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Bringing Skepticism (and Math) to Electric Vehicle Fuel Numbers | Coyote BlogTaking a different approach to the same problem, based on the wells-to-wheels methodology described in my Forbes article (which in turn was taken directly from the DOE), the Nissan Leaf has a real eMPG of about 42 (36.5% of the published 115), less than the Prius's at 50.
Global warming preachers burn the gases we must not | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogI won’t believe the planet’s future depends on me slashing emissions until Tim Flannery acts like he really believes it, too.
2010: Baby girl survives after being shot in the chest in parents' global warming suicide pact | Mail OnlineA seven-month-old baby girl survived three days alone with a bullet in her chest beside the bodies of her parents and toddler brother.
Argentines Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their children before killing themselves after making an apparent suicide pact over fears about global warming.
Their son Francisco, two, died instantly after being hit in the back.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds another non-hockey-stick in PeruClimate activist Lonnie Thompson has finally published his paper today on ice core data from the Quelccaya ice cap in Peru, data that Steve McIntyre requested to be archived for years. Plotting the variance-adjusted online data shows a non-hockey-stick from 1900-2009, with temperatures during the 1930's exceeding those of the 21st century and end of the record in 2009.
No Future For Climate Change Torts, Attys Say - Law360Law360, New York (May 23, 2013, 6:25 PM ET) -- With the U.S. Supreme Court and the Fifth Circuit recently pulling the plug on suits blaming energy companies for spewing greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming and extreme weather, attorneys say the pursuit of climate change tort litigation is approaching a dead end, leaving legislation and regulation as the only viable outlets to tackle the issue.
Gov. Moonbeam slams warmists as on ‘losing end’ of ‘contest for ideas’ | JunkScience.com“We’re really in a war here, a contest for ideas, and this crowd is on the losing end,” [Gov. Brown] said
Big snowfall for parts of MontanaThe calendar may say May 23, but Mother Nature doesn’t agree!
Record cold in OregonColdest in more than 100 years in multiple locations.
More climate alarmism from the ABC’s Lateline | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogShowing a graphic of temperature change since 1997 might have solved the issue for ABC viewers, who were last night treated to a puff-piece on warming extremist Bill McKibben:
Gov. Brown: Pay Attention to Climate Change - Business - Mountain View, CA PatchBrown, speaking to about 100 people at the Water, Energy and Smart Technology Summit at the NASA Ames Research Park at Moffett Field, said, "We are really in a war here. You have to reach people who are disinterested and somewhat hostile."
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"This is about activism," Brown continued. "This is about converting people. This is an important challenge. If it's like this five years from now, it's over."
...He said the media emphasizes trivial stories that are only relevant for a short time. The governor said climate change is not seen as important as "getting the 50th Super Bowl. It's silly."
Warmists wrong again: Earth’s mantle affects long-term sea-level rise estimates — ‘big news’ says researcher | JunkScience.comnew findings by a team of researchers, including Robert Moucha, assistant professor of Earth Sciences in The College of Arts and Sciences, reveal that the shoreline has been uplifted by more than 210 feet, meaning less ice melted than expected.
Electric Vehicle Welfare Queen | Coyote BlogI hope you all enjoy Mr. Beisel's smug pride a driving a car using your money.
Art Markman, Ph.D.: Who Rejects Evidence of Global Climate Change?For those people who oppose climate change on the basis of beliefs about the free-market, it would be better to engage in a discussion about the economic costs of rising temperatures. For example, debate could focus on the impact of recent extreme weather patterns on business and agriculture. This debate might help to reduce the strength of the opposition to regulations on pollution, which might then influence people's beliefs about climate change.
Seriously? For people who don't believe that CO2 is overheating the planet, you want to sell the idea that CO2 is overheating the planet, which is in turn causing extreme weather?
Pakistan TodayISLAMABAD - Former Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) director general (DG) Qamaruz Zaman Chaudhry on Thursday said climate change was on the rise due to war on terror...
He said that due to excessive usage of heavy weapons in war on terror, the climate of South Asian region is changing notably.
He said that disaster frequency and intensity was also increasing day by day and the government had established Ministry of Climate Change to cope several issues regarding weather and climate change in the country.
Dear Oklahoma: We Feel for you, we love you, but do us some favors | Informed Comment[Warmist Juan Cole] And here’s the biggy. The tornado that so harmed you may not have been related to global warming. But it is indisputable that climate change will produce massive storms that will hit the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. By pumping out gas and oil you are dooming other small towns and big cities along the coasts to future destruction and loss of life, including childrens’ lives, of the sort you just suffered, except on a much bigger scale. You are not in any doubt that the climate can be dangerous. Please, please rethink your energy policies and turn in a big way to wind and solar (you have a lot of both) as quickly as possible. You’ve recently made a start with wind energy, but it is frankly a drop in the bucket compared with what you could do — indeed, you’re the state with perhaps the biggest wind power potential in the whole country. You need to build out your grid to supply the rest of us, and you need to put in turbines everywhere they make sense.
Your Senator Inhofe, in the back pocket of Big Oil, denies all this, and makes your state look buffoonish to the rest of the world.
Tesla CEO Musk: 'Reframe' climate argument - The Hill's E2-WireMusk, whose electric car firm repaid its $465 million Energy Department loan on Wednesday, urged attendees at a Washington, D.C., event to flip the burden of proof onto those who deny greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming.
“If you were to ask any scientist, ‘Are you absolutely certain’ about anything, they would say, ‘Well, no. There’s a .001 percent chance it could be different.’ So it’s better to actually say, ‘Look, how certain are you that it is not catastrophic?’ And then you’ll get the correct answer,” Musk said Wednesday night at the Climate Leadership Gala.
Musk also said he had a solution — albeit one Republicans have outright rejected — for reducing carbon emissions.
“The thing they’ve got to do is try to put a tax on carbon,” he said, inducing cheers.
Flashback: As planet-healing left-wing crony capitalist billionaire Elon Musk shuttles hundreds of times between his California mansion and DC, how much fossil fuel has his private jet burned?in the Bloomberg interview he estimated he’s visited Washington about 200 times
No 10’s new energy adviser is a former British Gas lobbyist - UK Politics - UK - The IndependentDavid Cameron has appointed a former lobbyist for British Gas to be his personal advisor on energy and climate change.
Tara Singh, whose previous role as public affairs manager at British-Gas owner Centrica involved frequent contact with the Conservative Party, took up her newly-created role at Number 10 this week.
She is responsible for briefing the prime minister on a day-to-day basis on issues relating to energy and climate change.
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Ms Singh is also likely to be heavily involved in the run-up to the crucial Paris climate change summit in 2015
Seven thrilling facts about carbon taxes from the CBOSo the CBO looks at things this way: “Given the inherent uncertainty of predicting the effects of climate change, and the possibility that it could trigger catastrophic effects, lawmakers might view a carbon tax as a reflection of society’s willingness to pay to reduce the risk of potentially very expensive damage in the future.” [Why, specifically, should we think that a 61 F. world is more risky than a 59 F. world?]
Keep climate change out of Keystone decision, GOP warns in letter to Obama - The Hill's E2-WireTwo dozen Senate Republicans are warning President Obama not to link “wholly unrelated” climate change policies to approval of the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.
Two major climbs cut from Giro stage 19 due to weather - Cycling - Eurosport AustraliaPOLSA, Italy (Reuters) May 23 - Two major climbs have been axed from Friday's key stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia because of snow and ice on their descent although the main stage finish at Val Martello remains in place, race organisers said on Thursday.
Capital Weather Gang 2013 summer outlook: Less stifling than last 3 summerswe anticipate our coolest summer since 2009, and a 50-50 chance at our 2nd coolest since 2005.
Ex-AccuWeather's Bastardi Slams 'Ambulance Chasing' by Global Warming Theory Activists | NewsBustersBastardi:
It's almost like ambulance chasing after these devastating events that cause misery to people, and then trying to tie an agenda into it.
Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Anyone for memorial day weekend ...Anyone for memorial day weekend skiing. Killington, Jay Peak top could get foot.
Twitter / frannyarmstrong@BarryJWoods @Foxgoose @richardabetts Yes that 300K [annual CO2-induced bad weather deaths?] figure is discredited and no longer quoted by me or others. Kofi Annan's org was wrong
Conservative think tank blasts CAP hypocrisy | Washington Free Beacon“I find it ironic that the Center for American Progress may now realize how difficult it can be for a controversial nonprofit to have its corporate donors exposed,” Lakely said. “Maybe now CAP will tone down its celebration of crimes in the name of ‘disclosure’ and denunciation of corporate donations to nonprofits—but I have my doubts.”
Lakely’s comments followed on a report Tuesday in the Nation that revealed a partial membership list of CAP’s Business Alliance, a secretive collection of businesses that contribute to the liberal think tank.
The report also revealed CAP leaders have advocated for policies that benefitted a number of its corporate partners. CAP has previously accused conservative organizations of taking money from corporations before advocating in favor of policies that help them.
The Center for American Progress Action Fund’s ThinkProgress blog attacked the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, in 2012. It published a list of Heartland’s corporate donors in a post titled, “EXPOSED: The 19 Public Corporations Funding The Climate Denier Think Tank Heartland Institute.”
CAP launched a pressure campaign against companies that contributed to Heartland’s operations.
The secret life of internet climate trolls… « JoNovaPhysicsGirl is assuming that all scientists are the same, that confirmation bias doesn’t exist, and that when someone discusses a climate model, an answer about another model entirely, has some meaning. She talks in general abstract terms so much I wonder if she’s been reading much on the climate debate. James doesn’t answer the most pointed question that survived the editing (would he keep his job?). And I’d like to see what Hoyt said that was edited out, but he comes across well in a video that goes nowhere. But if they’d caught him getting angry or making a mistake, it would have been a headline.
@hoytc55 Good on him.
Spring on track to be coldest for 30 years | Met Office News BlogEarly figures from the Met Office show spring (March, April and May) 2013 is on course to be the coldest in the UK since 1979.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Inconvenient questions on solar cells for Revkin's Dot-Chat todayAltogether, the energy payback time is close to the lifetime of a typical solar panel.
Thus, the net energy and emission savings are close to zero, for immense cost.
Why is this a good thing?
Plan to dramatically expand renewables in Europe fails | JunkScience.com“The European Parliament yesterday (21 May) approved a non-binding resolution calling for a mandatory EU-wide share for renewables for 2030, but failed to set the target in the 40-45% range.”
Bill McKibben: One degree of warming is ‘utter catastrophe’ | JunkScience.comBut we are still here, Bill.
Beijing Art Show Confronts Climate Change - Scene Asia - WSJ[Cape Farewell founder David Buckland] Scientists are clear in saying this is the most important thing humanity has to face right now. But to most people it doesn’t really make sense
Cold weather clouds tea crop prospects in Assam, Bengal | Business LineAccording to C.S. Bedi, the production of second flush crop has been slow during the first 18 days of this month on account of “dull and cold weather” in Assam.
Twitter / BigJoeBastardiWeatherbell.com video highlighting ne weekend cold, western cold ( ugly) Euro cold ( ugly) svr wx outbreak nxt wk tropical trouble
Oyster Shells Are an Antacid to the Oceans - NYTimes.com“Oyster shells are made out of calcium carbonate, so they’re sort of like an antacid pill,” said George Waldbusser, an assistant professor of earth, ocean and atmospheric sciences at Oregon State and an author of the study, which appears in the journal Ecology. “In an undisturbed oyster reef, healthy oysters are generating a lot of biodeposits,” a genteel term for excrement, “which helps generate CO2 to help break down those shells, which helps to regenerate the alkalinity back into the environment.”
Running shoes leave large carbon footprint, study shows | Environment | guardian.co.ukA typical pair of synthetic trainers generates 30lbs of emissions, equivalent to leaving a 100-watt bulb burning for a week
Weathering the Politicians — The Patriot Post[Michael Reagan, the eldest son of Ronald Reagan] Next time a natural disaster strikes, I have some advice for all the climate-control freaks in Washington.
Please shut up. Nothing you say or do will change anything. Oklahoma is not going to get safer if Earth gets cooler.
And Boxer, Whitehouse and their ilk are not going to make tornadoes disappear like Newsweek did.
Believe it not, senators, climate is not something that Washington can control.
It's ultimately affected -- and controlled -- by Almighty Nature, not humans and their carbon burning. And certainly not by agenda-driven politicians.
Panasonic to End Solar Wafer Production at Oregon Factory - BloombergPanasonic Corp. (6752), a Japanese electronics maker which began developing solar panels in 1975, will end solar wafer production at a plant in Oregon.
The Osaka-based company plans to stop making wafers at the end of June, a spokeswoman Chieko Gyobu said today by phone in Tokyo. The Nikkei newspaper reported the plan earlier also saying that the company wants to consolidate production at its plant in Malaysia.
U.K. Climate Adviser Says Low-Carbon Mix Saves $150 Bln - BloombergBritain, under pressure to build new power stations, could save as much as 100 billion pounds ($150 billion) through 2050 by spending on wind, nuclear and carbon capture rather than gas, the government’s climate [hoax] adviser said.
NZ carbon hits 11-week low on supply glut - News - Point CarbonBEIJING, May 23 (Reuters Point Carbon) - Spot emission permits in New Zealand’s carbon market fell 3.6 percent over the week to close Thursday at NZ$1.90, an 11-week low, as fresh supply from foresters helped saturate demand.
Merkel protege struggles with Germany's green revolution - Reuters News - Point CarbonBERLIN, May 23 (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel appointed him for his charm and political skill as marshal of her vision of a 'green revolution' in Europe's biggest power market. A year on, Peter Altmaier finds himself spurned by many environmentalists, disdained by industry and viewed cooly by a public wary of the costs.
Locust plagues point to grim future of climate changeThe second half of the twentieth century has seen a dramatic decline in frequency, duration and intensity of desert locust plagues, largely thanks to improved control and monitoring capacities in the affected countries.
Twitter / clim8resistance: Has Enron been forgotten in ...Has Enron been forgotten in this 'new' age of 'negawatts'? @WillN_BG @GregBarkerMP
Twitter / clim8resistance: The UK's climate minister, ...The UK's climate minister, thinks negative quantities are tradable commodities.
CBO: Carbon tax an option to avoid 'catastrophic' outcomes - The Hill's E2-WireThe Congressional Budget Office (CBO) noted Wednesday that a carbon tax could generate “significant” revenues for the United States and avert “catastrophic” effects of climate change.
CBO said in a new report that there are many uncertainties about how to design and implement a carbon tax, but waiting too long to curb greenhouse gas emissions would have clear results. [Like what, specifically?]
Campus California Spotlights Intense Storms Caused by Climate Change | Virtual-Strategy MagazineAccording to the article, Tropical Storm Irene (and the damage that it caused) “wasn’t just another 1-in-500-years event happening, a freak occurrence, a one-off event. Rather, experts see it as the new normal across the Northeast, the latest in a series of calamitous weather events occurring because of, or amplified by, climate change.”
Appropriations: House proposes 'devastating' cuts to Interior, EPA accounts in fiscal 2014 -- Wednesday, May 22, 2013 -- www.eenews.netHouse appropriators yesterday proposed allocating $24.3 billion to the subcommittee that funds the Interior Department, Forest Service and U.S. EPA for next fiscal year, a level that would likely require significant cuts to a host of conservation programs, clean water grants, and climate change and habitat restoration work, environmentalists warned.
Twitter / RogerPielkeJr: China promises to double CO2 ...China promises to double CO2 emissions by 2025, climate activists happy, Lord Sterm says "This is very exciting news"
Joe Bastardi (BigJoeBastardi) on TwitterDo you realize in the last 2 years if this weekend snow occurssome places will have seen the earliest and latest together snows within 2 yrs
I am not going to use that to say ice age, but if its snowing earlier and later, it sure as the sun rises not a sign of it getting warmer
The nonsense about warming causing more snow in winter is bought by the uniformed. but in May,or October. It has to be much colder than ave
In the past when such things happened, they were signals of colder times to come. Only in the upside down world of AGW is it not
Hansen craps on UN global climate treaty: “An approach that’s NOT going to work” | JunkScience.comFrom a Hansen interview with Bloomberg News
Hansen puts solar panels on his barn roof to cut emissions | JunkScience.comWake us when he uses them to charge his Tesla tractor.
2008: James Hansen and Mark Bowen on Censored Science : NPRJim leads an ascetic life. He and Anniek keep a tiny apartment a few blocks from his institute, the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is located on the campus of Columbia University. On the days when he doesn't get up at 4:30 A.M. to catch a train to Washington for a meeting at NASA headquarters or the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, he tends to spend the early morning thinking and writing in the peace and quiet of the apartment. Until recently, it had no Internet connection, which he saw as a good thing. If Leslie, Darnell, or one of Jim's scientific colleagues or fellow managers needs to reach him, she or he will call on the phone. At some point in the morning, when a meeting or some other pressing duty calls, he will rush downstairs and walk—more exactly run—a few blocks south to GISS, where he will work into the night. He claims that his only regular exercise comes from running up the stairs to his seventh-floor office. He and Anniek also own a small farm in rural Pennsylvania, to which he commutes by car about once a week—less in winter. Indeed, the old Volvo that they keep on the street in New York bears some resemblance to a farm vehicle.
Does anybody remember Hansen talking a lot about non-CO2 factors back when it was warming?Climate Scientist Hansen Turns Activist, Advocates 'Fee' on Carbon Pollution - Bloomberg[Hansen]: When you look at a short period, it's hard to have statistically significant warming. But the rate has been less in the past decade than the prior three decades.
It’s normal. There's no reason to believe that the temperature is going to be linear. There are a couple of reasons to believe it would be less. Since the 1970s [how about before that?]we have been measuring the sun very precisely, and we know that this last solar cycle is the weakest of them all.
But there are other factors involved, some of which are not measured very well, including human-made aerosols [which cause cooling].
Then there's just a natural variability. We've had in the last few years two strong La Ninas. That's just a natural oscillation of tropical temperature. The 1998 El Nino was a record one, and that causes warming. The La Ninas cause a global cooling. When you have a big warming at the beginning and two La Ninas at the end, that tends to give you a negative trend.
ABC News Watch: 80 year old conquers Everest! But hang on what happened to climate change making it unclimbable?An 80-year-old Japanese climber who has had four heart surgeries has become the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
But last year ABC reported: 'Super Sherpa' says climate change may make Everest unclimbable
Anti-information in climate models | Watts Up With That?Ponder this: Suppose there is a multiple choice test, asking for the correct temperature forecast for 100 temperature observations, and there were four choices. Using random numbers, you would average one-in-four correct, or 25%. But the models in the National Assessment somehow could only get 12.5%!
“No information”—a random number simulation—yields 25% correct in this example, which means that anything less is anti-information. It seems impossible, but it happened.
Global Warming “Consensus”: Cooking the BooksOnly 65 (!) Abstracts in Cook Study of 12,000 Strongly Endorse AGW!
"The Lid": Bill Nye Is Still The Weather Idiot GuySo in the end Bill Nye the Weather Idiot Guy is a hypocrite just like most global warming moonbats. Every time there is a series of blizzards or an extra-cold winter they rush to remind people that there is a difference between weather and climate, but the first time there are horrible storms such as Hurricane Sandy or this week in Oklahoma City they rush to say its climate change not weather.
Nye should be rushing to raise money to help the victims of this weeks tornadoes but instead he is rushing to make a claim the storm was created by climate change which ignores science. Perhaps is Bow Tie is on a bit too tight.
Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Frost threat again interior ...Frost threat again interior ne into WVA this weekend. If it snows in ne mtns, will the usual suspects jump in and tell us its warming
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: Paper finds a long-term cooling trend in the N. Atlantic and MediterraneanA paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews finds a long-term cooling trend of the sea surface in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean during the Holocene [past 10,000 years]. According to the authors, "All [7 of these] these paleo-temperature records document an apparent long-term cooling during the last 10,000 years." The paper confirms other research finding a cooling of the Sargasso Sea in the N. Atlantic over the past 3,000 years.
The New Nostradamus of the North: Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber wants to"fundamentally rethink" the economy because of global warming[Kitzhaber] The Gross National Product measures all the economic activity of the country and anything that produces a profit counts as a plus. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill was “great for the economy,” he said, “carnage on the highways, crime, the prison system, the war in Afghanistan – all count as positive in our current way of measuring,” the governor explained.
Dana Nuccitelli Refuses Reality: Richard Tol Calls John Cook’s Survey “Silly Idea…Poorly Implemented”Tol’s last comment pretty much sums up the quality Cook’s and Nuccitelli’s work. I could say every day last year in my hometown was over 25°C (if I ignore 320 of them and misclassify a quarter of the 45 I did count).
Dana Nuccitelli is becoming a real asset for the skeptics, one that we certainly don’t want to lose.
The Reference Frame: Does global warming cause tornadoes?Please, Ms Barbara Boxer and others, stop talking about these medieval hypothetical links that sound almost identical as the accusations against the witches in Salem, Massachusetts. Science supports none of your fantasies and every attempt by a person to rationalize such fantasies shows that the person lacks scientific integrity – and sometimes plain human honesty, too.
We've passed 400ppm: now what? | Spanner Films[Franny Armstrong] ..Which means that we are heading for an even worse scenario than the one we depicted in The Age of Stupid: Africa uninhabitable, continental Europe mostly desert, Australia's agricultural system destroyed, hundreds of major cities underwater, hundreds of millions of people dead and many more on the move.
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-> Should we go into survivalist mode, buying up guns and fortifying our homes? It sounds extreme, but it's not a coincidence that some people working on climate change are buying pieces of land far away from centres of population to move their families
-> Should we stockpile cyanide? You think I'm exaggerating, but a close friend of mine, who has four children, said she plans to kill herself and them when it comes to it.
Twitter / Foxgoose: @Roddy_Campbell @aDissentient ...@Roddy_Campbell @aDissentient I always feared the green lunatics were heading towards Jonestown - now it looks like it might be happening.
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