No, Sen. Durbin, Choice Not Between Real Science and Political Science | GlobalWarming.org

Durbin claims that EPA made its endangerment rule after consulting with “scientists across America.” In fact, as the endangerment rule acknowledges, EPA largely based the rule on the IPCC reports. As the Climategate scandal reveals, the IPCC reports do not meet U.S. Government transparency and accountability standards.

If Sen. Durbin thinks greenhouse gas emissions are so dangerous, then he should follow the Constitution and do the hard work of trying to assemble legislative majorities capable of turning his agenda into law.

Wood burning power plants may hurt global warming fight

Burning wood for electricity can be worse for global warming than burning coal, a new Massachusetts-sponsored study shows, casting surprising and serious doubts on a long-touted renewable energy source.

Climate change: Europe falling short on backing for Kyoto

"European Union leaders claim they still support the only existing climate deal that has legal teeth – the Kyoto Protocol – but their actions tell a different story," said Dr Alison Doig, Christian Aid’s Senior Adviser on Climate Change.

"By not giving the Protocol their strongest possible support and by allowing other rich countries to abandon Kyoto and instead make weak, non-binding pledges through the Copenhagen Accord, they are condemning Kyoto to death.

Himalayan ice is stable, but Asia faces drought - environment - 10 June 2010 - New Scientist

In fact, only the glaciers that melt into the Ganges are shrinking, according to the most detailed analysis yet of how climate change will affect key Asian glaciers.
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Walter Immerzeel of Utrecht University in the Netherlands used data from a pair of satellites known as GRACE to estimate changes in the thickness of the glaciers that supply the Indus, Brahmaputra, Ganges, Yangtze and Yellow rivers between 2001 and 2007.

He found that only the 100-metre-thick glaciers that feed the Ganges are thinning, at a rate of 22 centimetres per year.

The glaciers that sit at the head of the Indus grew at a rate of 19 centimetres per year on average, while those that melt into the other rivers in the study were unchanged.

Cause of global warming found: Supermarket Trolley's

Banning trollies to reduce our carbon foot print? The NSW government is f*cking useless.

According to 'researchers' trollies are causing people to buy more produce and hence drive to the supermarket and increase their carbon footprint.

Obama's Climate Complacency: Blame Rahm? | Mother Jones

"But then there were the Washington operatives on the political and economic teams who did not want to waste a bunch of bullets on some weirdo green crusade when the polling numbers weren't there, and it would be a bloody battle to take that hill. They said, 'Let's go take some other hill.'"
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When Waxman and Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought the Waxman-Markey bill to the floor, they forced Obama's hand. He began pressing members, Gore worked the phones from Nashville, and Emanuel put aside his misgivings and mounted an effective whip operation. With an impressive last-minute display by Pelosi, the bill passed 219 to 212—and then the momentum dissolved in the face of conservative opposition. Obama's stealth strategy failed to take into account the vigor of American denialism and opposition to cap and trade.

Hot Air » Boxer: Carbon dioxide will be “leading cause of conflict” in next 20 years

[Boxer] I’m going to put in the record, Madam President, a host of quotes from our national security experts who tell us that carbon pollution leading to climate change will be over the next 20 years the leading cause of conflict, putting our troops in harm’s way. And that’s why we have so many returning veterans who want us to move forward and address this issue, so we can create those new technologies that get us off this foreign oil.

Activist Teacher: Some Big Lies of Science

Climategate only confirms what should be obvious to any practicing scientist: That science is a mafia when it’s not simply a sleeping pill.

U.S. Senate debates stopping EPA climate rules | Metals & Mining | Reuters

"This resolution does nothing to create jobs in Nevada or any place else in our country. It does create jobs where we're importing oil -- the Middle East, Venezuela and places like that," Reid, who represents Nevada, said.
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California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer displayed an enlarged photograph of a bird drenched in oil from the BP (BP.L: Quote)(BP.N: Quote) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as she took the floor to argue against Murkowski's bill.

Crude Oil Imports Top 15 Countries

CANADA 2,020 1,897 1,934 1,845 1,901
SAUDI ARABIA 1,149 881 1,000 944 1,128
MEXICO 1,086 996 1,040 1,092 1,203
VENEZUELA 984 913 908 949 1,029
NIGERIA 939 896 945 860 607
ANGOLA 490 312 358 644 612
IRAQ 475 540 506 587 570
BRAZIL 299 192 256 334 365
ALGERIA 276 282 296 215 242
RUSSIA 248 214 199 219 173
KUWAIT 218 228 169 181 218
COLOMBIA 216 371 291 254 235
ECUADOR 183 145 182 210 241
UNITED KINGDOM 142 260 177 85 56
CONGO (BRAZZAVILLE) 124 76 81 56 44

Emily's Post: Ron Johnson: Friend of Big Oil, foe of the glaciers - Isthmus | The Daily Page

Here's what [Republican candidate for Senate, Ron Johnson] said, when asked whether he agreed or disagreed that "man-caused global warming is a proven fact":

I totally disagree...I'm always surprised that people think this is the sweet spot in global history in terms of this is where we should be climate-wise. We live in Wisconsin – I'm glad there's global warming or we'd be standing on top of a 200 ft. thick glacier. So I think it's absolutely not proven, and for us to be contemplating fixing something that is not proven is absurd.

Climate Common Sense: Ocean Acidification ? - The Sea is Alkaline You Dumbos!

Now Blind Freddie can see that with a pH of 8.1 ,a natural pH variation of 1.1 and a pH change of only .1 in the last century the sea will never turn acid and that the change attributed to AGW is negligible compared to the natural variation and all the wee sea beasties will not be dissolved in an acid bath of mankind's making!

Inside the Beltway Climate [Hoax] War - Dot Earth Blog - NYTimes.com

...The resulting book, “ The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers and the Fight to Save the Planet,” is a fascinating, if depressing, look at how Washington works — or doesn’t work, if your goal is meaningful laws limiting the human impact on climate. The cast of characters ranges from former Vice President Al Gore and James Hansen, the NASA climatologist who has become an impassioned climate campaigner, to Frank Luntz, the longtime political and semantic strategist for Republicans — and, in this case, environmentalists.

The book vividly reveals the layers of financial and political interests that can eviscerate environmental legislation and describes the tussle within the Obama White House over how hard to push on climate.

CNSNews.com - McConnell Charges That ‘Major Part’ of Democrats’ Cap-Trade Bill ‘Essentially Written by BP’

(CNSNews.com) – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said that BP, the energy company responsible for the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, helped craft the bill proposed by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) that would tax businesses for carbon emissions and raise the cost of fuel for American consumers.

The Daily Bayonet « Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, Jun. 10th 2010

Greenpeace activists are headed to jail, a hippie invades Wattsworld and it has been a rough week for alternative energies wind and solar.

BP is asking for its punishment—literally | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

BP, joined by Enron, invented carbon cap-and-trade in the mid-1990s. Yeah. That cap-and-trade.

I know, because I was in the room.

'Follow the Islamic way to save the world,' Charles urges environmentalists | Mail Online

Prince Charles yesterday urged the world to follow Islamic 'spiritual principles' in order to protect the environment.

Global Warming Deniers and Their Proven Strategy of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway: Yale Environment 360

In the case of global warming, there is strong evidence that this contrarian campaign is enjoying success, with recent polls showing that more than half of Americans are not particularly worried about the issue and that fully 40 percent believe there is major disagreement among scientists about whether climate change is even occurring. This confusion is no doubt due, at least in part, to the persistent campaigns of obfuscation by the Competitive Enterprise Institute and other global warming deniers who use right-wing talk radio, the Internet, and television programs such as Fox News to propagate their message of doubt.

Jonathan A. Schein: Al Gore Doubles His Carbon Footprint -- Huffington Post

The Gores should live happy lives--together or separately. Increasing one's contribution to greenhouse gases should not be a consideration in matters of the heart. However, their split may give rise to a study of how the high rate of divorce has contributed to greenhouse gases by creating a need for additional housing.

BBC News - Al Gore to teach climate student from Swansea

A 17-year-old A-level student from Swansea is to be trained by Al Gore in highlighting climate change.

Rhys Hughes will fly to Tennessee to spend three days with the former US Vice-President later this month.

Local luminaries laud Al Gore’s message even as Twitterverse turns him into a heartthrob | Manila Bulletin

Meanwhile, perhaps to lighten things up a bit, Senator Loren Legarda acknowledged that her new haircut was “environment friendly… I need less water to wash it… So, akma sa climate change ang aking buhok.”

David Doniger: The Three Biggest Honkers from Senator Murkowski and Her Supporters

Honker #1: It’s not about the science.

Ah, but it is. The resolution of disapproval would overturn EPA’s science-based finding that global warming pollution is dangerous to Americans’ health and to their environment.

As the vote nears, many Murkowski supporters are trying to soft-pedal their science denialism. But some cannot help themselves.

Clouds and Global Warming : Image of the Day

On balance, scientists aren’t entirely sure what effect clouds will have on global warming. Most climate models predict that clouds will amplify global warming slightly. Some observations of clouds support model predictions, but direct observational evidence is still limited. Clouds remain the biggest source of uncertainty (apart from human decisions to control greenhouse gas emissions) in predicting how much global temperatures will change.

Both Sides Now (Clouds) - Joni Mitchell

I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow,
It's cloud illusions I recall,
I really don't know clouds, at all.

motoring.co.za - South African don't believe cars are the problem

In 2010, as with all the previous studies, only one percent of people around the world blamed aircraft for climate ills and only three percent blamed cars.

BBC News - A bad reputation

...with a few provisos, we can actually afford to chill out about certain carbon footprints, which aren't as bad as many of us might think.
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10. Keeping your old car can be a good carbon trade off. A new car has a footprint of between six tonnes (a small Citroen C1) and 35 tonnes ( a Landrover Discovery, say). Making cars for UK drivers has about half the footprint of the fuel they burn. So if your old car is safe and reliable, you mileage isn't too high and it's not a gas guzzling disaster, keeping it is probably the low carbon option. If you feel you need a new status symbol, spend any spare cash on solar panels or a wind turbine.

BBC News - South Korea rocket 'explodes' moments after take-off

The satellite - which had been intended to study the effects of climate change - should have separated from the rocket and deployed its solar panels some nine minutes after take-off, at an altitude of 302km.

Beeville update

mySouTex.com - It’s a hoax

“Neither the plaque nor the letter is authentic, and this amounts to fraudulent use of NSF’s name and logo. This matter has been referred to our Office of the Inspector General,” said Maria Zacharias, group leader in the NSF public affairs division.

Besides all of these factors, Zacharias said that it would be unusual for the topic “Disproving Global Warming” to beat 50,000 other entries, as the letter claimed.

“Global warming is kind of a fact,” said Zacharias. “The controversy is over how much of it is caused by humans.”
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Castillo said that his daughter discovered the contest through an ad for the “National Science Fair” on an educational Web site, but he did not remember which site.

According to Castillo, there was no entry fee for the fair, and the family had been in contact with someone in Arlington, Va., claiming to be the NSF. The actual NSF is based in the same city.

However, Castillo said that they did not have a copy of the application, and the packaging for the awards had already been thrown out.

Castillo said he believed someone had gone to great lengths to deceive his family and he had no idea why.

Note that under the headline "It's a hoax", there is a nice large closeup of Julisa’s father, J.R. Castillo.

C3: The Stupidity of The Chattering Class: More Evidence From WAPO's Andrew Freedman

The coastal leftist/liberal elites are struggling with major denial as to why the majority of Americans have turned away from the non-scientific alarmism about global warming and climate change. The "elites," instead of recognizing the truth of the matter, turn to conspiracy theories about sinister corporate entities spewing climate disinformation.

2007 Sea Ice Post Mortem | Watts Up With That?

The next problem with an “ice-free Arctic” is that summer temperatures north of 80N have not changed over the last 50 years. You can see that in the DMI graphs. If anything, recent years have had colder summers near the pole.

C3: Scientists Confirm Medieval Warming Exceeds Modern Warming In Alaska: It's Non-CO2 Climate Change

Much has been made by global warming alarmists about the warming of Alaska since the 1970's and thus inferring it is due to human CO2 emissions. What they conveniently fail to mention is that most of the warming was due to a major PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation) shift to a warming phase that took place during the late 70's.

More Fires Than Mongols: Illusions of Controversy in Climate Change « Father Theo's Blog

Bottom line—scientific doubt about climate change is a media and energy industry created myth.

[What's the temperature of ocean water right next to a seal's head?]: Seals track impact of climate change on reef

The seals have sensors glued to their heads that collect information about changes to temperature and salinity in the Southern Ocean.

Al's Journal : Humble Oil (now Exxon) Predicts the Future in 1962 Ad

The ad reads:

"EACH DAY HUMBLE SUPPLIES ENOUGH ENERGY TO MELT 7 MILLION TONS OF GLACIER!"
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In the early 1970’s Humble Oil, was rebranded as Exxon Mobil. This is just one of the many additions to the updated slideshow I am delivering at a training today in Beijing, China.

Asia's silent victims of pollution and emissions | Melody Kemp | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

The global south is struggling with industrial emissions, always playing catch up in a bid to fix the ailments it has created

- Bishop Hill blog - The Climate Files

Fred Pearce has new book out on Climategate and will be speaking about it at the Royal Institution on Monday. Readers will remember Pearce as the author of a detailed series of postings on the Climategate emails in the Guardian at the start of the year. The book sounds pretty interesting...

- Bishop Hill blog - Russell report imminent?

DateJun 9, 2010 CategoryClimate

I hear on the grapevine that Sir Muir Russell's panel will be reporting "imminently". I imagine that means in the next few days. My guess would be that they will make the announcement on Friday so that they can run for cover straight afterwards.

Subsidizing CO2 Emissions via Windpower: The Ultimate Irony — MasterResource

My recent four-part Wind Integration Realities reviewed two new studies, based on actual experience, that show fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are increased, not reduced, with the introduction of wind.

Warning Signs: Just What You Don't Need! More Ethanol!

Higher ethanol blends will likely force millions of perfectly good, older vehicles into crippling retirement to the detriment of those who can least afford to be deprived of personal transportation.

Senate Climate Bill's Boosters Try Smorgasbord Strategy in Bid for Votes - NYTimes.com

Senate Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said yesterday she did not think the primary vehicle going to the floor would be the Kerry-Lieberman bill as it was introduced last month. "We never said that," she said. "We said Harry [Reid] was going to write his own bill. Never that that would be the vehicle.

West Michigan fruit crop suffering after early freeze | MLive.com

Tubbs said his 350 acres of asparagus also were damaged severely. The farm lost about "four pickings" and "some of the better pickings" which equates to a 10 percent to 20 percent loss, he said.

"We'll never get those pickings back. We'll never recover that. We're way down from last year and last year wasn't a real good year because it was so cold," he said.

SCENARIOS-Fate of climate bill uncertain as Japan poll nears | Energy & Oil | Reuters

TOKYO June 10 (Reuters) - Japan's government could run out of time to enact a climate bill before upper-house elections expected next month, fuelling worries it might drop a plan to trade carbon emissions by setting obligatory caps on firms.

Climate change and the great scientific dance-off › Environment Blog (ABC Environment)

The tantalising element of conflict is one reason why climate change is the biggest science story ever. Of course, the other is that current scientific projections are that it will have a calamitous affect on us all.

Lindsey Graham Said What About Climate Change? | Mother Jones

Reporters asked Graham several times about why he was supporting Lugar's bill, when just a few months ago he had argued that the Senate shouldn't pass a "half-assed" bill that lacked hard restrictions on carbon emissions. Graham replied that he now doesn't think pricing carbon is that important. "The science about global warming has changed," he noted, offhandedly. "I think they've oversold this stuff, quite frankly. I think they've been alarmist and the science is in question," Graham told reporters. "The whole movement has taken a giant step backward."
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I asked him, if carbon [dioxide] emissions aren't warming the planet, why are they bad? Here's his reply:

I just think it's bad … the reason I don't hang out in traffic jams and get out and suck up the wind is I think this crap is bad for you. We've had an increase in asthma cases. If you've ever been to Thailand stuck behind 400 motorcycles, it's a lousy place to be. It doesn't take a rocket scientist in my view to understand that the stuff floating in the Gulf, if you burn it doesn't make it better for you. If you wouldn't go swimming in this stuff, why would you burn it and want to breath it?

...Graham ended his commentary on the subject on this note: "I do believe the environmental benefit of a low carbon economy is worth the Republican party's time and attention. Does climate change have to be your religion? No, it is not my religion, it is my concern."

Climate Common Sense: The Hoax uncovering Hansen's Hoax!

The blue graph is the unadjusted temperatures showing no warming and the red graph is the adjusted graph and voila we have warming.

The grubby fingers of Hansen and his cronies can be seen all over this and we owe thanks to Julisa Castillo for unwittingly bringing this to our attention.Maybe this was the hoaxer's intention in the first place?

Energy, Climate Change, but No Cap and Trade - Green Blog - NYTimes.com

Mr. Graham, who appeared with Mr. Lugar to announce the new bill, said he believed the proposal had the best chance of any of several proposals now before the Senate.

“There’s no offshore drilling in it and no cap and trade,” he said. “That’s why I’m with him. This gets the game started.”

Lindsey Graham Looking To Kill His Climate Change Bill

When will Congress declare hopes for a climate change bill this year dead, dead dead dead, which they pretty much are? GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham helped draft it and is now officially working against it, for funny-sounding reasons.

Climate change showdown - TheHill.com

Democratic leaders are scrambling to prevent the Senate from delivering a stinging slap to President Barack Obama on climate change.

They have offered a vote on a bill they dislike in the hopes of avoiding a loss on legislation Obama hates.

Spotlight on MPs' spending - politics - national | Stuff.co.nz

9.32AM Climate Change Negotiations Minister Tim Groser racked up a $466 minibar bill in the space of one week during the Copenhagen climate change conference.

Mr Groser's receipts have arrived among dozens of boxes delivered to parliament this morning recording receipts for all ministers from 2003 to February this year.

From December 12 last year to December 19, Mr Groser purchased 22 items from his hotel minibar. Among them was a 3cl bottle of Jim Beam, which cost NZ$55.

There were purchases for whisky, tonic, bourbon, gin, Famous Grouse, cognac and wine - some two or three times over.

Ezra Klein - Proposal to hamstring EPA nearing a vote

...if it gets 51 votes in the Senate, it's going to be another grim sign for efforts to address climate change, as it'll show that the Senate is much more united on blocking regulations than creating them.

And it may well get 51 votes.

UN Wants to Grab That Burger Right Out of Your Hands

World body, media have beef with Americans because meat is mean to Mother Nature.

Murkowski bashes Dems for linking her EPA plan to Gulf oil spill - The Hill's E2-Wire

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) is striking back at Democratic attempts to politically tether her resolution that blocks EPA climate change rules to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and support for “big oil.”

“I am flabbergasted that they would be jumping to this conclusion, to make this suggestion that somehow or other a vote in support of this resolution of disapproval is a vote that means that what has happened in the Gulf is something to be condoned,” Murkowski told reporters Wednesday at a press conference in the Capitol.

Six impossible things before the sports bar: down the rabbit hole at Conspiracy Con 2010 | San Francisco Bay Guardian

Signing books in the vendor room, I caught Dr. Michael S. Coffman, PhD. Coffman's was the first presentation I watched that day, an assemblage of charts and graphs that highlighted why human caused global warming is a scam created by the government in order to control the world's energy usage.

Attired in a navy blazer with gold buttons, Coffman lacked the vitriol of Marrs -- even if his message that carbon dioxide “is not a pollutant,” did strike me as a little troubling. “I basically am a scientist leading a multi million dollar research outfit,” Coffman told me when I asked him how he made a living.

Spencer Wells: 'At root, we're still hunters' - Science, News - The Independent

Geneticist Spencer Wells believes that when our neolithic ancestors began farming, they set us on the road to ruin. He tells Steve Connor why agriculture is fatally at odds with our biological inheritance

Nasa launches its first ever 'global warming investigation' to the Arctic - Telegraph

Researchers from the space agency hope to provide the most detailed research yet on how global warming is devastating the ocean’s ecosystem.

Coldest day yet on Border - Australia

Bureau of Meteorology climatologist Blair Trewin said it was unusual for the maximum to dip so low.

“Eight degrees is a pretty cold day for Albury, you’d probably only have a couple of days get that cold each year,” Mr Trewin said.

Will: Obama forges forward despite sluggish job creation - Houston Chronicle

Today's evidence suggesting sluggish job creation might give pause to a less confident person than Obama. But pauses are not in his repertoire of governance. Instead, yielding to what must be a metabolic urge toward statism, he says the Gulf oil spill is yet another reason for yet another explosion of government's control of economic life. The spill supposedly makes it urgent to adopt a large tax increase in the form of cap-and-trade energy legislation, which also is climate legislation, the primary purpose of which is, or once was, to combat global warming, such as it is.

Which is more "Environmentally Sensitive" ANWR or the Gulf? - Minnesotans For Global Warming

Things that the gulf's environment has that ANWR doesn't have.
Fish, Shrimp, Turtles, Birds, Swamps, Beaches, Trees, Oceans, Gulf Streams

Things that ANWR's environment has that the Gulf doesn't.
Permafrost

[Dispatch from Roger Pielke Jr.'s World]

As I have said for many years, and documented in The Climate Fix, the battle for public opinion on climate change has been won by those who argue that there is a profound human influence on climate and action is warranted.