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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?
*** NewsBusters - Global Warming
» 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
» CA Dem: Global Warming Will Force Women Into Prostitution
» Billionaire Tom Steyer -- the 'Liberal Analogue of the Koch Brothers'
» ABC Celebrates Earth Day By Pushing Carbon Taxes, Touting Anti-Keystone 'Agitator'
» Environmentalism of Sam Champion, Who Previously Hyped Avoiding Toilet Paper, Now Mostly Ignored
» U.S. Carbon Emissions Have Dropped Thanks To Free Market Economics, Natural Gas Exploration
» Senator: Climate Change Must Be ‘Right Behind Immigration and Gay Rights As An Issue'
» As Latest Global Warming Scare Report Crumbles, Where's the New York Times's Follow-Up?
» Matthews Trashes Republicans With New Conspiracy Theory Poll, Ignores Democrat Responses
» Ted Turner Tells Obama to Get 'Climate Change Under Control'
» WaPo Omits Bad Pew Study Numbers On Global Warming
» Higher Gas Prices the ‘Price of Cleaner Air’
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» 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
» Effects of Atmospheric C02 Enrichment on Wood Density
» Drought Trends in Asia
» No Global Warming for Almost Two Decades
*** 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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» 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
» PAGES2K Reconstructions
» PAGES2K South America
» PAGES2K, Gergis and Made-for-IPCC Journal Articles
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» 97% Undercooked uncertainty
» Updated climate sensitivity estimates using aerosol-adjusted forcings and various ocean heat uptake estimates
» Washington Post’s photo phraud – it’s deja vu all over again
» The worst consequences of the global warming scare
» Where Lies the Younger Dryas Smoking Gun?
» Just had an earthquake in California – 56 earthquakes (so far) in cluster near Mt. Lassen Volcanic National park
» Crowdsourcing An Opensource Temperature Data Monitoring Methodology and Spreadsheet
» NOAA predicts active 2013 Atlantic hurricane season
» Dana Nuccitelli’s Twitter war with Richard Tol over that 97% consensus paper
» Great moments in activist climate science – NRDC’s Dr. Laurie Johnson: ‘CO2 makes your car hot’
» Bill Nye the clueless weather guy – flattened by tornado data
» Anti-information in climate models
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» No Fine If Wind Farm Kills Endangered Condors — Fish and Wildlife Service
» Gina McCarthy’s Responses to Sen. Vitter’s Questions Part II: Fuel Economy*
» EPA Demonstrates IRS-like Bias on FOIA Requests
» WSJ Op-Ed Explains Benefits of CO2
» Gina McCarthy’s Responses to Sen. Vitter’s Questions Part I: Bait-and-Fuel-Switch*
» CO2 Litigation: Court and EPA Can’t Both Be Right — and Both May Be Wrong
» EPA Doubles Down on E15 — Literally
» Senate Schedules Vote for EPA Nominee
» Biofuels Policy Itself is Warning That It’s Near Breaking Point
» Hansen Compares Conservatives and Climate Change Skeptics to Neanderthals
*** Fox News - Climate Change Stories
» Heat-related deaths may increase with climate change
» College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds
» Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View later this year
» House approves Keystone pipeline bill
» Democratic senator apologizes for citing Okla. tornadoes in climate change speech
» More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows
» What happens when Google and NASA build a computer?
*** Michelle Malkin - Enviro-Nitwits
» Dueling headlines — ‘Is is hot in here or is Al Gore crazy?’ edition
» News flash: Al Gore still trying to get everybody to panic
» A grisly Earth Day reminder: Eco-pacifist fraud Ira Einhorn, a killer in P.C. clothing
» Federal study concludes man-made climate change not cause of 2012 drought
» Taxpayer-backed Fisker lays off 75 percent of workforce; poor sales attributed to global shortage of people named Leonardo DiCaprio
*** DailyTech Michael Asher`s blog
» 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
» 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
» New Major Study Determines Dangerous, Accelerating Sea Levels Due To CO2 Emissions Is Fantasy
» The Known Physics of Global Warming Vs. The Anti-Science of Green-Fundamentalists
» Fact Check: Rice Crop Yield Improves With Global Warming, Higher CO2 Levels - Opposite of Alarmist Predictions
» Boiling Oceans? Warming of Oceans On Path To +0.16°C Increase Over Next 100 Years Say Experts
» IPCC Climate Science Confirmed By NOAA: Global Warming Causes Global Cooling
» Newly Released Evidence Establishes That Arctic Region Was Warmer During Medieval Period
» Stuck-On-Stupid: Majority of Mainstream Journalists Too Stupid To Recognize Failure of CAGW Climate Science
*** CATO - Global Warming
» Genetically Modified Foods and the Limits of Trade Agreements
» Governing Is about Choices, Even on Disaster Aid
» Senate Immigration Bill Lurches to the Right
» E-Verify Wrong for America
» Amartya Sen Wrong in His Claim That Delay in Food Bill Killing a Thousand Every Week
» Europeans Should Welcome UK's Shift on the EU
» Our Indispensable Government
» Restrain the Abusive Administative State
» Why Obama Is Silent on Killed Babies
» Hot Money, Cold Credit
» 'Impeachment' Is Not a Four-Letter Word
» Delivering Serbs to the Wolves
» Why the IRS Cannot Be Reformed
» The Islamic Republic of Pakistan: The World's Most Dangerous Nation Holds an Election
» Common Core Needs More Debate
» Evolving out of Inefficient Corruption
» Denigrating Medicine: ObamaCare Turns Physicians into Assembly Line Workers
» Is the Government Spying on Reporters More often than We Think?
» Hospital Lobby Fears They Might Not Get Medicaid Subsidies
» Obama’s War on the Young
» Why People Keep Misunderstanding the 'Connection' between Race and IQ
» Blame Campaign Finance Crusaders for IRS Mess
» At Last, Justice for Locked-in Juveniles?
» U.S. Defense Cuts: An Ax Is Needed, Not a Scalpel
» Putting out the Welcome Mat for Prosperity
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» EU Leaders Back Shale Revolution, Roll Back Climate Policy
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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?
» 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
» CA Dem: Global Warming Will Force Women Into Prostitution
» Billionaire Tom Steyer -- the 'Liberal Analogue of the Koch Brothers'
» ABC Celebrates Earth Day By Pushing Carbon Taxes, Touting Anti-Keystone 'Agitator'
» Environmentalism of Sam Champion, Who Previously Hyped Avoiding Toilet Paper, Now Mostly Ignored
» U.S. Carbon Emissions Have Dropped Thanks To Free Market Economics, Natural Gas Exploration
» Senator: Climate Change Must Be ‘Right Behind Immigration and Gay Rights As An Issue'
» As Latest Global Warming Scare Report Crumbles, Where's the New York Times's Follow-Up?
» Matthews Trashes Republicans With New Conspiracy Theory Poll, Ignores Democrat Responses
» Ted Turner Tells Obama to Get 'Climate Change Under Control'
» WaPo Omits Bad Pew Study Numbers On Global Warming
» Higher Gas Prices the ‘Price of Cleaner Air’
» 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
» Effects of Atmospheric C02 Enrichment on Wood Density
» Drought Trends in Asia
» No Global Warming for Almost Two Decades
» 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
» 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
» PAGES2K Reconstructions
» PAGES2K South America
» PAGES2K, Gergis and Made-for-IPCC Journal Articles
» 97% Undercooked uncertainty
» Updated climate sensitivity estimates using aerosol-adjusted forcings and various ocean heat uptake estimates
» Washington Post’s photo phraud – it’s deja vu all over again
» The worst consequences of the global warming scare
» Where Lies the Younger Dryas Smoking Gun?
» Just had an earthquake in California – 56 earthquakes (so far) in cluster near Mt. Lassen Volcanic National park
» Crowdsourcing An Opensource Temperature Data Monitoring Methodology and Spreadsheet
» NOAA predicts active 2013 Atlantic hurricane season
» Dana Nuccitelli’s Twitter war with Richard Tol over that 97% consensus paper
» Great moments in activist climate science – NRDC’s Dr. Laurie Johnson: ‘CO2 makes your car hot’
» Bill Nye the clueless weather guy – flattened by tornado data
» Anti-information in climate models
» No Fine If Wind Farm Kills Endangered Condors — Fish and Wildlife Service
» Gina McCarthy’s Responses to Sen. Vitter’s Questions Part II: Fuel Economy*
» EPA Demonstrates IRS-like Bias on FOIA Requests
» WSJ Op-Ed Explains Benefits of CO2
» Gina McCarthy’s Responses to Sen. Vitter’s Questions Part I: Bait-and-Fuel-Switch*
» CO2 Litigation: Court and EPA Can’t Both Be Right — and Both May Be Wrong
» EPA Doubles Down on E15 — Literally
» Senate Schedules Vote for EPA Nominee
» Biofuels Policy Itself is Warning That It’s Near Breaking Point
» Hansen Compares Conservatives and Climate Change Skeptics to Neanderthals
» Heat-related deaths may increase with climate change
» College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds
» Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View later this year
» House approves Keystone pipeline bill
» Democratic senator apologizes for citing Okla. tornadoes in climate change speech
» More tornadoes from global warming? Nobody knows
» What happens when Google and NASA build a computer?
» Dueling headlines — ‘Is is hot in here or is Al Gore crazy?’ edition
» News flash: Al Gore still trying to get everybody to panic
» A grisly Earth Day reminder: Eco-pacifist fraud Ira Einhorn, a killer in P.C. clothing
» Federal study concludes man-made climate change not cause of 2012 drought
» Taxpayer-backed Fisker lays off 75 percent of workforce; poor sales attributed to global shortage of people named Leonardo DiCaprio
» 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
» 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
» New Major Study Determines Dangerous, Accelerating Sea Levels Due To CO2 Emissions Is Fantasy
» The Known Physics of Global Warming Vs. The Anti-Science of Green-Fundamentalists
» Fact Check: Rice Crop Yield Improves With Global Warming, Higher CO2 Levels - Opposite of Alarmist Predictions
» Boiling Oceans? Warming of Oceans On Path To +0.16°C Increase Over Next 100 Years Say Experts
» IPCC Climate Science Confirmed By NOAA: Global Warming Causes Global Cooling
» Newly Released Evidence Establishes That Arctic Region Was Warmer During Medieval Period
» Stuck-On-Stupid: Majority of Mainstream Journalists Too Stupid To Recognize Failure of CAGW Climate Science
» Genetically Modified Foods and the Limits of Trade Agreements
» Governing Is about Choices, Even on Disaster Aid
» Senate Immigration Bill Lurches to the Right
» E-Verify Wrong for America
» Amartya Sen Wrong in His Claim That Delay in Food Bill Killing a Thousand Every Week
» Europeans Should Welcome UK's Shift on the EU
» Our Indispensable Government
» Restrain the Abusive Administative State
» Why Obama Is Silent on Killed Babies
» Hot Money, Cold Credit
» 'Impeachment' Is Not a Four-Letter Word
» Delivering Serbs to the Wolves
» Why the IRS Cannot Be Reformed
» The Islamic Republic of Pakistan: The World's Most Dangerous Nation Holds an Election
» Common Core Needs More Debate
» Evolving out of Inefficient Corruption
» Denigrating Medicine: ObamaCare Turns Physicians into Assembly Line Workers
» Is the Government Spying on Reporters More often than We Think?
» Hospital Lobby Fears They Might Not Get Medicaid Subsidies
» Obama’s War on the Young
» Why People Keep Misunderstanding the 'Connection' between Race and IQ
» Blame Campaign Finance Crusaders for IRS Mess
» At Last, Justice for Locked-in Juveniles?
» U.S. Defense Cuts: An Ax Is Needed, Not a Scalpel
» Putting out the Welcome Mat for Prosperity
» EU Leaders Back Shale Revolution, Roll Back Climate Policy
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Date published: Fri, 24 May 2013 01:04:57 +0000
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| » | 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 ... |
| » | Time for the Slayers to Put Up or Shut Up
I have allowed the Sky Dragon Slayers to post hundreds of comments here containing their views of ho ... |
| » | Global Microwave SST Update for April, 2013: -0.04 deg. C
The satellite-based microwave global average sea surface temperature (SST) update for April 2013 is ... |
| » | Imaging the Greenhouse Effect with a FLIR i7 Thermal Imager
What is the atmospheric greenhouse effect? It is the warming of the surface and lower atmosphere cau ... |
| » | UAH Global Temperature Update for April, 2013: +0.10 deg. C
Our Version 5.5 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for April, 2013 is +0.10 ... |
| » | A Simple Model of Global Average Surface Temperature
And, yes, you can try this at home. I put together a simple surface energy balance model in an Excel ... |
| » | How Can Home Insulation Keep Your House Warmer, When It Cools Your House?!
<sarc> There is an obvious conspiracy from the HVAC and home repair industry, who for years ... |
| » | Global Warming Slowdown: The View from Space
Since the slowdown in surface warming over the last 15 years has been a popular topic recently, I th ... |
Date published: Fri, 17 May 2013 16:21:17 +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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| » | 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 ... |
| » | Cooling in the Arctic: what to expect?
By Oleg Nekhai Global warming which has been the subject of so many discussions in recent years, may ... |
Date published: Wed, 22 May 2013 19:57:20 +0000
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| » | 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: Fri, 24 May 2013 14:45:34 +0000
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| » | 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 ... |
| » | Cook "The Books" is Wrong to Slam Roy Spencer
Anyone who has met Roy Spencer knows him to be a careful, thoughtful, unpolemical scientist of formi ... |
| » | Is C02 Mitigation Cost-Effective?
This summary updates Monckton of Brenchley (2013), read at the World Federation of Scientists’ 2012 ... |
| » | Solar Influence on Global Temperature
The claim that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have been responsible for the warming detected ... |
Date published: Fri, 24 May 2013 14:51:27 +0000
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| » | 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 ... |
| » | Vote NO to referendum to amend the Australian Constitution to recognize local councils
The Gillard GreenLabor Govt is putting up this referendum question re recognising local councils in ... |
| » | Ongoing decline in efficiency of Perth Dam catchments – reply from WA Minister
The comment by CP on my 2007 article -There never was a rain shortage to justify seawater desalinati ... |
| » | RI sunspot numbers just out for April – NASA/NOAA SWO number confirms the “rabbit ears”
There have been reports on increased sunspot activity in April and the Cycle 24 peak has been widely ... |
| » | You could assist a DVD being produced to show that trying to ‘stop’ climate change is 50 times more expensive than adapting to it
Topher and Lord Christopher Monckton are combining on a project making a DVD. Donations would be ver ... |
| » | ACORN-SAT – The Australian Bureau of Meteorology temperature database – is not to be trusted
Guest article by Ed Thurstan – April 28, 2013 Abstract The second release of ACORN-SAT confirm ... |
| » | 113 years of rainfall at Merredin in the heart of the Western Australian wheat belt
My eye was caught by this ABC article – Eyes skyward for farmers waiting on rain – and t ... |
| » | Update chart monthly irregular boat arrivals – Australian borders still open, come on down
Following on from my June 2012 post – Great Australian open borders experiment – come on ... |
| » | New ice core study from Antarctic Peninsula fails to detect Medieval Warm Period
As reported by the ABC – Antarctic melting 10 times faster than 600 years ago - The paper is p ... |
| » | Proposal that there is a long standing mathematical error in IPCC’s AGW theory
Japanese scientist Kyoji Kimoto proposes that there is a long standing error in IPCC AGW theory. Acc ... |
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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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