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» Agriculture: Tropical Cyclones are Welcome Visitors
» Sea Level Acceleration: Not so Fast
» Hansen Is Wrong
» Earth’s Carbon Sink Still Strong and Growing
» Wild Speculation on Climate and Polar Bears
» Illiteracy at NASA
» The Heat Was On—Before Urbanization and Greenhouse Gases
» What’s to Blame for the Rains on the Plains?
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» Yawn: Robert Redford Blames Isolated Weather Events on Global Warming
» Gore Accuses Koch Brothers of Being 'Purveyors of the Dirtiest Energy on Earth'
» New York Times Shocker: Global Warming Plateaued Last 15 Years Despite Rapid CO2 Rise
» Allergies Caused By Global Warming According To Newsweek
» Delusional: Google’s Eric Schmidt Claims Media Help Climate Skeptic ‘Liars’
» WashPost Hypes Piece Declaring ‘Climate Change Is Killing Us’
» AP Coverage of Exxon Annual Meeting Contains Predictable Misleading 'Climate Change' Statements
» NBC Uses Tragedy in Oklahoma to Advance Global Warming Agenda
» 'Vice' CEO Bugged Out by Climate Change: It's a 'Gun to Our Heads!'
» Global Warming Skeptics Rebut Face the Nation Segment on Climate Change and Moore Tornado
» Christie Dismisses Climate Change Question from NBC's Lauer as 'Distraction,' 'Esoteric Theory'
» Ex-AccuWeather's Bastardi Slams 'Ambulance Chasing' by Global Warming Theory Activists
» Sen. Whitehouse Blames GOP For Okla. Tornado, Storms, Rising Seas, Etc.
» Comedy Central 'Daily Show' Creator: Oklahoma Tornado 'Ordered to Only Target Conservatives'
» MSNBC's Hayes Plugs 'Incredible Story' of Felon Who Disrupted Oil Lease Auction
» TIME's Kluger Warns Manhattan Residents Could Soon Be ‘Swimming’ Due to Global Warming
» NYT's Gillis, Writing Under False Headline, Rants Against Warming Skeptics With 'Little Scientific Credibility'
» Dennis Miller Slams 'Phony,' 'Detestable' Al Gore, 'Everybody Should Shun'
» British Journalist Melanie Phillips: Environmentalists ‘Wrench’ Evidence to Fit Climate Conclusions
» Professors Publish Picture of Them Burning Book Refuting Global Warming
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» Effects of C02 on Nitrous Oxide Emissions
» Interactive Effects of C02 and Temperature on Woody Plant Growth
» So Far Climate Scepticism is Right
» Climatic Effects of Black Carbon
» Spinning the Climate, The Intergovernmental Pannel on Climate Change (IPCC)
» Interactive Effects of Temperature and Enhanced C02 on Agricultural Crops
» Atmospheric Methane Concentrations
» Solar Influence on Temperatures in Europe
» Solar Influence on Climate: Cosmic Rays
» Request for Correction of Serious Inaccuracy
» Cook "The Books" is Wrong to Slam Roy Spencer
» Is C02 Mitigation Cost-Effective?
» Solar Influence on Global Temperature
» Evidence of a Medieval Warm Period in Antarctica
» Analysis of US and State-by-State Carbon Dioxide Emissions & Potential "Savings" in Future Global Temperature & Global Sea Level Rise
» Storm Trends Across the North Atlantic Ocean
» Drought Trends Across the Eastern United States
» Storm Trends Across North America
» Historical Response of Heat Waves to Global Air Temperature
» Drought Trends Across the Western United States
» Drought Trends in the Northern Great Plains, USA
» Precipitation Variability in Europe
» Historical Trends of Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclones
» Historical Flood Trends in Europe
» Precipitation Variability in Asia
*** Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group
» 2012 Climate Science Weblog in Review by Dallas Jean Staley – A Guest Post
» The Weblog Is Retiring
» Publication Of “Reply to “Comment On ‘Ocean Heat Content And Earth’s Radiation Imbalance. II. Relation To Climate Shifts’ ” by Nuccitelli Et Al. By Douglass and Knox 2012
» Q&A From A Group Of Retired NASA Personnel And Associates
» The Importance of Land Use/Land Practices On Climate – A Perspective From Jon Foley
» Interview With James Wynn In The English Department At Carnegie Mellon University
» University Of Alabama At Huntsville October 2012 Lower Tropospheric Temperature Analysis
» USA Election Day 2012
» New Paper “Climatic Variability Over Time Scales Spanning Nine Orders of Magnitude: Connecting Milankovitch Cycles With Hurst–Kolmogorov Dynamics” By Markonis And Koutsoyiannis
» New Paper “Indian Ocean Warming Modulates Pacific Climate Change” By Luo Et Al 2012
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» Briffa Condemns Mann Reconstructions
» Econometric Applications in Climatology
» Briffa 2013
» UnderCooked Statistics
» PAGES2K Online “Journal Club”
» Cook’s Survey
» More Kaufman Contamination
» Gifford Miller vs Upside-Down Kaufman
» Steig’s Bladeless “Hockey” Stick
» Non-centring in the Forest 2006 study
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» Quite possibly the dumbest example of ‘Tabloid Climatology’ ever from Climate Central’s Andrew Freedman
» Dammed if you do, Dammed if you don’t
» On Muller et al (2013) “Decadal variations in the global atmospheric land temperatures”
» New paper by Ross McKitrick – ‘temperature data strongly affected by local population growth’
» It appears that by UN sponsored vote, the world just doesn’t care much about climate change
» ERL rejects Richard Tol’s comment on Cook et al 2013, but won’t say who rejected it
» Remember that ‘unprecedented’ Greenland ice sheet surface melt that was allegedly caused by global warming? Never mind
» Carbon sequestration driver: Spiders, why did it have to be spiders?
» NOAA GOES-13 satellite becomes first ever to recover from a micrometeoroid impact
» Essay: carbon footprint as ‘original sin’
» Global cooling as significant as global warming
» The East Anglia Rococo
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» Is a Carbon Tax a Conservative Idea Whose Time Has Come? Thoughts on the R Street – Heartland Debate
» Climate Models: “Epic Failure” or “Spot on Consistent” with Observed Warming?
» Where Does America’s Oil Come From? (An Update)
» Video: CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner Presentation on EPA FOIA Scandals
» Social Cost of Carbon: Interagency Group Predictably Predicts Climate Change Worse Than Predicted
» The Inanity of the Global Solar Panel Market
» Winning Voter Support Makes Politicians Sound Normal on Energy Policy
» ‘Unleash the Energy Export Revolution’ – Mark Mills
» Stranger than Fiction: Ethical Abomination “Richard Windsor” Wins EPA Award for Ethics
» John Christy: Climate Change Overview in Six Slides
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» Beyond NYC: Other places adapting to climate, too
» Barack Obama -- my deluded pen pal
» Meteorologists meet to mull weird British weather
» AccuWeather LIVE: Hurricane Season Has Officially Begun
» UN climate talks marred by decision-making spat
*** Michelle Malkin - Enviro-Nitwits
» Al Gore: Keystone pipeline an ‘atrocity’
» Electric car advocate pays $16k a minute to personally ask Obama to push carbon tax
» NYC nanny-in-chief curiously un-nannylike when it comes to bicycle helmets
» Dueling headlines — ‘Is is hot in here or is Al Gore crazy?’ edition
» News flash: Al Gore still trying to get everybody to panic
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» Will the Real Antarctica Please Stand Up?
» Global Warming May Decrease Hurricanes, Research Suggests
» Japanese Report Disputes Human Cause for Global Warming
» Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979
» A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the (Climate) Forum
» Climate Report Downgrades Ice Loss; Media Reports Opposite
» Princeton Physicist Calls Global Warming Science "Mistaken"
» Defying Predictions, Sea Level Rise Begins to Slow
» Electric Car Sales in Freefall; Industry Risks Collapse
» Glaciers in Norway Growing Again
*** C3 - Climate Cycles Change
» Documented: Billions Wasted On 'GIGO' Science - Climate Models Can't Predict Squat
» Evidence Refutes Natural Climate Change Deniers: Alarmist Global Warming Myths Proven Bogus
» Admitted: Consensus Grows Among Scientists That Current Climate Models Are Gargantuan Failure
» The Brutish, Anti-Science Techniques of Climate Scientists Spreads: Harvard's Own Michael Mann
» IPCC's Gold-Standard HadCRUT Confirms: CO2's Impact On Global Temps Statistically Immaterial & Insignificant
» The Continuing Collapse of Both The Anti-Science CO2/AGW Theory & The "Unequivocal" Global Warming Trend
» Latest Data Supporting Keystone Pipeline: Higher CO2 Levels Cause Significant Drop In Murder Rate
» Revealed: Michael Mann Has Twin Who Is Even Dumber - Works For Mainstream Press Outlet
» Confirmed: 68% of Recent Peer Reviewed Studies Reject Catastrophic Global Warming Disaster Predictions
» Obama Administration's View On Disappearance of Global Warming - "I Don't Know"
» Simple, Basic Factual Truths: Dangerous, Accelerating Global Warming Does Not Exist
» Global Warming: Fabrication of Misleading Temperature Data By IPCC Related Scientists Continues
» Michael Mann's Scary New Sea Level Predictions Identified As Bogus, Confirms 97% Consensus That He Fibs
» Reality Wake-Up Call: Climate "Experts" Sea Level Prediction Found To Be Wildly Wrong
» Multiple Proxy Study Confirms "Global Warming" Skeptic Views - Modern Temps Not Unprecedented, Not Global
*** CATO - Global Warming
» Nothing but Blood in Syrian Intervention for U.S.
» Tyranny of the Taxers
» North Korea: From Hyperinflation to Dollarization?
» Wasting Time in Belfast
» The Biggest Fool of All
» The Supreme Court's Tortured Reasoning Brings New Meaning to 'Sausage-Making'
» Has Mike Pence, As Governor, Forgotten He's a Fiscal Conservative?
» Welfare Shouldn't Ruin Immigration Reform
» NSA Snooping Matters, Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'
» Intervention Temptation
» Letter to the Editor: Venezuela Hit by Fears of Hyperinflation and Recession
» Three Questions about NSA Surveillance
» Do the NSA's Phone and Internet Monitoring Programs Make Sense?
» The Deficit Is Still Bad News
» Obama Tracking Whatever You Say and Do. You're Americans?
» NSA Surveillance in Perspective
» 'It Can't Happen Here' Just Did
» How Solid Is the NSA’s Legal Footing?
» IRS Troubles Go Global
» Korean Déjà Vu
» Learn the Lessons from Iraq
» Turkey Is Different
» How to End the War on Terrorism Properly
» Killing with Kindness: How Foreign Aid Backfires
» The US-China Summit: Why Cooperation Remains Tentative
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» The Global Warming Gas, or The Bread and Butter of Life?
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» A Classic Tale of Global Warming Alarmism
» More Evidence Against a Methane Time Bomb
» Agriculture: Tropical Cyclones are Welcome Visitors
» Sea Level Acceleration: Not so Fast
» Hansen Is Wrong
» Earth’s Carbon Sink Still Strong and Growing
» Wild Speculation on Climate and Polar Bears
» Illiteracy at NASA
» The Heat Was On—Before Urbanization and Greenhouse Gases
» What’s to Blame for the Rains on the Plains?
» Yawn: Robert Redford Blames Isolated Weather Events on Global Warming
» Gore Accuses Koch Brothers of Being 'Purveyors of the Dirtiest Energy on Earth'
» New York Times Shocker: Global Warming Plateaued Last 15 Years Despite Rapid CO2 Rise
» Allergies Caused By Global Warming According To Newsweek
» Delusional: Google’s Eric Schmidt Claims Media Help Climate Skeptic ‘Liars’
» WashPost Hypes Piece Declaring ‘Climate Change Is Killing Us’
» AP Coverage of Exxon Annual Meeting Contains Predictable Misleading 'Climate Change' Statements
» NBC Uses Tragedy in Oklahoma to Advance Global Warming Agenda
» 'Vice' CEO Bugged Out by Climate Change: It's a 'Gun to Our Heads!'
» Global Warming Skeptics Rebut Face the Nation Segment on Climate Change and Moore Tornado
» Christie Dismisses Climate Change Question from NBC's Lauer as 'Distraction,' 'Esoteric Theory'
» Ex-AccuWeather's Bastardi Slams 'Ambulance Chasing' by Global Warming Theory Activists
» Sen. Whitehouse Blames GOP For Okla. Tornado, Storms, Rising Seas, Etc.
» Comedy Central 'Daily Show' Creator: Oklahoma Tornado 'Ordered to Only Target Conservatives'
» MSNBC's Hayes Plugs 'Incredible Story' of Felon Who Disrupted Oil Lease Auction
» TIME's Kluger Warns Manhattan Residents Could Soon Be ‘Swimming’ Due to Global Warming
» NYT's Gillis, Writing Under False Headline, Rants Against Warming Skeptics With 'Little Scientific Credibility'
» Dennis Miller Slams 'Phony,' 'Detestable' Al Gore, 'Everybody Should Shun'
» British Journalist Melanie Phillips: Environmentalists ‘Wrench’ Evidence to Fit Climate Conclusions
» Professors Publish Picture of Them Burning Book Refuting Global Warming
» Effects of C02 on Nitrous Oxide Emissions
» Interactive Effects of C02 and Temperature on Woody Plant Growth
» So Far Climate Scepticism is Right
» Climatic Effects of Black Carbon
» Spinning the Climate, The Intergovernmental Pannel on Climate Change (IPCC)
» Interactive Effects of Temperature and Enhanced C02 on Agricultural Crops
» Atmospheric Methane Concentrations
» Solar Influence on Temperatures in Europe
» Solar Influence on Climate: Cosmic Rays
» Request for Correction of Serious Inaccuracy
» Cook "The Books" is Wrong to Slam Roy Spencer
» Is C02 Mitigation Cost-Effective?
» Solar Influence on Global Temperature
» Evidence of a Medieval Warm Period in Antarctica
» Analysis of US and State-by-State Carbon Dioxide Emissions & Potential "Savings" in Future Global Temperature & Global Sea Level Rise
» Storm Trends Across the North Atlantic Ocean
» Drought Trends Across the Eastern United States
» Storm Trends Across North America
» Historical Response of Heat Waves to Global Air Temperature
» Drought Trends Across the Western United States
» Drought Trends in the Northern Great Plains, USA
» Precipitation Variability in Europe
» Historical Trends of Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclones
» Historical Flood Trends in Europe
» Precipitation Variability in Asia
» 2012 Climate Science Weblog in Review by Dallas Jean Staley – A Guest Post
» The Weblog Is Retiring
» Publication Of “Reply to “Comment On ‘Ocean Heat Content And Earth’s Radiation Imbalance. II. Relation To Climate Shifts’ ” by Nuccitelli Et Al. By Douglass and Knox 2012
» Q&A From A Group Of Retired NASA Personnel And Associates
» The Importance of Land Use/Land Practices On Climate – A Perspective From Jon Foley
» Interview With James Wynn In The English Department At Carnegie Mellon University
» University Of Alabama At Huntsville October 2012 Lower Tropospheric Temperature Analysis
» USA Election Day 2012
» New Paper “Climatic Variability Over Time Scales Spanning Nine Orders of Magnitude: Connecting Milankovitch Cycles With Hurst–Kolmogorov Dynamics” By Markonis And Koutsoyiannis
» New Paper “Indian Ocean Warming Modulates Pacific Climate Change” By Luo Et Al 2012
» Briffa Condemns Mann Reconstructions
» Econometric Applications in Climatology
» Briffa 2013
» UnderCooked Statistics
» PAGES2K Online “Journal Club”
» Cook’s Survey
» More Kaufman Contamination
» Gifford Miller vs Upside-Down Kaufman
» Steig’s Bladeless “Hockey” Stick
» Non-centring in the Forest 2006 study
» Quite possibly the dumbest example of ‘Tabloid Climatology’ ever from Climate Central’s Andrew Freedman
» Dammed if you do, Dammed if you don’t
» On Muller et al (2013) “Decadal variations in the global atmospheric land temperatures”
» New paper by Ross McKitrick – ‘temperature data strongly affected by local population growth’
» It appears that by UN sponsored vote, the world just doesn’t care much about climate change
» ERL rejects Richard Tol’s comment on Cook et al 2013, but won’t say who rejected it
» Remember that ‘unprecedented’ Greenland ice sheet surface melt that was allegedly caused by global warming? Never mind
» Carbon sequestration driver: Spiders, why did it have to be spiders?
» NOAA GOES-13 satellite becomes first ever to recover from a micrometeoroid impact
» Essay: carbon footprint as ‘original sin’
» Global cooling as significant as global warming
» The East Anglia Rococo
» Is a Carbon Tax a Conservative Idea Whose Time Has Come? Thoughts on the R Street – Heartland Debate
» Climate Models: “Epic Failure” or “Spot on Consistent” with Observed Warming?
» Where Does America’s Oil Come From? (An Update)
» Video: CEI Senior Fellow Chris Horner Presentation on EPA FOIA Scandals
» Social Cost of Carbon: Interagency Group Predictably Predicts Climate Change Worse Than Predicted
» The Inanity of the Global Solar Panel Market
» Winning Voter Support Makes Politicians Sound Normal on Energy Policy
» ‘Unleash the Energy Export Revolution’ – Mark Mills
» Stranger than Fiction: Ethical Abomination “Richard Windsor” Wins EPA Award for Ethics
» John Christy: Climate Change Overview in Six Slides
» Beyond NYC: Other places adapting to climate, too
» Barack Obama -- my deluded pen pal
» Meteorologists meet to mull weird British weather
» AccuWeather LIVE: Hurricane Season Has Officially Begun
» UN climate talks marred by decision-making spat
» Al Gore: Keystone pipeline an ‘atrocity’
» Electric car advocate pays $16k a minute to personally ask Obama to push carbon tax
» NYC nanny-in-chief curiously un-nannylike when it comes to bicycle helmets
» Dueling headlines — ‘Is is hot in here or is Al Gore crazy?’ edition
» News flash: Al Gore still trying to get everybody to panic
» Will the Real Antarctica Please Stand Up?
» Global Warming May Decrease Hurricanes, Research Suggests
» Japanese Report Disputes Human Cause for Global Warming
» Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979
» A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the (Climate) Forum
» Climate Report Downgrades Ice Loss; Media Reports Opposite
» Princeton Physicist Calls Global Warming Science "Mistaken"
» Defying Predictions, Sea Level Rise Begins to Slow
» Electric Car Sales in Freefall; Industry Risks Collapse
» Glaciers in Norway Growing Again
» Documented: Billions Wasted On 'GIGO' Science - Climate Models Can't Predict Squat
» Evidence Refutes Natural Climate Change Deniers: Alarmist Global Warming Myths Proven Bogus
» Admitted: Consensus Grows Among Scientists That Current Climate Models Are Gargantuan Failure
» The Brutish, Anti-Science Techniques of Climate Scientists Spreads: Harvard's Own Michael Mann
» IPCC's Gold-Standard HadCRUT Confirms: CO2's Impact On Global Temps Statistically Immaterial & Insignificant
» The Continuing Collapse of Both The Anti-Science CO2/AGW Theory & The "Unequivocal" Global Warming Trend
» Latest Data Supporting Keystone Pipeline: Higher CO2 Levels Cause Significant Drop In Murder Rate
» Revealed: Michael Mann Has Twin Who Is Even Dumber - Works For Mainstream Press Outlet
» Confirmed: 68% of Recent Peer Reviewed Studies Reject Catastrophic Global Warming Disaster Predictions
» Obama Administration's View On Disappearance of Global Warming - "I Don't Know"
» Simple, Basic Factual Truths: Dangerous, Accelerating Global Warming Does Not Exist
» Global Warming: Fabrication of Misleading Temperature Data By IPCC Related Scientists Continues
» Michael Mann's Scary New Sea Level Predictions Identified As Bogus, Confirms 97% Consensus That He Fibs
» Reality Wake-Up Call: Climate "Experts" Sea Level Prediction Found To Be Wildly Wrong
» Multiple Proxy Study Confirms "Global Warming" Skeptic Views - Modern Temps Not Unprecedented, Not Global
» Nothing but Blood in Syrian Intervention for U.S.
» Tyranny of the Taxers
» North Korea: From Hyperinflation to Dollarization?
» Wasting Time in Belfast
» The Biggest Fool of All
» The Supreme Court's Tortured Reasoning Brings New Meaning to 'Sausage-Making'
» Has Mike Pence, As Governor, Forgotten He's a Fiscal Conservative?
» Welfare Shouldn't Ruin Immigration Reform
» NSA Snooping Matters, Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'
» Intervention Temptation
» Letter to the Editor: Venezuela Hit by Fears of Hyperinflation and Recession
» Three Questions about NSA Surveillance
» Do the NSA's Phone and Internet Monitoring Programs Make Sense?
» The Deficit Is Still Bad News
» Obama Tracking Whatever You Say and Do. You're Americans?
» NSA Surveillance in Perspective
» 'It Can't Happen Here' Just Did
» How Solid Is the NSA’s Legal Footing?
» IRS Troubles Go Global
» Korean Déjà Vu
» Learn the Lessons from Iraq
» Turkey Is Different
» How to End the War on Terrorism Properly
» Killing with Kindness: How Foreign Aid Backfires
» The US-China Summit: Why Cooperation Remains Tentative
» The Global Warming Gas, or The Bread and Butter of Life?
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Date published: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:55:33 +0000
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| » | Who Dares to Deny Arctic Warming?
A polar bear which collapsed from heat exhaustion before it could be shot. I have in my possession a ... |
| » | STILL Epic Fail: 73 Climate Models vs. Measurements, Running 5-Year Means
In response to those who complained in my recent post that linear trends are not a good way to compa ... |
| » | Global Microwave SST Update for May 2013: -0.01 deg. C
The satellite-based microwave global average sea surface temperature (SST) update for May 2013 is -0 ... |
| » | FLASH! Global warming causes record-wide tornadoes!
Just thought I’d try to be the first the make the connection between the record wide (2.6 mile ... |
| » | EPIC FAIL: 73 Climate Models vs. Observations for Tropical Tropospheric Temperature
Courtesy of John Christy, a comparison between 73 CMIP5 models (archived at the KNMI Climate Explore ... |
| » | UAH Global Temperature Update for May 2013: +0.07 deg. C
Our Version 5.5 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for May, 2013 is +0.07 de ... |
| » | Diurnal Trends in Dewpoint Averaged over the U.S. Since 1973
The Integrated Surface Hourly (ISH) weather data I have described before allows one to examine how v ... |
| » | On the Lighter Side: HAARP Tornado Vortex Clouds Attack!
I get scattered e-mails from a lot of people, but I get routine updates from someone named “Ol ... |
| » | A Simple Experiment to Show How Cool Objects Can Keep Warm Objects Warmer Still
The standard explanation of the greenhouse effect is that it keeps the surface of the Earth warmer ... |
| » | Surface Radiation Budget: Where’s the Proof?
I’ve had several requests for evidence of the hundreds of watts of downwelling infrared sky ra ... |
Date published: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:26:52 +0000
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| » | Amherst, MA Presentation, March 7
I will be rolling out version 3.0 of my presentation on climate that has already been around the Int ... |
| » | Climate De-Bait and Switch
Dealing with facile arguments that are supposedly perfect refutations of the climate skeptics ... |
| » | Lame, Desperate Climate Alarm Logic
Via Kevin Drum: Chris Mooney reports today that there’s also a very simple reason: global warm ... |
| » | Extrapolating From A Single Data Point: Climate and Sandy
I have a new article up at Forbes on how crazy it is to extrapolate conclusions about the speed and ... |
| » | A Great Example of How The Climate Debate is Broken
A climate alarmist posts a “Bet” on a site called Truthmarket that she obviously believe ... |
| » | I Was Right About Monnett
When the news first came out that Charles Monnett, observer of the famous drowned polar bear, was un ... |
| » | Lewandowsky et al. Proves Skeptics are Reasonable and Pro-Science
I am not sure it is worth beating this dead horse any further, but I will make one final observation ... |
| » | Worst Study Ever?
I have to agree with JoNova, the Lewandowsky study ostensibly linking climate skeptics to moon-landi ... |
| » | I Was Reading Matt Ridley’s Lecture at the Royal Society for the Arts….
… and it was fun to see my charts in it! The lecture is reprinted here (pdf) or here (html) o ... |
| » | Still Toying With Security
If you hit an unexpected error, or worse, seem to have been banned, email me at the link on this pag ... |
Date published: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:36:44 +0000
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| » | Global warming caused by chlorofluorocarbons, not carbon dioxide, new study says
University of Waterloo press release. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are to blame for global warming sin ... |
| » | Hard times for the Church of Global Warming
By John Hayward In response to Hillary Clinton Does ‘Hard Hitting’ Climate Change Interv ... |
| » | GREEN FAIL: Solar Panels Catch Fire on High School Roof – Black Plume Seen for Miles
“Hey, let’s put them on every school.” By Jim Hoft When Webster Groves High School ... |
| » | Obama administration gives wind farms a pass on eagle deaths, prosecutes oil companies
Published May 14, 2013, Associated Press CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyo. – The Obama administration has neve ... |
| » | In Defense of Carbon Dioxide
By Harrison H. Schmitt and William Happer Of all of the world’s chemical compounds, none has a ... |
Date published: Tue, 04 Jun 2013 03:57:43 +0000
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| » | Briffa Condemns Mann Reconstructions
Not in so many words, of course. However, Briffa et al 2013 took a position on the use of radially d ... |
| » | Econometric Applications in Climatology
Ross McKitrick is hosting a workshop entitled “Econometric Applications in Climatology” ... |
| » | Briffa 2013
Briffa’s new paper on Yamal is online today here, together with Supplementary Information here ... |
| » | UnderCooked Statistics
Yet another propaganda essay masquerading as a scientific paper has been published (SI here) in the ... |
| » | PAGES2K Online “Journal Club”
I’m listening to a presentation by PAGES2K authors sponsored by Nature: http://blogs.nature.co ... |
| » | Cook’s Survey
John Cook, whose crush on Lewandowsky continues unabated, asked various blogs, including Climat Audi ... |
| » | More Kaufman Contamination
Kaufman and paleo peer reviewers ought to be aware that the recent portion of varve data can be cont ... |
| » | Gifford Miller vs Upside-Down Kaufman
Darrell Kaufman, lead PAGES2K author, has promoted varvology for Arctic temperature reconstructions. ... |
Date published: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:58:15 +0000
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| » | Effects of C02 on Nitrous Oxide Emissions
In the words of Cantarel et al. (2011), nitrous oxide (N2O) is "an influential greenhouse gas," with ... |
| » | Interactive Effects of C02 and Temperature on Woody Plant Growth
As the atmosphere's CO2 concentration continues to rise, most trees will likely exhibit increased ra ... |
| » | So Far Climate Scepticism is Right
So far, the climate sceptics are right, the cry-babies wrong. |
| » | Climatic Effects of Black Carbon
Writing as background for their work, Kaspari et al. (2011) state that "black carbon (BC, the absorb ... |
| » | Spinning the Climate, The Intergovernmental Pannel on Climate Change (IPCC)
The IPCC is claimed by some to have provided evidence that the earth’s climate is harmed by changes ... |
| » | Interactive Effects of Temperature and Enhanced C02 on Agricultural Crops
As the air's CO2 content rises, most plants exhibit increased rates of photosynthesis and biomass pr ... |
| » | Atmospheric Methane Concentrations
Atmospheric methane's contribution to anthropogenic climate forcing is estimated to be about half th ... |
| » | Solar Influence on Temperatures in Europe
We begin this review of the Sun's influence on European temperatures with the study of Holzhauser et ... |
| » | Solar Influence on Climate: Cosmic Rays
The study of extraterrestrial climatic forcing factors is primarily a study of phenomena related to ... |
| » | Request for Correction of Serious Inaccuracy
As an Expert Reviewer for the Fifth Assessment Report, 2013, and in accordance with the IPCC Protoco ... |
Date published: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:13:41 +0000
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| » | Is this worthy of main National news ?
So a hand full of Army pers. are sending around obscene emails. I am shocked and amazed!! – bu ... |
| » | Brilliant political parody of the Roy Orbison masterpiece – “It’s Over” – thanks to Jane Smith at the Michael Smith blog
This deserves to go viral, go to the song by Jane Smith – singing a tribute to our Prime Minis ... |
| » | Campaign building for a No vote in Local Government Referendum on 14 September 2013
Just told about this site – Vote No to Canberra’s power grab. Easy to get involved & have ... |
| » | Guinean schoolchildren in the capital Conakry who, lacking electricity in their homes, seek out lighted areas at night to study – airport, petrol stations, roundabouts.
A great contrast to Australia where children are “GreenWashed” to accept the turning off ... |
| » | RI sunspot numbers just out for May – NASA/NOAA SWO number has been increasing more than Belgian RI count over April May
Confirming the “rabbit ears” shape for Solar Cycle 24. Interesting that the SWO minus RI ... |
| » | Update chart monthly IEV arrivals May 2013 – another solid month for the asylum seeker industry
Following on from my June 2012 post – Great Australian open borders experiment – come on ... |
| » | Bureau of Meteorology feeds the main-stream-media dubious warming propaganda
I was interested in this Sydney Morning Herald article with various statements about recent warm con ... |
| » | Another Bureau of Meteorology failed three month temperature Outlook – Autumn 2013
This month the BoM announced “Seasonal Climate Outlook released today using a new model ... |
| » | BoM forecast for Perth 31st May 2013 – “frost possible” -yet Perth central weather stations have not recorded a 0° minimum in May in over a century
An interesting call because Perth Regional Office weather station 9034 never recorded a minimum of 0 ... |
| » | Snow in UK and downunder on 15th of May
I am sure this is not rare – the BBC reports – Snow and winds of 65mph hit Devon and Cor ... |
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![]() Joined: Sun May 11 2008, 12:38PM Posts: 2177 | ![]() Breakthrough Institute co-founders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus returned to Yale University last month for a retrospective on their 2004 essay, “The Death of Environmentalism.” Rarely does a critical assessment of an inflamed public debate so clearly shine the light of reason on why a cause was lost. In their speech Shellenberger and Nordhaus, bloth life long environmentalists, argued that green politics and the climate change crisis were destroyed from within, by exaggerated scientific claims, fantasies about green jobs and “An Inconvenient Truth.” After detailing how climate change alarmists managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, the authors go on to offer some advice for the green movement: 12 theses for a post-environmental approach to climate change. In effect, they are saying that the world needs to concentrate on solving the problems that matter to people—food, energy, economic development—and the environment will be fixed as a side effect. Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger spent most of their careers working for environmental groups as political strategists. Seven years ago, frustrated by the movement’s focus on pollution regulations rather than public investment in technology, they started interviewing America's environmental leaders with the intention of writing a report on the politics of global warming for the October 2004 meeting of the Environmental Grantmakers Association. “We came away from the experience deeply disappointed,” they reported. “Not one of the environmental leaders we interviewed articulated a compelling vision or strategy for dealing with the challenge.” ![]() Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus of the Breakthrough Institute. This experience led to the writing of their celebrated paper, “The Death of Environmentalism,” a wake-up call for green activists that was both praised and excoriated by members of the environmental movement. In it they wrote: “Over the last 15 years environmental foundations and organizations have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into combating global warming. We have strikingly little to show for it.” Perhaps an indication that the public is not as gullible as most activists believe. The paper argued that “issue group liberalism” was declining and that “the environmental community's narrow definition of its self-interest leads to a kind of policy literalism that undermines its power.” The stakes are too high to go on with business as usual, they pleaded. In early 2005 Yale invited them on campus to publicly debate that essay and in 2008 they were named Heroes of the Environment byTime magazine. In February, 2011, the duo returned to the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies for a retrospective on “The Death of Environmentalism.” The resulting essay amounts to a true “breakthrough” in environmental thinking—a clear understanding of how the climate change crisis was so mishandled, so poisoned by green politics and irrational thought, that it now lies in ruin. Here some of the highlights of their postmortem of the death of environmentalism will be presented. ![]() The Death of Environmentalism After noting how American greens, with a Democratic White House and large Democratic majorities in Congress, squandered their best opportunity in a generation, by gambling everything on a single roll of the legislative dice—a fatally flawed energy bill that in the end could not be passed—Shellenberger and Nordhaus recapped the global nature of global warming's defeat: The picture is no less grim internationally. Australia has abandoned efforts to cap its emissions. Japan announced last month that it would, under no circumstances, agree to further emissions reduction commitments under the auspices of the Kyoto Accord. The European Union will meet its Kyoto commitments thanks to the collapse of Eastern Bloc economies in the early 90's and the collapse of the global economy in 2008, not through public policy efforts to decarbonize its economy. And the collapse of diplomatic efforts to negotiate legally binding emissions caps, first in Copenhagen and again in Cancun, has set the international process back to where it started in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro. Throw in a confusing and unexplainable “cap and trade” policy, along with the failure of “green Jobs” to materialize, and the green bubble soon burst. More interesting than what they call “the crash” is the authors' assessment of what went wrong. Suggesting that interest in climate change and green jobs was primarily an elite phenomenon that had little effect on public opinion, Shellenberger and Nordhaus mark the start of environmentalism’s fall with the release of that paragon of disinformation, Al Gore's “An Inconvenient Truth.” From virtually the moment that "An Inconvenient Truth" was released, public skepticism about global warming began to rise. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that from July 2006 to April 2008, belief that global warming was occurring declined from 79 percent to 71 percent. Gallup polls also revealed similar backlash to the movie, with the percentage of Americans who believed in global warming was exaggerated, rising from 30 percent in March of 2006 to only 35 percent in March of 2008. It was the turn to scientifically unsupportable exaggeration and scare tactics that were the proximate cause of global warming's downfall, claim the authors, noting that: “When Gore said "we are going to have to change the way we live our lives" he could not have uttered a statement better tailored to trigger system justification among a substantial number of Americans.” In other words, Gore told America it had to make sacrifices and America told Gore to pound sand. ![]() Gore's “An Inconvenient Truth” was the beginning of the end. “Environmentalist appeals to scientific authority led conservatives not to abandon their opposition to state intervention in the energy economy but to reject climate science,” they continue. Environmentalists were simply unable to understand how the public could deny the reality of anthropogenic warming. The rising tied of skepticism led to a closing of the ranks by mainstream climate scientists, who were now fatally committed to supporting the activists' claims of impending climate apocalypse. The chasm between the public and the true believers grew ever wider. Greens reacted to these developments not by toning down their rhetoric or reconsidering their agenda in a manner that might be more palatable to their opponents. Instead, they made ever more apocalyptic claims about global warming - claims that were increasingly inconsistent, ironically, with the scientific consensus whose mantle greens claimed. These efforts both further increased political polarization among conservatives and undermined support for action among many others. UC-Berkeley political psychologist Robb Willer recently demonstrated through a series of experiments that catastrophic presentations of global warming actually reduce belief in global warming. There is much more detail about the fall of anthropogenic global warming in the Shellenberger and Nordhaus essay, but that story is known to many who have been in the trenches fighting off the greens. In stead, I would like to turn to the palliative 12 theses offered by the authors. The Twelve Theses Shellenberger and Nordhaus are dedicated environmentalists, believers in the dangers of climate change. But they are also realists, who have figured out the futility of the course the climate change lobby has chosen: “Today, the need to remake ecological politics is clearly more urgent than ever. That will require that we actually learn from our failures and let those lessons become the underlying assumptions for a new, post-environmental climate movement.” Here is a condensed version of the 12 theses offered by Shellenberger and Nordhaus as guidelines for the future of climate change and environmentalism activism. They are nothing short of a watershed revelation for eco-activists—if they have the sense to adopt them. • First, more, better, or louder climate science will not drive the transformation of the global energy economy. The reality is that the more our understanding of the full complexity of the climate system advances, the greater the uncertainties about the impacts of climate change and the attribution of those impacts to anthropogenic activities will become. • Second, we need to stop trying to scare the pants off of the American public. Doing so has demonstrably backfired. Skepticism about climate science has been motivated by concerns about the remedies that greens have proposed. • Third, the most successful actions will not be justified for environmental reasons. The only two countries to significantly decarbonize their energy supplies – France and Sweden – did so for energy security reasons in response to oil price shocks, not for environmental reasons. • Fourth, we need to stop imagining that we will solve global warming through behavior changes. Global development and urbanization are salutary trends – for they bring with them the opportunity for billions of us to live longer, healthier, and freer lives. • Fifth, we have to stop treating climate change as if it were a traditional pollution problem. • Sixth, we will not regulate or price our way to a clean energy economy. Regulatory and pricing solutions tend to succeed when we have good, low cost alternatives to the activities which we are attempting to discourage or eliminate. • Seventh, we need to acknowledge that the so-called "soft energy path" is a dead end. Renewables still cost vastly more than fossil based energy, even before we calculate the costs associated with storing and transmitting intermittent forms of energy. • Eighth, we will not internalize the full costs of fossil fuels, even if we are able to agree upon what they actually are. Like the climate science upon which they are based, economic models that attempt to model the social costs of carbon emissions are endlessly disputable. • Ninth, we will need to make clean energy technologies much cheaper in order to decarbonize the global energy economy. Clean energy technologies, where they have been deployed at all, still require vast public subsidies in order to be commercially viable. • Tenth, we are going to have to get over our suspicion of technology, especially nuclear power. There is no credible path to reducing global carbon emissions without an enormous expansion of nuclear power. • Eleventh, we will need to embrace again the role of the state as a direct provider of public goods. Virtually the entire history of American industrialization and technological innovation is the story of government investments in the development and commercialization of new technologies. • Twelveth, big is beautiful. The rising economies of the developing world will continue to develop whether we want them to or not. The solution to the ecological crises wrought by modernity, technology, and progress will be more modernity, technology, and progress. Remember, these guys are environmentalists! The criticism of the way anti-nuclear activists hijacked the environmental movement in item 7 is particularly poignant. And the call for an “enormous expansion” of nuclear power in item 10 echoes calls from other environmentalists, like Patrick Moore, for a return to the nuclear path. As Moore has said, we now know that you can't really be an environmentalist and be opposed to nuclear power. ![]() Not that I agree with all twelve points listed above. Take number 9, making clean energy technologies much cheaper, good luck with that. And as for number 11, the state as a direct provider of public goods, that is just plain wrong. Crash government projects, often in time of war, have developed many stunning new technologies—nuclear power, radar, drugs—but the government has never proven adept at providing those technologies to the people. Such programs tend to be inefficient, profligate spenders of public monies, good for proving a concept or a one off technological triumph—the race to the moon come to mind. The best role for “the state” is as an incubator of new ideas. America's national lab systems has turned out an impressive number of new innovations, the newly developed Brayton cycle CO2 gas turbine system is but one example. Commercial development, however, should be left in the hands of businessmen not bureaucrats. Caveats aside, there are several explanatory paragraphs accompanying each one of the theses and I urge you the read them for your selves, it will be time well spent. In all, this is a stunning appraisal of the failure of conventional environmentalism and its cause célèbre—anthropogenic global warming. In the words of Shellenberger and Nordhaus: “The world in which we live, economically, technologically, politically, and most importantly ecologically, has so profoundly changed that the very foundations upon which contemporary environmental politics was constructed no longer hold.” Does this mean that the warmists have been defeated and we can all rest safely in our beds tonight? Not if statements linking the recent earthquake in Japan and global warming by EESC president Staffan Nilsson are any indication. On the contrary, we skeptics must remain vigilant. Irrational climate change diehards will continue to spew disinformation and lies to the idiot news media. Many of the movement's political stooges will remain bought and paid for until the shift in public opinion renders such positions totally untenable. No, environmentalism and its bastard child, anthropogenic global warming, are not yet dead—but they are mortally wounded and here's hoping their expiration is both short and painful. Be safe, enjoy the interglacial and stay skeptical. Source For further articles here at GWH.com archives, click "Forums" and search for your favorite topic . Let it Be Known to Others who Need to be Led! | ||
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