Temperature records tumble this morning in region - The Connecticut Post Online

New record lows for today's date -- July 14 -- were set this morning at Sikorsky Memorial Airport, Danbury Municipal Airport and at Westchester County Airport.

Between 5 and 6 a.m. at Sikorsky this morning, the mercury dipped to 57 degrees; the former record low for the date was 60, set in 2001.

At Danbury Municipal Airport this morning, the early morning low there was 48, breaking the record for July 14 of 51, set in 1999.

And at Westchester County Airport -- the closest official weather station to Stamford and Greenwich -- the mercury dipped to 55 degrees this morning, shattering the 49-year-old record low for July 14 of 63.

So far this year, there have been only 153 cooling degree days in Bridgeport; the normal for this date is 255. This is a measure of the amount of air conditioning demands.

New York: Wherefore art thou, summer?

CAPITAL REGION — Get out the sweat shirt and forget the shorts.

The low temperature this morning is expected to be near the record low temperature for the day: 49 degrees set in 1940.

Lower than normal temperatures have dominated the first 13 days of July, keeping swimmers out of area pools and forcing people to wear sweat shirts or jackets in the early morning and evening hours.

Pittsburgh: Peculiar weather's pretty cool for many of us

Last night, in fact, weather forecasters were expecting low temperatures around 50 degrees, busting past the record low of 52 degrees set back in 1888, when weather forecasts depended more on barn-top vanes and aching body parts.

"The summer started out pretty close to normal," said Shawn Smith, a meteorologist with AccuWeather in State College. "But July has been averaging four degrees below normal."

Epoch Times - Reviewing the Evidence for Climate Realism

Trying to solve the problems of malaria, hurricanes, and heat deaths by changing the climate would be like a tailor cutting off a customer’s arms because the sleeves are too short. In these cases, and the earlier ones I discussed, the realists offer better analysis and more rational energy proposals than do the alarmists.
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Arthur Wiegenfeld is an independent investor in New York City. He has training in physics, computer simulation, finance, and economics.

Gateway Pundit: Sad. Bill O'Reilly Embraces Global Warming Hoax...Quotes Disputed Junk Science

As for Bill O'Reilly's claim that since 2001 we have witnessed "7 of the hottest years ever recorded" is flat out wrong. This data was refuted first in late 2007.

Does NASA's James Hansen Still Matter in Climate Debate? - NYTimes.com

When NASA climatologist James Hansen testified to Congress in 1988 about the dangers of global warming, his words became a rallying cry for environmentalists and politicians determined to control heat-trapping gases.

When Hansen, the director of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, showed up at a briefing on Capitol Hill yesterday, it was with little fanfare and minus the presence of national television networks.

The man termed "the father of global warming" has irked many longtime supporters with his scathing attacks against President Obama's plan for a cap-and-trade system. Now, a leading Republican climate skeptic is considering calling Hansen as a witness at upcoming Senate hearings. A House Democrat, meanwhile, labeled Hansen's Capitol Hill appearance yesterday "irrelevant." With landmark climate legislation heading to the Senate after passage in the House last month, the friction surrounding Hansen raises questions about what role, if any, the Iowa-born scientist will play in the upcoming debate.

"He's losing some of his political luster with Democrats," said Kenneth Green, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. "When he goes off the reservation and makes loopy comments, they probably cringe and hope no one will see them."
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"After all, if the most vocal man warning of man-made climate fears is completely rejecting the chosen congressional 'solution,' that makes a very powerful argument against the bill," said Marc Morano, a former Inhofe staff member who now runs a skeptic Web site called Climate Depot.

Anne Applebaum - The Summit of Green Futility - washingtonpost.com

The truth is that carbon emissions will not be reduced by international bureaucrats, however well-meaning, sitting in a room and signing a piece of paper. They will not be reduced by public relations campaigns or by Oscar-winning documentaries. Above all, they will not be reduced by a complex treaty that neither the United Nations nor anyone else can possibly supervise, particularly not a treaty that effectively punishes those countries that abide by it and ignores everyone else. They can, however, be reduced by the efforts of entrepreneurs such as Pickens. If he and others can find economically viable ways to produce clean energy, then the problem will solve itself without the aid of a single international conference. To put it another way: The first solar power billionaire will have many, many imitators.
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It's also time for those international politicians who really care about climate change -- I'm assuming this includes at least the Europeans, as well as the Canadians -- to move on. The drama is over: The American president and the U.S. delegation have rejoined the negotiations. There is no further need for green, self-righteous preening. Attacks on greedy, polluting Uncle Sam will fall flat. Instead of pontificating at summits, they, too, should go home, brave the wrath of their voters and slap higher taxes on fossil fuels in their countries. If you care about the planet, save the jet fuel, cancel the conferences and focus on creating the economic conditions for energy entrepreneurship. Then, this problem will eventually solve itself.

Exxon to Invest Millions to Make Fuel From Algae - NYTimes.com

On Tuesday, Exxon plans to announce an investment of $600 million in producing liquid transportation fuels from algae — organisms in water that range from pond scum to seaweed.

You call this summer? | Calgary & Alberta | News | Calgary Sun

In what is typically the hottest month of the year, Calgary is still suffering from a dismal seven-month trend of temperatures well below seasonal averages, Environment Canada said yesterday.

Senior climatologist David Phillips said Calgary's temperatures have been sagging below average since November of 2008 and this July is no exception.

"For seven months, it's really been a long bout of cold weather; in all the months since last November conditions have been consistently lower than normal," he said.

"It's disappointing it's been cold for so long -- normal this time of year should be a high of 23 degrees and you've been lucky if you get 16."

Defenders of Wildlife Action Center [attempts to cash in on global warming swindle]

Scientists warn that global warming could threaten one-third of the world’s known species with extinction. That’s why Animal Planet’s Jeff Corwin has joined with Defenders of Wildlife to help pass comprehensive global warming legislation that includes dedicated policies and funding to help wildlife survive in a changing climate.
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[paragraph from canned message they want you to send] Global warming is one of the greatest and most urgent challenges we face today. Fortunately there is something you can do about it. I urge you to help ensure that the Senate passes comprehensive climate and energy legislation that includes 5% in dedicated funding from the total allowance value for safeguarding fish and wildlife, and the natural resources on which we all rely.

AIG's Latest Failure: Climate Change : TreeHugger

It's true--before AIG collapsed, it had launched an ambitious new program designed to deal specifically with everything related to climate change. According to Climate Wire, AIG's controversial decision to get into the business of climate change--which was loathed by certain oil company bigwigs--was going to lead the company into pretty progressive and downright ambitious territory.
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Last month, AIG quietly disbanded its entire climate change program--the offsets, the greenhouse gas inventory, the investment program for clean energy. Everything. It's assumed that it was a budgetary decision--clean energy is deemed too risky, too low on reward right now. And some feel that it's a terrible mistake; not only for AIG, but for the entire environmental community.

YouTube - Glenn Beck: Another Unread 3 A.M. Bill, Obama's Cap-and-Trade?—Nop, Cap-and-Favor-$

Glenn Beck

[On CCS] Even Gore thinks Rudd goes too far | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

But even the great green guru himself fears it’s just more snake oil:

AL GORE, CLIMATE CAMPAIGNER: I have some scepticism about how big a role that particular technology is going to play, but I hope I’m wrong.

LITTLEJOHN: What a gas!

Further proof, if any were needed, that the great climate change scam is simply another convenient excuse for politicians to bully us and pick our pockets.

The latest outrage is a plan to raise council taxes on houses considered insufficiently green. No doubt this is to pay for the burgeoning job creation scheme in the name of saving the polar bears.

Legions of officials are being recruited to search our dustbins and persuade us to stop driving and use public transport instead.

Bedford Borough Council, for instance, is advertising for a climate change officer dedicated to cutting greenhouse gases.

The post pays £33,328 a year and all the usual perks, including - wait for it - an 'essential car user allowance'.

Investor's Business Daily -- CBO Lowballs Waxman-Markey Cost

Climate Change: Supporters of economy-killing cap-and-trade legislation not only misquote the Congressional Budget Office's report lowballing the costs. They ignore how CBO cooked the books to get its numbers.

DOE’s New Baby Bell Labs on Budget Chopping Block | Wired Science | Wired.com

The Department of Energy will lose a major new energy research and development program developed by the Obama Administration, if cuts to the agency’s budget by Congressional committees made last week become law.

Green day? More like dirty brown - Telegraph

...EDF proudly reports that it “imports around 30 million tons of physical coal a year”.

I don’t know if there is a French word for “greenwash”, but the firm might care to look it up.
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Andrew Brown? Doesn’t that ring a bell? Yes, it’s the Prime Minister’s brother – the First Sibling, we might call him – who just happens to be EDF’s PR chief.

So here’s an idea for the company. Why doesn’t it “start making changes now” by getting out of coal, the world’s dirtiest fuel?

Consilience » Blog Archive » Tackling Global Climate Change: Is the US Finally Onboard?

We are undoubtedly entering a historic period in the annals of climate history.

Momentum is building toward the Copenhagen climate negotiations in December, where-many hope-the nuts and bolts of a new international climate change framework will be negotiated. There is a growing sense of optimism in the air. Some are hopeful that, this time, the international community will actually forge a workable climate treaty. The source of this optimism? For one, the world has learned its lessons from past failures, including the Kyoto Protocol and a number of regional initiatives (such as Phase One of the European Emissions Trading System, ETS). Furthermore, thanks to continued scientific research and concerted efforts to inform policymakers and the public, the science of climate change has become ever starker; the policy options, clearer; and the willingness to include critical sectors like deforestation and land-use change, much stronger.

Fresh Bilge » Davos Delusions

The authors of the report imagine than man causes climate, and that a sacrifice of humankind’s carbon output would miraculously stabilize climate — on a planet in the middle of a violent ice age cycle. This ignorant and irrational angst seems to some a mere excuse for a global power grab by the international elite. Certainly it is being exploited for that purpose, as Al Gore openly admits. But Davos man, believing in no other power than man, actually imagines that humans can control the climate of Earth. It is a dangerous delusion.

How Science Will Get Rid Of The AGW Dogma « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE

It’s rather straightforward, and on past performance suggests any date between 2018 and 2091 as the year CO2-based AGW (or CO2-AGW) went the way of the dodo (using a quasi-arbitrary baseline of 1988 as when AGW became mainstream, with Hansen’s testimony to the US Senate).

A Climate Change Paradox (Part II) | JoNova

Michael Hammer previously calculated that if the IPCC were right, the oceans should have absorbed a lot more heat, but just how much? He has revised his previous calculation after discovering an error. Now instead of oceans missing as much as 90% of the heat capacity, they are missing less, but it’s still around two-thirds. Its a lot of energy that somehow, somewhere, is not being absorbed. Where is the energy that greenhouse gases are supposedly ‘trapping’? Not in the air, and not in the water. What sort of radiative imbalance is this? Not one to get scared of.

Brainwashed 10-year-olds weigh in: We went to a climate change conference

"We are part of an eco-squad at school and so were chosen to attend a special Climate Change conference which took place in London.

There were young people from the UK, India and Kenya there!
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One of the projects showed to us from a group from Kenya showed us how we can make cushions out of plastic bags!

How amazing is that?!

The key message we learnt from the conference was that we must ALL make changes to how we live our lives so that in the future we can make the world last a little longer."

The Migrant Mind: Southern Chile Sees no Warming

Punta Arenas, Chile is getting chilly, contrary to the expectations of Global Warming Hysteriacs.

Could Climate Change Be the End of the 'Third World'? | SolveClimate.com

he crisis of climate change presents us with three critical opportunities: a moral opportunity to change what's negative about our systems, and help those in need; an economic opportunity to invest in the winning technologies of the future; and a political opportunity to form new international commitments that will strengthen all nations.

Now, if we could just agree on that, we might be getting somewhere.

The Daily (Maybe), The adventures of a socialist in the Green Party: The G8: Cnuts of climate change

There has been no time in recent history where coordinated agreement from the great powers was more urgent. The triple crisis of energy, economy and climate change are no longer theoretical risks but clear and present dangers that have to be addressed.

Steve Fielding wants to convince Al Gore he's wrong | News.com.au Top stories | News.com.au

The spokesman has said Mr Gore is aware that Senator Fielding holds a crucial vote in Parliament and that any major green schemes - such as the Government's model to reduce carbon pollution in Australia - essentially rely on his support.

"(Mr Gore) said 'look, the schedule's tight but hopefully we can work something out'," when Senator Fielding approached yesterday for a meeting on the issue, the spokesman said.

"We're clearing our schedule to see him. If he calls at three in the morning, we'd go," he said.

It is believed Mr Gore will only be in the country for another day or so.

GLOBAL WARMING IS A LIE politics/political T-shirt - eBay

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NYC fails to reach 85°F in June – first time since 1916 « Watts Up With That?

CENTRAL PARK HAS NOT HIT 85 DEGREES IN THE MONTH OF JUNE THIS YEAR. THE LAST TIME THIS OCCURRED WAS BACK IN 1916. THIS HAS ONLY OCCURRED 2 OTHER TIMES...1903 AND 1886.

Explain this, Mr Gore | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

I’m betting that Gore, who already avoids taking questions at his well-paid speeches, will find his schedule too full for Fielding.

American Thinker: Will Dems allow Goldman to manipulate a cap-and-trade market?

Taibbi accuses Goldman of riding from bubble to bubble, sucking all of the public's money it can from each bubble before moving on to the next. With Goldman's push for cap-and-trade, "now they're preparing to do it again, creating what may be the biggest and most audacious bubble yet."

But, of course, Goldman Sachs would never manipulate markets.

Lateline - 13/07/2009: [Lots of talk about climate skeptics here]: Giddens discusses climate change and politics

LEIGH SALES: When we look at the overall body of scientific opinion on climate change, what weight do climate sceptics have?

ANTHONY GIDDENS: Well in the scientific community, I think very little; probably only about one to two per cent of scientists working in the climate area are climate-change sceptics. Among the public, much larger.

Calif. climate change law cost underrated: study | Green Business | Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California's fight against global warming will cost small businesses $183 billion per year in lost output, about 10 percent of state production, according to a study released on Monday.

Things I Wish I'd Known Earlier » Fielding [Allegedly] Offside on Climate Change

A careful read of all the referenced documents reveals that not only did the government provide clearly argued answers to each of the questions he posed, but also that those answers strongly refute the premises of climate change skepticism. For those who don’t have the time to read the whole thing, the exact questions and a summary of the government’s answers (in my own words, for brevity and clarity) follow, below.

The subsequent response to the government’s answers by Fielding’s chosen scientists also makes for interesting reading – not so much for its scientific content (notably not peer reviewed itself), but rather as an example of how it is so easily possible for fringe scientists to argue a paper-thin case with the appearance of scientific gravitas, when in fact all they are doing is focusing on isolated pieces of tangential factors and evidence, and completely ignoring the mass of evidence which points in completely the opposite direction.

Michael Oppenheimer: Four Reasons to Use Cap-and-Trade to Fight Global Warming

Here are four reasons why cap and trade not only differs from a tax, but is a superior, more effective means to slow and eventually halt global warming.
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The window of opportunity to avoid a dangerous warming is closing fast. We can't afford the time to tinker with a tax. Let's rely on a proven approach, and cap greenhouse gases.

April '09: YouTube - Dingell: Cap-and-trade a big tax

Congressman John Dingell, a key Democrat, says that "nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax, and its a great big one."

Renewables are a waste of time, says James Lovelock - Telegraph

Britain should abandon its "vain" attempts to stop climate change by increasing its reliance on renewable energy and concentrate on flood defences, the environmental pioneer James Lovelock has said.

The Reference Frame: Obama's science czar's plans for mass genocide

The man in charge of the U.S. science policy is John Holdren. I knew that they wrote a lot of nonsensical predictions e.g. about hundreds of millions of Americans dying of hunger before 2000 with another megacrackpot, Paul Ehrlich.

But what I didn't know - and what Marc Morano had to tell us - was that they have also had very explicit plans to deal with the world's soaring population, a system of policies that would bring holocaust to a brand new, larger, universal, mainstream level. In the book "Ecoscience" co-authored by Holdren and two Ehrlichs, eugenics is subtly combined with some far-left ideas. They proposed that...

Monbiot.com » Pulling Yourself Off the Ground By Your Whiskers

Carbon offsetting makes sense if you are seeking a global cut of 5% between now and forever. It is the cheapest and quickest way of achieving an insignificant reduction. But as soon as you seek substantial cuts, it becomes an unfair, impossible nonsense, the equivalent of pulling yourself off the ground by your whiskers. Yes, let us help poorer nations to reduce deforestation and clean up pollution. But let us not pretend that it lets us off the hook.

Senator Barbara Boxer trying to sell Climate Bill it could be hard sell. « Iowa Defense Alliance

I sure hope Ms. Boxer can go down to the Gulf of Mexico the next time a huge hurricane winds up and maybe she will shake her fist at the storm and say you're not supposed to be here and it will miraculously disappear because we passed cap and trade and this type of things aren’t supposed to happen anymore. I will feel so much better when she does that !

Warmist site admits that there may be decades of No Warming

Reality finally recognized 10 years after the warming stopped. Certainty replaced by unsubstantiated theorizing

BBC NEWS | [Now watch your local weather improve]: Marsh wind farm officially opened

The South East's largest onshore wind farm has been officially opened on the Kent-Sussex border by the Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Milliband.

Australian Labor Party : Home Page

The Countdown to the Climate Change Vote clock shows Malcolm Turnbull has just 30 days to stop delaying and instead support the Government's responsible plan to secure both jobs [note: jobs listed first] and the environment.

G8 Summit: 13 Jul 2009: House of Commons debates (TheyWorkForYou.com)

[Climate realist Sammy Wilson (East Antrim, DUP)] ...Will he tell also me what assessment he has made of the impact of the climate change package on the public finances, on energy costs and on job losses in this country, especially given the fact that a number of important developing countries have refused to sign up to the targets?

Gordon Brown (Prime Minister, No Department; Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath, Labour)

First, it is going to be important that all countries sign up to a climate change deal at Copenhagen. We do not want to be in the position that we found ourselves in after Kyoto, in which some countries had signed up and others had not. It is important for the health of the world economy as well as for action on climate change that we persuade the developing countries to join. Secondly, I regard the climate change challenge and the carbon reduction challenge as something that can create jobs and make it possible for our economy to do well in selling to the rest of the world. We believe that, in five years' time—10 years' time is probably the better figure to give—there will be more than 1 million people employed in green jobs and carbon-related jobs. I believe that this could be a major provider of wealth for the British economy. If we can get the technology right and sell it to the rest of the world, and create jobs as a result of that, the carbon challenge will be one that we can meet successfully in our own interests as well as in the interests of the world.

Marc Morano comment on Dude, Where’s My War on Science? | The Intersection | Discover Magazine

...How sad Chris. Your main concern is that the “science” have the predetermined outcome that you agree with. To hell with the process if you disagree with the “correct side” of the science?

No wonder so many man-made climate fear promoters want to shut down any dissent.

See this report featuring a small sampling of threats, intimidation and censorship.

But, as you no doubt know, it’s kind of hard to shut down massive international scientific dissent to your vaunted “correct side” of the science. See here:

Chris, you really should reevaluate your position on this, there is still time for you to redeem your reputation.

Your current view will only lead to the best science politics can manufacture.

How sad that the purported champion of uncorrupted silence hides behind the veil of “correct side” science justifies the means. And that is the real “substance” of the matter.

Skeptics Guide" on Global Warming - Truth Isn't Inconvenient | Energy & Environment

Washington D.C. - Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the outgoing Chairman of Environment & Public Works Committee, announced two years ago the public release of the Senate Committee published booklet entitled "A Skeptic's Guide to Debunking Global Warming Alarmism. Hot & Cold Media Spin Cycle: A Challenge To Journalists who Cover Global Warming." Senator Inhofe and legions of others have spent those two years battling Global Warming idiocy on a global level.

The well written booklet covers many of the most common scare tactics used by alarmists and gives answers to those deceptions.

Click here to download the "Skeptic's Guide"

Bob Comer: Global warming scam

Some climate-change alarmists at the U.N. have been trying to revise history by burying the fact that the Earth was warmer 800 years ago than it is now.

Sarah Palin - A 'Cap and Tax' Road to Economic Disaster - washingtonpost.com

I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy. It would undermine our recovery over the short term and would inflict permanent damage.

Audubon: Invoking bogus climate models to promote the greatest scientific fraud of all time

Calif. Audubon: Putting birders to work to build a case for climate [swindle] action | Grist

....But this new work in the area of climate change is different. Once we combine these two technologies—the decidely low-tech counting of birds and the high-tech computer modeling and mapping—we make some surprising discoveries that wouldn’t have been possible with either on their own.

Perhaps the most notable of these is the fact that while the consequences of inaction are still great, we have a startling amount of power to lessen the impacts of global warming on our wildlife and natural landscapes. While climate change could cause significant range declines in up to a third of California’s birds, these impacts can be greatly lessened for many species if we take immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Take, for instance, the Yellow-billed Magpie, a highly social bird that lives only in California’s Central Valley and Coast Ranges. This species could lose as much as 75 percent of its range under the worst emissions scenarios (a loss that in combination with other pressures such as habitat loss due to development would likely result in the bird’s extinction). However, the magpie could lose as little as 9 percent of its range if we take extra strong measures to reduce greenhouse gasses in our atmosphere.

Yellow-billed Magpie - Whatbird.com

The Yellow-billed Magpie has a fairly large range reaching up to generally 83,000 square kilometers. This bird can be found in its native United States where it appears in forests, pastureland, arable regions and even rural garden. The global population of this species is estimated to be around 180,000 individual birds. Currently, it is not believed that the population trends for this species will soon approach the minimum levels that could suggest a potential decline in population. Due to this, population trends for the Yellow-billed Magpie have a present evaluation level of Least Concern.

Switchboard, from NRDC :: Pete Altman's Blog :: Lunatic Fringe Watch: Wing Nuts Unleashed on ACES Climate Bill

If you feel the ground shaking under your feet that is because the United States is about to be swallowed up into the bowels of Hell as the U.S. Senate takes up climate legislation.

Or so Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin would have you believe.

These and other right-wing "pundits" lost their tenuous grasp on reality in June when the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass historic clean energy jobs legislation.

Switchboard, from NRDC :: Pete Altman's Blog :: About

As Climate Campaign Director for NRDC, my job involves finding ways to help move the US forward in dealing responsibly with global warming. So I get to work on all kinds of different projects that involve public outreach, research and reports, and creative ways of bringing together different interest groups and constituencies to advocate for change. Global warming is a huge challenge; solving it demands the best of us as a global community and as individuals. But this also presents a huge opportunity to make the world, and our lot in it, better.

Barbra Streisand talks environmental urgency - David Mark - POLITICO.com

When did you become convinced global warming was an urgent issue?

I was very frightened after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and I was committed to gaining a deeper understanding about environmental issues. At the time, global warming wasn’t on the country’s agenda. Outside of the work of some scientists and academics, global warming was a theory, not a mainstream issue. I spent months talking to experts who studied the effects of climate change, and I learned about the work of leading environmental organizations, including the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Environmental Defense Fund, among others.
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I just hope one day soon the country will wake up and fully realize that we need to step up in a major way in order to avoid catastrophic demographic dislocation in the years ahead.

This week’s cartoon: Gore’s Global Governance

ClimateDepot broke news on another shocking, but not surprising, statement from Al Gore in saying that climate change legislation will help bring “global governance.”

PamBG's Blog: Hope In God's Future - Climate Change

The Joint Public Issues team of the Baptist Union, the Methodist Church of Great Britain and the United Reformed Church has published a report on climate change and CO2 emissions called 'Hope in God's Future'.

William M. Briggs, Statistician & Consultant » Hannah Arendt [1970] on global warming theory

…there are, indeed, few things that are more frightening than the steadily increasing prestige of scientifically minded brain trusters in the councils of government during the last decades. The trouble is not that they are cold-blooded enough to “think the unthinkable,” but that they do not think. Instead of indulging in such an old-fashioned, uncomputerizable activity, they reckon with the consequences of certain hypothetically assumed constellations without, however, being able to test their hypotheses against actual occurrences. The logical flaw in these hypothetical constructions of future events is always the same: what first appears as a hypothesis—with or without its implied alternatives, according to the level of sophistication—turns immediately, usually after a few paragraphs, into a “fact,” which then gives birth to a whole string of similar non-facts, with the result that the purely speculative character of the whole enterprise is forgotten.

Twitter / Jim Vincent

I think we should redistribute all Al Gore's $.

Twitter / Jim Vincent

@dvd493 how about we tax $ made from trading carbon credits at 99%?

Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Two Decades of No Warming, Consistent With . . .

As I've argued many times, uncertainty is a far batter reason for justifying action than overhyped claims to certainty, or worse, claims that any possible behavior of the climate system is somehow "consistent with" expectations. Policy makers and the public can handle uncertainty, its the nonsense they have trouble with.

Gore sees Nazis under the bed | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog

Professor Paul Kengor isn’t surprised that Al Gore last week likened fighting global warming to fighting Nazis:

How can anyone take this man seriously? Well, the fact is we’ve done just that for almost 20 years.

Believe it or not, Gore stated precisely these things in his 1992 international bestseller Earth in the Balance.... In one of the many deeply disturbing passages in a deeply disturbing book, Gore hailed ecological activists as “resistance fighters” and “people of conscience” engaging in a just war akin to the World War II resistance that fought the Nazis.

Michigan: Corn season arrives later than expected | thetimesherald.com | The Times Herald

“Knee high by the Fourth of July” — it’s an old saying, and one that sweet-corn farmer Todd Hulett said this year has little bearing on his crop.

In 2007, the Berlin Township farmer harvested his first ears July 11. Last year, it was July 17.

He’s expecting to hit the fields closer to July 25 this year, then immediately reopen Hulett Farm Market and Greenhouse, 3511 Pine Grove Ave. in Port Huron, for the season.

“This year’s just been wet and cold the whole season,” Hulett said. “It’s probably the latest we’ve been in 10 to 12 years.”

The cold weather has slowed the growth of the plants, he said, a familiar tune of other area farmers, Hulett said.

Variation in monsoon not due to climate change: Ramesh - Global Warming

NEW DELHI: Climate model studies has shown no significant impact on change in the mean onset of monsoon in the country, government said.

"The long-term mean onset date of monsoon in India is 1st June, with a standard deviation of about 8 days," Environment minister Jairam Ramesh informed Rajya Sabha.

"However, year to year variations in the onset or the propagation are part of the natural variability and cannot be attributed to climate change," he said.

Winter rodents move in - Star News Group

IN YARRAVILLE, the cold weather has sent more than its residents running inside for warmth.
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“Rodents are a widespread problem during the cooler months, however we have noticed that a common factor this year is the large number of properties close to railway lines experiencing rodent infestations,” he said.

“Mice and rats in buildings pose a serious threat to human health as they are known to carry diseases that are easily transmitted to humans.

Gaseous Emissions - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review Online

Doing their usual bit to assist the global-warming industry, today's Greenwire has a sob story about how natural gas is finally getting together to push back against that mean old, well-organized, financially monstrous and utility-backed coal. This repeats a refrain gas-industry types have of late increasingly been uttering among themselves.

Please. At a meeting with the Union of Concerned Scientists and other greens to figure out how to hatch Kyoto, I sat next to some industry heavies — who shall for now, both at the individual member company and trade association level, go nameless — when subbing for Kenny Boy on maybe day two of my approximately three weeks of glory with Enron in 1997. In short, they helped invent this whole thing to begin with. It's a little late — as well as unseemly — to cry about the other guy hitting back.

We will protect air travel for the masses, says Ed Miliband | Environment | The Guardian

Mass air travel will be preserved even in a low-carbon Britain because the government will find deeper emissions cuts in other areas, the climate change secretary Ed Miliband said today.

Dismissing demands for punitive sanctions to curb flying, Miliband said the government was determined to ensure that airline travel remains affordable for ordinary people.
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"All our research indicates that people in Britain are not climate change deniers. But now they are persuaded it is a problem, you have to start offering them a vision about how you tackle the problem."

Capitol Hill Climate Debate Seen as Key to Copenhagen "Success" - NYTimes.com

What would be catastrophic, according to several climate advocates, would be a Senate vote before Copenhagen that falls well short of 60.

With the world watching Washington, an unsuccessful Senate roll call could sink the Copenhagen negotiations at a time when Obama is trying to rebuild trust after more than a decade of U.S. resistance to the Kyoto Protocol and the largely voluntary climate policies of the George W. Bush administration.

"An unmitigated disaster that almost certainly means no progress in Copenhagen, and probably no serious negotiations after Copenhagen until the U.S. political situation improves," Meyer said of a losing Senate vote, adding that such a defeat would likely punt progress in the international negotiations beyond the 2010 midterm elections.

"Everyone knows there can't be a repeat of Kyoto," added Annie Petsonk, international counsel at the Environmental Defense Fund, referring to the 1997 Senate's 95-0 vote that essentially doomed chances of the protocol's ratification in the United States.

Alex Higgins: The Spectator Is Hot for Global Warming Denial

Most of us would wish the deniers were right. The trouble is, the evidence is entirely against them. Unable make an argument, they will latch on to anything -- anything at all -- and reassure themselves with the same zombie factoids all over again.

Chris Mooney & Sheril Kirshenbaum: How Scientific Illiteracy Cost Us 20 Years on Global Warming | BuzzFlash.org

The climate issue is the most powerful -- and also the most catastrophic -- example of how our society dysfunctionally managed matters of science. The stakes are literally enormous: We're threatened with an unrecognizably changed planet, many of its largest cities submerged. The science is extraordinarily clear: It goes all the way back to 1859, when the Irish scientist John Tyndall first described the nature of the greenhouse effect.

Chris Mooney: Information from Answers.com

Christopher Cole Mooney (born September 20, 1977) is a U.S. journalist who focuses on science in politics.

Gee, Mr. Mooney, we all need a lobotomy! by Joseph A Olson, PE | Climate Realists

We are witnessing the first, and possibly only, worldwide scientific peer review thanks to the World Wide Web. Carbon dioxide caused warming was first discovered in 1896 and by 1901 was shown to be in significant error. To make the ‘Greenhouse Gas Math Model’ work today requires belief beyond scientific reason.

Rational individuals first question the science of AGW and then the behavior of the AGW promoters. A wide range of highly qualified scientists doubt the simplistic, greenhouse-gas hypothesis. There has been irrefutable cooling for the last decade.
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Warmist alarmist now have a crisis. All of the Congressional arm twisting, all of the high handed bureaucratic suppression and all of the false and invented data has been by the AGW supporters. Legislation crafted by crooks does have some supporters. Anyone who has the slightest bit of objectivity is just an epiphany away from carbon absolution.

No, Mr. Mooney, we do not need a politely repackaged AGW message. We need the truth. You sir, cannot handle the truth.

Joseph A Olson, PE

CU lands $42 million NASA contract | Boulder County Business Report

BOULDER - NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics a $42 million contract for the development of a sophisticated instrument that will orbit Earth to monitor changes in the sun's radiation and help evaluate climate change.
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The sensor will continue key climate measurements of solar radiation that contribute to determining the Earth's energy balance and understanding how Earth's climate responds to solar variability, Pilewskie said. "We are very excited about this award," said Pilewskie, who said the research is crucial for understanding Earth's present climate and for predicting future climate change.

"In order to quantify the anthropogenic influences on climate, we need accurate measurements of the natural climate-forcing agents, the most important of which is the sun," Pilewskie said. "This project will allow the University of Colorado to continue its three-decade long monitoring of solar radiation from space."

Webchat: Bob Lutz on Reaching Customers in His New Role | GM FastLane

[Q] Any plans to either filter your comments or perhaps even support the green movement, since you've made such harsh comments against the concept of Global Warming, which upset a lot of people?

Bob Lutz: I obviously won't go out of my way to upset people but since i have a tendency to speak my mind i will occasionally unwittingly do so. I am totally dedicated to reducing petroleum usage, which is one of the reasons i championed the Chevy Volt. My personal opinion on global warming has nothing to do with my professional performance. By the way we just had the coldest June on record in the East, and are in the middle of the coldest July.

Climate Change and The Politics of Fear - AIP Blog - American Issues Project

It is coming. They'll say anything to get this climate change legislation passed. It's the politics of fear from the same people who wanted the country to turn a blind eye to the very real threat of terrorism... only now they want people to focus on outlandish predictions of environmental calamities that they cannot prove and have no factual basis. Considering their desperation, the dire predictions will have no boundaries:

"Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!"

"Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes..."

"The dead rising from the grave!"

"Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!"

Global Warming and Your State Factsheets - National Wildlife Federation

How is global warming affecting wildlife in your state? What are some clean energy solutions that would help your state's economy and reduce global warming pollution? Click on the links below to find out.