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MP paid £400,000 by green firms slams climate change peer... for hypocrisy exposed by the Mail | Mail Online

Tim Yeo has complained about Lord Deben's undisclosed green interests
Mr Yeo has been paid more than £400,000 by three green companies
Lord Deben is chairman of firm which connects windfarms to National Grid

[Massachusetts warmist and] Senate hopeful Ed Markey cancels Beverly Hills fundraiser; Joe Biden, Al Gore to raise money for Markey in DC | masslive.com

The Hollywood Reporter first reported that Democratic Senate candidate Edward Markey has cancelled a scheduled fundraiser in Beverly Hills.

Twitter / KathieDello

Lydia Williams singing "you down with IPCC" is the best conference opening ever. #climatechapman

Galileo Spoke About The Consensus | Real Science

My dear Kepler, I wish that we might laugh at the remarkable stupidity of the common herd.

2013 Continues To Be The Quietest Fire Season On Record | Real Science

Acreage burned this year has been less than one third of average for the date.

500 Dead In June, 1842 Tornado | Real Science

Another typically harebrained warmist idea: In order to prevent CO2-induced bad weather, a teacher hands out instructions that advise a 16-year-old girl to hitchhike

Global Warming Alarmism In Twilight

The curtain is coming down rapidly on global warming alarmism, as evidence of the AGW theory’s falsity accumulates on nearly a daily basis. Of course, the global warming machine grinds on, like a dead frog whose legs are still kicking. My 10th grade daughter had her last day of school yesterday. A teacher gave her a sheet of instructions on how to lead a “green,” low-carbon summer. The sheet included suggestions like “hitchhike.” Great idea for a 16-year-old girl!

Iowa Senator Rob Hogg calls on Americans to make the fight against climate change our new national purpose

Event : Iowa Sen. Rob Hogg Book Signing: Hosted by Sustainable Independence

America's Climate Century is a new book by Iowa Senator Rob Hogg. It is a concise, affordable book that describes the science of climate change and calls on Americans to make the fight against climate change our new national purpose.
Climate change is the defining historical issue of the 21st Century. After the heat and drought of 2012, Hurricane Sandy, and all of the other recent climate disasters, it is time for America to take climate action.
This is a must read book!

This could be fun: Warmist conclave to be held in Colorado: It will be webcast and also tweeted at #climatechapman

Twitter / PeterGleick: Get ready for tweets from ...

Get ready for tweets from scientists/communicators at the AGU Chapman #climate conference. #climatechapman. Very low snowpack here for June.

Flashback: Check this out: Lots of prominent warmists will be featured on AGU Chapman Conference (Colorado) webcasts in upcoming days

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RSS Close To 30-Year Average | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

Take the two volcanoes out of the equation, and it is clear that there is nothing unusual about current temperatures.

CO2 by the numbers: having the courage to do nothing | Watts Up With That?

So the impact for the whole of the EU (27) is somewhere between 9 -73 thousandths of degree Centigrade and for the UK the range is between 1-9 thousandths of degree Centigrade.

To achieve this irrelevant and miniscule result the UK, European and other free world governments are willing to annihilate their economies to solve a problem that does not exist.

Western politicians should, “Have the courage to do nothing”.

MPs want to turn your lights off. A shame no one told you - Telegraph

Within six years you could be expected to reduce your electricity consumption by a quarter

C3: IPCC's Gold-Standard HadCRUT Confirms: CO2's Impact On Global Temps Statistically Immaterial & Insignificant

The extreme anti-CO2 jihadists, and the green-fundamentalists at the UN's IPCC, claim that modern warming has been historically unusual, unique and statistically "significant" due to human CO2 emissions - yet, when the UK's HadCRUT4 global temperature dataset is examined, it is readily apparent that modern temperature change is primarily a repeat of the past natural climate patterns

The tolerant left: these are not the questions we are looking for | Watts Up With That?

In this priceless yet disturbing Twitter exchange with American Meteorological Society president Dr. Marshall Shepherd, Bishop Hill points out another case of Mann Overboard!

Twitter / DrShepherd2013: @plazaeme @MichaelEMann Twitter ...

@plazaeme @MichaelEMann Twitter is not a peer reviewed format. I don't mind discourse. I block people that have agendas...

Twitter / shubclimate: @DrShepherd2013 @plazaeme Of ...

@DrShepherd2013 @plazaeme Of course it is not peer-reviewed! Common folk and profs can both post. Why apply rules of academia to chase away?

Twitter / DrShepherd2013: @shubclimate @plazaeme if you ...

@shubclimate @plazaeme if you have followed me awhile, I engage, but I refuse to rehash the same disproven stuff that's all,

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Global Warming Bioethics Hysteria | National Review Online

Cutting through the academese, this is just liberal politics–written in the gobbledygook of bioethics discourse

U.S., China agree to reduce use of hydrofluorocarbons | Reuters

(Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, agreed on Saturday to cooperate in fighting climate change by cutting the use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, the White House said a statement.

Twitter / Foxgoose: Hockey Stick Mann and his AMS ...

Hockey Stick Mann and his AMS cult follower cut off communication with the outside world - to ensure #climate purity http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2013/6/8/

Twitter / Nospin_43: @Foxgoose when you refuse to ...

@Foxgoose when you refuse to debate with your opposition it is a sure sign you know your case is too weak to defend.

Twitter / hro001: @Foxgoose Mann's "communication" ...

@Foxgoose Mann's "communication" trick™ of slamming virtual door in face of those w. diff views is sure to win friends & influence ppl, eh?

Twitter / Foxgoose: Following John 97% Cook's ...

Following John 97% Cook's legendary success, another cartoonist enters the #climate debate -where are the scientists? http://stevebrodner.com/2013/05/30/the-mad-men-of-climate-denial/comment-page-1/#comment-19578 …

Ed Driscoll » Punching Back Twice as Hard at Radical Environmentalism’s Catch-22

Cafaro is a leading radical anti-humanist. A professor of philosophy at Colorado State University and president of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, he has published numerous articles and a book calling for shackling humanity with all sorts of chains, ranging from mandatory recycling, to limits on meat consumption, airplane travel, and the size of houses, to stiff carbon taxes, immigration restriction, and population control. He also urges the abandonment of Judaeo-Christian ethics and human rights. According to Cafaro, the world population needs to be reduced to 2 billion and the U.S. population to 100 million. “The last thing the world needs is more Americans,” he says.

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Grantham Institute for Climate Change--Annual Lecture: John Holdren December 2012 - YouTube

[59-minute video] Coping with Climate Change: Issues in Science, Policy and Communication

December [2012] presentation at Imperial College, London by Obama's Senior Science Advisor; Holdren discusses SRM as "mitigation" and gives a White House perspective on the climate emergency...

Twitter / GalileoMovement: What did Socialists have before ...

What did Socialists have before candles? Electricity @JamesDelingpole @mirandadevine @CatallaxyFiles @Cartoonsbyjosh @GrumpyDenier

Labor sent packing by nearing gallows poll | Breaking National News and Australian News | Herald Sun

In the bureaucracy there's a scramble for life after Labor, as we discovered in Senate estimates when Liberal Michael Ronaldson quizzed Tourism Minister Don Farrell about public servants departing the now defunct Climate Change department.

Dr Subho Banerjee, a former Climate Change deputy secretary and one-time Labor staffer, has a new job as a tourism executive and Ronaldson wanted to know his qualifications.

Fulbright Scholar from UND will study climate change | INFORUM | Fargo, ND

Romsdahl says climate change is the “greatest threat facing humanity in the 21st century.”

‘Only 200 Homes’ Signed Up For Green Deal Energy Loans | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Fewer than 200 homes have signed up for the government’s flagship Green Deal so far, the BBC has learned.

Priceless Twitter exchange: Before blocking him, clueless AMS warmist Marshall Shepherd tells the author of The Hockey Stick Illusion to ask Michael Mann if the hockey stick is broken

Twitter / DrShepherd2013

[Shepherd] learned n strange emails/blogs some disagree with my #Tedx Talk, @MichaelEMann HockeyStick discredited (hasn't), & wx varies-gee "who knew"

[Bishop Hill] @DrShepherd2013 I attended a debate with a paleoclimate guy a few months ago. In q&a he was asked about hockey stick. He said "it's broken".

[Shepherd] why don't you ask @MichaelEMann

@aDissentient and fyi, I generally don't debate anything that isn't published in the peer-review lit, best regards

[Michael Mann] @DrShepherd2013 Marshall, I don't engage disinformation-spewing trolls. It just encourages them...

[Shepherd] @MichaelEMann I am loving the block function immensely...

[Michael "Robust Debate" Mann] @DrShepherd2013 You and me both ;-)
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[Mann] .@DrShepherd2013 "hockey stick is broken" is @SkepticScience debunked #climatechange #denier myth #16: http://www.skepticalscience.com/broken-hockey-stick.htm … #HSCW

[Shepherd] @MichaelEMann @skepticscience unfortunately already blocked the folks that need to see this :)

- Bishop Hill blog - Sheep or shepherd?

Moments later, Shepherd blocked me.

Hmm.

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Eco Whackos Destroying Scotland | Real Science

In order to save the environment from an increase of 0.0001 mole fraction invisible CO2, environmentalists first have to destroy it.

More climate corruption: Transparency NGO says Mexican climate fund ‘needs a corruption risk assessment’ | JunkScience.com

Opposite Time in Bizarre World of AGW — The Patriot Post

[Bastardi] And here is a dirty little secret that these people don't want you to know. Co2 was higher in the 1800s by chemical analysis of many more stations than it is now, as only relatively recently (1960) did we switch to making one station, Mauna Loa, the single site to measure global Co2.

Climate change is happening but we can meet the challenge | Sarah van Gelder

Like many members of his age group, Alex knows that 350ppm is the threshold for safe levels of carbon [sic] in the atmosphere. Pass that level and, climate scientists tell us, things get dicey: soils dry out, damaging food production. There is more frequent and more intense flooding, coastlines get inundated, species go extinct. Farming, which relies on predictable weather patterns, is disrupted, and dry land farming areas turn to desert. Forests die from new infestations and drought, and become more prone to monster fires.

Young people like Alex are coming of age in a world that's changing much faster than was predicted just a few years ago. Already, scenes of wildfires, floods, drought, and storms border on apocalyptic. And so far, temperatures have risen less than one degree centigrade.

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What really happened on BBC Any Questions – Telegraph Blogs

[Delingpole] Taking the train to Machynlleth on Friday I looked out of the window slack-jawed at the magnificence of mid-Wales's The-Shire-like hill country which has been rendered more lushly green than perhaps at any time in recent history thanks to the atmospheric abundance of glorious CO2. And the question I kept asking myself is: "How could anyone who really cares about our natural heritage possibly want to destroy this with wind turbines?"

Under current government plans, 800 turbines – some over 400 feet tall – are to be built in mid-Wales, with another 100 miles worth of pylons to be built across Montgomeryshire and into Shropshire in order to connect their expensive, intermittent, unreliable electricity with the national grid. This is going to cost a minimum of £2 billion. Yet, for about one fifth of that cost you can build a gas fired power station capable of producing nearly three times as much power – without blighting the countryside for miles around and without draining the pockets of the poor, put-upon energy user with unnecessary green tariffs.

Twitter / AATOM2: Physics Professor Jonathon ...

Physics Professor Jonathon Jones of Oxford University mocks Ed Davey's claim that sceptics like him don't exist. #CheltenhamScienceFestival

Tourists 'shocked and surprised' by wind farm numbers / Helensburgh Advertiser / News / This Week

Increasing numbers of tourists visiting Scotland are surprised and shocked by the number of wind farms cropping up throughout Scotland.

Twitter / Foxgoose: UK leads the world in making ...

UK leads the world in making poor people suffer for the sanctimonious delusions of middle class #climate hysterics -
http://www.thegwpf.org/uk-energy-inflation-the-highest-europe/ …

More bad news for the dwindling "CO2-kills-moose" crowd: Minnesota moose deliver twice the expected rate of twin calves after mild winter of 2011-2012, but bears "hammer the calves" during 2013's snowy, cool spring

Nearly half of the 49 newborn Minnesota moose fit with GPS collars just days ago have died | Northland Outdoors | Fargo, ND

Within days of finishing a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources effort to capture 49 moose calves and fit them with GPS transmitter collars, 22 of the newborns already have died, most killed by black bears and wolves.
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“Especially in the last few days, bear and to some extent wolves have just been hammering the calves,”
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This year’s late snow, cool spring and delayed green-up in the forest might have pushed more bears to find calf moose.
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“You could have 100 percent of the calves survive and that wouldn’t solve our problem,” DelGiudice said. “Our problem (in Northeastern Minnesota) is that too many adults are dying; not enough are surviving to reproduce to sustain the population.”
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DelGiudice said the calf study already has revealed new findings not previously known of Minnesota moose calves. For example, a whopping 58 percent of the cows that delivered calves this month had twins. Based on other studies and estimates, researchers had been expecting only a 20 to 30 percent rate of twin births.

“That just blew us away. This may have it roots back in the (mild) winter of 2012, that more cows went into the rut and into this past winter healthy and with higher body weights and could sustain twins,” he said.
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Of the 22 that had died through Wednesday, DelGiudice said as many as eight may have perished from circumstances surrounding the capture process, but that a final number won’t be known until all lab results come in.

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Even before Alaska's oil-tax cut, jobs and pay in the industry soar | Alaska Dispatch

Alaska's oil and gas industry continued to power the state's economy in 2012, according to new wage data released by the state Friday.  [I'm confused again:  If I care about the well-being of Alaskans, should I buy their oil or not?]

American Architect Designs Giant Umbrellas That Restore Arctic Ice | Alaska Dispatch

An American architect has won first place in a design journal’s competition for a building plan that’s intended to reverse the melting of Arctic ice caps. His design of giant, floating umbrellas that could potentially restore ice by harvesting and freezing the water underneath comes at a time when transportation and energy giants, as well as the governments of the world’s economic leaders, aim to take advantage of a potentially navigable Arctic region.

The Breakthrough Institute - No Solar Way Around It

In reality, there's little evidence that renewables have supplanted — rather than supplemented — fossil fuel production anywhere in the world. Whatever their merits as innovation policy, Germany’s enormous solar investments have had little discernible impact on carbon emissions. Germany’s move away from baseload zero-carbon nuclear has resulted in higher coal consumption since 2009. In 2012, Germany's carbon emissions rose 2 percent.

Twitter / carbonbrief: Michael Fallon is coy about ...

Michael Fallon is coy about his views on climate change: "Instinctively I’m… well, anyway… I’ve not gone into it.” http://buff.ly/11wqIle

Michael Fallon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On 28 March 2013 he replaced John Hayes as Minister of State for Energy at the Department for Energy and Climate Change in addition to his BIS Brief.

Warmist's lament: "The US climate movement has failed to create the political support needed to pass significant climate policy...the vast majority of Americans still see climate change as a low priority issue"

Rethinking US climate advocacy - Springer

The US climate movement has failed to create the political support needed to pass significant climate policy. It is time to reassess climate advocacy...However, after over a decade of extensive efforts by advocates and scientists to engage the public on the issue, the vast majority of Americans still see climate change as a low priority issue

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Ken Braun: Global warming doomsayers need to put up or shut up | MLive.com

For subsidies, the government says 2010 federal subsidies for wind were 87 TIMES that of natural gas or coal, while solar subsidies were a mind-blowing 1600 TIMES higher.

So what say you, global warming doomsters?

A lot of us would take you a bit more seriously if you proposed a real, theoretically workable carbon alternative and ditched the nutty notion that pleasant breezes and happy rays of sunshine will really keep our lights on.

Sen. Whitehouse, Tornado Opportunists Wrong on All Counts | Somewhat Reasonable

Studies show that strong to intense tornados have actually decreased markedly over the past 50 years, despite a warming climate. When the period from 1954 to 2003 was analyzed in a 2008 paper published by the American Geophysical Union, it was found that the most damaging tornados were about twice as frequent in the first half of the record than in the second half.

This is not surprising. Contrary to Boxer and Whitehouse’s assertions, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events decrease as the planet warms. It is during cooler periods, not warmer ones, that such phenomena increase. Strong to violent tornadoes actually peaked during the 1970s when concerns about global cooling dominated.

Zombie » Obama in Palo Alto: Fundraising with the Rich Radicals

Yes, Palo Alto is one of those few places in America densely populated by the kind of citizens that don’t fit in to the traditional political framework: Rich radicals. These are not your hardcore Berkeley ideologues nor your violent Oakland revolutionaries nor even your smug San Francisco ironic hipsters. Nor are they top-hat wearing high society cigar-smoking paleo-Republicans. No, these are postmodern hypocritical millionaires motivated by a desire to not feel guilty about living their lives of luxury. And the easiest way to assuage that guilt is Vote and Donate Obama.

These people are not supposed to exist according to any standard model of the American landscape, but in fact they are Obama’s core constituency and what they lack in demographic heft they more than make up for in campaign contributions.
...And remember our cutesy entrepreneurial lemonade stand? Well, just as the anti-carbon progressives try to crush the overall American economy underfoot, on a smaller but poignantly symbolic scale, Palo Alto’s anti-carbon protesters essentially put the lemonade stand out of business as the crowds drove away all the customers by making the retail environment business-unfriendly. Is this our future in miniature?

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Rainy, cold weather dampens business | kare11.com

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. - The rainy, cloud-covered weather means bad business for some, really bad business for others.
A number of public pools are opening up across the metro this weekend to little fan fare thanks to Mother Nature.
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"I've been here 20 years and I can't remember a worst spring," said Jeff Homberger, Braemar's Facility Coordinator.

It's been a harsh winter for deer in Sask

The long, harsh winter left more deer dead this year than previous years.

Carbon tax not driving down emissions in B.C.

No set of facts supports the statement that B.C.’s carbon tax is driving down emissions

Senators slam EPA for leaking farmers’ personal data | The Daily Caller

A bipartisan group of senators is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to answer for leaking the personal data of about 80,000 farmers and ranchers to left-wing environmental groups.

City looking at spending $250,000 more on street repairs due to harsh winter | Sheboygan Press

Citing a harsh winter and deteriorating road conditions throughout the city, the Public Works Department is asking city officials for about $250,000 more than what was budgeted to repair city streets due to the harsh, wet winter.

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Honeycutt-Nuccitelli Climate Bet Progress Report…So Far New Decade Is Cooler Than The Last…Ready To Concede?

Clearly in the chart above we see that the current decade is running a bit cooler than the last one.

Arctic summers could be nearly ice-free in seven years | Grist

The use of these different techniques resulted in forecasts of nearly ice-free summers sometime around 2020, or around 2030, or around 2040. Massive pool party y’all!

Using Legos, warmist statistician accidentally proves CO2 emissions increase wealth, reduce childhood mortality | JunkScience.com

A worthwhile video from Hans Rosling.

Is Fighting Global Warming the Solution to Water Shortages in Malawi (or Elsewhere)? | Watts Up With That?

Ironically, and sadly, the climate policy Merritt and Birdsall want will only bring further harm to the very people they long to help, by prolonging their poverty—the real threat to Malawians’ health and life.

Where Does America’s Oil Come From? (An Update)

Intestingly, Canada’s share (28%) equals that of the entire Persian Gulf combined (28%).

We May Live on a Natural Gas Machine - WSJ.com

Coal, oil and gas are "fossil" fuels, right? They are derived from ancient life-forms and are nonrenewable, stored energy, extracted from prehistoric sunlight. In the case of coal and most oil, this is obviously true: You can find fossil tree trunks and leaves in coal seams and chemicals in oil that come from plankton.

But there's increasing doubt about whether all natural gas (which is 90% methane) comes from fermented fossil microbes. Some of it may be made by chemical processes deep within the earth. If so, the implications could be profound for the climate and energy debates.

Warmist Mojib Latif: "The cold winter or the cold spring has nothing to do with climate change. These are just freaks of nature. But the flood in the 90s, then in 2002 and again in 2013 – A flood tells us that something is not right"

German scientist - Cold winters are just “weather” - But huge floods are caused by humans

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Tough spot for farmers: Adapting to change you can’t believe in | Grist

But no one can deny that in the past few years conditions have made life tougher [than when?  The 1930s?] for the people who produce our food and fiber.

Climate Breakthroughs? | Power Line

First, who would control the world’s “thermostat”? After all, Russia and Canada stand to be big winners from a warmer world; why would they want to turn the temperature down? You think the UN is a circus now? The political conflicts over this would be immense.

Romania under water - Crops destroyed

I thought snow was supposed to be a thing of the past.

It Is Official – No Warming For Most Of The Satellite Era | Real Science

The satellite temperature record began in January, 1979. RSS has released their May temperatures, and there has been no global warming for 17 years, which is more than half of the satellite record.

RSS Figures For May | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

The 2003-12 average for RSS is 0.243C, so, given the currently neutral ENSO conditions, current temperatures are running significantly lower. Compared to the 1981-2010 baseline, the latest temperature is a tiny 0.039C higher. Without the cooling brought about by El Chichon and Pinatubo during the 1980’s and 90’s, the current temperature would in all probability actually be lower.

It was not supposed to be like this.

Check this out: Lots of prominent warmists will be featured on AGU Chapman Conference (Colorado) webcasts in upcoming days

Again, I hope our Exxon masters can peel off a few thousand-dollar bills to pay some folks to watch all the webcasts and write up the top 100 most ridiculous things that the warmists say...

Twitter / climatespin: Chapman conference on ...

Chapman conference on communicating climate science will be webcast. http://chapman.agu.org/climatescience/live-web-session-schedule/ …

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Offshore wind: The enormously expensive energy alternative | Washington Times Communities

Underlying the push for offshore wind is the ideology of Climatism, the belief that man-made greenhouse gases are destroying Earth’s climate. But anyone who believes that building offshore wind turbines will stop the oceans from rising, make the hurricanes less severe, and save polar bears needs to reconsider. Suppose we invest in cost-effective electricity sources, rather than offshore wind?

- Bishop Hill blog - Crops for a cooler climate

A reader kindly points me to the blog of UK seed merchant Thompson and Morgan, where Emma Cooper is wondering what to plant this year

- Bishop Hill blog - A lucky escape for Roy Spencer

[Appell on the settled science of measuring temperature trends for recent decades where we have the very best data] their trends differ by a factor of three

Twitter / tan123 [Minnesota warmist Paul Douglas takes a grandchild-killing unnecessary fossil-fueled trip to LA]

#greensgobyair @pdouglasweather In LA giving a speech to Homeland Security (and to see the sun);stumbled upon Stevie Wonder at a ... party!

Radio Smart Talk: CO2 levels raise alarm, Dr. Michael Mann explains | witf.org

[52-minute audio--I listened to maybe the first 20 minutes or so, and found it chock-full of misleading/fraudulent statements.  I wish some highly-paid members of our vast, well-funded skeptic conspiracy would take the time to write up the top ten most ridiculous things that Mann says here.] Dr. Mann will explain how the Earth could be affected by the rising carbon dioxide levels and if there still is time to reverse climate change.

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Twitter / justintempler

@mwickens How come crusaders for saving the planet from carbon dioxide like [Eric] Schmidt are always "well travelled"? #greensgobyair @lproven

Twitter / lproven

@justintempler @mwickens If someone decides not to fly, the plane still goes without them. Choosing not to fly isn't green at all.

Twitter / justintempler

@lproven Using more fuel "makes no difference to the planet"? and you want a "uniform global tax" anyways? #GreensGoByAir @mwickens

Quiz For Climate Alarmists | Real Science

How long do you think you can keep propping this scam up?

Government Experts Warn About The Worsening Corn Belt Drought | Real Science

Six weeks ago, leading government experts warned that the corn belt drought was going to get worse. It is that “extremely moist” kind of worsening drought.

Climate Cheating Central | Real Science

Impressive work! They knocked almost a full degree centigrade off of 1934.

An honest graph shows that there has been no warming since the 1930s, and that 2012 wasn’t the hottest year. But that isn’t what Climate Cheating Central is all about.

Note to warmist John Nielsen-Gammon: If you're trying to increase our faith in "consensus" predictions for 21st-century temperatures, this paragraph wasn't helpful

Looking Under the Hood of a Climate Model | Climate Abyss | a Chron.com blog

Testing a climate model by comparing it to 20th Century trends is fun, but not very useful for model development, because the 20th Century temperature record is just a single realization of the climate, and random variations in the atmosphere and ocean would easily make even a perfect model diverge from the observed temperature trace for years or decades. Plus we don’t know for sure what the forcing was. There’s no real ground truth.

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Zinta Zommers: The latest strategy to fight global warming and the criminals taking advantage

Even if climate change negotiators can agree on monitoring measures, REDD+ money may not reach the right people: poor forest communities. Criminals are angling for a share of the funding. Carbon Cowboys gain access to forestland, often through illegal contracts, to claim payments for not cutting trees.

It’s brutally hard to follow REDD+ money. There are at least 15 multilateral and bilateral funds that contribute to REDD+ projects, such as the Amazon Fund, the Congo Basin Fund and the Forest Carbon Partnership. Donor states often announce large transfers of money to these funds but then deliver much less, making it hard to know how much cash has actually gone missing once it hits the ground. REDD+ is anything but transparent.

Warmist WaPo Laugher: ‘Computer model projections from at least 27 groups at universities and other research institutes in nine countries have proved solid’ | JunkScience.com

Uh… name one.

Michael Oppenheimer, Kevin Trenberth and other warmists respond to Rep. Lamar Smith in the Washington Post.

Cooling Looms as Earth’s True Climate Calamity | Somewhat Reasonable

Cold causes more disruptions for people than warming, and mankind always has been more prosperous during warmer periods. However, with modern technology, we have the ability to plan accordingly and manage the slow change toward cooling that is likely upon us. But unless the governments of the world turn off the spigots that have fed tens of billions of dollars annually to support only research on man-caused warming, and begin to fund serious science intent on determining what the real global temperature trends are, it will be a decade or more before the truth is told.

The suggestion that the Earth may actually be cooling, not warming, is based not on science-fiction computer projections but, instead, on centuries of real data of how our planetary system actually works. It is time to turn away from supposing and direct our attention to reality.

Twitter / jeffnesbit: NYTimes kills another beloved ...

NYTimes kills another beloved blog: Scientists at Work. Have the editors given up on science and enviro coverage? http://nyti.ms/ZyXRfw

UN chief takes fossil-fueled trip to Kevin Trenberth's NCAR; blames tornadoes on CO2; congratulates warmist junk scientists for "refusing to be swayed by politics, skeptics and interest groups"

United Nations News Centre - UN chief hails science’s contribution in addressing climate change

7 June 2013 – The scientific community plays a key role in finding new ways to combat climate change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today, stressing that governments must use scientific data to mobilize resources and take action against this global threat.

“The reason climate change has risen on the global agenda is because the facts don’t lie. Our world is warming, and our greenhouse gas emissions are a significant cause,” Mr. Ban told members of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

“We know this thanks to you – scientists and researchers studying the data and .”

Mr. Ban pointed out that in recent years climate change has risen to the top of the UN’s agenda as an urgent priority that is affecting all countries in increasingly extreme ways, from flooding in Asia to tornadoes in the United States and drought in the Sahel.

“We need people like you, and institutions like this, to analyze the trends, sort the data and produce useful information for forming policy,” Mr. Ban said. “Your work makes my job easier. I am committed to mobilizing political will at the highest levels to address this global challenge.”

Flashback: Shock: In a quote-rich David Appell article, Trenberth says "the IPCC has not paid enough attention to natural variability" and Ben Santer says "It’s certainly the case that we got some of the forcings wrong"

These increases are certainly less than the warming rates of the 1980s and first half of the 1990s of about 0.15 to 0.20 C (.27 and .36 F respectively) and per decade. The earlier period may have provided an unrealistic view of the global warming signal, says Kevin Trenberth, climate scientist with the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Co.

“One of the things emerging from several lines is that the IPCC has not paid enough attention to natural variability, on several time scales,” [Trenberth said]

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24 Hours of Reality: The Dirty Weather Report Wins Big at Telly Awards - Climate Reality

Boulder, CO (June 5, 2013) – The Telly Awards bestowed ten awards on The Climate Reality Project’s record-breaking 24 Hours of Reality: The Dirty Weather Report, which was originally broadcast in November 2012.

The Man Made Global Warming Fraud - The Biggest Hoax of All Time

So, wake up people and look at the big picture. Incredible though it may seem, human caused global warming is a scam, a swindle, a hoax of monumental proportions. The evidence is in the videos linked into this article. Please take the time to watch them. Global warming is not mad-made. It is a natural cycle. Global warming, and global cooling have happened many times in the past and the earth, and its people, have survived, recovered, and even flourished.

Sadly, however, unless we put an end to this monstrous lie now, our lives as we now know them will not survive. We are giving away our freedoms, and once lost, they may never be recovered.

"All that evil needs to win is that the good do nothing" - Edmund Burke

Will you do nothing?

Disputing cause of global warming makes UAH researcher 'world's most important scientist' | al.com

"We agree there has been warming and where we disagree with the consensus of scientists is on causation," Spencer said. "Thirty years ago, most scientists who worked in this field believed there was such a thing as natural climate change. Now for some reason, in recent years it's gotten to the point that the scientific community has virtually decided there is no such thing as natural climate change any more. It's amazing to me as a scientist as to how they could sweep so much evidence under the rug.

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Number of new CDM projects slumps to 7-yr low: UN agency

LONDON, June 7 (Reuters Point Carbon) – The number of new projects seeking permission to produce U.N. carbon credits by cutting emissions in poorer nations hit a seven year low in May, according to data from a United Nations research agency, further evidence that carbon [dioxide hoax] finance is drying up.

UPDATE 3: California nuclear plant to shutter, carbon prices rise - News - Point Carbon

WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, June 7 (Reuters Point Carbon) - Southern California Edison said Friday it will not re-open a major nuclear power facility that has provided the state with as much as 8 percent of its electricity, boosting carbon prices 10 cents amid a flurry of trading.

Warmists Blame TS Andrea On “Climate Change” » Pirate's Cove

It’s been over 2784 days since a major hurricane hit the United States. Only one actual hurricane (Isaac being a hurricane can be debated) has hit the US since 2008. There hasn’t even been that many tropical systems hitting the US. Major hurricane activity seems to occur during the PDO, and can be affected by cold air aloft (the US has had one of the coldest springs in decades). Doesn’t matter, because “climate change” isn’t about science, and those who push it are brain dead

Sears Hometown net down 27% after cold weather hit - MarketWatch

Sears Hometown & Outlet Stores Inc.'s SHOS -6.67% fiscal first-quarter earnings plunged 27% as the franchised-store chain logged weaker same-store sales, driven by lower sales of lawn and garden products, which it attributed to colder weather.

"Sales were below last year due to the impact of unseasonably cool weather in February and March," Chief Executive Bruce Johnson said. "Same-store sales of lawn and garden, our second-largest category, were down 45% in the first two months."

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Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris partied at Sean Parker’s eco-wrecking wedding | Grist

Newsom’s attendance at the anti-eco bash was interesting, given that the former San Francisco mayor has spent his political career yapping about how much he loves the environment.

Twitter / [Dr Marshall "Block the little people when they ask inconvenient questions" Shepherd]

So agree @bud_ward, "Time for Scientists to Tweet" Nice analysis. I am so over just communicating in the ivory tower. http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2013/06/its-time-for-scientists-to-tweet-reprint/ …

Climate: Republicans hope to tar W.Va.'s Rahall with carbon tax vote -- Friday, June 7, 2013 -- www.eenews.net

West Virginia Republicans who have long sought to unseat the state's only remaining House Democrat think they've found a winning message -- that Rep. Nick Rahall was for a carbon tax before he was against one.

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The one big problem with NYC’s bikeshare | Felix Salmon

necdotally, a lot of people seem to be encountering “open rides”, where they think that they returned their bike, but the return isn’t registered in the system. That’s financially dangerous, of course: if you don’t return your bike, you’re liable for as much as $1,000...I’d say that roughly half the trips so far have been trouble-free at both the beginning and the end, while on the worst one I encountered four different broken stations (two at the beginning, and two at the end) before finding stations which were working.

Twitter / bryanrwalsh: Imagine a Metrocard that only ...

Imagine a Metrocard that only works on the subway half the time, unpredictably. That's been @CitibikeNYC for this annual member so far

Climate change study with a large side-order of caveats | Environment | guardian.co.uk

To use a drinking analogy, the findings come with a round of caveat chasers and bowls of bar snacks filled with uncertainties.  [Does this still count as "settled science"?]

Flashback: 'High School Physics' - WSJ.com

That's how Al Gore described the science of climate change this week, by which we suppose he meant it's elementary and unchallengeable.

More pieces of the global warming puzzle assembled by recent research | Dana Nuccitelli | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Only about 2 percent of global warming is used in heating the Earth's atmosphere, while about 90 percent heats the oceans...research estimating the various contributions to global warming almost universally puts the human contribution at close to 100 percent over the past 50 years.

More outright fraud on an Al Gore website: "climate change has accelerated" since 2006

Global Warming Solutions - Find Ways to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint | An Inconvenient Truth

In 2006, An Inconvenient Truth woke the world up to the reality of the climate crisis. But global leaders failed to act, and climate change has accelerated, making the film’s message more urgent than ever.
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Stand Up to Denial

You don’t let ignorant comments about race or sexuality go unanswered. Don't let comments like “climate change isn’t real” go unchallenged either. Online resources like Reality Drop and Skeptical Science help combat climate myths while giving you a great resource to stay current on good news.

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Paul Ehrlich on AFP campaign against carbon tax: ‘Morons on the march’ | JunkScience.com

From the man whose first sentence in his 1968 book Population Bomb was, “The battle to feed all of humanity is over.”

Fuel Fix » Ethanol leading to a corn-based bubble

A corn-based bubble is building on the horizon, with expectations of a large oversupply of high-priced ethanol that has nowhere to go.

Green Investors Face Bankruptcy As Spain Cuts Subsidies | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

Spain’s government plans to reduce subsidies to renewable-energy producers by 10% to 20%. The move could drive tens of thousands of struggling solar-energy companies and individual investors into default.

Anthony Hilton: Green Investors May Never Recoup Green Investments | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

The risk is that any high tariffs promised to the industry to allow them to recoup the costs of expensive green investments will be revoked, leaving the industry and its investors stranded with hopelessly uneconomic schemes.

Southeastern Colorado wheat crop a disaster from drought, freezes - The Denver Post

Ongoing drought and late-spring freezes are conspiring to produce one of southeastern Colorado's poorest wheat crops in memory.

"It's the worst I've ever seen," said Kiowa County farmer Chris Tallman. "We are at zero. We will have absolutely no wheat crop. The entire county is full of dead wheat fields."
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"The freeze was just the death knell," said farmer Burl Scherler, who grows wheat near the Kansas border. "I've never in my 40 years here had a wheat stand just die like this."

Bad-weather-preventing car update: After Democrats tried to sell access to the president, they're trying to avoid the *appearance* that they tried to sell access to the president

Plug is pulled on electric car booster's meeting with Obama - latimes.com

So when an email invitation arrived for Friday's Democratic National Committee fundraiser in Santa Monica — with a $32,400 donation opening the door to a special reception and a few minutes of face time with the president — Scott thought about it a little. He'd given a few hundred dollars before. This time, he decided to go all in.

It was an outsized play for a guy who earns $50,000 to $60,000 a year and doesn't have a huge savings account.
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USA Today and several automotive publications picked up the story. That, in turn, provoked a second wave of interest from conservative commentators. Their focus was on the appearance that the Democrats were selling access to the president.

Conservative firebrand Michelle Malkin's website headlined: "Electric car advocate pays $16k a minute to personally ask Obama to push carbon tax." The story blew up online when it was picked up by the Drudge Report.

On Monday, Scott received another email from the Democratic National Committee, informing him he was no longer welcome at the luncheon and his $32,400 would be returned. "They insinuated that I did it to gain media attention," Scott said.

The Economist: Public funding for wind turbines is allegedly a "rather cheap" way of preventing CO2-induced disasters

Energy: Blown away | The Economist

Private insurers say that last year was the second-most-expensive in American history for disasters related to climate change, costing them $139 billion. But private insurance paid only a quarter of these costs, leaving taxpayers to cover the rest. By comparison, funding renewable energy properly seems rather cheap.

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: A Handy Bullshit Button on Disasters and Climate Change

With this post I am creating a handy bullshit button on this subject (pictured above). Anytime that you read claims that invoke disasters loss trends as an indication of human-caused climate change, including the currently popular "billion dollar disasters" meme, you can simply call "bullshit" and point to the IPCC SREX report.

Mother Jones laments about Samantha Power, Obama's UN ambassador-in-waiting: "there's very little evidence that climate change has motivated Samantha Power's career or featured in her public comments"

Samantha Power's Climate Silence | Mother Jones

Samantha Power, Obama's UN ambassador-in-waiting, frowned modestly as the president heaped lofty praise on her this week when he announced a major national security reshuffle.
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But will Samantha Power's brand of leadership extend to advocating climate action from her powerful position at the UN? After all, climate change is a top priority in the UN: While development has been grinding, members at the Doha climate conference last December reaffirmed a previous decision to reach a global pact to replace Kyoto by 2015; secretary general Ban Ki-moon himself has listed climate change at the very top of his 2013 "to do" list (up there with stopping the bloodshed in Syria). By contrast, there's very little evidence that climate change has motivated Samantha Power's career or featured in her public comments, leaving foreign policy experts confused as to how she might rise to the challenge. The people in the know... don't know...experts have suggested looking at her husband, Cass Sunstein, who has written a lot about climate change and America's need to act, and Secretary of State John Kerry, for whom climate change is a major priority, and who will no doubt help set a lot of Power's agenda through the State Department.
But these little hints are few and far between. In the end, Power's appointment seems to put other concerns above climate, says Busby.

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Climate Aid: The $39 bn industry, mostly used to slow developing countries « JoNova

Sooner or later, the aid-recipients are going to suffer through a flood or a drought (thanks to climate-sameness). But two thirds of this aid money won’t add up to a dime’s worth of protection. Seventy percent of the funds were used to stop emissions of a fertilizing trace gas instead of preparing people against the ravages of the weather. Indeed most of the money was spent reducing something that would be considered an asset if not for the decree of climate models that we already know are wrong.

Hey, but it’s only $27 billion or so wasted.

A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon we’ll be talking real money.

New Study: More U.S. Mutual Fund Companies Supporting Climate Change Resolutions, But Big Firms Still Lagging – Press Releases on CSRwire.com

Six fund families failed to support even a single climate-related resolution in 2012, including BNY Mellon, Franklin Templeton, ING, Pioneer, Putnam and Vanguard.

“Too many mutual fund managers still fail to grasp the risks that climate change poses to companies they invest in,” said Mindy Lubber, president of Ceres, which commissioned the analysis by Jackie Cook of FundVotes.com.

Schools Addressing Students' Fossil Fears Without Divesting - Bloomberg

selling stocks in fossil fuel companies will likely not drive stock prices down for those companies because buyers are waiting to purchase those stocks, said Chris Davis, director of investor programs at Ceres, also speaking on the webinar.

Stock returns for electric, oil, and gas companies have been good lately, Davis said, so selling them may not send a message to fossil fuel companies because there are ready buyers.

Green farce at Green Mountain College: Warm-weather-preventing ox gets euthanized to prevent his suffering in cold weather

America's Top Ten Coolest Schools - Sept/Oct 2011 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club

Cattle helped Green Mountain, in Poultney, Vermont, achieve climate neutrality. The school gets upward of half its energy from Central Vermont Cow Power, a utility that harnesses biogas from manure. Above, students learn to drive GMC's oxen for spring plowing. The school's agricultural projects are an experiment in fossil-free farming—instead of tractors, draft animals do much of the work.

Nov. 2012:  Vermont College Euthanizes One Ox, Spares Another - NYTimes.com

A working ox named Lou, who in recent weeks became arguably his species’ most prominent representative, died on Sunday in pastoral Vermont, euthanized after his impending slaughter stirred a face-off between sustainable farmers in the state and animal rights advocates from around the world.
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For Green Mountain College, where Lou tilled the fields with his teammate, a second ox named Bill, this was never the plan. After about 10 years at the college, Lou sustained an injury to his right rear hock over the summer. The college decided to slaughter both animals and serve them in the dining hall, viewing the action as an execution of the college’s sustainable-farming mission.
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Lou’s quality of life continued to diminish, and, with slaughter now out of the question, the college elected euthanization.

“The arrival of cold temperatures and icy conditions are certain to increase his suffering, and we have concurred with our veterinarians’ judgment that it was not humane for him to suffer further,” read a statement released by the college on Sunday...“It’s really sad to me, wasting 2,000 pounds of meat and putting it into the ground to decompose,” said Baylee Drown, an assistant farm manager at Green Mountain College. “And still having the end result being having the oxen being dead.”

Al Gore still sticking with his same old tried-and-false climate hoax sales quotes: "our planet is running a fever,"; "When you turn on the news on any given day, he said," it's more likely than not to be a nature hike through the The Book of Revelation."

Al Gore: Stop using the atmosphere as 'AN OPEN SEWER' • The Register

According to Gore, "our planet is running a fever," and the effects of that extra energy is resulting in extreme weather. "When you turn on the news on any given day, he said," it's more likely than not to be a nature hike through the The Book of Revelation."

He went on to describe such recent extreme weather events as the current 500-year flood in southern Germany and fatal flooding in Prague's city center, flooding in the US states of Illinois and Missouri, storm surges in New York as a result of Hurricane Sandy that added to the $110bn in climate-related US disasters last year, recent floods in Pakistan that displaced 20 million people, and a storm in Queensland, Australia, that dropped 48 inches of rain in "24 hours or thereabouts," he said.

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Heat Advisory: Nearly 700 Americans Die During Heat Waves Every Year

From 1999 to 2009, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a yearly average of 658 heat-related deaths occurred in the United States.

95,000 Excess U.S. Deaths during the Cold Months Each Year | Watts Up With That?

The figure below, which is based on data from the US National Center for Health Statistics for 2001-2007, shows that on average 7,200 Americans die each day during the months of December, January, February and March, compared to the average 6,400 who die daily during the rest of the year. On this basis, there were 95,000 “excess” deaths during the 121 days in the cold months (December to March, assuming a non-leap year).

Climate change causing Pentagon planning shift, says DOD strategist - The Hill's E2-Wire

Maintaining funding for such efforts will be difficult, Chiu said.

San Diego Professor Taking Global Warming Fight to the Markets With Campaign of Divesting from Fossil Fuel Stocks

Waayers notes the steady increase in frequency and severity of weather patterns throughout the world, including droughts, which affects crops and thus the food supply.

Heat Waves, As Climate Change Increases, Prove More Deadly For Poor, Minorities

During a two-week heat wave that roasted four states last summer, the CDC report noted the loss of 32 lives to heat-related illnesses. Twenty of the documented victims died in homes without air conditioning.

A lack of air conditioning -- or an inability to afford turning on a unit due to high energy costs -- is just one of the many factors that leave the poor relatively ill-equipped to combat heat.   [I'm confused again--so should we still try to save lives by allegedly preventing hot weather by raising the price of air conditioning?]
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"I would tell people to definitely turn their A/C on, if that is their only option to stay cool and alive," White-Newsome added. "At no point should anyone be dying from heat -- rich or poor, black or white."

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[Japan blows over $17 billion on CO2 hoax fund]

Japan's $US17.6 billion of aid and Norway's $US2.1 billion far exceeded their “fair share” of the United Nations target, it said.

A Case Study in Denial and Fanaticism | Power Line

In its desperation the climate campaign resorted to calling climate skeptics “denialists” for quite a while now, with some going so far as to make an explicit comparison with holocaust deniers, just in case anyone didn’t get the point. Well, who are the “denialists” now? Our friends at CFACT (Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow) are on hand this week at the latest round of UN climate talks in Bonn. What?—you didn’t know there was another round of climate talks under way? Where they argue for hours about whether to place a semi-colon in a particular spot in their latest draft declaration (true story)? Just mark it as another sign of the media’s waning interest in the issue.

The Leftist Global Warming Scandal – North Of The Border | Real Science

Canadian communists are in almost as much trouble as the ones in the White House. They cancelled a couple of gas fired power plants in order to save the world from global warming, at the cost of more than half a billion dollars to Canadian taxpayers. When they realized they were in trouble, they illegally deleted their E-mails.

Warmists Admit: Focusing on air temperatures was wrong; It was ocean that ate their warming! | JunkScience.com

So how many times do you get to be wrong before you just get ignored? Warmists will soon find out!

[Blah, blah, blah:  Check out all this coverage about bureaucrats who allegedly think that they're preventing CO2-induced bad weather]: IISD RS @ Bonn Climate Change Conference - June 2013, Highlights from 6 June 2013, Bonn, Germany

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Scotland misses CO2 target by 1%; Enviros ‘deeply disappointed’ | JunkScience.com

The 800,000-ton miss represents about 0.0000022% of global emissions.

Climate Change Target of Two Degrees Celsius Needs Revision - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Limiting global warming to just 2 degrees Celsius, as called for by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, has become patently unrealistic. Political will is lacking, and emissions continue to increase. The target needs to be revised.   [Via MT]

Canada May 2013 – Nunavut Daily Anomalies | sunshine hours

The coldest part of the month was 6 to 7C below the 1971-2000 average. So much for the overheating Arctic.

New Zealand farmers: Rules worry more than droughts - study

41.5 per cent agreed or strongly agreed that human activities such as fossil fuel use were an important cause of climate change

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Video: CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner Presentation on EPA FOIA Scandals

On Monday, May 20, in room 406 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building, the Competitive Enterprise Institute held a Congressional staff and media briefing on “EPA’s FOIA Scandals: ‘Richard Windsor,’ Gina McCarthy, and the Abuse of Power,” given by Chris Horner, author of The Liberal War on Transparency and CEI Senior Fellow. Video of Chris’s presentation is available below.

Climate Linear Algebra | Real Science

The global climate has been warming at a rate of 0.0 C / 16 years. Let’s do the math to see long until 2C warming.

0.0 t + 0.0 = 2.0

Drawing on my finest university derived math skills, I calculate that we hit 2.0C warming in approximately ∞ years.

UN Climate Chief: Forget science, we need ‘gender sensitive climate policies’ | JunkScience.com

Who knows, maybe more women can make the climate hotter.

Claim: ‘Climate change in the Arctic affecting health in parts of Europe’ | JunkScience.com

This is junk science because…

Not only is there no evidence that this is happening, the researchers just started their effort to integrate climatophobia with chemophobia. The Phys.org headline, “Climate change in the Arctic affecting health in parts of Europe,” is entirely without factual basis.

Will Labor accept Tony Abbott’s mandate to axe the tax? | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

How badly does Labor need to be beaten for the carbon tax to be scrapped?

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Wind farms are a 'complete scam', claims the Environment Secretary who says plans for turbines are causing 'huge unhappiness' | Mail Online

Owen Paterson says communities will get new powers to block turbines which are 'regarded as a complete scam'
Warns of 'huge unhappiness' across the country caused by wind farms
People who live near developments to get 20% discount on energy bills

- Bishop Hill blog - Yeo tells Davey that DECC misled Parliament

Tim Yeo has finally written to Ed Davey about Lord Deben's conflicts of interest

Friday Funny – we live in interesting times | Watts Up With That?

While the cartoon is funny, the smoking portrayal does bother me a bit about this cartoon, because it is personal, and the artist of course is just another low information sap who works with popular memes. But, that smoking meme all part of the ongoing comparative smear to tobacco company tactics that Mann and Co. like to push, because after their own failure of the alarmist public relations strategy, all they have left now is denigration. Maybe they need to watch that “Mad Men” show for tips.

Oh, and for the record I’ve also never gotten any money from big oil, small, oil, Olive Oyl, Kochtopus, or the American Petroleum Institute, nor am I on the payroll (nor have I ever been) of any such organization.

Flashback: Al Gore Has Uncomfortable Past With The Tobacco Industry - Orlando Sentinel

He and his family made money by raising tobacco on their Tennessee farm for years - profiting from a product that killed lots of other people's sisters and husbands and parents and brothers and friends in a particularly vicious and cruel way.

They didn't stop when the surgeon general issued his sharp warning linking tobacco with illness and death in 1964, not until Nancy's tragic battle with lung cancer.

As late as 1988, Al Gore was bragging in a speech to tobacco farmers in North Carolina, ''Throughout most of my life, I raised tobacco. I want you to know that with my own hands, all of my life, I put it in the plant beds and transferred it. I've hoed it. I've dug in it. I've sprayed it, I've chopped it, I've shredded it, spiked it, put it in the barn and stripped it and sold it.'' And made money growing a carcinogen that killed other people's loved ones. Gore made this speech, remember, four years after his sister's death. And 24 years after the surgeon general's report.

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Global Warming Caught Deleting Its Surface Records | Real Science

The missing heat has disappeared from the land and the ocean surface, and has mysteriously dived to great depths in the ocean where only Kevin Trenberth and his apostles can locate it.

As Floods Hit Eastern Germany, Recent Potsdam Climate Institute Model Warned Of Summertime “Water Shortages”!

Holger Thuss, President of the European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) at Facebook brings up a report appearing at the online FOCUS just last September. In the report the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research (PIK) warned that summers in eastern Germany would suffer from “water shortages”.

That’s what their models had shown.

Canadian Arctic Ice Retreats and Exposes Plant Life From Before 1550. | sunshine hours

Except …. doesn’t that mean the plant communities were thriving before 1550?

And that means the Medieval Warm Period existed. And that current ice melt is just a return to normal?

WaPo Photo Fraud: This is NOT carbon dioxide | JunkScience.com

The caption on this photo from the WaPo’s ironically titled WonkBlog is entirely misleading…

… and the WaPo has been told this before!

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[Overheated Antarctica update]: Feels Like -146F | Real Science

Where's that drought the Warmists were predicting?

Global cooling? "The Danube has reached heights not seen for 500 years"

- Bishop Hill blog - Hansen before the Environmental Audit Committee

The Environmental Audit Committee is rather like the Democratic Republic of the Congo, being entirely uninterested in auditing anything. It's an environmentalist talking shop with greens taking "evidence" from greens and concluding that more greenery is required to green the planet. Or something like that.

Northwest Passage Shipping Update | Real Science

With 80-90 days remaining in the busy Arctic shipping season, there is only 5,000 km of ice blocking the Northwest Passage.

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Population Growth and Climate Change Explained Using Lego

There's seemingly no limit to the power of Lego, and in this video Hans Rosling uses it with great panache to explain the problems of population growth and climate change.

They're two of the biggest, most complex subjects we currently face on this planet -but somehow Rosling manages to make it all seem extremely straightforward.

AU: Cold weather makes watermelon sales tough

A wholesaler at the Sydney markets says cold weather in the southern states is making it hard to sell the flood of watermelons being trucked down from northern Australia.

RTCC Climate Change News - Tempers fray as Russia blocks UN climate talks

And with carbon dioxide levels hitting a record 400 parts per million delegates like the Seychelles’ Ronny Jumeau have called for countries to prioritise their demands.

“That sort of attitude won’t stop the flooding and the tornadoes and the wildfires. Let’s find ways to work around whatever obstacles we have,” he told RTCC.

Tanzania to be split by extreme climatic effects

ARUSHA, Tanzania (Xinhua) -- Tanzania is anticipated to experience an increase of rainfall ranging between 5 percent and 45 percent in the near future, enough to cause flooding alarm.

Tanzania’s Vice President Dr Mohammed Gharib Bilal stated in Arusha on Sunday that the National Adaptation Assessment of Tanzania (NAAT) also reported that the central, western, southwestern, southern and eastern parts of the East African country will on the other hand experience decrease in rainfall at the rate of 10 percent to 15 percent.

How to run a really bad infowar campaign--Pointman

http://thepointman.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/how-to-run-a-really-bad-infowar-campaign/
What has been the result of failing to initially suppress and then to constrain the growth of the skeptic blogosphere?
The first is that it has undeniably become a major influence in the world of climate science. Given how truly dysfunctional the peer review process has become in that area, effectively it's now the skeptic blogosphere which is doing that job and it's doing it in public. Gaia help any activist scientist caught trying to slip past the sort of slipshod rubbish that used to be waved through the pal review process a few years ago. Nowadays, they're like little school children, fearfully eyeing a stern teacher, who they know will really mark their homework very severely. It's all a bit scary for the poor little darlings.

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Pretty funny… The Mad Men of Climate Denial… | JunkScience.com

… but we’re still winning.

Delusional: Google’s Eric Schmidt Claims Media Help Climate Skeptic ‘Liars’ | NewsBusters

NewsBusters has literally published hundreds of stories documenting media bias toward proponents of the anthropogenic global warming theory. Eric Schmidt is entitled to believe what he wants about science but to imply that the American press is in some sort of conspiracy to “hold back knowledge” about his belief is flat-out false. If the media are guilty of anything, it is their unquestioning worshipful coverage of huckster like Al Gore looking to line their pockets while proclaiming their desire to save the Earth.

Claim: climate alarmism causes legionaires’ disease | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Global warming alarmism is deadlier than any warming:

Check out the warmist Tom Toles cartoon that warmist Kate Sheppard calls "totally perfect"

Twitter / kate_sheppard

This is the totally perfect Tom Toles cartoon displayed behind our speakers right now. http://apps.startribune.com/blogs/user_images/WPcartoon.jpg … #CDLive

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Claim: U.S. coal plant emissions caused 1980s African drought and the 1990 Air Act Amendments ended the drought | JunkScience.com

“New University of Washington research, to be published in Geophysical Research Letters, shows that the drought was caused at least in part by Northern Hemisphere air pollution.”

Twitter / kate_sheppard: You can see all of @StuOstro's ...

You can see all of @StuOstro's slides here: http://tinyurl.com/stuostro  #CDLive

Al Gore: The information explosion is a tool to help solve the climate crisis — Tech News and Analysis

Summary:  The Internet and the digital revolution can be a major player in fighting climate change, says Al Gore at a Google event.

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U.N. climate talks stalled as Russia seeks rule change - News - Point Carbon

LONDON, June 6 (Reuters Point Carbon) – U.N. climate talks in Bonn remained stalled for a fourth day on Thursday as Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sought to address what they said is a lack of formal decision-making rules after the countries were snubbed at a previous meeting.

Bees struggled in Scotland’s harsh winter - Scotland / News / The Courier

Large numbers of honey bees were wiped out by the harsh conditions of last winter, according to a survey.

Around four in five beekeepers in Scotland (79%) lost at least one bee colony in the winter months of 2012-13.

James Hansen's Deficit Thinking

'Follow the money' arguments are mostly bogus - and people recognize it, unless they are about the political opposition. So if a climate researcher at MIT got $5,000 from an oil company in the early 1990s and disagrees on feedbacks, follow the money, he is a shill. But if James Hansen got paid $1.2 million to fly around and talk about global warming, above and beyond his government salary over those 5 years he is now complaining about, well, those were prizes for telling the truth.

Twitter / RyanMaue: Amundsen-Scott (NZSP) Antarctic ...

Amundsen-Scott (NZSP) Antarctic sitting at -75°C or -103°F. Checking but looks coldest in at least 6-years. (?)

Twitter / kate_sheppard

.@StuOstro on how he came around on climate science: "I started noticing that something ain't right with the weather." #CDLive  [Hey Stu:  When, specifically, was there ever a time when all the weather in the world was "right"?  How long did this period last, and how was "right" defined?  Can we see your weather rightness data?]

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Group of climate change protesters who occupied new gas-fired power station for seven days escape jail sentences | Mail Online

The group considered the protest 'necessary', Mr Rhodes added.

Fossil fuel bosses say the darndest things on climate change | Graham Readfearn | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Cutting global coal production would, Williams said, just keep poor countries in poverty. "In Africa, 51% of children die before the age of 5," she said, adding: "The war against coal and fossil fuels, in the name of climate, should be exposed for what it really is: an attempt to snooker development by stealth."

Twitter / DrShepherd2013: Bill Nye explaining record ...

Bill Nye explaining record tornado on major network, were no #weather experts available? Listen to his explanations http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/weather/2013/06/04/erin-bill-nye-foreman-2-6-mile-wide-tornado-el-reno.cnn …

Twitter / kate_sheppard: Francis shows chart of 1,400 ...

Francis shows chart of 1,400 yrs of sea ice. [Where'd she get this data?] To show 2012, you'd need a whole other chart -- it just plunges off page. #CDLive

US ultra-conservatives target carbon tax in online advertising campaign | Environment | guardian.co.uk

The group, which is funded by Charles and David Koch and other wealthy conservatives through a system of anonymous trusts, said the campaign would be one of its most ambitious projects this year, with a budget of $175,000.

2008:  Gore Launches $300 Million Climate Change Initiative

one of the most ambitious and costly public advocacy campaigns in U.S. history

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Humor: U.N. Climate delegates unaware of ‘the pause’ in global warming | Watts Up With That?

Watch CFACT’s latest video update from Bonn and see for yourself.

Alec Baldwin Accepts Invitation to Have Heartland Scientist Debate Fracking | Somewhat Reasonable

As we said, Heartland will provide one of the most knowledgable persons on the planet on this subject — a man who earned the first-ever Ph.D in groundwater hydrology. That man, Jay Lehr, frequently mentions in our weekly conference call with Heartland Seinor Fellows that he’s willing to drink fracking water — and do it on stage for all to see. That’s high drama worthy of a film festival!

Twitter / kate_sheppard: The flow of the jet stream ...

The flow of the jet stream "really is getting wavier," says [warmist Jennifer] Francis. #CDLive

Twitter / kate_sheppard: Francis: "I think the good ...

Francis: "I think the good news is this anti-science bunker is really starting to crumble." #CDLive

Twitter / kate_sheppard: Francis: "Anybody who's not ...

Francis: "Anybody who's not convinced now, I think they soon will be." #CDLive

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Low-Cost Carbon Credits Driving Europe Back To Burning Coal And Forests | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

The number of new coal-fired power plants in planning or construction in Europe is rising. Coal imports are soaring. How did the region, most dedicated to reducing CO2 emissions, do an about face? A major contributing factor is the cost of electricity.

UK Energy Inflation ‘The Highest In Europe’ | The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF)

The UK has the highest level of energy inflation in the EU, according to a new report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which says the rising cost of powering the home is placing an additional squeeze on consumers’ finances.

Wind Farms: Locals Offered Power To Block Sites

New guidance will tell councils that the concerns of locals should take precedence over the need for renewable energy.

Why Fossil Fuels Improve the Planet | NoFrakkingConsensus

A free, shortish book defends – and celebrates – oil and coal.

Cafeteria lunch: Industrial kitchens dish out [food that allegedly prevents bad weather] | @pritheworld

York says it will be a while before climate-conscious cooking finds its way from the MITs and Googles of the world into the mainstream