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Ahead of the UN climate meet in Cancun, India on Wednesday warned that the global negotiations may collapse if there was no extension for Kyoto Protocol which sets binding greenhouse gas emission targets on rich nations from 2013 to 2018.
Written by Steven Goddard, Real Science
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10 November 2010
Glaciers have disappeared and fish are going extinct. Big oil knows that they are responsible for this 1922 Arctic disaster, yet they keep delivering gas to the gas station.
A simple solution would be to create green gas stations, where they have no gas. Greenies could fill up their Prius at those stations to avoid guilt and shame.
Italian newspaper “La Stampa” has just put online its 1867-today archive (yes, it IS in Italian). What better chance (well, for me at least…) to explore the evolution of “global cooling” thinking in the 1970s beyond the usual English-speaking newsmedia? With the added bonus of plenty of names and other key words to use as…keywords for further research.
Written by Jason Mick, DailyTech
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10 November 2010
Company says it doesn't care about quarterly profitability
Tesla is sort of like hip-hop superstar of the auto world -- it's blowing through money like it could be dead tomorrow.
The company had plenty of promising news so far this year. In May it announced that Toyota invested in it and contracting it to help produce Toyota's upcoming electric RAV4 crossover SUV. The company also secured $226M USD in cash from a initial public offering of stock.
Written by Investor's Business Daily
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10 November 2010
The United Nations wants $100 billion a year in taxes to deal with climate change. Two groups of researchers plan to go on the offensive against global warming "denialists." When will the madness end?
The U.N.'s craving for money it hasn't earned is insatiable. So it's no surprise that one of its panels has proposed to raise $100 billion a year from taxes on carbon dioxide emissions and international transportation, and possibly on financial transactions as well, to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Written by Joseph A Olson, PE, via Email
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10 November 2010
Occasionally, in the course of protracted battles, the combatants pause for a moment and reflect on their common humanity. They can meet unarmed on the field of battle to share laughter and a glimpse of life beyond the present conflict. These are just a brief interlude from the daily debauchery of warfare. And so it was last week in my interlude from the daily climate war.
Written by John O’Sullivan and Val Majkus
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10 November 2010
Global warmers in full retreat as Aussie experts admit growing doubts about their own methods as new study shows one third of temperatures not reliable.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) admits it was wrong about urban heating effects as a professional statistical analysis by Andrew Barnham exposes a BOMclaim that “since 1960 the mean temperature in Australia has increased by about 0.7 °C”; the BOM assertion has no empirical scientific basis.
Written by Lewis Page, The Register
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09 November 2010
Glacier and climate boffins have issued a stinging poohpooh to recent alarmist pronouncements on climate-change-driven glacier melt - in particular from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
“In the last few years numbers have been named that do not pass a closer examination,“ says glaciologist and climatologist Georg Kaser of Innsbruck uni. “It is an exaggeration when it is claimed that the melting of glaciers endangers the water supply of two billion people.”
Written by Lorne Gunter, National Post
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09 November 2010
BBC reporter to O'Neill: "The [programmers] are against it because it loses ratings. The wave [of public interest] has gone. There is climate change fatigue. That is why I am not [reporting] it now."The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is as lefty as our own dear CBC. Recently it sent reporter Margot O’Neill away to Oxford University for a year to study the state of environmental reporting. She returned recently to bemoan the fact that in the year since the Climategate emails and the UN climate summit debacle in Copenhagen there have been far fewer prominent climate change stories in Western press.
Below you'll find links to CO2 Science Magazine's latest Journal Reviews. Check 'em out as they are very interesting, peer-reviewed, and above all, digestible.
European plans to promote biofuels will drive farmers to convert 69,000 square km of wild land into fields and plantations, depriving the poor of food and accelerating climate change, a report warned on Monday. The impact equates to an area the size of the Republic of Ireland.
Will passage of prop. 26 put the brakes on California's new global warming law and new taxes?
While California’s election results offered plenty for state environmentalists to cheer, the passage of a so-called “stealth” ballot initiative could undermine its proposed carbon market.
Last Tuesday, voters rejected Proposition 23, which sought to halt California’s landmark environmental law, AB 32, which mandates the state reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. They also elected climate hawk and AB 32 champion Jerry Brown governor.
Written by Christopher C. Horner, Big Government
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08 November 2010
D.O.A.: Even when they had the majority, cap and tax was too much of a risk for many Democrats.
As some may recall, the filibuster-proof Senate did not move on cap-and-trade. In the past four years of Senate control, they did not try to ratify the US-signed, never unsigned Kyoto Protocol. Even after the filibuster-proof majority was lost by just a vote, the Senate failed to lift a finger to consider cap-n-trade. There just weren’t enough Democrats willing to buy in, or risk their jobs on this folly.
The Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) continues raising serious concerns for policy makers and the public as to whether the “adjustments” that government-funded employees continue making to raw surface and ocean temperature data sets can be trusted.
In a new collaborative paper, Is The Western Climate Establishment Corrupt?, Dr. Dave Evans has gathered substantial evidence that corruption has become endemic within government-sponsored climate units.
Written by Thomas Richard, Climate Change Dispatch
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08 November 2010
"That was bad."
—Michael Mann, on his tree-ring data not reflecting true temperatures 50 years ago and then switching to different data set after 1960. A British inquiry into this revelation criticized the use of the mix-and-match data as a "misleading" portrayal of his tree-ring data and graph.
Written by Robin Bravender, Politico
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08 November 2010
Pelosi's global warming committee may come back to haunt her with actual global warming facts.
One of the top climate skeptics in the House is asking GOP leadership to keep the Democrats’ global warming committee alive to investigate the Obama administration’s environmental policies.
Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, is making good on his promise to pitch Republicans to revamp the committee to focus on the costs of Environmental Protection Agency regulations.
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh
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