Food Waste, Climate Change Top Agenda at FAO Near East Conference - FoodIngredientsFirst

16 May 2012 --- Measures to improve regional food security by cutting food losses and waste and by mitigating and adapting to climate change will be considered by FAO's Regional Conference for the Near East.

Glikson tell us to publish a paper – we say “the heretics have — when will you?” « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

Glikson says, rightly: “Opinion and “belief” are no substitute for evidence. Those who doubt the basic laws of nature and empirical data are always welcome to submit research to peer review journals…”

To which Jo Nova says to Dr Andrew Glikson, “Skeptics can name 900 papers that support our views. And you still haven’t found that one mystery paper with observations that suggests CO2′s effect will be catastrophic eh? Is there any evidence?“

Glikson can name (as he did in our debate) hundreds of papers that are irrelevant, not based on observations, or are based on a logical fallacy. Climate models are not observations of the real world. Glikson’s faith in his theory is unscientific.

Before Glikson demands we disprove him (and we can) he needs to show he has some observations that support him. Until then, man-made global warming is just another religion.

Conflict of Interest in Hansen’s NYT Op-ed | JunkScience.com

There is no mention whatsoever of any venture capitalism interests in the original Op-ed.

New York Times Caught With Their Knickers Down | Real Science

Joe from Pickin’ Cherries posted these pictures of Waikiki Beach in 1930 and now. The beach looks bigger now than it did 80 years ago.

Is There a Bigger Environmental Issue Than Climate Change? Scientists Say Yes. | Wildlife | The Back Forty | KCET

Climate change is a serious issue, but a couple of recent studies remind us that it may not be the biggest threat to life on Earth as we know it. It may in fact be essentially a symptom of a broader problem, one which hasn't gotten nearly as much attention from either green groups or the environmentally oriented press. What's the issue? Loss of biodiversity, also known as extinction. And ignoring it to focus on climate change can have dire consequences, especially in the California desert.

Twitter / @ooooItsBertie: CLIMATE change activists. ...

CLIMATE change activists. Feel less guilty about travelling by plane by breathing more shallowly whilst on holiday.

San Diego Source > News > Fossil fuel industry blocks efforts to stop global warming, Keeling Memorial lecturer says

http://www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=20120515czl&_t=Fossil+fuel+industry+blocks+efforts+to+stop+global+warming+Keeling+Memorial+lecturer+says

Dr. Charles David Keeling was the Paul Revere of his time, warning the planet of its fate with rising carbon dioxide levels leading to global warming — and the fossil fuel industry has been the primary reason why there has been little change, author Bill McKibben said at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Keeling Memorial Lecture on Monday.

The Climate Misinformation Nation « The Berkeley Blog

http://blogs.berkeley.edu/2012/05/16/the-climate-misinformation-nation/
Since November, there has been a 6 point decrease (to 35%) in the proportion of Americans who believe that most scientists think global warming is happening, with a 2 point increase (to 41%) in those who believe there is substantial disagreement among scientists.

Theatre preview: The Last Polar Bear - Performing Arts - Scotsman.com

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/performing-arts/theatre-preview-the-last-polar-bear-1-2298529
The team, who run workshops after each performance, have found their young audiences well informed about climate change. "I asked a wee boy today, 'Why do you think we've got bikes with us?'" says Kirstin McLean. "And this child said: 'You've got bikes instead of cars because cars create pollution, and because of the pollution the world heats up, and the ice caps melt and the polar bears die.

Van Jones Cops a Plea | Power Line

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/05/van-jones-cops-a-plea.php

A sharp-eyed Power Line reader directed us to this C-SPAN video featuring Van Jones, President Obama's short-lived "green jobs" czar, admitting around the 19:14 mark what is plain to anyone who pays attention, namely, that the environmental movement is basically an adjunct of the Democratic Party:

Arctic Death Spiral: More Bad News about Sea Ice | Climate Central

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/arctic-death-spiral-more-bad-news-about-sea-ice//
In short, the death spiral — where more melting leads to more melting — appears to be even steeper than anyone thought.

Flannery’s Fantasies

http://climatenonconformist.wordpress.com/2012/05/17/flannerys-fantasies

Does anyone seriously believe Tim Flannery anymore? With prediction after prediction he has made failing spectacularly, there would seem little reason to put any stock in anything he says. Remember eight stories of sea level rise, Perth becoming a ghost town, Adelaide running out of water, permanent drought and the Arctic ice cap disappearing in five years? Fortunately, crying wolf so often does tend to inspire some skepticism in some. The reception Flannery received in West Sydney recently is one example. The politicians are even starting to wake up. It is this alarmism that has destroyed a lot of the credibility that environmentalism once had. However, there are those who do take such claims seriously.

Last 50 years were Australia's hottest: study - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-17/study-says-last-fifty-years-were-australias-hottest/4016304
Dr Gergis says the scientists have minimised the variability in their model by crunching the data 3,000 different ways.

"What we were able to see is that in 95 per cent of the reconstructions, we actually see that the post-1950 warming observed in the region is unprecedented in the context of the last millennium so it is not dependent on a loss of records back in time or the different combination of record," he said.

New paper finds world's oceans have warmed only 0.09°C over past 55 years

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-paper-finds-worlds-oceans-have.html

College professor: ‘Climate change genocide’ will be worse than Holocaust | CUNY Brooklyn College

http://brooklyn-cuny.campusreform.org/group/blog/college-professor-climate-change-genocide-will-be-worse-than-holocaust

"I make my 'climate change denier' claim for one reason," wrote Micha Tomkiewicz, the Director of Environmental Studies at Brooklyn College and himself a Holocaust survivor.

"It's easy today to teach students to condemn the Holocaust, but it's much more difficult to teach them how to try to prevent future genocides...I don't want my grandchildren to die in a climate change genocide that we could have helped head off," he continued.

Tomkiewicz, also warned that failure to take decisive action on global warming could result in the death of "billions of people."

Globally Warmed Over: Hatred Unmasked at Last

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/globally_warmed_over_hatred_unmasked_at_last.html
Hansen's diatribe -- I choose that word merely as a literal description of the article, which bears no resemblance to an argument -- is noteworthy on three fronts: (1) its tone of angry defiance, suggestive of a man whose instinct, in the face of rational defeat, is to say, "Damn all of you!"; (2) Hansen's attempt to use the Times' friendly confines to double down on the projections of his discredited climate models, without compunction at having no remaining grounds for his claims; and (3) the straightforwardness with which his proposed course of action on this issue proclaims the real, but hitherto half-concealed, purpose of the global climate fraud -- namely, a government takeover of the world economy by means of a proletarian uprising against the "capitalists."

International Disinformation Agency

http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2012/5/16/international-disinformation-agency.html

This from ESI-Africa, a website focused on energy issues for Africa.

Ambassador Richard H. Jones, deputy director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), opened the IEA's April conference by-lined Clean Energy Progress, by saying global temperatures are "probably" going to rise by "six degrees Celsius" by about 2050.

The worldwide crash of green energy companies

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/05/worldwide-crash-of-green-energy.html

The RENIXX Index of the 30 largest renewable energy companies in the world is trading at an all-time low today and has lost over 90% of its value since 2008. A partial listing of green energy companies that have already filed bankruptcy or are teetering on the brink is below. Many of these companies were financed by taxpayers

For 10 years now, the winters are becoming colder: GISS data by Peppe Caridi

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ClimaterealistsNewsBlog/~3/aOxlFz74KoM/index.php
After the issuance of the GISS global data for the winter quarter from December to February 2011-2012, from a first superficial analysis that catches the eye more than any other defect, is like the winters are getting colder in the last 10 years, even with a decline in average world temperatures by nearly two degrees Fahrenheit (-1.9 ° C to be exact!) in the last decade, with reference to the winter quarter.

Schmidt’s “Conspiracy Theory”

http://climateaudit.org/2012/05/16/schmidts-conspiracy-theory/

I find it hard to believe that Schmidt seriously believes that climate scientists have reacted to suspicion by saying "take a look". The pages of Climate Audit are replete with one incident after another, where climate scientists have taken precisely the opposite attitude.

That includes the present case. The sane resolution of the present FOI request would have been for East Anglia to just send me the data, even if they felt that they didn't "have" to. The best way to remove suspicion would have been to say: "Here, Steve, take a look". If Schmidt thinks that that's what CRU has done in this case, then he's the one in tin foil country.

Ice-cream spot hits rocky road

http://www.lowellsun.com/todaysheadlines/ci_20635020/ice-cream-spot-hits-rocky-road
Mark Duffy, who has operated the dairy farm at the state-owned park for 26 years and has a lease with the state to run the stand, said armed Environmental Police officers showed up at stand on Friday evening and stood guard throughout the weekend, turning away customers craving delectable sundaes and frappes.

MSM Condemns Heartland’s Experimental Billboard, Ignores What Alarmists Do Everyday

http://blog.heartland.org/2012/05/msm-condemns-heartlands-experimental-billboard-ignores-what-alarmists-do-everyday/

Marc's views are his own — and, as always with him, an invigorating read. Those who are subject to easily getting the vapors over such things should probably not heed the advice "click to continue" below. For the rest, here is the full-and-raw Marc Morano, who called out — and answered — some egregious examples of global warming alarmists using "provocative communications" about skeptics that the MSM seems to have missed:

"This is so silly. Every day now, skeptics are compared to Holocaust deniers and the media yawns. But Heartland does an edgy billboard accurately reflecting the views of those featured in it and the media acts as though they are offended?

"Here are a very few examples of this week's Holocaust denier comparisons and other nasty stuff by warmists – just this week!  Please show some balance!"

Green Loser of the Week | Power Line

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/05/green-loser-of-the-week-2.php
Very tough competition for this week's Power Line Green Loser of the Week Award. Are you ready for the complete disappearance of the Arctic ice cap this summer? That's what NASA climate scientist Jay Zwally predicted back in 2007.

Hansen : Blogging More Disruptive Than Jail

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/hansen-blogging-more-disruptive-than-jail/

New paper finds solar activity and natural climate cycles explain rainfall variations over past 160 years

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-paper-finds-solar-activity-and.html

New paper finds planetary motions explain climate; predicts stable climate

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/05/new-paper-finds-planetary-motions.html

Consensus Not: New paper finds 'no model consensus' on precipitation projections

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/05/consensus-not-new-paper-finds-no-model.html

Bravo: New South Wales Premier calls climate change report 'alarmist'

http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2012/05/bravo-new-south-wales-premier-calls.html

Upbeat crop trends via vital @BigPictureAg

http://revkin.tumblr.com/post/23120083061/upbeat-crop-trends-via-vital-bigpictureag-global

Globally the trend is upwards for agricultural production in the BRIC nations and around the world. The Ukraine, China, India, Eastern Europe, and Latin America are increasing their agricultural output.

How's that for discrediting the Malthusian prophets of the past decade and longer? As of 2012, the world is continuing to advance in its capacity to feed its growing human population.

Would You Believe Bill McKibben Doesn't Know Who Funds 350.org?

http://davidappell.blogspot.com/2012/05/would-you-believe-bill-mckibben-doesnt.html

What is with these environmental organizations (Center for American Progress is another one) who expect transparency from their foes but won't provide it themselves?