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"Europol Arrests More Than 100 In Carbon Trading Fraud" [12/30/10] "Norway, Switzerland and the EU countries Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Latvia, the Netherlands, Slovak Republic and Portugal are all among the countries trying to identify the network of criminals behind this massive fraud – a fraud with links to criminal networks operating outside the EU and in other continents, like the Middle East. [...]"   

Propaganda: "Expert says climate cooling misinterpreted" [12/29/10] "Recent short-term cooling of global temperatures shouldn't be misinterpreted as meaning an end to global warming, an Australian expert says. [...]"  Note: Climb back into your kangaroo pouch, mate.  

"Mocked U.K. Forecaster Who Predicted Snowy Winter Speaks Out" [12/28/10] [4:07]  "Piers Corbyn predicted Europe's winter of discontent [...]"  

"Denmark Gives Away $7B USD, or 2% of GDP to Carbon Credit Traders" [12/25/10] "The Danish tax authority has been robbed blind by a carbon trading scandal that has rocked the market for carbon off sets: while the story saw some press a year ago, significantly higher losses have since been reported and the MSM has ignored the story.  The Danish Auditor General is on the case now as the scope of the crime has become obvious, and grown exponentially since it was first reported. Originally discussed as a quasi-small-time dollar scam, the reality a year later is a lot larger: Europol is estimating a value on the case of 38 Billion Kroners and the values seem to keep going up. Connie Hedegaard, then the Climate & Energy Minister for Denmark is now the EU Climate Commissioner. While she was with the Danish government, she helped set up and manage a system where there were no background checks on the listings of permitted traders. This removal of identification was done even though the EU requires at least passport. This helped a group of fake, rogue traders set up a program that looted the Danish economy of up to 2% of its gross GDP in lost VAT taxes.  Here's How:  [...]"  Related: "Copenhagen summit: Denmark rushes in laws to stop carbon trading scam (2009)"

"New Zealand Climate Scientists Admit To Faking Temperatures: The Actual Temps Show Little Warming Over Last 50 Years" [12/23/10] "The scientists doing the fabrication are usually employed by the government agencies or universities, which thrive and exist on taxpayer research dollars dedicated to global warming research. A classic example of this is the New Zealand climate agency, which is now admitting their scientists produced bogus "warming" temperatures for New Zealand. [...]"   

"British Politician Bashes the Climate Change Baloney at Cancun" [12/19/10] [2:35]  Related: Commentary: "The abdication of the West: Cancun, Mexico" The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley [12/19/10] "I usually add some gentle humor to these reports. Not today. Read this and weep. Notwithstanding the carefully-orchestrated propaganda to the effect that nothing much will be decided at the UN climate conference here in Cancun, the decisions to be made here this week signal nothing less than the abdication of the West. The governing class in what was once proudly known as the Free World is silently, casually letting go of liberty, prosperity, and even democracy itself. No one in the mainstream media will tell you this, not so much because they do not see as because they do not bloody care. [...]"     

Takes One to Know One: "Al Gore: Fox’s ‘false’ coverage of climate change comes straight from the top" [12/16/10] "Al Gore has slammed Fox News for "consistently delivering false and misleading information" about climate change, after a leaked email showed pressure from a network exec to undermine the findings of climate scientists. Liberal watchdog group MediaMatters reported Wednesday that the Washington managing editor of Fox News, Bill Sammon, sent an email to staffers requesting that they report on rising temperatures as being based on "questionable" data, even when they are not. [...]"  Note:  The concept of rising temperatures globally IS based on questionable data, since many of the sensors are located in cities with placement next to heat sources, and temperature information was fudged and fabricated to suit political objectives which make Al Gore and others very wealthy through the 'carbon tax' scam.

"NASA Warns Global Warming Models Wrong - Don't Account for Cooling Factors" [12/14/10] "Most current climate models don't account for green plants can be expected to grow as they find it easier to harvest carbon from the air around them using energy from the sun: thus introducing a negative feedback into the warming/carbon process, according to Bounoua. Some do, but they fail to accurately simulate the effects – they don't allow for the fact that plants in a high-CO2 atmosphere will "down-regulate" and so use water more efficiently. [...]"  Note:  They also don't account for gaseous components created by worldwide land/ocean volcanic activity. 

"UN Climate Deal Defers Hard Decisions For Another Year" [12/11/10] "A U.N. conference on Saturday adopted a modest climate deal creating a fund to help the developing world go green, though it deferred for another year the tough work of carving out deeper reductions in carbon emissions causing Earth to steadily warm. Though the accords were limited, it was the first time in three years the 193-nation conference adopted any climate action, restoring faith in the unwieldy U.N. process after the letdown a year ago at a much-anticipated summit in Copenhagen. The Cancun Agreements created institutions for delivering technology and funding to poorer countries, though they did not say where the funding would come from. [...]"  

"Cancun Climate Platitudes and Predictions" [12/11/10] "United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon kicked off the high level segment of the U.N.’s climate change conference yesterday afternoon. Speaking at the plenary session of environment ministers and other high level officials from 194 countries, Ban offered ringing diplomatic niceties such as “a new future must take place here,” and that “we cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” and he urged governments “to be flexible and to negotiate in a spirit of compromise and common sense for the good of all the peoples." [...]"  

"UN Climate Concern Morphs into Chemtrail Glee Club" [12/10/10] "In Cancun, Mexico, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is under pressure to overturn the UN ban on chemtrails. This would dissolve an agreement reached in October at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Japan. In that landmark decision, the 193-member CBD agreed by consensus to a moratorium on geoengineering projects and experiments. The US has not agreed to it. Citing profits, the US further refuses to cut greenhouse gas emissions attributed to global warming, the purported concern of the United Nations. Instead, it seeks to expand its geoengineering projects for which hundreds of patents have already been filed.  See sampling below. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) opened the Cancun conference last week by discussing geoengineering options that will be further explored in Peru later this year. Such environmental modification (ENMOD) programs include putting mirrors in space, iron seeding the oceans, planting genetically modified forests, and chemtrailing the skies. Of course, all of these activities are already well underway. The next UN climate change assessment report, AR5, is due out in November of 2014. It will include geoengineering options, said Indian businessman and economist, Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the IPCC. In his introductory comments in Cancun, he stated, “The scope of the AR5 has also been expanded over and above previous reports, and would include, for instance, focused treatment of subjects like clouds and aerosols, geo-engineering options,” and the usual climate related issues. [...]"  Related:  "Confronting the ‘futuristic’ branding of geoengineering" "Lately, we’ve seen a massive marketing make-over of environmental modification (ENMOD) programs. What has been a clandestine and hostile military application now is promoted as a “futuristic” solution to corporate pollution. Debunking mass media’s mischaracterization of geoengineering as “futuristic” is in order. Below we take a closer look at those organizations planting such disinformation and offer sources on the harmful effects of geoengineering. [...]"   

"Carbon cuts key to climate funds" [12/10/10] "The Norwegian prime minister makes an economics case for the $100bn per year that is needed to support poorer nations in fighting climate change. [...]"  Note:  What a simpleton and a buffoon.

Commentary: "Cancun, Climate Change and WikiLeaks" Amy Goodman [12/08/10] "Critical negotiations are under way here in Cancun, Mexico, under the auspices of the United Nations to reverse human-induced global warming, and the United States is engaged in what one journalist called “a very, very dirty business.” Dirty business, indeed. In Copenhagen last year, President Barack Obama swept into town and sequestered a select, invite-only group of nations to hammer out what became known as “The Copenhagen Accord.” It outlined a plan for nations to make a public “pledge” to reduce carbon emissions, and to submit to some kind of verification process. In addition, wealthy, developed nations would, under the accord, pay billions of dollars to help poor, developing nations adapt to climate change and to pursue green-energy economies as they develop. That might sound nice, but the accord was designed, in effect, to supplant the Kyoto Protocol, a legally binding global treaty that more than 190 countries have signed. The United States, notably, has never signed Kyoto.  The WikiLeaks cables help explain what happened. One of the most outspoken critics of developed countries in the lead-up to Copenhagen, President Mohamed Nasheed of the Republic of Maldives, a nation of small islands in the Indian Ocean, ultimately signed on to the Copenhagen Accord. A secret U.S. State Department memo leaked via WikiLeaks, dated Feb. 10, 2010, summarized the consultations of the newly appointed Maldives ambassador to the U.S., Abdul Ghafoor Mohamed. The memo reports that the ambassador said, when meeting with U.S. deputy special envoy for climate change Jonathan Pershing, “Maldives would like to see that small countries, like Maldives, that are at the forefront of the climate debate, receive tangible assistance from the larger economies. Other nations would then come to realize that there are advantages to be gained by compliance.” He asked for $50 million, for projects to protect the Maldives from rising sea levels. Pershing appears in a related memo,  [...]" 

"Washington Passes Secret Energy Tax" [12/08/10] " It looks like the climate bill debate has already been decided by Washington and voters didn’t even have a chance to say “NO!” A staggering $65 billion dollars has been transferred from the private sector to fund the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). RGGI is government created entity that is choking companies in the northeast with huge tax increases in the name of the environment. Our tax dollars are funding this secret climate initiative. Soon RGGI will expand to every state and stick you with astronomical energy prices. RGGI is the nation’s first mandatory greenhouse gas cap and trade regulating entity. This waste of tax dollars is responsible for “making an impact on climate change” in 10 Northeast states. Never mind that mass 'global warming' is not real. The only impact RGGI has made so far is they have raised energy prices and created a slush fund for each member state. What exactly that money is being used for is unclear. Each state is capped on their carbon emissions and taxed if they use them up. RGGI added a 0.9% increase in energy prices in New England. [...]" 

"Exposed: A $7-billion carbon scam" [12/07/10] "Here’s more clear evidence that the Carbon Trading industry is doomed. Not only has carbon trading been halted in the USA due to lack of a market and ludicrously low prices of a nickel per ton, now it has been learned that in Denmark, more than 7 billion dollars has been lost due to the faulty system. Next step, Nigerian email system. From Lawrence Solomon at the Financial Post: Scam artists from around the world, capitalizing on lax regulations at the Danish emissions trading registry, have made off with an estimated $7-billion over the last two years, according to Europol. [...]"    

"WikiLeaks cables reveal how US manipulated climate accord" [12/05/10] "Hidden behind the save-the-world rhetoric of the global climate change negotiations lies the mucky realpolitik: money and threats buy political support; spying and cyberwarfare are used to seek out leverage. The US diplomatic cables reveal how the US seeks dirt on nations opposed to its approach to tackling global warming; how financial and other aid is used by countries to gain political backing; how distrust, broken promises and creative accounting dog negotiations; and how the US mounted a secret global diplomatic offensive to overwhelm opposition to the controversial "Copenhagen accord", the unofficial document that emerged from the ruins of the Copenhagen climate change summit in 2009. Negotiating a climate treaty is a high-stakes game, not just because of the danger warming poses to civilisation but also because re-engineering the global economy to a low-carbon model will see the flow of billions of dollars redirected. Seeking negotiating chips, the US state department sent a secret cable on 31 July 2009 seeking human intelligence from UN diplomats across a range of issues, including climate change. The request originated with the CIA. As well as countries' negotiating positions for Copenhagen, diplomats were asked to provide evidence of UN environmental "treaty circumvention" and deals between nations. But intelligence gathering was not just one way. [...]"   

Propaganda: "Canada on track for warmest year ever" [12/03/10] "This year is expected to be one of the three warmest years worldwide since the collection of climate data began, and Canada says it could be its hottest ever. [...]"  Note: Not a chance. In the planets history, it has been much warmer ... and so very much colder. 

"Cancún climate change summit: Japan refuses to extend Kyoto protocol" [12/02/10] "The delicately balanced global climate talks in Cancún suffered a serious setback last night when Japan categorically stated its opposition to extending the Kyoto protocol – the binding international treaty that commits most of the world's richest countries to making emission cuts. The brief statement, made by Jun Arima, an official in the government's economics trade and industry department, in an open session, was the strongest yet made against the protocol by one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases. He said: "Japan will not inscribe its target under the Kyoto protocol on any conditions or under any circumstances." [...]"   

"Climate Bureaucrats Gone Wild In Cancun" [12/01/10] [2:10] Related: "Lord Christopher Monckton: NWO Endgame Agenda Hidden within Treaty at Cancun UN Climate Summit" [11/30/10] [14:59]  "Alex welcomes back to the show British politician, journalist, and former member of the Conservative Party, Lord Christopher Monckton. Monckton has been the deputy leader of the UK Independence Party since June 2010. He served in Conservative Central Office and worked for Margaret Thatcher’s Number 10 Policy Unit during the 1980s. He also worked for The Universe, The Sunday Telegraph, Today and Evening Standard newspapers. Monckton is author of a detailed analysis and summary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Changes’ Fourth Assessment Report. Monckton plans to challenge the climate orthodoxy at Cancun UN Conference in early December. [...]"  Note:  Part 2 [8:58]

"Global warming has slowed down over the past 10 years, say scientists" [11/28/10] "The rate at which global temperatures are rising has slowed in the past decade, scientists said today. In a report published today, the Met Office said the slow in the rate of warming was down to a combination of natural variation in the weather and pollution. Scientists say one of the major factors is the rise in heavy industry and pollutant 'aerosols', particularly in Asia. An upsurge in industrial emissions such as sulphur which are being pumped into the atmosphere reflects sunlight and could lead to a cooling effect. Changes in the amount of water vapour in the stratosphere may also be a factor, the report suggests. The admission will be seized upon by climate skeptics as evidence that man-made global warming has been overstated. Since the 1970s, the long-term rate of global warming has been around 0.16C a decade but that slowed in the last 10 years to between 0.05C - 0.13C depending on which of the three major temperature record series are used. Vicky Pope, head of climate science advice, said: 'The warming trend has decreased slightly. There's still a warming trend but it's not as rapid as it was before. 'The question is why has that happened. It's a question that skeptics often bring up.'  [...]"  Note: I don't see one word about all the volcanoes around the world and under the ocean (80%) pumping out all the natural sulphurs and CO2. You can't make statements about anything and leave out the natural processes.

Corbett Interview: "The State of Climate Science" Interview with Dr. Richard Lindzen, Atmospheric Physicist" [11/25/10] [14:28]  

"Its Political Environment Prompts Call For U.S. To Stay Away From Cancun Climate Talks" [11/24/10] "The starkly divided and partisan political reality within the United States is prompting a call for the nation to stay away from global climate talks set to begin next week in Mexico. The rest of the international community should negotiate a new climate treaty without the United States, according to a U.S.-based advocacy organization. "The U.S. has been the 800-pound gorilla in the room at climate negotiations," says Eric Carlson, president, Carbonfund.org. "As the largest global emitter per capita with enormous entourages at the meetings, all attention goes toward the U.S. Put simply, the problem is that there are not 67 votes in the U.S. Senate to ratify any climate deal the President might negotiate.  [...]"  Note:  Good.

"Gore admits the obvious: US corn ethanol was not a good policy" [11/24/10] Note:  Do not expect to read much about this in the NY Times — and definitely don’t expect any follow up questions about his motivation for climate policy ($$$). Former Vice President Al Gore has admitted that his “support for corn-based ethanol in the United States was “not a good policy”, weeks before tax credits are up for renewal.”

Commentary: "Climategate is Still the Issue"  – James Corbett [11/20/10]   [12:47]  Transcript included on page.  Excellent overview and comments.

"German Scientist: CO2 Not The Cause of Climate Change – Cold Period Is Anticipated" [11/19/10]  "The European Institute For Climate and Energy (EIKE) released a paper today written by German physicist Dr. Horst Borchert. The paper PDF (German) reveals a clear relation between solar activity and ocean cycles, and thus act as the main climate drivers. Measured data shows no CO2 impact on climate.  Unfortunately, the paper is only in German. But the abstract is in English. Here it is (I made a couple of grammatical corrections for clarity): It was found that the South Pacific Oscillation (SO) is influenced by solar activity, similar to the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). Especially during the warming period from 1980 to 2009 the oscillation of solar wind – Index “aa“ – was in good resonance with the delayed South Pacific Oscillation. The same observation was found between the oscillation of cosmic radiation, which is controlled by Forbush– reduction by the magnetic fields of the sun protons of the solar wind and the delayed SO (K=0.8). The consequence of these observations is the postulation that the increase of global temperature in the Southern Hemisphere was caused by solar activity with strong emissions of proton-rays in the Earth ‘s direction during the 22nd and 23rd sunspot-periods, reducing cosmic rays. This led to a reduction of cloudiness, increased solar rays and warming up the lower atmosphere (Svensmark –Effect). As a consequence, dissolved CO2 was continuously emitted by the slowly warming ocean, providing fertilizer for the flora of the world. A relevance of CO2 concerning climate change could not be found. With the end of solar activity in 2006, a cold weather period has also started in the Southern Hemisphere. In the paper’s conclusion, if I understand correctly, Bochert writes that the southern hemispheric temperature has followed the long-term average of the Southern Oscillation (SO) since 1980. During this warm period, the SO was enhanced by an additional especially strong solar-controlled heat source, which ended with the 23rd cycle. As a consequence the global temperature of the Southern Hemisphere, like the Northern Hemisphere, shows a stagnation and has a downward trend since about 2009. Borchert writes: [...]"  

"Climate change means colder winters in Northern Regions" [11/18/10] "“Climate change could lead to colder winters in northern regions, according to a study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research on Tuesday. Vladimir Petoukhov, lead author of the study, said a shrinking of sea ice in the eastern Arctic causes some regional warming of lower air levels and may lead to anomalies in atmospheric airstreams, triggering an overall cooling of the northern continents. “These anomalies could triple the probability of cold winter extremes in Europe and northern Asia,” he said. “Recent severe winters like last year’s or the one of 2005/06 do not conflict with the global warming picture but rather supplement it.”
  [...]" 

Bloomberg Calls for 'Carbon Tax' as a Way to 'Fight Terrorists' [11/17/10] "New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg spoke today before the Wall Street Journal CEO Council annual conference. According to WSJ, he told attendees, that the U.S. needs to reduce its dependence on foreign oil if “you want to stop sending your money to … terrorists.” The answer, he said: “We need a carbon tax.” Al Gore, among others, has been promoting a carbon tax based on bogus data showing carbon causes golbal warming. To my knowledge, Bloomberg is the first person to suggest a carbon tax as a way to battle terrorists. Bloomberg, a billionaire, got his start by gaining access to the “inside quote” that Primary Dealers used who traded with the Federal Reserve. He sold his quote machines to bond dealers with this quote. The quote was extremely valuable in providing bond traders with insight on Fed trading activities. It is not publicly known why Bloomberg was given access to this quote. Other quote providers who requested to publish the quote were denied access. In short, it was a billion dollar gift to Bloomberg. Many view a Cap and Trade carbon tax as a gift to Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs, who are gung ho about trading carbon credits. [...]"  Note: He's insane and promoting this whole fraudulent and illogical scheme. 

Commentary: "Gore Pocketed $18 Million from Now-Defunct Chicago Climate Exchange" [11/12/10] "Although the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) collapsed and shut down this week, Al Gore’s Generation Investment Management LLP pocketed approximately $17.8 million on it’s 2.98% share of the exchange when it was sold to the publicly traded Intercontinental Exchange a mere 6 months ago. According to news reports, the brainchild of the exchange, academic Richard Sandor, founded the exchange with a foundation gift of $1.1 million, and pocketed $98.5 million for his 16.5% share of the CCX. This would place the value of Gore’s firm’s stake at almost $18 million. Note Gore is the founder, chairman, and largest shareholder in Generation Investment Management LLP. Barack Obama was on the Joyce Foundation Board when it provided the funding to establish the CCX. Maurice Strong, founding head of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), precursor to the IPCC, was a CCX board member. [...]"    Related: "Collapse of Chicago Climate Exchange Means a Strategy Shift on Global Warming Curbs"

Propaganda: "Copenhagen failure could cost US$1 trillion" [11/09/10] "The failure of the Copenhagen climate talks to culminate in an agreement could cost the world "at least $1 trillion", according to this year's flagship report1 from the International Energy Agency (IEA). [...]"  Note:  Why does the headline say 'cost the US' and the article says 'cost the world'? It won't cost anyone anything except profits from a provably corrupt and irrational scam.

The Doomsday Machine and the Race to Save the World: Geoengineering Emerges as Plan B at the 11th Hour [11/07/10] "When it comes to climate change, any discussion of "cap and trade" legislation usually generates a bit of controversy, but there is another proposition for tackling our global warming woes that should be causing even more friction -- the little-known set of futurist techno-scenarios collectively known as geoengineering. At the opening plenary of the Convention on Biological Diversity last week in Nagoya, Japan, the ETC Group -- the same civil society outfit that led the charge for an international ban on Monsanto's infamous "terminator seed" a decade ago -- called for a moratorium on geoengineering experiments. The group's new report, Geopiracy: The Case Against Geoengineering, calls geoengineering, "a political strategy aimed at letting industrialized countries off the hook for their climate debt."  This emergent set of planetary-scale technologies is attracting millions of dollars in investment; it is high on the research agenda at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the UK's Royal Society; and it is being promoted by the scientists behind it as "the only practical way to protect biodiversity." At the same time, the Washington Post has called it, "Playing God with the weather," and a leading indigenous peoples' organization called it "an assault on the sacred."  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change defines geoengineering as, "The deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment." David Keith, a leading proponent, gave the definition a touch more animus when he noted, "Climatic geoengineering aims to mitigate the effect of fossil fuel combustion on the climate without abating fossil fuel use; for example, by placing shields in space to reduce the sunlight incident on earth." [...]"  See "U.N. urged to freeze climate geo-engineering projects" [10/25/10] and related earlier items on this panel.

MSM: "UN panel calls for higher "carbon taxes" on air, sea transport" [11/06/10] "A top UN panel on Friday called for increased taxes on carbon emissions and air and sea transport to raise 100 billion dollars a year for poor nations to combat climate change. The group led by the prime ministers of Norway and Ethiopia also proposed a tax on international financial transactions for a UN fund . ....  The panel -- which also included finance ministers and financier George Soros -- was set up at last year's acrimonious Copenhagen climate summit and its proposals will get a first international airing at the UN climate conference in Cancun, Mexico starting at the end of the month. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called the proposals "financially feasible and politically viable." Environment pressure groups said governments are duty-bound to follow the proposals. Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia said 'the carbon emission taxes must be used as a deterrent to producing the gases blamed for global warming and to raise revenue'. [...]  The group is also looking to raise 10 billion dollars a year from taxes on international transport, 10 billion dollars by switching subsidies from fossil fuels, 10 billion dollars from private capital flows linked to carbon trading and tens of billions of dollars from international financial institutions. Stoltenberg said the International Maritime Organization was already working on a system to tax the carbon emissions of shipping. And he highlighted a system to be introduced by European nations in 2013 which will tax carbon emissions for air travel within Europe."  Note: "carbon taxes" as a concept is fraudulent. It has no legitimate scientific or rational basis. It's all TRANSPARENTLY a scam. All this would do is add another rock to be thrown in the gears of the world economies ... in truth, Cui Bono? So, we also see that most of this would not really set in until after '2012' . So, in reality this becomes moot. 

India launches South Pole mission [11/02/10] "India is to make its first expedition to the South Pole, in a mission focusing on the impact of climate change. The head of India's National Centre for Antarctic and Ocean Research, Rasik Ravindra, will lead a team of eight scientists on the journey, departing next week from an Indian research base. The trip to the pole and back is expected to last around 40 days. It is hoped their mission will shed light on how environmental conditions have changed in Antarctica over the past 1,000 years. [...]"  Note: How about in the last 200 years? Wouldn't that be more pertinent? Since the South Pole is getting COLDER (while the North Pole gets warmer), it will be interesting to see what they say. If they say there is 'less' accumulation, they will lose all credibility. Another aspect is that a 1,000 year ice core sampling should also show the Maunder Minimum period and the cooling off period that coincided with the Dark Ages, which was due to many factors, including volcanic activity and solar changes. If it comes out looking like the fudged data like Wikipedia has, we'll know that they're bogus. Whatever the change, they are not preparing to take any action, relative to the population, and this isn't surprising, because of the predominant opinion which prefers to see a drop in population anyway.

UN Agrees on Moratorium to Stop Geo-Engineering [10/29/10] "Nagoya, Japan – In a landmark consensus decision, the 193-member UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will close its tenth biennial meeting with a de facto moratorium on geoengineering projects and experiments. “Any private or public experimentation or adventurism intended to manipulate the planetary thermostat will be in violation of this carefully crafted UN consensus,” stated Silvia Ribeiro, Latin American Director of ETC Group. The agreement, reached during the ministerial portion of the two-week meeting which included 110 environment ministers, asks governments to ensure that no geoengineering activities take place until risks to the environment and biodiversity and associated social, cultural and economic impacts have been appropriately considered. The CBD secretariat was also instructed to report back on various geoengineering proposals and potential intergovernmental regulatory measures.  [...]"  

Gore leaves car idling for one hour during speech; Opts for Swedish government jet over public transportation [10/29/10] "Recently, Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore toured again. Or maybe he does that all the time. This time, he turned up in Gothenburg (Sweden) for the usual alarmist talk. In advance, all distinguished guests were politely advised to – if possible – use any form of public transportation to go to the event, in order to minimize CO2 emissions. Intriguingly, the Master of World Climate himself arrived in a rental car (with or without driver is unclear), from the airport, and subsequently left the engine running for the entire lecture. That is to say, about one hour. Incidentally, local legislation prohibits – for very good environmental reasons, i e pollution – any car engine running on empty for more than 60 seconds. Fines are severe. As far as I know, he was not fined. It starts to form a pattern. [...]"  

Commentary: "Green Agenda Is About Getting Rid Of As Many Humans As Possible" [10/27/10] "Most people tend to think of environmentalists as warm, cuddly hippies that just want all of us to love one another and to do what is right for the environment. And in fact, there are a few people out there who are actually like that. However, the people at the very heart of the green agenda are a quite different breed. The truth is that there are a growing number of environmental activists (including some very, very famous people) who are publicly advocating the end of our freedoms, the establishment of a Big Brother style world government and the systematic eradication of at least 90% of humanity all for the good of the environment. Unfortunately, this is not a joke and it is not an exaggeration. As you will see below, these people are very, very serious. To these eco-fascists, climate change is the number one threat to the earth, and in order to eliminate that threat "democracy must be put on hold", an authoritarian world government must be established and we need to start getting rid of as many humans as possible. [...]"   

U.N. urged to freeze climate geo-engineering projects [10/25/10] "The United Nations should impose a moratorium on “geo-engineering” projects such as artificial volcanoes and vast cloud-seeding schemes to fight climate change, green groups say, fearing they could harm nature and mankind. The risks were too great because the impacts of manipulating nature on a vast scale were not fully known, the groups said at a major U.N. meeting in Japan aimed at combating increasing losses of plant and animal species. Envoys from nearly 200 countries are gathered in Nagoya, Japan, to agree targets to fight the destruction of forests, rivers and coral reefs that provide resources and services central to livelihoods and economies.  A major cause for the rapid losses in nature is climate change, the United Nations says, raising the urgency for the world to do whatever it can to curb global warming and prevent extreme droughts, floods and rising sea levels.  Some countries regard geo-engineering projects costing billions of dollars as a way to control climate change by cutting the amount of sunlight hitting the earth or soaking up excess greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide. "It's absolutely inappropriate for a handful of governments in industrialized countries to make a decision to try geo-engineering without the approval of all the world's support," Pat Mooney, from Canada-headquartered advocacy organization ETC Group, told Reuters on the sidelines of the October 18-29 meeting. "They shouldn't proceed with real-life, in-the-environment experimentation or the deployment of any geo-engineering until there is a consensus in the United Nations that this is okay." Some conservation groups say geo-engineering is a way for some governments and companies to get out of taking steps to slash planet-warming emissions. [...]"   

Commentary: "The Global Warming Scam Hit by More Scandal" [10/19/10] "For the scientifically adept and honest people global warming is a huge embarrassment. Not only have the main base perpetrators been caught but also the institutions that house their activities have gone deep into the coverup. It’s just too much money to let integrity rule their actions. The global warming scheme has tens of thousands of people employed even though that seemingly high cost is miniscule compared to the harm to billions of people the stage two schemes of corrective measures would force on the innocent. A taxpaying family is out a few dollars each year now but the corrective measures could get to hundreds of dollars per month. [...]" 

"Southwest US can expect drought condition to prevail for the next century or so"  [10/19/10] "In general, the Southwest can expect drought condition to prevail for the next century or so, scientists say. And in fact, the construction boom down here, and all the agricultural use of Colorado River water from here to California, was predicated on water flows nearly a century ago, amid an unusually wet period that we can no longer count on. I noted back in 2006 that agreements to allocate water from the Colorado River were made in 1922, during an historically wet period, and there just is not as much water as has been promised.  [...]"   

Jesse Ventura's "Conspiracy Theory": "Global Warming" [10/17/10] [7:07]  "Jesse Ventura is following the money trail, out to expose the most frightening, inconvenient Conspiracy Theory yet: That Global Warming may be a scam. The movement claims the planet is heading to disaster because factories and cars are heating up the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. The green industry feeds off our fears and urges us to spend billions on products that purport to be good for the environment. This week, Jesse and his investigators are traveling around the world to expose the power-brokers who pull the strings and rake in fortunes. The Conspiracy Theory team aims to get to the bottom of claims that global warming is a powerful plot meant to extort, tax and control all of us.  From a remote wilderness location, where one critical scientist claims he is hiding from death threats, to Silicon Valley, where a company makes a bundle helping corporations avoid paying carbon tax, then all the way to China to learn more. Jesse also examines Al Gore's role in all this, but he pushes further as he uncovers evidence that leads him to the man known as The Wizard, who just might be behind the whole global warming conspiracy. Part 2 [7:29]| Part 3 [5:46]| Part 4 [7:09]| Part 5 [5:49] | Part 6 [8:54]  

Lawrence Solomon: Global warming propagandist slapped down [10/17/10] "William Connolley, arguably the world’s most influential global warming advocate after Al Gore, has lost his bully pulpit. Connolley did not wield his influence by the quality of his research or the force of his argument but through his administrative position at Wikipedia, the most popular reference source on the planet.  Through his position, Connolley for years kept dissenting views on global warming out of Wikipedia, allowing only those that promoted the view that global warming represented a threat to mankind. As a result, Wikipedia became a leading source of global warming propaganda, with Connolley its chief propagandist. His career as a global warming propagandist has now been stopped, following a unanimous verdict that came down today through an arbitration proceeding conducted by Wikipedia. In the decision, a slap-down for the once-powerful Connolley by his peers, he has been barred from participating in any article, discussion or forum dealing with global warming. In addition, because he rewrote biographies of scientists and others he disagreed with, to either belittle their accomplishments or make them appear to be frauds, Wikipedia barred him — again unanimously — from editing biographies of those in the climate change field. [...]"  Note: He has already done the damage, changing more than 5,000 pages over the course of several years and changing the information to support the position of global warming.

UK: 'Royal Society' Humiliated by Global Warming Basic Math Error  [10/16/10] "Top international experts prove British numbers on carbon dioxide are wrong. Royal Society blunder grossly exaggerates climate impact. German born chemist, Dr Klaus L. E. Kaiser has published evidence that proves the Royal Society (RS), London, has been caught out making schoolboy errors in mathematical calculations over the duration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in Earth’s atmosphere. Backed up by a review by a leading Swedish mathematics professor the revelation is a serious embarrassment to the credibility of the once revered British science institute and a major setback for its claims about climate change. A gaffe in their own basic calculations led the RS to falsely find that CO2 would stay in the atmosphere for thousands of years rather than a dozen or so as per peer-reviewed studies show. Global warming skeptics have been quick to condemn the error and demand an apology and immediate correction. [...]" 

Alex Jones Interviews:  Lord Monckton: "Scientific Misconduct Needed to Push NWO Objective" [10/16/10]   "Special interview with Lord Christopher Monckton about Al Gore's climate gate hoax, and the hidden NWO objective behind it all. " [14:55]  Part 2 [14:27]| Part 3 [14:05]| Part 4 [14:29]| Part 5 [4:33] 

US physics professor: 'Global warming is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life' [10/11/10] "Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Here is his letter of resignation to Curtis G. Callan Jr, Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society. [...] Dear Curt: When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago). Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be? How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society. It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist. So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it. For example:"   

"Global warming" theory in chaos after report finds increased solar activity may cool the Earth [10/08/10] "A puzzling discovery has raised a question mark over the Sun's impact on climate change and could provide ammunition for sceptics, it was revealed today. Until now it has been assumed that less activity from the Sun equates to less warming of the Earth. But the new research, which focuses on a three-year snapshot of time between 2004 and 2007, suggests the opposite may be true. As solar activity waned at the end of one of the Sun's 11-year cycles, the new data show the amount of energy reaching the Earth at visible wavelengths rose rather than fell. Scientists believe it may also be possible that during the next up-turn of the cycle, when sun activity increases, there might be a cooling effect at the Earth's surface. A further twist arises from the fact that over the past century, overall solar activity has been increasing. If the new findings apply to long as well as short time periods, this could translate into a small degree of cooling rather than the slight warming effect shown in existing climate models. It would effectively turn received wisdom on its head. Sceptics are likely to say the results further undermine the reliability of climate change science, especially with regard to solar effects. Professor Joanna Haigh, from Imperial College London, who led the study, said: 'These results are challenging what we thought we knew about the Sun's effect on our climate. However, they only show us a snapshot of the Sun's activity and its behaviour over the three years of our study could be an anomaly. 'We cannot jump to any conclusions based on what we have found during this comparatively short period and we need to carry out further studies to explore the sun's activity and the patterns that we have uncovered on longer timescales. [...]" 

"Coldest winter in 1,000 years on its way" [10/07/10] [2:27]  "After the record heat wave this summer, Russia's weather seems to have acquired a taste for the extreme. Forecasters say this winter could be the coldest Europe has seen in the last 1,000 years. The change is reportedly connected with the speed of the Gulf Stream, which has shrunk in half in just the last couple of years. Polish scientists say that it means the stream will not be able to compensate for the cold from the Arctic winds. According to them, when the stream is completely stopped, a new Ice Age will begin in Europe. So far, the results have been lower temperatures: for example, in Central Russia, they are a couple of degrees below the norm. [...]"    

U.S. Could Learn from U.K.’s 'Global Warming' Reversal [10/05/10] "Great Britain’s most prominent scientific body significantly softened its position on global warming after 43 of its members complained that the previous position did not take into account dissenting evidence. [...]"   

Backlash Over Richard Curtis's 10:10 Climate Film [10/04/10] "The charities that backed a Richard Curtis film for the 10:10 environmental campaign said today that they were "absolutely appalled" when they saw the director's four-minute short, which was withdrawn from circulation amid a storm of protest. The film, entitled No Pressure, debuted on the 10:10 website on Friday. Featuring a cast including film star Gillian Anderson and England footballer Peter Crouch, with music donated by Radiohead and shot by a 40-strong professional film crew led by director Dougal Wilson, it was intended to galvanise viewers into taking personal action to reduce their own carbon footprint.
In several graphic scenes, committed environmental campaigners use a detonator to blow up recalcitrant members of the public, including two schoolchildren and the ex-footballer David Ginola. Distribution plans for UK cinemas have now been scrapped. [...]"  Note:  See below.

Satire: How to cut carbon emissions! [10/01/10] Relinked [3:49]  "Whippersnapping climate campaign 10:10 teams up with legendary comic screenwriter Richard Curtis - you know, Blackadder, Four Weddings, Notting Hill, co-founded Comic Relief - and Age of Stupid director Franny Armstrong to proudly present their explosive new mini-movie "No Pressure". The film stars X-Files' Gillian Anderson, together with Spurs players past and present - including Peter Crouch, Ledley King and David Ginola - with music donated by Radiohead. Shot on 35mm by a 40-strong professional film crew led by director Dougal Wilson, "No Pressure" celebrates everybody who is actively tackling climate change... by blowing up those are aren't. [...]"   

Commentary: Global Cooling and the New World Order [09/28/10] " The 58th Bilderberg Meeting will be held in Sitges, Spain 3 - 6 June 2010. The Conference will deal mainly with Financial Reform, Security, Cyber Technology, Energy, Pakistan, Afghanistan, World Food Problem, Global Cooling, Social Networking, Medical Science, EU-US relations.  Yep, that’s right. Global Cooling. Which means one of two things. Either it was a printing error. Or the global elite is perfectly well aware that global cooling represents a far more serious and imminent threat to the world than global warming, but is so far unwilling to admit it except behind closed doors. Let me explain briefly why this is a bombshell waiting to explode. [...]" 

London links climate to foreign policy [09/28/10] "British foreign policy is inextricably linked to tackling the challenges of climate change, the British foreign secretary said in New York. British Foreign Secretary William Hague delivers a speech Monday on climate change at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. Hague's speech focuses on the need to take action to preserve access to clean water, arable land and scarce resources. Acting now, he says, will prevent disputes over limited resources from turning into potential sources of conflict, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office says. [...]"  

Evidence of Solar Scientists Raise Fears of Imminent Ice Age [09/24/10] "New study by American solar experts identifies a sharp fall in sunspot activity since 2007 that fits the hallmarks of a soon arriving ice age.  Solar scientists, not to be confused with climate scientists, study the most important heat engine driving our planet’s temperatures-the sun. Matthew Penn and William Livingston, solar astronomers with the National Solar Observatory (NSO) in Tucson, Arizona, have been following a marked decrease in sunspot activity recently. Reputable studies link a prolonged drop in sunspot activity to a cooling epoch or even a potential new ice age as more sunspots correlate with more global warming, while fewer sunspots are proven to match episodes of long-term cooling.  Since the formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 the talk has been about global warming. But 22 years on the evidence has grown to raise fears of a catastrophic climate switch in the opposite direction. We look at the evidence that is raising some very serious questions in the scientific community.  Zeeman Splitting Technique Raises Solar Alarm: Penn and Livingston used a measuring technique known as Zeeman splitting to study the magnetic strength of sunspots. The technique measures the distance between a pair of infrared spectral lines in a spectrograph from the light emitted by iron atoms in the atmosphere of the sun. After examining 1500 sunspots they found that the average strength of the magnetic field of the sunspots has dropped by almost 40 percent in recent years. The reasons for the decline are unknown, but Penn and Livingston predict only half of the normal sunspots may appear on the surface of the Sun by 2021. Below that strength the formation of sunspots becomes almost impossible. [...]"  Note: See also "Life on this Earth Just Changed: The North Atlantic Current is Gone" [09/19/10], "Ocean conveyor-belt model stirred up" [09/13/10] , and "Is 'the Day After Tomorrow' Happening Today?" [09/03/10]  

Recent weather disasters consistent with climate change models: NOAA [09/22/10] "The flurry of exceptional weather disasters in recent years is completely consistent with scenarios about an aspect of climate change, the head of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Tuesday.  Jane Lubchenco, administrator of the top US agency for meteorology and environmental science, said extreme weather events, when viewed individually, should not be considered as firm evidence that climate change was under way. "At the same time, (what) we are seeing, with more and more of these extreme events, is completely consistent with what we would expect to see under a climate-changed world," Lubchenco said in response to a question at a press conference during her European visit. [...]"  

September snow surprise in Montana [09/21/10] "Snow began falling in some areas of north central Montana and along the Rocky Mountain Front early on Friday, leaving some people checking their calendar to see if it is still, in fact, summer. A rain-snow mix in and around Great Falls turned to all snow around 10 am in some areas. Up to an inch of accumulation may be possible throughout Friday, and temperatures will remain in the upper 30s to low 40s. While snow in September is not unusual at higher elevations and in Glacier National Park, many lower elevations also received a dusting, with some areas reporting several inches of snow by mid-day on Friday.  [...]"  

Old fashioned garbage heap removes more carbon from environment than $100 million chemical processor [09/21/10] "Fortunately, there is a way to capture and store excess carbon from the atmosphere that is cheap, efficient and environmentally friendly. It relies on two technologies that have been in use for more than 8,000 years: agriculture and the garbage heap. [...]"     

Commentary: Life on this Earth Just Changed: The North Atlantic Current is Gone [09/19/10] "The latest satellite data establishes that the North Atlantic Current (also called the North Atlantic Drift) no longer exists and along with it the Norway Current. These two warm water currents are actually part of the same system that has several names depending on where in the Atlantic Ocean it is. The entire system is a key part of the planet’s heat regulatory system; it is what keeps Ireland and the United Kingdom mostly ice free and the Scandinavia countries from being too cold; it is what keeps the entire world from another Ice Age. This Thermohaline Circulation System is now dead in places and dying in others. This ‘river’ of warm water that moves through the Atlantic Ocean is called, in various places, the South Atlantic Current, the North Brazil Current, the Caribbean Current, the Yucatan Current, the Loop Current, the Florida Current, the Gulf Stream, the North Atlantic Current (or North Atlantic Drift) and the Norway Current. The thermohaline circulation is sometimes called the ocean conveyor belt, the great ocean conveyor, or the global conveyor belt. It is a university level physics experiment to use a tub of cool water and inject a colored stream of warm water into it. You can see the boundary layers of the warm water stream. If you add oil to the tub it breaks down the boundary layers of the warm water stream and effectively destroys the current vorticity . This is what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic Ocean.  The entire ‘river of warm water’ that flows from the Caribbean to the edges of Western Europe is dying due to the Corexit that the Obama Administration allowed BP to use to hide the scale of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster. The approximately two million gallons of Corexit, plus several million gallons of other dispersants, have caused the over two hundred million gallons of crude oil, that has gushed for months from the BP wellhead and nearby sites, to mostly sink to the bottom of the ocean. This has helped to effectively hide much of the oil, with the hopes that BP can seriously reduce the mandated federal fines from the oil disaster. However, there is no current way to effectively ‘clean up’ the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, which is about half covered in crude oil. Additionally, the oil has flowed up the East Coast of America and into the North Atlantic Ocean, and there is no way to effectively clean up this ’sea bottom oil’. It is likely, based on numerous reports, that the oil is still flowing in massive amounts from multiple places on the seabed floor. This effectively means, that even if we had the technology in place to somehow clean up the free flowing thick crude oil deep in the ocean, it would likely not be enough to reverse the damage to the Thermohaline Circulation System in the Atlantic Ocean. [...]"  Note: Click on graphic to see large version. An interesting article worth reading. Much more at the story link. Some comments on this by the M5 author in a segment dated 19 Sept 2010, entitled "Dark Spike: North Atlantic & Norway Currents"  

"Fixing the Global Warming Establishment with New Lipstick" [09/18/10] "When a woman consistently messes up her relationships, her therapist doesn’t just tell her to wear a new dress and change her lipstick before her next date; s/he asks her to do some real soul searching. But a new dress-and-lipstick combo is pretty much what an agency charged with reviewing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control’s (IPCC) procedures in the wake of the GlacierGate mess recently recommended.  Both the detractors and supporters of the IPCC—the U.N. body that serves as the Vatican of climate change—are billing the Inter Academy Council’s recommendations as “fundamental” change. And some of its recommendations might indeed make a difference if the IPCC ever implements them—a big “if.” But fundamental change would require creating incentives for the IPCC to question its own conclusions—do constant soul searching, as it were—something that other scientific disciplines do as a matter of course. Nothing in the review’s recommendations does that.  The global warming establishment found itself in hot water last year when leaked e-mails suggested that leading climatologists had massaged data, interfered with the peer review process and engaged in other shenanigans to exaggerate the observed warming. A subsequent whitewash exonerated the scientists involved but further scrutiny debunked other alarmist claims in the IPCC’s last assessment report. For example, the IPCC had predicted that the entire 500,000 square km Himalayan glacier range would disappear by 2035. Multiple analyses, including one by the Yale Climate Media Forum—no denialist outfit—found the claim to be perfectly accurate except for two problems. One, the approximate area covered by the glaciers is just 33,000—not 500,000—square km as the IPCC stated. And two, the paper from which the IPCC lifted this claim had predicted the shrinkage would occur by 2350, not 2035! (The Yale analysis is well worth a full read.) [...]"   

Lord Christopher Monckton – Antics of The Global Warming Extremists – Alex Jones Tv [09/17/10] [14:48]    "Alex welcomes back to the show British politician and journalist Lord Christopher Monckton, a renowned critic of anthropogenic global warming. Formerly a member of the Conservative Party, Monckton has been the deputy leader of the UK Independence Party since June 2010. He served in Conservative Central Office and worked for Margaret Thatcher’s Number 10 Policy Unit during the 1980s. He also worked for The Universe, The Sunday Telegraph, Today and Evening Standard newspapers. He became known in the 1990s for his invention of the Eternity puzzle, a mathematical puzzle for which he offered a prize of one million pounds to the person who could solve it within four years. [...]"  Note:  Part 2 [14:50]| Part 3 [11:43]| Part 4 [4:24]|

Lord Monckton Talks About Climategate  [09/17/10] "Alex welcomes Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, a British politician, business consultant, policy adviser, writer, columnist, and inventor. Monckton has been at the forefront of criticizing the CRU emails and the fraudulent climate change scam. [...]"  Note: Part 2 [10:57]| Part 3 [10:57]| Part 4 [10:55]| Part 5 [9:06]  

 Commentary: The global warming fleecing of the American taxpayer  [09/16/10] "The federal government has spent tens of billions of taxpayer dollars on research that has completely failed to affect temperatures or demonstrate an empirical link between human CO2 emissions and global warming. As the BP oil spill slips off the front pages, replaced by daily reports of Lindsey Lohan’s release from jail; as Chelsea Clinton’s marriage is no longer news; as the war in Afghanistan loses traction with the public; and as Barack Obama pauses to review his declining approval rates, it is time once again to ask, whatever happened to global warming?  Here’s an update. On the basis of legitimate—not government funded—science: it is as dead as Marley’s ghost. There actually was global warming. It began around 1850 as a Little Ice Age receded from America and Europe. From about the 1500s on, it caused the Thames to freeze over in London, widespread crop failures, the fall of the French monarchy, and the tribulations of Washington’s troops in Valley Forge, among many other notable historic events. The earth continued to warm, very moderately, until the 1990s. That warming period is over. The earth’s overall temperatures have been falling for the past decade and, since the earth is at an end of an interglacial cycle between full-blown ice ages, we better hope it doesn’t tip over into a new one any time soon. The current cooling is attributed to another well known cycle, that of sunspot activity. Fewer sunspots means a cooler climate on earth. Plainly stated, there isn’t a single thing anyone on earth can do about this latest cooling, nor was the alleged “global warming” due to “anthropogenic” causes, i.e., anything and everything attributable to human beings. Putting aside the fact that the creatures of the earth exhale carbon dioxide after breathing in oxygen and that various technologies based on coal, oil and natural gas generate it along with natural events like forest fires, carbon dioxide (CO2) plays virtually no role whatever so far as the climate is concerned. It is, however, along with oxygen, the most important gas in the earth’s atmosphere since it is the “food” on which all vegetation, from forests to jungles, crops of every description, and grandma’s favorite potted plant depends. No CO2 means no life on earth. Despite this, a huge global warming industry has emerged thanks to the efforts of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “Global warming” has nothing whatever to do with climate and everything to do with the creation of a scam called carbon trading.[...]"    

Tightened muzzle on Canadian climate scientists is 'Orwellian' [09/13/10] "The Harper government has tightened the muzzle on federal scientists, going so far as to control when and what they can say about floods at the end of the last ice age.   Natural Resources Canada (NRC) scientists were told this spring they need "pre-approval" from Minister Christian Paradis' office to speak with journalists. Their "media lines" also need ministerial approval, say documents obtained by Postmedia News through access-to-information legislation.  The documents say the "new" rules went into force in March and reveal how they apply to not only to contentious issues including the oilsands, but benign subjects such as floods that occurred 13,000 years ago.  ...   They also give a glimpse of how Canadians are being cut off from scientists whose work is financed by taxpayers, critics say, and is often of significant public interest -- be it about fish stocks, genetically modified crops or mercury pollution in the Athabasca River. "It's Orwellian," says Andrew Weaver, a climatologist at the University of Victoria. The public, he says, has a right to know what federal scientists are discovering and learning. Scientists at NRC, many of them planetary experts, study everything from seabeds to melting glaciers. They have long been able to discuss their research, until the rules changed this spring. "We have new media interview procedures that require pre-approval of certain types of interview requests by the minister's office," wrote Judy Samoil, NRC's western regional communications manager, in a March 24 e-mail to colleagues. The policy applies to "high-profile" issues such as "climate change, oilsands" and when "the reporter is with an international or national media organization (such as the CBC or the Canwest paper chain)," she wrote. The Canwest papers are now part of Postmedia Network Inc.  Samoil later elaborated, saying "the regional communications managers were advised of this change a couple of weeks ago."  The documents show the new rules being so broadly applied that one scientist was not permitted to discuss a study in a major research journal without "pre-approval" from political staff in Paradis' office.  NRC scientist Scott Dallimore coauthored the study, published in the journal Nature on April 1, about a colossal flood that swept across northern Canada 13,000 years ago, when massive ice dams gave way at the end of the last ice age.  [...]" Note: By definition, Harper is participating in a conspiracy to conceal info that has nothing to do with the national security of Canada, but has to do with the support of an international money-making scam.  

Ocean conveyor-belt model stirred up [09/13/10] "The accepted picture of how a massive oceanic conveyor belt of water turns has been complicated by findings published today in Nature Geoscience1. The results could help to boost the precision of climate-change models.   As tropical water from the Equator flows north in the Atlantic Ocean, it becomes cooler and denser. Evaporation along the way makes it saltier and further increases its density. In the frigid Arctic, the water sinks into the depths and then moves southward; returning to the surface once it has warmed up again.  But this simplified picture of what is known as meridional overturning circulation (MOC) has been brought into question by a paper suggesting that, in the past 50 years, ocean circulation closer to the Equator has grown weaker, whereas the northern waters have flowed more strongly.  "The more we look, the more complicated the ocean is," says Susan Lozier, an oceanographer at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and lead author of the study.  When the conveyor-belt model was conceptualized in the 1980s, researchers understood only a rough outline of overall marine currents, she says. Because it is difficult to take measurements in the depths of the ocean, MOC models couldn't reflect the intricacy of all the factors involved. To boost precision, Lozier and her colleagues gathered measurements of water temperature and salinity taken by more than 500,000 research vessels between 1950 and 2000. Water density increases with higher salinity and lower temperatures, so the team were able to use the data to track rates of turnover. They found that, rather than the rate being the same everywhere all the time, as was expected, the rates in the subtropical and subpolar regions were different and showed distinct changes over the 50-year period.  [...] More details would help to produce better climate-change models, he says. Because heat released from the water moving towards the pole is part of what keeps Europe warm, filling in gaps in the data could provide a more complete picture of what might happen in particular locations. Lozier agrees, adding that as surface waters turn over, they carry whatever gases are above them down to the deep ocean, locking them out of the atmosphere. Understanding the ocean flow could help to reveal carbon dioxide sinks, she says. "Before we could " make an accurate inventory of the CO2", we need to know where to measure," she says. [...]"  Note: More reasons why blanket statements about CO2 are unwarranted, due to lack of understanding of planetary biosystems.

UK:  Britain must adapt to 'inevitable' climate change, warns minister [09/12/10] "Britons must radically change the way they live and work to adapt to being "stuck with unavoidable climate change" the Government will caution this week, as it unveils a dramatic vision of how society will be altered by floods, droughts and rising temperatures. The coalition will signal a major switch towards adapting to the impact of existing climate change, away from Labour's heavy emphasis on cutting carbon emissions to reverse global temperature rises. Caroline Spelman, the Tory Secretary of State for the Environment, will use her first major speech on climate change since taking office to admit that the inevitable severe weather conditions will present a "survival-of-the- fittest scenario", with only those who have planned ahead able to thrive. Adapting to climate change will be "at the heart of our agenda", she is expected to say.  [...]"   

N.J. Watchdog Sues State Over Carbon Auction “Secrets” [09/11/10] "New Jersey Watchdog’s battle over the “secret” records of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative’s cap-and-trade auctions will be waged in a Trenton courtroom.  Investigative reporter Mark Lagerkvist filed suit against the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection in Mercer County Superior Court for “wrongfully and knowingly” denying access. Under the state Open Public Records Act (OPRA), Lagerkvist is asking the court to order NJDEP to release documents showing who bought what at RGGI’s auctions of carbon dioxide emission allowances. In its first eight auctions, RGGI sold $662 million in CO-2 allowances, including $72 million in New Jersey permits. Those costs are eventually passed along to consumers in higher electric rates.  At the auctions, utilities competed with speculators and financial heavyweights like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lunch and JPMorgan Chase, as reported by New Jersey Watchdog last month in an investigative report – “The Secrets Ten States & Wall Street Don’t Want You to Know.” Authorities have refused to identify auction winners and how many permits each purchased.  New Jersey Watchdog initially sought the records from RGGI, but the New York-based regional non-profit cooperative contends it is not a public agency subject to OPRA. The next request went to NJDEP, the agency that supervises New Jersey’s participation in RGGI.  NJDEP claims it does not have the requested records – despite regulations mandating the agency to approve auction results, issue permits to winning bidders and oversee the allowance tracking system. [...]"  

Paleoclimate and bubonic plague: a forewarning of future risk? [09/11/10] "Pandemics of bubonic plague have occurred in Eurasia since the sixth century AD. Climatic variations in Central Asia affect the population size and activity of the plague bacterium's reservoir rodent species, influencing the probability of human infection. Using innovative time-series analysis of surrogate climate records spanning 1,500 years, a study in BMC Biology concludes that climatic fluctuations may have influenced these pandemics. This has potential implications for health risks from future climate change. [...]"  

"Climate change legislation benefits the elite, not the people" [09/11/10] "The National Forestry Commission of Mexico in conjunction with the Swiss government recently held a conference to discuss the possibility of new, centralized climate change legislation. If enacted, the legislation will change the way Latin America governs its forests, and potentially set a precedent for how governments around the world manage their resources. But many at the conference expressed concerns that such legislation will end up benefiting a few wealthy elite while depriving local communities of their natural resources–all in the name of protecting the climate.  The REDD+ legislation–short for “reducing deforestation and forest degradation”–will require industrialized nations to pay developing nations to store carbon in their forests as well as manage them according to sustainable standards. Advocates say REDD+ will greatly benefit developing nations by helping to bring them out of poverty and end forest mismanagement.  Critics, however, say the legislation will do the exact opposite. By centralizing control of forest management, local communities and property owners in forest-rich nations like Brazil will be robbed of their resources, and a select few will have total control of these valuable resources. The vast majority of Mexico’s 64 million hectares of forest, for instance, are currently owned by rural communities and local landowners who manage them well. Climate change legislation that takes this control away and gives to centralized governments will only devastate these communities and open up the floodgates for corruption. [...]"  

4 States Prepare Legal Assault On California's Climate Law [09/09/10] "The attorneys general of at least four states are preparing to sue California if the state's landmark law limiting greenhouse gas emissions survives a challenge at the ballot box this November. The attorneys general of Alabama, Nebraska, Texas and North Dakota have been devising a legal strategy to challenge the California act, signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006, on the grounds that it interferes with the right to freely conduct interstate commerce, according to Wayne Stenehjem, the attorney general of North Dakota. "We are going to test the limits of how much you can constrain interstate commerce in the name of climate change," Stenehjem said. [...]"   

School named for Gore called unsafe [09/06/10] "The $75.5-million Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Sciences is named for Gore and environmental author Rachel Carson and is set to open Sept. 13. The area had contained more than a dozen underground storage tanks serving industrial businesses, and an adjacent service station has underground gasoline storage tanks, critics say. "Renaming this terribly contaminated school after famous environmental advocates is an affront to the great work that these individuals have done to protect the public's health from harm," said a letter from an environmental coalition to the Los Angeles Unified School District. [...]"   

Documentary/Research:  The Cloud Mystery [09/05/10] 6 Video clips [60:00]  "In 2005, scientists found evidence that the sun and the galaxy is determining the climate on Earth. For some reason, no scientific journal wanted to publish this. In this film, the UN climate consensus is seriously challenged - watch it, and judge for yourself. The duration of the documentary is 52 min. and is in 6 parts - called Cloud Mystery [...]"  It's about the relationship between clouds, the sun and the galaxy and Earths climate. Note: Novel Dutch research, validated in 2005 ... but generally suppressed, presenting the linkage between solar magnetic field and the degree of cloud cover on Earth, which influences temperatures. Note in part 2 how the IPCC slammed their research as a threat to the human-caused global warming agenda.What they could see was that when the magnetic activity on the sun was larger, then the temperature on the Earth was higher. The theory arose that the level of cosmic rays reaching Earth was also related to cloud formation on Earth. It proved to be correct. The level of cloud formation over the last hundred years has decreased with the decrease in cosmic rays that have been reaching Earth (because of changes in the magnetic field of the Sun) and the Earth climate has been getting generally warmer, especially in the northern hemisphere.  Interesting series.  Part 2 [9:56]| Part 3 [9:49]| Part 4 [9:56]| Part 5 [9:56] | Part 6 [3:31] 

Billionaire Koch Brothers Give $1 Million To Block California Climate Law [09/05/10] "Oil billionaires David and Charles Koch have jumped on board an effort to suspend California's global warming law by making a million-dollar contribution this week. A subsidiary of Wichita, Kan.-based Koch Industries, the nation's second-largest private company with oil refineries and pipelines, made a $1 million contribution Thursday to the campaign for Proposition 23.  [...]"   Koch Industries Fought the Health Care Law, But Sought Funds From It  In a post last week, we noted that David Koch, an American businessman and philanthropist, has given millions to cancer research while his company, Koch Industries, lobbied against formal recognition of formaldehyde as a carcinogen. In a post today, Think Progress’ Wonk Room pointed out another seeming contradiction: Koch Industries has become part of the new federal Early Retirees Health Program after publicly opposing healthcare reform.

 Commentary: "Is 'the Day After Tomorrow' Happening Today?" [09/03/10] "In the movie The Day After Tomorrow, the North Atlantic Current essentially shuts down which prevents warm equatorial waters from reaching Northern Europe and Northeast United States. The result is an immediate climate shift into an Ice Age. For dramatic cinematic effect the ice age unfolds rapidly with a massive storm. Indeed, there is evidence that some ice ages in history did occur nearly overnight due to cataclysmic events like the oceans conveyor belts grinding to a halt -- where animals and cavemen were frozen nearly instantly.   On August 29th, Lord Stirling issued a scary report warning that "The North Atlantic Current is Gone". We were hesitant to post the article before checking with sources to confirm it's validity. After such research, many of the claims that Lord Stirling makes do indeed have some scientific evidence. However, his claims that the North Atlantic Current is "gone" and that the cause is primarily the Gulf oil disaster and subsequent dispersant spraying are slightly premature. Despite these assumptions, Stirling's report has enough support to cause alarm:  The NutriMedical Report and LiveStream.com/TheNutriMedicalReportShow updates, final proof was provided that the Gulf Stream had been stopped cold at the 47th longitudinal parallel with a 10 degree Celsius ocean temperature drop, and loss of velocity and energy, so that the Gulf Stream was only able to be measured by satellite to less than one-third the way across the Atlantic ocean.  As Dr. Zangari stated, this is not the butterfly effect but the 'elephant effect', and with the amount of oil released, the natural system linked as the pacemaker to world climate for millions of years, this was now gone, replaced by an artificial system with a Gulf of Mexico by late July seven degrees Celsius above normals, and totally disconnected Loop Current from the Florida current that becomes the Gulf Stream.  [...] In his report on June 12th 2010 in a journal article, the CCAR Colorado data agreed with the NOAA and US Naval Satellites data.  This live satellite data map later altered on the CCAR servers, and he emailed that this was "to falsify" and he could not explain this fact logically. He returned to NOAA and US Naval data on the same and later dates and stated by early August that the CCAR data was no longer reliable and his conclusions was not changed in quality or quantity of the serious consequences. His conclusion that 'glaciation' at an unknown pace was inevitable from this disaster. [...] "  

 Commentary:  "Environmental Activism Can Lead To Madness" [09/03/10] "Reading the manifesto of James J. Lee, the mentally-disturbed eco-terrorist who attempted to bomb the Discovery Channel building in Silver Spring, Md. today, I think back to my many years as a misguided environmentalist who, at the height of my activism in the mid-1990’s, might have viewed this guy, gunned down by a SWAT team this afternoon, as simply a “misunderstood" madman who simply loved Mother Earth.  As a teenager, I was sucked into the politically-correct world of environmentalism via popular culture and TV news scaremongering (think Alar or Superfund sites, etc.). Of course the ozone layer and the Amazon rain forests were dying and all the hip actors and rock stars like Sting were telling us that we couldn’t just sit by and let it happen. We needed to get involved! By 1990, on the 20th anniversary of Earth Day, I was inspired to recycle and do little things like cut up my six-pack plastic rings so turtles and birds didn’t die. In one high school class my hippie teacher encouraged us to bring liberal-oriented “message” songs to class so we could listen to them and discuss the message. I brought “Poison In the Well” by 10,000 Maniacs (music and lyrics by Dennis Drew and Natalie Merchant): [...]"  Note:  This reflects a 'hit' dynamic wherein people are disassociating themselves with Al Gore, who has now become a pariah. See  ‘Save the Planet; Kill the People’, below.

Scientific Consensus Redux [09/03/10] "Looking back, it turns out that a lot of scientific consensuses were wrong. Taking a lead from the PNAS researchers I decided to mine the “literature” on the history of uses of the phrase “scientific consensus.” I restricted my research to Nexis searches of major world publications, figuring that’s where mainstream views would be best represented. So how has the phrase “scientific consensus” been used in past policy debates? [...]"  Meltdown of the climate 'consensus'

Early Snow In Russia [09/03/10] "Russia has seen it’s first snow accumulation of the season. According to Rutgers Global Snow Lab, Russia doesn’t normally receive snow until the second week in September. More is forecast for the next week, as well as in Norway and Sweden. Southeast Greenland is expecting heavy snow. Much of The UK and Ireland are expecting cold weather during the next week, as is Moscow. Temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet will be dipping down to near -25C. [...]" Related: Early Snow In Norway  | Scientists Forced To Revise Arctic Sea Ice Projections Upwards  "The September Arcus Sea Ice Forecast, August Report, is out, and quite naturally, the doom and gloom projections of a death spiral have returned to the closet, at least until next June. The mean of the 16 projections provided by scientists is 4.9 +/- 0.51 million square kilometers, which is likely to be lower than what the final result will end up being. The July Report outlook was 4.8 +/- 0.62 million square kilometers. Even that knucklehead Wilson sobered up and realised that his July projection of 1.o million square kilometres was perhaps just a tad too low. [...]"  Media warming to public's disbelief

 Commentary: ‘Save the Planet; Kill the People’ [09/02/10] "James J. Lee, the Al Gore inspired environmentalist who undertook a destructive assault on the Discovery Channel building, will be quickly dropped down the “memory hole” as a political embarrassment. The anti-life implications of this secular religion were revealed in his brief manifesto urging television programming to “save the planet,” by showing “how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children” who, in his words, “are pollution.” As we are seeing with the established order’s responses to Wikileaks, the power structure cannot abide revelations to the public of the details of its various schemes. Mr. Lee must be forgotten.   On the other hand, had this man been a cousin of the treasurer of the Mud Flats, Kansas, Tea Party, we would never hear the end of the reporting on this event! [...]"  Related:  Discovery building gunman "awakened" by Al Gore  "Lee said at the time that he experienced an ‘‘awakening” when he watched former Vice President Al Gore’s environmental documentary ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth.” [...]" LaRouche: Queen's Subjects Expendable to Fascism: UK Leads the World In Green Technology   "Under the Government of the genocidal bitch, Queen Elizabeth, the UK's subjects are completely expendable to facism, hyperinflation, and green technology. According to Prince "Deadly Virus" Philip's WWF-UK, in its new Renewable Energy Strategy, the UK has set a goal of deriving 15% of its energy needs from renewables by 2020. [...]"   Alex Jones: "Don't Kill Yourself for the Elite"  [8:12] "James Lee is most likely another victim of enemy propaganda. Taking the bait, Lee played right into the hands of the global elite and acted the part his eugenicist planners had written for him with amazing precision. Doomsday forecasts of global warming are used as social manipulation and political leveraging. The idea is used to corrupt any sense of self worth and to leave its victim filled with self hatred. Desperate to reverse such feelings, victims lash out at others including themselves. Caught up in this lethal psychological web, the victims quickly lose sight of reality. This is all part of the globalist agenda outlined in countless papers, books, and speeches. They will rid the planet of the low sucking human scourge and deliver those left into a new technocracy.  [...]" 

 Commentary: Is a 'Mega-Drought' on the Way? [09/02/10] "Seven years without rain. Three and a half years without rain. Have you ever read biblical accounts of drought and wondered if it could happen here? Could America survive seven years without rain? Studies indicate that the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the worst drought America has survived to date, was small compared to what North America commonly experienced before European colonization. Could it happen again?  This is an important question because more than ever the world is depending on America to feed it. On August 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin banned all Russian wheat exports to conserve food. Drought and raging wildfires had decimated the world’s third-largest wheat exporter beyond expectations. According to the Daily Mail, panic buying from Middle Eastern and African importers rocketed wheat prices up 70 percent and even risked sparking food wars. Russia confirmed the fears of many: The world’s food supply is unnervingly precarious. Ukraine is in drought, Australia is in drought. Canada was under water last spring. Pakistan is under water now. And the world’s population continues to soar. [...]"  

Russia’s brutal summer inspires "green awakening" [09/01/10] "Blame it on this summer’s deadly heat wave or political brinkmanship, but Russian leaders appear more willing to provide space for green alternatives. Before this dreadful summer, talk of climate change and global warming was usually greeted with a cynical smile. After all, there are few places in the world that could use a little “global warming” more than Russia. Or so we thought. Then, along came a record-smashing heat wave, combined with drought, forest fires and blinding smoke that quickly put to rest the myth that climate change, if it really is a scientific fact, would be a boon to Russia and a bust for the rest of the world. Whether or not recent events have really changed Russia’s perceptions on the threat of climate change remains to be seen, but there are some early indications that the devastating effects of this summer's heat wave has shaken up the status quo. [...]"   

Cold blamed for Bolivia's mass fish deaths [09/01/10] "Extreme weather wreaks havoc in the rivers. [...]"  

HCFC Companies Win on Retroactivity Challenge [09/01/10] "A federal regulation to slash production of ozone-depleting chemicals cannot be made retroactive, the D.C. Circuit ruled. [...]"  

The Great Collapse of the Chicago Climate Exchange [08/29/10] "Chicago Climate Exchange or CCX, is North America’s sole voluntary, legally binding greenhouse gas trading and carbon “offset” projects in North America and Brazil. Rueters reported on Aug 11th that Intercontinental Exchange Inc, the operating body for the CCX, will be scaling back major operations this month, a move that includes massive layoffs. This is likely due to the complete market free-fall of their only product… carbon emissions. [...]"     

 Commentary: 'The show Al Gore doesn't want America to see' [08/27/10] "In a program devoted to exposing the roots of the global warming scandal, Sean Hannity will feature author Brian Sussman tonight on his Fox News program. "This is the show Al Gore doesn't want America to see," said Sussman, author of the best-selling WNB Books titled, "Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Expose the Global Warming Scam." Hannity also will include a host of climate scientists who claim the science cited to support global warming trends is fraudulent.  [...]"    

Video: Weather systems dance in the Atlantic [08/27/10] "Hurricane Danielle, Tropical Storm Earl, and another potential tropical depression are stirring up the Atlantic. The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore explains. (Nightly News) [...]"  

Meteorologist expects monster La Nina – drastic cooling; Southern Hemisphere sea ice now approaching record high levels [08/27/10] "In the next nine months Bastardi expects we will “see a monster of a La Nina, reminiscent of the 1950s.” Over the coming decades, he expects “to see the Earth’s temps retreat back to where they were in the late 1970s. (I expect to see them decline ever further.) [...]"   

Satellitegate: Scientists Speak [08/27/10] "US Government admits global warming satellite sensors “degraded” – temperatures may be out by 10-15 degrees. Now five satellites in controversy. Top scientists speak out. [...]"   

NOAA Finds That Russian Heat Wave Was 100% Natural - CO2 Warming Not Even A Factor [08/24/10] "Of course, an actual scientific finding like this crushes the hopes of liberal-left politicians, celebrities and the MSM reporters/pundits everywhere. They are so enamored with the global-warming meme, they literally blame any (every?) earthly condition on it. [...]"    

MSM: UN Carbon Trading Scheme: $2.7 Billion Market Could Be 'Biggest Environmental Scandal In History' [08/23/10] "An obscure U.N. board that oversees a $2.7 billion market intended to cut heat-trapping gases has agreed to take steps that could lead to it eventually reining in what European and U.S. environmentalists are calling a huge scam. At a meeting this week that ended Friday, the executive board of the U.N.'s Clean Development Mechanism said that five chemical plants in China would no longer qualify for funding as so-called carbon offset credits until the environmentalists' claims can be further investigated. The "CDM" credits have been widely used in the carbon trading markets of the European Union, Japan and other nations that signed onto the 1997 Kyoto Protocol requiring mandatory cuts in greenhouse gases. Rather than cut their own carbon emissions, industrialized nations can buy the credits which then pay developing countries to cut their greenhouse gases instead. But environmentalists say rich nations could be wasting billions of dollars on what some are calling "perverse financial incentives," because some of the largest projects funded by the U.N.-managed CDM are a golden goose for chemical makers without making meaningful cuts in emissions. The CDM executive board, based in Bonn, Germany, has asked for a decades' worth of data on the gases from those five plants in China to study whether the system was manipulated. The controversy revolves around the apparent conflict between the Kyoto climate treaty and another U.N. treaty, the 1987 Montreal Protocol for repairing the Earth's fragile ozone layer. [...]"    

James Cameron Backs Out of Global Warming Debate [08/23/10] "Cameron said was itching to debate the issue and show skeptical journalists and scientists that they were wrong. “I want to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out with those boneheads," he said in an interview. ... Bizarrely, for a brief while, the worlds most successful film maker suggested that no cameras should be allowed-that sound only should be recorded. We agreed Then finally James Cameron, who so publicly announced that he "wanted to call those deniers out into the street at high noon and shoot it out," decided to ban the media from the shoot out. He even wanted to ban the public. The debate/roundtable would only be open to those who attended the conference.[...]"   

World’s Worst Heatwave – The Marble Bar heatwave, 1923-24 [08/22/10] "The record for the longest heat wave in the world is generally accepted to have been set in Marble Bar in Australia, where from October 31, 1923 to April 7, 1924 the temperature broke the 37.8 °C (100.0 °F) benchmark, setting the heat wave record at 160 days. CO2 was 305 ppm at the time. Imagine the press coverage if this happened now. [...]"  

Trends: Drought lowers world plant productivity [08/20/10] "Plant productivity around the world, once on the rise with warming temperatures and a longer growing season, is declining because of droughts, researchers say. [...]"  

Al Gore and global warming questioned by 15 year old [08/19/10]  [4:31] 

'Blocked' jetstream to blame for freak weather in Russia and Pakistan [08/13/10] "A massive heatwave in Russia and the current devastating floods in Pakistan could be linked by the unusual behaviour of the jetstream, scientists believe. The jetstream is the high-altitude wind that circles the globe from west to east and normally pushes a series of wet but mild Atlantic lows across Britain. But meteorologists who study the phenomenon say that it is producing unusual holding patterns which keep weather systems in one place and produce freak conditions.  The jetstream is being held by the Rossby waves that normally produce its distinctive wave-like pattern. These powerful spinning wind currents are caused by the Earth’s shape and rotation and push the jet stream from east to west at high altitudes. Now scientists believe that Rossby waves are acting against the jetstream’s usual pattern, holding it in place, according to a report in New Scientist. Since mid-July, when it would normally be moving eastwards the jetstream has been held in one place as strong Rossby waves push against it. When the jet stream is held in one place it traps the weather systems that are caught between its meanders. Warm air is sucked north to the ‘peaks’ while cold air travels to the ‘troughs’. Professor Mike Blackburn of the University of Reading believes that a blocked jetstream could be behind a heatwave in Japan which killed 60 and the sudden end to warm weather in the UK. [...]" 

Russia Burns (Radiation Alert)  "A hasty evacuation of diplomatic staff from foreign embassies, like a stampede, began in Moscow. Many embassies are trying to hide the evacuation for political reasons. Mass evacuation of the embassies of Canada and Poland was officially reported at night on August 7. Russia is sending 10,000 children and hundreds of elderly to Bulgaria and the Ukraine to save them from the smoldering heat and overpowering smog in Moscow, the city’s Mayor, Yriy Luzhkov, announced Tuesday. Seventeen regions of Russia are currently aflame. Seven of them, including the Moscow region, have declared a state of emergency. The U.S. State Department is allowing nonessential staff and dependents of the embassy in Moscow to leave if they want. Carbon monoxide in the Moscow air was 1.4 times higher than acceptable levels Tuesday, the state pollution watchdog said, a slight improvement from the day before. On Saturday the levels had been an alarming 6.6 times worse. The Canadian government has also initiated a partial evacuation of embassy staff and family members from Moscow due to the choking smog caused by raging fires around Russia’s capital. Foreign Ministries of Germany, Bulgaria, France, Italy and other countries also appealed to their citizens not to travel to Russia. Russia fought a deadly battle Tuesday to prevent wildfires from engulfing key nuclear sites as alarm mounted over the impact on health of a toxic smoke cloud shrouded over Moscow. Russian troops dug a five-mile canal yesterday to protect one of the nuclear sites. Bulgaria’s EU commissioner Kristalina Georgieva said that the EU is strongly concerned about the situation in Russia where wildfires have been raging for almost two weeks. “We are viewing the problem in Russia as something very grave, for as we all can see it affects the life and health of many people,” stated Georgieva. Soil pollution results from the buildup of contaminants, toxic compounds, radioactive materials, salts, chemicals and cancer-causing agents. The most common soil pollutants are hydrocarbons, heavy metals (cadmium, lead, chromium, copper, zinc, mercury and arsenic), herbicides, pesticides, oils, tars, PCBs and dioxins. The forest floor in Russia holds heavy concentrations of radioactive particles that settled after more than several nuclear disasters. We don’t need environmentalists to remind and warn us that radiation plus a full ensemble of chemicals and heavy metals could be thrown into the air by the fires raging across western and central Russia. The particles could then be blown far and wide into other areas by the wind creating a nuclear incident of unexpected proportions. [...]"  

Climate Change Effects Hugely Unequal Globally [08/13/10] " ... the impact on and cost to human societies globally is hugely unequal, with the populations of developed countries that benefit most from fossil fuels projected to suffer the least, while poorer countries that because of the projected health cost to their peoples have the maximum incentive to prevent climate change have virtually no power to do anything to prevent the changes. It's the old story of the comparatively few rich benefiting in comfort at the expense of poverty stricken multitudes. The report presents the two distorted maps shown below (click the images to view full size) - density equalizing cartograms depicting a comparison of un-depleted CO2 emissions by country for 1950-2000 versus the regional distribution of four climate sensitive health consequences (malaria, malnutrition, diarrhea, and inland flood-related fatalities).  [...]"  

History of climate gets 'erased' online [08/12/10] "A new report reveals a British scientist and Wikipedia administrator rewrote climate history, editing more than 5,000 unique articles in the online encyclopedia to cover traces of a medieval warming period – something Climategate scientists saw as a major roadblock in the effort to spread the global warming message. [...]"  Note: Old news, but important to remember. 

Satellite Failure Means Decade of Global Warming Data Doubtful [08/12/10] "Caught in the center of the controversy is the beleaguered taxpayer funded National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA’s Program Coordinator, Chuck Pistis has now confirmed that the fast spreading story on the respected climate skeptic blog is true. However, NOAA spokesman, Program Coordinator, Chuck Pistis declined to state how long the fault might have gone undetected. Nor would the shaken spokesman engage in speculation as to the damage done to the credibility of a decade’s worth of temperature readings taken from the problematic ‘NOAA-16’ satellite. ‘NOAA-16’ was launched in September 2000, and is currently operational, in a sun-synchronous orbit, 849 km above the Earth, orbiting every 102 minutes providing automated data feed of surface temperatures which are fed into climate computer models. NOAA has reported a succession of record warm temperatures in recent years based on such satellite readings but these may now all be undermined. [...]"    

Biofuels emit 400 percent more CO2 than regular fuels [08/11/10] " A recent report issued by the European Union has revealed that biofuels, or fuel made from living, renewable sources, is not really all that beneficial to the environment. Rather than reduce the net carbon footprint as intended, biofuels can produce four times more carbon dioxide pollution than conventional fossil fuels do. Common biofuels like corn ethanol, which has become a popular additive in gasoline, and soy biodiesel, which is being used in commercial trucks and other diesel-fueled vehicles, are often considered to be environmentally-friendly because they are renewable. But in order to grow enough of these crops to use for both food and fuel, large swaths of land around the world are being converted into crop fields for growing biofuels. In other words, millions of acres of lush rainforests are becoming corn and soy fields in order to provide enough of these resources for their new uses. The net carbon footprint of growing crops for fuel is far higher than what is emitted from simple fossil fuel usage. [...]"  Note: So there's also a scam perpetrated in this area ... to support those who OWN the biofuel businesses or stock in them. Cui Bono?

Cold Front in South America: 6 million dead fish, alligators, turtles and dolphins floating down Bolivian rivers [08/07/10] ""The extreme cold front that hit Bolivia in mid-July caused water temperatures to dip below the minimum temperatures river life can tolerate. As a consequence, rivers, lakes, lagoons and fisheries are brimming with decomposing fish and other creatures. [...]"  

Climate change sparks ‘quickest evolution ever’ [08/07/10] "At least one fish species can adapt in just three generations to survive a sharp change in temperature, researchers said in a study on the fastest rate of evolution ever recorded in wild animals. "Our study is the first to experimentally show that certain species in the wild could adapt to climate change very rapidly," said Friday lead researcher Rowan Barrett. However, the University of British Columbia evolutionary geneticist warned, the evolutionary jump carries a deadly pric e tag: a high mortality rate. In their research, scientists from Canada and Europe removed marine stickleback fish from the ocean, put them into ponds with gradually dropping temperatures, and studied them for three years. [...]"  Note: 'life' adapts, or not, depending. That's the rule.

Climate talks "appear to slip backward" [08/06/10] "Global climate talks appeared to have slipped backward after five days of negotiations in Bonn, with rich and poor countries exchanging charges of reneging on agreements they made last year to contain greenhouse gases. Delegates complained that reversals in the talks put negotiations back by a year, even before minimal gains were scored at the Copenhagen summit last December. "It's a little bit like a broken record," said European Union negotiator Artur Runge-Metzger. "It's like a flashback," agreed Raman Mehta, of the Action Aid environment group. "The discourse is the same level" as before Copenhagen. The sharp divide between rich and poor nations over how best to fight climate change — a clash that crippled the Copenhagen summit — remains, and bodes ill for any deal at the next climate convention in Cancun, Mexico, which begins in November. [...]"  :  

"Russian Scholar Warns Of 'Secret' U.S. Climate Change Weapon" [08/04/10] "As Muscovites suffer record high temperatures this summer, a Russian political scientist has claimed the United States may be using climate-change weapons to alter the temperatures and crop yields of Russia and other Central Asian countries. In a recent article, Andrei Areshev, deputy director of the Strategic Culture Foundation, wrote, "At the moment, climate weapons may be reaching their target capacity and may be used to provoke droughts, erase crops, and induce various anomalous phenomena in certain countries."  The article has been carried by publications throughout Russia, including "International Affairs," a journal published by the Foreign Ministry and by the state-owned news agency RIA Novosti. In an telephone interview with RFE/RL, Areshev appeared to back off from claims he made in the article, saying that he was merely positing a theory. "First of all, I would like to say that what I wrote in that article, even the citations, does not in any way claim to a be final truth. It is, if you will, speculation, in other words, the definition of an hypothesis," Areshev said. Moscow is currently sweltering under record temperatures. On July 29 Moscow suffered its hottest day ever, with temperatures hitting 39 degrees. But Russia isn't the only country suffering form a heat wave this summer. Indeed, the United States is also experiencing record temperatures. On July 24, temperatures in Washington, D.C., hit 37.7 degrees, and local weather services issued heat warnings for the first time this summer. Areshev agrees that it is also hot in the United States, but notes that the United States is significantly farther south than Russia, meaning that such high temperatures are not so surprising there. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, however, announced in July that land and ocean temperatures throughout the world were the highest ever, since they began tracking global temperatures in 1880.  [...]"     

Perspective on Toxic Carbon Dioxide Taxation [07/28/10] "Richard Sandor, one of the founders of the Chicago Climate Exchange for carbon credits says that passage of the Cap and Trade legislation designed to tax carbon dioxide and other air “pollutants” will be a $10 to $20 Trillion dollar business.  Describing it as a “business” is one way to put it, but we’d prefer to call it a scam. In fact, it will probably be the largest fraud ever perpetrated on the entire world, destined to sky rocket energy prices and enslave 99.9% of the entire planet. Carbon dioxide, you’ll note, is an essential gas necessary for survival, as it feeds the plant population. Most of the CO2 in our air is naturally produced, with a very small amount actually coming from humans in the form of breathing and industrialization. In fact, the cap and trade tax itself is nothing more than a tax on breathing. While government has yet to control oxygen rights and its inhalation by homo sapiens like they are trying to control the production of food and rain water harvesting, they’ve taken the approach of taxing our exhalation instead. Though they won’t directly say it, this is essentially what they are doing by requiring the purchase of carbon credits for the expulsion of toxic CO2. [...]"    

Hackers Shut Down EU Carbon-Trading Website [07/28/10] "Anti-carbon trading activists shut down the website of the European Climate Exchange (ECX), over the weekend, replacing the site with a spoof page lampooning the "industry". The website of the London-based carbon credit trading platform was hacked at close to midnight on Friday and showed the spoof homepage for around 22 hours. It then took technical staff another day to restore the official homepage....]"   

Climate Weapons: More Than Just Conspiracy Theory? [07/27/10] "The abnormally hot weather in the central regions of Russia has already caused serious economic damage. It has destroyed crops on roughly 20% of the country’s agricultural land lots, the result being that the food prices are clearly set to climb next fall. On top of that, fires are raging over peat lands around Moscow. These days, the majority of forecasts concerning the climate are alarming: droughts, hurricanes, and floods are going to be increasingly frequent and severe. Director of the climate and energy program of the Wildlife Fund A. Kokorin says that the current trend is not a random phenomenon and should not be expected to subside (1). In this particular context, the credibility of projections emanating from the Wildlife Fund, an influential international organization running worldwide operations styled as environment- protection programs, is beyond question (2). The reason is that the global warming which is the subject of heated academic (or, occasionally, absolutely unscholarly) debates is not necessarily an uncontrolled process. At least, the incidence of the current anomalously high temperatures exclusively in Russia and some adjacent territories invites alternative explanations. Back in the 1970s, Z. Brzezinski invoked in his Between Two Ages the theme of weather control, which he regarded as a form of broader social regulation. No doubt, the heavyweight of the U.S. geopolitical thinking had to take interest not only in the immediate social but also in the potential geopolitical implications of influencing the climate. He was not the only author to probe into the issue but, due to obvious regards, information on the progress in the sphere of climate weaponry is unlikely to spill over secrecy barriers in the foreseeable future. [...] M. Chossudovsky, an economics professor from the Ottawa University, wrote in 2000 that in part the ongoing climate change could be triggered by the use of new-generation nonlethal weapons. The US is certainly exploring the possibilities of controlling the climate in several regions of the world. The corresponding technology is being developed in the framework of the High-Frequency Active Aural Research Program» (HAARP) (3), the objective being to build a potential to launch droughts, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. From the military standpoint, HAARP is supposed to create a novel type of weapons of mass destruction and an instrument of expansionist policy which can be used to selectively destabilize environmental and agricultural systems of target countries (4). Technically, the system is known to be a set of sources of electromagnetic radiation affecting the ionosphere. It comprises 360 sources and 180 aerials having the height of 22 meters (5). Altogether the station emits 3,600 kW towards the ionosphere, being the world's most powerful system of the kind(6). The program opened in 1990, is jointly funded by the US Office of Naval Research and the US Air Force Research Laboratory, and is implemented by several university laboratories. Far-reaching hypotheses arise naturally in the situation. Venezuelan leader H. Chavez was ridiculed for attributing the Haiti earthquake to the impact of HAARP but, for example, similar suspicions crept in following the 2008 earthquake in China's Sichuan province. Moreover, there is evidence that the US climate influence program not only spans a number of countries and regions but is also partially based in space. For instance, the X-37B unmanned vehicle orbited on April 22, 2010 reportedly carries new types of laser weaponry. According to New York Times, the Pentagon rejects any connection between X-37B and whatever combat weapons but recognizes that its purpose is to support ground operations and to handle a number of auxiliary tasks (7). The vehicle was built 11 years ago as a part of a NASA program which was taken over by the US Air Force 6 years ago and completely classified (8). Demands to unveil details of the experimental program put into practice in Alaska are voiced both in the US and in several other countries. Russia never joined the chorus, but the impression is that efforts aimed at deliberate climate change are not a myth, and that in the nearest future Russia – together with the rest of the world – will face a new generation of threats. At the moment the climate weapons may be reaching their target capacity and used to provoke droughts, to erase crops, and to induce various anomalous phenomena in certain countries. [...]"  Related:  Chossudovsky M. Washington's New World Order Weapons Can Trigger Climate Change   

British Gas cashed in on coldest winter for 30 years as profits rocketed by 98% [07/27/10] " Profits at British Gas have almost doubled after the firm cashed in on a bitterly cold winter that left millions struggling to pay for heat and light. The company made £585million in the first six months of this year - a 98 per cent increase on the same period in 2009.  Its parent company, Centrica, saw profits rise by 65 per cent to £1.56billion during the coldest winter for 30 years. [...]"   

Scientist Bails Out Of 'Global Warming' Movement: Declares it a ‘corrupt social phenomenon [07/27/10] [3:00]  "Physicist Dr. Denis Rancourt, a former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa, has officially bailed out of the man-made global warming movement. In a hard-hitting and exclusive new exclusive video just released by Climate Depot, Dr. Rancourt declares that the entire man-made global warming movement is nothing more than a “corrupt social phenomenon.” “It is as much psychological and social phenomenon as anything else,” Rancourt, who has published peer-reviewed research, explained in a June 8, 2010 essay. [...]"     

 Trends: US Senate deals blow to global climate talks [07/24/10] "A year and a half after President Barack Obama breathed new life into global talks on a climate treaty, the United States is back in a familiar role -- the holdout. The Senate's decision Thursday to shelve legislation on climate change is certain to cast a long shadow over December's meeting in Cancun, Mexico that will work on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol. Obama's Democratic allies acknowledged they lacked votes to approve the first-ever US plan restricting carbon emissions blamed for global warming. The task is unlikely to get easier soon, with Democrats facing tight congressional elections in November. [...]" Related: Senate Democrats Abandon Comprehensive Energy Bill  "Senate Democrats on Thursday gave up plans to attempt to pass an energy bill that caps greenhouse gases blamed for global warming, abandoning a priority of Obama. Obama had hoped to add a climate bill to the two biggest legislative successes of his presidency, a comprehensive health care bill and a broad reform of the U.S. banking and financial sector. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said no Republican was willing to back a comprehensive energy bill, a development he called "terribly disappointing." [...]"   

Commentary: China Surpasses US in Energy Consumption, While Malthusian Crackpots Fiddle with Cap and Trade Webster G. Tarpley [07/23/10] [7:02]  "... The big news at the conference was that, for the first time ever, China has surpassed the United States in energy consumption. Ten years ago China consumed half the US total, and now they are ahead by 4% as of 2009. This signals the looming energy decadence and the thermodynamic decline of the US. China is also about to surpass the US in manufacturing, with the US losing the top spot it has occupied since passing Britain in this department in the 1890s. The Chinese will build 1,000 gigawatts of electric generating capacity by 2025, an amount equal to the current total US production. This includes 21 modern nuclear plants; the US is still building none. A rational US government would respond to this emergency by commencing the construction of 100 ultra-modern HTR reactors to replace the aging US reactors. But the US delegation was led by Energy Secretary Cho, who has embraced the crackpot idea of painting roads and roofs white to promote cooling. Such schemes are no substitute for US energy modernization after 30-plus years of stagnation and decay. Obama’s energy czarina Carol Browner, an expert profiteer and lobbyist, was also on hand. The insane ban on offshore drilling is an example of her handiwork. Nor should we forget Obama science adviser John Holdren, a quackademic and charlatan whose tenure in this post is a national scandal. These Malthusian bureaucrats hate real energy production, and want the price of energy to be as high as possible. As long as these sociopaths run US energy policy, it can be assumed that the US will continue to fall behind China, since without modern energy production there can be no recovery from the current depression. [...]"   

Corbett Report: Leaked G20 Documents Show Carbon Taxes Still High on Globalist Agenda [07/23/10] "According to the documents, the delegates concluded that a process of fiscal consolidation would be the key solution to the crisis, involving country-specific ideas with central coordination...presumably by the G20 itself. Although the delegates evidently discussed the need to address the sovereign debt crisis "through cutting expenses and not through increased taxes," that statement is immediately followed in this attendee's notes by the idea of introducing carbon taxes. The idea of funding a nascent global governmental structure through the introduction of carbon taxes is by no means a new one, having been proposed as a funding mechanism for a North American Union at a secret Security and Prosperity Partnership meeting in Banff, Canada in 2006. [...]"   

Update: Cold snap freezes South America  [07/23/10] " A brutal and historical cold  snap has so far caused 80 deaths in South America, according to international news agencies. Temperatures have been much below normal for over a week in vast areas of the continent. In Chile, the Aysen region was affected early last week by the worst snowstorm in 30 years. The snow accumulation reached 5 feet in Balmaceda and the Army was called to rescue people trapped by the snow. In Argentina, the snow in the region of Mendoza, famous for its winery, was described by local image meteorologists as the heaviest in a decade. The temperature in the morning of July 16th was the lowest in the city of Buenos Aires since 1991: -1.5C. The cold snap caused a record demand for energy and Argentina had to import electricity from Brazil. Many industries in Argentina were shut down due to gas shortage. It snowed in nearly all the provinces of Argentina, an extremely rare event. It snowed even in the western part of the province of Buenos Aires and Southern Santa Fe, in cities at sea level. The most famous beach of Argentina, Mar del Plata, was whitened by the snow in the morning of July 15th, a scene only seen in recent memory in 1991, 2004 and 2007. The snow was heavy even in Northern Argentina. In Santiago Del Estero, according to media reports, some areas experienced snow for the first time in living memory. In the province of Tucuman, some town saw snow for the first time since 1921 (Gaceta de Tucuman newspaper). In Uruguay, there were widespread reports of sleet and even snow mixed with rain in towns in the Southern and Eastern part of the country, even in the capital Montevideo. At leas two deaths have been blamed in Uruguay on the low  temperatures. Hospitals were packed with patients with respiratory illness. In Paraguay, at least nine people died due to the cold weather in only 3 days. Cattle were very affected and one thousand animals died of hypothermia. In Bolivia, dozes of people died in consequence of the very low temperatures. In some areas of the nation the cold period was described as the worst in 15 years. It even snowed in the Chaco of Bolivia, one of warmest areas of South America, where the local population never saw snow before. Classes were suspended in Bolivia for three days to prevent more cold related deaths (El Nacional newspaper from Bolivia). 

U.S. agency to 'look at climate change' [07/22/10] "The Obama administration's planned national climate service will equip decision-makers with "hard facts about long-term environmental changes" instead of " long-term research", the service's provisional director said. [...]"  Note:  Finding facts about long-term changes is impossible without long-term research of what has already transpired, and research on methodologies for gathering data .... so, they're so inept, they're proposing to obfuscate fact and replace it with a facsimile in order to promote a political agenda. So overtly stupid, and apropos for these people, now.

Climate Change Used as Excuse For Population Control [07/18/10] "The major target for the Club of Rome was a population that was improving quality of life, health and the pursuit of happiness. It argued this was achieved by unsustainable exploitation of resources and destruction of nature. As they explain; “If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limit to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years.”  It’s 40 years on and the predicted end is nowhere in sight despite efforts to amplify, distort and falsify evidence. It is wrong like all other predictions made by members of the Club, especially the population predictions of Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren. In 1971, Ehrlich recommended reducing the US population from its then 205 million because it was unsustainable. Despite this, pursuit of Club goals is more active as members control national and international finances and economies, hold political offices, or work through many private agencies under the guise of saving the planet. It is not a conspiracy, but pursuit of a political philosophy that has failed everywhere and anywhere it was tried. [...]"   

Carbon trading used as money-laundering front: experts [07/17/10] "The experts who attended a meeting of the Asia Pacific Money Laundering Group (APG) said crime syndicates are resorting to new methods to hide their illegal proceeds.  One "issue that we've looked at closely is money laundering associated with carbon emissions trading schemes", APG executive secretary Gordon Hook told a news conference after the five-day meeting. Hook did not elaborate on how crime syndicates were using carbon emissions trading schemes to launder money. Emissions trading schemes place a limit on the amount of greenhouse gaspollution which companies can produce, forcing heavy polluters to buy credits from companies that pollute less -- thereby creating financial incentives to fight global warming. John Harrison, a security analyst at Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, told AFP that the carbon emissions trading market is relatively new and crime gangs are taking advantage of loopholes in regulation. "They will use new markets to try and launder their money, and particularly if these new markets are not well regulated yet," he said. "It's not surprising." APG is an international organisation that is closely affiliated with the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Hook said the region's money-laundering activities had wider, international connections. "More and more money laundering and terrorist financing we are seeing are in reality transnational crimes so the web of international connections and international cooperation is extremely important," he said. APG co-chairman Tony Negus, who is also the commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, said the ease of movement and communications have made the fight against organised crime more difficult. "These days syndicates move across jurisdictions with ease and across the world with ease with increased travel and increased electronic transfers," he said. [...]"  

The Climategate Whitewash Continues [07/14/10] "Mr. Russell took pains to present his committee, which consisted of four other academics, as independent. He told the Times of London that "Given the nature of the allegations it is right that someone who has no links to either the university or the climate science community looks at the evidence and makes recommendations based on what they find."  No links? One of the panel's four members, Prof. Geoffrey Boulton, was on the faculty of East Anglia's School of Environmental Sciences for 18 years. At the beginning of his tenure, the Climatic Research Unit (CRU)—the source of the Climategate emails—was established in Mr. Boulton's school at East Anglia. Last December, Mr. Boulton signed a petition declaring that the scientists who established the global climate records at East Anglia "adhere to the highest levels of professional integrity." [...]"   

Lobbyists heat up over climate law [07/13/10] "The Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 is beginning to look like a stimulus package for the lobbying trade. During the past year, oil companies, manufacturers and trade groups have made a big push to shape the rules and regulations behind California's landmark greenhouse gas reduction law, The Bee has found in a review of lobbying disclosure statements filed with the California secretary of state's office. There's more: Oil refiners, manufacturers and others who will have to cut back emissions say the law will cost the state more than 1 million jobs and result in tens of billions of dollars in lost productivity. [...]"    

Documentary:  The Great Global Warming Swindle [07/11/10] Video clip [76:00]  

Climategate Investigations Are Arrogant Insults [07/09/10] "There were two British investigations into the behavior of scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia (UEA) exposed in leaked emails. Both reports provide no answers, no explanations and are only telling for what they did not ask or do and how they were manipulated. The blatant level of cover up is frightening. These are acts by people who believe they are unaccountable because they have carried out the greatest scam in history with impunity. The degree of cover up in both cases is an arrogant in-your-face statement that we are the power and are not answerable to anyone. Their cover up almost belittles the ones they are investigating. [...]"   Related: Climategate Whitewash Complete: Third "Inquiry" "Clears" "Everyone Involved" "A third and 'final inquiry' into the climategate scandal has 'exonerated everyone involved' and declared that 'there is no question over the science behind manmade global warming' – even though, like its predecessors, it has not investigated the science. The so called “independent” inquiry into scientists at The University of East Anglia’s Climate research Unit found that “Their rigor and honesty as scientists are not in doubt”. It further noted “We did not find any evidence of behavior that might undermine the conclusions of the IPCC.” [...]"  Note: No, it doesn't clear anything. Three reviews BY the people who fucked up doesn't constitute anything but a whitewash and coverup. All they did was 'review' the travesty and launch into denial. What they SAY now makes NO DIFFERENCE, and it doesn't change the facts as they are. 

Antarctic sea ice peaks at third highest in the satellite record [07/07/10] "While everyone seems to be watching the Arctic extent with intense interest, it’s bipolar twin continues to make enough ice to keep the global sea ice balance near normal. These images from Cryosphere today provide the details. You won’t see any mention of this in the media. Google News returns no stories about Antarctic Sea Ice Extent. [...]"   

Commentary: A Global-Warming Bill, The Oil Spill and $7-A-Gallon Gas  [07/05/10] "Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas. That's a Harvard University study's estimate of the per-gallon price of the president's global-warming agenda. And Obama made clear this week that this agenda is a part of his plan for addressing the Gulf mess.  So what does global-warming legislation have to do with the oil spill? Good question, because such measures wouldn't do a thing to clean up the oil or fix the problems that led to the leak. The answer can be found in Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's now-famous words, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste -- and what I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before." So Obama and congressional proponents of cap-and-trade spent several months rebranding it -- downplaying the global-warming rationale and claiming that it was really a jobs bill (the so-called green jobs were supposed to spring from the new clean-energy economy) and an energy-independence bill (that will somehow stick it to OPEC). ..... Now the president is repackaging cap-and-trade -- again -- as a long-term solution to the oil spill. But it's the same old agenda, a huge energy tax that will raise the cost of gasoline and electricity high enough so that we're forced to use less. The logic linking cap-and-trade to the spill in the Gulf should frighten anyone who owns a car or truck. Such measures force up the price at the pump -- Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs thinks it "may require gas prices greater than $7 a gallon by 2020" to meet Obama's stated goal of reducing emissions 14 percent from the transportation sector. Of course, doing so would reduce gasoline use and also raise market share for hugely expensive alternative fuels and vehicles that could never compete otherwise. Less gasoline demand means less need for drilling and thus a slightly reduced chance of a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon spill -- but only slightly. Oil will still be a vital part of America's energy mix. Oil-spill risks should be addressed directly -- such as finding out why the leak occurred and requiring new preventive measures or preparing an improved cleanup plan for the next incident. Cap-and-trade is no fix and would cause trillions of dollars in collateral economic damage along the way. Emanuel was wrong. The administration shouldn't view each crisis -- including the oil spill -- as an opportunity to be exploited, but as a problem to be addressed. And America can't afford $7-a-gallon gas.  [...]"   

Waxman: I’ll use a conference committee to get cap-and-trade [07/05/10] "Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) just handed the Senate Republicans a great excuse to filibuster any energy bills Harry Reid wants to advance in 2010. Waxman tells The Hill that any energy bill from the Senate, regardless of whether it has a cap-and-trade component for any industry in it, will allow him to attach his version of cap-and-trade in conference committee: [...]"  Note:  Al Gore would be very happy ...   

Amazongate: The Smoking Gun [07/05/10] "More than five months after the IPCC was accused of making assertions on the fate of the Amazon forest on the basis of a non-peer reviewed WWF report, it now appears that the original source of the IPPC’s claim is a Brazilian educational website which was taken down in 2003. Furthermore, it appears that this is the only source of the IPCC’s claim that made up the basis of “Amazongate” – that the IPCC was, once again, using unsubstantiated material which exaggerated the threat. This website, therefore, is the “smoking gun”, the latest evidence to suggest that the IPCC is breaking its own rules.[...]"   

Commentary: Climate Craziness of the Week: The AGU peddles a mammoth climate change theory [07/01/10] "Yes, our forebears started global warming by hunting the woolly mammoth. Right. Must be the mammoth albedo effect, much like the sheep albedo effect. Oh, wait, no it’s birch trees albedo calculated via pollen proxy. The mammoths stopped eating birch trees, that’s what did it. And those hunters used cooking fires too. [...]"  

Senator: In private meeting, Obama seemed strongly committed to carbon pricing [06/29/10] "In a private meeting at the White House with a bipartisan group of Senators today, President Obama strongly underscored his desire to include carbon pricing as part of the final package, Dem Senator Jeff Merkley just told me in an interview. The news could cheer environmentalists who had come to worry that measures to reduce carbon emissions were shaping up as the public option of the environmental debate. Enviros view curbing carbon emissions as essential to real energy reform, but many think the White House and Dem leaders will decide against including such a provision at the last minute, since it's unclear whether there are 60 Senators who will support it. [...]"   

Justices Rule on Much-Anticipated Patent Case [06/29/10] PDF "The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the U.S. patent office was correct in denying a patent application for a system businesses can use to calculate seasonal risks of buying energy. The high court upheld a federal appeals court ruling that a proposed patent by Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw was too obtuse to be patented. The two tried to patent a system for businesses and schools to assess risks when buying energy.  The two sued after the United States Patent and Trademark Office denied their application in 1997.  The question before the court then became whether processes can be patented when they don't meet the  "machine-or- transformation" test. "A business method is simply one kind of 'method' that is at least in some circumstances, eligible for patenting," Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the majority. [...]"   

Bingaman: ‘Difficult to see’ 60 votes for climate change bill [06/28/10] "Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) said it is unlikely the Senate can pass legislation that imposes limits on greenhouse gas emissions. The senior Democrat offered the grim political prognosis in an interview that aired Sunday on “Platts Energy Week.” [...]"   

 Commentary:  Gore's Surreal Estate Deal [06/27/10] "Why did Al and Tipper Gore buy $8.8 mill California mansion just prior to publicly announcing their divorce. And WHAT is the real-estate sleight-of-hand they pulled in their home state of Tennessee that experts find "puzzling"?!  A month after scoring their new palatial Montecito estate, Al and Tipper transferred nine properties the wealthy Gores own in Carthage, Tennessee from their own names into a limited liability company  (LLP) - a corporate partnership which, legally, is a separate entity. According to legal docs filed in Tennessee, the transfer of ownership occurred after the accuser in the Al Gore sex scandal filed a 2009 police complaint accusing the ex-vice of sexual misconduct. A real estate insider told The ENQUIRER that such a transfer of ownership protects the valuable assets in potential legal claims.  A limited liability partnership, like a corporation, is a completely separate entity and can not be liable as an asset if someone files personal lawsuits against either Gore. The Gores also bought the new California mansion under the auspices of a trust which, experts say, can also be shielded from potential legal attack. [...]"  Related: Stunning Pictures of Al Gore's New $9 Million Mansion Media Totally Ignored  [05/04/10] "Al Gore purchased a $9 million mansion in the luxurious hills of Montecito, California, recently, and with the exception of the Los Angeles Times and Fox News, America's media couldn't care less. You think it might be because the Gore-loving press wouldn't want people to consider the possibility that all of his global warming hysteria was really about lining his wallet and not saving the planet? Formulate a response to that question as you look at what all that money the former Vice President is making off of spreading this myth can buy .....   Certainly not bad for a guy who supposedly  was worth between one and two million dollars in 2000.  A former Vice President who last year told a House committee he was putting all of his earnings into a non-profit company to "spread awareness of why we have to take on" global warming a year later buys a $9 million mansion with six fireplaces, five bedrooms, and nine bathrooms for him and his wife. [...]"  Related: Al Gore, Tipper Gore snap up Montecito-area villa [05/02/10] "Former Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have added a Montecito-area property to their real estate holdings, reports the Montecito Journal. The couple spent $8,875,000 on an ocean-view villa on 1.5 acres with a swimming pool, spa and fountains, a real estate source familiar with the deal confirms. The Italian-style house has six fireplaces, five bedrooms and nine bathrooms. [...]"  

Al Gore’s ‘Sense of Moral Purpose’ [06/26/10]"... Spoken like a true Franfurt School admiring nihilist. Up until, oh, about 1968, most Americans thought they had a sense of moral purpose: God, their family, their country, etc. Of course, by the mid-1970s, coastal elites had dumped all of that for a combination of narcissism and nihilism. As Tom Wolfe wrote in his famous “The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening” essay in 1976 [...]" 

Proposal to water down climate bill would favor Obama aides’ former employer [06/22/10] "Rahm Emanuel, chief of staff to President Barack Obama, said in little-noticed remarks Friday that his administration will consider a climate change bill that only includes carbon caps on electric utilities. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Emanuel actually helped create Exelon by advising on the merger of two companies that merged. Exelon also employed senior White House adviser David Axelrod as a consultant. Obama's top aide Emanuel has been intricately involved in Democrats' legislative efforts on climate change. According to a Forbes article published in December, Exelon CEO John Rowe emailed personally with Emanuel on the eve of a vote last year. [...]"   

US Supreme Court lifts ban on sale of GM crop [06/21/10] "The Supreme Court lifted Monday a four-year ban on the sale in the United States of genetically modified alfalfa, which farmers fear contaminates others crops. The Supreme Court lifted Monday a four-year ban on the sale in the United States of genetically modified alfalfa, which farmers fear contaminates others crops.  A district court judge in California in May 2007 blocked the US biotech giant Monsanto from selling alfalfa seeds that it had genetically modified to resist its Roundup weed killer. The ruling was upheld on appeal in 2009, but Monsanto went to the Supreme Court arguing that any decision should have awaited the findings of a study by the Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). "Until APHIS seeks to effect a partial deregulation, any judicial review of such a decision is premature," the Supreme Court said. [...]"  

Concepts and Practices: Top UN Scientist: "There Never Was Consensus on Global Warming – Only a Few Dozen Believed It" [06/21/10] "The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider. The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was “only a few dozen experts,” he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography, co-authored with student Martin Mahony. “Claims such as ‘2,500 of the world’s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate’ are disingenuous,” the paper states unambiguously, adding that they rendered “the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism.” [...] 

Corbett Report:  Sunday Update [06/20/10] [7:56]  "Climate Consensus, Carbon Controls, 'Truther' Convicted"   

Guess who holds patent for carbon-trading plan: Disgraced Fannie Mae CEO set to cash in for millions [06/19/10] "Former Clinton and Obama budget adviser Franklin Raines owns a key carbon-emissions patent he developed as CEO of the government-sponsored mortgage giant Fannie Mae, positioning him and his partners to make millions of dollars if it is used in any carbon-capping scheme implemented by the Obama administration. Raines and his associates led Fannie Mae and Congress to believe Fannie Mae owned the patent, despite public records to the contrary, a WND investigation has found.  [...]"  

BP Was Founding Member of ‘Cap-and-Trade’ Lobby  [06/17/10] "There’s a problem: BP was a founding member of the U.S. Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a lobby dedicated to passing a cap-and-trade bill. As the nation’s largest producer of natural gas, BP saw many ways to profit from climate legislation, notably by persuading Congress to provide subsidies to coal-fired power plants that switched to gas. [...]"  

Gulf Oil Disaster Updates June 15th [06/15/10] "Plans to burn hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil from BP’s blown-out well are raising new questions about the health and safety of the thousands of workers on rigs and vessels near the spill site. BP and the federal government are in new territory once again in dealing with the nation’s worst environmental disaster: There’s never been such a huge flaring of oil in the Gulf of Mexico, or possibly anywhere. The incineration of such huge amounts of oil combined with the black clouds of smoke already wafting over the Gulf waters from controlled burns of surface oil create pollution hazards for the estimated 2,000 people working in the area. [...]".  See Special Articles panel, Big News pages, "Oil and the Environment" for more details and back-story.

Environmental groups lash out at Graham over energy flip [06/14/10] "Environmentalists are livid over Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) recent change of heart on comprehensive energy reform, after he spent months pledging to work with Democrats on a bill and to help court Republican votes.  In separate interviews, leaders from two environmental groups accused Graham of deliberately deceiving progressives and pandering to his conservative base after sapping their enthusiasm by weakening the reforms. "I think he’s just been bluffing all along," said Ivan Frishberg, political director of Environment America, in a telephone interview with Raw Story. "It just doesn’t make sense to draft legislation and then say you’re going to vote against it." After declaring in a New York Times op-ed, "climate change is real and threatens our economy and national security,” Graham told reporters Wednesday that "the science is in question" and that progressives have been "alarmist" and "oversold this stuff." After demurring on the Kerry-Lieberman energy and climate bill, which he helped craft, Graham completed his reversal last week, promising he'll vote against it. Frishberg wasn't willing to accept his sincerity. "He knew working on this bill would be unpopular with his base, and he said he didn’t care, he wanted to do what was right," Frishberg said. "It just means we can’t trust his word anymore." [...]"  

Gulfs remain after climate talks [06/12/10] "UN climate talks end in Bonn with talk of an improved mood but major gulfs remain between blocs. [...]" 

Carbon Tax Bill May Be Dead After Shock Graham Reversal On Climate Change [06/11/10] "The plan to impose a carbon tax on American citizens may be dead at least for the time being after Republican Senator Lindsey Graham shockingly reversed his views on climate change, telling a press conference that the science behind man-made global warming is in question and those pushing it are alarmists who have oversold the problem. [...]" | Senate aide says cap and trade dead, scaled-back bill likely "Comprehensive energy legislation is likely off the table after the departure of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a Senate Democratic aide said Wednesday evening, but the chamber can still pass a "scaled back" bill that boosts clean energy.  "I just can't see where we'd get 60 votes for a comprehensive energy bill with a cap on carbon at this point," the aide to a senator on the Environment and Public Works Committee, who is closely involved with the issue, told Raw Story. Graham, the sole and critical Republican in the Senate who pledged to support a cap and trade bill, told CongressDaily Wednesday he'd vote against the Kerry-Lieberman bill he helped craft, leaving Democrats confused and upset.  "His involvement set a floor for what was acceptable in that bill, and the compromises made were not in a progressive direction," the aide said. "And, at the end of the day he's still not there to support it. So that's a problem." In a New York Times op-ed co-authored with Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) last October, Graham argued that "climate change is real and threatens our economy and national security." Explaining his reversal in a press conference Wednesday, he told reporters that "the science [of global warming] is in question," and that progressives have been "alarmist" and "oversold this stuff, quite frankly." [...]"  

Rich accused of carbon 'cheating' [06/11/10] "Campaigners accuse some rich nations of seeking new rules to try to gain carbon credits for "business as usual". [...]"   

Alaska senator moves to strip EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases [06/10/10] "Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski vowed Tuesday to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its authority to impose new limits on the emission of greenhouse gases.  [...]"  

"Slow progress is being made at little-noticed Copenhagen follow-up"  [06/10/10] "Hardly anyone has noticed, but international climate negotiations have resumed in formal session for the first time since the Copenhagen summit last December. Six months after failing to seal a deal in the Danish capital, despite much optimism when the summit opened, the negotiators are trying to get the process back on track in time for the next major conference in Cancun, Mexico, at the end of the year. [...] There look like being two more negotiating meetings – in August and September/October – before everyone assembles again in Mexico. No-one is expecting a treaty to be concluded then; most would settle for steady, if slow progress, without the dramas of Copenhagen. Whether that will be enough to get global warming under control in time, is another, if unknown, matter. [...]"   

“Consensus” crumbles. But why did these scientists not say so earlier? [05/31/10] "Australia’s former chief scientist, Professor Robin Batterham, is embroiled in a bitter dispute over climate change within one of the nation’s elite science academies. As president of the peer-elected Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Professor Batterham faces demands by members to drop plans for the academy to issue a policy statement supporting climate skeptics… A two-page draft, posted on a password-protected section of the academy’s website, said the academy ‘’does not believe the science is settled’’ regarding climate change. [...]"  Related: Rebel scientists force Royal Society to accept climate change skepticism   "Britain’s premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind’s contribution to rising temperatures. The Royal Society has appointed a panel to rewrite the 350-year-old institution’s official position on global warming. It will publish a new “guide to the science of climate change” this summer. The society has been accused by 43 of its Fellows of refusing to accept dissenting views on climate change and exaggerating the degree of certainty that man-made emissions are the main cause. [...]" Bickering and defensive, climate researchers have lost the public’s trust   "But concern over global warming has cooled down dramatically. In über-green Germany, only 42 percent of citizens worry about global warming now, down from 62 percent in 2006. In Britain, just 26 percent believe climate change is man-made, down from 41 percent as recently as November 2009. And Americans rank global warming dead last in a list of 21 problems that concern them, according to a January Pew poll. [...]" 

More on the ‘Climate Change’ Racket [05/28/10] "According to the London Evening Standard, America’s favorite English Lapdog, Tony Blair, will receive 700,000 Pounds per year to be a “strategic adviser” to a California company seeking to “profit from technology that helps reduce global warming and carbon emissions.” Tony is quoted as saying: “Solving the climate crisis is more than just a political agenda item; it’s an urgent priority that requires innovation, creativity and ambition.” It is also a priority to Blair’s reported need for an income of 5,000,000 Pounds per year to maintain his lifestyle! [...]"  

Global Warming Update: NASA Accused of 'Climategate' Stalling [05/28/10] "The man battling NASA for access to potential "Climategate" e-mails says the agency is still withholding documents and that NASA may be trying to stall long enough to avoid hurting an upcoming Senate debate on global warming. Nearly three years after his first Freedom of Information Act request, Christopher C. Horner, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said he will file a lawsuit Thursday to force NASA to turn over documents the agency has promised but has never delivered. [...]"   

Lord Monckton wins global warming debate at Oxford Union [05/26/10] "For those who don’t know, the Oxford Union is the top of the food chain for scholarly debate. This is a significant win. [...]"    Related:  Belief In Man-Made Climate Change Collapses In Britain & Germany |  Climate Fears Turn to Doubts Among Britons

Another Synthetically Created Debt Crisis: "Climate Debt" [05/24/10] [23:28]  "Latest Faultlines episode as Avi Lewis travels Bolivia to talk about climate change, climate debt, and the current environmental movements in the Global South that significantly challenge our perceptions around climate and development.  [...]"  Note: All climatological monetization is irrational and non-binding, and in the same league as derivatives and related synthetic financial products.  

New Ice Age to begin in 2014 [05/23/10] "A new “Little Ice Age” could begin in just four years, predicted Habibullo Abdussamatov, the head of space research at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia. Abdussamatov was speaking yesterday at the Heartland Institute’s Fourth International Conference on Climate Change  [...]"  

Climate Change Has No Scientific Consensus [05/22/10] "Oreskes reviewed 928 abstracts from peer-reviewed research papers and determined that more than 75 per cent of scientists either explicitly or implicitly accept that Earth’s climate is being affected by human activities. Thus the ‘scientific consensus’ claim was born. However, according to a peer-reviewed analysis of Oreskes by Dr. Benny Peiser, a world-renowned expert on ‘neo-catastrophism,’ it appears the claims by Oreskes are false. Dr. Peiser uncovered from the 928 abstracts that; “just over a dozen explicitly endorse the ‘consensus’ while the vast majority of abstracts do not mention anthropogenic global warming.” Moreover, the term ‘catastrophic warming’ appears nowhere in any of the papers. [...]"     

Prominent Princeton Scientist Dr. Happer Testifies to Congress: ‘Warming and increased CO2 will be good for mankind’ [05/22/10] "‘CO2 is not a pollutant and it is not a poison and we should not corrupt the English language by depriving ‘pollutant’ and ‘poison’ of their original meaning’ Climate Depot’s Selected Highlights of Dr. Happer’s May 20, 2010 Congressional Testimony: [...]"   Related: Flashback 2009: Princeton Physicist Happer: ‘The idea that Congress can stop climate change is just hilarious’  Happer on the Orwellian Movement: UN IPCC ‘rewrites the history of the past climate of Earth’ with the Hockey Stick ‘which is clearly fraudulent   

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up, May 20 2010 [05/20/10] "Al Gore’s mortal enemy in the Senate, James Inhofe aka Kryptonite, suggested that the global warming prophet profiteer was like an ostrich with his head in the sand for denying the collapse of the global warming hoax. Video at the link. Gore appeared at the University of Tennessee to give a commencement speech and receive an honorary degree. Protesters greeted Gore at the event but unfortunately for the poor students, Al was able to deliver the most depressing commencement speech ever: [...]"   

1975 ‘Endangered Atmosphere’ Conference: Where the Global Warming Hoax Was Born by Marjorie Mazel Hecht [05/20/10] PDF "“Global Warming” is, and always was, a policy for genocidal reduction of the world’s population. The preposterous claim that human-produced carbon dioxide will broil the Earth, melt  the ice caps, and destroy human life, came out of a 1975 conference in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, organized  by the influential anthropologist Margaret Mead, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), in 1974.  Mead—whose 1928 book on the sex life of South Pacific Islanders was later found to be a fraud—recruited like-minded anti-population hoaxsters to the cause: Sow enough fear of man-caused climate change to force global cutbacks in industrial activity and halt Third World development. Mead’s leading recruits at the 1975 conference were climate-scare artist Stephen Schneider, population-freak biologist George Woodwell, and the current AAAS president John Holdren—all three of them disciples of Malthusian fanatic Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb. Guided by luminaries like these, conference discussion focused on the absurd choice of either feeding people or “saving the environment.” Mead began organizing for her conference, “The Atmosphere: Endangered and Endangering,” shortly after she had attended the United Nations Population Conference in Bucharest, Romania, in August 1974. She had already bullied American scientists with her Malthusian view that people were imperiling the environment. [...]"  

Scientist Disputes EPA 'Finding' that "Carbon Dioxide Poses Threat to Humans" [05/20/10] "EPA scientists say manmade carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are contributing to a warming of the global climate -- and as such represent a threat to human welfare. But a leading climatologist says his research indicates that CO2 poses no threat to human welfare at all, and he says the EPA should revisit its findings. [...]"  

Commentary: MSM: Only morons, cheats and liars still believe in Man-Made Global Warming [05/20/10] "Well of course I would write a headline like that having just spent the last three days in Chicago at the Heartland Institute’s 4th International Conference on Climate Change. This is the event the cackling, cloak-wearing, befanged AGW-denying community attends every year to glorify in their own evil. And naturally, in the wake of Climategate, a mood of uproarious triumphalism has prevailed as distinguished skeptical scientists, economists, and policymakers from around the world – Pat Michaels, Richard Lindzen, Ian Plimer, Bob Carter, Fred Singer.. you name them, they’re here – have gathered to dance on the smouldering ashes of the mythical beast ManBearPig.  Except we shouldn’t use that word “sceptic” any more. Richard Lindzen – Godfather of Climate Realism – told us so in one of the keynote addresses. “Scepticism implies doubts about a plausible proposition,” he said. “Current global warming alarmism hardly represents a plausible proposition.” Not least, he pointed out, because the various activist scientists, greenies and government institutions pushing AGW theory have failed to “improve their case over 20 years.” So paper thin are the AGW movement’s arguments that pretty much the only defences left to them are desperate techniques like the appeal to authority (“the Royal Society believes in AGW and the Royal Society is, like, really old and distinguished, so AGW must be true”) and cheap slurs. Consider, as examples of the latter technique, how this conference has been reported in the liberal media.  [...]"    

Global Cooling Is Coming -- and Beware the Big Chill, Scientist Warns [05/19/10] "Contrary to the commonly held scientific conclusion that the Earth is getting warmer, a scientist who has written more than 150 peer-reviewed papers has unveiled evidence for his prediction that global cooling is coming soon. [...]" Geologist Declares ‘global warming is over’ — Warns U.S. Climate Conference of ‘Looming Threat of Global Cooling’ "A prominent U.S. geologist is urging the world to forget about global warming because global cooling has already begun. Geologist Dr. Don Easterbrook’s warning came in the form of a new scientific paper he presented to the 4th International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago on May 16, 2010.  [...]"  

UN climate chief Rajendra Pachauri 'got grants through bogus claims' [05/19/10] "The chairman of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has used bogus claims that Himalayan glaciers were melting to win grants worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. Rajendra Pachauri's Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), based in New Delhi, was awarded up to £310,000 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the lion's share of a £2.5m EU grant funded by European taxpayers. [...]"  Note: Lying asshole.  

Commentary: Kerry – Lieberman: Corrupt Climate Science Used To Destroy US Economy [05/18/10] "The Kerry - Lieberman American Power Act (APA) is a disastrous, unnecessary solution for a non-existent problem. Worse, it’s a problem that exists only in a grossly inadequate computer model whose projections have never been correct. It is predicated on the false assumption that an increase in CO2 causes a temperature increase. Every record of any duration for any period in Earth’s history shows temperature increases before CO2 increases. The false assumption is the basis of all global warming and climate change used in the corrupted research and models of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It is impossible to imagine such an unjustified basis for any action, except to undermine the US economy.  It will make the US economy uncompetitive, dramatically increase the cost of living and give more power to the government. This is already proven in the failure of countries that have pursued similar alternative energies and green economies.  The name of the Act is in the deceptive tradition of climate-based energy policy. It was carbon credits, then carbon tax, cap and trade, and now the APA but they are all the same and completely unnecessary. Carbon credits were designed as a global equalization of wealth. Developed nations had to pay for the sin of making their money by using fossil fuels and producing the planet destroying global warming. Cap and Trade appeared virtuous by capping the planet-destroying CO2 while creating trade and business opportunity. It is actually the same old tax grab with more government control. The APA invokes patriotism and implies energy independence, especially from oil. The spill in the Gulf is unfortunate but has reinforced the push. As Rahm Emmanuel, White House Chief of Staff said, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.”  [...]"  

Commentary: Kerry, Lieberman Ready to End Senate Careers By Roger F. Gay [05/17/10] "It’s official. Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman have signaled the end of their political careers. The two have introduced what they’ve titled the “American Power Act.” Yep, it’s a global warming bill – Cap-n-Trade, Cap-n-Tax, etc. The premise for this bill is that the industrial emissions of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) are causing global temperatures to rise and to prevent global catastrophe the industrialized world must reduce its emissions of CO2. A pork and power bill based on global warming propaganda has been a priority for the Obama administration. Given that it has already been established, absolutely, that predictions of catastrophic man-made global warming are a scam, you might question the two senators’ sanity for introducing one. But new benefits to Israel have recently been negotiated, which might be all it takes to make Joe Lieberman happy. And it’s very easy to imagine a chat between John Kerry and Al Gore that ends with Al Gore saying, “Yah, but the money is good.” Kerry’s term isn’t over until 2014, when he will be 71 years old, so retirement isn’t an unreasonable choice anyway. Lieberman is about the same age with his current term ending two years earlier. Investor’s Business Daily describes the bill as “cap-and-trade meets pork-barrel spending.” It’s about regulations, restrictions and research. The bill creates some 60 new agencies and projects to eat up our tax dollars and buy support. According to a leaked draft summary,  [...]" Related: Potential cost of Kerry-Lieberman Cap & Tax: $69 - $145 Billion per Year "The Kerry-Lieberman Cap & Tax bill establishes a price collar for CO2 emissions with a floor of $12 per metric ton (increasing annually by 3% + inflation) and ceiling of $25 (increasing annually by 5% + inflation). According to the EPA, US emissions of CO2 in 2009 were 5787 million metric tons. Thus, if the legislation is applied to all US emissions, the cost would be $69 Billion (floor) to $145 Billion (ceiling) annually, increasing ~6 to 8+% each year forever. [...]"   The Media Is Ignoring Kerry’s Cap-and-Trade  "After 7 months of negotiations, Senators John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman last week unveiled a major climate bill to a chorus of…silence. On the day after the rollout, the American Power Act failed to make the front page of a single paper with a national scope. The Sunday political talkies also ignored the bill. I didn’t hear a single mention of the American Power Act on Fox News Sunday, ABC’s This Week, NBC’s Meet the Press, the McLaughlin Group, or the Chris Matthews Show. What gives? The mainstream media LOVES global warming as an issue, because it’s divisive and it’s yellow. So why would they ignore it? The only explanation I can think of is that the media believes the bill is dead."

Climategate Taxpayer Fraud Investigation Draws Ideological Heat [05/17/10] "Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has used the power of government to seek documents from the University of Virginia regarding its former professor and Climategate figure of "hockey stick" fame, Michael Mann. Mr. Cuccinelli is investigating whether Professor Mann engaged in fraud to obtain taxpayer money to fund his research. The civil investigation is making some people sweat, and raised howls of protest from sources ranging from the liberal Washington Post to the libertarian Reason. Academicians are protesting it as a threat to academic liberty. Daniel Lashof, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Climate Center, penned a letter calling Cuccinelli's actions "political harassment of climate scientist Michael Mann." [...]"   

Obama's Carbon Scheme set to bypass Congress [05/14/10] "For months, President Obama has all-but threatened to use the EPA to bypass Congress and seize government control of the air we breathe -- especially if Congress could not pass Cap and Tax. That plan is just weeks away from full implementation through the EPA. [...]"  Related: E.P.A. Unveils Rule to Regulate Greenhouse Gases   "The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled a final rule on Thursday for regulating major emitters of greenhouse gases, like coal-fired power plants, under the Clean Air Act. Starting in July 2011, new sources of at least 100,000 tons of greenhouse gases a year [...]"   

'Lizards succumb to global warming' [05/14/10] "Climate change is already sending reptile populations extinct worldwide." Note:  Lizards only succumb to COOLING.

Expanded Offshore Drilling Will Be Part of Senate Climate Bill, Says Lieberman [05/14/10] Note:  Senate to America: Drop Dead. The Senate climate bill to be unveiled tomorrow will have provisions to expand domestic oil drilling, including revenue sharing for states that agree to allow more production off their shores, according to one of the measure's lead co-sponsors. Screw the fisherman, people who eat fish, and the little fishies and birds and turtles themselves, BP gotta get a profit so they have money to send to Congress. Related: Kerry/Lieberman rebrand “Cap & Trade” as “American Power” and hope you won’t notice  "Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (Putz-CT) will host a press conference announcing the fifth Senate reinvention of “cap-and-trade” global warming legislation since 2003, the “American Power Act”. Call it the American Power Grab Act, instead, for reasons that will become obvious momentarily. [...]"  Cap & Trade Newspeak: American Power Act  

 Report: Food and Ethanol Shortages Imminent as Earth Enters New Cold Climate Era [05/13/10] "The Space and Science Research Center (SSRC), the leading independent research organization in the United States on the subject of the next climate change, issues today the following warning of imminent crop damage expected to produce food and ethanol shortages for the US and Canada: Over the next 30 months, global temperatures are expected to make another dramatic drop even greater than that seen during the 2007-2008 period. [...]"     

US climate bill arrives in Senate [05/13/10] "Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) on Wednesday unveiled their nearly 1,000-page climate change bill, flanked by environmentalists, religious and ex-military leaders and energy industry officials. But the glaring absence of a GOP senator underscored the bill’s gloomy future in the 111th Congress. [...]"   

 Commentary: The Problems with Al Gore [05/12/10] "There are two problems with Al Gore. First, he's a demagogue who lacks an appreciation for the ethics and methods of science. Second, he's a not a scientist, but a celebrity and politician who does not understand the technical aspects of science. Put succinctly, the man simply doesn't know what he's talking about. But Gore is now advising the world on complex technical issues related to energy and climate. That's a problem for the human race.  As described in my book, Science and Technology in World History, Vol. 1, what we know as modern science began in ancient Greece in the 6th century B.C. The Greek philosophers embraced intellectual freedom, open discussion, and critical analysis. Pupils were not only allowed to question and criticize their teachers, but they were encouraged to do so. Debate was elevated by Plato and his students to the science of dialectic. In the Platonic Dialogue Timaeus, it is noted that anyone who can present a better plan "shall carry off the palm, not as an enemy, but as a friend."  But Al Gore refuses to debate his critics. He has repeatedly dodged a debate with Christopher Monckton. Instead of engaging skeptics in reasoned discussions, Gore has relentlessly demonized those who disagree with him. In a series of infamous character assassinations, he has stated that people who are skeptical of the hysterical global warming scenario he has been promoting (and profiting from) are comparable to the lunatic fringe who believe that the Apollo Moon landings were filmed on a movie stage. He has also compared global warming skeptics to people who believe that the Earth is flat. [...]"  

Kerry-(Graham)-Lieberman: a monstrous collection of payoffs to big business [05/12/10] "Kerry’s draft has restricted cap-and trade to electric utilities only. And he’s stopped calling it cap-and-trade because the American people have figured out that it is an indirect tax on them. Now it’s “pollution reduction and investment.” Similarly, a gasoline tax has been renamed “linked fee.” Call it whatever you want, it’s still a tax that consumers will have to pay. Adding some offshore oil or nuclear incentives or clean coal research can’t hide the fact that prices will go up when energy is rationed.  What’s become increasingly apparent is that this legislation no longer has much to do with reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It’s a monstrous collection of payoffs to big business special interests, ranging from Goldman Sachs to Duke Energy to General Electric. [...]"    

John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (Putz-CT) To Advance Climate Bill Minus Graham [05/09/10] "Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will press ahead with legislation to deal with climate change, even after their erstwhile GOP partner says it will be "impossible" for the bill to pass the Senate. [...]" 

The Ultimate in Stupidity-Computer Model shows Plants causing Global Warming [05/09/10] "Adding to the Everything-Causes-Global -Warming file comes the nuttiest idea yet! Researchers have used computer modeling to show plants actually cause global warming. The research shows surprise, surprise, that the contribution of CO2 to Global Warming is "worse than we thought". I think that alarmist keyboards have those four words on a function key for fast retrieval. [...]"   

Trees of Medieval Warming Period Found Under Swiss Glacier: Scientists Conclude MWP Warmer Than Present [05/07/10] "Studying the fossil remains of trees located under a Swiss glacier, scientists verify that the treeline was some 200 meter higher than the current one. This indicates that Medieval Warming Period (MWP) was not only warmer, but lasted an extended period. [...]"  

Climate Change: Money, Politics & Scandals [05/07/10] " “With all the hysteria, all the fear, all the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? I believe it is.” – US Senator James M Inhofe (Republican – Oklahoma), 28 July 2003. [...]"   

New Revelations on Climategate [05/07/10] [6:35]  "Hannity - New Revelations on Climategate (agenda of global warming fanatics)"

VA AG Cuccinelli to invoke VATA over Climategate? [05/06/10] "Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is invoking a state anti-fraud law to demand the University of Virginia turn over years worth of documents related to climate scientist Michael Mann, targeting about $500,000 in grants that funded Mann’s studies. [...]"   

Oil Spill Dooms Climate Bill [05/04/10] "Energy reform advocates scrambled yesterday to rescue the bill that's been slogging its way through the Senate, but the Gulf oil spill appears to be the final, ironic nail in its coffin, Politico reports. Republicans will only vote for the bill if it includes an expansion of oil drilling, something that now looks, according to one Democrat, “almost both unconscionable and impossible.”  “I have got to believe I'm going to get this done,” said T. Boone Pickens, who was trying hard to push for the bill behind the scenes yesterday. But liberal groups were pushing hard on the offshore drilling issue—MoveOn.org even called for a full ban. “I think the bill was dead before,” said the head of Clean Air Watch. “I just think this adds a lot of oily dust on top of the corpse.” [...]"   

UN: No comprehensive climate deal this year [05/04/10] "Outgoing U.N. climate chief Yvo de Boer shot down expectations of a comprehensive climate treaty this year, saying Monday that a major U.N. conference in December would yield only a first answer on curbing greenhouse gases. [...]"  Note: Stupid people ... CO2 doesn't matter. 

"The $10 Trillion Cap and Trade Fraud" [05/02/10] "Cap-And-Trade: While senators froth over Goldman Sachs and derivatives, a climate trading scheme being run out of the Chicago Climate Exchange would make Bernie Madoff blush. Its trail leads to the White House.  Lost in the recent headlines was Al Gore’s appearance Monday in Denver at the annual meeting of the Council of Foundations, an association of the nation’s philanthropic leaders. “Time’s running out (on climate change),” Gore told them. “We have to get our act together. You have a unique role in getting our act together.” Gore was right that foundations will play a key role in keeping the climate scam alive as evidence of outright climate fraud grows, just as they were critical in the beginning when the Joyce Foundation in 2000 and 2001 provided the seed money to start the Chicago Climate Exchange. It started trading in 2003, and what it trades is, essentially, air. More specifically perhaps, hot air. The Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) advertises itself as “North America’s only cap-and-trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide.” Barack Obama served on the board of the Joyce Foundation from 1994 to 2002 when the CCX startup grants were issued. As president, pushing cap-and-trade is one of his highest priorities. Now isn’t that special? Few Americans have heard of either entity. The Joyce Foundation was originally the financial nest egg of a widow whose family had made millions in the now out-of-favor lumber industry. After her death, the foundation was run by philanthropists who increasingly dedicated their giving to liberal causes, including gun control, environmentalism and school changes. Currently, CCX members agree to a voluntary but legally binding agreement to regulate greenhouse gases. The CCX provides the mechanism in trading the very pollution permits and carbon offsets the administration’s cap-and-trade proposals would impose by government mandate. Thanks to Fox News’ Glenn Beck, we have learned a lot about CCX, not the least of which is that its founder, Richard Sandor, says he knew Obama well back in the day when the Joyce Foundation awarded money to the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, where Sandor was a research professor. Sandor estimates that climate trading could be “a $10 trillion dollar market.” It could very well be, if cap-and-trade measures like Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Boxer are signed into law, making energy prices skyrocket, and as companies buy and sell permits to emit those six “greenhouse” gases. [...]"   

Deutsche Bank, RWE Raided in German Probe of CO2 Tax [05/01/10] "German prosecutors searched Deutsche Bank AG and RWE AG in a raid on 230 offices and homes nationwide to investigate 180 million euros ($238 million) of tax evasion linked to emissions trading.  The Frankfurt Chief Prosecutor’s Office said it targeted 150 suspects at 50 companies and has frozen assets. Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest bank, and RWE, the country’s second- biggest utility, said they are cooperating with the probe and aren’t the focus of the investigations.  The U.K., France and Netherlands are among nations that started investigations last year of “carousel fraud,” where carbon traders collect tax and disappear before turning it in to authorities. Today’s raid was the biggest related to a fraud that may have tainted an estimated 7 percent of carbon trades in last year’s $125 billion market. “We are glad to see that German authorities are taking the necessary steps to deal with a fraud that has affected, however unfairly, foreign perceptions of the EU emission trading system,” Henry Derwent, chief executive officer of the Geneva- based International Emissions Trading Association, said in a phone interview. The lobby group speaks for CO2 trading firms. Europe lost about 5 billion euros in revenue for the 18 months ending in 2009 because of value-added tax fraud in the CO2 market, according to Europol, the law enforcement agency.  [...]"   Related:U.K. Officials Arrested 22 People in C02 Tax Probe This Week  "U.K. officials arrested 22 people as part of an investigation into tax fraud related to CO2 emissions credit trading. Jonathan Hall, a spokesman for U.K. tax officials, commented on the arrests in a phone interview. [...]"  

Scandal: Obama, Gore, Goldman, Joyce Foundation CCX partners to fleece USA [04/30/10] [9:59] "Glenn Beck breaks the biggest corruption story of the century yesterday and it doesn’t appear on a Front Page anywhere. Beck points the way to the 15 Trillion dollar scam that has some amazing players." Note: Good job. See Becks website.

Global Warming: the Collapse of a Grand Narrative [04/28/10] "For over a month now, since the farcical conclusion of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, I have been silent, partly through family commitments abroad in the USA, but also because, in this noisy world, in ‘The Clamour Of The Times’, it is on occasion better to be quiet and contemplative, to observe rather than to comment. And, as an independent academic, it has been fascinating to witness the classical collapse of a Grand Narrative, in which social and philosophical theories are being played out before our gaze. It is like watching the Berlin Wall being torn down, concrete slab by concrete slab, brick by brick, with cracks appearing and widening daily on every face - political, economic, and scientific. ..."   

Swedish expert says CO2 is not the main cause of global warming [04/28/10] "Swedish climate expert Dr. Fred Goldberg has said that carbon dioxide is not the main cause of the global warming. The climate change is not affected by human action, but mainly by the solar activities and ocean currents such as PDO (Pacific Decadal oscillations). He even predicts that the earth is going to experience colder winters in the following years or even decades. ..."   

Angela Merkel gives up binding carbon treaties [04/28/10] "According to Spiegel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel gives up the possibility of future binding "climate agreements", ..."   Related: Carbon storage premise 'totally erroneous' "Carbon capture and storage is a nonsense and a new paper confirms what any rational person would know intuitively . Of course the fact that Kevin Rudd has committed 2 billion dollars to this green fairy tale speaks for itself. ..." Lawrence Solomon: Australia won’t cap and trade  "Seeing countries around the world back away from their climate change commitments, and seeing his own electoral support crumble, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced today that Australia will be shelving its cap and trade program for at least three years, until after the next election. “That will provide the Australian government at the time with a better position to assess the level of global action on climate change," he told the Australian press. ..."     

Coincidence? Graham Withdraws Support For Dem Legislation A Week After Blackmail Charge [04/28/10] "Lindsey Graham has withdrawn his support for both the Democrat’s pro-amnesty immigration bill and cap and trade legislation just a week after ALIPAC Chairman Gheen gave a speech in which he demanded that Graham come clean on the fact that he is being blackmailed over his homosexuality. ..."    Related:  Blackmail – How The Controlling Elite Owns Politicians   2 Video clips [14:24]    "Lindsey Graham homosexual controversy underscores why government is broken Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, April 26, 2010 Homosexual rumors surrounding Senator Lindsey Graham underscore the core reason why the vast majority of Congress members habitually support legislation that is anathema to the interests of the people they are supposed to represent,  ..."    Note: See below.

Climate change bill collapses in Senate [04/26/10] "A long-awaited climate change bill that would put a price on excessive carbon emissions and generate billions of dollars has been postponed indefinitely. ..."  Related: Obama’s climate change agenda in turmoil [04/26/10] "President Barack Obama's climate change agenda was thrown into turmoil Sunday after a key Republican abruptly pulled his support for a compromise energy and climate bill in a blow to Democrats.  Senator Lindsey Graham, an influential Republican, abandoned what Democrats said was a painstakingly negotiated climate bill in outrage over a decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to move an immigration bill in the Senate ahead of it. White House officials appeared to be taken aback by the move, unsure how to respond to the unraveling of a major component of the president's strategy both for meeting his international pledges on climate change and shifting the US economy " from its heavy reliance on foreign oil". ..."   

MSM: Quieter activity on Sun may push Britain into a modern-day Little Ice Age [04/23/10] "Horse racing on frozen rivers? Ice bowling? Activities last seen during Britain’s Little Ice Age could once more be seen, researchers believe. Having just emerged from a bitterly cold winter the experts are warning that Britain could return to the mini ice-age at the end of the 17th century. ..."   

Biofuels cause four times more carbon emissions [04/23/10] "Green fuels made from soy beans cause four times more climate-warming emissions than standard diesel or petrol, according to a European report into biofuels. ..."  Note: But then again, carbon emission by human activity is not a problem.   

Peer-Research Finds Major Climate Model Failures Regarding Arctic: Warming Is Natural, Not CO2 Caused [04/23/10] "It is well documented that climate models have been abject failures as global predictive tools, and should not be relied upon by policy makers for global decisions. The newest research confirms that the models are also incorrect regarding regional predictions, including the Arctic area climate. ..."   

MSM: Climate-Change Bill Avoids ‘Cap-and-Trade’ Tag in U.S. Senate [04/22/10] "Graham, John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, and independent Joe Lieberman of Connecticut are preparing to introduce a compromise bill in the Senate. They have indicated it will include a mandatory, declining limit on carbon emissions in the electric-power industry while giving utilities the right to buy and sell carbon allowances. The senators aren’t calling it “cap-and-trade,” though. The legislation is about “pricing carbon,” Graham told reporters in Washington last month. ..."  Note: These people ought to be arrested for promulgating a fraud akin to derivatives ....

US climate report publicized in runup to Senate bill [04/21/10] "An environmental coalition publicized a new U.S. draft report on climate change on Monday, one week before the expected unveiling of a compromise U.S. Senate bill that aims to curb greenhouse gas emissions. The Project on Climate Science, a coalition of environmental groups, publicized the report in advance of Earth Day on April 22, a spokeswoman said. The report was released with little fanfare on April 7 and posted on the Federal Register on April 8. The report, a draft of the Fifth U.S. Climate Action Report that will be sent to the United Nations, says bluntly: "Global warming is unequivocal and primarily human-induced ... Global temperature has increased over the past 50 years. This observed increase is due primarily to human-induced emissions of heat-trapping gases." The State Department draft, now open for public comment, precedes the expected April 26 unveiling of Senate legislation by Democrat John Kerry, Republican Lindsey Graham and Independent Joe Lieberman. Supporters of the bill hope this will pave the way for the full Senate to debate and pass a measure in June or July. The State Department report will ultimately go to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; previous U.S. reports to this body were in 1994, 1997, 2002 and 2007. The draft report is available online PDF.

Fannie Mae owns patent on residential 'cap and trade' exchange [04/20/10] "When he wasn't busy helping create a $127 billion mess for taxpayers to clean up, former Fannie Mae Chief Executive Officer Franklin Raines, two of his top underlings and select individuals in the "green" movement were inventing a patented system to trade residential carbon credits. Patent No. 6904336 was approved by the U.S. Patent and Trade Office on Nov. 7, 2006 -- the day after Democrats took control of Congress. Former Sen. John Sununu, R-N.H., criticized the award at the time, pointing out that it had "nothing to do with Fannie Mae's charter, nothing to do with making mortgages more affordable." It wasn't about mortgages. It was about greenbacks. The patent, which Fannie Mae confirmed it still owns with Cantor Fitzgerald subsidiary CO2e.com, gives the mortgage giant a lock on the fledgling carbon trading market, thus also giving it a major financial stake in the success of cap-and-trade legislation. ..."    

Cap and Trade Carbon Tax Coming Next Month [04/19/10] [2:35]  "Cap and trade is not dead...They will be releasing these from behind closed doors. Wait till you hear what it will cost ..."  Related: Goldman Sachs Next Scam: Carbon Credits  2 Video clips  

  UK: Leaked U.S. Document Calls For “Global Regime” To Tackle Climate Change [04/16/10] "A confidential U.S. government document obtained by the London Guardian highlights the ongoing agenda to create a structure of global governance in the name of combating climate change.  “Titled Strategic communications objectives and dated 11 March 2010, it outlines the key messages that the Obama administration wants to convey to its critics and to the world media in the run-up to the vital UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico in November.” The Guardian reports. The newspaper says that the document (full text below) was “accidentally left on a European hotel computer” before it was passed to their editors. The number one item on the itinerary is to “Reinforce the perception that the US is constructively engaged in UN negotiations in an effort to produce a global regime to combat climate change.” (my emphasis) ..."  Note:  To 'reinforce the perception' of something doesn't mean one is actually doing anything .... it's all show and tell and trying for force deference to them.

  UK: Police question climategate information seekers [04/16/10] "Police are investigating anyone who requested information from the university department at the centre of the ‘climategate’ scandal. Already prominent climate change sceptics around the world have been questioned and members of staff at the university, but is has now emerged that ordinary members of the public who did nothing more than request information are also being targeted. ..." 

US Senate climate bill to be unveiled April 26  [04/16/10] "A long-awaited compromise bill to reduce U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for global warming will be unveiled by a group of senators on April 26, sources said on Thursday. The legislative language to be sketched out in 11 days, according to government and environmental sources, is being drafted by Democratic Senator John Kerry, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and independent Senator Joseph Lieberman. ..."  Note: All the delusional, insane, control freaks ... 

"Landmark Ruling: Global Warming Belief Given Same Legal Status As Religion" "Landmark Ruling: Global Warming Belief Given Same Legal Status As Religion" [04/16/10] "In a landmark ruling, Mr Justice Michael Burton said that “a belief in man-made climate change … is capable, if genuinely held, of being a philosophical belief for the purpose of the 2003 Religion and Belief Regulations”.  The ruling could open the door for employees to sue their companies for failing to account for their green lifestyles, such as providing recycling facilities or offering low-carbon travel. ..."  Note: Unfortunately for them, beliefs of ANY kind have little to do with reality.  

 UK: Ebbing sunspot activity makes Europe freeze [04/15/10] "Sun's magnetic field may have caused freezing winter ...It was the coldest winter in England since 1963 – the coldest in Scotland since 1914 – and weeks of ice, snow and sub-zero temperatures from last December to March defied predictions by climate-change scientists of milder, wetter winters. So what happened?  One theory suggests that last winter's cold temperatures were part of a pattern that is set to continue because of a complex interaction between the Sun's magnetic field and the high-altitude jet stream which dominates Britain's weather  system. The jet stream normally brings mild, damp westerly winds over Britain during winter but this year it went into "blocking" mode, sweeping back on itself and allowing a bitterly cold north-east wind to blow over the country, bringing ice and snow with it.  Scientists have found a link between blocking changes to the jet stream that result in colder winters and variations in the "activity" of the Sun, as measured by alterations in its magnetic field. This could mean that the UK can expect more cold winters than usual in the coming decade, despite global warming."  

Club Of Rome Behind Eco-Fascist Purge To Criminalize Climate Skepticism [04/14/10] "Ultra elitist organization that openly bragged of inventing global warming scare to manipulate population behind new onslaught of green fascism which would criminalize questioning man-made climate change ..."  

Confidential document reveals Obama's hardline US climate talk strategy [04/13/10] "Document outlines key messages the Obama administration wants to convey in the run-up to UN climate talks in Mexico in November ... Text of the leaked document: ...."  Note: I guess it depends on who 'leaked' this. If it's what they 'want' people to think .... 

Bonn or bust – The UN’s last, desperate bid for unelected world government [04/10/10] "There are not many empty seats in the dismal, echoing conference chamber in the ghastly concrete box that is the Hotel Maritim here in Bonn, where the UN’s latest attempt to maneuver the 194 States Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change gets underway today. ... There are not many empty seats in the dismal, echoing conference chamber in the ghastly concrete box that is the Hotel Maritim here in Bonn, where the UN’s latest attempt to maneuver the 194 States Parties to the Framework Convention on Climate Change gets underway today. The “international community”, as it is now called, is here in full force, in the shape of expensively-suited, shiny-shod bureaucrats with an urbane manner and absolutely no knowledge of climate science whatsoever. However, one empty chair is a pointer of things to come. The Holy See – a tiny nation in its own right, with a billion citizens around the world – has left its chair empty. And that is significant. If “global warming” still mattered, the Vatican would make sure that its representatives were present throughout this gloomy gathering of world-government wannabes. This emergency conference, called by the UN’s bureaucrats because they were terrified that Cancun this December might fail as spectacularly as Copenhagen did last year, is a much quieter affair than Copenhagen. Not only has the air of triumphalism gone, after the scandals of Climategate, Himalayagate, Amazongate and so forth, but the belief that “global warming” is a global crisis has largely gone too...."

Gore gets camera-shy for N.C. speech, limits media [04/06/10] "Former Vice President Al Gore may have won an Oscar for his documentary on global warming, but he appears to be a little cool toward the camera for a speech in North Carolina. A Gore aide said Tuesday that media members will only be allowed to record video and audio of the first five minutes of Gore's talk at Duke University on April 8. ..."    

Destroying America with the EPA's Carbon Lies [04/03/10] "Beyond the issue of scientific fraud, there are the scientific facts that demonstrate that CO2 plays a miniscule role, if any, as regards the Earth’s climate. Carbon dioxide is less than one percent of the Earth’s atmosphere (386 parts per million). There is, in fact, no greenhouse effect. The most active element of the atmosphere is the 95% of water vapor that forms a protective layer around the Earth. ..."  

Climategate: The Mother of All Deceptions and Crime Against Humanity [04/02/10] "Human Caused Global Warming is not being researched; it is being promoted. Al Gore and his fellow investors have spent over a hundred million dollars in creating a crisis of human-caused global warming out of (quite literally) thin air. They are not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts. They expect to reap billions in profits from the trading of Carbon Credits, a "license to pollute" available for a price and subject to brokerage fees. One of the people Al Gore relied on to create this scheme was Ken Lay, late of ENRON, aka the Crooked "E". Al Gore plans to use Carbon Dioxide to do to the world what Ken Lay did to California using electricity; loot the people! ..."   

UK: Climategate Ed Miliband Trying To Restart Global AGW Scam [04/01/10] "There is a lot money and personal power to be gained by the one world Governmentalists and they are convinced that they can steamroller their hidden agenda through, it is up to the voters of each country to make their politicians listen. ..."   

 Commentary:  "Academic Statements Should Reflect Data and Knowledge, Not Bias and Beliefs" [04/01/10] "As science progresses, most scientists change their views based on new knowledge. Those who will not recognize new information and theory have often staked their reputations and careers upon out-of-date science. So it is with climate science today. ..."   

Greenpeace Releases 20-Year History of Climate Denial Industry [03/31/10] "Greenpeace released a terrific report today on the 20-year campaign by polluters to mislead the public by creating the climate denial industry. The new report succinctly explains how fossil fuel interests used the tobacco industry’s playbook and an extensive arsenal of lobbyists and “experts” for hire in order to manufacture disinformation designed to confuse the public and stifle action to address climate change. ..."  Note: Actually, it's been a little longer. 

HSBC Ejects Carbon Traders From Index [03/31/10] "The banking giant HSBC removed two companies involved in carbon trading from its Climate Change Index on Monday because they had lost too much value.  Analysts from HSBC said the cause was mainly that governments had failed to come up with a timetable for a global climate deal at the United Nations summit in Copenhagen in December. “Carbon trading was the major loser from Copenhagen,” HSBC analysts said in their March 21010 Quarterly Index Review. “Cap and trade needs hard targets and binding rules – and Copenhagen delivered neither,” HSBC said. ..."  Note:  Yay!

Geoengineers get the fear [03/31/10] "Researchers fail to come up with clear guidelines for experiments that change the planet's climate... "Be very careful." The warning, from Robert Socolow, a climate researcher at Princeton University in New Jersey, came at the end of a meeting last week that aimed to thrash out guidelines for the nascent field of geoengineering. The discipline aims to use global-scale efforts to control the climate and mitigate the worst effects of anthropogenic warming — but the techniques used could also have far-reaching, unintended consequences. Socolow presented more than 175 experts from a range of disciplines with a list of their own nightmares, collected over meals and cocktails during the course of an often contentious week. As he rattled through the scenarios, he highlighted the legal, moral and ethical quandaries of geoengineering. " Note: The arrogance something, too. They would need several hundred years to even begin to fathom the complexity of what they propose ... they're dealing in non-linear systems. They've messed everything up so far, and are always amazed that they're wrong about everything ... they should turn their attention to 'adaptation' ... if this went on, it would always be too late for them.

Global Warming Advocates Threaten Blizzard of Lawsuits [03/30/10] "Environmentalists, unable to squeeze "cap and trade" rules through the U.S. Senate, have a new strategy for combating what they believe is man-made global warming: Lawsuits. ..."    

Embattled U.N. Climate Chief Apologizes Again, Won't Resign [03/30/10] "In an interview with the Times of London, Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, apologized for his organization’s handling of complaints about errors in its report. ..."  Note: That small, small man ... with a heart of bird droppings ...  

Global Warming Activist Freezes to Death in Antarctica [03/30/10] "Famed global warming activist James Schneider and a journalist friend were both found frozen to death on Saturday, about 90 miles from South Pole Station, by the pilot of a ski plane practicing emergency evacuation procedures. ..."  Note: Just desserts .... banana flambe ... 

Appeal for Mongolian herders after cold kills livestock [03/30/10] "The International Red Cross has appealed for help for thousands of Mongolian herders who have lost their livestock because of extreme cold. The Red Cross said that millions of animals had perished during the country's hardest winter in years. ..."  

MSM: UN climate change chief Rajendra Pachauri says sorry — and switches to neutral [03/28/10] "The outspoken chairman of the UN’s climate change body is to adopt a neutral advisory role and has agreed to stop making statements demanding new taxes and other radical policies on cutting emissions. ..." 

UK:  Public skepticism prompts Science Museum to rename climate exhibition [03/26/10] "The museum is abandoning its previous practice of trying to persuade visitors of the dangers of global warming. It is instead adopting a neutral position, acknowledging that there are legitimate doubts about the impact of man-made emissions on the climate. Even the title of the £4 million gallery has been changed to reflect the museum’s more circumspect approach. The museum had intended to call it the Climate Change Gallery, but has decided to change this to Climate Science Gallery to avoid being accused of presuming that emissions would change the temperature. ..."   

Woman Who Invented 'Credit Default Swaps' is One of Key Architects of 'Carbon Derivatives', at the very CENTER of 'Cap and Trade' concept [03/26/10]  

The Story of Cap & Trade [03/25/10] Video clip [9:56]  "The Story of Cap & Trade is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill. Host Annie Leonard introduces the energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme and reveals the "devils in the details" in current cap and trade proposals: free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from whats really required to tackle the climate crisis. If youve heard about Cap & Trade, but arent sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you.  ..."  

Climategate: five Aussie MPs lead the way by resigning in disgust over carbon tax [03/25/10] "The Liberal Party is in turmoil with the resignations of five frontbenchers from their portfolios this afternoon in protest against the emissions trading scheme. Tony Abbott, Sophie Mirabella, Tony Smith and Senators Nick Minchin and Eric Abetz have all quit their portfolios because they cannot vote for the legislation. ..."   

France Abandons Plan for Carbon Tax [03/24/10] "After months of political rancor and legal obstacles, the French government on Tuesday shelved its plan to introduce a tax on carbon emissions that had been a cornerstone of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s environmental policy.  ..."   Related: Government to drop carbon tax in another setback for Sarkozy 

Language of Religious Fervor Inflames Climate Change Debate [03/20/10] "People who say human-induced climate change is a fact that demands urgent action are described as "believers" or "climate evangelists," while those who reject the concept are "deniers," "skeptics" or "atheists." Those in the middle who say they are unconvinced either way are "agnostics." "The use of this language has become increasingly an issue," said Colin Challen, chairman of the United Kingdom's All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group, a committee of U.K. lawmakers studying the global climate phenomenon. ..."  Note: Ya think? It's because they've now placed more importance on BELIEF than FACT. 

Scientists say SNP's plans for carbon capture 'not feasible' [03/19/10] "The Scottish Government's carbon capture plans have been dealt a double blow after research found the technology was "not feasible at any cost". ... It came as MSPs voted in favour of an amendment opposing coal-fired power stations such as one proposed at Hunterston by Ayrshire Power. The Hunterston application was the first in the UK for a new power station burning coal since rules forcing all new plants to be fitted with carbon capture technology were introduced last year. Green MSP Patrick Harvie said: "The fact is that this technology, and SNP plans to rely on it, have been holed below the waterline. "This research concludes that burying the from a full-size commercial power station would require underground storage roughly the size of a small US state – a luxury we simply do not have." Carbon capture technology enables power stations – currently among the world's biggest polluters – to continue operating without putting climate change targets at risk. It captures emissions from the power station which are then sent through pipes and held underground in places such as disused gas fields under the North Sea. The new research paper questioning the technology was published in the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering by Christine Ehlig-Economides of Texas A&M University and Michael Economides of the University of Houston. It said: "Our very sobering conclusion is that underground carbon dioxide sequestration via bulk injection is not feasible at any cost.....""  

Carbon market chaos strikes again [03/19/10] "What a surprise: The free-market-that-is-not-free leaps from one scandal to the next. In a real free market where salesmen sell something real, and buyers buy something they want, people can’t get away with cheating, or not for long. If someone sold you a bulk carrier of coal, and it turned up empty, you’d notice.  ..."  

Climate Science Fabrications: Hide the decline and rewrite history? [03/19/10] "Human emissions of carbon dioxide began a sharp rise from 1945. But, temperatures, it seems, may have plummeted over half the globe during the next few decades. Just how large or how insignificant was that decline? Frank Lansner has found an historical graph of northern hemisphere temperatures from the mid 70’s, and it shows a serious decline in temperatures from 1940 to 1975. It’s a decline so large that it wipes out the gains made in the first half of the century, and brings temperatures right back to what they were circa 1910. ..."   

Questions Swirl Around U.N.'s Climate Auditors [03/19/10] "Acknowledging the rising tide of public skepticism toward global warming, the United Nations announced on March 10 that the IAC would act as an independent reviewer for its climate-science arm, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). But a week later, the IAC remains a mystery, and it still hasn't explained who will be on the review panel or how the panel will operate. And if it knows, it isn't saying. "The IAC expects to begin its IPCC review shortly and issue a report by August 31. There is no other statement," Anne Muller, program coordinator at the IAC, told FoxNews.com. ..."   

European emission trading rocked by scandal over recycled carbon permits [03/18/10] "EUROPE'S emissions trading system was in uproar yesterday amid a mounting scandal over "recycled" carbon permits. Two carbon exchanges were forced to suspend trading as panic hit investors fearful that they had bought invalid permits. BlueNext and Nord Pool, the French and Nordic exchanges, suspended trading in certificates of emission reduction (CERs) when it emerged that some had been illegally reused. ..."   

Britain Bans Ads Exaggerating Danger of Global Warming [03/18/10] "Two government press adverts which used nursery rhymes to raise awareness of climate change have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). It said the advertisements went beyond mainstream scientific consensus in asserting that climate change would cause flooding and drought. A total of 939 people complained to the ASA about the "Act on CO2" campaign. Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband said the ads should have been "phrased better" but defended the campaign.  ..."   

Carbon Eugenics [03/17/10] Video clip [7:47]  "Genocide in the name of the environment is still genocide ..."  Note: Transcript included on page. 

Judith Curry in Discover on Climategate [03/17/10] "Q: "Are you saying that the scientific community, through the IPCC, is asking the world to restructure its entire mode of producing and consuming energy and yet hasn’t done a scientific uncertainty analysis?" A: "Yes." ..."  

Climategate: Knowledge, Belief, and Global Warming [03/17/10] "It is foolish to take inflexible stands on positions of dubious merit. ..."   

  Analysis:  How Government Corrupts Science by Arthur Robinson, Ph.D. PDF [03/17/10] "As the alternative media fill with news of Climategate and other scientific scandals, people ask: What has happened to science? Has it been corrupted as have the Congress, the presidency, the media, and many of our other institutions? Can we no longer depend upon even our scientists to tell the truth? ..."  

 Analysis:  "Climategate" and the Ethics of Science  by Lee Gerhard  PDF [03/17/10] "Dishonesty in science can harm people. Over the last century science has played an ever increasing role in the lives of all people, particularly so in the western hemisphere and in Europe and Asia. Science, and its resulting technology, the applications of science to practical problems, has increased life expectancy, improved our standard of living, dramatically speeded communications, and made us a space-faring people, to cite only a few examples. Our ability to feed a rapidly growing global population and to make their lives easier and more productive both stem from advances in science.  ..."  

US couple take lead on carbon trade by selling their first credit [03/16/10] "The Wilsons began by getting rid of their son's heated water bed, turning off power to computers and televisions when not in use, changing to energy-efficient light bulbs, hang-drying their laundry and, finally, investing $58,000 (€42,000 £37,000) in a solar panel system - until they reduced their electricity bill to zero. Then they signed up on the MyEmissionsExchange. com site to have their energy savings calculated. They found that they had already saved one tonne of carbon, which earned them a carbon credit. The exchange sold the credit for $21.50 to Molten Metal Equipment Innovations of Ohio, taking a 20 per cent commission. ..."  Note: So, where's the advantage for anyone to do this? The end result is that some people suffer so others can pollute, which is INSANE.

Industries hoarding "greenhouse gas emission permits" [03/13/10] "Companies across Europe are hoarding permits to produce greenhouse gas emissions worth hundreds of millions of pounds, the Guardian can reveal. The surplus credits have been amassed from over-allocation of permits to pollute from the European emissions trading scheme, and by buying cheap credits from carbon-cutting projects in developing countries and holding on to their more expensive official EU allowances. ..."  Note:  These 'permits' are fictitious intellectual fabrications that are worthless.

US 'carbon traders' fear pink slips [03/13/10] "Wall Street was supposed to become the capital of a global carbon trading market worth a trillion dollars a year but now many who thought green trading desks would be the next big thing are fearing the pink slip. ..."  Note: It's a made-up, fictitious paradigm trading concepts worth nothing.  

Trying To Change The Senate Climate: Reid 'Wants Bill Soon,' But Carbon Regulation Plans Still Stalled [03/12/10] "Legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions through a new cap-and-trade system has languished in the Senate for the better part of a year. The bill has gone nowhere, despite the best efforts of supporters who keep the flame alive, and occasional assurances of progress from the lawmaker taking the lead on the bill this year, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.). Meanwhile, things are just about as much a stalemate over on the second climate front that's opened up in the Senate over the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to limit emissions under the Clear Air Act. ..."  

Junk Science Bombshell: NASA & Media Knew About Bogus Climate Data 3 Years Ago [03/12/10] "Email messages obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute via a Freedom of Information Act request reveal that the climate dataset of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) was considered — by the top climate scientists within NASA itself — to be inferior to the data maintained by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU). The NASA scientists also felt that NASA GISS data was inferior to the National Climate Data Center Global Historical Climate Network (NCDC GHCN) database. These emails, obtained by Christopher Horner, also show that the NASA GISS dataset was not independent of CRU data. Further, all of this information regarding the accuracy and independence of NASA GISS data was directly communicated to a reporter from USA Today in August 2007. The reporter never published it.  ..."   

U.S. "cap and trade" re-branded "pollution reduction" [03/11/10] "Like a savvy Madison Avenue advertising team, senators pushing climate-control legislation have decided to scrap the name "cap and trade" and re-brand their product as "pollution reduction targets." ...Senator Joseph Lieberman, an independent trying to draft a bipartisan bill, said, "We don't use that term anymore." Instead Lieberman said, laughing: "We will have pollution reduction targets." But Lieberman did say it was still possible utilities may be subject to a cap and trade system. Senator Thomas Carper, who chairs a clean air panel in the Senate, told Reuters on Tuesday that cap and trade for utilities was the way to go."  Note:  Lieberman should be arrested and imprisoned, not left free to wander around and cause the US population distress. Same with McCain .... they're dangerous men and sociopaths. 

The Climate Industry Wall of Money [03/10/10] "For all the smears of big money funding the "deniers", the numbers reveal that the sceptics are actually the true grassroots campaigners, while Greenpeace defends Wall St. How times have changed. Sceptics are fighting a billion dollar industry aligned with a trillion dollar trading scheme. Big Oil's supposed evil influence has been vastly outdone by Big Government, and even those taxpayer billions are trumped by Big-Banking. The big-money side of this debate has fostered a myth that sceptics write what they write because they are funded by oil profits. They say, follow the money? So I did and it's chilling. Greens and environmentalists need to be aware each time they smear with an ad hominem attack they are unwittingly helping giant finance houses. ..."   

IMF (US Controlled) suggests how to raise climate change funds (how to rip off trillions more for existential bullshit reasons) [03/10/10] "The Jewish head of the International Monetary Fund on Monday proposed a plan for the world's governments to pool together to raise money needed to adapt to climate change, a rare step for an organization that normally does not develop environmental policies. ...Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said the Fund is "concerned" about the " huge amount of funding needed" and the effect that will have on the global economy. He added that the proposal " may help efforts to reach a binding agreement on climate change later this year." ...... "IMF is responsible for the consumption patterns that has generated the current climate crisis that we face. And they have neither the expertise nor the moral authority to discuss the issue of climate change," said Vitalice Meja, the coordinator of Reality of Aid Africa, an anti-poverty advocacy group. Nations failed to reach a binding deal in Copenhagen in December, but agreed on a voluntary plan to control greenhouse gas emissions which are blamed for the gradual heating of the Earth that scientists predict will worsen weather-related disasters. The accord, however, included collective commitments by rich countries to provide billions of dollars to help poor countries adapt to climate change, a major demand the poor nations had made. The more than 190 nations will reconvene in Cancun, Mexico, later this year for another attempt to reach a binding agreement to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which sets emissions targets for industrial countries and expires in 2012...." Note: Arrest that man now, or forever hold your peace. 

Analysis:  "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism" [03/09/10] "For those concerned with the fate of the earth, the time has come to face facts: not simply the dire reality of climate change but also the pressing need for social-system change. The failure to arrive at a world climate agreement in Copenhagen in December 2009 was not simply an abdication of world leadership, as is often suggested, but had deeper roots in the inability of the capitalist system to address the accelerating threat to life on the planet. Knowledge of the nature and limits of capitalism, and the means of transcending it, has therefore become a matter of survival. In the words of Fidel Castro in December 2009: “Until very recently, the discussion [on the future of world society] revolved around the kind of society we would have. Today, the discussion centers on whether human society will survive.” ..."   Note: Well constructed analysis, and Interesting, if you have the time and inclination.

The pseudo-science of "environmentalism" [03/09/10] VIDEO [10:01]  

Activist ‘Green’ Lawyers Billing U.S. Millions in Fraudulent Attorney Fees [03/05/10] "Radical environmental groups have ripped off taxpayers to the tune of at least $37 million, and possibly hundreds of millions. ..."  

2001-2010 was the Snowiest Decade on Record [03/04/10] "Now that we have reached the end of the meteorological winter (December-February,) Rutgers University Global Snow Lab numbers (1967-2010) show that the just completed decade (2001-2010) had the snowiest Northern Hemisphere winters on record. The just completed winter was also the second snowiest on record, exceeded only by 1978. Average winter snow extent during the past decade was greater than 45,500,000 km2, beating out the 1960s by about 70,000 km2, and beating out the 1990s by nearly 1,000,000 km2. ..."  

Senators release Climategate report [03/03/10] "According to the report, some of the scientists involved in the CRU Climategate controversy violated ethical principles and, possibly, federal laws. Information released by the committee states that the minority staff believes the CRU documents and emails “seriously compromise the IPCC-based ‘consensus’ and its central conclusion that anthropogenic emissions are inexorably leading to environmental catastrophes.” ..."   

Commentary:  Al Gore's Personality Disorder [03/03/10] "Is the former vice president not-so-secretly a narcissistic, shameless phony?.."  Note: Interesting that this is in Forbes magazine.  A Blizzard Of Lies From Al Gore  "So global warming simultaneously causes mountain snow to vanish and Himalayan glaciers to recede while blanketing the northeastern United States with snowfalls measured in feet. Clearly, this is an untenable position. One phenomenon cannot simultaneously produce two different results. ..."   

The Pentagon is the planet's worst polluter [and it is EXEMPT from remediation] [03/02/10] "In evaluating the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen -- with more than 15,000 participants from 192 countries, including more than 100 heads of state, as well as 100,000 demonstrators in the streets -- it is important to ask: How is it possible that the worst polluter of carbon dioxide and other toxic emissions on the planet is not a focus of any conference discussion or proposed restrictions? By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products and energy in general. Yet the Pentagon has a blanket exemption in all international climate agreements. The Pentagon wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; its secret operations in Pakistan; its equipment on more than 1,000 U.S. bases around the world; its 6,000 facilities in the U.S.; all NATO operations; its aircraft carriers, jet aircraft, weapons testing, training and sales will not be counted against U.S. greenhouse gas limits or included in any count. The Feb. 17, 2007, Energy Bulletin detailed the oil consumption just for the Pentagon's aircraft, ships, ground vehicles and facilities that made it the single-largest oil consumer in the world. At the time, the U.S. Navy had 285 combat and support ships and around 4,000 operational aircraft. The U.S. Army had 28,000 armored vehicles, 140,000 High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles, more than 4,000 combat helicopters, several hundred fixed-wing aircraft and 187,493 fleet vehicles. Except for 80 nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers, which spread radioactive pollution, all their other vehicles run on oil. Even according to rankings in the 2006 CIA World Factbook, only 35 countries (out of 210 in the world) consume more oil per day than the Pentagon. The U.S. military officially uses 320,000 barrels of oil a day. However, this total does not include fuel consumed by contractors or fuel consumed in leased and privatized facilities. Nor does it include the enormous energy and resources used to produce and maintain their death-dealing equipment or the bombs, grenades or missiles they fire. Steve Kretzmann, director of Oil Change International, reports: "The Iraq war was responsible for at least 141 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMTCO2e) from March 2003 through December 2007. ... The war emits more than 60 percent of all countries. ... This information is not readily available ... because military emissions abroad are exempt from national reporting requirements under U.S. law and the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change." (naomiklein.org, Dec. 10) Most scientists blame carbon dioxide emissions for greenhouse gases and climate change. Bryan Farrell in his new book, The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism, says that "the greatest single assault on the environment, on all of us around the globe, comes from one agency ... the Armed Forces of the United States."  Just how did the Pentagon come to be exempt from climate agreements? At the time of the Kyoto Accords negotiations, the U.S. demanded as a provision of signing that all of its military operations worldwide and all operations it participates in with the U.N. and/or NATO be completely exempted from measurement or reductions. After securing this gigantic concession, the Bush administration then refused to sign the accords. In a May 18, 1998, article entitled "National security and military policy issues involved in the Kyoto treaty," Dr. Jeffrey Salmon described the Pentagon's position. He quotes then-Secretary of Defense William Cohen's 1997 annual report to Congress: "DoD strongly recommends that the United States insist on a national security provision in the climate change Protocol now being negotiated." (marshall.org) According to Salmon, this national security provision was put forth in a draft calling for "complete military exemption from greenhouse gas emissions limits. The draft includes multilateral operations such as NATO- and U.N.-sanctioned activities, but it also includes actions related very broadly to national security, which would appear to comprehend all forms of unilateral military actions and training for such actions." Salmon also quoted Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat, who headed the U.S. delegation in Kyoto. Eizenstat reported that "every requirement the Defense Department and uniformed military who were at Kyoto by my side said they wanted, they got. This is self-defense, peacekeeping, humanitarian relief." Although the U.S. had already received these assurances in the negotiations, the U.S. Congress passed an explicit provision guaranteeing U.S. military exemption. Inter Press Service reported on May 21, 1998: "U.S. law makers, in the latest blow to international efforts to halt global warming, today exempted U.S. military operations from the Kyoto agreement which lays out binding commitments to reduce 'greenhouse gas' emissions. The House of Representatives passed an amendment to next year's military authorization bill that 'prohibits the restriction of armed forces under the Kyoto Protocol.'" Today in Copenhagen the same agreements and guidelines on greenhouse gases still hold. Yet it is extremely difficult to find even a mention of this glaring omission. According to environmental journalist Johanna Peace, military activities will continue to be exempt from an executive order signed by President Barack Obama that calls for federal agencies to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 2020. Peace states, "The military accounts for a full 80 percent of the federal government's energy demand."  ..."  Note: Even IF man-made climate change was an accurate CONCEPT (there is NO proof of significant human cause, but the climate IS changing), asking PEOPLE to restrain their activities, while letting the Military Industrial Complex and World Shipping ( only 16 transport ships produce more pollution than all the vehicles in the US) stay exempt, and instituting 'airy-fairy' CONCEPTS like 'carbon credits', geared toward the CONTROL of people and the ENRICHMENT of the few, is INSANE, and without rational foundation.  

UK: Climate Lobby To Be Probed [03/02/10] "Climate scientists who made false claims about global warming will be scrutinised by an independent committee, it has emerged. ..."  

Study: How to convince the public that Anthropogenic Climate Change is real, even if it isn't [03/02/10] PDF "This study, done in 2004 at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, home of the IPCC, models the beliefs of individuals with respect to AGW when framed as "global warming" vs. when framed as "climate change". What's damning about it is that they are simulating belief in AGW vs. several different input scenarios, only 1/3 of which are warming scenarios. In other words, this study was done to see how to convince the public that AGW is real, even if it isn't. ..."  

James Inhofe, Senate’s top skeptic, explains his climate-hoax theory [03/02/10] "According to Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), all this climate change talk is just a money-making plot by scientists and the United Nations. ..."   

A perfect storm is brewing for the IPCC [03/02/10] "It was in this newspaper that we first revealed how Pachauri has earned millions of pounds for his Delhi-based research institute Teri, and further details are still emerging of how he has parlayed his position into a worldwide business empire, including 17 lucrative contracts from the EU alone. But we should not expect the truth to break in too suddenly on this mass of vested interests. Too many people have too much at stake to allow the faith in man-made global warming, which has sustained them so long and which is today making so many of them rich, to be abandoned. ..."   

When It Comes to His Own Energy Usage/Carbon Footprint, Al "Bigfoot" Gore Uses 19x U.S. Average [03/02/10] "... In 2007, Al Gore's mansion in Nashville burned through an average of 17,720 kWh of electricity per month (see Al Gore's energy bills from 2005 to mid-2008 here, via the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, which first reported on Al Gore's energy usage in 2007), which is almost 19 times as much as the monthly electricity consumed by the average U.S. household (936 kWh), and almost 3 times as much electricity as the average U.S. commercial customer (6,408 kWh), see chart above (Dept. of Energy data here). So it's just a little hard to take Al Gore's preaching about climate change too seriously when his own household's contribution to the "climate crisis" is almost 20 times greater of the average American household, and almost three times greater than even the average commercial user of electricity. So it's classic Al Gore. He talks about a "criminal generation that selfishly and blithely" dumps "global-warming pollution into the atmosphere as if it were an open sewer." However, if personal energy usage was "criminal," Al Gore might be at the top of "America's Most Wanted List," see chart above. Terms that come to mind to describe Al Gore's carbon footprint include "Bigfoot," "Paul Bunyan," "Brobdingnagian," "Sasquatch," or "the elephant in the room." To paraphrase blues pianist Mose Allison, "If polluting was criminal, he'd live a life of crime." Maybe the article could have been titled, "We Can't Wish Away Climate Change, But We Can Reduce Our Personal Carbon Footprint, But Only If We Really Want To: I'm Not Willing to Change My Lifestyle, But the Rest of You Should."  ..."   

The Al Gore Cult: One hundred psycho-pathological requirements to join [03/01/10] "Is global warming a cult? Is Al Gore a leader in this cult? Is belief in Anthropogenic Global Warming a cult? Apply this 100 point Cult Test and you tell us. Read each one, adding one point for each statement that rings as true. Total up the score and tell us, on a scale of 0 to 100, what you come up with. Well, it really should be a score between 1 to 100, as there can be no person alive, even if a member of the cult, that could not agree with point #1. Cult leader Al Gore, is so “always right” that his devotees don’t even question the fact that he will debate no one. Ever. Anywhere. They laugh at this absurd notion, for He is The One. Others are unworthy to even stand in his presence. ..."  Note: Cute. Related: The Al Gore Comedy Hour "The former VP's op-ed on climate change in today's New York Times is proof that he's clearly bonkers. ..."   

Documentary: The Gulf Stream and The Next Ice Age [03/01/10] VIDEO [51:29]  "The Gulf Stream and The Next Ice Age is about the consequences of global warming on "The Great Atlantic Conveyor", which has to do with regulating climate and the fear that the melting of ice will stop it, perhaps triggering an ice age. "In the battle against climate change there is no enemy to fight, just our attitudes." - Nicolas Koutsikas, Director. ..." 

Naomi Klein: Climate Debt [03/01/10] "Naomi Klein gives a lecture on the issue of climate debt, organized by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The lecture series will focus on issues that were important to David Lewis: social democracy, organized labour, and income inequality. ..."     

Senators to propose abandoning cap-and-trade [02/28/10] "Three key senators are engaged in a radical behind-the-scenes overhaul of climate legislation, preparing to jettison the broad "cap-and-trade" approach that has defined the legislative debate for close to a decade. The sharp change of direction demonstrates the extent to which the cap-and-trade strategy -- allowing facilities to buy and sell pollution credits in order to meet a national limit on greenhouse gas emissions -- has become political poison. In a private meeting with several environmental leaders on Wednesday, according to participants, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), declared, "Cap-and-trade is dead." Graham and Sens. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) have worked for months to develop an alternative to cap-and-trade, which the House approved eight months ago. They plan to introduce legislation next month that would apply different carbon controls to individual sectors of the economy instead of setting a national target.  ..."  

Leaked UN Documents Reveal Plan For “Green World Order” By 2012 [02/27/10] "Leaked policy documents reveal that the United Nations plans to create a “green world order” by 2012 which will be enforced by a structure of global governance and funded by a gargantuan $45 trillion transfer of wealth from richer countries, as the globalists’ insidious plan to centralize power, crush sovereignty while devastating the economy is exposed once again. As we warned at the time, the failure of Copenhagen in December did not spell the end of the global warming heist, but merely a roadblock in the UN’s agenda to create a world government funded by taxes paid by you on the very substance you exhale – carbon dioxide. Using the justification of the vehemently debunked hoax that carbon dioxide is a deadly threat to the planet, the UN is already working to resurrect the failed Copenhagen agreement, with a series of new Copenhagen process negotiations set to take place in April, May and June. Leaked planning documents (PDF) obtained by Fox News lift the lid on the UN’s plan to impose global governance by the time of their 2012 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Rio, which will mark the 20th anniversary since the notorious “Earth Summit” held in the same city. “The new Rio summit will end, according to U.N. documents obtained by Fox News, with a “focused political document” presumably laying out the framework and international commitments to a new Green World Order,” reports Fox News’ George Russell. “Just exactly what that environmental order will look like, and the extent of the immense financial commitments needed to produce it, are under discussion this week at a special session in Bali, Indonesia, of the United Nations Environment Program’s 58-nation “Governing  Council/ Global Ministerial Environmental Forum,” which oversees UNEP’s operations.” The document outlines the globalist’s mission to enact a “radical transformation of the world economic and social order” by putting “a new treaty in place as the capstone of the Green World Order”. This system will be managed by “an additional governing structure composed of exactly those insiders,” writes Russell. ... The UN’s mission to create a legally binding treaty on the reduction of CO2 emissions is running parallel with measures already being enforced at state level in the U.S. which bypass stuttering federal efforts to impose the cap and trade fraud. The very foundation of the global warming argument has been completely eviscerated by the Climategate scandal, which proved that United Nations IPCC scientists forged and exaggerated data to “hide the decline” in global temperatures while engaging in witch hunts to cull dissenting opinions from appearing in IPPC reports. Despite this, control freaks intent on taxing the life-giving gas carbon dioxide have signaled that they no longer care about the truth behind man-made climate change and have resolved to slam through their totalitarian agenda anyway. EPA head Lisa Jackson told reporters this week that “The science regarding climate change is settled, and human activity is responsible for global warming,” even though she failed to refute the fact that there had been no global warming since 1995, as was admitted by CRU scientist Professor Phil Jones."   

NYT Flashback 1989: Data of Last 100 Years Show No Change in Temperatures or Rainfall [02/27/10] "Flashback to a New York Times article on January 26, 1989: After examining climate data extending back nearly 100 years, a team of Government scientists has concluded that there has been no significant change in average temperatures or rainfall in the United States over that entire period. While the nation's weather in individual years or even for periods of years has been hotter or cooler and drier or wetter than in other periods, the new study shows that over the last century there has been no trend in one direction or another. The study, made by scientists for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was published in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters. It is based on temperature and precipitation readings taken at weather stations around the country from 1895 to 1987.  No word from Al Gore on this one. ..."   [U.S. Data Since 1895 Fail To Show Warming Trend]

IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri to face independent inquiry [02/27/10] "Rajendra Pachauri, the controversial Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to face an international inquiry into the performance of his organisation. Environment and Climate ministers meeting in closed session in Bali last night insisted that an independent review should be carried out following the publicising of mistakes in its last report, and a row surrounding Dr Pachauri’s robust response to his critics. If his management is found to be at fault his position could become untenable. ..." 

Croat scientist warns ice age is overdue, could start in five years [02/27/10] "A leading scientist has revealed that Europe could be just five years away from the start of a new Ice Age. While climate change campaigners say global warming is the planet's biggest danger, renowned physicist Vladimir Paar says most of central Europe will soon be covered in ice. The freeze will be so complete that people will be able to walk from England to Ireland or across the North Sea from Scotland to northern Europe. Professor Paar, from Croatia's Zagreb University, has spent decades analysing previous ice ages in Europe and what caused them. "Most of Europe will be under ice, including Germany, Poland, France, Austria, Slovakia and a part of Slovenia," said the professor in an interview with the Index.hr. "Previous ice ages lasted about 70,000 years. That's a fact and the new ice age can't be avoided. "The big question is what will happen to the people of the Central European countries which will be under ice? "They might migrate to the south, or might stay, but with a huge increase in energy use," he warned. "This could happen in five, 10, 50 or 100 years, or even later. We can't predict it precisely, but it will come," he added. And the professor said that scientists think global warming is simply a natural part of the planet. "What I mean is that global warming is natural. Some 130,000 years ago the earth's temperature was the same as now, the level of CO2 was almost the same and the level of the sea was four metres higher. "They keep warning people about global warming, but half of America no longer believes it as they keep freezing," he said. And he added: "The reality is that mankind needs to start preparing for the ice age. We are at the end of the global warming period. The ice age is to follow. The global warming period should have ended a few thousands of years ago, we should have already been in the ice age. Therefore we do not know precisely when it could start - but soon." The Zagreb based scientist says it will still be possible for man to survive in the ice age, but the spending on energy will be enormous. "Food production also might be a problem. It would need to be produced in greenhouses with a lot of energy spent to heat it", commented the professor, who remains optimistic despite his predictions.  ..."  Note: "Carbon credits" do nothing except make a few people wealthy over other peoples excuses to do nothing.

Al Gore Called ‘A Laughingstock’ At Apple’s Green Shareholder Meeting [02/27/10] "Apple shareholders gathered at the company’s Cupertino headquarters on Thursday. In addition to addressing financial issues, the discussion at this year’s annual shareholder meeting focused largely on Apple’s environmental record and policies. As the meeting got underway, the tone took an unexpected turn as harsh comments were directed at board member Al Gore who was seated in the first row. CNET reports that Apple shareholder Shelton Ehrlich took to the microphone and began railing against the re-election of Gore to the board. Ehrlich said Gore “has become a laughingstock. The glaciers have not melted. If his advice he gives to Apple is as faulty as his views on the environment then he doesn’t need to be re-elected.” Several additional commenters came to the aid of the divisive former Vice President and endorsed his position on Apple’s Board of Directors. Al Gore did not respond directly to any of the comments and, in the end, was re-elected with the rest of the board members according to preliminary results. ..."  Note: Arrogant putz. 

Al Gore Is Lying Low -- for Good Reason [02/25/10] "Maybe Al Gore's been advised by legal counsel to lie low. He may be the leader of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) movement, but he's not defending it in public, not even when it's falling apart and his new fortune is based upon it. Mr. Gore and his financial backers earned millions of dollars in start-up "green" companies and carbon trading schemes. If the scam worked, he could've become the first "carbon billionaire." "What goes up can fall down" applies to ill-gotten gains in the stock market or "carbon trading" schemes. In such schemes, it's foreseeable that trusting investors will (a) not only get hurt when the scam collapses, but they'll also (b) pursue legal remedies and sue him for fraud. Mr. Gore's financial gains were based on the contradictory and error-plagued assertion that man's release of the trace gas CO2 will fry the planet. Once it becomes clear to everyone that the AGW theory is based on cleverly manipulated data twisted by rigged computer models controlled by several dozen IPCC politicians/scientists, we can expect that investors who lose millions by investing in these companies will eventually haul Mr. Gore and the insider IPCC scientists into court. ... Over the years, American tax dollars were poured down the fantasyland AGW "rat hole." Sooner or later, Al Gore needs to answer some hard questions. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait for lawsuits from private investors. Today, legal counsel will advise him to remain silent. It's impossible to predict how many lawsuits, or what kind, might arise once everyone realizes that the AGW scam dwarfs Bernie Madoff's $50-billion Ponzi operation. New studies appear almost daily that further undercut AGW theory. The biggest daily newspaper in the Netherlands vindicated that country's leading AGW critic in the article "Henk Tennekes -- He was right after all." Dr. Tennekes was fired in the 1990s from a prominent research position and blacklisted for debunking AGW theory. He upset the same IPCC scientists who control the leading "peer review" climate research journals and who blocked the publication of all contrary research in those journals for decades.... "  

Climategate Meets the Law: Senator Inhofe to Ask for DOJ Investigation [02/24/10] "Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) today asked the Obama administration to investigate what he called “the greatest scientific scandal of our generation” — the actions of climate scientists revealed by the Climategate files, and the subsequent admissions by the editors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). Senator Inhofe also called for former Vice President Al Gore to be called back to the Senate to testify. “In [Gore's] science fiction movie, every assertion has been rebutted,” Inhofe said. He believes Vice President Gore should defend himself and his movie before Congress. Just prior to a hearing at 10:00 a.m. EST, Senator Inhofe released a minority staff report from the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, of which he is ranking member. Senator Inhofe is asking the Department of Justice to investigate whether there has been research misconduct or criminal actions by the scientists involved, including Dr. Michael Mann of Pennsylvania State University and Dr. James Hansen of Columbia University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. ..."  Related: Senator Barbara Boxer and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Throw IPCC Under the Bus

Climate sceptics are recycled critics of controls on tobacco and acid rain [02/24/10] "Today's campaigners against action on climate change are in many cases backed by the same lobbies, individuals, and organisations that sided with the tobacco industry to discredit the science linking smoking and lung cancer. Later, they fought the scientific evidence that sulphur oxides from coal-fired power plants were causing "acid rain." Then, when it was discovered that certain chemicals called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) were causing the depletion of ozone in the atmosphere, the same groups launched a nasty campaign to discredit that science, too. ..."  Note: Social parasites, securing funding to remain a pain-in-the-ass. 

China battles increased desertification [02/23/10] VIDEO [2:59]  "One of the many climate issues being blamed on global warming is the expansion of deserts. The United Nations says drought could impact 70 per cent of the world's land over the next 15 years. In China, overgrazing, irrigation farming, and land degradation, combinded with drought, are turning more and more fertile land barren. But, as Al Jazeera's Melissa Chan reports from the Kubuqi Desert, China is launching a new project it hopes will stop the sand spreading. ..."   

75 reasons to be skeptical of "global warming" [02/22/10] Note: Lots of reasons.

Today's Environmental Movement Has Same Mind Set As 'Population Bomb’ author Paul Ehrlich [02/20/10] "'Worse than Hitler':  ...A 1972 article about “The Population Bomb” biologist Paul Ehrlich reveals a nascent environmental movement grappling with mass sterilization, climate fears, “international policy planning” and redistribution of wealth. The article reveals dramatic parallels to today's modern environmental movement....'  Ehrlich suggested adding a forced sterilization agent to 'staple food' and 'water supply' ..."  Note: We can guess who is funding all of that.

Acid Seas, Back to Basic [02/19/10] PDF "In August last year, the National Resources Defense Council released a film “documentary” claiming that CO2 is turning the oceans to acid: It was funded by the Entertainment industry foundation1, and has the title, “Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification”. This is SPPI’s second published analysis. ..."   

Petition to the EPA: Your Agency Has No Legal Option But to Re-examine Its Endangerment Finding [02/19/10] PDF  "UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2009-0171 Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act 74 Fed. Reg. 66496 (Dec. 15, 2009) PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION ..."  Note: Science and Public Policy Institute

Yvo de Boer quits UN climate change body [02/19/10] "The UN's top climate change official, Yvo de Boer, has resigned in the latest blow to the debate over global warming. ..."  Note: Skeletons in his closet, too? 

Miami-Dade police `green' fund frozen [02/19/10] "Miami-Dade's police director called for a halt on spending from an environmental crime fund, amid inquiries into questionable spending and concerns over a department memo clearing money to be used for non- environmental purposes. ..."  

Texas Sues EPA over ClimateGate E-mails [02/19/10] "Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is suing the Environmental Protection Agency in a bid to stop it from regulating global warming pollution. The centerpiece of his argument? Those leaked "Climate-Gate" emails. ..."   

Climategate 2.0 — The NASA Files: U.S. Climate Science as Corrupt as CRU [02/19/10] " ...NASA appeared to have inflated its U.S. temperatures beginning in the year 2000. My FOIA request asked NASA about their internal discussions regarding whether and how to correct the temperature error caught by McIntyre. ..."  

IPCC has warming "bias" [02/19/10] "The UN body that advises world leaders on climate change must investigate an apparent bias in its report that resulted in several exaggerations of the impact of global warming, according to its former chairman. In an interview with The Times Robert Watson said that all the errors exposed so far in the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) resulted in overstatements of the severity of the problem. ..."  

Defections Shake Up Climate Coalition  [02/19/10] "Three big companies quit an influential lobbying group that had focused on shaping climate-change legislation, in the latest sign that support for an ambitious bill is melting away. ... Oil giants BP PLC and ConocoPhillips and heavy-equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. said Tuesday they won't renew their membership in the three-year-old U.S. Climate Action Partnership, a broad business-environmental coalition that had been instrumental in building support in Washington for capping emissions of greenhouse gases. The move comes as debate over climate change intensifies and concerns mount about the cost of capping greenhouse-gas emissions."  Note: Since oil is a hydrocarbon, and they're worried about carbon, they should be taxed into oblivion, forcing development of alternative energy technologies. Instead, they stood to 'make money' and continue their reign of pollution, with special thanks to the Pentagon, the largest polluter on the planet, who is exempt from all restrictions.

Science & Public Policy Institute: IPCC = International Pack of Climate Crooks [02/19/10] "Unquestionably the world’s final authority on the subject, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s findings and recommendations have formed the bedrock of literally every climate-related initiative worldwide for more than a decade. Likewise, virtually all such future endeavors — be they Kyoto II, domestic cap-and-tax, or EPA carbon regulation, would inexorably be built upon the credibility of the same U.N. panel’s “expert” counsel. But a glut of ongoing recent discoveries of systemic fraud has rocked that foundation, and the entire man-made global warming house of cards is now teetering on the verge of complete collapse. ..."  [full report available as a PDF download.]

UK Climate change department sends staff on more than 1,000 domestic flights after telling public to 'cut down on air travel' [02/19/10] "The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is in charge of a multimillion advertising campaign telling the country to cut down on carbon intensive activities, such as taking domestic flights. But last year officials from DECC took just under 1,200 domestic flights, including 26 return flights to Manchester that can be reached in two-and-a-half hours by train.  ... Staff from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), that also urges the public to fly less, took 1,938 domestic flights in 2008/09. The Government spent £35,000 on offsetting the flights, for example by paying for trees to be planted, and insisted all internal flights are kept to a minimum. "  Note: Does a 'minimum' mean that they fly from A to B, and no further, each time? Doublespeak. It's this kind of logic that sparks social revolution.

New Scientist becomes Non Scientist [02/19/10] "You might think journalists at a popular science magazine would be able to investigate and reason. In DenierGate, watch New Scientist closely as it does the unthinkable and tries to defend gross scientific malpractice by saying it’s okay because other people have done other things (that were not related) a little bit. ..."  Note: PDF

Unintended Consequences: Battling ‘Climate Change’ Creates Famine [02/18/10] "A few weeks ago, Lord Christopher Monckton told me a distressing story about a visit to Haiti. He said that poverty in that troubled nation is so pervasive that many of its inhabitants have been reduced to eating mud pies. The term “mud pies” is not slang for a local staple made from locally-grown cereal crops. We’re talking about people reduced to eating actual dirt. Monckton watched Haitians form mud into the shape of pies, mixing in a sprinkling of whatever nutritional foodstuffs might be available (like oil and salt) and then “cooking” the mud pies in the sun. ...Al Gore prattles on and on about the theoretical deaths that will, someday, supposedly be caused by a climate crisis that exists only in a future predicted by flawed computer models, which are in turn “proven” only by the dubious temperature records created by self-aggrandizing scientists who have demonstrated their willingness to lie, fudge and bully in order to make their case. The reality – today – is that the actions that the world has taken in order to respond to this non-existent crisis has reduced the impoverished citizens of Haiti to eating mud-pies. But, in an odd way, the Haitians are the lucky ones. An earthquake brought worldwide attention to the plight of Haiti and badly-needed foodstuffs are flowing in. For the rest of the poor in the Third World, which has been so badly hurt by Gore’s self-serving agenda, the future looks increasingly bleak."   

IPCC gate Du Jour – Antarctic Sea Ice Increase Underestimated by 50% [02/18/10] "... Just last week, the IPCC’s (and thus EPA’s) primary assertion that “Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic GHG [greenhouse gas] concentrations” was shown to be wrong. This argument isn’t included in the Petition. This adds yet another problem to the growing list of errors in the IPCC WGI report, this one concerns Antarctic sea ice trends. ..."  

Scandinavia-gate: Data doesn’t match the graphs produced by IPCC [02/17/10] "Yet again, we have a situation where the data doesn’t match the full-gloss coloured graphs produced by the PR agency for global warming called the IPCC. Frank Lansner and Nicolai Skjoldby have started a new blog Hide The Decline, and posted that Scandinavian data shows clearly that temperatures got markedly cooler from 1950-1970, before they began rising ..."   

Three Major Firms Pull Out of Climate Change Alliance [02/17/10] "The sudden pullout of three corporate giants from a leading alliance of businesses and environmental groups could be the death knell for climate change legislation languishing on Capitol Hill. ..." 

UK Climate Propaganda:  "Pollution creating acid oceans" [02/16/10] "The world's oceans are becoming acidic at a faster rate than at any time in the last 65 million years, threatening marine life and food supplies across the globe, according to a new study. ..."  Note: Another 'study' by another British faction, which ignores the fact that 80% of the worlds erupting volcanoes are under the ocean, and these can make the water as acidic as a car battery .... much more CO2 than is produced by human sources. There are other facts ignored, as well.  Since they don't know all the facts, or are ignoring them, they can't possibly come up with data indicating a problem because of humans.

  UK: Climate Change Industry Now In Deep Trouble [02/16/10] "If you are going to start and mastermind a science-based global campaign urging governments to require their exhausted taxpayers to fork out not billions but trillions to prevent a catastrophe that may be 50 to 90 years away, you had better be sure your science is impeccable. First we are told via leaked e-mails that the leading “scientists” have been cherry- picking only the convenient data that suit their case. That is not science: that is propaganda. Then we learn the fanatics have tried to airbrush from history chronicled facts such as the Medieval Warm Period (still unexplained). Next the scare story about the melting Himalayan glaciers is revealed as having been made up, and now we learn that the linkage between droughts and floods with global warming is also bunkum. ..." 

SPPI Paper on Climate Change, 29 Jan 2010  PDF [02/15/10] "The United Nations climate panel faces a new challenge with scientists casting doubt on its claim that global temperatures are rising inexorably because of human pollution. In its last assessment the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said the evidence that the world was warming was “unequivocal”. ..."  Note: Not any more. 

Carbon Currency: A New Beginning for Technocracy  [02/15/10] "The new currency, simply called Carbon Currency, is designed to support a revolutionary new economic system based on energy (production, and consumption), instead of price. Our current price-based economic system and its related currencies that have supported capitalism, socialism, fascism and communism, is being herded to the slaughterhouse in order to make way for a new carbon-based world. Unfortunately for individual people living in this new system, it will also require authoritarian and centralized control over all aspects of life, from cradle to grave. ..."  Note: It's also a complete SCAM, which attempts to hide Totalitarianism.

UK: Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995 [02/15/10] "The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information. Colleagues say that the reason Professor Phil Jones has refused Freedom of Information requests is that he may have actually lost the relevant papers.  ...Professor Jones also conceded the possibility that the world was warmer in medieval times than now – suggesting global warming may not be a man-made phenomenon. And he said that for the past 15 years there has been no ‘statistically significant’ warming. The admissions will be seized on by sceptics as fresh evidence that there are serious flaws at the heart of the science of climate change and the orthodoxy that recent rises in temperature are largely man-made. Professor Jones has been in the spotlight since he stepped down as director of the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit after the leaking of emails that sceptics claim show scientists were manipulating data ...."   

Climategate: the official cover-up continues [02/14/10] "If there’s one thing that stinks even more than Climategate, it’s the attempts we’re seeing everywhere from the IPCC and Penn State University to the BBC to pretend that nothing seriously bad has happened, that “the science” is still “settled”, and that it’s perfectly OK for the authorities go on throwing loads more of our money at a problem that doesn’t exist. ..." 

Commentary:  NOAA’s new website climate.gov – a first day sin of omission [02/13/10] "The sea ice data, cited from NSIDC, stops in 2007. 2008 and 2009 sea ice data and imagery, available to even the simplest of curiosity seekers at the publicly available NSIDC or even Cryosphere Today websites, is not included in the graphic. Mr. Scott chooses the historical satellite record minimum of 2007 as the endpoint for comparison. This leaves a reader who is “not in the know”, with the false impression that sea ice has not recovered in any way. Sometimes I wonder if these government types have any idea of just how blazingly stupid they look when they lecture skeptics, but purposely dig their own obvious data omission hole in the same article. ..."  Related: Climategate: the official cover-up continues [02/13/10] "If there’s one thing that stinks even more than Climategate, it’s the attempts we’re seeing everywhere from the IPCC and Penn State University to the BBC to pretend that nothing seriously bad has happened, that “the science” is still “settled”, and that it’s perfectly OK for the authorities go on throwing loads more of our money at a problem that doesn’t exist. The latest example of this noisome phenomenon is Sir Muir Russell’s official whitewash – sorry “independent inquiry” into the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) scandal. ..."   

Bill Nye the Science Guy: Climate change deniers are ‘unpatriotic’ [02/11/10] "Appearing on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show on Wednesday night, Nye scoffed that climate change deniers are "unpatriotic" in parroting simple minded, anti-science propaganda. [We] remind you that global warming was the first term for this phenomenon that we now call can climate change," he said. "So it‘s very reasonable that a snowstorm in Washington that‘s this severe is a result of climate change." ..."  Note: What a simplistic idiot. Climate always changes. Climate change does NOT 'equal' global warming. Not agreeing with the direction the change is going is NOT equivalent to 'denying that climate changes'. These people are propagandistic idiots.

Momentum Shifts to Skeptics on Global Warming Debate [02/12/10] "Momentum has shifted in the debate over global warming as skeptics gain the upper hand. ..."  

ClimateGate: 30 years in the making [02/11/10] "Mohib Ebrahim, who has created timelines for professional exhibitions, has now produced one of the ClimateGate scandal, providing graphs, e-mails, history, and analysis of events. This is the second edition, thoroughly edited and revised.  ..."   

Croatian scientist warns ice age could start in five years [02/11/10] "A top scientist in Croatia has warned Europe to prepare for an ice age instead of talking about global warming. Physician Vladimir Paar suggests one would not need to cross the sea when traveling from Ireland or UK to Croatia via the rest of Europe. "A majority of Europe will be under ice, including Germany, Poland, France, Austria, Slovakia and part of Slovenia", Paar said in an interview on Croatian news website Index. "Ice ages in the past lasted about 70,000 years. That's a fact, and a new ice age will occur. It is a question what will happen to people in Central European countries. They might migrate south or might stay put, but with a huge increase in energy spending", the scientist said. "What I am warning is that global warming is natural. Some 130,000 years ago, the temperature was the same as now, the level of CO2 was almost the same, and the level of the sea was four metres higher". Asked when the ice age would begin, he said: "That could happen in five, ten, fifty or a hundred years, or even later. We can't predict it precisely, but it will come". Paar cited America as an example: "They keep talking to people about global warming, but 50 per cent of Americans do not believe it any more as they keep freezing".  ..."  

New federal climate change agency forming [02/09/10] "..... Also known as global warming, climate change .... has drawn widespread concern in recent years as temperatures around the world rise, threatening to harm crops, spread disease, increase sea levels, change storm and drought patterns and cause polar melting.  Note:  Climate change is also 'known' as global warming?  No ... it's propaganda ... "muddying the waters" ... "climate change" is known ONLY as "climate change". "Change" means "change" .... not the degree of change or which direction it is. 

Understanding past and future climate [02/07/10] "The notion that scientists understand how changes in Earth's orbit affect climate well enough for estimating long-term natural climate trends that underlie any anthropogenic climate change is challenged by findings published ..."     

Snow brings D.C. to its knees MSNBC MSNBC [02/07/10] VIDEO [3:18]   "The storm jokingly dubbed “Snowmageddon” by the president paralyzed the nation’s capital, snarling travel, knocking out power and keeping mailmen from their rounds. NBC’s Mike Viqueira reports. (Nightly News) ..."     

Scientists urge research into technology to "reverse climate change" [02/07/10] Note:  What arrogance, stupidity and short-sightedness. They believe they can change the planets climate ... despite the fact that they cannot predict the weather more accurately than 3 days in advance. Stupid people.

Chinese scientists add to climategate [02/07/10] "Several Chinese scientists who have gone over the IPCC report believe that the IPCC may have overstated the link between global temperature and CO2 ..."   

Effort underway to suspend California's global-warming law [02/07/10] "Conservatives propose an initiative that would delay "curbs on greenhouse gas emissions" until the state's unemployment rate drops to 5.5%, a level not seen since 2007. ..."  

UK:  Majority Now Disbelieve Man-Made Global Warming Propaganda [02/07/10] "The BBC have just published details of a poll conducted by Populus that shows a big drop in belief in AGW (human-caused global warming) – here’s the polling data And here’s an excerpt from their report:  ..."    

New errors in IPCC climate change report [02/07/10] "The United Nations panel on climate change is facing fresh criticism today as The Sunday Telegraph reveals new factual errors and poor sources of evidence in its influential report to government leaders. ..."  Related: Climate change research "bungle" [02/07/10] "The research institute run by the head of the UN's climate body, Dr Pachauri,  has handed out a series of "environmental awards" to companies that have given it financial support, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. ... Dr Pachauri effectively shapes world policy on climate change  ..... "  Note:  

Bullshit: "Study" Says " Arctic Ice Melt to Cost Global Economy $2.4 Trillion" [02/07/10] "This article is about a study just released by the Pew Environment Group. According to the study, "The financial cost to the world economy of a warming and melting Arctic, due to human induced greenhouse emissions over the next 40 years, will add up to at least $2.4 trillion." ..."  Note: There is NO way to quantify or monetize this, since humans don't have the ability to analyze planetary climate or weather systems accurately beyond a time framework of three days, nor is there any way to truly logically interrelate these factors.

UK: Climate makes money move in mysterious ways [02/07/10] "The British Government has been pouring millions of pounds into 'climate-related' projects all over the world, says Christopher Booker. ..."   

Alyona Minkovski Show:  China battles increased desertification [02/07/10]   VIDEO [3:00]  Note: Yes, the environment will be great for reptiles ....

UK: Sir David King criticises climate scientists [02/07/10] "Sir David King has hit out at climate scientists for 'overstating' the risks of global warming. ..."  Note: Like global cooling. But, since climate changes and always has, the bottom line is that there is NO effort to PLAN or expend RESOURCES to ADAPT to ANY climate change. All the 'hot-cold' stuff is just pissing into the wind ...  

Lawmaker: Climate change just ruse to control population [02/06/10] "Rep. Mike Noel, the Legislature's chief climate-change skeptic, declared Thursday that global warming is a conspiracy to control world population. The House Natural Resources Committee then approved a resolution that expresses the Utah Legislature's belief that "climate alarmists' carbon dioxide-related global warming hypothesis is unable to account for the current downturn in global temperatures." The resolution, sent to the House on a 10-1 vote, would urge the Environmental Protection Agency to drop plans to regulate the pollution blamed for climate change "until a full and independent investigation of the climate data conspiracy and global warming science can be substantiated."  ..."  

India to 'pull out of IPCC' [02/05/10] "India has threatened to pull out of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and set up its on climate change body because it "cannot rely" on the group headed by its own Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr R K Pachauri. ..."  

Defense department has global warming funds [02/05/10] VIDEO [4:02] Note: Where there's money, there's death and corruption.

IPCC Boss Unhinged As Greenpeace Demands Resignation [02/05/10] "With the pressure on IPCC boss Rajendra Pachauri increasing as the head of Greenpeace calls for his resignation, one of the most notorious green con artists is showing signs of cracking up, comparing his critics to an imaginary group of people who like to rub asbestos on their faces. ..."    

India to have own panel on climate change: Jairam Ramesh [02/05/10] ""There is a fine line between climate science and climate evangelism. I am all for climate science but not for climate evangelism. I think people misused the IPCC report," Ramesh told a news channel here. ..."   

EU: hackers broke into cap-and-trade system [02/05/10] "The European Commission said Thursday that hackers used a spoof European Union Web site to try and steal information that would allow them to profit from the EU's cap-and-trade program. German authorities said hackers stole pollution permits worth euro3 million ($4.15 million) on Jan. 28 when they set up a fake site designed to look like a European Commission page. They sent e-mails to EU government users, asking them to log on at the site. ..."  

California's low carbon fuel rules are unconstitutional, say oil and trucking groups [02/04/10] "The oil and trucking industry sued to block California's new carbon fuel regulations Tuesday, saying the rules will raise costs but do little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Fresno, lobbyists for oil refiners, truckers and other groups charged that the state's "low carbon fuel standard" is unconstitutional. While not as well known as AB 32, the state's landmark climate-change legislation, the fuel standard is an important element of California's attempt to fight global warming. It's a thicket of regulations that says transportation fuels must reduce their "carbon intensity," starting next year. It not only targets the carbon content of a fuel but also examines the amount of carbon emitted to produce the fuel and haul it to its destination. ..."  

Polar Bear Propaganda and Hidden Agendas [02/04/10] "... The polar bear population is growing and has been growing for several decades. In the 1950’s the population was estimated at 5,000 polar bears globally. Today, that population is closer to 25,000.  The polar bears have a really, really big habitat area. Each polar bear’s “home” is roughly 150 miles or so of territory, but the entire polar habitat is massive and covers tens of thousands of square miles: Even if half of the ice in the Arctic were to melt, which we don’t think it will, we think the 25,000 or so polar bears would still be able to find a place to live and food to eat. Hence, it’s fairly clear that the polar bear is just fine and this is nothing more than an attempt to mold the minds of young children to support an ever growing globalist environmental agenda. Today it’s polar bears, tomorrow it’s climate change, and once they’re adults they’ll readily support laws like Cap & Trade and global UN taxes that will further enslave them. Connect the dots and you can see how the game of globalism, control, taxes and enslavement plays out on a variety different levels and infiltrates every aspect of our lives."  

NASA Gets 'Climate Control' Duties [02/03/10] ".... The Earth and climate science division will get the bulk of the money allocated to science, and that money will bolster Earth science missions that are either already in the works or proposed, "NASA will be able to turn its considerable expertise to advancing climate-change research and observations," Weiler said today in a press briefing. ..."   

UN climate change panel based claims on student dissertation and magazine article [02/02/10] "In its most recent report, it stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information. However, it can be revealed that one of the sources quoted was a feature article published in a popular magazine for climbers which was based on anecdotal evidence from mountaineers about the changes they were witnessing on the mountainsides around them. The other was a dissertation written by a geography student, studying for the equivalent of a master's degree, at the University of Berne in Switzerland that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps. ..."  

Lord Monckton debates Rupert Posner from the Climate Group [02/02/10] VIDEO [8:05]  Part 2 [8:06]   Part 3 [8:07]

IPCC Chief Pachauri's Ties to India's Largest Energy Companies [02/01/10] "Whether the globe is caught in a climate crisis or not, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) very much is. Not only are the UN agency’s predictions of Himalayan glacier melt have been proved to be bogus, even the very integrity of its chief R.K. Pachauri has been challenged.  The worst part of the story is that all that is giving a lot of ammunition to global warming skeptics. If the nations were working at cross-purposes at Copenhagen, splitting hairs, oblivious of the creeping danger, the fight itself could be slackened now.  ... Many questions have been raised about the financial dealings of the man who was the toast of India, perhaps of the world, when he received the Nobel Prize for Peace back in 2007 along with former US Vice President Al Gore. Pachauri is listed as a founder and scientific advisor of GloriOil, a Houston, Texas-based oil technology company that specialises in recovering extra oil from declining oil fields. Critics say it is odd for a man committed to decarbonising energy supplies to be linked to an oil company. Closer home, he had been a member of the boards of the Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC), Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), three of India's biggest public sector energy companies, all of whom by the very nature of their business contribute heavily to greenhouse gas emissions. The climate change hero was an independent director on ONGC's board for three years between June 2006 and June 2009, during which he was entitled to first-class air travel when he attended meetings, five-star hotel stays and an allowance of Rs 25,000 for each meeting attended. He lives in style in the posh Golf Links area of New Delhi. Pachauri also seems to have an awful lot of jobs, jibed Charles Clover in Sunday Times. “He already has a full-time job as director general of the Indian Energy and Resources Institute, which seems to benefit from UK government funding. He is also an adviser to Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and the Chicago Climate Exchange — all of which stand to benefit from carbon trading. His predecessors, Bert Bolin, a Swedish scientist, and Bob Watson, now chief scientist at Defra, were part-time, but they put enormous effort into the job. How much time is Pachauri putting in? It doesn’t appear to be a lot.” Thus the reputation of the body whose pronouncements are supposed to guide policy-making across the world is in tatters, at a time when known environmental enthusiasts are in trouble themselves."   

Pentagon to Rank Global Warming as Destabilizing Force (But Not Itself) [02/01/10] Note: More delusional parroting of the latest manipulative sociopathic bullshit. 

UK Climate secretary Miliband declares war on climate change sceptics [02/01/10] "Climate secretary Ed Miliband broke his silence on the ongoing row about man-made climate change by declaring war on the 'siren voices' who denied global warming was real or man-made. ..."  Note: What is a "climate change skeptic"? It's a deliberately misleading 'tag' for someone who doesn't agree with anthropogenic warming and CO2 scams.  

Alex Jones Interviews:  Climate Change Scam Phase 2 [01/31/10] VIDEO [10:57] "Timothy F. Ball, who is a critic of the climate change scam. He heads the Natural Resources Stewardship Project and is on the Scientific Advisory Board of Friends of Science, organizations that reject human-caused global warming.  ..." Part 2 [10:50]   Part 3 [10:53] | Part 4 [4:09] 

Cap And Trade Scam To Be Enforced At State Level  [01/30/10] "Globalists intent on ushering in a zero-growth post-industrial society are bypassing the federal government’s stuttering efforts to implement the cap and trade scam and going directly to the states in an effort to impose their control freak tax on the very life-giving gas that we all exhale – carbon dioxide. Even as the foundation of the argument that human emissions of CO2 cause global warming crumbles and collapses amidst scandal after scandal, energy companies and state authorities are still pushing ahead with sinister plans to mandate that individuals and businesses get government allowances and permits to emit carbon dioxide. ..."    

EPA Suppresses Internal Global Warming Study [01/30/10] "As part of a just-ended public comment period, CEI submitted a set of four EPA emails, dated March 12-17, 2009, which indicate that a significant internal critique of the agency’s global warming position was put under wraps and concealed. The study the emails refer to, which ran counter to the administration’s views on carbon dioxide and climate change, was kept from circulating within the agency, was never disclosed to the public, and was not added to the body of materials relevant to EPA’s current “endangerment” proceeding. The emails further show that the study was treated in this manner not because of any problem with its quality, but for political reasons. ..."   

Obama backs cap-and-trade scam as UK cites ' climate criminals' [01/29/10] "One of the many eye-rolling moments during Tuesday’s SOTU was when Obama momentarily acknowledged that some of us might be skeptical about anthropogenic global warming, but then barreled on in his support of cap-and-trade legislation. There were ripples of disbelief, a mild response under the circumstances. Perhaps POTUS was ignorant of the fact (one always wonders where he gets his information) that the Timesonline is now reporting that the University of East Anglia CRU (center of almost all climate data used by the UN IPCC in its global warming findings) had broken the law in hiding information. ..."    Related: ManBearPig Attacked by Science "Unfortunately, once people become emotionally invested in a position, it can be very difficult to provoke them into changing course. Liberals and progressives hailed the election of Obama as the most wondermous thing since sliced-bread. A year into his presidency, with a battlefield full of broken promises behind him and the insinuation of institutionalized corruption and illegal forced detentions stretching into the foreseeable future, many of those same liberals and progressives have fallen into an exasperated, listless complacency. They became emotionally invested in the “hope” engendered by Obama, and when the reality failed to live up to the myth, they were forced into cognitive dissonance, apathy, or synthesis. ..." 

Anthropogenic Global Warming, history's biggest scam [01/27/10] "Further damning revelations are pouring in from the gaping wound that has inflicted the fast unraveling theory of the green monster that is man made global warming. As reported today by By Marc Morano of Climate Depot, Alabama State Climatologist Dr. John Christy of the University of Alabama in Huntsville, has split ranks with other members of the discredited “hockey team” of climatologists exposed for fraudulently hiding and destroying data in the Climategate scandal that broke on November 19, 2009. Christy served as a UN IPCC lead author in 2001 for the 3rd assessment report and detailed in these new revelations he explains how he personally witnessed UN scientists attempting to distort the science for political purposes. But he fell from favour for proposing that the IPCC allow for well-credentialed climate scientists to craft a chapter on an alternative view presenting evidence for low climate sensitivity to greenhouse gases ..." 

India, China won't sign Copenhagen Accord [01/26/10] "The Indian and Chinese governments have had a rethink on signing the Copenhagen Accord, officials said on Saturday, and the UN has also indefinitely postponed its Jan 31 deadline for countries to accede to the document. ..."  

Climategate--U.N. climate change panel chair refuses to resign [01/26/10] "Rajendra Pachauri, left, who chairs the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is responsible for the release of a grossly erroneous report in 2007 which claimed that the Himalayan glaciers are melting at such a fast pace that unless something drastic is done they will be gone by 2035. In spite of the fact that the U.N. admitted last week that the report was false and based on 'junk science,' Pachauri refuses to resign his post. ..."  Note:  This guy made millions off the carbon scam concept.

Senators Want to Bar E.P.A. Greenhouse Gas Limits [01/25/10] "A Republican senator introduced a resolution to prevent the agency from taking any action to regulate carbon dioxide and other climate-altering gases. ..."   

U.N. Official Says "Climate Deal" Is " at Risk" [01/25/10] "Facing a Jan. 31 deadline, major countries have yet to submit their plans for reducing emissions of "climate-altering gases" ..."   

Godfrey Bloom exposes more global warming tax scammers [01/22/10] VIDEO [1:29]  "Debate: Council and Commission statements - Outcome of the Copenhagen summit on climate change Speaker: Godfrey Bloom MEP, UKIP (Yorkshire & Lincs.), EFD group. ..."  

NOAA, GISS and the mystery of the vanishing weather stations [01/17/10] " ... just like in Britain at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) temperature data records have been grotesquely distorted by activist scientists in order to exaggerate the appearance of late 20th century global warming. They achieved this – with an insouciant disregard for scientific integrity which quite beggars belief – through the simple expedient of ignoring most of those weather station sited in higher, colder places and using mainly ones in warmer spots. Then, they averaged out the temperature readings given by the warmer stations to give a global average. Et voila: exactly the scary “climate change” they needed to persuade bodies like the IPCC that AGW was a clear and present danger requiring urgent pan-governmental action. The man who spotted all this is a computer programmer called EM Smith – aka the Chiefio. You can read the full report at his excellent blog. In the 70s, the Chiefio discovered, GISS and NOAA took their temperature data from 6,000 weather stations around the world. By 1990, though, this figure had mysteriously dropped to 1500. Even more mysteriously this 75 per cent reduction in the number of stations used had a clear bias against those at higher latitudes and elevations....."    

Don’t be fooled. Science is always politicized [01/17/10] "Scholars of science in policy have long ago shown that you can’t take policy out of science. Studies of scientific advising leave in tatters the notion that it is possible, in practice, to restrict the advisory practice to technical issues or that the subjective values of scientists are irrelevant to decision making. This is especially true in public policy issues such as climate change where much of the science is complex and uncertain. ..."  

Commentary:  ClimateGate: Will the Alarmists Have to go Back to Ice Ages? [01/17/10] "Well, friends, the AGW folks are on the ropes, and they are taking a beating. When people can step out of their doors and tell that it’s VERY COLD, they aren’t going to be easily convinced that AGW is happening. When people have free access to international information, they can see that it is VERY COLD all over the northern hemisphere! Of course, there are some AGW folks that are trying very hard to keep the faith, but they are coming off as increasingly desperate. Al Gore has not been seen much lately. Could the Goracle be in a fetal position, counting the billions he might have made if Cap and Trade had passed? Could “AGW” actually be code for “Al Gore’s Wealth?” The talking heads in the MSM continue to tow the line. I would suggest that they stop and save what little is left of their integrity, but I don’t know that any remains. ..."  

Global Warming Is a Religion [01/16/10] "Manmade global warming, for many, is an Earth-worshipping religion. The essential feature of any religion is that its pronouncements are to be accepted on the basis of faith as opposed to hard evidence. Questioning those pronouncements makes one a sinner. No one denies that the Earth's temperature changes. Millions of years ago, much of our planet was covered by ice, at some places up to a mile thick, a period some scientists call "Snowball Earth." Today, the Earth is not covered by a mile of ice; a safe conclusion is that there must have been a bit of global warming. I don't know the cause of that warming, but I'd wager everything I own that it was not caused by coal-fired electric generation plants, incandescent light bulbs and SUVs tooling up and down the highways. The very idea that mankind can make significant parametric changes to the Earth has to be the height of arrogance. How about a few questions because temperature is just one characteristic of the Earth. The Earth's orbit is another. If all 6.5 billion of us, all at once, started jumping up and down for a little while, do you think we'd change the Earth's orbit or rotation? Do you think mankind could change the direction and timing of the ocean's tides? Is there anything that mankind can do to stop or start a tsunami or hurricane? You say, "Williams, it's stupid to suggest that mankind could change the Earth's orbit or rotation, ocean tides or cause or stop a tsunami or hurricane!" You're right and it's also stupid to think that mankind's activities can make globalized changes in the Earth's temperature.  ..."   

Clouds Dominate CO2 as a Climate Driver Since 2000 [01/15/10] "Last year I posted an analysis of satellite observations of the 2007-08 global cooling event, showing evidence that it was due to a natural increase in low cloud cover. Here I will look at the bigger picture of what how the satellite-observed variations in Earth’s radiative budget compare to that expected from increasing carbon dioxide. Is there something that we can say about the relative roles of nature versus humanity based upon the evidence? What we will find is evidence consistent with natural cloud variations being the dominant source of climate variability since 2000. ..."   

Judicial Watch Uncovers NASA Documents Related to Global Warming Controversy [01/15/10] "Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained internal documents from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) related to a controversy that erupted in 2007 when Canadian blogger Stephen McIntyre exposed an error in NASA's handling of raw temperature data from 2000-2006 that exaggerated the reported rise in temperature readings in the United States. According to multiple press reports, when NASA corrected the error, the new data apparently caused a reshuffling of NASA's rankings for the hottest years on record in the United States, with 1934 replacing 1998 at the top of the list. These new documents, obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), include internal GISS email correspondence as NASA scientists attempted to deal with the media firestorm resulting from the controversy. In one exchange GISS head James Hansen tells a reporter from Bloomberg that NASA had not previously published rankings with 1998 atop the list as the hottest year on record in the 20th century. ..."  

The Climate is Changing  [01/14/10] "When I say the climate is changing, I do not mean, as many people do, that man-made global warming is destroying Planet Earth. I mean that the politics of climate change is changing rapidly all over the globe. Al Gore's moment has come and gone. In the United States, Democrats, nervously facing midterm elections, are calling on President Obama to jettison the cap-and-trade bills before the Senate. In Canada, the emissions-trading scheme—another term for cap-and-trade—is stalled in legislative limbo. In Britain, Tories are coming out against David Cameron's green stance. In the European Union, cap-and-trade has been the victim of fraudulent traders and the carbon price has more than halved to $18.50 per ton. In France, the Constitutional Council has blocked President Nicolas Sarkozy's tax on carbon emissions that was set to take effect in the New Year.  In Copenhagen, meanwhile, the United Nations' climate-change summit went up in smoke. And in Mexico City later this year hopes for any verifiable, enforceable and legally binding agreement to reduce greenhouse gases—and to bring in developing nations such as China and India that were, insanely, omitted from the Kyoto protocol in 1997—are a chimera.  ..."  

UK: Snow to cost economy billions [01/12/10] "Workers forced to stay at home by the heaviest snow in 50 years risk losing wages or holiday entitlement as companies try to recoup losses caused by the freezing weather. ..."    

Wall Street and Governments Love "Carbon Credit"s [01/12/10] "A brilliant critique of cap-n-trade in The Independent: "Leaders of the rich world are enacting a giant fraud Corporate lobbyists can pressure or bribe governments to rig the system in their favour Most of the tricks centre around a quirk in the system: a rich country can "cut" its emissions without actually releasing fewer greenhouse gases. How? It can simply pay a poor country to emit less than it otherwise would have. In theory it sounds okay: we all have the same atmosphere, so who cares where the cuts come from?  But a system where emissions cuts can be sold among countries introduces extreme complexity into the system. It quickly (and deliberately) becomes so technical that nobody can follow it – no concerned citizen, no journalist, and barely even full-time environmental groups. You can see if your government is building more coal power stations, or airports, or motorways. You can't see if the cuts they have "bought" halfway round the world are happening – especially when they are based on projections of increases that would have happened, in theory, if your government hadn't stumped up the cash. A study by the University of Stanford found that most of the projects that are being funded as "cuts" either don't exist, don't work, or would have happened anyway. Yet this isn't a small side-dish to the deal: it's the main course. For example, under proposals from the US, the country with by far the highest per capita emissions in the world wouldn't need to cut its own gas by a single exhaust pipe until 2026, insisting it'll simply pay for these shadow-projects instead. It gets worse still. A highly complex system operating in the dark is a gift to corporate lobbyists, who can pressure or bribe governments into rigging the system in their favour, rather than the atmosphere's. It's worth going through some of the scams that are bleeding the system of any meaning. They may sound dull or technical, but they are life or death to countries like Leah's. ..."  

CO2’s contribution to global warming remains approximately nil [01/11/10] "I didn’t see any CO2 effect on temperature or ozone depletion over the South Pole from 1956 to 2008,” explained Dr. Lu, surprised at how totally different the real-world measurements were from those that the climate model predicted. The real-world measurements showed CO2 to be largely irrelevant – “the global warming on Earth’s surface between 1950 and 2000 is pretty much due to CFCs,” he concluded. “The models say that CO2 is a major greenhouse gas but the facts show otherwise.” In contrast, CFCs have long been known to be a greenhouse gas that, on a molecule per molecule basis, is 10,000 times more potent than CO2. ..."   

CO2 Trade War Hits Midwest [01/11/10] "It's round one in the 2010 fight against global warming and Minnesota has landed the first punch against coal-fired electricity that crosses its borders. The state is seeking to place a tariff on carbon dioxide turned out by coal plants in North Dakota. While there has been a lot of huffing and puffing about carbon tariffs in the past from countries that want to stick a tax on items that are produced in polluting industries, Minnesota's move is the first of its kind. Currently, the law does not mandate a carbon tariff; it only provides the framework to create such a pricing mechanism if a tax on carbon emissions becomes necessary in the future. Minnesota is currently looking at pricing guidelines for a likely utility rate increase in 2012. Minnesota is hoping to pressure its neighbor to the west to drop coal and embrace renewable energy sources. North Dakota has ample wind energy potential and has even been called the "Saudi Arabia of Wind." The fee, which would function similar to a regular tax, could range from $4 to $34 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions that is produced by coal-fired power plants in North Dakota. Currently, there are seven operating coal plants and six active coal plant proposals in North Dakota, according to CoalSwarm, an information portal on coal issues. ..."  Note: This whole concept is a scam. 

UK's Top Weatherman Ridiculed For Receiving Bonus After Predicting 'Mild Winter' [01/10/10] "John Hirst, the head of the UK's national weather service (Met Office), came under fire this week over the fact that, as the country's top weatherman, he had a predicted a mild winter for Britain, which is instead currently suffering from its biggest cold spell in 30 years. To make matters worse, Hirst, following a significant pay increase, now makes more than the Prime Minister, despite leading an organization notorious for getting its forecasts wrong, the Telegraph reported recently.  ..."  

Cold Arctic Pressure Pattern Nearly Off Chart [01/08/10] "A big driver of the outbreaks of record cold and snow in many spots around the Northern Hemisphere is the little blue dot at the lower right-hand corner of the graph above, just above the year 2010. The chart (generated by Ignatius Rigor for Dot Earth) shows the state of the Arctic Oscillation, a pattern of atmospheric pressure that has two phases, positive and negative (somewhat like the more familiar cycle of El Niño and La Niña in the Pacific). A strong negative or positive condition can powerfully influence weather around the northern half of the globe and the behavior of sea ice on the Arctic Ocean.  ..."   

Commentary:  'Climate science' is an oxymoron. Time for Zero Tolerance of Green agendas [01/08/10] "Wow! That Copenhagen package really worked. Global warming has been dramatically reversed. In fact, if Al Gore could see his way to turning the heat back up just a little, most of us would be deeply appreciative… “Climate science” is the oxymoron of the century. There is not a city, town or hamlet in the country that has had its weather conditions correctly forecast, over periods as short as 12 hours, during the past week. This is the “exceptionally mild winter” that the climate change buffoons warned us would occur as a consequence of global warming. Their credibility is 20 degrees below zero. ..."  

Top fraud attorney seeks climategate whistleblowers [01/08/10] "We are turning up the heat in pursuit of prosecutions against scientists involved in the recent Climategate scandal. Our dedicated group of volunteers working with Climategate.com are behind a plan to entice co-workers of discredited Penn State University climatologist Michael Mann to turn whistleblowers in return for millions of dollars in federal reward money. Mann is famous for his emails obtained from the East Anglia University server hacking, and for creating the widely disputed ‘hockey stick’ graph that is depicted in Al Gore’s film, “An Inconvenient Truth.” ..."   

CIA Climbs On Board The Climate Fix Scam With Satellite 'Evidence" Ploy [01/07/10] "Leading scientists from academia, industry and government are now gaining access to information on climate change that’s collected by spy agencies. The data, which includes high resolution images taken from intelligence satellites, is helping researchers better understand changes happening to the earth as a result of global warming, such as melting ice at the poles and expanding deserts. The CIA, led by Director Leon Panetta, is running the collaborative effort that shares classified information with about 60 scientists, and the National Reconnaissance Office, which operates the nation’s fleet of spy satellites, is providing much of the data. From 1992 to 2001 Medea (Measurements of Earth Data for Environmental Analysis) shared intelligence information with scientists—until President George W. Bush shut it down. Former Vice President Al Gore is credited with helping restart the collaboration by urging Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, to convince the CIA and others it was time to bring Medea back to life. ..."  Note: They have no shame. Pictures mean nothing because climate is cyclical and changes all the time.

Arctic freeze and snow wreak havoc across the planet  [01/05/10] "There were few precedents for the global sweep of extreme cold and ice that killed dozens in India, paralysed life in Beijing and threatened the Florida orange crop. Chicagoans sheltered from a potentially killer freeze, Paris endured sunny Siberian cold, Italy dug itself out of snowdrifts and Poland counted at least 13 deaths in record low temperatures of about minus 25C (-13F). The heaviest snow yesterday hit northeastern Asia, which is suffering its worst winter weather for 60 years. More than 25 centimetres (10in) of snow covered Seoul, the South Korean capital — the heaviest fall since records began in 1937.  ..."   

US Winter 2009-2010 Could Be Worst In 25 Years [01/05/10] "Nearly the entire eastern half of the United States is enduring bitterly cold temperatures not experienced since 1985. Even Florida, which has been hovering around freezing levels overnight recently, is also feeling the almost-nationwide chill. "It'll be like the great winters of the '60s and '70s," said AccuWeather.com Chief Meteorologist and Expert Long Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi. The last time a large swath of severely low temperatures struck the nation was in January 1985. That historic arctic outbreak had below-zero temperatures Fahrenheit stretching from Chicago eastward to New York City, and all the way south to Macon, Ga. While Bastardi says the upcoming days will bring cold not seen since 1985 or 1982, he believes this winter is shaping up much that of like 1977-78. That winter, nearly all of the United States east of the Rockies had a cold October followed by a warm November, with the cold returning in December. What is most interesting in this case is what followed, where the months from January through March can all be classified as very cold, relative to normal. "If it stays this cold for this long, will the groundhog even want to come out on Feb. 2?" wonders Senior Vice President and Chief Meteorologist Elliot Abrams. This winter has already been rough for many areas of the country, with several blizzards dumping high accumulations of snow upon the Plains, mid-Atlantic and New England. The cold air currently streaming across the Upper Midwest into the East and South will only compound the winter problems of the nation, especially since these depths have not been experienced across such a wide area simultaneously in decades. ..."   

Earth Climate History Over Time [01/05/10] [Climate Methods, Miocene Climate, Oligocene Climate, Late Eocene Climate, Early Eocene Climate, Paleocene Climate, Late Cretaceous Climate, Early Cretaceous Climate, Late Jurassic Climate, Early Jurassic Climate, Late Triassic Climate, Middle Triassic Climate, Early Triassic Climate, Late Permian Climate, Early Permian Climate, Latest Carboniferous Climate, Late Carboniferous Climate, Early Late Carboniferous, Early Carboniferous Climate, Late Devonian Climate, Middle Devonian Climate, Early Devonian Climate, Silurian Climate, Middle & Late Ordovician, Early Ordovician Climate, Middle and Upper Cambrian, Early Cambrian Climate] 

Commentary: Climatologists Claim They Know the Future, But Can't Predict This Winter [01/04/10] "Computer models can't accurately predict the weather over the next few weeks. The story excerpted below highlights the failure of the UK Met Office to predict a cooler than normal winter. They predicted the opposite.  ..."   

NOAA Info: The Arctic Oscillation Index goes strongly negative [01/01/10] "In the last month, the Arctic Oscillation Index (AO) has gone strongly negative. You can see that it headed to its negative peak right about the time the Copenhagen Climate Conference started, so it is no wonder that they ironically experienced cold and snow there. It is also a setup for the record snow and cold Canada and the USA has seen recently. ...With this change happening, the setup for an increased Arctic Sea Ice Maximum is enhanced this year, likely to happen sometime around March 1st, 2010. The Arctic Oscillation refers to opposing atmospheric pressure patterns in northern middle and high latitudes. The oscillation exhibits a “negative phase” with relatively high pressure over the polar region and low pressure at midlatitudes (about 45 degrees North), and a “positive phase” in which the pattern is reversed. In the positive phase, higher pressure at midlatitudes drives ocean storms farther north, and changes in the circulation pattern bring wetter weather to Alaska, Scotland and Scandinavia, as well as drier conditions to the western United States and the Mediterranean. In the positive phase, frigid winter air does not extend as far into the middle of North America as it would during the negative phase of the oscillation. This keeps much of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains warmer than normal, but leaves Greenland and Newfoundland colder than usual. Weather patterns in the negative phase are in general “opposite” to those of the positive phase, as illustrated below. Over most of the past century, the Arctic Oscillation alternated between its positive and negative phases. Starting in the 1970s, however, the oscillation has tended to stay in the positive phase, causing lower than normal arctic air pressure and higher than normal temperatures in much of the United States and northern Eurasia. As we see in this graph below, we’ve seen more red (positive) than blue (negative) phases of the AO in the last 30–40 years. Whether this is short period negative excursion or the start of a longer trend is unknown."  Note: Click on Graph to see large version. To see how this has progressed from 1950 until 2009, check this graph out!  Much more details and more info in the story link above. Related:  Arctic Oscillation Index Data - Climate Prediction Center - NOAA

No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds [01/01/10] " ..."  Note:  Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems.

Six Georgia Congressmen Challenge Greenhouse Regulations [01/01/10] "The petition argues that news of a conspiracy within the scientific community to hide evidence that calls into question manmade impacts on global warming has emerged since the closing of public comment on the EPA filing. ..."   

German Physicists Trash Global Warming “Theory” [01/01/10] "Dr Gerlich debunks AGW and shows that the IPCC “consensus” atmospheric physics model tying CO2 to global warming is not only unverifiable, but actually violates basic laws of physics, i.e. the First and Second Law of Thermodynamics. ..."  Note:  

Major northern hemisphere cold snap coming [12/30/09] "Senior AccuWeather meteorologist Joe Bastardi let loose with this stunning prediction on the AccuWeather premium web site via Brett Anderson’s Global warming blog: What is facing the major population centers of the northern hemisphere is unlike anything that we have seen since the global warming debate got to the absurd level it is now, which essentially has been there is no doubt about all this. For cold of a variety not seen in over 25 years in a large scale is about to engulf the major energy consuming areas of the northern Hemisphere. The first 15 days of the opening of the New Year will be the coldest, population weighted, north of 30 north world wide in over 25 years in my opinion. ..." 

French Revolution: Carbon tax ruled unconstitutional just two days before taking effect [12/30/09] "This new French carbon tax was scheduled to go into law on Jan1, 2010. The tax was steep: 17 euros per ton of carbon dioxide (USD $24.40). In a stunning move, the tax has been found unconstitutional and thrown out. ..."    

Senate Democrats to W.H.: Drop cap and trade [12/30/09] "Bruised by the health care debate and worried about what 2010 will bring, moderate Senate Democrats are urging the White House to give up now on any effort to pass a cap-and-trade bill next year. ..."   

Earth Cultural Studies: The People Paradox: Self-Esteem Striving, Immortality Ideologies, and Human Response to Climate Change  [12/30/09] "In 1973, Ernest Becker, a cultural anthropologist cross-trained in philosophy, sociology, and psychiatry, invoked consciousness of self and the inevitability of death as the primary sources of human anxiety and repression. He proposed that the psychological basis of cooperation, competition, and emotional and mental health is a tendency to hold tightly to anxiety-buffering cultural world views or "immortality projects" that serve as the basis for self-esteem and meaning. Although he focused mainly on social and political outcomes like war, torture, and genocide, he was increasingly aware that materialism, denial of nature, and immortality-striving efforts to control, rather than sanctify, the natural world were problems whose severity was increasing. In this paper I review Becker's ideas and suggest ways in which they illuminate human response to global climate change. Because immortality projects range from belief in technology and materialism to reverence for nature or belief in a celestial god, they act both as barriers to and facilitators of sustainable practices. I propose that Becker’s cross-disciplinary "science of man," and the predictions it generates for proximate-level determinants of social behavior, add significantly to our understanding of and potential for managing the people paradox, i.e., that the very things that bring us symbolic immortality often conflict with our prospects for survival. Analysis of immortality projects as one of the proximate barriers to addressing climate change is both cautionary and hopeful, providing insights that should be included in the cross-disciplinary quest to uncover new pathways toward rational, social change.  ..." 

877 new snowfall records set or tied in the USA in the last week [12/30/09] "And that’s not all, for the week ending Dec 13th, there were 815 new snowfall records set. December 2009 is shaping up to be quite the snowmaker. Here’s a map showing continental USA records: ..."   

Disappearing sunspots may signal end to global warming  [12/26/09] "The fiery orange ball overhead has quieted during the past three years. Quiet in the sense that there have been very few sunspots – those black blotches on the sun’s surface caused by intense magnetic activity. But just how quiet is quiet? Well, so far during the recent solar minimum (a period of low activity during the sun’s typical 11-year solar cycle), we’ve seen 183 sun-spotless days in 2007, 266 in 2008 and 259 in 2009 (as of Dec.16, 2009). Earth hasn’t witnessed a similar three-year stretch (1911, 1912, 1913) of sun-spotless days since the early 1900s. The blank sun has not gone unnoticed by the experts. "We're experiencing a very deep solar minimum," says solar physicist Dean Pesnell of the Goddard Space Flight Center. "This is the quietest sun we've seen in almost a century," agrees sunspot expert David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center. So why are sunspots under the spotlight? Because, according to solar scientists, their declining numbers, significant even by solar-minimum standards, could be the harbinger of colder temperatures ahead. If so, it won’t be the first time the earth shivered as sunspots numbers declined. In the 17th century, the sun experienced a sunspot drought, dubbed the Maunder Minimum, which lasted 70 years – from 1645 until 1715. Astronomers at the time counted only a few dozen sunspots per year, thousands fewer than usual. ..... Is mankind headed for another cool-down or big freeze? Based on recent scientific findings, it might be a possibility. A Danish research team led by Henrik Svensmark, director of the Center for Sun-Climate Research at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen, has discovered a strong correlation between sunspot activity, galactic cosmic rays and variations in the earth’s climate, a theory (supported by experiments) that challenges the prevailing concept of human-induced climate change, popularly known as anthropogenic global warming. Henrik and his team have discovered that increased solar activity in the form of sunspots, flares and other disturbances generate solar winds that strengthen the magnetic fields surrounding earth, creating a bubble that suppresses cosmic ray penetration, inhibiting cloud formation and causing warming. The decade-long cool-down is clearly visible in satellite temperature measurements, which are widely viewed as more accurate than land-based temperatures readings, according to Dr. David Evans, who was a researcher with the Australian Greenhouse Office from 1995 to 2005. Such readings, he says, are often skewed by what is called the “urban heat island” effect, which articially elevates temperatures. “NASA reports only land-based data, and reports a modest warming trend and recent cooling,” says Evans. “The other three global temperature records use a mix of satellite and land measurements, or satellite only, and they all show no warming since 2001 and a recent cooling.”  As Svensmark observes: “In fact, global warming has stopped and a cooling is beginning. No climate model has predicted a cooling of the Earth – quite the contrary. And this means that the [global warming] projections of future climate are unreliable.” ..."  Related:  Last Ice Age took just SIX months to arrive "It took just six months for a warm and sunny Europe to be engulfed in ice, according to new research. Previous studies have   suggested the arrival of the last Ice Age nearly 13,000 years ago took about a decade - but now scientists believe the process was up to 20 times as fast. In scenes reminiscent of the Hollywood blockbuster The day After Tomorrow, the Northern Hemisphere was frozen by a sudden slowdown of the Gulf Stream, which allowed ice to spread hundreds of miles southwards from the Arctic. Geological sciences professor William Patterson, who led the research, said: 'It would have been very sudden for those alive at the time. It would be the equivalent of taking Britain and moving it to the Arctic over the space of a few months.' Professor Patterson's findings emerged from one of the most painstaking studies of climate changes ever attempted and reinforce the theory that the earth's climate is unstable and can switch between warm and cold incredibly quickly. His conclusions, published in New Scientist, are based on a study of mud deposits extracted from a lake in Western Ireland, Lough Monreagh - a region he describes as having the 'best mud in the world in scientific terms'. Professor Patterson used a precision robotic scalpel to scrape off layers of mud just 0.5mm thick. Each layer represented three months of sediment deposition, so variations between them could be used to measure changes in temperature over very short periods .... He found that temperatures had plummeted, with the lake's plants and animals rapidly dying over just a few months. .... The subsequent mini Ice Age lasted for 1,300 years and was probably caused by the sudden emptying of Lake Agassiz in Canada, which burst its banks and poured freezing freshwater into the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. That would have disrupted the Gulf Stream - the flows of which depend on variations in saline levels and temperature - and allowed the ice to take hold. Some scientists believe that if the Greenland ice cap melts it could disrupt the world's ocean currents and have a similarly dramatic effect. ..."  | Solar Flare Effects on Weather   | New Little Ice Age Instead of Global Warming |

Australia: "Let's face it: the Emissions Trading Scheme is dead" [12/26/09] ".... While an argument could have been mounted before Copenhagen for moving towards an ETS, that is not possible after the chaos in doleful Hamlet's hometown that produced the "China solution". There will be no global agreement to cut emissions of carbon dioxide. Formally, it was "Chindia" -- China and India. But China is the elephant in that pairing. And in any event, nothing that President Barack Obama might have promised in Copenhagen was ever going to be endorsed by the US Senate, as it has to be. While we wouldn't have quite seen a replay of the 95-0 vote that rejected the Kyoto Treaty in 1997, there is zero prospect of the US adopting either binding CO2 emission targets or a cap-and-trade policy, their name for an ETS. So we have a situation post-Copenhagen, where the two countries that between them are responsible for nearly half of all global emissions of CO2 are not committed to cutting emissions, far less binding targets. And more pointedly, they won't have an ETS. It is the latter that makes any move by Australia to have an ETS even more senseless than before. We would become ground zero for every spiv and main-chancer that would have an emission permit or million in their pocket to sell us. Indeed, even "respectable" Wall Streeters would be -- correction, are -- salivating over the next big thing. Two things simply cannot be denied about Copenhagen. Australia locking in its ETS wouldn't have made the slightest difference to the outcome. Not even Kevin Rudd is delusional enough to believe that if only he and Penny had been able to arrive with their bit of paper, China would have agreed to destroy its future. ..."  

Arctic Sea Ice Decline In Past Far Exceeded Modern Sea Ice Retreat (Multiple Times), Peer-Research Discovers [12/26/09] ""Since the change in sea-ice cover observed at the end of the 20th century (which climate alarmists claim to be unnatural) was far exceeded by changes observed multiple times over the past several thousand years of relatively stable atmospheric CO2 concentrations (when values never strayed much below 250 ppm or much above 275 ppm), there is no compelling reason to believe that the increase in the air's CO2 content that has occurred since the start of the Industrial Revolution has had anything at all to do with the declining sea-ice cover of the recent past..." ..."   

Russian weather data cherry picked by UK climatologists – report [12/26/09] "As skeptics at the Copenhagen summit are demanding proof that climate change is man-made, a Russian think-tank has accused British researchers of manipulating Russian weather data which does not fit into alarmist theory. World leaders have launched a last-ditch attempt to reach a consensus on the final day of the UN climate summit in Copenhagen. But with much bickering between rich and poor nations during nearly two weeks of talks, many doubt a new deal will be agreed upon. .... Meanwhile, a new climate scandal is gaining momentum. The Moscow-based Institute for Economic Analysis (IEA) has accused the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research of the British Meteorology Office of only using statistics from weather stations in Russia that fitted its theory on global warming, and ignoring those that did not.... In a report this week, the IEA says the HadCRUT’s study of climate change ignored data from three quarters of the weather stations on the territory of Russia. This includes “more than 40% of the area,” which was not included, not due to missing data, but “for some other reasons.” That means 40% of Russia’s territory is unrepresented in the world’s most important temperature record. This cherry-picking and misrepresenting data is nothing new, according to those opposed to the summit in Copenhagen. ..."  

EU lashes out as climate discord deepens [12/25/09] "Europe accused the United States and China of torpedoing the Copenhagen climate summit and vowed not to back down in its push for a tough, binding accord to avert the potential disaster of global warming. Post-summit recriminations deepened even among the select nations, including the United States, China, India and Brazil, that convened behind closed doors to stitch together a widely panned deal in the Danish capital at the weekend. With scientists warning of the growing threat of drought, floods, storms and rising sea levels, UN chief Ban Ki-Moon acknowledged international disappointment but called the summit an "essential beginning". Defying the ire of bitterly disappointed environmentalists, Indian Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh said his country had emerged "quite well in Copenhagen" by thwarting moves to set binding emissions targets. However the European Union's Swedish presidency called the summit a "disaster". Briefing reporters after a meeting of EU environment ministers, Swedish chairman Andreas Carlgren said "disappointment and frustration" was universal among the European nations. ..."  Note:  It just never occurs to them that their premises are false in the beginning.

Chronological PDF wall chart of Climategate scandal - 30 Years in the Making [12/24/09] "Think there are no conspiracies by government and corporations to deceive the people? Here is a timeline of a big one! ..."  Note: Excellent! 

Christopher Monckton, St. Paul, October 14th, 2009  [12/25/09] VIDEO  [60:35]  Very well done. With slides  

King World Interviews Christopher Monckton  [12/25/09] VIDEO Part 1  [10:29] | Part 2 [10:29]   Part 3 [10:29] | Part 4 [10:29] | Part 5 [10:29] | Part 6 [8:58] |  Note:  Interesting information. 

Carbon Footprints In The Sand: The Failure Of "Man-Made" Global Warming Science [12/24/09] "The great secret to the “Global Warming Debate,” the underlying current that no  one in the mainstream seems willing to discuss openly, is the fact it is not really a debate about the environment; it is actually a catalyst, a symbolic fight over a mountain of social conflicts that have existed for generations. The battle over Global Warming is a mechanism by which our culture is divided into mostly superficial and contrived political and social stances. Republican vs. Democrat, Science vs. Religion, Anti-Corporate vs. Free Market, Hippie vs. Redneck, Vegetarian vs. Carnivore; Global Warming is a great farce comprised of many smaller farces. The actual scientific debate over the legitimacy of “man-made” Global Warming has for the most part already ended. Man’s influence over the climate is negligible at best, and this has been proven by scientific fundamentals that advocates of the Global Warming theory seem to either ignore completely, or attack blindly and violently without regard for reason. Scientists working with the IPCC have even been caught red handed manipulating source data in order to give the general public the false impression that man-made Global Warming is real. First, let’s examine the science behind Global Warming, and why the perspective forced by UN supported scientists is false… The Science Does Not Support The Theory: First off, let’s be clear… man-made Global Warming is a theory. It is not proven to exist, nor is it likely to be. The MSM treats Anthropogenic Global Warming as a fact of life mathematically proven and socially accepted but this is far from the truth. The idea that man, through “carbon pollution,” is causing the earth to get warmer, is completely unsupported. Let’s look at the facts: ..."   

US Court Orders Records Unsealed In Cap-And-Trade Fraud Case [12/24/09] "In a rare filing by House lawyers, Reps. Joe Barton (R., Texas) and Greg Walden (R., Ore.), the ranking members respectively of the Energy Committee and the Oversight Subcommittee, asked a federal district court in California to unseal all the closed records regarding the successful prosecution for fraud of Anne Masters Sholtz, a former California Institute of Technology economist. Despite an estimated $50 million to $80 million in claims against her in bankruptcy filings and nine complaints, she pleaded guilty to one of six counts of wire fraud in 2005. Sholtz received what the lawmakers say was a veritable slap on the wrist for the felony--a sentence of five years probation with one year of home detention.  ..."  Note:  The charges filed against Anne Masters Sholtz carried a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison. Just how is it that she only gets a year of home detention.

In Copenhagen, a New World Order on Display  [12/23/09] "Some fundamental new realities about global power shifts in the world, and the role of Obama's America in the new order, have been obscured by the frenzy to declare winners and losers at the just-concluded Copenhagen conference on climate change. One of these realities is that developing nations, though not always united, nonetheless command a large majority in United Nations gatherings such as the Copenhagen conference as well as in the General Assembly. At some point they will prevail. Meanwhile, they increasingly exert their collective influence in sometimes obstructionist or even self-defeating ways because they are denied permanent places in seats of power, foremost on the Security Council, where major global issues are discussed, and in the major international financial institutions. The US may be successful in co-opting some of the more economically powerful among developing and middle-income nations--for example, bringing a dozen or more into an expanded G8, now the G20--but even then, there will be countries like Pakistan, Egypt, Venezuela, Iran and occasionally Indonesia willing to rally firm majorities on issues in international gatherings that run counter to policies and proposals from the Global North. ..."  

LaRouche: The Copenhagen Horror [12/23/09] "The British monarchy's Copenhagen scheme is not only evil; it is stupid, even for the short term. Not only is the Copenhagen conference's proposed scheme inherently as evil as Adolf Hitler's earlier, but the effects of its attempted implementation mean the doom of Prince Philip's Brutish Empire itself. ..."  Related:   Copenhagen Summit Collapses; Obama is Now Political Dead Meat  "After getting the latest report on the fiasco at Copenhagen, Lyndon LaRouche assessed that Obama is on the edge of being dead meat. ..."   The Copenhagen Conference Scandal  

Carbon prices drop sharply after Copenhagen [12/22/09] "Carbon prices dropped sharply on Monday in response to disappointment at the outcome of the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen, which ended with an agreement that fell well short of its goals for significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. ..."  Note: It's all about the money. 

Fraud in Europe's Cap and Trade System a 'Red Flag,' Critics Say [12/22/09] "The top cops in Europe say carbon-trading is an organized crime scheme that has robbed the continent of $7.4 billion -- a massive fraud that lawmakers and energy experts say should send a "red flag" to the U.S., which approved cap-and-trade legislation over the summer amid stiff opposition. ..."   

Gore: I'm Ignoring The Climategate Emails Because They're All "More Than 10 Years Old" [12/22/09] "No of course that's not true. How does that even sound right to him? Is he really that contemptuous of people who disagree with him, that he thinks headlines about the "worst scientific scandal of our generation" are based on a few emails from 1999? Should the dissonance have engendered at least enough self-doubt to go and actually read the emails? And if he doesn't the have time - being a celebrity is hard - shouldn't he at least have enough self-awareness to avoid making easily disproven factual claims? Apparently not. From the Slate interview they've got plastered all over their front page ..."   

Terence Corcoran: A 2,000-page epic of science and skepticism — Part 2 [12/22/09] "In the thousands of emails released last month in what is now known as Climategate, the greatest battles took place over scientists’ attempts to reconstruct a credible temperature record for the last couple of thousand years. Have they failed? What the Climategate emails provide is at least one incontrovertible answer: They certainly have not succeeded. In a post-Copenhagen world, climate history is not merely a matter of getting the record straight, or a trivial part of the global warming science. In a Climategate email in April of this year, Steve Colman, professor of Geological Science at the University of Minnesota Duluth, told scores of climate scientists “most people seem to accept that past history is the only way to assess what the climate can actually do (e.g., how fast it can change)....."  Related: Terence Corcoran: A 2,000-page epic of science and skepticism — Part 1 [12/20/09] "Now that the Copenhagen political games are out of the way, marked as a failure by any realistic standard, it may be time to move on to the science games. To get the post-Copenhagen science review underway, the world has a fine document at hand: The Climategate Papers. On Nov. 17, three weeks before the Copenhagen talks began, a massive cache of climate science emails landed on a Russian server, reportedly after having been laundered through Saudi Arabia. Where they came from, nobody yet knows. Described as having been hacked or leaked from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia, the emails have been the focus of thousands of media and blog reports. Since their release, all the attention has been dedicated to a few choice bits of what seem like incriminating evidence of trickery and scientific repression. Some call it fraud. Email fragments instantly began flying through the blogosphere. Perhaps the most sensational came from a Nov. 16, 1999, email from Phil Jones, head of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit (CRU), in which he referred to having “completed Mike’s Nature trick” to “hide the decline” in temperature. These words, now famous around the world as the core of Climategate, are in fact the grossest possible oversimplification of what the emails contain.  ..."    

Copenhagen accord keeps Big Carbon in business  [12/21/09] "Copenhagen was not about global warming but money. The cash that Hillary Clinton so dramatically plonked on the table, rising to $100 billion by 2020, which includes the £1.5 billion offered by Gordon Brown (money which of course he hasn't got) and which like a crazed gambler he last week upped to £6 billion (even more money he hasn't got), was merely a "sweetener" to persuade the developing countries to maintain the money-machine set in motion by Kyoto. This is the new global industry based on buying and selling the right to emit CO2, estimated soon to be worth trillions of dollars a year, which through schemes such as the UN's Clean Development Mechanism and the EU's Emissions Trading System is making a small minority of people, including Al Gore, extremely rich. ..." Related:  Protecting Big Carbon  "In 2004, it was less than $300 million. But in 2005, the trade really started to soar, ending the year with $10.8 billion-worth of transactions. A year later, in 2006, the "carbon" market had grown to $31 billion. In 2007, again it more than doubled its turnover, to $64 billion. Last year, it did it again, reaching a colossal $126 billion. By 2020, some estimates suggest the annual value will reach $2 trillion. Not only does this represent a very significant business volume, its stunning growth rate makes carbon trading the hottest item in town, with banks, financial houses and independent brokers piling in to make a killing. ..."  Note:  The Carbon Bubble dwarfs the subprine and credit default swap bubbles, and when this one pops, it will take the entire global economy down with it. Saved - the trillion-pound trade in carbon "This is the biggest heist in history. As they poured carbon over snow-covered Denmark from theirgas-guzzling jets, world leaders were congratulating themselves on securing a deal which will make their backers and financiers a trillion pounds a year. These riches will come from buying and selling permits, the so-called 'carbon credits' which allow industry and electricity generators in developed countries to emit carbon dioxide. The frenzied negotiations we have just seen were never about 'saving the planet'. They were always about money. ..."  Australia: Federal Audit of Police Capabilities - support to the enforcement of the anticipated Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme  "No, it’s not a parody. Kevin Rudd really is creating a force of carbon cops ..."   

G77: Suspicious of Climate Deal "imposed by United States, with the help of the Danish government, on all nations of the world"  [12/21/09] "The final deal at the Copenhagen climate summit, which was convened to develop a comprehensive international response to the threat of global warming, came down to a behind-closed-doors conversation among some of the most powerful people in the world about the difference between two terms: "examination and assessment" and "international consultations and analysis." Then again, there may not have been a final deal. Late on Friday night, President Barack Obama announced that an agreement had been reached, establishing a minimalist accord that would not set a firm schedule with hard-and-fast targets for reducing emissions. But after Obama held a press conference to declare semi-victory--"this is going to be a first step"--and jetted back to Washington, European officials said nothing was in the bag. And Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, the Sudanese chairman of the G77 bloc of least developed nations, claimed there was no deal. "What has happened today confirms what we have been suspicious of that a deal will be imposed by United States, with the help of the Danish government, on all nations of the world," he said. .... This raised the question, was the Obama deal merely a side deal that would be agreed to by some nations but not all? A convenient bypass of international climate negotiations? In that short press conference, Obama noted that the pact had come together during an evening meeting he held with the leaders of major developing nations--China, Brazil, South Africa, and India. "Each agreed," he said, "to list national actions and commitments with international consultation and analysis under clearly defined guidelines" and aim to limit the global temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius. But it wasn't that simple--or clear--according to a participant in that decisive gathering, Brazil Ambassador Sergio Serra. ...... not all the American environmentalists were celebrating. "This is not a strong deal or a just one--it isn't even a real one," said Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth US. "The actions it suggests for the rich countries that caused the climate crisis are extraordinarily inadequate. This is a disastrous outcome for people around the world who face increasingly dire impacts from a destabilizing climate." ..... The Obama agreement was a sly maneuver. The United States sidestepped the official proceedings and found a way to separate major developing nations from poorer ones--while skating past European desires for a more comprehensive and binding agreement. Though European negotiators first declared they were not on board, as the final evening of the summit entered the wee hours, Europe conceded. At a 2:00 a.m. press conference, dour-looking European leaders announced their unhappy support. "This accord is better than no accord, but clearly below our ambition," said European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso. "We have to be honest." Even one of the diplomats who helped broker the deal was not entirely pleased. Asked if this deal made Copenhagen a success, Serra replied, "There is the perspective that with this agreement we may reach a satisfactory and equitable result next year." Then he paused: "The disappointment is still there." ..."  Note