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TWC – Another USA Blizzard or 2... « Musings from the ChiefioThe Weather Channel warns of More Blizzards
The Weather Channel is advising to travel as far south as I-10 to avoid snow and blizzards (one moving eastward now, and another coming next week. That will be 3 in a row.) They are also advising that folks stuck at airports from last weeks blizzard on the East Coast and midwest take any plane they can to a warmer place and then rebook to your final destination (i.e. you will be snowed in again at that prior snowy airport if you don’t get out of there soon.)
Hans Von Storch: Good Science, Bad Politics - WSJ.com'Climategate' reveals a concerted effort to emphasize scientific results useful to a political agenda.
Anchorage Prepares for Possible Shortage of Natural Gas - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comThe ultimate risk is a depressurization of the gas delivery system, a problem that could take weeks to fix. “If it comes to pass, half the population of Alaska would lose heat, and even more would lose power,” Eric Lidji, a reporter, wrote in the Anchorage Press earlier this year. “Industry would be crippled.”
Pajamas Media » Andy Pollack - AGW: The Greens’ Tet OffensiveEnvironmentalists threw everything they had into the anthropogenic global warming scare, hoping for victory through politics and PR.
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The environmental movement’s Tet Offensive has failed.
But what will the cost of the “all your eggs in one basket” approach be to the environmental movement?
It will be much harder to persuade the public to listen to discussions of the less sexy but verified environmental problems facing us. The press, unable to resist a bandwagon, will enable this. The many important environmental issues facing us will fade from our consciousness until the public’s resentment over being manipulated wanes. There will be many costs to pay in the meantime.
The Top 10 Science Stories of 2009 [Slide Show]: "Scientific" American SlideshowsDespite a pre-conference release of stolen e-mails that seemed to be an attempt to derail negotiations, delegates agreed to a nonbinding accord developed by a core group of nations—including the U.S., China, India and South Africa—that, for the first time, extracts commitments from both developed and developing countries to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
And the 2009 “Citizen Kane” award for non-excellence in climate journalism goes to … « Climate Progress2 & 1. George Will and the editors of the Washington Post. The two are, sadly, almost inseparable. Will is #2 for his disinformation dysentery. The Washington Post’s senior editors are, easily, the winner of Climate Progress’s first annual Citizen Kane award for giving George Will an un-fact-checked platform again and again (while making a travesty of their letters to the editor) — as well as Lomborg and Palin and many, many others. On the climate issue, the Washington Post editors have, shamefully, abandoned journalism
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Peer Review in the IPCCIn the case of melting glaciers in the Himalayas, the IPCC 2035 claim has led to, in Nielsen-Gammen's words, an egregious mistake becoming "effectively common knowledge that the glaciers were going to vanish by 2035." Like the common (but wrong) knowledge on disasters and climate change that originated in the grey literature and was subsequently misrepresented by the IPCC, on the melting of Himalayan glaciers the IPCC has dramatically misled policy makers and the public.
That the IPCC has made some important mistakes is very troubling, but perhaps understandable given the magnitude of the effort. Its reluctance to deal with obvious errors is an even greater problem reflecting poorly on an institution that has become too insular and politicized.
Tourists in Antarctica cause of major concernScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2009) — The 40,000 'eco-tourists' who visit the South Pole every year cause enormous greenhouse gas emissions.
Big Government » Blog Archive » Build-A-Climate-Scare: Why You Should Boycott Build-A-BearNeedless-to-say, this constitutes brainwashing on the sleaziest and most sinister level. The good news is that this nonsense isn’t coming from our government this time and the rocky economy is our friend here. People, we have the means, if we have the will, to topple these charlatans who shamelessly prey on little children. So boycott Build-A-Bear. And, more importantly, tell the world why.
C3: Did Copenhagen Conference At Least Stop The Idiocy of Chopping Forests Down For Renewable Energy? NopeClimategate lies cause trees to die.
Climategatekeeping: Schmidt 2009 « Climate AuditThe “peer review” in evidence here is compromised first by the association between Jones and Schmidt (combined with Jones’ prior animosity to the articles being criticized), by the trifling quality of the peer review itself and the overt objective of using the article as a tool for future gatekeeping.
Obama flops at Copenhagen junk science conferenceHumiliated beyond description, Obama was snubbed and insulted by virtually every international delegate and head of state. Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao refused to extend his scheduled talks with the American president, and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Barack Obama of following the footsteps of George W. Bush since entering the White House, saying he had “missed a chance to make a clean break.”
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The assembled socialist world leaders, greenies, pinkos, and assorted enviro-looneys cheered on Chavez Wednesday during his speech, a wild attack on all things capitalist that earned him standing ovations from the delegates.
Researcher: Most heart attacks occur at 9 amZibainejad also added that superficial vessels become contracted in cold weather, a condition which increases the resistance of heart vessels and subsequently the oxygen need of the heart muscle, leading to a higher rate of heart attacks in fall and winter.
The head of the fourth Middle East Cardiovascular Congress said that inversion, a climate condition seen in this time of the year which is commonly associated with pronounced air pollution, is another factor increasing the risk of heart events in cold seasons.
AP Analysis Overlooks Scientific Implications of Climategate It is circular reasoning to appeal to a consensus that was shaped by scientists conspiring to eliminate all opposition. These scientists, though relatively few in number, wielded a disproportionate influence on the scientific community. Moreover, from the private emails it is evident that they were less confident about their own conclusions than they appeared to be in public discourse.
YouTube - Sen. Barbara Boxer condemns JunkScience.com's 'Carbon Criminal' postersSen. Barbara Boxer condemns JunkScience.com's 'Carbon Criminal' posters that depict USCAP company CEOs trying to profiteer from cap-and-trade.
Global warming--a climate scientist responds to how 'warmists' should speak to 'skeptics'Bart Verheggen is a Dutch climate scientist who specializes in aerosols...
Skeptic's Corner: "Notable Quotes"[John Nielsen-Gammon] "To recap, the available evidence indicates that the IPCC authors of this section relied upon a secondhand, unreferreed source which turned out to be unreliable, and failed to identify this source. As a result, the IPCC has predicted the likely loss of most or all of Himalaya's glaciers by 2035 with apparently no peer-reviewed scientific studies to justify such a prediction and at least one scientific study (Kotlyakov) saying that such a disappearance is too fast by a factor of ten! "
Countering Sen. Kerry’s Catastrophic Climate Claims (Part 1 of 2) — MasterResourceEditor note: On November 10, 2009 Mr. Green testifedbefore the Senate Committee on Finance about global warming. During the course of his testimony, an obviously agitated Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) challenged Ken on different aspects of the climate debate. His responses are printed here. [Part II of this series is tomorrow.]
Unbearable Global Warming Hype Threatens the North Pole at Christmas « Watts Up With That?It’s one thing when you are bombarded daily by news articles, it’s quite another when you want to buy a custom teddy bear and are treated to a video lecture on global warming. That’s why I’ll never buy anything from this company and advise my family and friends with children to avoid them also.
www.buildabear.com – their main page below looks just like any normal toy page with a Christmas theme, but visit the games section and you enter a whole new winter wonderland.
Copenhagen: Rudd's same old story on ETS | Australian Climate MadnessIt's as if the disaster that was Copenhagen never happened. Kevin Rudd has vowed to press on with the ETS exactly as before, same targets, same timetable, despite the fact that Copenhagen achieved virtually nothing. Finally speaking publicly for the first time since his return from No-Hopenhagen, the rhetoric is unchanged
50 years of cooling predicted | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogWho said the science was settled?
Study shows CFCs, cosmic rays major culprits for global warming - insciencesIn his research, Lu discovers that while there was global warming from 1950 to 2000, there has been global cooling since 2002. The cooling trend will continue for the next 50 years, according to his new research observations.
Hot under the collar in kindergarten | The AustralianDoes anybody besides me think it's a bit weird to be mobilising six-year-olds on political issues?
Carpetbaggers demand even more | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogThese green carpetbaggers plan to be on the government teat for the rest of your life, and will always be wanting yet more of your cash.
Dispatch: Great Britain’s View of the Copenhagen Outcomes » The FoundryThe narrative of Obama sweeping in and eking out good outcomes is not at all the reading here in Great Britain, where papers on both the left and the right have denounced the climate change conference as a farce that produced very little of value.
[Can every location warm much faster than the average rate?] - The National NewspaperThe seawater temperature in Kuwait Bay has been increasing at three times the global average rate since 1985, putting local fish stocks under pressure, a study by a researcher at the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England has found.
2009: Booming elephant population wreaks havoc in Zimbabwe - The National NewspaperThe World Wide Fund for Nature and African Wildlife Foundation estimate that Zimbabwe has 110,000 elephants, above the optimum capacity of between 45,000 and 50,000. For communities living next to the wildlife reserves where the elephants are flourishing, the increased numbers are proving dangerous, destroying farmland, driving people from their homes and, at times, trampling people to death.
2005: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Climate fear for African elephantDr Richard Leakey told BBC News global warming, combined with decreasing ranges, could make the animals extinct.
[Can you really offset 144 million tons of CO2 for less than $600?] | Minnesota Public Radio NewsQWith its 14 miles of lights strung through trees, multi-color tunnels, glowing deer and special displays that include a Christmas light ship and replica lift bridge, Bentleyville's glow lifts from Duluth's harbor-front park to the freeway and hillside beyond.
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And it's not just the $4,000 electric bill. If that that electricity comes from burning coal, the process releases carbon into atmosphere, which scientists say contributes to global warming. The amount of power lighting Bentleyville would spew 144,000 thousand tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
That bothered Duluth architect Doug Zaun, a partner in Wagner and Zaun Architecture which prides itself on green design. For $576, Wagner and Zaun architecture purchased enough certified carbon credit to offset the 52,000 amps of electric power.
E.U. Blames Others for ‘Great Failure’ on Climate - NYTimes.com“It was obvious that the United States and China didn’t want more than we achieved at Copenhagen,” Mr. Carlgren said at a news conference in Brussels.
CNSNews.com - Length of Congressional Bills Is A Problem for All Americans(CNSNews.com) – More than 80 percent of Americans agree that Congress drafts lengthy, complex bills to hide spending on special interests and to prevent constituents from understanding what's in them before a vote is taken, according to a new survey.
[Everybody panic!: Carbon dioxide is allegedly causing owls to turn red] - UPI.comWACO, Texas, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Higher temperatures caused by global warming are prompting an increase in the number of red Eastern Screech Owls, a Texas biologist said.
Investors.com - Obama Climate-Change Goals Hurt RecoveryPresident Barack Obama's weak Copenhagen accord may make it harder for Congress to pass punitive cap-and-trade legislation that requires greenhouse- gas emission cuts.
A recent Gallup Poll showed that Americans prefer 75% to 10% not to enter into an emission-reduction scheme that doesn't include nations like China and Brazil.
Climate Feedback: Climate [junk] science '09: the highs and lows5. Climategate causes more confusion
Just ahead of the December UN negotiations on a climate deal, thousands of e-mails and documents were stolen from a server at the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Centre in the UK and posted on the internet. Predictably dubbed 'Climategate', the incident caused delight among climate change deniers and major embarrassment for some climate scientists — especially the centre's director, Phil Jones. The e-mails show researchers speaking privately to one another, and it's not always pretty. What the e-mails do not show, however, is a grand conspiracy to concoct global warming. Instead, they show sincere researchers struggling to do good work in a highly politicized environment — and sometimes losing their tempers.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Wherein I Actually Agree with Dianne FeinsteinI think that there is an important lesson here that even “clean” energy sources have environmental downsides.
[Maintaining wind turbines isn't cheap]: Hoisting One for Wind Power: Climbing Crane Expected to Keep Vestas Turbines Spinning [Slide Show]: Scientific AmericanBlown generators, misbehaving gearboxes and damaged rotors keep turbines from maximizing the energy they draw from nature, raising the question of how to reliably maintain dozens of mammoth towers, some of which rise more than 100 meters above the ground.
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"Sometimes, even though spare parts are available to repair a turbine, it may take months to secure a crane to do the repair work," he says. Given that some of Vestas's turbines operate 70 to 105 meters above the ground, where the winds are strong, the heaviest cranes are required to do repair work. Unfortunately, such cranes are also the most difficult to move from place to place.
How do I know China wrecked the Copenhagen deal? I was in the room | Mark Lynas | Environment | The GuardianI am certain that had the Chinese not been in the room, we would have left Copenhagen with a deal that had environmentalists popping champagne corks popping in every corner of the world.
...I left Copenhagen more despondent than I have felt in a long time. After all the hope and all the hype, the mobilisation of thousands, a wave of optimism crashed against the rock of global power politics, fell back, and drained away.
Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend - Yahoo! NewsPARIS (AFP) – Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.
But the revelation in the book "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living" by New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale has angered pet owners who feel they are being singled out as troublemakers.
EDITORIAL: Obama the party crasher - Washington Times...Mr. Obama is learning the uncomfortable lesson that there are limits to what his personal charisma can achieve.
Mr. Obama did make history at Copenhagen, but not in the way he expected. It says a great deal about American power and prestige when international leaders go to so much trouble to avoid meeting with the president of the United States. The American Century is over.
C3: 50 Years of Cooling? Could It Be 100? A New Little Ice Age For A Few Centuries? New Research Finds Climate Science Far From SettledGlobal cooling could very well be the future environment for earth, yet IPCC climate scientists, politicians and the mainstream media chose to put their faith in virtual, global warming climate models that have been proven failures time and again.
Save the planet! Stop these summits | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogMinisters gathering to discuss poverty and greenhouse gases create lots of both:
Sweden recently hosted the European Development Days, a five-day summit meeting of EU ministers discussing poverty and climate change. Attendees thumbed their noses at both the poor and the environment, Sweden stuck with a 3.5 million kronor ($480,000) bill for limousine services.
Build-A-Bear uses Santa Claus to frighten children about climate changeThe debate about manmade climate change has taken new heights, or lows for some parents, when it was discovered that the toy company Build-A-Bear Workshop is resorting to scare tactics to frighten children about the purported dangers of manmade climate change and global warming. Children playing the online game that compliments the company’s toys are warned that "the North Pole will be gone by Christmas."
Cracks emerged on Tuesday in the alliance on climate change formed at the Copenhagen conference last week, with leading developing countries criticising the resulting accord.
ITALY AND SPAIN, CROPS UNDER THE SNOWFrom Spain to Italy, Europe is under a white cover that is causing a lot of problems and inconvenience to the farmers.
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The biggest concern, however, is the chill that threatens the horticultural crops. There are already damages in some areas where crops have been destroyed of zucchini, salad, cabbage, cauliflower, chicory, and collard.
AA blames councils for failing to grit roads 'sooner' as thousands of motorists are left trapped overnight | Mail OnlineAA reports busiest night in 25 years - 700 breakdowns coming in every hour today
Democratic Representative Griffith of Alabama to Switch Parties - Bloomberg.comHe was one of just seven Democrats to vote against President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus package and he opposed Democratic efforts to curb global warming.
India at Copenhagen news-India emerged a winner at Copenhagen: JairamRejecting the Opposition charges about compromising the country's interests, he argued that India had to be flexible as it, along with China, Brazil and South Africa, did not want to be "responsible for failure" of the climate meet and become "blame boys".
Copenhagen: Things Fall Apart And An Uncertain Future LoomsIt was a train wreck, but a fascinating one, revealing an enormous amount about the structure of the globe.
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I’ve heard from a number of sources, Obama met with 25 other world leaders after his press conference for a negotiating session. It was a disaster — China turned down one reasonable idea after another, unwilling to constrain its ability to burn coal in any meaningful way [who do we "blame" for this: George Bush or Rush Limbaugh?] (and not needing to, since power, especially in any non-military negotiation, has swung definitively in its direction).
Ten Predictions for 2010 - Financial Adviser - WSJ10.) The world will not end.
That’s not to say the media won’t try to convince you it will. Again and again. We will see the usual headlines: pandemics, global warming, terrorism, financial collapse, hyperinflation, nuclear proliferation, celebrity cheating, on and on. The media can’t survive without every week scaring you into thinking we all only have a few weeks to live (e.g., Al Gore saying that the North Pole would melt within the next five years. It’s just not true).
But the world’s end isn’t near. In fact, things will be better than ever.
European weather deaths pass 100 | World news | guardian.co.ukMore than 100 people have been killed in the cold snap across Europe, with temperatures plummeting and snowfall causing chaos from Moscow to Milan.
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Roads were not exempt from the chaos. After a weekend that brought the heaviest snowfall in about 100 years, Moscow was gridlocked, with tailbacks snailing around the Russian capital.
Cold weather kills 27 in UkraineA five-day-long heavy snowfall caused 27 weather- related deaths, the Ukrainian Health Ministry's press service said in a statement on Monday.
"A total of 671 people asked for medical aid due to frostbite, and 465 of them have been hospitalised," added the statement. Heavy snow storms and freezing temperature caused electricity blackouts in 158 cities and villages.
Thomas Sowell : The "Science" Mantra - Townhall.comWhen a business accused of fraud begins shredding its memos and deleting its e-mails, the media are quick to proclaim these actions as signs of guilt. But, after the global warming advocates began a systematic destruction of evidence, the big television networks went for days without even reporting these facts, much less commenting on them.
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People who have in the past applauded whistleblowers in business, in the military, or in Republican administrations, and who lionized the New York Times for publishing the classified Pentagon papers, are now shocked and outraged that someone dared to expose massive evidence of manipulations, concealment and destruction of data-- and deliberate cover-ups of all this-- in the global warming establishment.
The “Copenhagen Accord” - all hot airL: Marxist.comThe reality is that there will never be a solution to climate change – nor to poverty, war, and unemployment – on the basis of Capitalism.
U.S. cap and trade looks out of reach in 2010 | ReutersKerry said in Copenhagen last week that the Senate bill may not contain cap and trade, and other options are being discussed.
Copenhagen: will the UN learn the lessons? – Telegraph BlogsHere’s something good that just might come out of the Copenhagen debacle. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has accepted that the sclerotic and disfunctional UN negotiating system that was partly responsible for its disappointing result needs reform.
Copenhagen a eulogy for US cap-and-trade | James Pethokoukis | ReutersI have been saying for some time that I do not think Congress is going to pass cap-and-trade in 2010, or probably ever.
A Cool Wind Braces the Hot-Air Crowd - Rasmussen Reports™For years, global warming alarmists have pointed to every drought and heat wave as proof that global warming was a real environmental threat. They had few qualms about blurring the line between weather and climate to make a PR point. Perhaps, then, it was karma that brought a blizzard and freezing temperatures to the U.N. climate change Conference of Parties confab in Copenhagen (or COP-15 for short) last week.
Thomas Friedman On Copenhagen: Columnist Weighs In On Climate [Hoax] Conference (VIDEO)According to Thomas Friedman, last week's climate change conference in Copenhagen was an "unprecedented breakdown," not an "unprecedented breakthrough," as described by President Obama.
The New York Times columnist weighed in on Copenhagen during an appearance Monday night on The Rachel Maddow Show.x
Video: Leading Climate Scientist James Hansen on Why He's Pleased the Copenhagen Summit Failed, "Cap and Fade," Climategate and MoreWe speak with the nation’s leading climate scientist, James Hansen. He wasn’t at the Copenhagen climate summit and explains why he thinks it’s ultimately better for the planet that the talks collapsed. We also speak with with Dr. Hansen about his new book, “Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth of the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity” and much more.
Intense Tropical Cyclones in a Warming WorldThe People's Republic of China's researcher states that "even in the Atlantic, where a significant correlation between the thermodynamic [temperature related] factors and the frequency of intense TCs exists, it is not clear whether global warming will produce a net increase in such a frequency, because model projections suggest an increase in vertical wind shear associated with an increase in sea surface temperature," which phenomenon tends to work against intense TC development. Hence, he concludes that "it remains uncertain whether the frequency of occurrence of intense TCs will increase under a global warming scenario."
Prince William spends night sleeping rough - TelegraphThe chief executive wrote on his charity's website: "We took as much precaution as possible - finding a relatively secluded spot in an alleyway, shielded partly by a collection of wheelie bins.
"But there was no shielding from the bitter cold, or the hard concrete floor, or the fear of being accosted by drug dealers, pimps or those out to give homeless people a 'good kicking'.
Copenhagen accord was a disaster, says Sweden | ReutersBRUSSELS (Reuters) - Sweden described the Copenhagen climate change summit as a "disaster" and a "great failure" on Tuesday, ahead of a meeting of European Union environment ministers to discuss how to rescue the process.
Global Climate Scam » Assessments of CopenhagenIt is now widely recognised that the misguided Copenhagen Conference was a complete failure. Those political leaders and policy makers who refuse to accept this reality are merely burying their heads in the sand and are forfeiting the trust of the public.
–The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 20 December 2009
Jennifer Marohasy » The Drum on Climate Politics: Bob CarterAUSTRALIA’S national broadcaster, the ABC, has recently started a new online blog site called The Drum. Very unusually (for the ABC), it then sought a contribution from a climate rationalist (me) for the site, which I provided – deliberately making it more opinion than science.
Quadrant Online - Bob Carter - Why Barry Jones is wrongThe most disappointing thing about the majority of media comment on global warming is that it continues along the unproductive path of “he says, she says” slanging matches, when the real need is for calm scientific discussion towards finding a realistic way out of the policy fiasco that the Kyoto Protocol and Copenhagen COP-15 conference have led us into.
Selfishness Abounds: Copenhagen Reveals a Vicious Circle of Mistrust - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - InternationalMen like Inhofe, who in Copenhagen warned that nations shouldn't be "deceived into thinking the US would pass cap-and-trade legislation," have the effect of poison when it comes to the urgently needed global trust-building.
Cap and Shade - Chris Horner - Planet Gore on National Review OnlineTwo economists have a piece in the Guardian risibly lauding the EU for its leadership on global warming on the basis that Europe has made promises and put schemes in place. Their argument at best distills to: everyone knows we have to do something, and those things are something.
Effective Detective Work By John Nielsen-Gammon On The Error In The IPCC Report On Himalayan Glacier Retreat « Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.Excerpts from John’s detective work include
“Lost amid the news coverage of Copenhagen and Climategate was the assertion that one of the more attention-grabbing statements of the IPCC AR4 was flat-out wrong
Instapundit » Blog ArchiveHOW IMPORTANT IS CONTROLLING CARBON EMISSIONS? NOT VERY. Senator Dianne Feinstein introduced legislation in Congress on Monday to protect a million acres of the Mojave Desert in California by scuttling some 13 big solar plants and wind farms planned for the region. I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who keep telling me it’s a crisis start acting like a crisis.
Climategate: the corruption of Wikipedia – Telegraph BlogsGet that? The guy who has been writing Wikipedia’s entry on Climategate (plus 5,000 others relating to “Climate Change”) is the bosom buddy of the Climategate scientists.
Nope, this isn’t a problem that is going to go away. Wikipedia may well be beyond redemption – as this useful resource site for Wiki-inaccuracies would seem to suggest. Like so many hippyish notions, Jimmy Wales’s idea of a free encyclopedia for everyone was a noble intention which has been cruelly and horribly abused by some very ugly people.
Express.co.uk: Traders who will make a mint out of global warmingCarbon trading, which involves companies buying and selling permits giving them the right to pollute, might sound innocuous but it is developing into a massive scam which enriches banks and big businesses at our expense.
Green tax warning for BritainBRITAIN would return to the Middle Ages if we took on the huge financial burden of reducing carbon dioxide emissions to levels pledged at the Copenhagen summit, a leading climate change expert warned.
Excess of carbon allowances casts further cloud over Europe - Times OnlineThe Copenhagen failure is reviving fears of a growing mountain of surplus carbon permits. European industrial companies may be holding as much as 100 million tonnes of allowances, according to Société Générale.
The recession has left energy intensive companies with more EUAs than they need to meet their 2009 emission targets. Because unused allowances can be rolled over for use in future phases of the ETS, companies may have been hoarding, anticipating that Copenhagen might lead to tighter carbon regulation. The lack of a deal could change their strategies.
A sense of due proportion | The SPPI BlogThe bottom line is this. Any statesman with a sense of due proportion would not dream of placing any restriction whatsoever on the emission of CO2 by our industries and enterprises. The economic cost of trying to mitigate imagined “global warming” by reducing our CO2 emissions must in all circumstances extravagantly, monstrously, absurdly outweigh any conceivable climatic benefit. It is this central economic truth, which we have here demonstrated by simple, robust, irrefutable calculation, that the media and the politicians can no longer ignore. For it is this central economic truth, above all, that is the reason why the attempted bureaucratic coup d’etat in Copenhagen has ended in ignominous and fortunate failure, and why it shall not succeed in future.
NC Media Watch: Another stake in the heart of CO2 warming consensusStudy shows CFCs, cosmic rays major culprits for global warming
Siberia « the Air VentThis post is the beginning of an investigation into the Siberian temperature data. Phil Jones personally took the time to kill two Siberia papers about CRU and the discrepency between thermometers and the primary ‘temperature’ dataset in publication. The CRU data may be exactly right, but the zeal with which these papers were killed, gives us a clue that there may be a problem. I’ve looked no further ahead than demonstrated here, so be warned we may prove Dr. Jones right.
Abbott: 5% CO2 reduction is enough | Australian Climate MadnessEnough (possibly) to satisfy a part of the "we must do something" camp, and little enough (just) to satisfy the "we mustn't wreck our economy" camp
Foreign-aid scam in climate clothingAll foreign aid has produced has been economic dependence, perpetuation of poverty, and bitterness toward the very people who help them. Now the underdeveloped world clamors again for funds to prop up their corrupt regimes, funds that hardly filter down below the government officials whose incomes are hundreds of times greater than their general population. They now demand that productive nations pay trillions to perpetuate inefficiency, poverty and dependence, and all in the name of saving the earth from a danger that fewer and fewer people even believe is a danger, and if so, whether we can do anything about it anyway. More likely it is another way for politicians (from both the underdeveloped and developed worlds) to scam the productive of the earth.
Belmont Club » The CopencabanaOne possible translation of the Brown and Miliband’s statements is that never again should the UN be put in charge of something so vital as setting up a deal. The UN people could not keep it on the European track and it went off on the Orient Express. There are indications that the Europeans indeed got shafted. The carbon trading market is already falling face down with a knife in its back. The WSJ reports that prices are falling on the “weak accord”.
I Love CO2: Food for ThoughtHere’s a succinct point: Immersed in the vacuum of space, the earth has but one means of losing heat: radiation. And what does carbon dioxide do? It radiates.
It’s amazing that so few people have bothered to give this theory a second look.
“Green” shoppers more likely to cheat and steal | The SPPI BlogIf buying an organic apple instead of one caked in pesticides eases your conscience, there’s a good chance that your next ethical decision might not be a good one.
Global warming impacts wine and cornStanford, Calif. (UPI) Dec 16, 2009
Stanford University scientists say they've determined global warming could significantly negatively impact U.S. wine and corn production.
The researchers, led by Assistant Professor Noah Diffenbaugh, said global warming has made the early arrival of spring commonplace across the planet.
Climate-change [scam] action needs a Pearl Harbor moment - The Globe and MailUntil an environmental Pearl Harbor happens, climate change is likely to stay on the political and economic security sidelines.
Skeptic's Corner: "Notable Quotes"[Terence Corcoran] "Also clear is that the official science on climate change as we know it today, looking backward and forward, has been developed and controlled by the relatively small collection of scientists who wrote most of the emails. Working directly or indirectly for the IPCC, the scientists seem to have become captive of that organization’s objectives, which was to find “the hand of man” in climate records to justify plans to change the climate in future. The scientists, in other words, became engaged in the all-too-familiar business of decision-based evidence making."
American Thinker Blog: Our Heart to Lord Christopher MoncktonThe United Nations Conference on Climate Change (UNCCC or COP15) in Copenhagen has concluded with no treaty , no “agreement”, no “goals” other than trivial ones, no “enforcement” provisions, and no “reparations” to third world countries, whom do we thank?
CapitalClimate: Emanuel, Prinn, Lindzen Debate CRU-Hack at MITLindzen:
. . .things that are unethical and in many cases illegal . . . willingness to destroy data rather than release it . . . bad things going on . . . elite hysteria . . . devastating for popular support for science . . . scandals, cheating and arguments . . . bizarre changes [to the data] . . . The public is being thrown catastrophes.
RealClearMarkets - The Perverse Economics of Climate ModelingBefore we let suspect computer models developed by a handful of people drive the entire world economy into a ditch, don't you think we should take the covers off and invest a little more time and effort to thoroughly examine how these models work? Hopefully this will include analytical critiques from a wider cast of characters than the self-serving cabal whose mendacity and ham-handed attempts to marginalize dissent were recently exposed. Perhaps an open process will help both "sides" focus on attacking weaknesses in the models themselves rather than attacking each other's tribal affiliations. Only then can we hope to get real value for all the money we taxpayers fork over to support these scientists.
Copenhagen Climate Change Church Visits Flounder"Church prelates at Copenhagen like Rowan Williams and Desmond Tutu spread climate fears, tiresomely echoing secular European conventional environmentalism." -- IRD President Mark Tooley
Twitter / FRANkVizeumRT @cameronreilly: vision + leadership: Australia will do "no more and no less" than other nations to fight climate change - It's So Wong.
Global warming on blogs outshines MSM in interest « Watts Up With That?From Dec. 7-11, more than half (52%) of the news links in blogs were about global warming, according to the New Media Index from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. That represents the most attention to the subject in any given week this year, and marks the third week in a row that global warming has been among the top four subjects in blogs.
American Thinker: Other Consequences of ClimategateThe consequences of "Climategate" are lost opportunity costs that should have been directed at real global pollution problems. The hothouse atmosphere at East Anglia from cooking the books on a huge fraud has significant consequences that will play out over time. "Global Warming" shamans have sent the world on the fool's errand of looking for man-made carbon footprints while very real environmental problems have fallen by the wayside.
Letters: Think global, act local after Copenhagen | Environment | The GuardianA groundswell of actions by individual communities led by local authorities, supported in turn by national government, is surely the most effective way of creating the climate for change that would tip our leaders into action.
How the global warming cult took control of Wikipedia | I Hate the Media - Fun with Liberal Media Bias...Of course, Connolley probably wrote his own Wikipedia bio, so we have no idea if any of it is true.
Global Warming, Climategate, and the Dangers of ‘Expert Consensus’But one need not be an expert of any sort to recognize that for both Left and Right, faith dictates the facts and today’s truths often become tomorrow’s fiction. And it is mighty curious that for every new crisis, a massive and expansive government corrective is always the proposed solution.
Anorak News » Blog Archive » Climate Change Hero Fidel Castro Complains Of Police Brutality In CopenhagenIN Copenhagen, the climate change protest is joined by that master of human freedom fidel Castro. After Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Robert Mugabe and Sudan’s Nazis, here’s Fidel - he ofd the “dictatorial style of government and ruthless suppression of opposition”. Fidel makes a perfect Al Gorean
South Africa blasts Copenhagen failure - Boston.comPRETORIA, South Africa—South Africa says Copenhagen's failure to produce a legally binding climate change agreement was unacceptable, joining a global chorus of condemnation even though it helped draft the final accord.
Editorial - Copenhagen, and Beyond - NYTimes [still clinging to its religion]But for the moment it is worth savoring the steps forward. China is now a player in the effort to combat climate change in a way it has never been, putting measurable emissions reductions targets on the table and accepting verification. And the United States is very much back in the game too. After eight years of playing the spoiler, it is now a leader with a president who seems to embrace the role.
YouTube - Global Warming Questioned by Russia TodayYouTube - London in Global Warming MeltdownShort slide show of London suffering in the blistering heat - the blistering heat they think we should be paying for in taxes.
GOP warns of harsh climate on energy - Politico.com - The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and SportsSenate Republicans warned Monday that the bruising fight over health care reform could deliver a knockout blow to another Democratic priority: passage of a climate change bill in 2010.
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“Not a chance in hell that after the president put American prestige on the line in Copenhagen that the Senate is going to give this issue anything less than a major push,” Kerry said. “This is big — big — bigger than any individual agenda. Big. The 111th Congress is not a one-trick pony incapable of tackling more than one big issue, and the cost of tackling climate change would only grow if the Senate got weak-kneed and kicked the can down the road. Not going to happen.”
The Green Movement's People Problem - Forbes.comEnvironmentalists need to stop being so misanthropic.
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The once unstoppable green machine lost its mojo at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. After all its laboring and cajoling, the movement at the end resembled not a powerful juggernaut but a forlorn lover wondering why his date never showed up.
Falling carbon price could result in higher bills, [corrupt] energy firms warn | Environment | The GuardianA spokesman for E.ON said that without government action to tighten carbon markets, companies would wait until ageing reactors and coal plants close over the next decade and until power prices rocket before they made the investment.
"It is taking a hell of a risk of the lights going out," he said. "Power prices would go through the roof – they would have to get at a level where we think 'there's money to be made'. But we will get very, very tight [on security of supply]. It's the worst case scenario."
Help for [Feeble]-Minded Shoppers - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.comClimate Counts, an advocacy group, has released its third annual environmental scorecard of consumer companies and wants shoppers to consider the scores as they hit the stores.
Were AGW Scientists Completely Sidestepped In Copenhagen? « The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGEHave to admit, having read an AGW blog about COP-15 I could not avoid committing the sin of wasting time reading the Copenhagen Accord. And yes, there is an interesting and quite telling concept after all. It shows that no scientist, AGW believer or otherwise, has likely participated to the writing of the Accord, or has even been involved in reviewing any of it.
[But at least he was helping to cool the planet]: Man In Wheelchair Unimpressed With Greyhound - The ConsumeristNext, I was on another bus which lost all interior heat. In 3 defree F weather. At speed with a substantial windchill factor. The window of the wheelchair lift door on this bus froze over with a thick layer of interior frost during this time, about 6 hours, to the point where I could scrape (not just rub) it off and come up with snow in my gloved hands. At this point I was wearing my jacket zipped up, a cold weather cap, and gloves, all the cold weather gear I had available. I lost feeling in parts of my body due to the cold.
Finally, the driver gave up on hopes of restoring the heat, pulled into a truck stop, called for another bus, and had us all go inside the truck stop to wait. About 8 hours later, the replacement bus arrived. While in the truck stop, in a bathroom I checked my extremeties over as feeling slowly returned to them, and belive that I had the beginning stage of frostbite.
Spending billions based on dubious science is unconscionable - Canton, OH - CantonRep.comWhen such major issues as unemployment, health care reform and the largest debt in history are facing our nation, the fact that our government is considering spending billions of dollars on a global warming problem that probably doesn't even exist is unconscionable.
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IPCC head stands to make money from CO2 mediationPerhaps the essential difference between Watson and Pachauri was that Watson was and remains one of the few true believers in AGW, while Pachauri might believe more in the money-making opportunity than in any "pure" environmental principle.
Cult of Political Correctness Deathwish - Ted Nugent HUMAN EVENTSThe global warming issue is one of the biggest political correct frauds in the history of mankind. If you recall, back in the 1970s the environmental alarmists were telling us we were on the verge of an ice age. Now, Al Gore--possibly one of the biggest energy consumers and carbon emitters in the United States--wants us to believe that man is
the cause of the earth warming. Al Gore is a fraud who has made tens of millions peddling his global warming junk science. He is the Bernie Madoff of the science community.
Homeless die and families without power as cold snap ravages Europe — Children CharityDozens of people have frozen to death as arctic temperatures lashed large parts of Europe.Since the start of December, 47 people, mainly homeless, had been found frozen to death in Poland as temperatures dropped as low as -20C. Police in Warsaw said 15 people died on Saturday night. And Polish police appealed for people to help if they came across homeless or drunk people lying outside, as temperatures plummeted.
In Ukraine, at least 27 people died, and another nine in Czech Republic, where temperatures reached record lows in several cities.The cold weather in Germany resulted in six deaths, while traffic chaos ensued on train lines, roads, and airport services. On Sunday night, temperatures went below minus 22 degrees Fahrenheit, rendering it the coldest night of the year.Cold-related deaths were also reported in France, where two homeless people died.Freezing temperatures and snow were causing travel chaos in many countries, including France
Epoch Times - More People Frozen to Death in Europe as Cold Winter ContinuesAs arctic-like temperatures and heavy snow continue to plague European regions, more than 80 people have reportedly died due to the cold, while many have not been able to travel to their families for Christmas.
NY homeless man apparent victim of cold weather - WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-NEW CASSEL, N.Y. (AP) - Police say they believe the cold weather was to blame for the death of a homeless man on Long Island.
Winter freeze kills 79 in PolandWARSAW - Ten people have died of cold in Poland over the past day, taking the toll since winter set in earlier this month to 79, police said Tuesday.
Don't be fooled by manufactured crisis - GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MAIf carbon dioxide levels are directly relatable to global temperatures, why did we have record elevated temperatures in the 1930s despite having very low man-made carbon dioxide emissions in that era?
Copenhagen a Failure – But Still AliveBBC – UN Agency, Not an Honest Reporting Unit
I noted how the BBC, in particular, reported on the Summit. When it had commentators to give their views, every one of them was green. They even had someone from Oxfam! But, no genuine scientist or anti-green politician. At all times the BBC had to maintain 100% enthusiasm for what turned out to be a damp cloth in a UN sewer.
Man-made global warming is a fraud, scam, and a lie! (Part II) :: The Fallbrook Village NewsWe’re dealing with fabricated and deleted data, and an orchestrated effort to undermine global warming dissidents. Faked data in particular is a big deal: many politicians are using eco-alarmism based on fear of global warming to assault American freedoms.
YouTube - All Pain, No Gain 1of2: The global warming con game (clips by CFACT.org)
Video: John Coleman on the global warming hoax (8 min) | KUSI - San Diego, CA Minnesotans for Global Warming Climate Chicken (climatechicken) on TwitterRemeber when you build rafts to survive the coming floods, only use trees that were killed by way too much CO2 in the air. ~ Trees hate CO2!
Video : December 21, 2009 : King of the Skeptics [12-21-09 5:40 PM]The Copenhagen Climate Change Conference has its critics, including one that says it was a failure. BNN speaks to Marc Morano, executive editor, Climate Depot.
Climate change [hoax] bill tough sell - Washington TimesDavid Axelrod, Mr. Obama's top political adviser, said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that the president won't be deterred from seeking climate legislation and that Mr. Obama won a victory in Denmark persuading China and India to agree to limit the growth of their greenhouse gases, if only voluntarily.
"There are millions of jobs to be had there, more energy security, so we're going to pursue this," Mr. Axelrod said, referring to "green" energy legislation and regulations. "But we don't want to put our country at a competitive disadvantage in other ways. Now the Chinese, the Indians and the other major economies are coming along."
US Court Orders Records Unsealed In Cap-And-Trade Fraud CaseWASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. legislators have obtained a court order unsealing documents in a case involving a multi-million-dollar cap-and-trade fraud.
Republican legislators say the records--due to be opened to the public in early January--could shed light on the potential challenges of policing a new, trillion-dollar commodities market that would be created under climate legislation that Congress is considering.
The world's political leaders, not least President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Gordon Brown, are in a state of severe, almost clinical, denial
Copenhagen: The Case of the Attempted Climate Coup - Pravda.RuNothing was achieved. The Failed Coup of Copenhagen will enter the annals of history as the worst kind of example of the selfish traits of Humanity, the type of approach which would rather the species ceased to exist than make a personal sacrifice.
Is global warming a scam?: Denver Progressive Examiner - Chris SteeleJohn Coleman and other climate scam whistleblowers agree that there will be both a warming and cooling trend in the years to come.
Global Warming Science and Public Policy - CO2 Cannot Cause Any More "Global Warming"The Earth’s atmosphere differs in essence from that of Venus and Mars. Our atmosphere is not totally cloud-covered, as is Venus: globally, about 40% of the sky is always clear. Also we have huge ocean surfaces that serve as a practically unlimited reservoir of water vapor for the air.
With the help of these two conditions, the Earth’s atmosphere attains what the other two planets cannot: a constant, maximized, saturated greenhouse effect, so that adding more greenhouse gases to the mix will not increase the magnitude of the greenhouse effect and, therefore, will not cause any further “global warming”.
"I don't believe in global warming" Clever Graffiti by Banksy : TreeHuggerSome people will indeed keep denying that burning 80+ million of barrels of oil, countless millions of tons of coal, natural gas, etc, every single day can't possibly be having an impact up to the very moment when it becomes impossible to deny (metaphorically up to their neck in evidence).
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