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Breitbart"We are in a race against time," former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Wednesday night, in an interview with actor Harrison Ford.
"We still live in a state of denial," Clinton suggested, regarding the future impacts of climate change. "We see it, we experience it, but we have a great deal of difficulty in summoning the political will ... to address it."
Twitter / dbiello: still waiting ...still waiting http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/10/05/white-house-to-get-more-solar-panels/ … MT @billmckibben: WH promised solar on the roof by spring 2011; I believe it's now spring 2013...
A New Climate Survey Tells Us What? : Collide-a-Scape [Yale report] Over many years of research, we have consistently found that, on average, Americans view climate change as a threat distant in space and time–a risk that will affect far away places, other species, or future generations more than people here and now.
That. Is. The. Stumbling. Block.
Twitter / BarackObama: Ninety-seven percent of ...Ninety-seven percent of scientists agree: change is real, man-made and dangerous. Read more:
Hansen Says Exploiting Tar Sands Makes Climate Change Unsolvable - BusinessweekThe scientist also said he’s working on a paper based on “speculative” research that indicates accelerating ice loss from Greenland will eventually cause the North Atlantic to cool, creating the conditions for more powerful storms along the lines of Hurricane Sandy, the largest Atlantic hurricane on record.
“The cold freshwater coming out from Greenland is going to likely cause this cooling,” said Hansen. “That’s what I call the ‘storms of my grandchildren’ because you get cooling of the North Atlantic; warming of the tropics continues to increase, so the temperature gradient get stronger and it drives much stronger storms.”
Political Diary: From the IRS to the EPA? - WSJ.com"We know the Obama EPA has completely mismanaged FOIA, but granting fee waivers for their friends in the far-left environmental community, while simultaneously blocking conservative-leaning groups from gaining access to information, is really no different than the IRS disaster," Mr. Vitter told me in an email Tuesday.
Record cold continues in Interior Alaska - Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: Local NewsIn Bettles, 250 miles north of Fairbanks, the low of 11 degrees shattered the record of 22 degrees set in 1986. Galena saw a temperature of 13 degrees, breaking the record of 16 in 1965.
Appeals court dismisses Katrina-related global warming lawsuit | The Clarion-Ledger | clarionledger.comA federal appeals panel has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a group of Mississippi Gulf Coast residents and landowners who alleged that emissions by energy companies contributed to global warming, which intensified Hurricane Katrina, which, in turn, damaged their property.
DailyTech - Government Creates Global Warming "Refugee" Crisis in AlaskaThe term "climate refugees" is somewhat ironic, given that the Yup'ik were nomadic by nature, migrating over the permafrost. In the 1950s the U.S. government told the Yup'ik that their nomadic lifestyle was no longer acceptable, they had to settle in one location so their children could go to school. The Yup'ik begrudgingly accepted, settling in Kayalavik, a village of sod huts, farther north.
But when Alaska became a state in 1959, federal officials began to pressure the Yup'ik to relocate, as the Kayalavik village was harder for supply barges to access. Eventually the ill-fated decision was made to relocate the tribe to Newtok -- a seasonal stopping place for the tribe's late-summer berry picking.
Global warming slowdown retrospectively “predicted” | The Curious Wavefunction, Scientific American Blog NetworkPeople are usually not happy with prediction after the fact
Michael Mann: ‘I don’t mind being compared to Galileo’ | JunkScience.comHe said it just now at a Climate Desk-sponsored talk.
97.1% Of Scientists Agree That The Climate Can’t Change Without Human Intervention | Real ScienceThe climate was stable for the last 4.6 billion years – prior to humans increasing atmospheric CO2 by 0.0001 mole fraction.
Cook’s fallacy “97% consensus” study is a marketing ploy some journalists will fall for « JoNovaWhat does a study of 20 years of abstracts tell us about the global climate? Nothing. But it says quite a lot about the way government funding influences the scientific process.
John Cook, a blogger who runs the site with the ambush title “SkepticalScience” (which unskeptically defends the mainstream position), has tried to revive the put-down and smear strategy against the thousands of scientists who disagree. The new paper confounds climate research with financial forces, is based on the wrong assumptions, uses fallacious reasoning, wasn’t independent, and confuses a consensus of climate scientists for a scientific consensus, not that a consensus proves anything anyway, if it existed.
Given the monopolistic funding of climate science in the last 20 years, the results he finds are entirely predictable.
April U.S. Temperature trend/decade: – 9.2 F COOLER in 100 years | UD/RK Samhälls DebattAnd as I said in the beginning – always remember that these figures are based on the official data that has been tweaked, “adjusted” and manipulated to fit their agenda (cool the past, ignore UHI and land use change factors, huge smoothing radius – 1200km etc.)..
So the “warming trend” 2000-2013 for April is exactly - 0.92 F degrees a decade. That is a - 9.2 F COOLER in 100 years. That’s what I call “warming”!
Australia’s ABC comes round to what we said on WUWT years ago | Watts Up With That?And as I and others have pointed out, the sea level scare is just another money making enterprise, as evidenced by the increase in airport expansion, among other things.
EasyJet soars on reduced losses as Britons flee cold weather | guardian.co.ukIt was helped by an earlier Easter and a rush of Britons flying off to escape the cold weather
The Reference Frame: Novim Group: "Just Science" AGW appMoreover, these graphs not only fail to show the cause. They also fail to show the significance or, more appropriately, insignificance of the temperature changes since 1800. Whatever the temperature difference between two moments or two places is, you may visualize it in such a way that one temperature will be crimson and the other one will be light green or dark blue or anything else – two or three completely different colors. But this obscures the overall scale and the fact that we are talking about tenths of a degree of temperature change in two centuries – a temperature change most of us can't even detect when it takes place instantly or within a second.
Now divide, dilute, and slow down this temperature change from 1 second to 200 years, add it superimpose it with the constantly changing weather (where the outside temperature routinely jumps by ten degrees within a day) and try to answer the question whether this temperature change and its rate – whatever their cause is – is something that a rational person should become scared of or obsessed about or something that a rational society should spend billions or trillions for.
Reason.comFor two decades, progressives have castigated those questioning global warming as "deniers."
But the Economist, once firmly in the alarmist camp, recently acknowledged that global temperatures have remained stagnant for 15 years even as greenhouse-gas emissions have soared.
This may be because existing models have overestimated the planet's sensitivity. Or because the heat generated is sinking to the ocean bottom. Or because of something else completely.
How should a scientifically inclined liberal react to this trend? By inhaling deeply and backing off on economy-busting mitigation measures till science offers clearer answers.
And how have liberals reacted? By sticking their fingers in their ears and chanting la-la-la.
...Most priceless, however, was Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science.
He spilled serious ink in Mother Jones defending the highly questionable "hockey stick" graph -- the core evidence of global warmists -- which allegedly showed a sudden warming spike in the last century after a millennium of steady temperatures.
The Breakthrough Institute - How Electricity and TV Defused the ‘Population Bomb’How does TV act as a contraceptive? Lewis notes it may be because "many of its offerings provide a model of middle class families successfully grappling with the transition from tradition to modernity, helped by the fact that they have few children to support." It may not be TV generally, but rather soap operas specifically that paint a vision for poor women of how much better life with fewer kids might be.
Record 98F Yesterday (hottest May 14 in Minnesota history; wet, potentially severe weekend on tap) | StarTribune.comAn omen for another sweltering summer to come? I doubt it. Overall I'm still predicting a cooler, wetter, stormier summer for Minnesota. Last year's debilitating drought will be a dusty memory for most of the state in a few weeks.
Last summer saw 31 days above 90F; I expect closer to 10-15 this year.
My Epiphany! | Real ScienceI was riding my bicycle in the mountains, and suddenly it all became clear.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas, which has increased by one part per ten thousand over the last century. There was a hurricane last summer, and a drought. The evidence is overwhelming.
We can no longer ignore the tenets of faith which have been passed down by the holy trinity of James Hansen, Al Gore and Barack Obama. It is essential to turn over your money and your freedom, in order to prevent any more US made CO2 molecules from entering the atmosphere.
Fuzzy math: In a new soon to be published paper, John Cook claims ‘consensus’ on 32.6% of scientific papers that endorse AGW | Watts Up With That?You have to wonder how somebody can write (let alone read) the claims made here in the press release by Cook with a straight face. It gives a window into the sort of things we can expect from his borked survey he recently foisted on climate websites which seems destined to either fail, or get spun into even stranger claims.
Daily Kos: Why the Attorney General Matters in VirginiaMark's election would serve as a clear, unequivocal rejection of Cuccinelli's style of politics and a return to thoughtful, responsible governing. But it would also be a tremendous blow to the political extremists on a national level. Remember, the far right-wing Tea Party planted its roots in Virginia in 2009, which quickly bloomed into a resounding victory in 2010 and dangerous policy from the likes of Cuccinelli in the years since.
When you consider all of these factors, you can quickly see the importance of Virginia's 2013 elections.
Enviros Livid as Brown Diverts Cap-and-Trade Funds Under state law, cap-and-trade proceeds are supposed to go toward programs that help reduce the state's carbon footprint. And Brown himself has touted the potential uses of those funds in furthering the goals of California's central climate strategy under the 2006 law known as AB32. But the administration now says many of those carbon-cutting programs aren't ready for prime time, and in the meantime the funds can help balance the state budget. According to the governor's staff, the diversion is a "loan" that will be paid back with interest.
‘Black Sand’ helps Mother Nature melt snow a little quicker on mountain passes | UtahMonday afternoon, plow crews were able to break through the remaining 4-foot snow drifts on state Route 39
Daily Kos: More global warming could be ahead than seen in millions of yearsPaleo-climate Professor Michael Mann, author of The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars (and today, a debut DKos diarist), emailed noting that "The last time we're confident CO2 levels breached 400ppm, was the mid Miocene, around 10 million years ago, though it could have been a bit later, e.g. 4 million years. In either case, we know that the globe was quite a bit warmer than today, with much less ice around, and much higher sea level." When asked, Mann added he could think of no significant factor present now and not present then that might dampen warming.
Tobacco Front-Group Chairman And Climate Science Denier Named President Of New Mexico State University | ThinkProgressCarruthers has not yet commented publicly whether he will ensure the NMSU Climate Action Plan is followed.
Insurers Stray From the Conservative Line on Climate Change - NYTimes.comYet when I asked Mr. Nutter what the American insurance industry was doing to combat global warming, his answer was surprising: nothing much.
Meteorologist Paul Douglas talks climate change at Senior Expo “It was like Mother Nature lost her equilibrium, and now we're floundering somewhat,” he said. “This week, we're gonna go from frost on Mother's Day, to 100 degrees in two days. I've never seen that.”
He says skeptics, meanwhile, will sound their usual refrain: “They'll say, 'Where's you climate change, Paul? It's snowing in May.' To that I say, 'Can you see the entire globe from your window?'”
Natural weather disasters, Douglas said, have increased by a multiple of three or four times over the past few decades.
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“I tell people, don't look at your thermometer. Look out at your back yard and see the things that are there now that weren't there 20 years ago,” he said.
The beginning of the end: warmists in retreat on sea level rise, climate sensitivity | Watts Up With That?The forecast: It seems there’s less chance of gloom and doom these days.
For sea level rise, now a maximum of about two feet by 2100. As for climate sensitivity, now for the first time ever, we are seeing mentions of a quadrupling of CO2 rather than a doubling to get scary scenarios.
Michael Levi - Fracking, Pipelines, and Science | Point of Inquiry[English major Chris Mooney] A few months back on this show, we heard from Bill McKibben, the celebrated environmental writer and, more recently, leader of a mass movement around preventing climate change that has focused on blocking the Keystone XL pipeline.
McKibben makes a compelling case that our climate system is at dire risk. But many thinkers who fully accept the science of climate change nonetheless take a very different approach to climate and energy policy. And as someone who personally sees strengths on both sides of this question, today I want to feature one of them.
New York Times Conceding Low Sensitivity! Now Talking About “CO2 Quadrupling” To Get Catastrophe Scenarios!In the article Justin Gillis and scientist James Annan come across as having a very hard time departing from the hypothesis that CO2 climate sensitivity is high.
Nenana Ice Classic now past 4th latest ice breakup | Watts Up With That?It’s hard to forget geophysicist Martin Jeffries at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks saying in 2009,
The Nenana Ice Classic is a pretty good proxy for climate change in the 20th century.
Sage insight.
Climatesense-norpag: Climate Forecasting Basics for Britain's Seven Alarmist Scientists and for UK Politicians.The seven are Sir John Houghton,Sir Bob Watson, Sir David King, Sir John Beddington,Sir Robert May,Lord Rees and Sir Paul Nurse. Their titles indicate that they have been good reliable chaps and played the British Political Establishment's Honours game with some skill.It is increasingly clear, as the earth obstinately refuses to warm up,that they have got it all wrong .They and the Politicians need to start again from square one and rethink the whole thing.Here are some helpful suggestions.
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