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EDF Climate [Hoax] Corps Turns Over a New LeafToday, Environmental Defense Fund launched a new class of EDF Climate Corps fellows to catalyze energy savings in organizations around the country. This year’s class is bigger than ever – with 116 students placed in 106 different organizations.
Twitter / BjornLomborg: Boxer blames Oklahoma tornadoes ...Boxer blames Oklahoma tornadoes on global warming. No justification, just tasteless political exploitation.
Time for civil disobedience | Greenpeace InternationalNon-violent direct action can help re-establish a balance where our rights have been overtaken by the self interest of powerful economic elites, willing to sacrifice our children’s future for their short term gain and profit.
Twitter / bruneski [Sierra Club chief Michael Brune]President #Obama can make a strong commitment to fight #climate change. Or pursue an "all of the "above" fuels policy. He can't do both.
It Only Took Five Minutes for Democrats to Politicize the Oklahoma Tornado - The Rush Limbaugh ShowRUSH: It took five minutes. Five minutes. It only took five minutes before the Democrat Party politicized the tornado in Oklahoma. They politicize everything, folks. They rub their hands together in glee when there is a natural disaster that they think they can spin in such a way as to advance their political agenda. If any of you doubt that global warming is a political issue and not a science issue, then you must open your mind and consider why in the world, ask yourself, why in the world, five minutes after the news hits of this horrible destruction, a Democrat senator, Sheldon Whitehouse, runs out and starts talking about global warming and blaming the tornado on global warming.
rabble.cathe environmental movement is seriously losing the battle with the climate change deniers...
Disinformation appearing in mainstream media about the science surrounding climate change must be stopped! This unfounded propaganda, much of it funded by the energy industry, is a major reason why not enough progress is being made in attacking the causes of global warming.
Thousands of environmental networks and organizations need to divert some of their attention away from their normal work and focus more on winning the information war.
The movement has many effective communications systems that could be used to combat disinformation as well as help journalists better understand the realities of global warming.
A small number of effective yet not costly activities could be developed. For instance, networks or groups could be organized so that, when significantly damaging and unfounded articles appear in media, they are challenged within hours with emails, phone calls or visits from environmental advocates.
Among other possible activities, some acting as either “good cop or bad cop,” could include:
-After particularly damaging articles appear, demand equal space for rebuttal,
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-Meet with editorial boards to discuss the findings and point out the facts,
-Develop allies in influential media organizations and trade organizations who will join your campaigns
This Shouldn't Be Necessary, But Here Is Some Information on CO2 and Tornadoes | Coyote BlogWell, I have zero desire to score political points off the tragedy in Oklahoma, but unfortunately others are more than eager to do so. As a result, it is necessary to put a few facts on the table to refute the absurd claim that this tornado is somehow attributable to CO2.
How to humble a wing nut | Climate Etc.Too often people in the climate debate argue from consensus, and attack the motives of the ‘deniers.’ Too much of the consensus is second order belief...
Warning Signs: Mother Nature's Message to MankindThe real question is why people believe that humans have anything to do with the weather or the climate? Why does anyone believe that carbon dioxide (CO2) has anything to do with weather events or trends? The answer is that Al Gore, James Hansen, and a raft of other climate charlatans, along with countless Green organizations, have been lying to Americans and others around the world.
OPINION: Rep. Marsha Blackburn in Investor's Business Daily: Keystone Pipeline is An Economic Slam Dunk for America | Energy & Commerce CommitteeThe Keystone XL pipeline is a line in the sand issue, dividing those who want to utilize our energy resources to create jobs and propel America toward economic growth and energy self-sufficiency and those whose sole goal is to stop the development of fossil fuels.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds biodiversity was greatest during Roman & Current Warming PeriodsA paper published today in The Holocene examines biodiversity in Romania over the Holocene [the past 11,500 years] and finds the periods with the greatest biodiversity were during the Roman Warm Period 2000 years ago, and over the past 500 years during the current warming period. Once again, the data demonstrates warming is beneficial to plant and animal life. According to the authors, "Most distinct episodes of enhanced floristic richness are evident during the Roman Period (2000 cal. yr before the present), and over the last 500 calendar years before the present."
Oklahoma tornado: Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead faces backlash over insensitive tweet | Mail OnlineShe thought she was making a topical political joke, but a co-creator of ‘The Daily Show’ managed to enrage many of her followers after tweeting joke about the Oklahoma tornado’s political motivations.
‘This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives,’ wrote comedian Lizz Winstead, in a tweet, around 3:30 Monday afternoon.
Is climate change making tornadoes worse? | SciGuy | a Chron.com blogNevertheless, when it comes to tornadoes and a warmer world, science really cannot say at this time. The basic fact of the Moore, Okla., tornado is that the town is smack dab in the middle of the Central Plains, where there are frequent collisions of warm, moist air from the south and cold air from further north, and there are no land features to block the flow of air between these two disparate air masses.
So there are lots of tornadoes.
Answers « the Air VentSo all you skeptics want answers to how much warming we should expect from adding CO2 to the atmosphere? An interesting new study has been released which matches quite closely to Nic Lewis’s work. The difference is that 14 of the authors are lead-coordinating lead authors of the pending AR5 IPCC report.
The Lewandowsky Papers » Climate Resistance Lewandowsky’s work unwittingly demonstrates that what is passed off as peer-reviewed and published ‘science’, even in today’s world, is no more scientific than the worst ramblings of the least qualified and nuttiest climate change denier on the internet.
Climate change sparked basics of human cultureThe researchers focused on rapid climate change during the Middle Stone Age, between 80,000 and 40,000 years ago.
Stunning ignorance on display from Senator Barbara Boxer over Oklahoma tornado outbreak | Watts Up With That?when is the hottest part of the year in the USA? July and August of course. When is the peak tornado season? In the spring when it is cooler. Seasonal heat is not aligned with tornadic activity.
Christie denies Sandy link to climate change: It’s ‘liberal public radio’ agenda | The Raw Story“Well, first of all, I don’t agree with the premise of your question because I don’t think there’s been any proof thus far that Sandy was caused by climate change,” the governor replied. “But I would absolutely expect that that’s exactly what WNYC would say, because you know liberal public radio always has an agenda.”
The Left’s ‘Ecuador’ Chevron Suit in Tatters | National Review OnlineHow sweet it is to see this crazed liberal plot to bilk Chevron, with the cahoots and participation of Ecuador’s executive and judicial branches, continue to come apart at its seamy seams.
No matter how strong the evidence on climate change, deniers will keep denying[Lewandowsky] Indeed, there is debate about the likely range of climate sensitivity, the temperature rise expected with a doubling of CO2 levels.
What are tornadoes? | Met Office News BlogHow will climate change affect tornadoes? - It is currently not possible to make a link between climate change and tornado activity. Climate change may have a number of effects on atmospheric conditions that may or may not favour tornado formation, the relatively short and unreliable record of tornado activity makes it difficult to determine a definite trend in this. Climate models are currently unable to resolve small-scale phenomena such as tornadoes, and no models exist which can use climate model data to predict future tornado activity.
The Breakthrough Institute - The McKibben Doctrine...I wonder how many of the people turning out to protest the Keystone XL pipeline, working on behalf of divestment, or following along on Twitter and Facebook are aware of McKibben’s long standing vision of societal change first detailed in The End of Nature and most recently in Deep Economy and Eaarth. In this pastoral future free of consumerism or material ambition, Americans would rarely travel, experiencing the world instead via the Internet, grow much of their own food, power their communities through solar and wind, and divert their wealth to developing countries. [How much of that stuff is McKibben personally doing right now?] Only under these transformational conditions, argues McKibben, would we be able to set a moral example for countries like China to change course, all in the hope that these countries will accept a “grand bargain” towards a cleaner energy path.
...McKibben’s line-in-the-sand organizing strategies may in fact be only deepening polarization and making it that much more difficult for President Obama to broker support for policy even among members of his own political party.
The Oklahoma Mega-Twister Is More Weather Than Climate Change | TIME.comThe people of Moore, Oklahoma were victims of weather, and bad, bad luck.
How to Understand the Scale of the Oklahoma Tornado | Smart NewsFortunately, at least, casualties will likely be below the record set by the the March 1925 tornado that swept through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, the one that stayed down for 3.5 hours. That storm killed 695 people. Advances in early detection and warning systems have brought the deaths caused by tornadoes down over time, and one can only hope that people were able to seek shelter from the dark side of nature.
Twitter / JamesDelingpole: Danny Weston: my new hero ... [Mine too]
Matt Ridley has joined the real climate debate | Myles Allen | Environment | guardian.co.ukThe relevant comparison is not with the 2.5C response of one model, but with the average of climate models used by the UN's climate science panel in its upcoming major report, which is 1.8C. Now 1.3C is 30% less than 1.8C, but this is hardly a game changer
The Greening Of Gore's Bank Account - ForbesWith his estimated wealth exceeding $200 million, Albert Arnold Gore has come a long way from the time he began a career in government politic. But it hasn’t all been a green path. He can thank some earlier events for paving over muddy ground, a time when his father, Al Gore Sr. met Occidental Petroleum’s CEO Armand Hammer at a cattle auction in the 1940s.
The 1970s Ice Age Scare | Real ScienceAlmost every major climate organization endorsed the 1970s ice age scare, including NCAR, CRU, NAS, NASA – as did the CIA.
Recent Press Releases | NoFrakkingConsensus...rather than being persecuted for his beliefs, Hansen has actually been “fêted and financially rewarded.”
This isn’t a man who has toiled away in obscurity and poverty. This isn’t someone who has voiced unpopular views and paid a price. Rather, Hansen earned a generous, taxpayer-funded salary for decades and has, furthermore, deposited into his personal bank account hundreds of thousands in prize money.
(When) Will the Press Have Their 'Benghazi' Moment on AGW? — The Patriot Post[Bastardi] So what will it take? When will the press have their "Benghazi" moment on this? Given the mountain of evidence against anthropogenic global warming, it can't be soon enough.
And remember, it's not climate change -- it's man-caused global warming. They don't get to change the rules because they are losing the game.
Was Captain Cook The First Climate Wrecking White Man? | Real Science11 Mar 1846 – ON THE CHANGE OF CLIMATE. (From a Correspondent.)
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Analysis finds increased CO2 and warming beneficial for agricultural cropsAs the air's CO2 content continues to rise, agricultural crops will likely exhibit enhanced rates of photosynthesis and biomass production that will not be diminished by any global warming that might occur concurrently.
In fact, if the ambient air temperature rises, the growth promoting effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment will likely rise right along with it, becoming more and more robust.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: IPCC expert-reviewer Dr. Vincent Gray: 'The disappearance of the IPCC in disgrace is not only desirable but inevitable'The whole process is a swindle. The IPCC from the beginning was given the licence to use whatever methods would be necessary to provide “evidence” that carbon dioxide increases are harming the climate, even if this involves manipulation of dubious data and using people’s opinions instead of science to “prove” their case.
The disappearance of the IPCC in disgrace is not only desirable but inevitable. The reason is that the world will slowly realise that the “predictions” emanating from the IPCC will not happen. The absence of any “global warming” for the past seventeen years is just the beginning. Sooner or later all of us will come to realise that this organisation, and the thinking behind it, is phony.
Twitter / TheScienceGuy: Oklahoma City was hit hard ...Oklahoma City was hit hard again. Has anyone asked Oklahoma Senator Inhofe about the three large storms in the 14 years?
- Bishop Hill blog - Hansen at the LSE[warmists] always seem to have an utterly cartoonish impression of sceptics having never having before met one in real life
The Carbon Sense Coalition » Big Green Helps Big Wind Hide Bird and Bat ButcheryIt uses tons of fossil fuels every day, emits a greenhouse gas that’s like CO2 on steroids, can’t do the job it’s made for, costs taxpayers exorbitant fees, and makes the federal government look mentally ill for giving it outrageous subsidies. It also chops up birds, bats and scenery with roads and monstrous 400-foot-tall machines. “It” is wind power, of course.
Feds quiet as wind farms kill eagles - TwinCities.comCONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. -- The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret, an Associated Press investigation has found.
More than 573,000 birds are killed by the country's wind farms each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles, according to an estimate published in March in the peer-reviewed Wildlife Society Bulletin.
Each death is a federal crime, a charge that the Obama administration has used to prosecute oil companies when birds drown in their waste pits, and power companies when birds are electrocuted by their power lines. No wind energy company has been prosecuted, even those that repeatedly flout the law... "What it boils down to is this: If you electrocute an eagle, that is bad, but if you chop it to pieces, that is OK," said Tim Eicher, a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service enforcement agent based in Cody, Wyo.
Monckton challenges the IPCC – suggests fraud – and gets a response | Watts Up With That?In my letter to the police in Geneva, which I also copied to the Serious Fraud Office in London and the Office of the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia, I wrote:
“The attached correspondence evidences a fraud at the IPCC..."
Oklahoma tornado strikes, climate vultures gather | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogIf there was really someone to blame for this hideous tragedy, the anger would be justified. But what we are seeing is the deliberate exploitation of grief and fear to perpetrate a lie
Climate experts to announce global climate time bomb will go off by 2040, says WWF's Kokorin - BellonaMOSCOW –The upcoming fifth climate change report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is believed to reveal new, and gruesome, scientific data: Natural and anthropogenic factors contributing to global climate change will escalate in the 2040s, causing ever more devastating effects on the planet. The “climate time bomb” is set to go off – unless humankind does something about it.
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Alexei Kokorin: The main thing that is expected to be there is data saying that the climate “time bomb” may blow up sometime around 2040. Whereas earlier it was believed that man’s impact on the climate was gradual, and that the situation was deteriorating in a gradual way, now – in contrast to the previous report, which was being put together seven years ago – much more information has been obtained on ocean cycles and other natural fluctuations. Scientists have realized that today, in the 2010s, man’s impact is being mitigated by natural cycles that are offsetting the impact made on the climate by man. This situation will hold for about another twenty years. But it is completely clear that after that, this mitigation will yield to escalation.
We are having a sort of a breather now, but soon enough, we’ll see an onslaught of both – both natural and man-made processes that are causing the rise in temperature.
And temperature will surge dramatically. Yes, temperature rise will then slow down again, sometime in the 2070s, but it will soar up again after that. Understanding this is what makes this new knowledge principally different from what was known seven years ago.
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Alexei Kokorin: When you’re told that in the past fifteen years, the temperature of surface air on the planet has not been rising, this should not in any way be construed as proof that humankind’s impact on the climate has ceased. Scientists know it hasn’t. They know it’s because of how natural fluctuations are superimposed on the impact made by man. This is just a respite that nature gave us. And we must use this respite not for wishful thinking and inaction, but for reducing emissions, because after this respite, a double effect will ensue.
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Alexei Kokorin: In terms of impact on wildlife, the focus has been made not just on flagship species, such as the polar bear, which, as it turns out, is apparently able to adjust, more or less.
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Solar and geothermal energy sources promise cheaper electricity
John R. Talbott, Huffington Post: Man-Made DisastersNobody is saying that any one weather event like a single tornado has definitely been caused by climate change, but weather patterns are shifting making extreme weather all the more commonplace.
Of course, Oklahoma is also home to its senior senator, Jim Inhofe, who is one of the biggest climate deniers in the country. Senator Inhofe often asserts his claim that climate change is a hoax and impossible because "God's still up there." He has compared the EPA to the Gestapo under Hitler. So, did God target Oklahoma because of its misdirected beliefs about climate change. No. That is what is most sad about climate change. It is indiscriminate. It impacts everybody. But, if God has sent us a wake-up call, I hope someone gets out of bed and answers the phone and they don't hit the snooze button on the alarm clock for another ten years.
A Survival Plan for America's Tornado Danger Zone - NYTimes.comI’ll add a final thought about the persistent discussion of the role of greenhouse-driven climate change in violent weather in Tornado Alley.
It’s an important research question but, to me, has no bearing at all on the situation in the Midwest and South — whether there’s a tornado outbreak or drought. The forces putting people in harm’s way are demographic, economic, behavioral and architectural. Any influence of climate change on dangerous tornadoes (so far the data point to a moderating influence) is, at best, marginally relevant and, at worst, a distraction.
House leader pushes material disputing climate change | Kansas[House Speaker Pro Tem Peggy Mast, R-Emporia] "I do agree that sound science comes from the Heartland Institute."
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The veracity of human-caused climate change has become a subject of debate in the Legislature this year amid talks about the state's renewable energy standards.
Rep. Dennis Hedke, R-Wichita, the chairman of the House Energy and Environment Committee and a climate change skeptic, brought four climate scientists to his committee in February, two of whom testified that their research doesn’t support any link between human activity and global climate change.
One who testified that such a link does exist, Johannes Feddema of The University of Kansas, said he feared the number of skeptics invited to speak could mislead lawmakers about how much dissent there is on a scientific topic on which "98 percent" of researchers agree.
NOAA Global Temperatures Out – 3rd Coldest April This Century | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THATThis worrying news, about the planet getting colder, is understandably getting warmists into a frenzy.
Arctic Ice Extent Highest For The Date Since 2002 | Real Science
The Radical Emission Reduction Conference | Tyndall°Centre for Climate Change Research ®Today, in 2013, we face an unavoidably radical future. We either continue with rising emissions and reap the radical repercussions of severe climate change, or we acknowledge that we have a choice and pursue radical emission reductions: No longer is there a non-radical option. Moreover, low-carbon supply technologies cannot deliver the necessary rate of emission reductions – they need to be complemented with rapid, deep and early reductions in energy consumption – the rationale for this conference.
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More specifically the two-day conference, hosted at the Royal Society (London), will consider how to deliver reductions in energy consumption of at least 8% per year (~60% across a decade). It will foster an up-beat and can-do mentality.
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