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Scientists Denounce AP For Hysterical Global Warming Article. *Snippet*
Obama says climate change a matter of national security. *Snippet*
CHICAGO (Reuters) - President-elect
Barack Obama said on Tuesday attacking global
climate change is a "matter of urgency" that will create
jobs as he got advice from Al Gore, who won a Nobel
Peace Prize for his work on the issue.
In remarks to reporters, Obama made clear he would adopt an aggressive approach to global warming when he takes over the White House on January 20.
State air-quality regulators approve hugely expensive, intrusive anti-emissions plan *Snippet* The California Air Resources Board approval last week of top-down micromanagement of industries and commerce, ostensibly to rid California of global warming, is a broad intrusion into the private sector that not only will be costly, but ultimately a solution for a problem whose dimensions have been defined more by politics than science and probably doesn't even exist.
Al Fin: The Sun Proves an Embarassment to Climate Orthodoxers and Carbon Hysterics *Snippet* The climate orthodoxy of carbon hysteria has never understood the intricacies of causative interaction in Earth's climate. Led by fanatics such as James Hansen and Al Gore, the orthodoxy decided early on to assign responsibility for "climate change" to human generated CO2. Orthodoxers reduced the complex system of climate to a single parameter--CO2--to make their job easier.
The American Spectator : Obama's Looming Energy Disaster *Snippet*
I subscribe to an Internet newsletter called Energy Central
and the news is getting more depressing every week. Every time I
scan the headlines I realize I'm looking at another piece of a
gathering energy debacle.
Take last Thursday's edition. Right at the top of the page was the story, "Xcel Energy, eXco Join in Major Wind Farm Developments in Minnesota, North Dakota." It's like this every day. Wind farms of sprouting up all over the country like 65-story mushrooms. The North American Reliability Council estimates we will have 175,000 megawatts of new capacity by 2017 (that's the equivalent of 175 major coal or nuclear plants). Unfortunately, it admits, "only approximately 23,000 MW…is projected to be available on peak." That means these windmills will be idle most of the time. Coal plants operate at 65 percent capacity, nuclear rims at 90 percent. But at best windmills produce only 30 percent of their "nameplate capacity" and they are almost useless on torpid summer days. California has found its windmills running at only 3 percent capacity on hot summer days.
Obama's Carbon Ultimatum - WSJ.com
Lorne Gunter: Thirty years of warmer temperatures go poof. *Snippet* In early September, I began noticing a string of news stories about scientists rejecting the orthodoxy on global warming. Actually, it was more like a string of guest columns and long letters to the editor since it is hard for skeptical scientists to get published in the cabal of climate journals now controlled by the Great Sanhedrin of the environmental movement.
First U.S. carbon auction brings states $39 mln *Snippet*
NEW YORK, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The first
auction in the United States of permits allowing power
plants to emit a greenhouse gas raised nearly $39
million, which states plan to use to protect consumers
from any higher energy bills that could result from
capping the pollution.
The auction kicked off the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, an agreement by ten states to begin regulating carbon dioxide emissions from more than 230 power plants in January. The states, from Maryland to Maine, are taking action in the absence of guidance from the Bush administration on how to regulate the gases widely blamed for warming the planet.
Cleaning Up Coal's Act - WSJ.com *Snippet* BEIJING -- India and China are at the forefront of a new wave in clean-coal technology that has the potential to tap enormous and otherwise inaccessible coal reserves -- and to slow the speed of climate change. The Asian giants are investigating large-scale commercial projects that would produce energy by burning the coal where it lies, deep below the Earth's surface. Building on pilot projects in the U.S. and elsewhere, the two countries are also looking at the possibility of capturing and permanently storing underground the gases produced, like carbon dioxide, which scientists believe cause global warming.
Calif. bill would tie land use to carbon emissions *Snippet*
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — For decades, California cities and
counties knew one way to grow — by sprawling outward.
That approach, which has led to ever longer commutes, jammed freeways and worsening air quality, is being challenged under a bill that was approved Saturday in the state Legislature. If signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has not yet indicated whether he would do so, the bill would require local governments to plan their growth so that homes, businesses and public transit systems are clustered together. The goal is to help California meet the emission mandates spelled out in a wide-ranging greenhouse gas reduction law passed two years ago.
Past evidence boosts concern for Greenland icesheet. *Snippet* PARIS (AFP) - Scientists Sunday said they could no longer rule out a fast-track melting of the Greenland icesheet -- a prospect, once the preserve of doomsayers, that would see much of the world's coastline drowned by rising seas. The researchers found that the great Laurentide icesheet which smothered much of North America during the last Ice Age melted far swifter than realised, dumping billions of tonnes of water into the ocean.
ZIGGURAT: Dubai Carbon Neutral Pyramid will House 1 Million
New Report Calls into Question ‘Man-Made’ Climate Change *Snippet*
(CNSNews.com) – New scientific evidence suggests there is a stronger link
between solar activity and climate trends on Earth than there is with greenhouse
gases, Fred Singer, an atmospheric and space physicist, told CNSNews.com.
GOP platform may have global warming plank - UPI.com *Snippet*
WASHINGTON,
Aug. 26 (UPI) -- The
Republican platform may include a first-ever
plank on global warming, an examination of a draft
document indicated.
"Increased atmospheric carbon has a warming effect on the Earth," The Hill reported the draft document as saying. "While the scope and long term consequences of this warming effect are the subject of ongoing research, we believe the United States should take measured and reasonable steps today."
Slashdot | 2008 Is the Coldest Year of the 21st Century
12 states sue EPA over refinery carbon emissions. *Snippet*
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York and 11
other states are suing federal environmental regulators
over greenhouse gas emissions from oil refineries, the
New York attorney general's office said on Monday.
The suit, led by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, charges that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the federal Clean Air Act by refusing to issue standards, known as new source performance standards, for controlling global warming pollution emissions from oil refineries.
Coastal towns doomed by rising sea - Telegraph *Snippet* People living on some stretches of coastline will be forced to abandon their homes and move inland as sea levels rise, the new head of the Environment Agency has warned. Lord Smith of Finsbury said plans need to be drawn up to evacuate people from large stretches which are threatened by erosion. Work is already under way to identify parts of the south and east coast which are most threatened and Lord Smith said there would be hard decisions to be made about which areas to defend and which to allow the sea to reclaim.
Decade has had fewest 90-degree days since 1930 *Snippet*
August is the wettest and often the muggiest month of the year. Yet, summer heat
continues in short supply, continuing a trend that has dominated much of the
21st Century's opening decade. There have been only 162 days 90 degrees or
warmer at
Midway Airport over the period from 2000 to 2008. That's by far the fewest
90-degree temperatures in the opening nine years of any decade on record here
since 1930. ----------------------------------------------------- Global Warming... Melting Your Vices... *sigh*
21 US cities will measure and disclose their CO2 emissions. (Gee.. can we hold our breath and get a better "score"?) ....maybe just the greenies....
Only 25 Percent See Global Warming Threat *Snippet* In spite of the media’s obsession with global warming, only 25 percent of Americans view climate change as the world’s biggest environmental threat, according to a new ABC News poll. Fewer than half – 47 percent – viewed global warming as “extremely” or “very” important to them.
Unique fossil discovery shows Antarctic was once much warmer *Snippet*
"Notwithstanding the significance of the
fossil preservation, the presence of lake
ostracods at this latitude, 77 degrees
south, is also of great note. Present
conditions in this Antarctic region show
mean annual temperatures of minus 25 degrees
C. These are impossible conditions to
sustain a lake fauna with ostracods."
Alaska seeks to reverse U.S. polar bear decision.
*Snippet* Greens are increasingly frantic over the opposition being voiced against global warming, one of the greatest hoaxes in modern history.It’s hard to ignore the fact that the Greens are going crazy, not just in the United States, but around the world. They are increasingly frantic over the opposition being voiced against global warming, one of the greatest hoaxes in modern history.
Icy reality cools the climate cultists *Snippet*
DAILY, new evidence emerges to demonstrate that Climate
Minister Penny Wong is wrong.
The latest blow to the Government’s apocalyptic prophet is news from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute that there is more ice than normal in the Arctic waters north of the Svalbard archipelago. According to the Barents Observer there are open areas in this area in most years during July - but this year the area is covered by ice. A fortnight ago a Norwegian research ship, Lance, and a Swedish ship, MV Stockholm, got stuck in the ice in the area and needed to be freed by the Norwegian Coast Guard.
California threat to sue US govt over ship, aircraft emissions *Snippet* LOS ANGELES (AFP) - California said Thursday it planned to sue the US government for failing to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from ships, aircraft, construction and agricultural equipment. In the latest legal threat from the state against the Environmental Protection Agency, California's Attorney General Jerry Brown said the body was "wantonly ignoring" its duty to set pollution standards.
Critical Issues Commentary: Global Warming, Blind Faith, and Global Delusion *Snippet* This past January I met Dr. E. Calvin Beisner at a Christian think tank sponsored by Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet. Beisner told me about a book that shows that the irreducible complexity of the numerous factors that contribute to climate makes it impossible to know or predict future climate changes. Beisner is involved with the Cornwall Alliance and has written on the topic of climate change1. This article is a review of the excellent book that he recommended.
Explosion In Marine Biodiversity Explained By Climate Change *Snippet* ScienceDaily (July 28, 2008) — A global change in climate could explain the explosion in marine biodiversity that took place 460 million years ago. Researchers from Lyon (1) and Canberra (Australia) (2) have found evidence of a progressive ocean cooling of about 15°C over a period of 40 million years during the Ordovician (3). Until now, this geologic period had been associated with a "super greenhouse effect" on our planet.
Global warming may boost kitten population :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES ::
Wind turbine marketers are full of hot air. *Snippet* Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain travelled to Oregon in mid-May to deliver the definitive climate change speech of his campaign. He spoke in Portland, at the U.S. headquarters of Vestas Wind Systems AS, a Danish company that markets wind turbines around the world. He started on a self-deprecating note. “Today is a kind of test run for this company,” he said. “They've got wind technicians here, wind studies and all these wind turbines. But there's no wind. So now I know why they asked me to come and give a speech.”
California joins major North American effort to curb greenhouse gases *Snippet*
U.S. Senate Hearing: Climate Scientist Says Warming of 'last 100 years is mostly natural’ PDF FILE
American physicists warned not to debate global warming | The Register *Snippet*
BBC NEWS | Ruling expected on climate film *Snippet* Media regulator Ofcom is due to decide whether a Channel 4 documentary broke rules on accuracy and fairness. The Great Global Warming Swindle attracted various complaints, including claims it misled contributors. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the former UK government chief scientific adviser Sir David King were among the complainants. Channel 4 said it aired the documentary to demonstrate that the debate on climate change was not over.
Global Warming Science and Public Policy - Proved: There is no climate crisis *Snippet*
WASHINGTON (7-15-08) - Mathematical proof that there is no “climate crisis”
appears today in a major, peer-reviewed paper in Physics and Society, a learned
journal of the 10,000-strong American Physical Society, SPPI reports.
No smoking hot spot | The Australian *Snippet* DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector. FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. I've been following the global warming debate closely for years. When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old ice core data, no other suspects.
Myth of Consensus Explodes: APS Opens Global Warming Debate *Snippet* The American Physical Society, an organization representing nearly 50,000 physicists, has reversed its stance on climate change and is now proclaiming that many of its members disbelieve in human-induced global warming. The APS is also sponsoring public debate on the validity of global warming science. The leadership of the society had previously called the evidence for global warming "incontrovertible."
Barr praises Gore’s work on climate change *Snippet*
Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr praised Al Gore on Thursday for his
commitment to addressing climate change and said he has met with the former vice
president several times to discuss possible solutions.
No consensus, and no warming, either | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Greenhouse Confusion Resolved. *Snippet*
Stephen Wilde has been a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society since 1968.
The first eight articles from Mr Wilde were received with a great deal of
interest throughout the Co2 Sceptic community.
Bigger fish due to climate change: tuna industry.
Hot and bothered over climate. *Snippet* If you are confused about the Kyoto Accord, climate change, greenhouse gases, the deleterious effects of carbon dioxide (CO), and assorted environmental threats as outlined in Al Gore's Academy Award and Nobel Prize winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, I have a solution.
Kyoto's Long Goodbye - WSJ.com *Snippet* One of the mysteries of the universe is why President Bush bothers to charge the fixed bayonets of the global warming theocracy. On the other hand, his Administration's supposed "cowboy diplomacy" is succeeding in changing the way the world addresses climate change. Which is to say, he has forced the world to pay at least some attention to reality.
Cleaner skies explain surprise rate of warming. *Snippet*
GOODBYE air pollution and smoky chimneys, hello brighter
days. That's been the trend in Europe for the past three
decades - but unfortunately cleaning up the skies has
allowed more of the sun's rays to pierce the atmosphere,
contributing to at least half the warming that has
occurred.
*Snippet* For many millennia, Catholic school children could find inspiration in their own names because likely they shared them with a sanctified namesake, or patron saint. St. Anthony, for example, is the patron saint of the lost and found. Now, it seems, even the saints have become political totems. “In the spirit of their founder, Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of ecology, the Franciscan Friars of Holy Name Province recognize the seriousness that the challenge of climate change presents, especially to the poor and marginalized,” the bulletin of the parish in Triangle, Virginia that bears that sainted gentleman’s name reads. “Please consider joining the friars in their support of the Boxer-Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act.”
I received this little ditty today. Very clever! THE GORE-AX © by THE CASTAWAY CASTRO Yo, I am the Gore-Ax, who speaks for the trees I speak for the Earth and she wants to say "Please!" "Address global warming as soon as you can." "The sun cannot cause it. The culprit is man." Oh Gaea, so fragile, she can't take the heat A few more degrees and the Earth is dead meat From choking on carbon emissions, you hear? More threat'ning than any munitions you fear Your minivans, Hummers, immense S.U.V.s Are wreaking great havoc on Earth and her trees And muscle car drivers, you ruin the air So switch to a Prius to show that you care Or better yet, travel by bus or by train And then my new limo can have a clear lane For I am the Gore-Ax, who speaks for the trees I'll speak for the Earth until everyone sees The danger that climate change poses to all Especially if suburbs continue to sprawl We must limit suburbs if we're to defer The global catastrophe soon to occur If glaciers keep melting, the oceans will rise And polar bears surely will meet their demise My house in the Hamptons, right there by the shore Will be underwater if Earth heats up more When oceans get warmer, more hurricanes form My house in the Hamptons might fall in a storm It's Earth in the balance. Am I getting through? Do all that you can to reduce CO2 Now, I am the Gore-Ax, who speaks for the trees When saving the Earth I refuse to appease You stubborn deniers who won't see the light We have a consensus that says that I'm right You shill for big oil and guzzle gas, too It's time for a carbon tax levied on you The planet's in peril, so cut back or pay Your country should bow to Kyoto today I know it's not easy, but what can you do? A truth inconvenient is nonetheless true I've so much to teach you, but must say goodbye My Gulfstream is waiting. It's time that I fly To Hollywood, Davos and maybe to Cannes So limit your energy use when I'm gone
Plasma, LCDs blamed for accelerating global warming. *Note to self: Buy another Plasma TV.
Roy W. Spencer: Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat Give it a read!
*Snippet* Energy: A state judge has blocked construction of a power plant on grounds that its emissions permit does not set a cap on carbon dioxide. Global warming alarmism wins another round.
*Snippet* After his unsuccessful presidential bid in 2000, Internet Al Gore pegged his net worth at about $1 million. Today, it's at least $100 million thanks to his global-warming rantings grounded in a consensus of warmists masquer- ading as scientists who are unable to prove a word of it.
France heads into the labyrinth of Climate change. *Snippet*
BELGIUM - It has been hailed as the most important European Union legal proposal
in the last five years: a package of laws aimed at fighting global warming by
reducing carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions from everything from power stations to
cars.
Destruction Of Greenhouse Gases Over Tropical Atlantic May Ease Global Warming *Snippet* ScienceDaily (June 26, 2008) — Large amounts of ozone -- around 50% more than predicted by the world's state-of-the-art climate models -- are being destroyed in the lower atmosphere over the tropical Atlantic Ocean. This startling discovery was made by a team of scientists from the UK's National Centre for Atmospheric Science and Universities of York and Leeds. It has particular significance because ozone in the lower atmosphere acts as a greenhouse gas and its destruction also leads to the removal of the third most abundant greenhouse gas; methane.
Global warming could increase terrorism, official says - CNN.com
Gore: 'Completely eliminate the internal combustion engine' *Snippet*
"Consider that the United States spends tens of
billions of dollars on frenzied programs to upgrade
and improve the technology of bombers and fighter
planes to counter an increasingly remote threat to
our national security. but we are content to see
hundreds of millions of automobiles using an old
technological approach not radically different from
the one first used decades ago in the Model A Ford.
*Snippet*
If the government gets into the business of regulating and
controlling carbon emissions it will be an unparalleled
concentration of power far exceeding the New Deal under
Roosevelt. The government will be in complete control over what
businesses and average citizens consume and produce.
It is the gateway excuse to rule, regulate and control your daily life in a fashion that we have never tolerated before but are now expected to meekly accept as we attempt to bailout the bathtub with a teaspoon. Never have Americans been so willing to hand over the most fundamental financial, transportation and quality of life decisions over to a central authority on such questionable grounds.
Environmental Foolishness Has Made Nuclear Energy Radioactive *Snippet* Carbon-capping legislation and recent studies [1] that conclude that a massive build-up of nuclear power is needed to minimize the negative economic impact of CO2 caps have spurred several high-profile articles on the costs of nuclear energy. [2] One such article notes that estimated construction costs for nuclear power plants and the overall costs of nuclear power have increased significantly since 2000 and espouses wind power, solar power, and energy efficiency as alternatives to new nuclear plants.
Canada's opposition proposes pollution tax. *Snippet* OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's opposition on Thursday unveiled an environmental plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions that would heavily tax polluters, but trim income taxes.
"Canadians know that we need to be bold, not blind, to
the challenges we are facing today, especially climate
change," opposition Liberal leader Stephane Dion said.
ABC News: Carbon Bigfoot: Cannonball Run Returns
Gore's Mansion Uses More Energy After 'Going Green' -- 06/19/2008 *Snippet*
In the year since Al Gore took steps to make his home more energy
efficient, the power use at the former vice president's house has increased more
than 10 percent, a nonprofit research group reported Tuesday.
Viking Farms Tell Cautionary Climate Tale : NPR
Icelandic farmers bring their sheep down from the hills for the winter. Sheep have played a large role in the degradation of Iceland's soil, through overgrazing.
The Marxist roots of the global warming scare *Snippet*
The late Natalie Grant Wraga once wrote, "Protection of the environment has
become the principal tool for attack against the West and all it stands for.
Protection of the environment may be used as a pretext to adopt a series of
measures designed to undermine the industrial ba |
