video.

UAE investors of carbon credits struggle to find buyers - The National

Advanced Global Trading (AGT) claims it can resell carbon credits at more than three times the average market price.
But one AGT client, "Ahmed", has been unable to sell credits worth US$100,000 (Dh367,200) despite initial statements from the company that he could liquidate his investment in one week, he said.
...Prices range from 1 US cent to more than $100, depending on what buyers are willing to pay. The average price for the type of credit AGT sells was about $4 in 2012, the most recent data available.
AGT clients pay about $15 per credit. Mr Bayati would not answer questions about pricing, saying it was proprietary information. As a broker, the company provides an online trading platform and connects buyers and sellers, earning 1.5 per cent in commission.
No client has ever lost money, according to Mr Stephenson.

Tim Yeo: humans may not be to blame for global warming - Telegraph

[The Telegraph poll here shows only 26.54% of respondents said that humans are completely responsible for global warming]

Twitter / MichaelEMann: MT @ClimateOfGavin We have ...

MT @ClimateOfGavin We have all been real skeptics for a long time: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2005/12/how-to-be-a-real-sceptic/ … #RealSkepticsm #DoesNotEqual #Denial #HSCW

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“Abnormally Dry” Means The Wettest Conditions On Record | Real Science

The US Drought Monitor still says that Fort Collins is “abnormally dry” – despite the fact that the reservoirs are full, the river is at flood stage, mountain snow pack is far above normal, and the area is (by far) the greenest anyone has ever seen it. Our desert city looks like Ireland right now.

Global Warming Alarmists Caught Doctoring '97-Percent Consensus' Claims - Forbes

Misleading the public about consensus opinion regarding global warming, of course, is precisely what the Cook paper sought to accomplish. This is a tried and true ruse perfected by global warming alarmists. Global warming alarmists use their own biased, subjective judgment to misclassify published papers according to criteria that is largely irrelevant to the central issues in the global warming debate. Then, by carefully parsing the language of their survey questions and their published results, the alarmists encourage the media and fellow global warming alarmists to cite these biased, subjective, totally irrelevant surveys as conclusive evidence for the lie that nearly all scientists believe humans are creating a global warming crisis.

These biased, misleading, and totally irrelevant “surveys” form the best “evidence” global warming alarmists can muster in the global warming debate. And this truly shows how embarrassingly feeble their alarmist theory really is.

Climate change scientists, deniers clash in W.Va. - San Antonio Express-News

"We must have the courage to do nothing when it comes to regulating CO2 emissions," Morano declared, calling carbon-based energy like coal "one of the greatest liberators in the history of mankind."

#CIW13 mtg. on climate hotspots finds E. Africa,...

[Revkin] #CIW13 mtg. on climate hotspots finds E. Africa, Med, Amazon particularly vulnerable to CO2-driven climate change.

In the video, these warmists seem to be enjoying plenty of planet-killing bottled water.

Question this calculation and you're worse than Hitler: A polar bear allegedly needs to eat more than 300 2-kilogram snow geese (1,320 pounds) to power itself for one hour of running

Arctic ecology: Sacred geese | The Economist

...a quick calculation comparing the cost of doing so with the energetic gain from success suggests such hunts are not usually worth the effort.  To make a profit, the argument goes, a polar bear weighing 320kg (700lb, the average for an adult) must, if hunting a 2kg goose, make its kill in less than 12 seconds.

Green religion zealot Brad Johnson reminds us that today's thunderstorms are our fault, because by our sins we have allegedly poisoned the weather

Twitter / climatebrad: Millions of people will be ...

Millions of people will be affected by the line of T-storms sweeping through OK. Respect the warnings, please. #poisonedweather

Twitter / climatebrad

Brad Johnson @climatebrad
Campaign Manager for Forecast the Facts (@ForecastFacts). Former ThinkProgress Green Editor at the Center for American Progress. Opinions are mine alone.
forecastthefacts.org

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Lord Christopher Monckton Guest Post: “Ignoratio elenchi and global warming” | Gelbspan Files

Aristotle, 2350 years ago, listed the attack on the person rather than on his argument – “Dickhead! Denier! Exxon Mobil pays you to lie!” – as one of the dozen commonest logical fallacies in human discourse.

Meteorological Society president cites global warming disaster movie ‘Day After Tomorrow’ as science | JunkScience.com

Watch for yourself.

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds rainforests prospered & increased diversity during extreme global warming in the past

A new paper published in the Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Science finds South American rainforests thrived during three extreme global warming events in the past, each with temperatures much warmer than the present. "According to the fossil record, rainforests prospered under these hothouse conditions and diversity increased." "When carbon dioxide concentrations double, trees use much less water, which is further evidence that tropical forests may prove resilient to climate change."

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds global warming caused by CFCs, not CO2; predicts cooling for next 50-70 years

"Most conventional theories expect that global temperatures will continue to increase as CO2 levels continue to rise, as they have done since 1850. What's striking is that since 2002, global temperatures have actually declined -- matching a decline in CFCs in the atmosphere," Professor Lu said. "My calculations of CFC greenhouse effect show that there was global warming by about 0.6 °C from 1950 to 2002, but the earth has actually cooled since 2002. The cooling trend is set to continue for the next 50-70 years as the amount of CFCs in the atmosphere continues to decline."

THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Inconvenient question for Joe Romm

You miss the point that there was no glacier covering the plant prior to the peak of the LIA 400 years ago.
Why was that?

UPDATE: Romm deleted this comment

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THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Spring in UK & US is the coldest in more than 50 years

The US is also experiencing the coldest spring in history.

The Reference Frame: An extremely cloudy Prague in 2013

...On the other hand, even if you adopt the hugely overestimated median predictions by the IPCC, the overall change of the global temperature during the two years that they want to attribute to CO2 is something like 0.03 °C. Imagine that you are a sane person and I ask you: What is the more important change among the following two: the increase of cloud cover from 61% to 82% or an increase of the global mean temperature (that is only very weakly correlated with the local temperature anywhere) by 0.03 °C?

Clearly, no human in the world could possibly detect the latter without special gadgets – and even common thermometers aren't really enough. On the other hand, everyone notices the lousy weather we've had in the Czech Republic since the early 2013 or so. After all, the clouds decide about more than 10 °C changes of the temperature during the daytime, 300 times greater temperature difference than the hypothetically CO2-induced temperature change. It's important to see various events and changes in the proper context and ignore events and changes that are manifestly 100+ times less important than certain other things that we pretty much ignore, too.

Why did the 400ppm carbon milestone cause barely a ripple? | Andrew Simms | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Why not meet the real world half way, and add a daily notification of the rising CO2 level to every daily paper and major news broadcast? It won't cost extra, will be harder to ignore and the price of doing so will be very high indeed.
www.onehundredmonths.org

One Hundred Months

[Currently says we have 43 months left to "save our climate".]

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Weather and Traveling | Musings from the Chiefio

Snow closed I-70 between Silverthorne and the Eisenhower tunnel, pictured here, on Thursday morning, May 30, 2013. (Colorado Department of Transportation)

Wind Speeds over China: AR5 Climate Models vs. Real-World Data

In the blunt but true words of the three researchers, "all models exhibit lower interannual variability than reanalysis data and observations, and none of the models reproduce the recent decline in wind speed that is manifest in the near-surface observations [italics added]." Progress, therefore, in this specific area of climate model development subsequent to the prior IPCC report could well be described as pitiful ... because there simply was no progress.

Meteorological Society prez: Can’t ‘cherry pick the data’ — then proceeds to cherry pick the data | JunkScience.com

But, of course, climate change began before even 1970. The ongoing warming seems to have started around 1650, as shown in the graph below from the first IPCC report:

Would you believe ski areas plead for effort to combat climate change

[Joseph D'Aleo] Never mind that this November to April period for the hemisphere ranked #1 all-time for snow extent beating out 1977/78.
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And for the winters (December to February), the ranking is 1977/78 #1, 2009/10 #2, 2010/11 #3, 2012/13 #4, 2007/08 #5. Spot a trend?
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As a former major ski area PR person wrote me this am:

Doesn’t surprise. There are certainly people in the industry who buy the nonsense; these include Austen Schendler at Aspen, and Aspen management (who apparently aren’t bothered by their well-heeled clientele’s tendency to park their private jets at the local airport and run their APUs nonstop for the weekend), and the editor and publishers of the industry’s leading trade magazine (they ARE nice people, I’d add, even if they refuse to get it). And there are those who have made heavy investment in wind or other alternative energy - Jiminy Peak in Massachusetts has gotten lots of nice ink for its windmill, and Killington boasted this winter that the K1 gondola is powered by cows (methane credits). However, the bulk of the industry is, I suspect, quietly skeptical of the AGW premise and is simply going along to get along. A fair percentage of ski industry’s clientele is sufficiently ignorant to buy into the theory, and the industry would prefer not to risk pissing them off. I rather suspect the industry would be delighted to see AGW get the knockout punch it so richly deserves - this stuff is a PITA - but believes it has other battles to fight that are more important than this one.

Attention, all people of Earth: Grist blogger claims that Whatcom County, Wash. "council members will help determine the very future of the world’s climate"

Local elections in Washington state are big deal for coal industry and global climate | Grist

The adage “think global, act local” rings remarkably true in Whatcom County, Wash., a rural area in the northwestern corner of the country.
...these council members will help determine the very future of the world’s climate.

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New York Times questions Obama’s expensive travel | WashingtonExaminer.com

The New York Times on Thursday reports on President Obama’s frequent travel aboard Air Force One, at a time when government employees are suffering furloughs and budget cuts.

Almost by definition, Mr. Obama lives a life foreign to most Americans, with the big white house and the ushers and chefs and the airplane fueled and ready to go. When he wants a weekend away, he can fly to Florida to golf with Tiger Woods. When his daughters take spring break, they head to Aspen to ski. He winters in Hawaii and summers on Martha’s Vineyard.

But this summer’s trips come as federal employees are tightening their belts.

Study says global warming caused by CFCs interacting with cosmic rays, not carbon dioxide | Watts Up With That?

From the University of Waterloo, an extraordinary claim. While plausible, due to the fact that CFC’s have very high GWP numbers, their atmospheric concentrations compared to CO2 are quite low, and the radiative forcings they add are small by comparison to CO2. This may be nothing more than coincidental correlation. But, I have to admit, the graph is visually compelling. But to be certain his proposed cosmic-ray-driven electron-reaction mechanism is valid, I’d say it is a case of “further study is needed”, and worth funding. – Anthony

C3: Penn State Perversion Spreads To Oregon State: Another Perverted Climate Science Scandal Exposed

Climate science perversion (aka 'hockey stick' scamming) has become insidious, spreading from institution to institution - the latest university to have its reputation needlessly dragged through the odorous climate hockey stick fecal mess is Oregon State...will agenda-driven academia ever clean up their awful perversion of science?

maribo: Kiribati's battle against sea-level rise: the perception and the reality

Climate change is frustrating. Though unprecedented in recent geological history, human-caused climate change still operates at too slow a pace to capture much of the public's attention. So people try to attribute current events to the long-term trend, and often make elementary mistakes

Serious "settled science" question for Marshall Shepherd

I watched your entire TEDxAtlanta speech and blogged about it here.

I noted that you said that temperatures "went through the roof, relatively speaking" starting in 1850, when you said that we figured out how to burn fossil fuels.

But in 1989, well-known warmist Stephen Schneider wrote: "I strongly suspect that by the year 2000 increasing numbers of people will point to the 1980s as the time the global warming signal emerged from the natural background of climatic noise".

My question to you is:  How do you reconcile these two very different statements?  If the alleged human-induced warming signal emerged from the noise in 1850, why did Schneider suggest that the signal didn't emerge until 130+ years later?

A follow-up question would be this one: How do we know that the two warming periods starting around 1850 and 1980 weren't caused by something other than trace amounts of carbon dioxide?

Bringing home the bacon, courtesy of global warming hysteria? Will Michael Mann pocket thousands of dollars for his latest fossil-fueled trip to Oregon?

Scientifically Speaking Gala Event & Auction - Eugene A Go-Go

Science Factory sustains a tradition of presenting science and technology trailblazers to the community this spring with our 3rd Annual Scientifically Speaking Gala Event and Auction that welcomes prominent climate scientist, Professor Michael E. Mann.
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After dinner, guests relax with coffee and dessert and listen as Guest of Honor, Michael E. Mann presents The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Frontlines and describes his role as a major player in the climate change conversation.
...Seats are $75 until May 19. After that the price increases to $85. Last day to reserve tickets is May 26.

Flashback: Uh oh: "Contrary to Michael Mann’s Claims, Mann’s Agent Quoted a $10,000 Speaking Fee for Events"

Mann’s agent did indeed quote a $10,000 speaking fee, plus expenses, for Mann to speak at a meeting for my family’s air conditioning business.

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Voluntary CO2 market value falls 11 pct despite volume rise - News - Point Carbon

BARCELONA, May 30 (Reuters Point Carbon) – The value of trade in the voluntary carbon market fell 11 percent in 2012 to $523 million, as lower prices for credits outweighed an increase in the number of companies voluntarily offsetting their emissions of greenhouse gases, according to a report published Thursday.

Climate champ Markey would face constraints, opportunities in Senate - The Hill's E2-Wire

Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) will be on a bigger political stage but could lose influence – at least in the near-term – if he wins election to the Senate.

US faces brutal hurricane season, Europe faces "year without a summer"

Well, now France’s main weather channel, Meteo, is reporting that there’s a 70% chance that the summer is going to be record-breaking cold and wet across much of western Europe. Meteo says that it’s been the coldest spring in 20 years in France, and the forecast is looking so bad, there’s talk of this being “the year without a summer” across western Europe. Europe hasn’t had one of those since the unusually brutal year of 1816, when Mary Shelley, reportedly stuck inside due to the bad weather, wrote “Frankenstein.”

RTCC Climate Change News - EU denies climate policy hinges on German election

The EU’s climate and energy policy will not be swayed by the result of this year’s German election its lead climate negotiator has told RTCC.

This is despite warnings from a German NGO that the removal of Berlin’s support would hamstring efforts in the EU to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.

Arctic Ice Extent Reaches 12 Year High | Real Science

Arctic ice extent is the highest for the date in at least 12 years.

Blacklisted Science Journalists Taking German Environment Ministry To Court For Defamation, Violating Neutrality

The Süddeutsche Zeitung writes that the story has now entered the legal phase, with journalists Michael Miersch and Dirk Maxeiner suing the German Environment Ministry for refusing to cease and desist distributing the controversial brochure.

The New Nostradamus of the North: New groundbreaking UCLA study: "Global warming will be increasing the amount of time and speed with which organisms move around"

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Bill McKibben’s Economics: ‘We have to take the hundred million dollars a day that Exxon spends on finding new oil, and have them spend it on solar panels instead’ | JunkScience.com

Past the seizing-and-spending-other-people’s-money part, if Exxon did that, it would soon have no money to spend on anything.

Bill McKibben: ‘It makes no sense to pay for one’s pension by investing in companies that make sure we won’t have a planet to retire on’ | JunkScience.com

Where’s the planet going?

Twitter / ret_ward: New ExxonMobil Corporate ...

New ExxonMobil Corporate Citizenship Report: company expects carbon price of $80 per tonne in OECD nations by 2040: http://is.gd/2EKAQL 

Crews to clear snow from road to Artist Point beginning June 3 | Local News | The Bellingham Herald

The snow is about 25 feet deep in the upper parking lot at Artist Point, Chesson said.

Up to foot of snow possible in northwest Wyoming - Laramie Boomerang Online

It may be late May, but snow is still falling in parts of Wyoming.

Snow blankets Queenstown ahead of ski season

Queenstown is buzzing after 24 hours of constant snowfalls blanketed the town and surrounding mountains, giving local ski areas a huge boost before the start of the winter season.

MURPHY: Assessing the “Five Circles of Carbon Tax Hell”

The only way to even attempt to justify a U.S. federal carbon tax is to come up with some very heroic assumptions about alternative energy sources and the willingness of other governments to follow suit in arresting their own economic development. James DeLong’s new study offers a good survey of the various issues involved, and concludes that a carbon tax has many problems that have not been given sufficient attention in the current policy debate.