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Categorical Thinking and The Climate Debate

wimpehiker — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:03:53 GMT

from wattsupwiththat.com

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Anthony Watts
Guest post by Craig Loehle, Ph.D.

We often hear this disconnect in the climate debate: sceptic Joe says “human impacts are small and likely not harmful”; alarmist Arthur says “humans are affecting the climate, therefore we must act now”. It is not possible to get the alarmist to answer the claim of the skeptic that the impacts are likely to be small. I believe the disconnect results because the alarmist is using categorical thinking. In this mode, if something is bad, it is bad. Water is either clean or not clean. Forest is either wilderness or it is defiled. This conversation cannot progress because the world views of the sceptic and the alarmist are incompatible. The words they use do not mean the same thing. If the sceptic admits we are having a small impact on climate, the alarmist says “aha! You see? We are doomed!” This is not a conversation.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/awmqt4c

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State Dept report on Keystone XL pipeline

wimpehiker — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:38:00 GMT

from WaPo

Keystone XL pipeline would have little impact on climate change, State Department analysis says

By Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson,

The State Department released a draft environmental impact assessment of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline Friday, suggesting that the project would have little impact on climate change.

Canada’s oil sands will be developed even if President Obama denies a permit to the pipeline connecting the region to Gulf Coast refineries, the analysis said. Such a move also would not alter U.S. oil consumption, the report added.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/a5h5st9

Larry's comment: Barry the Messiah has dragged his feet long enough.

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IPCC chairman admits no warming trend since late 1990s

wimpehiker — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 05:16:15 GMT

from The Australian

'Nothing off-limits' in climate debate

Graham Lloyd
From: The Australian
February 22, 2013 12:00AM

THE UN's climate change chief, Rajendra Pachauri, has acknowledged a 17-year pause in global temperature rises, confirmed recently by Britain's Met Office, but said it would need to last "30 to 40 years at least" to break the long-term global warming trend.

Dr Pachauri, the chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, said that open discussion about controversial science and politically incorrect views was an essential part of tackling climate change.

LINK
http://tinyurl.com/a4kc6x7

Larry's comment: Being cautious, I'd put the pause at 15 years, rather than 17, because the most recent ho-hum warming trend peaked in 1998.

About that "long-term global warming trend." That trend lasted from 1979 to 1998, less than 20 years. And some Global Warming alarmists started in with their Chicken Little routine in the late 1980s, less than 10 years after the global cooling trend bottomed out.

Looking at temperatures in the contiguous USA, there's been a slight overall cooling trend since the 1930s, which were toastier than anything in the 1990s or in the 'Naughties'. Of course, the USA has a relatively small part of Earth's total land area. And it's not necessarily a representative sample.

So why does Pachauri have a double standard? It's a classic bet-hedging maneuver. On some level, Pachauri knows that he's on the wrong side of the science. And he doesn't want to become a laughingstock in his lifetime.

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Conflict of interest for IPCC chairman

wimpehiker — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 06:27:39 GMT

from nofrakkingconsensus.com

Pachauri Takes WWF Money

February 4, 2013 at 3:06 pm

The money quote:
"That’s right, folks. The chairman of the IPCC is cashing cheques issued by the WWF."

LINK
http://tinyurl.com/atccg7l

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Noble cause corruption

wimpehiker — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 07:34:59 GMT

from Anthony Watts blog, wattsupwiththat.com

Josh on lying for ‘the cause’

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Anthony Watts

Read the short article and comments here. Includes a great cartoon by Josh.
http://tinyurl.com/bfxdpkn

Larry's comment: Shades of the late Stephen Schneider. And no, James Annan did not name names.

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'Mr Gaia' recants

wimpehiker — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:42:48 GMT

Lovelock recants

James Lovelock has written a letter of objection regarding a windfarm development in Devon (see link below for the whole thing). This bit strikes me as important.

"I am an environmentalist and founder member ofthe Greens but I bow my head in shame at the thought that our original good intentions should have been so misunderstood and misapplied. We never intended a fundamentalist Green movement that rejected all energy sources other than renewable, nor did we expect the Greens to cast aside our priceless ecological heritage because of their failure to understand that the needs of the Earth are not separable from human needs. We need take care that the spinning windmills do not become like the statues on Easter Island, monuments of a failed civilisation."

LINK
http://tinyurl.com/auze39n

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NASA's big-name climate crook in retreat

wimpehiker — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:57:00 GMT

Quote of the week – Hansen concedes the age of flatness

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Anthony Watts

Dr. James Hansen and Reto Ruedy of NASA GISS have written a paper (non peer reviewed) with a remarkable admission in it. It is titled Global Temperature Update Through 2012.

Here is the money quote, which pretty much ends the caterwauling from naysayers about global temperature being stalled for the last decade.

"The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing."

Gosh, I thought Hansen had claimed that “climate forcings” had overwhelmed natural variability?

One can read more here if it doesn't threaten one's predigested worldview too much. And remember, no Kool-Aid!
http://tinyurl.com/b7kumfa

Larry's comment: First, Big Al sold his TV station to Al Jazzeera. And now this. Methinks the biggest rats are jumping ship first.

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Extreme weather insurance?

wimpehiker — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:43:48 GMT

from wattsupwiththat.com

Over-insuring the gullible: The Hartford offers ‘extreme weather insurance’

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Anthony Watts

UPDATE: graph of damage losses including 2012 posted below. It says all that needs to be said.

This ad is running in rotation at the NYT today, and it needs an application of Dr. Roger Pielke Jr.’s handy bullshit button.

Read all about it here.
http://tinyurl.com/be4jc43

Larry comment: For the last several years, the Warmies have been desperate to stir up hysteria, in the face of zero Global Warming since 1998, and an increasingly climate-fatigued public. Changing the name of their propaganda campaign to Climate Change (and evil CO2-belching humans are still the villains of course) did not help. Neither did experimenting with the short-lived trial balloon, Climate Disruption.

The most recent ploy is to lie through their teeth about a non-existent connection between extreme weather events, which have been on the decline for several years, and Gore Bull Warming. Even the IPCC is dragging their feet on this one. The wild claim is too bloody easy to falsify.

Now Hartford Insurance is attempting to profit (or should I say profiteer?) from the post-traumatic impact of Hurricane Sandy. For shame.

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Did you think that Austrian Greenies were non-violent? Mua-ha-ha-ha!

wimpehiker — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 08:33:10 GMT

Death threats anyone? Austrian Prof: global warming deniers should be sentenced to death

Richard Parncutt, Professor of Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria, reckons people like Watts, Tallbloke, Singer, Michaels, Monckton, McIntyre and me (there are too many to list) should be executed. He’s gone full barking mad, and though he says these are his “personal opinions” they are listed on his university web site.

For all the bleating of those who say they’ve had real “death threats“, we get discussions about executing skeptics from Professors, wielding the tyrannical power of the state. Was he paid by the state to write these simplistic, immature, “solutions”? Do taxpayers fund his web expenses? (And what the heck is systematic musicology?)

LINK
http://tinyurl.com/d4dh758

Larry's comment: Full barking mad? That's the understatement of the year!

In one fell swoop, Parncutt has singlehandedly out-rednecked Pastor Fred Phelps. And that's no small accomplishment. (CAGW skeptics outnumber Gays and Lesbians--at least in the USA.)

What's up with those bloody Austrians? Methinks they need more moral fiber in their diets.

http://tinyurl.com/d4dh758

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Inconvenient 1974 CIA document about climate change

wimpehiker — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:25:58 GMT

Larry's comment: Well done, Maurizio!

World Exclusive: CIA 1974 Document Reveals Emptiness of AGW Scares, Closes Debate On Global Cooling Consensus (And More…)

Posted on 2009/12/03 by Maurizio Morabito (omnologos)

from the article:

“'A Study of Climatological Research as it Pertains to Intelligence Problems'” will make quite an embarrassing reading, especially for:

•the most obdurate catastro-warmists (when they will notice that almost all AGW scares are a search-and-replace job from “cooling” to “warming”), and

•the history deniers fixated on ‘demonstrating’ that a scientific consensus about Global Cooling in the 1970′s were a ‘myth’(*)"

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/b8vp4wu

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Rewriting the past

wimpehiker — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:02:05 GMT

Rewriting The Past To Clear The Way To A Carbon Tax

Posted on November 12, 2012 by stevengoddard

Until a few years ago, nobody believed that the US had warmed since 1920.

In 1999 Hansen showed a strong cooling trend since 1930, and wrote the text below.

"Empirical evidence does not lend much support to the notion that climate is headed precipitately toward more extreme heat and drought. The drought of 1999 covered a smaller area than the 1988 drought, when the Mississippi almost dried up. And 1988 was a temporary inconvenience as compared with repeated droughts during the 1930s “Dust Bowl” that caused an exodus from the prairies, as chronicled in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath….."

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/bb76qgx

Larry's comment: Yes, this is our very own James "Coal Trains of Death" Hansen who heads up NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies.

Context: The temperatures mentioned in the article are for the contiguous 48 states of the USA, not for the planet as a whole.

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EPIC Data Tampering At NCDC

wimpehiker — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 07:22:35 GMT

Posted on November 9, 2012 by stevengoddard

After a cold October, thermometers show that year to date temperatures in the US are third warmest – after 1921 and 1934.

*snip*

NCDC reports that 2012 YTD is by far the warmest.

*snip*

They accomplished this by cooling 1921 almost two degrees relative to 2012

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/b9cuo5z

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Obama, Cap and Trade, and leccy rates

wimpehiker — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:01:57 GMT

In a rare moment of candor from 2008:
“Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.”

Here's a link to the short You Tube video.
http://tinyurl.com/dfyqof

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My reworked Global Warming article

wimpehiker — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:49:23 GMT

I've updated my article at Hubpages about the Global Warming scare, with a few extra photos from Wikipedia, Steven Goddard, and Jennifer Marohasy. This hub may be a good one for your AGW newbie friends, because it pulls no punches, it covers many of the bases, and it has a modest of arcane terminology.

Who's Afraid of the Flying CO2 Monster?

Summary: Man-Made Global Warming is hyped as an issue for which "the science is settled," to use the immortal words of Al Gore. However there's been zero measurable global warming since 1998. And pre-1998 attribution is problematic.

LINK
http://tinyurl.com/42q736v

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Turbines that break wind

wimpehiker — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 22:13:34 GMT

Here's a summary and link to my latest article at Hubpages.

Is wind power is a solution--or even a partial solution--to our long term energy problems? This article examines the question from several perspectives: base load vs peak load, grid stability, economics, energy storage, Rare Earth metals, and environmental trade-offs.

Read all about it here.
http://tinyurl.com/8g6v8nt

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This is huge!

wimpehiker — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:24:02 GMT

from Jo Nova's blog

The big news is out on Watts Up: Half the trend is due to badly placed thermometers and erroneous adjustments

It’s all up on Watts Up now.

What Anthony Watts and Evan Jones have revealed is breathtaking, a must see. Half of the warming trend has gone. 92% of the artificial rise was due to” erroneous adjustments of well sited stations”. Muller et al used an older siting classification system. The new classification system shows that siting does have a major impact on the data.

We always knew thermometers were never meant to be stuck next to air-conditioners. Now we know they shouldn’t be recording global warming near airports either.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/br75m9w

Larry's comment. The study period was 1979 - 2008. However the satellite data show that there's been no measurable global warming since 1998. For some reason, climatologists are fond of 30-year periods.

It was not clear to me which data Anthony was using. Was it raw data, or was it adjusted 'data', or was it both? And apparently, there's more than one layer of temperature adjustments.

There's an ongoing problem with NASA-GISS, NOAA, and CRU refusing to release raw, unadjusted data from INDIVIDUAL temperature station to scientists who are not part of the 'hockey team'. Ditto for the computer codes.

Unfortunately, I don't have the patience to scrutinize Anthony's as-yet unpublished paper. Sorry for waiting so long to post this important news.

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Hitlers Reaction to the Watts Story

wimpehiker — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 09:47:55 GMT

Yes, I'm putting the cart before the horse. Once I get more clarification about the Watts study, I'll post a link about that too. And yes, this video is from Godwin Land. But it's a hoot anyway!
http://tinyurl.com/cdmhh5r

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Logic conundrum

wimpehiker — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 19:08:17 GMT

This may be on topic, because of the hat-tip to Dr. Jennifer Marohasy, who's a leading Australian global warming skeptic. Here's a summary of my article.

"This article describes an original logic puzzle about how extraterrestrial ants might communicate with each other about food sources. No formulas, equations, or mathematical background is necessary to solve this puzzle. One only needs a pencil, a piece of paper, and a bit of perseverance."

http://larryfields.hubpages.com/hub/Extraterrestrial-Ants-Puzzle

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NASA's Greenland meltdown hoax

wimpehiker — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:16:38 GMT

97% Of Greenland Says That NASA Is FOS

Posted on July 25, 2012

Greenland ice sheet melted at unprecedented rate during July | Environment | guardian.co.uk

NASA simply can`t turn off the BS. Here is the actual satellite photo from July 12 – no indication of melt in the interior

Read more here, and take a gander at the pics.
http://tinyurl.com/bp7sg55

Larry's comment: The land of central Greenland is below sea level. If all of that ice had magically melted, as NASA strongly suggests, the satellite photo would show a lot of water there, instead of land!

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How Scientific Ideas Become Fashionable (Part 1)

wimpehiker — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 05:36:24 GMT

Posted by jennifer, July 15th, 2012 - under Information, Opinion. Tags: Philosophy

THERE is no doubt that many people are susceptible to the repetition of a single message. No matter how stupid the message, if enough people say it often enough, a large percentage of those who hear it will begin to believe it. That’s the basis of advertising and also propaganda: it’s how you make ideas fashionable, even scientific ideas. But just because an idea is fashionable doesn’t make it right and just because an idea is right, well it doesn’t mean it represents the truth.

Fashion is in fact the lowest form of ideology and I have little regard for fashionable ideas – even fashionable scientific ideas. I also have little regard for what many claim to be good and wholesome ideas. My interest is in the facts, the evidence – the truth particularly as it pertains to the natural world.

There is intrinsic good in having a deep understanding, based on truths, of aspects of the natural world. For example, it is through understanding electricity – what it is and how it can be generated – that it many of our basic physical needs are now met at the flick of a switch: the lights come on, the house warms up, the kettle boils water. But not everyone studies science to discover useful things, for some it is the chase after facts and the thrill that comes with their discovery, for others an interest in an aspect of the puzzle that is the natural world in the hope of finding order in the universe.

But to be successful at science there is a need for a particular type of discipline – a discipline that is not necessary in many other intellectual pursuits. There is a need to be honest to reality and to always test theory against reality. In this respect science is different from the modern arts.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/bt7atya

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the CARB scandal

wimpehiker — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:39:44 GMT

Larry's comment: This posting may be slightly OT, because it's not about Anthropogenic Global Warming. However it's another example of the sloppiness and ugly politics that pervade environmental science. AGW is not a one-off.

California Air Resources Board Uses Strange Statistics, UCLA Fires Scientist

Posted on 4 April 2011 by Briggs

The story (related in full at HotAir.org) is long and tangled, but the short version is this.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) wanted to regulate diesel truck fumes, inherently believing them bad. So it sought the guidance of CARB employee Hien Tran, a fellow who received a PhD in “Applied Statistics” after sending in the proper number of Captain Crunch cereal boxtops (plus $1,000 smackeroos) to Thornhill University (“75 years of active contribution to human knowledge and higher education”1).

Yet somehow Tran forgot his degree’s origin and told his employers it came from UC Davis. It must have been the same sort of mental defect which allowed Tran to lead-author a paper which “proved” that diesel trucks caused “2,000 premature deaths” per year in the most populous left coast state. I remind readers that cause is a strong word.

This was the scientific evidence CARB needed. New regulations and rules and bureaucratic oversight and fees and requirements and forms and inspections and much more was passed into law. All was well.

Read more here.
http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=3702

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Jennifer Marohasy on the health of the Great Barrier Reef

wimpehiker — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 02:25:59 GMT

Activist Scientists Crying Wolf on Coral Bleaching and Climate Change

Posted by jennifer, July 10th, 2012 - under Information, Opinion. Tags: Coral Reefs

THE propaganda from our Great Barrier Reef scientists at the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium is relentless. According to Janice Lough, Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), the rate of change from anthropogenic global warming is unprecedented and is already having a catastrophic impact on the Great Barrier Reef. Also in front of the TV camera today, Phillip Munday, James Cook University, said the most spectacular of our coral reef fish will disappear. And John Pandolfi, University of Queensland, was begging us to do more to save the reef.[1] Australian Institute of Marine Science research director Peter Doherty told the $10 million symposium of more than 2000 marine scientists from 80 countries of an “alarming and unsustainable decline” in coral over large sections of the Great Barrier Reef in nearly three decades.[2]

But I reckon it’s all a put-on: they are crying wolf.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/6ukjl9o

Larry's comment: Dr Marohasy is the top expert on evidence-based environmental policy in Australia. (Her academic specialty is in biology.) She's taken a lot of flack from hired-gun 'scientists', for whom funding, and the requisite Political Correctness, are more important than telling the truth.

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Serial non-archivers

wimpehiker — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 04:55:50 GMT

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Anthony Watts

Over on Climate Audit, there’s an interesting thread going on about Lonnie Thompson and his wife Ellen, who Steve McIntyre describes as “serial non-archivers” due to their overt refusal to put their ice-core data online is spite of grant rules that require them to do so.
Steve begins with:

"Recently, Geoffrey Boulton’s report and Nature editorial provided more pious language urging data archiving by hoarding scientists. As I mentioned in my initial comments on Boulton’s editorial, there have been many such pious pronouncements over the years without the slightest impact on, for example, the serial non-archiving couple of Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson, who, as it turns out, is an even worse offender than husband Lonnie, if such can be imagined. Their long career of non-archiving has flourished despite clear U.S. federal government policies dating back to 1991 which, on paper, require thorough data archiving by the climate community as a condition of receiving grants. Unfortunately, the U.S. climate funding bureaucracy has been thoroughly co-opted by the climate industry and has failed to enforce regulations that, on paper, would require the Thompsons and others to archive data. Unfortunately, Boulton failed to do any assessment of why even apparently mandatory government policies have been insufficient to deter to serial non-archivers."

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/84yasvf

After that, there was quite a bit of he-said-she-said, which was difficult for me to follow. The main point is that quaint 20th Century scientific ethics--as well as the law in at least one case--requires data archiving. This even applies to those the Warmies, in their infinite wisdom, deem to be unworthy.

All that they need to do is to push a button. Voila! Instant access for everyone. Problem solved. Or is it? Could it be that these same Warmies have been cherry-picking, altering, or even fabricating data, and that this whole obstructionist effort is a thinly veiled CYA maneuver?

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Repost 7-1-12: Bob the troll

wimpehiker — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 07:24:26 GMT

We must be doing something right. We now have a resident troll. He has been abusive, has failed to engage on specifics, and leaves shotgun posts in lieu of reasoned responses. Bob the troll has no interest in learning. He obvious intent is to disrupt in the nastiest way possible.

My response has been to copy my original post in a given thread, then to delete the entire thread, and then to resurrect it as a clearly-labeled repost. And poof, Bob the Troll's toxic comments are gone!

In the old threads, all of the links worked for me, but not for Bob the Troll, who apparently is too retarded to grok the concept of clicking on a link. Anyway, that's why we have so many 'new' threads showing on the radar screen. Sorry about that.

The links do not work in the reposts. However in some of the them, you can copy with your mouse, and then paste into the address bar. Sorry about that. If anyone except Bob the Troll is interested in a specific source, I can exhume an old link.

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Recent high temperatures and wildfires: I wonder if this trend will continue?

Bob — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 03:57:28 GMT

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/fire/

Good news: May wildfire damage was below average. Bad news: June 2012 comes after May 2012.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/western-wildfires-2012

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Trolls, generally:

Bob — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 01:59:27 GMT

It seems Larry the liar won't allow comments, to which he cannot reply, since he is not enough at facts and issues, to post his nonsense, at a regular forum, where he'd get sacked, in a minute.

If you can't stand facts and issues, which prove YOU ARE WRONG, don't accuse whoever posts comments, revealing your inadequacies, of trolling. It seems Larry also doesn't like reading about how he is going to lose his home, in Sacto, one fine La Nina. Whatever, Larry-troll:

1 under a bridge? Larry
2. oppositional goat-eater? Larry
3. can't stand comments, at his posts, like they are a sacred bridge? Larry!

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The sun is getting busy, GHGs are out-gassing, humans defoliated and emitted, and the greenhouse effect means we will challenge the P/T event:

Bob — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 01:15:19 GMT

SLR predictions are variable because the rise of GHG-concentrations is variously 10x faster, than out-gassing, before the temperature rises, of the PETM extinction, 56 m.y.a. The temperature rise is only starting to accelerate, with the SLR following.

That means steady rises, featuring lots of ups and downs, from the several forcing factors are morphing, to steadier rises and then to accelerating rises.

One really nasty aspect, of out-gassing is the virtual eruption, of CH4, methane, which breaks down, to CO2 and H2O, but this takes time. And methane is jumping out SO MUCH, while changing conditions may interfere, with CH4 breakdown, we need to wonder whether it caused the largest extinction event, ever:

http://unfccc.int/ghg_data/ghg_data_unfccc/items/4146.php]GHG data from UNFCCC

In accordance with Articles 4 and 12 of the Climate Change Convention, and the relevant decisions of the Conference of the Parties, countries that are Parties to the Convention submit national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories to the Climate Change secretariat. These submissions are made in accordance with the reporting requirements adopted under the Convention, such as The UNFCCC Reporting Guidelines on Annex I Inventories (document FCCC/SBSTA/2004/8) for Annex I Parties and Guidelines for the preparation of national communications for non-Annex I Parites (decision 17/CP.8). The inventory data are provided in the annual GHG inventory submissions by Annex I Parties and in the national communications under the Convention by non-Annex I Parties.

The GHG data reported by Parties contain estimates for direct greenhouse gases, such as:

CO2 - Carbon dioxide
CH4 - Methane
N2O - Nitrous oxide
PFCs - Perfluorocarbons
HFCs - Hydrofluorocarbons
SF6 - Sulphur hexafluoride

. . . as well as for the indrect greenhouse gases such as SO2, NOx, CO and NMVOC.

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http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/features/200409_methane/]NASA GISS: Research Features: Methane: A Scientific Journey from Obscurity to Climate Super-Stardom

Along with isotopic analyses of the ice itself (which is mainly related to temperature), the researchers (such as Jérôme Chappellaz in Grenoble, France) were able to isolate the gases trapped inside tiny bubbles in the ice. The greenhouses gases, CO2 and CH4, within those bubbles showed that since the industrial period began (around the mid-1800s) concentrations of both CO2 and CH4 have been increasing rapidly. In fact, CH4 concentrations have more than doubled over the last 150 years, and the contribution to the enhanced greenhouse effect is almost half of that due to CO2 increases over the same period.

The changes over the last century seem to be mostly related to increased emissions due to human activity: leaks from mining and natural gas pipelines, landfills, increased irrigation (particularly rice paddies, which are essentially artificial wetlands) and increased livestock producing more intestinal CH4 (!) among other factors. However, over the last ice age, and particularly in the turbulent world just prior to the modern Holocene period (roughly the last 11,500 years), methane was observed to oscillate almost hand-in-hand in response to rapid climate changes such as the Younger Dryas cold interval (a return to almost full ice age conditions 12,500 years ago).

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/features/200409_methane/core2.gif

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http://www.epa.gov/outreach/sources.html]Sources and Emissions | Methane | Climate Change | U.S. EPA

Methane (CH4) is emitted from a variety of both human-related (anthropogenic) and natural sources. Human-related activities include fossil fuel production, animal husbandry (enteric fermentation in livestock and manure management), rice cultivation, biomass burning, and waste management. These activities release significant quantities of methane to the atmosphere. It is estimated that more than 50 percent of global methane emissions are related to human-related activities (U.S. EPA). Natural sources of methane include wetlands, gas hydrates, permafrost, termites, oceans, freshwater bodies, non-wetland soils, and other sources such as wildfires.

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http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/582/methane-the-great-dying]Methane: the Great Dying?

What caused the worst mass extinction in Earth's history 251 million years ago? This event is one of the most catastrophic in life's history: the P/T extinction.

An asteroid or comet colliding with Earth? A greenhouse effect? Volcanic eruptions in Siberia? Or an entirely different culprit? Scientists have suggested many possible causes for this "Great Dying": severe volcanism, a nearby supernova, environmental changes wrought by the formation of a super-continent, the devastating impact of a large asteroid -- or some combination of these. Whatever happened during this period left no form of life undisturbed: No class or species was spared from devastation. Trees, plants, lizards, proto-mammals, insects, fish, mollusks, and microbes -- all were nearly wiped out. More than 9 in 10 marine species and 7 in 10 land species vanished. Life on our planet almost came to an end.

This catastrophe - marked in the geologic record as the Permian/Triassic boundary - occurred about 250 million years ago--and is not to be confused with the better-known Cretaceous-Tertiary (K/T) extinction that signaled the end of at least fifty percent of all species, including the dinosaurs, 65 million years ago. During this earlier cataclysmic period in Earth's history, known as "The Great Dying," up to 96 percent of marine species and about 70 percent of land species were wiped out. Scientists have not been able to determine what caused this cataclysm to life, although theories of asteroid impacts, climatic changes, and the greenhouse effect have all been suggested. Many paleontologists have been skeptical of the theory that an asteroid caused the extinction, since early studies of the fossil record suggested that the die-out happened gradually over millions of years -- not suddenly like a single, catastrophic event. But as their methods for dating the disappearance of species has improved, estimates of its duration have shrunk from millions of years to between 8,000 and 100,000 years--a very quick event in geological terms.

A Northwestern University chemical engineer believes the culprit may be an enormous explosion of methane (natural gas) erupting from the ocean depths. This explanation is closer to the inverse of an external impact, like an asteroid, and more like a disgorging of trapped energy that erupts from deep below the oceans. Such a global catastrophe has a more local precedent, as a similar eruption happened in Africa at Lake Nyos in 1986, killing 1700 people and rippling as far away as 25 kilometers.

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Does anyone dare, to enter the fatal CHAMBER OF FARTS?

Do any wise-guys want, to out-gas GHGs, faster, and faster, and FASTEST, OF ALL TIME? All it takes, for Mass Extinction Event 6, to catch the P/T Extinction is for volcanoes to go off. If our SLR-tides hop on magma chambers, and we get volcanoes, to go with our proliferating methane, we have all the same symptoms, of the P/T. We can call our event the Pee-Tardy event, or something.

But we'll be dead, and so will our descendants.

Why then! We may become extinct humans, for letting the methane come out, much too fast. If we go this route, and we cetainly look like we are trying to, "Oops, I crapped my pants" or "Oops, we crapped our adult diapers" will certainly not save us, if accelerated CH4 release suddenly goes BOOOOOOM or otherwise causes some sudden shizzle, to dizzle.

Want to bet, on how we die, before the SLR takes our land, AND the volcanoes come back, from all the big tides? MR. METHANE CAN KILL ALL OF US. See him on Howard Stern Show, classics, if you can get this.

Howard Stern, of course appeared as FART-MAN, on stage and on TV. Killer show. Really!

When you get to YouTube, see also Paul, from UK, who is Mr.Methane.

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Repost: The Global Warming Scare

wimpehiker — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 06:58:44 GMT

I posted an article, The Global Warming Scare, at hubpages.com. It covers many of the basics, but is a bit on the long side. And there may be a tad too much vitriol. If I haven't scared you away with the caveats, here's the url.
tinyurl.com/42q736v

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Repost 7-1-12: New 'Permian' extinction from recent 'Climate Change'? Bullsh*t!

wimpehiker — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 07:19:12 GMT

Larry's comment: World-famous biologists are not always the brightest bulbs in the firmament.

New paper from Loehle & Eschenbach shows extinction data has been wrongly blamed on climate change due to island species sensitivity

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Anthony Watts

Guest post by Dr. Craig Loehle

Last year, Willis Eschenbach had a WUWT post about extinction rates being exaggerated in the literature (wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/...orpses/). I offered to help him get this published, and it is now out. We conclude that the extinction crisis for birds and mammals is very specific to island fauna which are uniquely sensitive to human impacts, including our pets and commensals like rats. It is not valid to extrapolate these extinctions to either the problem of deforestation on continents or to future impacts of climate change.

Read more here.
wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/...sitivity/

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Repost 7-1-12: 21st Century Lysenkoism at Oregon State University

wimpehiker — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 07:15:01 GMT

Skeptical Instructor Fired From Oregon State University

Posted on June 11, 2012 by stevengoddard

In case you were under the false impression that we had defeated the Evil Empire when the Berlin Wall came down.

Hello Everyone,

In theory at least Oregon State University (OSU) seems to be a bastion of academic freedom, diversity, and tolerance. A wide range of ideas are openly discussed. The most viable rise to the top and the least viable fade away. But it is all a fairy tale, because OSU operates under a politically correct regimen that dictates what is acceptable to say and what is not. Transgressors who dare to be different are eventually weeded out so that the campus maintains its ideological purity.

OSU is not yet as swift or efficient as the Soviet system when Joseph Stalin was trying to quash dissent among biologists who refused to go along with Trofim Lysenko. If warnings to compromise their integrity were not followed, Stalin simply had biologists shot. That quickly thinned the ranks of all biologists and persuaded the remaining ones to comply with Stalin’s wishes. Of course, it also destroyed Soviet biology, because Lysenko was pedaling nonsense. And Russian biology has never recovered.

We learned over the weekend that chemist Nickolas Drapela, PhD has been summarily fired from his position as a “Senior Instructor” in the Department of Chemistry. The department chairman Richard Carter told him that he was fired but would not provide any reason. Subsequent attempts to extract a reason from the OSU administration have been stonewalled. Drapela appears to have been highly competent and well-liked by his students. Some have even taken up the fight to have him reinstated.

Read more here.
tinyurl.com/7a6dpa7

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Repost: New talking point for climate alarmists

wimpehiker — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 07:14:13 GMT

IPCC now too moderate for professional scaremongers

Andrew Bolt

Saturday, March, 31, 2012, (8:07am)

What happened to “listen to the science”?
 A GLOBAL lobby group has distributed a “spin sheet” encouraging its 300 member organisations to emphasise the link between climate change and extreme weather events, despite uncertainties acknowledged by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

An “action pack” distributed by Global Campaign for Climate Action said members “shouldn’t be afraid to make the connection”, despite the sometimes low level of confidence in the official documents of the IPCC. The action pack, which was produced to coincide with the release of the latest full IPCC report into the link between climate change and extreme weather events, rekindled claims that overstating the case damaged the credibility of the science…

The full report ... presented a cautious appraisal and said it was unable to answer confidently whether climate was becoming more extreme.

Read more here.
tinyurl.com/6uk73v9

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Repost: The UNCORRUPTED US temperature data through 1999

wimpehiker — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 07:09:48 GMT

What Hansen Is Hiding
Posted on June 23, 2012 by

Larry's comment

The inconvenient truth for James Hansen, who heads up NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, is that there's been NO NET WARMING TREND in the Lower 48 States of the US from the 1930s, which were quite toasty, to the end of the century. And that's bad news for his scare campaign, and for the funding thereof. Hansen's solution: 'Adjust' the raw data to fit the official story.

Read Steven Goddard's article here, and check out the cool graph.
tinyurl.com/75rtanp

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Repost: Editors of Nature Climate Change are Holocaust trivializers

wimpehiker — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 06:51:36 GMT

Nature’s ugly decision: ‘Deniers’ enters the scientific literature

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Anthony Watts

We’ve known for sometime that there’s an underlying, sometimes overt display of hatred towards climate skeptics. However, it generally never made it into science publications. Unfortunately, the editors of the journal Nature Climate Change just made one of the ugliest decisions ever with the publication of the Bain et al letter. One wonders though, if this were a study about… say, attitudes about racism, would the Nature Publishing Group allow things like the “n-word” in the graph and text? I think not.

Read more here.
tinyurl.com/d84u8kr

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Repost: The latest Obamination: FERC's fishing expedition

wimpehiker — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 06:46:34 GMT

Obama wants the Electric Reliability Corporation to stop assessing electric reliability

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Alec Rawls

Guest post by Alec Rawls

NERC (the North American Electric Reliability Corporation) must have thought it was taking a step up when a 2005 law made the non-profit group an official advisor to Congress, but that law also brought them under the oversight of FERC (the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) which just spent months of rummaging through every desk looking for rule violations they could use to embroil NERC in legal difficulties.

It seems that the President’s drive to shut down the coal-fired half of the grid could pose some risk to grid reliability—who’d a thunk it?—so Obama is trying to shoot the messenger. When no violations were found, FERC decided to “audit” NERC’s mission itself, resulting in a finding that this business of “periodic reliability assessments” is all a bit much and “should be revisited.”

Read more here.
tinyurl.com/ckyxejk

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Repost: A second term?

wimpehiker — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 06:39:38 GMT

from the New Yorker

The Political Scene

The Second Term

What would Obama do if reëlected?

by Ryan Lizza June 18, 2012

This is a very long article. Here's the quote that grabbed my attention:

"The President has said that the most important policy he could address in his second term is climate change, one of the few issues that he thinks could fundamentally improve the world decades from now."

Recent polls have shown that the Flying CO2 Monster is dead last in the list of priorities of most Americans. Obama still does not understand Bill Clinton's slogan: It's the economy, Stupid. If Barry does not lose in November, he certainly deserves to.

Read more here.
tinyurl.com/77kjekn

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Australian carbon tax cartoon

wimpehiker — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:14:02 GMT

http://tinyurl.com/7lddcee

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Artificial intelligence for seasonal rainfall forecasting

wimpehiker — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 23:01:40 GMT

Larry's comment: Marohasy and Abbot have developed a low-budget seasonal rainfall forecasting program for Queensland. It's predictive power makes mincemeat of the supercomputer model used by Australia's very own Bureau of Meteorology. Is it because the model used by the BOM makes dodgy assumptions about Greenhouse Gases?

This short blog post also contains a short YouTube video.

Forecasting Rainfall: Neural Network Versus General Circulation Model

LINK http://tinyurl.com/7xz928z

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Latest Australian climate hockey stick paper bites the dust

wimpehiker — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:22:40 GMT

Larry's comment: Although the 'study' claimed to be about Australian climate history, there was ZERO data from the mainland. Par for the course.

300,000 dollars and three years to produce a paper that lasted three weeks: Gergis

The paper might have been scientifically invalid, but it was a box-office success.
The headlines were everywhere

Read the entire article here.
http://tinyurl.com/85ly9q8

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Weapons grade stupidity?

wimpehiker — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:51:51 GMT

That's how Anthony describes the title of the preprint of a scientific paper.

Quote of the Week: ‘global warming stunts black holes’

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Anthony Watts

It appears “global warming” is now the most potent force in the universe, according to a scientist from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. An actual scientific paper preprint published in the Cornell University science archive makes the connection to black holes in the title, and includes “climate change” in the abstract.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/cq5pygp

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The “well funded” climate business – follow the money

wimpehiker — Sat, 19 May 2012 22:38:23 GMT

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Anthony Watts

Flashback, Michael Mann said this on October 5th, 2010:

"Our efforts to communicate the science are opposed by a well-funded, highly organized disinformation effort that aims to confuse the public about the nature of our scientific understanding. … 

"Scientists are massively out-funded and outmanned in this battle, and will lose if leading scientific institutions and organizations remain on the sidelines. I will discuss this dilemma, drawing upon my own experiences in the public arena of climate change."

Next time you get challenged on how much money is involved and whose side gets it, point out Mann is delusional by showing them this from 2009, Climate Money, a study by Joanne Nova revealing that the federal Government has a near-monopoly on climate science funding.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/6thr53v

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Belated quote of the week: David Suzuki 1972

wimpehiker — Sun, 13 May 2012 04:59:50 GMT

Note: Suzuki is a prominent Canadian geneticist and Environmentalist.

Flashback 1972 – David Suzuki: Humans are just “maggots” that “defecate all over the environment”

Posted on May 12, 2012 | 7 Comments

David Suzuki and the foundation he founded like to project a caring, sharing image of themselves as guardians of the planet, and of the next generation, protecting the environment for the benefit of the children. But how does David Suzuki really view humanity? What does he say when he’s with friends, and not in an interview for publication?

A fascinating clip from 1972 has surfaced, giving us a searing insight into how Suzuki really views humanity, and it’s not a pleasant picture.

Read more here. http://tinyurl.com/799n9qj
There's a video at the link.

Larry's comment: There's a strong misanthropic undercurrent in 21st Century Environmentalism. By the way, Suzuki is a flaming hypocrite; he's the father of five 'maggots'.

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Time to terminate Big Wind subsidies

wimpehiker — Wed, 09 May 2012 09:10:07 GMT

Larry's comment: Paul's article is truly outstanding. My only criticism is that there was too much political stuff in the intro. The real meat of the article is the list of inconvenient technical details about Wind Power further down.

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Anthony Watts

– and protect environmental values, endangered species, jobs and human welfare

Guest post by Paul Driessen

Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they’d had enough.

Informed and inspired by a loose but growing national coalition of groups opposed to more giveaways with no scientifically proven net benefits, thousands of citizens called their senators and representatives – and rounded up enough Nay votes to run four different bills aground. For once, democracy worked.

A shocked American Wind Energy Association and its allies began even more aggressive recruiting of well-connected Democrat and Republican political operatives and cosponsors – and introducing more proposals like HR 3307 to extend the Production Tax Credit (PTC). Parallel efforts were launched in state legislatures, to maintain mandates, subsidies, feed-in tariffs, renewable energy credits, and other “temporary” ratepayer and taxpayer obligations.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/7mx5unf

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Bye bye, Tuvalu?

wimpehiker — Sat, 05 May 2012 00:08:41 GMT

I Feel a FAIL Coming On – Will Tuvalu Survive ‘Super moon’?

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Anthony Watts

Guest post by Andi Cockroft

The MSM down under are running with a story about the next close encounter with the moon due in the next day or so, a “super-moon”, and the likely impacts on the low-lying Tuvalu Island Nation.

With a population of just over 10,000, Tuvalu – formerly known as the Ellice Islands – is one of the smallest nations in the world, just ahead of the Vatican!

Read more here. http://tinyurl.com/7uauftd

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The Journal Science – Free the code

wimpehiker — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:41:52 GMT

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Anthony Watts

In my opinion, this is a testament to Steve McIntyre’s tenacity.

Via the GWPF: At Last, The Right Lesson From Climategate Fiasco

Monday, 16 April 2012 11:21 PhysOrg

A diverse group of academic research scientists from across the U.S. have written a policy paper which has been published in the journal Science, suggesting that the time has come for all science journals to begin requiring computer source code be made available as a condition of publication. Currently, they say, only three of the top twenty journals do so.

The group argues that because computer programs are now an integral part of research in almost every scientific field, it has become critical that researchers provide the source code for custom written applications in order for work to be peer reviewed or duplicated by other researchers attempting to verify results.

Not providing source code, they say, is now akin to withholding parts of the procedural process, which results in a “black box” approach to science, which is of course, not tolerated in virtually every other area of research in which results are published. It’s difficult to imagine any other realm of scientific research getting such a pass and the fact that code is not published in an open source forum detracts from the credibility of any study upon which it is based. Articles based on computer simulations, for example, such as many of those written about astrophysics or environmental predictions, tend to become meaningless when they are offered without also offering the source code of the simulations on which they are based.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/7pwnzrm

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The Big Lie Started In The Year 2000

wimpehiker — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 23:24:40 GMT

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Steven Goddard

The year 2000 appears to have been when the US government started lying about climate and tampering with climate data on a grand scale.

The year 2000 National Climate Assessment included this line

Over the 20th century, the average annual US temperature has risen by almost 1°F (0.6°C)

downloads.globalchange.gov/nca/nca-2000-report-overview.pdf

However, ten years earlier NOAA and CRU said the exact opposite.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/7wx9sht

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Update on Fakegate – what we know so far

wimpehiker — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:33:28 GMT

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Anthony Watts

Background on Fakegate from The Heartland Institute

1. What is Fakegate?

On February 14, 2012, an environmental activist named Peter Gleick sent to liberal activists and sympathetic journalists several documents he stole from The Heartland Institute, along with a fake memo he claimed was also from Heartland. On February 20, Gleick confessed to stealing the documents but claimed to have received the fake memo “in the mail” from an anonymous source.

The fake memo, titled “January 2012 Confidential Memo: 2012 Heartland Climate Strategy,” is a mixture of text copied and pasted from the stolen documents and original commentary by the forger. By distorting and misrepresenting the plans set forth in the stolen documents, the fake memo paints a false and disturbing picture of Heartland’s motives and tactics.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/7t3syv7

Larry's comment:
Gleick, co-founder of the Pacific Institute, has publicly confessed to wire fraud. The difference between garden-variety identity thieves and Gleick is that the former seek to line their own pockets, whereas Gleick's motive was malice.

Warmies have had mixed responses to Fakegate. Some are now distancing themselves, by referring to Gleick simply as a water expert, which is truthful, rather than as an environmental activist. The truly hard-core Warmies are circling the wagons.

If Heartland's attorneys are one-pointed on the civil aspect of the case, and postpone the criminal part, it'll be too late for Barky to issue a pardon. President Romney will be more likely to let the criminal justice system take its course.

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Vampire bats and Climate Change?

wimpehiker — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 08:37:13 GMT

Vampire bats? Must be a slow news day at Climate Progress

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Anthony Watts

Almost every day, the ridiculo-meter pegs over at Joe Romm’s place. But today is special. He neuters his own headline in the very first paragraph. I just had to share the laughs.

Yes, the vampire bats are coming to get us thanks to climate change, or maybe not.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/cr83fgp

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Diplomatic immunity for Green Climate Fund?

wimpehiker — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:50:42 GMT

Where there’s a need for immunity, there’s a crime – Green climate fund looking to UN for diplomatic immunity protection from lawsuits.

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Anthony Watts

It seems to me, that if you are asking for immunity up-front, you already know that something has been done that without immunity, would land somebody in the slammer. From Fox News:

Mammoth new green climate fund wants United Nations-style diplomatic immunity, even though it’s not part of the UN

“EXCLUSIVE: The Green Climate Fund, which is supposed to help mobilize as much as $100 billion a year to lower global greenhouse gases, is seeking a broad blanket of U.N.-style immunity that would shield its operations from any kind of legal process, including civil and criminal prosecution, in the countries where it operates. There’s just one problem: it is not part of the United Nations.”

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/73tr97o

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Tesla Roadster: $100k brick?

wimpehiker — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:02:13 GMT

The Tesla Roadster Can Become A $100,000 Brick

Travis Okulski|February 22, 2012

Tesla has been riding a wave of positive press with the introduction of its new Model X as well as the announcement that they already have $40 million in preorders for the car.

However, a very negative aspect of Tesla's original car, the Lotus-based Roadster, is just coming to light.

According to The Understatement, if the battery of the Tesla Roadster becomes fully drained, the car effectively becomes a brick. It cannot even be rolled.

Even more surprisingly, the only way to fix it is to have the battery pack replaced to the tune of $40,000.

Oh, and that is not covered by any warranty offered by Tesla.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/6pv948v

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Peoples Republic of Australia?

wimpehiker — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:47:31 GMT

Aussie government proposes unlimited speech regulation, names climate skeptics and Labor critics as targets

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Alec Rawls

Guest post by Alec Rawls

Andrew Bolt has been blogging for the past week about the totalitarian tendencies in the just released “Media Inquiry” commissioned by Australia’s Labor government.

This “Finkelstein Report” advocates unlimited regulation of virtually all published and broadcast speech in Australia.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/739ljh6

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Fakegate

wimpehiker — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:06:06 GMT

from Forbes

James Taylor, Contributor

Op/Ed 2/22/2012 @ 4:02PM

Fakegate Illustrates Global Warming Alarmists' Deceit and Desperation

There never was a “leaker” in the shameful Fakegate scandal. In the end, there was only a forger, a fraudster and a thief. Alarmist scientist Peter Gleick has admitted that the latter two were one and the same person – himself. I suspect we will soon learn the identity of the forger, as well.

With the weight of damning evidence closing in on him, Gleick has admitted in his Huffington Post blog that he was the alleged “Heartland Insider” who committed fraud and identity theft, lying and stealing his way into possession of Heartland Institute internal personnel documents and then sending those private documents to global warming activist groups and left-leaning media. Gleick sent to the press an additional document, a fake “2012 Climate Strategy,” that he claims he did not write.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/6n2aleg

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Hansen has lost it.

wimpehiker — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:27:25 GMT

James Hansen heads up NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies. And this time he's set a personal best--or personal worst--depending on your point of view. Would you believe that anyone in his right mind could say this this?

"The oceans will begin to boil..."

But I did not say that Hansen was playing with a full deck.

Read more at wattsupwiththat.com. There's even a video clip. Please pass the popcorn. And while you're at it, send some Thorazine to Hansen.
http://tinyurl.com/88pzftd

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OUT OF GAS: THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMEMENT IS RUNNING ON EMPTY

wimpehiker — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:00:10 GMT

01/06/2012
By States News Service
The following information was released by Capital Research Center (CRC):

In 2012, three years into President Barack Obama's first term, green activists are asking, "What went wrong?" Where are all the new laws and regulations regulating energy use and the natural resource production? Where are the public-private partnerships signalling a new era of enironmentalist problem-solving? Where's Al Gore? Shouldn't he be lurking over President Obama's shoulder, smiling, as the President signs yet another green jobs bill into law?

The question is a good one but one not easily answered. In the decades since the birth of the environmental movement, something's clearly gone wrong. Other movements pushing for political and social change have altered the national discussion and elected candidates at every level of government.

Look at the Tea Party. Born only in 2009, it's pushed back against the agenda of Barack Obama and congressional Democrats, forcing Congress to heel and almost sending the federal government into default.

But the environmental movement seems dead in the water.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/8yx4ap8

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Federal judge blocks California low-carbon fuels rule

wimpehiker — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:01:43 GMT

Associated Press
Posted: 12/29/2011 04:52:05 PM PST

FRESNO — A federal judge moved today to block California from enforcing its first-in-the-nation mandate for cleaner, low-carbon fuels, saying the rules favor biofuels produced in the state.

The lawsuit challenging the state regulations, which were adopted as part of the state's landmark 2006 global warming law, was filed in federal court last year by a coalition including the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association and the Consumer Energy Alliance.

Fresno-based U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence O'Neill's written ruling Thursday said the low-carbon fuel rules violated the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause by discriminating against crude oil and biofuels producers located outside California.

Read more here.
http://www.chicoer.com/breakingnews/ci_19641898

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Global trade war, anyone?

wimpehiker — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:01:17 GMT

China Warns EU's Green Fanatics Of Global Trade War

Thursday, 22 December 2011 12:08 Simon Rabinovitch, Financial Times,

China has warned the European Union to abandon its controversial carbon tax on airlines or risk provoking a global trade war.

Adding weight to the warning, an industry insider told the Financial Times that the Chinese government was seriously considering measures to hit back at the EU if it insists on charging international airlines for their carbon emissions.

In a case initiated by US airlines, the European Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday that the EU’s carbon emissions trading scheme did not infringe on the sovereignty of other nations, and that it was compatible with international law. The change is set to go into effect from January 1.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/cda7rr8

After you read the medium-length version of the article, there's an additional link to the full article, but you have to register in order to read it. And I didn't bother.

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Temperature and malaria

wimpehiker — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:00:09 GMT

Larry's comment. The Anthropogenic Global Warming religion is in decline. In light of Climategate and lesser-known scandals, publications and politicians who have hitched their wagons to this superstition are reassessing their positions, and are beginning to hedge their bets. Nature magazine has been a predominantly Warmist rag. Four years ago, their editors would not have considered this article for publication.

Global warming wilts malaria

Transmission of infectious parasites slows with rising temperatures, researchers find.

21 December 2011

A common assumption is that rising global temperatures will increase the spread of malaria — the deadly mosquito-borne disease that affects millions of people worldwide. But a study out today in Biology Letters finds that warmer temperatures seem to slow transmission of malaria-causing parasites, by reducing their infectiousness1.

Read more here.
http://www.nature.com/news/global-warming-wilts-malaria-1.9695

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British Stasi harass Climate Realist blogger

wimpehiker — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:58:39 GMT

Climategate: police raid home of blogger in UEA ‘stolen’ emails probe

Police investigating the alleged theft of thousands of emails from the university at the centre of the “climategate” scandal have raided the home of a Roger Tattersall in Leeds.

By John Bingham
11:59AM GMT 16 Dec 2011

Officers seized computers from the home of Roger Tattersall, who writes under the pseudonym TallBloke as part of inquiries into leaks of emails between climate scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA).

The university’s home force, Norfolk Police led the operation, assisted by officers from the Metropolitan Police and West Yorkshire on Wednesday.

Mr Tattersall, a prominent sceptic about man made climate change, said was happy to co-operate with police.

It comes after his and other blogs were sent a link to a file containing thousands of emails to and from climate scientists at UEA.

Two years ago a similar leak, which called into question scientific findings on global warming, caused an international sensation and overshadowed the Copenhagen climate summit.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/7ouewq3

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IPCC declares itself above the law

wimpehiker — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 22:23:42 GMT

"...the IPCC member states have ruled on freedom of information legislation. Specifically, it has been decided that FoI does not apply to IPCC material."

Read the rest of this short article here.
http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2011/12/14/ipcc-declares-itself-above-the-law.html

Larry's comment: Can any reasonable person continue to doubt that the IPCC is a criminal enterprise?

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Big-name environmental 'scientist' named in racketeering lawsuit

wimpehiker — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:24:47 GMT

Environmental Scientist Caught Agreeing To Ignore Her Own Data, Make Up New Claims

December 12, 2011 | Filed under Law,Science | Posted by Kevin

Dr. Ann Maest is a managing scientist at Straus Consulting, and she’s the go to expert on all things groundwater. In the press release announcing her reappointment to the National Academy of Sciences, they mention that she is focused on the environmental effects of mining and petroleum extraction and production, and, more recently, on the effects of climate change on water quality.

Maest is in high demand as an expert for those looking to stop oil and mineral exploration. She’s also heavily used by the federal government, even though new details about her past work are coming to light as a result of a lawsuit. From The New York Times:

An environmental consulting firm named as a defendant in a racketeering suit filed by Chevron Corp. over a landmark pollution lawsuit in Ecuador is continuing to work on another blockbuster case: the Deepwater Horizon oil spill investigation.

Boulder, Colo.-based Stratus Consulting, a long-term contractor with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other federal agencies, is gathering and analyzing data concerning the Gulf of Mexico spill.

Chevron is suing those behind the Ecuadorian case including: the lead attorney Steven Donziger; Stratus Consulting; and Maest. As part of their lawsuit, Chevron obtained through discovery, outtakes from a documentary film called “Crude” that show Donziger and Maest colluding to ignore their own scientific findings and make up some new unsubstantiated claims.

Read more here, and watch the video.
http://wizbangblog.com/2011/12/12/ann-maest/

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Durban: what the media are not telling you

wimpehiker — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 09:39:39 GMT

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Anthony Watts

By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley in Durban, South Africa

DURBAN, South Africa — “No high hopes for Durban.” “Binding treaty unlikely.” “No deal this year.” Thus ran the headlines. The profiteering UN bureaucrats here think otherwise. Their plans to establish a world government paid for by the West on the pretext of dealing with the non-problem of “global warming” are now well in hand. As usual, the mainstream media have simply not reported what is in the draft text which the 194 states parties to the UN framework convention on climate change are being asked to approve.

Behind the scenes, throughout the year since Cancun, the now-permanent bureaucrats who have made highly-profitable careers out of what they lovingly call “the process” have been beavering away at what is now a 138-page document. Its catchy title is “Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action Under the Convention — Update of the amalgamation of draft texts in preparation of [one imagines they mean 'for'] a comprehensive and balanced outcome to be presented to the Conference of the Parties for adoption at its seventeenth session: note by the Chair.” In plain English, these are the conclusions the bureaucracy wants.

The contents of this document, turgidly drafted with all the UN’s skill at what the former head of its documentation center used to call “transparent impenetrability”, are not just off the wall – they are lunatic.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/79rdf36

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Tibetan tree rings and climate

wimpehiker — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 08:47:05 GMT

Chinese 2,485 year tree ring study shows shows natural cycles control climate, temps may cool til 2068

A blockbuster Chinese study of Tibetan tree rings by Lui et al 2011 shows, with detail, that the modern era is a dog-standard normal climate when compared to the last 2,500 years. The temperature, the rate of change — it’s all been seen before. Nothing about the current period is “abnormal”, indeed the current warming period in Tibet can be produced through calculation of cycles. Lui et al do a Fourier analysis on the underlying cycles and do brave predictions as well.

In Tibet, it was about the same temperature on at least four occasions — back in late Roman times (those chariots!), then again in the dark ages (blame the collapse of industry), then in the middle ages (the Vikings?), then in modern times (blame the rise of industry).

Read more here.
http://joannenova.com.au/2011/12/chinese-2485-year-tree-ring-study-climate/

Larry's comment. As I've pointed out before, tree rings are not the world's best thermometers, for a variety of reasons. That said, this appears to be the best study so far on tree rings and climate. You can even back-cast with it. To the best of my knowledge, there's been no cherry-picking of climate history periods, in order to support a foregone politically correct conclusion. This goes a long way back in time. And unlike Michael Mann's 'study', there's no data fabrication, no bogus 'hockey stick' graphs, and no Denialism with respect to the Medieval Warm Period.

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Warmist mafia escalates its tactics

wimpehiker — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:41:13 GMT

Team ugliness – a call to get a skeptics PhD thesis revoked

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Anthony Watts

Guest post by Dr. Patrick Michaels – originally on Forbes, reposted here at the request of the author.

Climategate II: An Open Letter to the Director of the National Center for Atmospheric Research

To: Dr. Roger Wakimoto

Director, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Boulder, Colorado

Roger, you are the head of what is perhaps the most prestigious atmospheric science laboratory on the planet, and, as such, I presume that you will always go the extra mile to protect the reputation of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and its related University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR).

I’m sure you have seen and discussed with your staff many of the “Climategate” emails released first in November, 2009, and then more recently, earlier this month.

Everyone agrees that the tone and content of many of them is a bit shrill and occasionally intolerant (kind of like University faculty meetings), but there is one repeating thread, by one of your most prestigious employees, Dr. Tom Wigley, that is far beyond the pale of most academic backbiting.

The revoking of my doctorate, the clear objective of Tom’s email, is the professional equivalent of the death penalty. I think it needs to be brought to your attention, because the basic premise underlying his machinations is patently and completely false. Dr Wigley is known as a careful scientist, but he certainly was careless here.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/6ohlf6n

Larry's comment. I think it’s time that we overly polite Climate Realists start using the M-word. The unwarranted, malicious, and personal attack on Dr. Michaels is the last straw. The Hockey (Stick) Team is the worst Academic Mafia that I’ve ever run across. Dr. Michaels, I hope that you sue the bejesus out of the bastards.

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Talking out of both sides of one's mouth, Part 2.0

wimpehiker — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 02:36:18 GMT

Larry's comment. First it was Kevin Trenberth. Now it's Phil Jones, a central figure in Climategate.

CRU’s Dr. Phil Jones on “the lack of warming”

Posted on November 30, 2011 by Anthony Watts

“Tim, Chris, I hope you’re not right about the lack of warming lasting till about 2020″

Question: If warming really threatens to destroy human civilization, why was Jones hoping for warming?

And if the world was still warming in 2009, why did Jones refer to “lack of warming”?

Email 4195

LINK.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/30/crus-dr-phil-jones-on-the-lack-of-warming/

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Hot new search tool for Climategate – I and II combined

wimpehiker — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 04:25:30 GMT

from Jo Nova's website:

Behind the scenes, I’ve been playing with a new neat tool for hunting hypocrisy, corruption, bias and unprofessional behaviour and I’m pleased to announce its ready to share with the world. The kudos for this all belongs to, as usual, a skilled volunteer. Thanks to EcoGuy for turning his rapid-fire coding ability onto this.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/cn78j7k

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Canadian caribou are NOT biting the dust

wimpehiker — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 11:02:32 GMT

Larry's comment: But that urban legend certainly is.

Caribou supposedly roasted by global warming found unharmed

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Anthony Watts

Read the article here.
http://tinyurl.com/86gh2p6

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A predictable reaction to Climategate 2.0

wimpehiker — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 05:51:57 GMT

Supermandia and the most supersilly Climategate rebuttal ever

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Anthony Watts

Get a load of this headline:

Opinion: Snippets of stolen emails cannot make the Earth flat

Wow, make the earth flat? That has to be some sort award winning headline for the most stupid strawman argument ever.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/72348hn

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Climategate 2.0 emails

wimpehiker — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:06:13 GMT

Larry's comment. I wish that I could write a good summary of this, but I'm suffering from information overload at the moment. One thing that did catch my eye was the phrase "help the cause," which came up more than once. This strongly suggests that the 'scientist' authors of these particular emails were more interested in promoting a prefab worldview than in doing real science. Please pass the popcorn.

Climategate 2.0 emails – They’re real and they’re spectacular!

Posted on November 22, 2011 by News Staff

Read more here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/22/climategate-2-0/

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NASA's Dr. James Hansen: Follow the money

wimpehiker — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:58:25 GMT

Dr. James Hansen’s growing financial scandal, now over a million dollars of outside income

Posted on November 18, 2011 by Anthony Watts

It seems esteemed NASA astronomer turned climatologist turned paid activist Dr. James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) has not been reporting some income that he is required by law to do. How long will NASA continue to look the other way? Chris Horner explains. – Anthony

A Summary of James E. Hansen’s NASA Ethics File

By Christopher Horner

NASA records released to resolve litigation filed by the American Tradition Institute reveal that astronomer and global warming activist Dr. James E. Hansen, an astronomer, received approximately $1.6 million in outside, direct cash income in the past five years for work related to — and, according to his benefactors, often expressly for — his public service as a global warming activist within NASA. This does not include six-figure income over that period in travel expenses to fly around the world to receive money from outside interests.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/74soqx7

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Death rates from extreme weather events

wimpehiker — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:40:51 GMT

The Odd Omission in IPCC’s Summary for Policy Makers for SREX on Extreme Weather and Climatic Events

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Anthony Watts

Guest post by Indur M. Goklany

One of the major reasons why extreme weather events are of abiding interest to both the public and policy makers is the potential loss of life that they can cause. Imagine, therefore, writing a “Special Report” on managing the risks of extreme weather and climatic events but being virtually silent on whether deaths from such events had increased or decreased over the recent past. Who knows, but that information might even be useful in helping identify factors that could help manage those risks in the future. Yet, the Summary for Policy Makers (SPM) of the IPCC’s Special Report on extreme weather and climate events (SREX) does precisely that.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/785wlg7

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Free Speech in the Land of Oz: Mua ha ha ha!

wimpehiker — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:49:29 GMT

Larry's comment. Greenies are Totalitarians. They're just more out-of-the-closet about that in Australia.

The truth will out on Labor's carbon scam

• by: Miranda Devine
• From: The Daily Telegraph
• November 17, 2011 12:00AM

THE whitewash begins. Now that the carbon tax has passed through federal parliament, the government's clean-up brigade is getting into the swing by trying to erase any dissent against the jobs-destroying legislation.

On cue comes the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, which this week issued warnings to businesses that they will face whopping fines of up to $1.1m if they blame the carbon tax for price rises.

It says it has been "directed by the Australian government to undertake a compliance and enforcement role in relation to claims made about the impact of a carbon price."

Businesses are not even allowed to throw special carbon tax sales promotions before the tax arrives on July 1.

Read more here.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/the-truth-will-out-on-labors-carbon-scam/story-e6frezz0-1226197176697

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'Leaked' trial balloon from the IPCC

wimpehiker — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:20:19 GMT

Leaked IPCC Draft: Climate Change Signals Expected To Be Relatively Small Over Coming 20-30 Years

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Anthony Watts

It seems that according the early draft, CO2 induced climate change is going to take a backseat to natural variability.

Read the article here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/14/ipcc-draft-climate-change-signals-expected-to-be-relatively-small-over-coming-20-30-years/#comment-798110

Larry's comment: Assuming that the items in this article are representative, it may be that the IPCC is looking for a graceful retreat from the extremist baloney in AR4.

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The lead attorney on the UVA-Mann email case

wimpehiker — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:39:16 GMT

Why I want Mike Mann’s Emails

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Anthony Watts

By Dr. David Schnare

N.B., Dr. Schnare is the lead attorney in the UVA-Mann email case.

This week Nature Magazine published an editorial suggesting that “access to personal correspondence is a freedom too far” and that Michael Mann, whom they favorably compare to Galileo, should have his emails, written and received while he was a young professor at the University of Virginia, protected from public release on the core basis that to do otherwise would “chill” the work of scientists and academics. I note Galileo was forced to keep his work private. Had he the opportunity, he would have published it far and wide. Mann is quite the opposite. He wants to keep secrets and let no one know what he did and how he did it.

Nature, unfamiliar with the facts, law and both academic and university policy as applies in this case, conflates too many issues and misunderstands the transparency questions we raise.

Read more here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/14/why-i-want-mike-manns-emails/

Larry's comment. I agree with Dr. Schnare. To me, the issues he raises suggest one or more of three possibilities:
•Gross negligence with respect to Mike Mann's record-keeping obligations;
•Monumental stupidity and incompetence;
•Fraud of staggering proportions.

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Don't Stop Doubting

wimpehiker — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:49:01 GMT

Larry's comment. This is from Investors' Business Daily. Although IBD has a strong Libertarian perspective, they did get their facts straight for this editorial. I do not know if the decade-long trend in the contiguous U.S. is statistically significant. Stats are not my bailiwick.

Posted 11/11/2011 06:28 PM ET

Climate: Just a few weeks ago, a formerly skeptical scientist made news when he changed his mind about global warming. If he looked at the new data a meteorologist has pulled up, he'd change it back again.

Richard Muller, a physics professor at the University of California, said that data from his Berkeley Earth Surface Temperatures (BEST) project convinced him that "global warming is real." "We see no evidence," he said Oct. 21, that global warming has "slowed down."

The alarmists, of course, leveraged Muller's statements to suit their agenda.

But Muller's is not the "consensus" position of the team. Judith Curry, a Georgia Tech climate researcher with more than 30 years experience who was also part of the BEST project, has said "there is no scientific basis for saying that warming hasn't stopped." She looked at the same data Muller did and noted it shows global temperatures haven't increased since the late 1990s.

Now comes meteorologist Anthony Watts armed with data showing the continental U.S. has not warmed in the last 10 years, and in fact has grown cooler in the summer and colder in the winter. The numbers aren't a collection of weather forecasts from Watts, who runs the website "Watts Up With That," but data from the National Climatic Data Center.

Read the rest of the article here.
http://news.investors.com/Article/591485/201111111828/Dont-Stop-Doubting.htm

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The other Penn State whitewash

wimpehiker — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:52:31 GMT

Note: CA is climateaudit.org.

Penn State President Fired

On the same day that Nature published yet another editorial repudiating public examination of the conduct of academic institutions, Penn State President Graham Spanier was fired from his $813,000/year job for failing to ensure that a proper investigation was carried out in respect to pedophilia allegations in Penn State’s hugely profitable football program. The story is receiving massive coverage in North America because the iconic Penn State football coach, Joe Paterno, was also fired today.

CA readers are aware of Spanier’s failure to ensure proper investigation of Climategate emails and his untrue puffs about the ineffective Penn State Inquiry Committee, reported at CA here and by the the Penn State Collegian as follows:

Graham Spanier addressed the inquiry and the panel’s work during the Board of Trustees meeting on Jan. 22. Penn State President Spanier is quoted as saying:

“I know they’ve taken the time and spent hundreds of hours studying documents and interviewing people and looking at issues from all sides,” Spanier said.

Spanier’s claims were totally untrue. Not only did the Inquiry Committee fail to “look at issues from all sides”, they didn’t even interview or take evidence from critics – as they were required to do under the applicable Penn State policy. As I reported at CA at the time:

Read more here.
http://climateaudit.org/2011/11/10/penn-state-president-fired/

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A Harold Camping moment for a few climate alarmist journalists?

wimpehiker — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:46:37 GMT

Only 52 days left, get on with the dying already

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Anthony Watts
Back in January 2007, we were admonished:

“…you should remember this moment when you learned about this feedback loop-it is an existencial turning point in your life. “

Yes, I remember, only too well. In fact, here’s a reminder:

Read more here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/10/only-52-days-left-get-on-with-the-dying-already/

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No fair dinkum in Australia’s carbon tax today

wimpehiker — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:46:57 GMT

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Anthony Watts
Letter to the Editor (or an opinion piece) 
Watts Up With That?
 8th November 2011 (Australia time)

Back towards the Dark Ages

The passage of the carbon tax bills today is no reason for celebration. It is a step back towards the dark ages.

Just a few generations ago, humans lived in a “green” world. There was no coal, oil or gas providing light, heat, transport and traction power.

In this green utopia, wood provided heat for cooking fires and forests were felled for charcoal for primitive metallurgy; farmers used wooden ploughs and harvested grain with sickles and flails; the nights were lit using candles and whale oil; rich people used wind and water power to grind cereals; horses and bullocks moved coaches, wagons and troops; there was no refrigeration and salt was the only preservative for meat.

Towns were tiny as the whole family was needed to work the farm. For most people, the daylight hours were filled with heavy labour to produce, preserve and transport food. There was no surplus to support opera, bureaucracy or academia.

Humanity was relieved from this life of unrelenting toil by carbon energy – steam engines and electricity, machines, tractors, cars, ships and planes. Prosperity and longevity soared.

Today the pagan green religion celebrates the first step in their long campaign to destroy industrial society and reduce population.

They should be careful what they wish for.

For example, just a few more bitter winters in Britain will see their wind powered lights going out.

A British observer once said of the Whitlam government: “Any fool can bugger up Britain, but it takes real genius to bugger up Australia” “.

Parliament today showed the sort of genius needed to dim the lights in the lucky country.

Viv Forbes,
Rosewood Qld Australia
forbes@carbon-sense.com
I am happy for my email address to be published.

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Climate blackmail?

wimpehiker — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:22:52 GMT

Nov. 8, 2011, 9:42 a.m. EST

China Threatens Massive Venting of Super Greenhouse Gases in Attempt to Extort Billions as UNFCCC Meeting Approaches

WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- In the run-up to the international climate negotiations in Durban later this month, China has responded to efforts to ban the trading of widely discredited HFC-23 offsets by threatening to release huge amounts of the potent industrial chemical into the atmosphere unless other nations pay what amounts to a climate ransom.

China's threat comes after the European Union and other nations moved to ban HFC-23 credits from internal carbon markets in recognition of the perverse incentives created by these credits under the UN Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The vast amounts paid for HFC-23 offsets have led factories in China and elsewhere to manufacture far more HCFC-22 and its HFC-23 by-product than necessary, just to maximize the amounts paid to destroy HFC-23 through the UN-backed carbon trading scheme.

Read more here.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-threatens-massive-venting-of-super-greenhouse-gases-in-attempt-to-extort-billions-as-unfccc-meeting-approaches-2011-11-08

Larry's comment: Go ahead, China. Make my day. I'm calling your bluff. The Warmies will have hissy fits, but your proposed stunt will have zero measurable effect on climate.

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Payback humor

wimpehiker — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:15:54 GMT

Turnabout is fair play, wouldn't you say? Ad hominem attacks have always been a staple of Warmist 'arguments'. Now it's our turn. I saw a real gem at wattsupwiththat.com today.

ferd berple says:
November 4, 2011 at 7:08 pm

Q. What is the difference between a Climate Scientist and a mosquito?
A. One is a blood sucking parasite and the other is an insect.

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Muller vs Muller

wimpehiker — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:47:44 GMT

The BEST flavor of the day

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Anthony Watts
Via Tom Nelson:

Muller: “I never said you shouldn’t be a skeptic. I never said that.”

Read more here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/11/02/the-best-flavor-of-the-day/

Larry's comment: Successful liars need to have extraordinarily good memories.

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Best Confirms Global Temperature Standstill

wimpehiker — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:57:45 GMT

Larry's comment: Professor Muller makes grandiose statements to the press, but his data paints a very different picture.

Saturday, 29 October 2011 23:55 Dr. David Whitehouse

Contrary to claims being made by the leader of the Best global temperature initiative their data confirms, and places on a firmer statistical basis, the global temperature standstill of the past ten years as seen by other groups.

Many people have now had some time to read the papers issued in preprint form from the Best project. My strong impression is that they are mostly poorly written, badly argued and at this stage unfit for submission to a major journal. Whilst I have made some comments about Best’s PR and data release strategy, I want to now look at some aspects of the data.

Read more here.
http://tinyurl.com/6cs7hyo

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UK decreases solar subsidies

wimpehiker — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:02:54 GMT

George Osborne's Solar Victory: Next Target - Wind Farms

Wednesday, 02 November 2011 00:11 Editorial, The Daily Telegraph

Cut in solar subsidies represents a victory for George Osborne in his battle with Chris Huhne over subsidies for renewable energy, and the Department for Energy and Climate Change’s self-defeating devotion to green taxes

The peremptory cut in subsidies for solar energy announced by the Government this week has stunned an industry that employs 25,000 people and that now faces ruin. The so-called feed-in tariff – which pays owners of solar panels for electricity they generate for the National Grid – will be halved after December 12. An estimated 4,000 companies that were encouraged to become involved in the sector by successive governments’ enthusiasm for renewable energy say that the move will force them into bankruptcy. This is hardly what the country needs as it looks for signs of economic growth.

We can understand these firms’ dismay – yet even if the decision has been clumsily handled, it was still the correct one to make. The way that the subsidy system was set up by Ed Miliband when he was energy secretary encouraged an investment bubble in solar technology. This came largely at the expense of the ordinary energy consumer, required to foot the bill via higher bills. Both politically and financially, falling installation costs have been making the generous returns available on solar investments unsustainable – indeed, solar subsidies have been falling steadily across Europe, so the decision should not have come as a total surprise to the industry.

Politically, this move represents a victory for George Osborne in his battle with Chris Huhne over subsidies for renewable energy, and the Department for Energy and Climate Change’s self-defeating devotion to green taxes. As the Chancellor said recently: “We’re not going to save the planet by putting our country out of business.” The solar debacle has demonstrated – to the chagrin of investors – that it is unwise to rely on renewable technologies underpinned by public subsidy, especially in a time of austerity. Perhaps Mr Osborne’s next target should be onshore wind farms.

LINK
http://thegwpf.org/opinion-pros-a-cons/4251-george-osbornes-solar-victory-next-target-wind-farms.html

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Bigger shrinking birds?

wimpehiker — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 03:45:41 GMT

The incredible story of bigger shrinking birds, courtesy of global climate change

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Anthony Watts

Two years ago, it was “Study says global warming shrinks birds” now thanks to impressive further study, they’ve discovered it’s “Bigger birds in central California, courtesy of global climate change.“

Can’t they get their story straight? Why don’t they ask Jim Henson Hansen?

From San Francisco State University

Read more here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/31/the-incredible-story-of-bigger-shrinking-birds-courtesy-of-global-climate-change/

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Colorado's gift to wealthy drivers of the ultimate green toy

wimpehiker — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:12:05 GMT

World's Largest Rebate? Save $42,000 on Tesla Roadster in Colorado

by Jeremy Korzeniewski (RSS feed) —

We didn't believe it until we verified it with our own eyes – and amazingly it's true: Colorado is offering a $42,083 rebate on the 2009 Tesla Roadster until December 31st. Carry the one, move the decimal point... yep, that's a 38-percent discount on what must be the most desirable electric car currently for sale in the United States.

Read more here.
http://www.luxist.com/tag/tesla+rebate/

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NSF urban legend disproven 2000 years ago!

wimpehiker — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:15:42 GMT

As you may have guessed, it's about Anthropogenic Global Warming. Specifically, the claim is that melting sea ice will contribute significantly to sea level rise. One familiar consequence of the meme: Unless we 'do something' about AGW, all of our coastal cities will drown soon. Or as the Warmies are fond of saying, "It's worse than we thought!"

Read about it here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/10/10/nsf-just-now-figures-out-archimedes-buoyancy-principle/

There are two possible explanations for the claim about melting sea ice and sea level rise.

1. The idiots at the National Science Foundation had never heard of Archimedes.

2. Belief in AGW dramatically accelerates the progression of Alzheimers.

Anyway, the error is now corrected. Thank Darwin, we can all sleep easier at night.

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Did Team Gore fake the experiment in the Climate 101 video?

wimpehiker — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 06:34:01 GMT

Anthony Watts' detailed analysis of the video strongly suggests that that is the case.

Read all about it here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/28/video-analysis-and-scene-replication-suggests-that-al-gores-climate-reality-project-fabricated-their-climate-101-video-simple-experiment/

Larry's comment: Anything worth doing is worth beating to death. Great job, Anthony!

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This time it's Big Carbon rather than Big Oil

wimpehiker — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:22:49 GMT

Larry's comment. Forget the granola-munching, eco-hippie image. Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) alarmism is big business. And it's every bit as rapacious as Big Oil. If you're skeptical about that claim, talk to these Ugandan villagers, who have been burned out of their homes. (And a child was accidentally burned to death in the process.) Why? To 'save the planet' from the big, bad CO2 Monster, and to turn a tidy profit for a carbon credits company, who's in bed with the corrupt Ugandan government.

They had to burn the village to save it from global warming

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Anthony Watts

Read the story here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/25/they-had-to-burn-the-village-to-save-it-from-global-warming/

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Disinvitation

wimpehiker — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:56:31 GMT

Disinvitation is a trick used by Warmies and other Authoritarian types to stifle free speech. This recently happened to Dr. Fred Singer, a prominent AGW* skeptic. He had been invited to speak before a 'learned' society in France. When a muck-a-muck from the IPCC learned about it, he threw his weight around, and the predictable happened.

Read the story here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/09/24/another-resignation-over-bad-behavior-over-climate-skepticism/

By the way, I left a comment on that thread.

*AGW is Anthropogenic Global Warming.

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Global warming is killing the stars :)

wimpehiker — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:56:22 GMT

Larry's comment. We've recently seen an example of unintentional scientific humor about Global Warming and ET aliens. We desperately needs an intentional counterweight.

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Anthony Watts

People send me things. Today it is a curious graph of the number of supernovae (dying stars) discovered versus the HadCRUT temperature data since 1960. There’s a good correlation. So at first glance you might conclude two things, 1) GCR’s, which are known to be the result of supernovae thanks to data gathered by the Chandra Space Telescope, are indeed influencing Earth’s temperature or 2) Earth’s AGW is killing stars, and aliens are correct to be concerned about Earth and may need to wipe us out to protect the Universe.

Read more here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/25/global-warming-is-killing-the-stars/

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Global Warming and an impending ET attack?

wimpehiker — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:38:02 GMT

Larry's comment: No, I couldn't make this stuff up.

Bizarre, craptastic theory from the Guardian, Penn State, and NASA: “ET will kill us because global warming will tip them off that we are a bad species”

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Anthony Watts

UPDATE: co-author admits it is a “horrible mistake”, see below – Anthony

From the you’ve got to be effing kidding me department.

First, I apologize to my readers for the headline. Read on and I think you’ll see it is justified. The headline is paraphrased from the article and the paper to give you the flavor.

Read more here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/18/bizarre-craptastic-theory-from-the-guardian-penn-state-and-nasa-et-will-kill-us-because-global-warming-will-tip-them-off-that-we-are-a-bad-species/

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Is the jig up in the USA?

wimpehiker — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 08:09:37 GMT

Rasmussen poll: 69% Say It’s Likely Scientists Have Falsified Global Warming Research

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Anthony Watts

From Rasmussen Reports, some bad news for Al Gore and the Hockey Team:

The debate over global warming has intensified in recent weeks after a new NASA study was interpreted by skeptics to reveal that global warming is not man-made. While a majority of Americans nationwide continue to acknowledge significant disagreement about global warming in the scientific community, most go even further to say some scientists falsify data to support their own beliefs.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of American Adults shows that 69% say it’s at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefs, including 40% who say this is Very Likely. Twenty-two percent (22%) don’t think it’s likely some scientists have falsified global warming data, including just six percent (6%) say it’s Not At All Likely. Another 10% are undecided.

Read more here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/08/03/rasmussen-poll-69-say-it%E2%80%99s-likely-scientists-have-falsified-global-warming-research/

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Drowning polar bears? Mua ha ha ha!

wimpehiker — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:45:53 GMT

Al Gore’s “drowned polar bear” AIT source under investigation

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Anthony Watts

According to AP/Anchorage Daily News, he’s on leave pending results of investigation. It seems everywhere you look, there’s some sort of fakery going on with the polar bear issue.

Read more here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/07/28/al-gores-drowned-polar-bear-ait-source-under-investigation/

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A medical analogy of climate hysteria

wimpehiker — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:45:44 GMT

by emmenjayMichael J
July 20, 2011 at 9:59 am

Doctor: You have a melanoma on your arm, I need to amputate the arm.
Patient: Where is it?
Doctor: You can’t see it yet.
Patient: So how do you know I have it?
Doctor: I ran a computer model.
Patient: Has the model ever successfully identified a melanoma before?
Doctor: No, but this time we have it right. There is an overwhelming consensus that it works.
Patient: How does it work?
Doctor: There is an overwhelming consensus that it works.
Patient: But how does it work?
Doctor: There is an overwhelming consensus that it works.
Patient: I think I need a second opinion.
Doctor: There are no other opinions, there is an overwhelming consensus.
Patient: I think I’ll go and see Dr Smith.
Doctor: You can’t trust him, he’s a denier.
Patient: He published a paper on chemotherapy treatment for melanoma.
Doctor: It wasn’t peer reviewed.
Patient: It was the Medical Review.
Doctor: Yes but the reviewers were all deniers and the editor was fired.
Patient: I think I’ll go now.
Doctor: It’s much worse than we thought.
Patient: I’m going.
Doctor: First pay me 4 trillion dollars.
Patient: Bye now.

This was a comment on the WUWT blog about Christopher Monckton's latest debating victory. You can read the article and all of the other comments here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/07/20/monckton-wins-national-press-club-debate-on-climate/#comment-704196

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Has Germany outgrown the Flying CO2 Monster?

wimpehiker — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 18:08:54 GMT

Germany to shovel climate fund dollars into coal plants

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Ryan Maue

Less than a month after the failed Bonn UN climate confab, Germany has announced a most audacious energy policy: in order to shutter nuclear plants (but not completely scuttle their economy), the German government will direct climate fund cash to building coal and natural gas plants. You can’t make this stuff up.

Read more here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/07/13/germany-to-shovel-climate-fund-dollars-into-coal-plants/

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Are CRU results a candidate for JOIR?

wimpehiker — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:52:46 GMT

Note. CRU is the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. JOIR is the Journal of Irreproducible Results, which lampoons hopelessly sloppy science.

At the end of the article:

In Parliament's enquiries into the Climategate Affair, Graham Stringer MP was surprised to learn that the CRU team couldn't produce the same result twice.

"When I asked Oxburgh if [Keith] Briffa [CRU academic] could reproduce his own results, he said in lots of cases he couldn't," Stringer told us. "That just isn't science. It's literature. If somebody can't reproduce their own results, and nobody else can, then what is that work doing in the scientific journals?"

Read more here.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/28/ico_climategate_release_this_rubbish/

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Neglected photovoltaic facility in Germany

wimpehiker — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:57:30 GMT

Weed-Covered, Neglected Solar Park: 20 Acres, $11 Million, Only One And Half Years Old!

By P Gosselin on 4. Juli 2011

German solar skeptic website SOLARKRITIK.DE here provides the background on the rundown, weed-covered solar facility in former communist (and now “green”) East Germany, which I presented in my last post here.

It’s much worse than we thought. The story behind the above photo and the project itself appears here at the online Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper. The facility is sprawled over an area of 20 acres. The Leipziger Volkszeitung newspaper wrote just before the facility went into operation:

‘The park is finally realized,’ beams mayor Carina Radon (CDU) nowadays, and praised the 7.5 million Euro investment. 36,300 modules will be installed in the weeks ahead. It will generate an annual amount of 2.7 million kilowatt-hours. The facility will produce a peak amount of 2722 kilowatts.

Wow! With that kind of performance, you’d think the facility would be well-maintained so that it could continue to generate cash – and so save the planet. Letting such investments go to hell is usually the last thing one does with a money making machine like that.

Click here to see the photo and read the rest of the article.
http://notrickszone.com/2011/07/04/weed-covered-solar-park-20-acres-11-million-only-one-and-half-years-old/

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Are FOIA requests equivalent to death threats?

wimpehiker — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:01:10 GMT

Bizarre: NYT follows AAAS lead on “FOIA requests equate to death threats”

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Anthony Watts

Chris Horner of the American Tradition Institute writes in with this:

So the American Association for the Advancement of Science, thoroughly rattled by the American Tradition Institute’s FOIA requests of UVa and NASA — and even more so by the litigation forced by the institutions’ respective stonewalling — issued a board statement comparing FOIA requests of climate scientists with death threats. Really.

Read more here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/29/bizarre-nyt-follow-aaas-lead-on-foia-requests-equate-to-death-threats/

Larry's comment: I see that several board members at the AAAS have gone off their meds.

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The Supremes on global warming

wimpehiker — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:35:38 GMT

Lawrence Solomon: Supreme skeptics

Lawrence Solomon Jun 23, 2011 – 9:19 PM ET | Last Updated: Jun 23, 2011 9:24 PM ET

The justices of the United States Supreme Court this week became the world’s most august global warming sceptics. Not by virtue of their legal reasoning – the global warming case they decided turned on a technical legal issue — but in their surprising commentary. Global warming is by no means a settled issue, they made clear, suggesting it would be foolhardy to assume it was.

“The court, we caution, endorses no particular view of the complicated issues related to carbon-dioxide emissions and climate change,” reads the 8-0 decision, delivered by the court’s acclaimed liberal, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Read more here.
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2011/06/23/lawrence-solomon-supreme-skeptics/

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More hate-speech from Australian Warmies

wimpehiker — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:41:28 GMT

Facepalm: More casual death wishes from Australia

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Alec Rawls

Guest post by Alec Rawls

Jill Singer, long time Aussie talking head:

I’m prepared to keep an open mind and propose another stunt for climate sceptics – put your strong views to the test by exposing yourselves to high concentrations of either carbon dioxide or some other colourless, odourless gas – say, carbon monoxide.

You wouldn’t see or smell anything. Nor would your anti-science nonsense be heard of again. How very refreshing.

Read more here.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/06/22/facepalm-more-casual-death-wishes-from-australia/#comment-687173

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Biofuel policies kill poor people

wimpehiker — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:36:56 GMT

Killing people with “concern”? Biofuels led to nearly 200,000 deaths (est) in 2010.

The precautionary principle is exposed again for the insidious mindless posturing that it is.

Biofuel policies push more people into poverty as food prices rise and the poor are forced to spend more of their income on food. In a study published in Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Indur Goklany calculated the additional mortality burden of biofuels policies and found that nearly 200,000 people died in 2010 alone, because of efforts to use biofuels to reduce CO2 emissions.

Read more here.
http://joannenova.com.au/2011/06/killing-people-with-concern-biofuels-lead-to-nearly-200000-deaths-est-in-2010/comment-page-3/#comment-354469

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Pachauri: No Conflict of Interest Policy for AR5

wimpehiker — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:36:37 GMT

Yesterday, IPCC chairman Pachauri told Oliver Morton of The Economist at an IPCC event in Brussels that conflict of interest policies would not not apply to AR5 authors. IPCC thereby sabotaged recommendations from the Interacademy Council and announced its plans to evade the conflict of interest policies passed at the 33rd IPCC plenary only a month ago.

Read more here.
http://climateaudit.org/2011/06/18/pachauri-no-conflict-of-interest-policy-for-ar5/

Larry's comment: You've got to admire the chutzpah.

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