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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: The Danes are largely a sequential society ... thus their help is there.

Copenhagen closes with weak deal that poor threaten to reject [12/20/09] "The UN climate summit in Copenhagen has formally closed with a deal many countries admit falls far short of the action needed to tackle global warming. The non-binding accord, which the US reached with key nations including China and Brazil, "recognises" the scientific case for keeping temperature rises to no more than 2C but does not contain commitments to emissions reductions to achieve that goal. US officials spun the deal as a "meaningful agreement" but even Barack Obama said: "This progress is not enough. ..."  Related: Final Copy of the Dec 2009 Accord [PDF]

The World Bank’s Carbon Trade Fiasco [12/20/09] "In the name of environmental protection, the World Bank is brokering carbon emission trading arrangements that destroy indigenous farmlands around the world. ... The effort to coordinate global action to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions began with the Kyoto Protocol, which was adopted in 1997 and now has been ratified by 183 nations… ... Carbon offsets are just another method of separating people from the land, a modern version of the Enclosure Acts of the 18th century ..."  Note: Indeed. You know, it still doesn't dawn on them to have their 'global warming' conference in the SUMMER, when it doesn't snow.

"AP Poll: Most see climate change as serious" [12/20/09] "The AP-Stanford University Poll was conducted November 17-29 by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media. It involved landline and cell phone interviews with 1,005 adults nationwide, and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. ..."  Note:  It's a fallacy of reasoning to think that interviewing 1005 cherry-picked people infers much at all when you are speaking of a diverse population of more than 250 million people. Not representative at all, unless you fly 12 aircraft around the USA, and drop monkeys with parachutes, and they give the survey to the first human they see.  I think there are less than 2000 people in the entire world, according to AP, and they all think similarly about anything the establishment is interested in.  AP is a propaganda outlet and nothing more.

Monckton: Copenhagen Accord Establishes Global Government Framework  [12/20/09] "“They are going to take from the western countries the very large financial resources required to do that.” Monckton said, adding “They will disguise it by saying they are setting up a $100 billion fund for adaptation to climate change in third world countries, but actually, this money will almost all be gobbled up by the international bureaucracy.” The final text of the accord states that funds obtained from climate financing will be controlled by a “governance structure,” and that a “High Level Panel” will be appointed to decide where the money will come from. In effect, this means that a UN-controlled structure of global governance will override the sovereignty of nation states in collecting and doling out funds obtained under the justification of climate change. ..."  Note:  Tar: $22. Feathers: $147. Guillotine: $2,760. Reminding the leaders that the population, if angered, can always eliminate them : Priceless.

Lawrence Solomon: Wikipedia’s 'climate doctor' rewrote 5,428 climate articles [12/19/09] "The Climategate Emails describe how a small band of climatologists cooked the books to make the last century seem dangerously warm. The emails also describe how the band plotted to rewrite history as well as science, particularly by eliminating the Medieval Warm Period, a 400 year period that began around 1000 AD. The Climategate Emails reveal something else, too: the enlistment of the most widely read source of information in the world — Wikipedia — in the wholesale rewriting of this history..... But the UN’s official verdict that the Medieval Warm Period had not existed did not erase the countless schoolbooks, encyclopedias, and other scholarly sources that claimed it had. Rewriting those would take decades, time that the band members didn’t have if they were to save the globe from warming. Instead, the band members turned to their friends in the media and to the blogosphere, creating a website called Real Climate . “The idea is that we working climate scientists should have a place where we can mount a rapid response to supposedly ‘bombshell’ papers that are doing the rounds” in aid of “combating dis-information,” one email explained, referring to criticisms of the hockey stick and anything else suggesting that temperatures today were not the hottest in recorded time. One person in the nine-member Real Climate  team — U.K. scientist and Green Party activist William Connolley — would take on particularly crucial duties. ... Connolley took control of all things climate in the most used information source the world has ever known – Wikipedia. Starting in February 2003, just when opposition to the claims of the band members were beginning to gel, Connolley set to work on the Wikipedia site. He rewrote Wikipedia’s articles on global warming, on the greenhouse effect, on the instrumental temperature record, on the urban heat island, on climate models, on global cooling. On Feb. 14, he began to erase the Little Ice Age; on Aug.11, the Medieval Warm Period. In October, he turned his attention to the hockey stick graph. He rewrote articles on the politics of global warming and on the scientists who were skeptical of the band. Richard Lindzen and Fred Singer, two of the world’s most distinguished climate scientists, were among his early targets, followed by others that the band especially hated, such as Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, authorities on the Medieval Warm Period. .... All told, Connolley created or rewrote 5,428 unique Wikipedia articles. His control over Wikipedia was greater still, however, through the role he obtained at Wikipedia as a website administrator, which allowed him to act with virtual impunity. When Connolley didn’t like the subject of a certain article, he removed it — more than 500 articles of various descriptions disappeared at his hand. When he disapproved of the arguments that others were making, he often had them barred — over 2,000 Wikipedia contributors who ran afoul of him found themselves blocked from making further contributions. Acolytes whose writing conformed to Connolley’s global warming views, in contrast, were rewarded with Wikipedia’s blessings. In these ways, Connolley turned Wikipedia into the missionary wing of the global warming movement. The Medieval Warm Period disappeared, as did criticism of the global warming orthodoxy. With the release of the Climategate Emails, the disappearing trick has been exposed. The glorious Medieval Warm Period will remain in the history books, perhaps with an asterisk to describe how a band of zealots once tried to make it disappear. Note: LawrenceSolomon@nextcity.com  Lawrence Solomon is executive director of Energy Probe and Urban Renaissance Institute and author of The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud. ..."     So  -- Wikipedia CANNOT be used as a reference in these matters.

Pentagon's Role in Global Catastrophe: Add Climate Havoc to War Crimes [12/19/09] "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. ..."   

Fury erupts at UN climate talks [12/19/09] "Fury erupted at the Copenhagen climate talks Saturday over a draft accord agreed by a select group of leaders, with several poor nations saying it amounted to a coup against the United Nations. "You are going to endorse this coup d'etat against the United Nations," Venezuela's representative Claudia Salerno Caldera told Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, the conference's chairman, in a speech from the floor. ... Cuba accused Obama of "behaving like an emperor," adding that the Havana government would not accept the draft declaration. The plenary session was then suspended after Costa Rica demanded explanations for key text that had disappeared from a draft resolution while the leaders' wrangling had unfolded. That text said countries would strive for a "legally-binding" agreement in Mexico City at the end of 2010 -- a position supported especially by Russia, Canada and Japan in order to lock the United States into a treaty. Green delegates said they suspected the vital words had been deleted as a quid pro quo to placate the United States. Obama flew out of Copenhagen late Friday before any decision among the 194 members of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on whether to accept the draft agreement. The agreement contains a commitment to limit global warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), but did not spell out the important stepping stones -- global emissions targets for 2020 or 2050 -- for getting there. ..."    

After gruelling summit, a contested deal emerges on climate [12/19/09] "A core group of world leaders clinched a draft accord for rolling back climate change after gruelling talks in Copenhagen, but campaigners early Saturday branded the new-born deal a betrayal. US President Barack Obama said an "unprecedented breakthrough" had been reached among day-long meetings involving about two dozen presidents and prime ministers gathered in Copenhagen. Obama admitted the so-called Copenhagen Accord did not go far enough, but characterised its provisions as "meaningful," arguing they provided a tool for ratcheting up action on greenhouse gases. Copenhagen's Bella Center crackled with nervous tension, exhaustion and confusion as leaders raced from one closed-doors huddle to another, arguing over legalistic chunks of text in an extraordinary game of climate poker. Negotiators were grey-faced after more than 12 days of battling over text, and over-stressed journalists became feral in their quest for information. Yet as the conference lurched into its 13th day, it was still unclear whether the much-trumpeted deal had a future. It still had to gain approval from a plenary session here of the 194 members of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). ..."  

Fight to control Copenhagen climate change fund  [12/19/09] "The deadlock over who should cut carbon emissions and by how much may be dominating the headlines here in Copenhagen but behind the scenes an equally big issue is being thrashed out. It's a fight for control of the massive new fund that will challenge our changing climate. So far there has been no agreement regarding how this money should be managed and where it should be channelled as negotiating bodies from the developed and developing worlds hold fast to their polarised positions. "So far, we have no agreement on the new climate fund or the body that will oversee it" Jukka Uosukainen, a co-facilitator representing the developed countries in the financial negotiations told the BBC. "But if we have an overall agreement in this summit, I think we can still reach into an agreement." Shaping the fund: US negotiators are backing the idea of a new climate fund which, insiders say, would have the Washington-based World Bank as its trustee. However, the developing world groupings at Copenhagen want a new body to control the fund which would be under the direct control of the Conference of Parties. The COP brings together all 192 countries that have signed the United Nations Convention Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). "We have made it clear that we want the COP to have the authority over the new body that will control finance," said Farrukh Khan of Pakistan, a co-chair representing developing countries in the financial negotiations. But the word around Copenhagen is that the developed world doesn't like this idea and is suggesting that the COP provide guidance to the new body. Meanwhile, it's understood that the EU is insisting that existing institutions should be allowed to do the job as it believes that creating new ones will only cause delay, as has happened with the Climate Adaptation Fund that was formed two years ago to help developing countries adapt, but has yet to come online. Sources say there is a difference of opinion within the European bloc as some member countries want to continue providing climate change funds through bilateral channels. However, those closely following the financial negotiations say that the big game is all about controlling resources and securing power. "It certainly is a big power game," said a senior European representative actively involved in negotiations. "The fund will run into billions and getting to control it will mean you will be powerful in the world order." Given the high stakes and the conflicting positions and passions involved, devising a mechanism, to which all parties agree, to manage and channel the new climate fund is surely the hardest task of all. Note:   of course, they already have that mechanism --- the UN, World Bank and IMF ..."  

David Rothschild regrets Global Governance tough to activate [12/19/09] with VIDEO [0:57]  ""Simon Linnett, Executive Vice-Chairman of Rothschild, has called for a new international body, the World Environment Agency, to regulate carbon trading. In a recently published paper, Trading Emissions, for the Social Market Foundation, Mr Linnett argues that the International problem of climate change demands an international solution. Unless governments cede some of their sovereignty to a new world body, he says, a global carbon trading scheme cannot be enforced and regulated." David Rothschild regrets that Global Governance is proving very hard to activate at the UN climate conference in Copenhagen. ..."     Note: These people are part of the criminal 'carbon trading' enterprise, crafted by Blythe Masters of JP Morgan, creator of the 'credit default swap', which ruined the global economy.

The Young Green Fascists [12/19/09] "Man made climate change is not a scientific debate. Al Gore declared it so. He declared that the science was in and the debate was over. Many others have followed suit. Politicians parrot his work to try to make themselves look heroic as they claim they wish to “save the planet” by taxing carbon dioxide, a natural gas produced by life. The media uses his work to try to create a fear and hysteria perhaps in hopes this will help their sagging ratings, and possibly their politically connected friends. The elite hail Mr. Gore’s work, raining upon him accolades and awards such as an Oscar, a Grammy, an Emmy, a Nobel Peace Prize and others which has made me wonder as to the significance of these awards. One can wonder as to why anyone should listen to Al Gore about such matters as global warming. He is, after all, not a career scientist, not a career documentary film maker and not even a career writer, but a career politician. You know what they say about politicians whose lips are moving. To me, the integrity of these awards are now in question. ..."   

Barton: We Won’t Let Obama Destroy American Jobs For “Some Esoteric Environmental Benefit 100 Years From Now” [12/19/09] "As President Barack Obama labored behind closed doors to break a deadlock over efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Republicans from the U.S. Congress were outside those meetings urging him not to bother. As President Barack Obama labored behind closed doors to break a deadlock over efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions, Republicans from the U.S. Congress were outside those meetings urging him not to bother. “We’re not going to let jobs be destroyed in America for some esoteric environmental benefit 100 years from now,” U.S. House of Representatives member Joe Barton told Reuters on the sidelines of the U.N. conference on climate change. Barton, who would take over a powerful House committee that oversees environmental policy if Republicans were to regain majority control of the House, said he does not believe industrial emissions of carbon dioxide contribute to global warming and fears capping them would hobble the economy. “If I am chairman two years from now, I’m going to repeal” measures such as U.S. funding to help developing countries battle climate change, outlined by Secretary of State Hillary Cunton on Thursday, the conservative Texas congressman boasted. ..."   

Non-Binding "Sham Agreement" Reached At Copenhagen. “Rich Countries ... Sought to Bribe and Bully Developing Nations"  [12/19/09] "The Copenhagen Accord is not legally binding and - apparently - does not specify either target emission reductions or monetary contributions of various countries.  ..."   

Copenhagen: A climate of manipulation [12/18/09] "Some naive folk, who probably still don’t understand that governments do not, in fact, make money of their own but merely take what has been earned by others and redistribute it to causes they think will win them the most votes, may believe that the wealth redistribution will actually lower the temperature of the planet. There is no evidence, scientific or otherwise, that this will happen. The only certainty is that billions will be ripped off by bankers and other middle men before the remainder arrives in the Third World to be looted by a line-up of dictators and tyrants. ..."   

Obama to arrive in Copenhagen amid Rep. dissent  [12/18/09] "US President Barack Obama is set to depart for Copenhagen for the last day of the United Nations-backed climate change summit, as Republicans say he has no authority to accept any agreement.  ..."   

Clinton: "the science for climate change is now “undeniable” and the world must agree a deal in the next 48 hours"  [12/18/09] The $100 Billion Bribe with strings attached to control countries   Note: No, the world does not have to agree "in the next 48 hours" ... another 'rushed' agreement (just like the post 911 laws and the looting of world wealth) .... follow the money and power. 

Copenhagen Climate Treaty scam: trillions in taxes with Enron-like trading rules [12/18/09]    "Copenhagen Framework Demands Huge Amounts of Spending, But Allows Enron-Style Accounting Tricks So That Carbon Isn't Actually Reduced ..."  More manipulation around the CO2 lie.

Environmentalism in the Third Reich  [12/18/09] "It is a well documented though seldom highlighted fact that the Nazis were also very much into environmentalism- not for environmentalism’s sake of course, but rather as a means of oppression and control. As it turns out, environmentalism fits the form of tyranny like a well tailored suit...."   

Lead Author of 1995 IPCC Report Admits Deleting Portions Downplaying Role of Human Activity on Climate  [12/18/09] "The latest installment of Jesse Ventura’s highly successful Conspiracy Theory show exposed millions of viewers on national TV last night to the climate change fraud, blowing a giant hole in the global warming scam by exposing how its adherents comprise wealthy industrialists making billions in profits by fearmongering about the environment. The most damning part of the program is when Ben Santer, a climate researcher and lead IPCC author of Chapter 8 of the 1995 IPCC Working Group I Report, admits that he deleted sections of the IPCC chapter which stated that humans were not responsible for climate change. ..... Accusing Santer of altering opinions in the IPCC report that disagreed with the man-made thesis behind climate change, Lord Monckton told the program, “In comes Santer and re-writes it for them, after the scientists have sent in their finalized draft, and that finalized draft said at five different places, there is no discernable human effect on global temperature – I’ve seen a copy of this – Santer went through, crossed out all of those and substituted a new conclusion, and this has been the official conclusion ever since. ..."  Note:   Conspiracy Theory show on Climate Change:  Part 1 |  Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 

UN Chief: We Will Impose Global Governance [12/17/09] "United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has again publicly admitted that the agenda behind the Copenhagen summit and the climate change fraud is the imposition of a global government and the end of national sovereignty. Speaking about the agenda to "impose targets on CO2 emissions," as well as a " global tax on financial transactions" and a " direct tax on GDP", Ban Ki-moon told the Los Angeles Times in an interview, “We will establish a global governance structure to monitor and manage the implementation of this.” “We need to have a very strong, robust, binding political deal that will have an immediate operational effect. This is not going to be a political declaration, just for the sake of declaration. It is going to be a binding political deal, which will lead to a legally binding treaty next year,” he told the Times’ Bruce Wallace, adding that a formal treaty would be signed by mid-2010. Ki-moon also hinted that the arrival of President Barack Obama could grasp victory from the jaws of defeat for the globalists, who up until now have looked like failing in their efforts to secure a multilateral agreement at Copenhagen that includes China, India and the United States. ..."   

Rothschild Rues Difficulty Of Activating “Global Governance Agenda” At Copenhagen  [12/17/09] "Baron David De Mayer Rothschild notes with regret that it is difficult to implement a world government, but that the climate change summit in Copenhagen is a venue to attempt it. ..."  

Russian IEA claims CRU tampered with climate data – cherrypicked warmest stations [12/17/09] "On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based at the headquarters of the British Meteorological Office in Exeter (Devon, England) had probably tampered with Russian-climate data. The IEA believes that Russian meteorological-station data did not substantiate the anthropogenic global-warming theory. Analysts say Russian meteorological stations cover most of the country’s territory, and that the Hadley Center had used data submitted by only 25% of such stations in its reports. Over 40% of Russian territory was not included in global-temperature calculations for some other reasons, rather than the lack of meteorological stations and observations. ..."   

UN Sponsored Poster Campaign Depicts Humans As "Evil Monsters" [12/16/09] "A new poster campaign sponsored by the United Nations depicts humans as evil horror movie monsters intent on slaughtering wildlife, another abhorrent example of how eugenicists are following through on the Club of Rome’s 1991 promise to portray Homo sapiens as the enemy in an effort to construct a world government around the pretext of "saving the earth". The three posters reverse the roles of famous horror movies Jaws, King Kong, and Tarantula, characterizing humans as rampaging monsters out to kill defenseless species. They were produced by the Center for Migratory Species.  ..."  Note:  There is a great deal of self-hatred evident in the extreme environmental movement, typified by the conflicting ideas that a dam built by beavers for the beavers' use is natural but a dam built by humans for human use is not, or that human condos are artificial scars on the landscape but termite mounds, bee hives, wasp nests, and ant hills are beautiful parts of nature.

Climate conference president Hedegaard resigns [12/16/09] "The Danish president of the U.N. climate conference, Connie Hedegaard, has resigned and will be replaced by the Danish prime minister as head of the historic talks. ..."   

China, India and their allies in the Third World in open revolt at the UN climate summit  [12/16/09] "Lars Rasmussen, the Danish Prime Minister, personally took charge of the negotiations for a global climate accord as the conference entered its final three days, but the scale of the task he faces in bringing agreement to the cacophony of plans, promises and special pleading was clear. Mr Rasmussen immediately faced concerted interventions from the floor, led by China's Vice Foreign Minister, He Yafei, at a decision to publish two new negotiating texts designed to move the process up a gear. .... Within minutes of taking over as chair, Mr Rasmussen reminded delegates that their leaders were arriving and expected progress to be made. "I think the world is expecting us to reach some kind of agreement regarding climate change, not just discussing procedure, procedure, procedure. "We have to move everything forward." To loud applause, and in perfect English, Mr He responded: "Thank you Mr Chairman. I think the matter is not just procedural, procedural, procedural. Actually it's substantial: it's a question of respect for the host for at least 192 parties. You can't just put forward some text from the sky." .... "It really is crunch time," one delegate said. "The game is on." ...... By the end of the day, about 100 world leaders are expected in town, including Mr Mugabe, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France.  ..."  Related:  China, India walk out of Copenhagen talks [12/14/09] "Talks were suspended at the Copenhagen climate conference on Monday amid escalating tensions between rich countries and the developing world over how a deal should be structured. ..."  Note:  But the "carbon trading' scam is still on the table.    

Al Gore "rallies the troops" in Copenhagen [12/16/09] (with simplistic truisms which mis-focus the debate) "The ultimatum to Obama was a departure for Gore who has been cautious of exerting too much pressure on the president, or causing him embarrassment. He kept up the pace by calling for the international community to sign up to a fully fledged climate change treaty by July 2010 – and then announcing that Mexico was prepared to host a deal-making summit. He scolded rich countries for demanding the developing world offer evidence of emissions cuts while at the same time trying to inflate the funds they were prepared to offer poor countries to deal with climate change. "This issue of transparency should also be applied to financial pledges of developed countries," he said. "How many times has same money been pledged two, three or even four times?" ..."   Note:  Gore falsely believes that humans cause climate problems and that human action can 'alter' climate .... both false statements ... humans can only adapt to changing climates ... you don't see  money being spent to install desalination plants on the African coast to offset drought-caused starvation by growing crops. Why? Because actually doing something to help the civilization adapt to changing climates is NOT on the table - only monetary 'indulgence' schemes which stand to make certain people rich, and not help anyone else. Here's an example of how real issues are being ignored: A Guyanese view of Copenhagen: What of the cash promised to save our trees?  More world government around the pretext of "saving the earth".

Solar Flare Effects on Weather [12/16/09] "Solar flare effects from increased solar activity have been on the rise for the last 100 years or so, and reliable research indicates that sunspot activity is directly correlated with warmer temperatures on earth. Sunspot activity is a solar flare effect that has been tracked since shortly after the invention of the telescope in 1610. This data provides the longest direct measurement of the sun's activity, and reveals the 11-year sunspot activity cycle, as well as other longer-term solar changes. Also, these records show a notable period of almost non-existent sunspot activity that occurred between 1645 and 1715, known as the Maunder Minimum (also known as the "Little Ice Age") and named after the English astronomer who studied it. Based on research done on ice core samples from Greenland, a team of scientists headed by Sami Solanki at the Institute of Astronomy in Zurich, Switzerland has re-constructed a history of solar flare effects and the sun's activity in the past. This research demonstrates that over the last century, the number of sunspots increased as the Earth's climate became gradually warmer. In addition to the above findings, these Swiss scientists have also determined that the sun's solar flare activity has been greater in the last 60 years than in the previous 1,000 years. Despite the controlled media's claims to the contrary, carbon dioxide emissions do not cause global warming. Such warming effects are instead due to increased solar activity which in turn causes an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Basically, the media is putting the cart before the horse with respect to global warming! Furthermore, carbon dioxide comprises a relatively small percentage of greenhouse gases (0.05%) making the hypothesis that man-made emissions are the cause of global warming highly improbable. Also, using the media's backwards logic, since the major component (95%) of greenhouse gasses is water vapor, the oceans of the world would be 2,000 times more responsible for global warming than all things that emit carbon dioxide on Earth combined!  ..."    

Gore Refuses ClimateGate Questions, UN Official Disconnects Microphone [12/16/09] "United Nations security officials have once again prevented a journalist from asking attendees at the climate change conference in Copenhagen questions about the growing ClimateGate scandal. This time, the person on the receiving end of the apparently forbidden queries was Nobel Laureate Al Gore. Much as when Ireland's Phelim McAleer tried to ask Stanford professor Stephen Schneider questions Thursday about the controversial e-mail messages obtained from the British Climatic Research Unit last month, McAleer was similarly rebuffed by Gore and his entourage Monday. Not only did the former Vice President completely refuse to answer questions about his blatant misrepresentations of the age of the most recent e-mail message obtained from Britain's CRU, a U.N. security official actually disconnected McAleer's microphone to make sure any answers would be unrecorded  ...  VIDEO [0:54]  ..... "Mr. Gore says he cares a lot about science and scientific accuracy. His whole theory of Climate Alarmism depends on it but today at the United Nations Copenhagen Climate Conference he refused several opportunities to correct the record when asked about his errors by journalist and film maker Phelim McAleer. Instead his Press Secretary grabbed McAleer's microphone to stop questions being put to the vice-president. ...... Have U.N. security officials been instructed to prevent journalists from asking climate realists uncomfortable questions? Consider what happened when McAleer tried to ask Gore confidant Dr. Schneider about ClimateGate days earlier: VIDEO [1:36]"  Note:  Al Gore needs to go home and stay out of sight for at least 3 years, before he meets no good end, as he sabotages his own future, and we get to watch, and rejoice that he'll never get to become the rich powerful asshole sequential he wanted to be.

New Little Ice Age Instead of Global Warming [12/16/09] "Analysis of the sun's varying activity in the last two millennia indicates that contrary to the IPCC's speculation about "man-made global warming as high as 5.8° C within the next hundred years", a long period of cool climate with its coldest phase around '2030' is to be expected. ..."   Note:  Schroeter Institute for Research in Cycles of Solar Activity, Germany 

WRH: The 'Global Warming by Humans' Scam [12/16/09]  Note:  A lot of really useful graphics, too. 

Past Temperatures Debunk Global Warming Hysteria [12/16/09] "If people only knew the climate temperatures 12,000 years ago they would be glad to live on a planet that is livable and not in an Ice Age. If you look at the charts in this video it will show you how lucky we are to live in a long and relatively warm period that is somewhat constant even though earths temperatures have not increased in the past 15 years. ..."   

Climategate: Al Gore spews the usual nonsense but this time no one believes him  [12/16/09] "Something truly remarkable happened at Copenhagen yesterday. Al Gore told yet another of his massive whoppers about ManBearPig. But this time no one believed him. Here’s how the Times reported it: ..." 

Scientists Still Waiting to Hear From Journalists Covering Copenhagen [12/16/09] "Around 650 climate scientists have signed up to assist journalists covering the Copenhagen climate talks through an on-call email service. For three different shifts, day and night every day from Dec. 7 to Dec. 18, between three and six experts are available to the media to answer science questions related to the negotiations. So many journalists are in Copenhagen that the U.N. had to stop issuing credentials at one point because there was no more room in the building. But the AGU scientists only heard from around 20 media outlets during the first week of the talks, and some days there were almost no inquiries at all. ..."  Note:  No one wants to talk to 'climate scientists', after what's happened. They can recognize hard science, or the lack of it, and that itself tells a story.

Inhofe Plans to Rain on Climate Talks [12/16/09] "The final week of the United Nations climate change summit boils down to a battle between President Obama and the self-described "skunk at the picnic." Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., who has called global warming a "hoax," plans to travel this week to Copenhagen. He'll stay just long enough — as few as three hours, he says — to tell heads of state that the Senate will not pass an energy bill that would limit greenhouse gas emissions. "We know (the bill) is never going to go to a vote," Inhofe said in a recent interview. "It's dead. It's gone … I'm not going to allow them to think America is going to do something it's not." Delegates from other countries say that without Congress' support, Obama won't be able to keep whatever promises he makes when he arrives here Friday to try to seal a deal on capping emissions. Without the full cooperation of the world's second-biggest emitter behind China, any broad agreement to address global warming by the 192 nations gathered in Copenhagen will simply fall apart, they say. ..."  

In Copenhagen, Totalitarian Regimes Are Once Again At Play [12/16/09] "Last week, I suggested that funding flows had much to do with climate alarmism. But deeper things are at work as well. One of those things, I suspect, is what I would call the totalitarian impulse. This is not to say that global warming true believers are closet Stalinists. But their intellectual methods are instructively similar. .."   

Copenhagen stalls decision on catastrophic climate change for six years [12/15/09] "World leaders will not agree on the emissions cuts recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and are likely instead to commit to reviewing them in 2015 or 2016 ..."  

What If Climategate was Cancergate? by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D. [12/15/09] "Senator Barbara Boxer has said that the e-mails supposedly stolen from a computer at the Climatic Research Unit in the UK should lead to prosecution of the hacker who did it. This rather obvious attempt to divert attention from the content of the emails, to the manner in which the e-mails were obtained, led my wife to make an interesting observation. What if the intercepted emails uncovered medical researchers discussing the fudging and hiding of cancer research data, and trying to interfere with the peer review process to prevent other medical researchers from getting published? There would be outrage from all across the political spectrum. Scientists behaving badly while the health of people was at stake would not be defended by anyone. So why should it be any different with Climategate? Unnecessary restrictions on (or price increases for) energy use could needlessly kill millions of people who are already poverty stricken. Cancer research affects many of us, but energy costs affect ALL of us. ..."  

UK Group Proposes Using Carbon Offsets to Stop Poor From Breeding: Carbon hysteria reaches its logical conclusion [12/15/09] "The Optimum Population Trust (OPT), a UK-based "think tank" and registered charity, has launched a new initiative urging wealthy members of the developed world to participate in carbon offsets that fund programs for curbing the population of developing nations. The scheme is being promoted as a more cost-effective way to reduce CO2 emissions than investing in alternative energy sources and offers a way for elitist racists to feel ethical in their quest to exterminate the third world masses. A BBC News article on the proposal dutifully reports the OPT's proposal and their justifications for proposing it. They note that the program is designed to fund "contraception" programs in poor nations, a term that helpfully obscures the fact that such programs—including those run by FPA, one of the agencies listed as a supporting organization of this new program—have used bribes to get poor men and women to volunteer for sterilization. The article does, however, allow space for a detractor of the proposal to point out that even if one does accept that limiting carbon emissions is necessary (which it is not), the focus on limiting emissions of people in Least Developed Countries (LDCs) is in itself nonsensical: "Carbon emissions from people in much of sub-Saharan Africa are so low that they can barely be counted." What this error exposes, however, is not that the OPT has set its sights on the wrong target. In fact, they are simply introducing the idea as a politically expedient precedent which will eventually be expanded to include the developed world as well. Indeed, this is merely the latest such proposal from the group, which has previously said that the world's population must be cut by as much as half and the UK's population reduced to as little as 17 million in order to reach "sustainable levels." The group's patrons include world renowned environmental campaigners, academics and media figures like Jane Goodall, James Lovelock and Sir David Attenborough. ..."  

Climategate: with business interests like these are we really sure Dr Rajendra Pachauri is fit to head the IPCC?  [12/15/09] "Particularly interesting is Dr Pachauri’s connection with the “not-for-profit organisation” TERI. As we learn from its website, this used to stand for Tata Energy Research Institute, but was renamed in The Energy And Resources Institute in 2003. Nothing sinister, I’m sure, in its decision to play down the Tata connection; nor in the fact that Dr Pachauri makes no mention of the fact that he is funded by Tata on his website. And obviously, it is quite normal that TERI makes no disclosure on its website – or in its downloadable annual report (all you get is a pie chart with no figures on it) – about its financial arrangements: the pay scales of its 800 staff members and its esteemed director general are quite rightly hidden from the world’s prying eyes. The list of links between the cultists and carbon-trading profiteers grows! ..."  

Fire Under Arctic Ice: Volcanoes Have Been Blowing Their Tops In The Deep Ocean [12/15/09] "A research team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has uncovered evidence of explosive volcanic eruptions deep beneath the ice-covered surface of the Arctic Ocean. Such violent eruptions of splintered, fragmented rock--known as pyroclastic deposits -- were not thought possible at great ocean depths because of the intense weight and pressure of water and because of the composition of seafloor magma and rock. ..."  Note:  They 'assumed' such deep water volcanoes were impossible, so they 'assumed' the unexplained heat showing up in phenomenon such as "El Nino" had to be caused by humans.

Volcanic Seamounts Siphon Ocean Water Through The Seafloor [12/15/09] "Scientists have known for decades that enormous quantities of ocean water circulate through the seafloor, flowing through the porous volcanic rock of the upper oceanic crust. In the process, the water extracts large amounts of heat from the crust, which is warmed by the constant flow of heat out of the Earth's interior. ..."

Gore Not Interested In 'Solutions' To ' Climate Change' That Don’t Line His Pockets [12/15/09] "So there you have it – LaSalle proposed a way of solving the CO2 issue but was basically told to shove it by Gore’s team because the methods he advocated would eliminate the need for what Gore and his cronies are really pursuing, nightmare regulation, taxation, and control over American’s lives, along with billions of dollars flooding into the coffers of Gore and the rest of the “carbon billionaire” globalists via the carbon trading systems they own. “Could it be that Mr Gore and his team want the US economy and its free market system to be overturned regardless of the science? Could it be that they do not want to know about any science that does not allow them to tax and interfere in the lives of every American?” ..."   Note: There are no 'solutions' to climate change. The idea is ludicrous.

Organized Crime in Charge of EU Carbon Trade, Europol Says: [12/15/09]  VIDEO [3:09]

Green pot of "carbon gold" lures politicians [12/14/09] "It is hard to put a dollar value on the potential bonanza. Equally, it is hard to put an exact figure on the possible emissions reductions, but the "predicted numbers" are mind-boggling - enough, some say, to make Australia carbon neutral for the next three or four decades. And all that without having to impose a nasty tax, set up a complicated emissions trading scheme or clean up a single polluting pipe. It is a political win-win. Politicians get rich. No change has been levied on the environment. ..."   

Met Office Criticised for Political Lobbying [12/14/09] "The Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) today criticised the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the UK Met Office for their political intervention in the international negotiations currently taking place in Copenhagen. ..."  Note: Especially since everything the MET has said is a lie, unsupported by reliable evidence and hard science.

Why Are Questions About Climate Analysis Met With An Armed Response? [12/14/09] "The boilerplate response on behalf of the guardians of the global warming scam is to claim that the climategate scandal holds no significance whatsoever. If warmists really are that laid back over the whole controversy then why are questions about it by accredited journalists met with an armed response from UN thugs? ..."  Note: Of course, we know why. Follow the potential of this latest scam with regard to money.

Journalists have warned of climate change for 100 years, but can’t decide weather we face an ice age or warming [12/14/09] "It was five years before the turn of the century and major media were warning of disastrous climate change. Page six of The New York Times was headlined with the serious concerns of “geologists.” Only the president at the time wasn’t Bill Clinton; it was Grover Cleveland. And the Times wasn’t warning about global warming – it was telling readers the looming dangers of a new ice age. The year was 1895, and it was just one of four different time periods in the last 100 years when major print media predicted an impending climate crisis. Each prediction carried its own elements of doom, saying Canada could be “wiped out” or lower crop yields would mean “billions will die.” Note: The media are not experts, after all. This time, however, a financial scheme has been tied to scientific propaganda and dishonesty, and it's making people rich and not doing anything for anyone else.

Extraordinary conjecture is utilized to rationalize the removal of forests [12/14/09] "Climategate does not just demonstrate the corruption of science and peer-review; it also demonstrates the incompetence of specialists who do not understand planetary ecology ..."  

Undersea Volcanoes still being discovered:[12/14/09]  Total heat and CO2 contributed to oceans by nature unknowable. Scientists do NOT know the volume of CO2 and heat being added to the world's oceans by these volcanoes, which makes any theoretical guess about human contribution, if significant at all, totally unsupportable. 

Earth's Ever-Changing Climate [12/14/09] VIDEO [5:35] | Satellite data debunks notion that "climate change is unnatural"

US business interests suspected in ‘fabricated’ climate scandal [12/14/09] "Business interests and US partisan politics are behind the furor over leaked emails that have whipped up a controversy at the Copenhagen climate talks, Canadian experts say. The global talks to hammer out a deal on curbing greenhouse gas emissions are being derailed by public attention on the so-called "Climategate," scientist Andrew Weaver and author James Hoggan told AFP. Intercepted from scientists at Britain's University of East Anglia, a top center for climate research, the emails have been seized upon by skeptics as evidence that experts twisted data in order to dramatize global warming. Some of the thousands of messages expressed frustration at the scientists' inability to explain what they described as a temporary slowdown in warming. The controversy "gives voice to dissenters at the table in Copenhagen, like Saudi Arabia and Russia," said Hoggan, author of "Climate Cover-up" about big-business funding of opponents of environmental causes. ..."   

Obama has no power to make climate deal: US lawmaker [12/14/09] "US President Barack Obama is heading to the Copenhagen climate talks with empty promises on curbing US greenhouse gas emissions that he cannot fulfill, a top lawmaker said Sunday. "He doesn't have that power to do that. And people in other countries don't realize that," Republican Senator James Inhofe, a leading critic of global warming legislation, told Fox News Sunday. Inhofe said he wanted to press the message home in the final week of the Copenhagen conference that Obama will not be able to follow through on a pledge to cut emissions by 17 percent by 2020 off 2005 levels as he will not get the necessary legislation through Congress. "That's (the) reason I'm going, to make sure people in these other 191 countries know the president can't do that," Inhofe said. The House of Representatives in June narrowly approved a plan to cut carbon emissions along those lines, but the legislation is now stuck in the Senate, which is not going to take it up again until next year. It is likely to face stiff opposition from Republicans, who with their allies in big business, fear the costs of implementing emissions cuts will hit profit margins. "It's dead on arrival at the floor," said Inhofe. "Everybody knows that. "And we're not going to have legislation. So it has to come down to what can the president do without legislation. And I think that is highly limited." ..."   

Senator Introduces Cap & Dividend: Beats "Cap and Trade" [12/13/09] "Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) introduced a bill that is a much better approach to reducing climate change than the cap and trade bill circulating in the Senate. Her bill, which she co-sponsored with Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), uses cap and dividend to reduce climate emissions and avoids the pitfalls and boom-and-bust cycles inherent in carbon trading. Why is this a better idea? First, polluters would pay for the right to pollute; they would buy carbon emissions permits at an auction, instead of getting the majority of them for free. This sends the right market signal—emit carbon, and you'll have to pay. Carbon permits would be required at the point where fossil fuel energy enters the economy. The number of greenhouse gas emissions allowances is reduced regularly by amounts that businesses can plan for. There are no offsets—these would be real reductions in climate changing emissions. Second, American families strained by the poor economy would benefit. Each person would get an equal share of the proceeds from the auction. It works like the oil trust funds in Alaska, where each resident gets about $1,300 per year for their share of the state's oil royalties. As long as our economy remains dependent on fossil fuels, prices for energy and energy-intensive products will rise. But the rebate will offset those price increases—Cantwell says it will mean most families are in about the same place financially. Those who buy carbon-free energy, drive energy efficient cars, or buy products produced locally with little fossil fuels will come out ahead, though, while those who drive gas guzzlers will pay more through the higher price of fuel. So it sends the right signal to consumers, too ..."   

Lord Monckton tells Jewish climate change protester he is like 'Hitler Youth'  [12/13/09] "The Viscount was speaking at a fringe meeting held by lobby group Americans For Prosperity on Wednesday night when a group of youth delegates interrupted and started chanting. The 57-year-old peer was said to be so outraged by the interruption from American sustainable development group SustainUS that he started calling the protesters the “Hitler Youth”. ..."  Note:  When some people get this idea into their heads that they are saving the world, they see it as a license to be rude assholes.

Copenhagen Framework Demands Huge Amounts of Spending, But Allows Enron-Style Accounting Tricks So That Carbon Isn't Actually Reduced [12/13/09] "The UN and other agencies calling for a war on global warming say the price tag will be trillions. But - according to top experts on climate and cap and trade - the regulatory framework being rammed through in America and internationally won't actually reduce carbon to any meaningful degree. ..."   

CLIMATEGATE - Phil Jones ADMITS Earth is getting cooler in CRU email [12/13/09] ""The scientific community would come down on me in no uncertain terms if I said the world had cooled from 1998. OK it has, but it is only 7 years of data and it isn't statistically significant." ..."   

CLIMATEGATE - If the science collapses, call the other side nasty names!  [12/13/09]   VIDEO [9:49] 

ClimateGate in Perspective: The Road Ahead  [12/13/09] ""Public perception of at least honest, objective intentions of the climate alarmists is eroding more quickly than the island nations driven to the point of hysteria by cataclysmic visions of Atlantis. An endpoint to the loss of public confidence cannot be reasonably projected, but further, much further is guaranteed." The global fallout resulting from the scandalous revelations of ClimateGate cannot be overestimated or overstated. Some of the most prominent scientists promoting climate alarmism are, as evidenced by their own email missives, guilty of unethical, unscientific behavior, at the very least, and possibly much worse. ..."  

Organized Crime in Charge of EU Carbon Trade, Europol Says [12/12/09] "Europe’s top police body Europol has exposed a massive fraud with the official market in carbon credits, the Emission Trading System. ..."  

Climate scientist James Hansen hopes summit will fail  [12/12/09] "A leading scientist acclaimed as the grandfather of global warming has denounced the Copenhagen summit on climate change next week as a farce. James Hansen, the director of Nasa’s Goddard Insitute for Space Studies, told The Times that he planned to boycott the UN conference because it was seeking a counter-productive agreement to limit emissions through a “cap and trade” system. “They are selling indulgences there. The developed nations want to continue basically business as usual so they are expected to purchase indulgences to give some small amount of money to developing countries. They do that in the form of offsets and adaptation funds.” he said.  ..."   

Payoff! U.N. climate chief cashes in on carbon scheme [12/11/09] "A story emerging out of Britain suggests "follow the money" may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about the validity of the underlying global warming hypothesis. A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in European Union carbon credits simply by closing a steel production facility in Britain with the loss of 1,700 jobs. ..."  Note: Interestingly, someone from the India-Pakistan part of the world, again, fucks with the infrastructure.  

How Global Warming Can Chill the Planet [12/11/09] "The Earth was emerging from an ice age 8,200 years ago. Seas were warming and life was heating up. Then quite abruptly and for a relatively short period of time -- about 100 years -- the entire globe chilled down again, by almost 10.8 degrees Fahrenheit (6 Centigrade). One widely held theory for the chill was the sudden release of a substantial amount of fresh water into the northern Atlantic. A lake twice the size of the Caspian Sea broke through an ice sheet that contained it over current day Minnesota and Canada, the evidence shows. It poured its fresh water into the salty Atlantic and changed the density of the ocean water. The oceans work on a sort of conveyor belt method to circulate cold and warm waters, thereby helping control cold, moderate, and warm areas of the globe. (Earth's climate is only partly affected by land temperatures and sunlight. Oceans, which store vast amounts of energy and are slow to warm up and cool down, contribute greatly to climate.) ..."  Related: Copenhagen climate change summit: The world is Cooling not warming says scientist Peter Taylor ... and we're not prepared "Climategate does not just demonstrate the corruption of science and peer-review; it also demonstrates the incompetence of specialists who do not understand planetary ecology, especially its cycles. We’re being fatally led up the wrong garden path by green businesses, politicians, the IPCC and their computer geeks with their doctored spreadsheets and forecasts. They need to get out more and study the real world – not their virtual reality – because, like the asset bubbles of the financial crisis, the global warming bubble is about to burst… ..."  Report: World Unprepared for Climate Change (of Any Kind)  "The United States (and every other country) face unprecedented environmental and economic challenges in the decades ahead. Foremost among them will be climate change, sea-level rise, altered weather patterns, declines in freshwater availability and quality, and loss of biodiversity," the group warned at the time. Facing such challenges at a time when the climate is changing means officials can no longer rely on the assumptions of the past, the new study says. "Moreover, climatic changes will be superimposed on social and economic changes that are altering the climate vulnerability of different regions and sectors of society, as well as their ability to cope," the Research Council said. ..."  Note: Climates have always changed; human presence doesn't figure into the mix; there is nothing humans can do to alter the dynamics on Earth.  

As World Considers 'Treaty' to 'Fight'  “Global Warming,” Much of U.S. Buried by Blizzard [12/11/09] "Irony? The talks in Copenhagen begin as countries around the world negotiate a treaty designed to cap CO2 emissions. Meanwhile a blizzard made it’s way across the country this week and frigid temperatures have followed. Yes, God does have a sense of humor. While most of the public opposes taxing energy and CO2 emissions, the world’s leaders seem determined to do just that. Despite the controversy surrounding Climategate where some scientists have been busted trying to portray recent global cooling as warming, the talks proceed as if there is some eminent danger from “global warming ..."   

Republicans and conservative think tanks: Revoke EPA declaration that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant [12/11/09] "Republicans and conservative think tanks are calling for the Obama administration to revoke its declaration that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant subject to EPA regulation on the grounds that the EPA's primary source of information for the finding was the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the source of the highly controversial "climategate" e-mails. ..."  

Global Temperature and Atmospheric CO2 over Geologic Time  [12/11/09] "There has historically been much more CO2 in our atmosphere than exists today. For example, during the Jurassic Period (200 mya), average CO2 concentrations were about 1800 ppm or about 4.7 times higher than today. The highest concentrations of CO2 during all of the Paleozoic Era occurred during the Cambrian Period, nearly 7000 ppm -- about 18 times higher than today. ..."   

Climategate reaches the British House of Lords [12/11/09] "There is the issue of the science, which I had previously taken as given; but many people’s faith is being tested. We are often told that the science is settled. I suppose that is what the Inquisition said to Galileo. If so, why are we spending millions of pounds on research? The science is far from settled. – Lord Turnbull Dec 8th 2009 ..."  

NASA Stonewalling Stokes Fears Climategate Will "Spread to U.S". [12/11/09] "Climategate may be just the tip of the global-warming iceberg according to the Washington, D.C.-based Competitive Enterprise Institute, which says the next weather-science scandal may erupt right here in the United States. For nearly three years CEI, a free-market, public-interest organization, has pursued a series of Freedom of Information Act Requests intended to force NASA's climate-science division to hand over e-mails it says could reflect the same sort of pro-warming bias seen in the recent e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of East Anglia University. ..."    

Copenhagen: Global Population Control Program Suggested To Stop Climate Change  [12/11/09] "The Chinese government delegation at the Copenhagen climate change conference has argued that the Communist dictatorship’s one child policy should “serve as a model for integrating population programs into the framework of climate change adaptation.” Zhao Baige, vice-minister of National Population and Family Planning Commission of China (NPFPC) population program told other delegates at the summit that China “has made a great historic contribution to the well-being of society” by instituting population control. ..... Of course, the fact that somewhere in the region of twenty-five million men in China are unable to find brides because so many girls are murdered shortly after birth was somewhat glossed over by the Chinese delegate ..... Forced abortions, mass sterilization and a“Planetary Regime” with the power of life and death were all core concepts put forth by John P. Holdren, the man now in control of science policy in the United States, in his co-authored 1977 book, Ecoscience. ...... In fact, Holdren’s ideas pre-date the inception of China’s one child policy by two years. In the United Kingdom, top government aides have lauded China’s method of population control, ignoring the fact that it has been the primary source of the most human rights abuses of any government policy on the planet.Two days ago, a national newspaper in Canada implored the delegates at Copenhagen to implement a global program of population control in the guise of the Chinese. ...... The reality is that the summit in Copenhagen and it’s attendees are providing a platform, and in some cases actively pushing for a policy enforced by a dictatorship that actively hunts down mothers who become pregnant with their second child, abducts them off the street and takes them to government controlled hospitals where they are drugged and their baby is killed – all in the name of saving the planet. ..."  Note:  Is there anyone reading this stupid enough to think that if all human being vanished tomorrow, that the Earth's climate would suddenly stop changing?  Sequentials with no ability to conceptualize.

"The Great Global Warming Swindle" - Produced by WAGTV (UK) [12/10/09] VIDEO [9:47] (TRAILER) "This 2007 documentary blows the whistle on what may be the biggest swindle in modern history.  Everything you've ever been told about Global Warming is probably untrue. From Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth to news reports from the popular media outlets and even public classrooms which, in chicken little fashion, are screaming - the sky is falling. But is it really? This documentary, which contradicts these claims and has been described by some as the most explosive film of the year and the definitive answer to Al Gore features interviews from some of the Worlds leading scientists, climatologists and former environmentalists .........   The Great Global Warming Swindle blows the whistle on what may be the biggest swindle in modern history. Proponets of man made global warming warn that climate change is the greatest threat ever to mankind, and, if we do not change our ways and reduce CO2 emissions - polar ice caps will melt, coastal areas will flood and hurricane like Katrina will become common. With nearly Gestapo like tactics we are commanded not to question the edicts of the ICCP (oops, sorry, the IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). There is absolutely no room for doubt because there is a "scientific consensus." Anyone who questions the data or conclusion is an enemy of the state and humanity. Well, this is exactly what this well documented film does! Our challenge - watch this film and make up your own mind. "The Great Global Warming Swindle should be seen by everyone interested in the global enviroment, especially those who have seen the Al Gore movie." Professor William M. Gray, meterologist ..."  Note: Very Good   See the Production:  Part 1 [10:00] | Part 2 [10:00] | Part 3 [10:00] |  Part 4 [10:00] |  Part 5 [10:00] |  Part 6 [10:00] |  Part 7 [10:00] |  Part 8 [5:56] |      

Russia Today Interview with Christopher Monckton  VIDEO [10:22] [12/09/09] "Climate change has always existed and humankind does not have the power to affect it insists a critic of global warming theory, Lord Christopher Monckton, on the eve of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. ...Climate change has always existed and humankind does not have the power to affect it insists a critic of global warming theory, Lord Christopher Monckton, on the eve of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. “It is yet another attempt of the governing class of the world to take advantage of the ‘little guy’ to conspire against the governed, to have another excuse for exaggerated levels of taxation, regulation and interference,” blames Monckton ..... “There is no scientific basis whatsoever for saying there is a 90% probability that most of the warming of the last 50 years was caused by human kind,” Monckton insists. “The fact is we have no means of knowing what are the influences that cause the climate to fluctuate in the short term upwards or downwards, this is simply beyond our capacity to measure or analyze.” "  Note: Very Good!   Proved: There is No Climate Crisis  [12/09/09] PDF " ..."  Note: Information released in July 2008.  HTML Version

Skeptics challenge Copenhagen global warming summit [12/09/09] VIDEO [2:48] "Russia Today, one of the few real TV news shows out there, is exposing the man-made climate change fraud in Copenhagen. While a handful of the world's most prestigious white-collar criminals hobnob to discuss how to best con the world, genuine scientists from all around the world are wondering how they are getting away with all the lies. Man-made climate change propaganda has approached a feverish pitch with the EPA recently declaring carbon dioxide is a threat to the universe ... except for the small problem that it's the gas all plants need for survival. If you have any doubts about the man-made global warming fraud, Google: Climategate. Thousands of internal e-mails have been leaked from the UN climate change research facility in East Anglia admitting to a cover-up about real climate change data. While the UN Secretary General has told the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen that mankind is primarily to blame for global warming, 150 scientists have signed an open letter demanding hard evidence for that. The group has laid down the gauntlet to the intergovernmental panel on climate change, saying that: if is the world is warming because of manmade factors, if the glaciers are melting and the sea level is going to rise – then prove it using the science you have come up with and we will counter it with our science. ..."  Note:  Good. Professor Cliff Ollier VIDEO [5:16], a Professor of Geology from the University of Western Australia who focuses on ice caps and glaciers, came to Copenhagen to have his say on the connection between glaciers and the rising sea level.   Christopher Monckton VIDEO [0:50] is yet another one of the skeptics. He has been talking to the delegates to think again about the facts surrounding climate change.         Note: Denmark has a very sequentialized, and arrogant, society.

Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after leaked documents show agreement that hands more power to rich countries [12/09/09] "The UN Copenhagen climate talks are in disarray today after developing countries reacted furiously to leaked documents that show world leaders will next week be asked to sign an agreement that hands more power to rich countries and sidelines the UN's role in all future climate change negotiations. The document is also being interpreted by developing countries as setting unequal limits on per capita carbon emissions for developed and developing countries in 2050; meaning that people in rich countries would be permitted to emit nearly twice as much under the proposals. The so-called Danish text, a secret draft agreement worked on by a group of individuals known as "the circle of commitment" – but understood to include the UK, US and Denmark – has only been shown to a handful of countries since it was finalised this week. ..."  U.S. Caught Drafting Secret Proposal That Could Torpedo Climate Negotiations [12/09/09] ""The Obama administration's role in what appears to be a secret plot to strong-arm through an agreement forcing poor countries to bear much of the cost of reducing emissions is despicable. President Obama cannot lead the world while wheeling and dealing from the back-room. These are supposed to be negotiations about how to solve a problem, not about how to appease the United States government. "The 'Danish text' is grossly unfair and is a non-starter. The United States, which has already filled the atmosphere with far more than its fair share of greenhouse gas emissions, must reject this text and start listening to the proposals of developing countries." ..."  

Socialists at UN demand trillions in 'climate debt'  [12/09/09] "Ignoring the fallacies behind the “science” of man-made global warming, a new U.N. report on “climate justice” says the U.S. and other countries owe $24 trillion in “climate debt” to the rest of the world. The report, “Climate Justice for a Changing Planet,” argues that the United States is “historically the largest global emitter” of greenhouse gas emissions and therefore has the biggest “debt” to pay. But another U.N. report puts the figure at $45 trillion. ..."  Note:  Let's see, $45 trillion divided by the US population works out to ... about $150,000 for every man, woman, and child. Or a half million per household.

The Story of Cap and Trade: More Scam Than Solution  [12/09/09] VIDEO [9:56] "Free permits to big polluters, fake offsets and distraction from what's really required to tackle the climate crisis. If you've heard anything about how we're going to solve our climate crisis then cap and trade is likely familiar to you. But if you don't know exactly what it is, then this new video from Annie Leonard (who also did "The Story of Stuff") is definitely in order. You can also check out a contrarian perspective from David Roberts at Grist. Here's the description of Leonard's "Story of Cap and Trade." 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 what's really required to tackle the climate crisis. If youve heard about Cap & Trade, but aren't sure how it works (or who benefits), this is the film is for you. ..."   

Head of California's Cap and Trade Offsets Program: "Cap and Trade Won't Work for Climate, It's a Scam" [12/09/09] "(Imbecile) Paul Krugman argues that "cap and trade worked to reduce sulfur dioxide and stop acid rain, and so it will work to reduce C02". However, two EPA lawyers with more than 40 years of cumulative experience - including the guy who has been head of California's cap and trade offset programs for more than 20 years - say that sulfur dioxide was different, and that cap and trade for climate is a scam which only benefits the financial players. ..."   

JP Morgan employee Blythe Masters, the woman who invented Credit Default Swaps, is one of the key architects of Carbon Derivatives (which are the center of Cap and Trade) [12/09/09] "Blythe Masters, 40, the JP Morgan employee who invented credit default swaps, and is now heading JPM's carbon trading efforts. oversees the New York bank’s environmental businesses as the firm’s global head of commodities...As a young London banker in the early 1990s, Masters was part of JPMorgan’s team developing ideas for transferring risk to third parties. She went on to manage credit risk for JPMorgan’s investment bank. Among the credit derivatives that grew from the bank’s early efforts was the credit-default swap.  Speculative derivatives (especially credit default swaps or "CDS") are a primary cause of the economic crisis. They were largely responsible for bringing down Bear Stearns, AIG, WaMu and other mammoth corporations. Having killed that market, the self-proclaimed Masters of the Universe want more. ..."  Note:  A female sequential conceptualized this stuff  ... the most virulent Orion mentality connected with the system of money, debt and planetary control which covers somewhere around 25% of this galaxy, if one can believe the entity in Alien Interview. This treasonous bitch will not live to enjoy her wealth ... graduation for us is coming ... and that HS can go to the next planet and occupy another body. Everyone in JP Morgan should be arrested and banished to a dome on the moon. How the Movie Ends: Yes, they'll get "creative", and we have seen this movie before ...an inadequately-regulated carbon derivatives boom will destabilize the economy and lead to another crash. If the government allows massive carbon derivatives trading with as little oversight as over the CDS market, taxpayers will end up spending many trillions bailing out the giant banks and propping up the economy when the carbon market bubble bursts. And as I have previously pointed out: (1) the giant banks will make a killing on carbon trading, (2) while the leading scientist crusading against global warming says it won't work, and (3) there is a very high probability of massive fraud and insider trading in the carbon trading markets. Galactic Bitch Award:  The woman who built financial 'weapon of mass destruction'  Draft Blythe Masters Senate Testimony PDF [12/09/09] "Senate Testimony Testimony of Blythe Masters, Managing Director, JP Morgan Chase before the Subcommittee on Private Sector and Consumer Solutions to Global Warming  ..."  

Carbon Capitalists Warming to Climate Market Using Derivatives  [12/07/09] "Across Uganda, thousands of women warm supper over new, $8 orange-painted stoves. The clay-and- metal pots burn about two-thirds the charcoal of the open-fire cooking typical of East Africa, where forests are being chopped down in the struggle to feed the region’s 125 million people. Four thousand miles away, at the Charles Hurst Land Rover dealership in southwest London, a Range Rover Vogue sells for 90,000 pounds ($151,000). A blue windshield sticker proclaims that the gasoline-powered truck’s first 45,000 miles (72,421 kilometers) will be carbon neutral. That’s because Land Rover, official purveyor of 4x4s to Queen Elizabeth II, is helping Ugandans cut their greenhouse gas emissions with those new stoves. These two worlds came together in the offices of Blythe Masters at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Masters, 40, oversees the New York bank’s environmental businesses as the firm’s global head of commodities. JPMorgan brokered a deal in 2007 for Land Rover to buy carbon credits from ClimateCare, an Oxford, England-based group that develops energy-efficiency projects around the world. Land Rover, now owned by Mumbai-based Tata Motors Ltd., is using the credits to offset some of the CO2 emissions produced by its vehicles. .... Estimates of the potential size of the U.S. cap-and-trade market range from $300 billion to $2 trillion. Banks intend to become the intermediaries in this fledgling market. Although U.S. carbon legislation may not pass for a year or more, Wall Street has already spent hundreds of millions of dollars hiring lobbyists and making deals with companies that can supply them with “carbon offsets” to sell to clients. JPMorgan, for instance, purchased ClimateCare in early 2008 for an undisclosed sum. This month, it paid $210 million for Eco-Securities Group Plc, the biggest developer of projects used to generate credits offsetting government-regulated carbon emissions. Financial institutions have also been investing in alternative energy, such as wind and solar power, and lending to clean-technology entrepreneurs. The banks are preparing to do with carbon what they’ve done before: design and market derivatives contracts that will help client companies hedge their price risk over the long term. They’re also ready to sell carbon-related financial products to outside investors. Masters says banks must be allowed to lead the way if a mandatory carbon-trading system is going to help save the planet at the lowest possible cost. And derivatives related to carbon must be part of the mix, she says. Derivatives are securities whose value is derived from the value of an underlying commodity -- in this case, CO2 and other greenhouse gases. “This requires a massive redirection of capital,” Masters says. “You can’t have a successful climate policy without the heavy, heavy involvement of financial institutions.” As a young London banker in the early 1990s, Masters was part of JPMorgan’s team developing ideas for transferring risk to third parties. She went on to manage credit risk for JPMorgan’s investment bank. Among the credit derivatives that grew from the bank’s early efforts was the credit-default swap. A CDS is a contract that functions like insurance by protecting debt holders against default. In 2008, after U.S. home prices plunged, the cost of protection against subprime-mortgage bond defaults jumped. Insurer American International Group Inc., which had sold billions in CDSs, was forced into government ownership, roiling markets and helping trigger the worst global recession since the 1930s. Now, that story -- and the entire role the banks played in the credit crisis -- has become central to the U.S. carbon debate. Washington lawmakers are leery of handing Wall Street anything new to trade because the bitter taste of the credit debacle lingers. And their focus is on derivatives. Along with CDSs, the most-notorious derivatives are the collateralized-debt obligations they often insured. CDOs are bundles of subprime mortgages and other debt that were sliced into tranches and sold to investors. “People are going to be cutting up carbon futures, and we’ll be in trouble,” says Maria Cantwell, a Democratic senator from Washington state. “You can’t stay ahead of the next tool they’re going to create.” Cantwell, 51, proposed in November that U.S. state governments be given the right to ban unregulated financial products. “The derivatives market has done so much damage to our economy and is nothing more than a very-high-stakes casino -- except that casinos have to abide by regulations,” she wrote in a press release.  ..."  Note: More criminal capers. 

Malthusians and Social Darwinists have hijacked the environmental movement [12/07/09] "In order to fully grasp the magnitude of the ClimateGate scandal, one must understand what purpose the data massaging and blackballing of conflicting science has as part of a larger agenda to use an environmental crisis for social manipulation and control. We have previously covered the origins of the environmental movement’s hijacking decades ago by luminaries such as Maurice Strong, via globalist groups such as The Club of Rome, who published blueprints for the use of a perceived environmental crisis as “a new enemy to untie” humanity. Use of the perceived environmental crisis by special interests operates on two different levels. Firstly, it provides a pretext for controlling the living standards of the masses while acting as an engine for vast financial profitability for the controllers. From so called “green police”, and children being encouraged to become “climate cops”, to the impending introduction of a global carbon tax, the solutions being offered to combat climate change only serve as forms of social control. They do nothing to overturn or prevent changes in the Earth’s climate which we are incessantly told are threatening our continued existence on the planet. ..."  Note: Interesting exposition.  

Comprehensive network analysis shows Climategate likely to be a leak [12/07/09] "The details of the files tell a story that FOIA2009.zip was compiled internally and most likely released by an internal source. ...Some time starting in mid November 2009, ten million teletypes all started their deet-ditta-dot chatter reeling off the following headline: “Hackers broke into the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit….” Proponents of the hacker meme are saying that s/he broke into East Anglia’s network and took emails. Let’s entertain that idea and see where it goes...."  Note: Not a hacking situation at all.

Why Copenhagen May Be a Disaster [12/07/09] "Treating climate change as just another political problem may mean the end of civilization. ..."  Note: Get used to it. 

Wall Street Journal: Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement? U.N. plans for a new 'government' are scary. [12/06/09] "We can only hope that world leaders will do nothing more than enjoy a pleasant bicycle ride around the charming streets of Copenhagen come December. For if they actually manage to wring out an agreement based on the current draft text of the Copenhagen climate-change treaty, the world is in for some nasty surprises. Draft text, you say? If you haven't heard about it, that's because none of our otherwise talkative political leaders have bothered to tell us what the drafters have already cobbled together for leaders to consider. And neither have the media. Enter Lord Christopher Monckton. The former adviser to Margaret Thatcher gave an address at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota, earlier this month that made quite a splash. For the first time, the public heard about the 181 pages, dated Sept. 15, that comprise the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change—a rough draft of what could be signed come December. So far there have been more than a million hits on the YouTube post of his address. It deserves millions more because Lord Monckton warns that the aim of the Copenhagen draft treaty is to set up a transnational "government" on a scale the world has never before seen. The "scheme for the new institutional arrangement under the Convention" that starts on page 18 contains the provision for a "government." The aim is to give a new as yet unnamed U.N. body the power to directly intervene in the financial, economic, tax and environmental affairs of all the nations that sign the Copenhagen treaty. The reason for the power grab is clear enough: Clause after complicated clause of the draft treaty requires developed countries to pay an "adaptation debt" to developing countries to supposedly support climate change mitigation. Clause 33 on page 39 says that "by 2020 the scale of financial flows to support adaptation in developing countries must be [at least $67 billion] or [in the range of $70 billion to $140 billion per year]." And how will developed countries be slugged to provide for this financial flow to the developing world? The draft text sets out various alternatives, including option seven on page 135, which provides for "a [global] levy of 2 per cent on international financial market [monetary] transactions to Annex I Parties." Annex 1 countries are industrialized countries, which include among others the U.S., Australia, Britain and Canada.  ..."  

NYT: Intrigue and Plot Twists in Global Climate Talks [12/06/09] "In the otherwise ponderous and unhurried context of global climate negotiations, the past two weeks have seen a variety of gripping twists. ..."   

Fox News about 13th Day of Network Climategate Cover-Up  [12/06/09] VIDEO [3:38] Note: Interesting. 

NASA Researcher Suspects "Data Shaving" on Climate Data  [12/06/09]  VIDEO [3:34]   Note: NASA = "Never A Straight Answer"

Take back Al Gore's Oscar, 2 Academy members demand in light of Climategate [12/06/09] "No, it wouldn't do anything for the environment. But two Hollywood conservatives (yes, there are some) have called upon the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to rescind the prestigious, profitable gold Oscar statuette that it gave ex-Vice President Al Gore et al two years ago for the environmental movie "An Inconvenient Truth." Roger L. Simon and Lionel Chetwynd, both Academy members, are among a small, meandering pack of known political conservatives still believed to be on the loose in the liberal bastion of movie-making. ..."    

Key Climategate scientist calls skeptic an 'asshole' on live television [12/06/09] VIDEO [3:36]  

Meteorologist suggests NOAA is manipulating data to support climate claims and political goals [12/06/09] "D'Aleo comments on NOAA's claim of 'record' sea surface temps: To enable them to make the case the oceans are warming, NOAA chose to remove satellite input into their global ocean estimation and not make any attempt to operationally use NASA's Argo data in the process. This resulted in a jump of 0.2C or more and 'a new ocean warmth record' in July. ARGO tells us this is another example of NOAA's inexplicable decision to corrupt data to support political agendas. ..."  Note: What makes this such a scandal is that in supporting the claims of global warming, NOAA ignored the results from their own system of ocean-swimming robots, which confirmed in 2008 that the Oceans are cooling.  

Researcher: NASA hiding climate data [12/04/09] "The fight over global warming science is about to cross the Atlantic with a U.S. researcher poised to sue NASA, demanding release of the same kind of climate data that has landed a leading British center in hot water over charges it skewed its data. Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, said NASA has refused for two years to provide information under the Freedom of Information Act that would show how the agency has shaped its climate data and would explain why the agency has repeatedly had to correct its data going as far back as the 1930s. "I assume that what is there is highly damaging," Mr. Horner said. "These guys are quite clearly bound and determined not to reveal their internal discussions about this." ..."   

Climategate Outrage Explodes As Carbon Tax Agenda Collapses  [12/04/09] "Outrage surrounding the climategate scandal is increasing as desperate apologists for the crooks caught manipulating data to “hide the decline” in global warming attempt to distance themselves from the perpetrators, burning a few scientists to save the larger carbon tax gravy train in a cynical damage limitation exercise. The potential for the climategate scandal to derail the gargantuan agenda to exploit fraudulent fearmongering about global warming in order to ram through a new carbon tax is growing after the ringleader of the scam, Phil Jones, the head of the Climactic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, temporarily stepped down pending an investigation. ..." 

Australia: Scientist quits over ETS 'censorship' [12/04/09] "A senior CSIRO environmental economist has resigned after saying his criticism of the emissions trading scheme (ETS) was censored. Dr Clive Spash has resigned after three years with CSIRO. For most of this year, he had been in a dispute over the publication of his paper which criticised carbon trading schemes. ..."  Note:  

The cost of Copenhagen may not hit your pocket [12/04/09] "Researchers using economic computer models have calculated that the cost of food, alcohol, clothing and household goods will rise by less than a per cent under the Copenhagen climate conference proposals. Even power and heating bills and car travel will see relatively modest rises by 2050, claims the research. Only air travel will be massively affected, rocketing by 140 per cent in the same period. ..."  Note:  

Gore: Copenhagen 'targets not tough enough' [12/04/09] "The former vice-president and environmental campaigner hits out at 'poor' emissions targets for climate change summit  ..."  Note: It is with great satisfaction that we know this asshole won't get to spend his wealth.  

Carbon Dioxide irrelevant in climate debate said MIT Scientist [12/03/09] "In a study sure to ruffle the feathers of the Global Warming cabal, Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT has published a paper which proves that IPCC models are overstating by 6 times, the relevance of CO2 in Earth’s Atmosphere. Dr. Lindzen has found that heat is radiated out in to space at a far higher rate than any modeling system to date can account for. ..."   

Other planets are getting warmer and colder in sync with the Earth [12/03/09] "At least since 1989, Triton has been undergoing a period of global warming. Percentage-wise, it’s a very large increase,” said Elliot, professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and director of the Wallace Astrophysical Observatory. The 5 percent increase on the absolute temperature scale from about minus-392 degrees Fahrenheit to about minus-389 degrees Fahrenheit would be like the Earth experiencing a jump of about 22 degrees Fahrenheit.” So there is Global Warming on at least 4 other bodies in our Solar System that co-insides with the recent warming on Earth. ..."    Note:  Keep in mind that warming can change the thermal halocline currents and lead, on Earth to a situation of global cooling and a mini ice age. Related: The Whole Solar System is Undergoing Global Warming | Mars Melt Hints at Solar, Not Human, Cause for Warming, Scientist Says

Bombshell UN Documents Outline Plan To Use Climategate Crooks In “End Run” Around National Sovereignty [12/03/09] "UN strategy documents reveal how elitists are recruiting members of academia from all over the globe in an effort to hide the “end-run” around national sovereignty that their agenda represents, emphasizing how the climategate crooks who were recently caught manipulating scientific data in order to “hide the decline” in global warming are working with the United Nations in the pursuit of a world government justified by the global warming fraud that they are helping to perpetrate. ..."   

World Bank: Climate Profiteer [12/02/09] "World Bank is charging a 13 percent commission on its more than $2 billion in carbon trades, while continuing to support fossil fuels. The report found that these World Bank carbon trade projects show little evidence of actual emissions reductions: Of the 83 active World Bank projects found in the Bank’s online project database, only nine have delivered Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs). The vast majority of these CERs came from a single industrial chemical project in China. ..."  

Australia's Parliament defeats global warming bill [12/02/09] "Australia's plans for an emissions trading system to combat global warming were scuttled Wednesday in Parliament, handing a defeat to a government that had hoped to set an example at international climate change talks next week. The Senate, where Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's government does not hold a majority, rejected his administration's proposal for Australia to become one of the first countries to install a so-called cap-and-trade system to slash the amount of heat-trapping pollution that industries pump into the air. ..."   

ClimateGate Totally Ignored By TV News Outlets Except Fox [12/02/09] Note: Which is interesting in itself. 

UN Document Divulges Climate Cult Brainwashing  [12/01/09] "With the reverberations of climategate still echoing, it has now emerged that children are being greenwashed in public schools by being forced to sing climate cult ditties and hate their parents as part of a United Nations propaganda program aimed at capturing young minds, as the UN itself officially acknowledges the global warming mantra as a new religion. A shocking new UN strategy document also reveals how elitists are recruiting members of academia from all over the globe in an effort to hide the “end-run” around national sovereignty that their program represents. “When did global warming turn into a forced religion?,” asks the New York Post’s Andrea Peyser  ... as she tells the story of how her daughter came home from school singing the words ” . . . You can hear the warning — GLOBAL WARMING . . . “.“All the kids had been coerced into singing this catchy ditty, which we called “The Warming Song,” at a concert for parents. Further song lyrics scolded selfish adults (that would be us) for polluting our planet and causing a warming scourge that would, in no short order, kill all the polar bears and threaten the birds and bees,” writes Peyser. That’s right, in the spirit of the Club of Rome’s 1991 resolution to make humanity the enemy in creating the contrived threat of environmental Armageddon, children have been turned against their own parents in the service of a new Gaia religion. “In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself.,” they wrote in a report entitled “The First Global Revolution”.  “Our children are on the front lines of the warming hysteria, a place where “experts” from Al Gore to the president leave no room for dissent or even the slightest skepticism, despite claims that are no more provable than the Earth is flat.,” says Peyser." A newly uncovered document sheds some light on the genesis of how such brainwashing found its way into our schools. A strategy paper (PDF) for the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), the world’s would-be environmental watchdog, reveals how the global elite in charge of the green takeover resolved that, “Environmentalism should be regarded on the same level with religion “as the only compelling, value-based narrative available to humanity,” according to a Fox News report. This approach follows a similar tack to the new methods adopted by Al Gore, who in his recent presentations has delivered his message as a kind of religious sermon, acknowledging, “Simply laying out the facts won’t work.” The UN planning paper outlines a program of implementing a global system of governance based around environmental regulations and laws, stressing the agenda for the “evolutionary nature of strengthening international environmental governance.”  

WSJ: Climategate: Follow the Money  [12/01/09] "Climategate, as readers of these pages know, concerns some of the world's leading climate scientists working in tandem to block freedom of information requests, blackball dissenting scientists, manipulate the peer-review process, and obscure, destroy or massage inconvenient temperature data—facts that were laid bare by last week's disclosure of thousands of emails from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit, or CRU. But the deeper question is why the scientists behaved this way to begin with, especially since the science behind man-made global warming is said to be firmly settled. To answer the question, it helps to turn the alarmists' follow-the-money methods right back at them. ..."   Related: The Economics of Climate Change [12/01/09] "To keep this money flowing, climate scientists needed to keep the fear going. Anything that called into question their most dire predictions of climate catastrophe would put all that funding at risk. On the other hand, the bigger the climate calamity, the more willing governments became to fund global-warming research. Keeping the dissenters on the outside was not simply a matter of academic jealousy. It was in many cases a question of professional survival. ..."  Note: Climate change never WAS in dispute. Climate change is what is SUPPOSED to happen. At issue is the fraud used to manufacture a crisis in order to sell us a 'solution'. WSJ: The Web Discloses Inconvenient Climate Truths "For anyone who doubts the power of the Internet to shine light on darkness, the news of the month is how digital technology helped uncover a secretive group of scientists who suppressed data, froze others out of the debate, and flouted freedom-of-information laws. Their behavior was brought to light when more than 1,000 emails,and some 3,500 additional files were published online, many of which boasted about how they suppressed hard questions about their data. The emails, released by an apparent whistle-blower who used the name "FOI," were written by scientists at the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in England. Its scientists are high-profile campaigners for the theory of global warming. ..."  

CNBC Vs. Climategate truth (Truth Wins!) [12/01/09] VIDEO [5:24] 

35 Inconvenient Truths: The errors in Al Gore’s movie [12/01/09] PDF 

What's the carbon/health footprint of another senseless war? [12/01/09] "The Afghan War may now doom our ability both to cope with the global climate crisis and to fairly deliver health care in this country. If Barack Obama announces an escalation, Copenhagen and the Climate Bill will become meaningless. And the prospects for a single-payer health care system or even a token public option will disappear ..."  Note: You know, if the Global Warming Cult were really all that serious about carbon dioxide and global warming, don't you think they would make a huge stink about cutting down several million photosynthesizing trees every winter for Holiday decorations, most of which get chopped up and burned in the fireplace, thereby producing vast clouds of CO2? You don't hear that, do you? The Cultist's ONLY solution to the "problem" is to demand your money and obedience. Kind of gives the game away right there, doesn't it? 

White House Continues To Ignore "ClimateGate" [12/01/09] "Just days ahead of the pResident’s trip to Hopenhagen to help hammer out some kind of deal that usurps American sovereignty and moola, Robert Gibbs takes a question from Major Garrett about the hacked ClimateGate emails, and totally sidesteps answering it by stating that “…Carol Browner addressed that last week; on the order of several thousand scientists have come to the conclusion that climate change is happening. I don’t think that’s anything that is, quite frankly among most people, in dispute anymore.” Don’t hold your breath waiting for Gibbs or Obama to volunteer that those scientists based their opinions on faked data. Robert Gibbs reaction to the 30,000 scientists, of which 6000 are PHDs, who are suing Al Gore over the global warming fraud: “…no real scientific basis for the dispute of this ...."  Video [2:10]

Three Things You Absolutely Must Know About Climategate [12/01/09] "This may seem obscure, but the science involved is being used to justify the diversion of literally trillions of dollars of the world’s wealth in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by phasing out fossil fuels. The CRU is the Pentagon of global warming science, and these documents are its Pentagon Papers. ..."    Related:  Vincent Gray on Climategate: ‘There Was Proof of Fraud All Along’ "IPCC expert reviewer Gray — whose 1,898 comments critical of the 2007 report were ignored — recently found that proof of the fraud was public for years ..."   

(Australian) Senate in a spin as carbon debate rages [12/01/09] "Senate will resume debating the Federal Government's emissions trading legislation this morning, but Labor strategists concede they cannot force a vote before the Liberal Party leadership contest is resolved tomorrow. Liberal senators backing Malcolm Turnbull's stance on the legislation have told colleagues they will nonetheless refuse to support any procedural move to cut debate short and have a final vote today. With at least 175 amendments still to be debated, that means the Senate will not finish detailed consideration of the legislation before tomorrow's party room meeting even though it is scheduled to sit until late tonight. ..."  Video [1:23]

Rigging a Climate 'Consensus'  [12/01/09] "The climatologists at the center of the leaked email and document scandal have taken the line that it is all much ado about nothing. Yes, the wording of their messages was unfortunate, but they insist this in no way undermines the underlying science. They're ignoring the damage they've done to public confidence in the arbiters of climate science. "What they've done is search through stolen personal emails—confidential between colleagues who often speak in a language they understand and is often foreign to the outside world," Penn State's Michael Mann told Reuters Wednesday. Mr. Mann added that this has made "something innocent into something nefarious." ..."  Note:  Here is a great example. "I can make it up. So I have" You can see how that could be misunderstood.

 

Lord Monckton: "Shut Down The UN, Arrest Al Gore" [11/30/09] "Appearing on The Alex Jones Show yesterday, Lord Christopher Monckton went further than ever before in his vehement opposition to the elitists running the climate change scam, calling for the UN to be shut down and for fraudulent peddlers of global warming propaganda like Al Gore to be arrested and criminally prosecuted. Monckton said that those who are threatening to shut down economies, bankrupt nations, and deepen the problems of the third world by implementing draconian policies in the name of global warming should be indicted, prosecuted and imprisoned “for a very long time”. ..." Note: Video Part 1 [10:56] Video Part2 [10:57] Video Part3 [10:57]  Video Part4 [10:55] Video Part5 [9:05]

Current credit bailout bill contains "carbon tax" provisions [11/30/09] "If you look at page 180 of the 451-page monster bailout bill that easily passed the Senate yesterday (PDF here), you will see that it includes at Section 116 language about the tax treatment of “industrial source carbon dioxide.” It also provides, at Section 117, for a “carbon audit of the tax code.” What could a provision about the tax treatment of “industrial source carbon dioxide” and another provision about doing a “carbon audit” of the tax code possibly have to do with restoring confidence in Wall Street’s troubled credit and banking markets? The answer: NOTHING. This appears to be an attempt by global warming alarmists to lay the foundation for a carbon tax in the middle of another crisis, hoping nobody will notice. ..."  Note:  The scam is very simple. Congress votes a law that creates a piece of paper then they claim that piece of paper gives them the right to take your money from you and order you around. But it is only true if you believe it. Beliefs are chains used to hold free minds slaves. This is just one example.

NOAA Caught Fudging Climate Data [11/30/09]  "Yes, that is correct. Nearly all the reported warming in the USHCN data base, which is used for nearly all global warming studies and models, is from human-added fudge factors, guesstimates, and corrections. I know what you are thinking – this is some weird skeptic’s urban legend. Well, actually it comes right from the NOAA web page which describes how they maintain the USHCN data set. Below is the key chart from that site showing the sum of all the plug factors and corrections they add to the raw USHCN measurements: ...."    

Climate Science Fraud at Albany University [11/30/09] "Professor Wei-Chyung Wang is a star scientist in the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at the University at Albany, New York. He is a key player in the climate change debate (see his self-description here). Wang has been accused of scientific fraud. ..."  Note: In short, during the time Professor Wei-Chyung Wang insisted that the temperature monitoring stations he collected data from were being left alone, the real data shows they were being moved around to different places at different times.

Software developer looks at CRU code [11/30/09] "I discuss the actual source code that was released in the recent hack of the CRU. The source code confirms the manipulation of climate data by climate scientists. ..."  Note:  Follow up Video  

Congressional Working Paper:  Al Gore’s Science Fiction: A Skeptic’s Guide to An Inconvenient Truth  [11/30/09]   \

Stephanopoulos: ClimateGate Complicates Copenhagen for Obama [11/30/09] " As NewsBusters has been reporting since this story broke more than a week ago, television news outlets have been quite disinterested in the controversy now growing with each passing day. Breaking this trend, Stephanopoulos aggressively waded into this seemingly verboten subject by mentioning how it complicates President Obama's trip to "Copenhagen to deal with climate change."  

Climate Change Bill Faces Delays In Senate [11/30/09] "In early December, world leaders will gather in Copenhagen to begin talks on a new treaty to curb greenhouse gases and global warming. President Obama will attend the summit. In urging action on climate change, the president says it's essential "that all countries do what is necessary to reach a strong operational agreement that will confront the threat of climate change while serving as a stepping stone to a legally binding treaty." White House officials say the U.S. will propose targets for reducing greenhouse gases in line with what Congress is considering. But while the House narrowly passed a climate change bill last summer, no action by the Senate is expected until next spring. ..."  

Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics [11/30/09] PDF  

Obama, Maurice Strong, Al Gore key players cashing in on Chicago Climate Exchange [11/29/09] "“Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Program He Is Now Pushing Through Congress” is a FOXNews story by Ed Barnes. In short, “While on the board of a Chicago-based charity, Barack Obama helped fund a carbon trading exchange that will likely play a critical role in the cap-and-trade carbon reduction program he is now trying to push through Congress as president.” (SEE STORY on Obama BELOW) And that’s only the beginning of this tawdry tale, Mr. Barnes. The “privately-owned” Chicago Climate Exchange is heavily influenced by Obama cohorts Al Gore and Maurice Strong. For years now Strong and Gore have been cashing in on that lucrative cottage industry known as man-made global warming .....Strong is on the board of directors of the Chicago Climate Exchange, Wikipedia-described as “the world’s first and North America’s only legally binding greenhouse gas emission registry reduction system for emission sources and offset projects in North America and Brazil.” Gore, self-proclaimed Patron Saint of the Environment, buys his carbon off-sets from himself–the Generation Investment Management LLP, “an independent, private, owner-managed partnership established in 2004 with offices in London and Washington, D.C., of which he is both chairman and founding partner. The Generation Investment Management business has considerable influence over the major carbon credit trading firms that currently exist, including the Chicago Climate Exchange. Strong, the silent partner, is a man whose name often draws a blank on the Washington cocktail circuit. Even though a former Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the much hyped Rio Earth Summit) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations in the days of an Oil-for-Food beleaguered Kofi Annan, the Canadian born Strong is little known in the United States. That’s because he spends most of his time in China where he he has been working to make the communist country the world’s next superpower. The nondescript Strong, nonetheless is the big cheese in the underworld of climate change and is one of the main architects of the failing Kyoto Protocol. Full credit for the expose on the business partnership of Strong and Gore in the cap-and-trade reduction scheme should go to the investigative acumen of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR). The tawdry tale of the top two global warming gurus in the business world goes all the way back to Earth Day, April 17, 1995 when the future author of “An Inconvenient Truth” travelled to Fall River, Massachusetts, to deliver a green sermon at the headquarters of Molten Metal Technology Inc. (MMTI). MMTI was a firm that proclaimed to have invented a process for recycling metals from waste. Gore praised the Molten Metal firm as a pioneer in the kind of innovative technology that can save the environment, and make money for investors at the same time. “Gore left a few facts out of his speech that day,” wrote EIR. “First, the firm was run by Strong and a group of Gore intimates, including Peter Knight, the firm’s registered lobbyist, and Gore’s former top Senate aide  ..."  Note: See below. 

Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Program He Is Now Pushing Through Congress [11/29/09] "In 2000 and 2001, while Barack Obama served as a board member for a Chicago-based charitable foundation, he helped to fund a pioneering carbon trading exchange that is likely to fill a critical role in the controversial cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme that President Obama is now trying to push rapidly through Congress. During those two years, the Joyce Foundation gave nearly $1.1 million in two separate grants that were instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange, which now calls itself "North America's only cap and trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide." One of those gases is carbon dioxide, the most ubiquitous greenhouse gas and the focus of the most far-reaching -- and contentious -- efforts to combat "climate change." On Monday, Obama's Environmental Protection Agency declared carbon dioxide a public health threat. The President of the Joyce Foundation in 2000, when the foundation made its first grant to the Climate Exchange, was Paula DiPerna, who is now executive vice president of the Chicago Climate Exchange in charge of corporate recruitment and public policy, as well as president of CCX International. DiPerna left the foundation in November 2001 and joined the Exchange. It was the same year in which the foundation gave its second and much larger grant to the exchange. The Exchange finally launched in 2003. ..... Reached at her office in New York, DiPerna said President Obama, who in 2000 was a candidate for Congress, was involved as a director of the foundation and voted on the proposal but declined to detail that involvement other than that "he read the proposal and voted on the grant." She referred subsequent questions to the exchange's communications office. .... In response to questions from FOX News about Obama's relationship to the project a White House spokesman said "the President has long believed that a market-based cap-and-trade system is the best way to reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions and to promote our energy security. The success of the cap-and-trade approach in reducing acid rain demonstrates that providing incentives for companies to reduce their emissions is effective." ..... Obama's espousal of cap-and-trade, a system that is intended, among other things, to increase the price of fossil fuels and force their replacement by energy sources that produce less greenhouse gases, has drawn fire from many economists as a huge energy tax that will weigh heavily on an economy that is already in steep recession. The price tag has been put high as $2 trillion dollars over eight years. That figure, nearly three times higher than originally projected, was given in a White House briefing to Senate staffers last week and reported by US News and World Report and the Washington Times. The scheme has also drawn attacks from 28 U.S. Senators, including West Virginia's Robert Byrd and Michigan's Carl Levin, both Democrats, who have criticized Obama for floating the idea that he would attach the measure to the current budget reconciliation process, to avoid a filibuster in Congress. An open letter signed by the dissident senators declared that "enactment of a cap-and-trade regime is likely to influence nearly every feature of the U.S. economy. Legislation so far-reaching should be fully vetted and given appropriate time for debate, something the budget reconciliation process does not allow." Obama served as one of 12 directors on the Joyce Foundation board from July 1994 until December 2002, according to a Joyce foundation spokesman. But it was only in 2000 and 2001 that the foundation gave money to the Climate Exchange -- funds deemed by the exchange itself to be fundamental to its successful launch, and in fact to its early survival. ..."    

Climategate e-mails sweep America, may scuttle Barack Obama's Cap and Trade laws [11/29/09] "Just a few considerations in addition to previous remarks about the explosion of the East Anglia Climategate e-mails in America. The reaction is growing exponentially there. Fox News, Barack Obama’s Nemesis, is now on the case, trampling all over Al Gore’s organic vegetable patch and breaking the White House windows. It has extracted some of the juiciest quotes from the e-mails and displayed them on-screen, with commentaries. Joe Public, coast-to-coast, now knows, thanks to the clowns at East Anglia’s CRU, just how royally he has been screwed. ..."   

ClimateGate on Fox News 11-28-09 [11/28/09] VIDEO [8:20] Note:  Both FOX and their guest miss a major point. Climategate is NOT the fault of the scientists, who only did what they were paid to do, but of the ringleaders; those politicians who paid the scientists.

UN scientists turn on each other [11/29/09] "A UN scientist is declaring that his three fellow UN climate panel colleagues "should be barred from the IPCC process." In a November 26, 2009 message on his website, UN IPCC contributing author Dr. Eduardo Zorita writes: "CRU files: Why I think that Michael Mann, Phil Jones and Stefan Rahmstorf should be barred from the IPCC process." Zorita writes: "Short answer: Because the scientific assessments in which they may take part are not credible anymore." Zorita indicates that he is aware that he is putting his career in jeopardy by going after the upper echelon of UN IPCC scientists. "By writing these lines I will just probably achieve that a few of my future studies will, again, not see the light of publication," Zorita candidly admits, a reference to the ClimateGate emails discussing how to suppress data and scientific studies that do not agree with the UN IPCC views. Zorita was a UN IPCC Contributing Author of the Fourth Assessment Report in 2007. Since 2003, Zorita has headed the Department of Paleoclimate and has been a senior scientist at the Institute for Coastal Research of the GKSS Research Centre in Germany. Zorita has published more than 70 peer-reviewed scientific studies. Zorita's stunning candor continued, noting that scientists who disagreed with the UN IPCC climate view were "bullied and subtly blackmailed." "In this atmosphere, Ph D students are often tempted to tweak their data so as to fit the 'politically correct picture'. Some, or many issues, about climate change are still not well known. Policy makers should be aware of the attempts to hide these uncertainties under a unified picture. I had the 'pleasure' to experience all this in my area of research," Zorita explained.  ..."   

Police Get “Pre-emptive” Arrest Powers Ahead Of Copenhagen  [11/28/09] "Controversial legislation gives police sweeping powers of 'pre-emptive' arrest and extends custodial sentences for acts of civil disobedience. The Danish parliament today passed legislation which will give police sweeping powers of “pre-emptive” arrest and extend custodial sentences for acts of civil disobedience. The “deeply worrying” law comes ahead of the UN climate talks which start on 7 December and are expected to attract thousands of activists from next week. ..."  Note:  This is obviously a knee-jerk reaction to the Climategate scandal, and the probability of massive protests against the forced imposition of a global government and global "environmental" taxes.

How Much of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Accumulation Is Anthropogenic? (Man-made) [11/28/09] "...The argument, however, is about the source of the carbon dioxide. If human carbon emissions are the primary source, then attempts to reduce these emissions would have a significant economic impact. A consensus from many scientists has concluded from the data that human activities are at least partly responsible [#1]; many say for at least half of it. Climate-change skeptics have argued, however, that anthropogenic carbon emissions are not precipitating global warming. They say that the human contribution to carbon emissions from all sources is too small to be significant and that the observed changes in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration are just natural variation. This position, of course, is in response to a perceived threat to the economic status quo. To shed some light upon this issue, let's take a look at the scientific data ..."   

Al Gore Set To Become First “Carbon Billionaire” [11/28/09] "The New York Times has lifted the lid on how Al Gore stands to benefit to the tune of billions of dollars if the carbon tax proposals he is pushing come to fruition in the United States, while documenting how he has already lined his pockets on the back of exaggerated fearmongering about global warming. As is to be expected, the article is largely a whitewash and takes an apologist stance in defense of Gore. However, the NY Times‘ John M. Broder does reveal how one of the companies Gore invested in, Silver Spring Networks, recently received a contract worth $560 million dollars from the Energy Department to install “smart meters” in people’s homes that record (and critics fear could eventually regulate) energy usage. ..."    

Climategate: Five Aussie MPs lead the way by resigning in disgust over carbon tax  [11/28/09] "Australia is leading the revolt against Al Gore’s great big AGW conspiracy – just as the Aussie geologist and AGW sceptic Professor Ian Plimer predicted it would. ABC news reports that five frontbenchers from Australia’s opposition Liberal party have resigned their portfolios rather than follow their leader Malcolm Turnbull in voting with Kevin Rudd’s Government on a new Emissions Trading Scheme ..."

"Settled"? It's not even "Science" [11/28/09] "Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) proponent Kevin Trenberth says "It is incontrovertible" that the world is warming as a result of human actions. Those are not the words of a scientist. By definition, the conclusions of science are always controvertible, and open to refutation or revision. That's how science works. Scientific method demands three things of a theory: that it be verifiable, falsifiable, and predictive. Verifiable: others must be able to duplicate your work and get the same results. Falsifiable: there must be some way to prove your theory wrong. ..."    

"Global Warming and Science" [11/27/09] "This is a PDF file (large, about 11 meg) made from a PowerPoint slide show from Artesia Geological Services. It lays out the hard facts and figures about the effects of CO2, and illustrates much of the spin and fraud of the global warming cult. ..."   

Futerra: Unearthed Files Include “Rules” for Mass Mind Control Campaign  [11/26/09] "Hacked into by a person or persons unknown, the unearthed material out of the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit’s main server reveals a 62 megabyte zip file confirming that which was already blatantly obvious, namely that the data has been fudged to convince unsuspecting audiences that ‘the debate is over’. The intruded central computer was not only filled to the brim with obvious and attempted ostracizing of scientists who don’t blindly follow the leader, the files also reveal that the folks of the IPCC made use or considered making use of a disinformation campaign through a ‘communication agency’ called Futerra. .... The agency describes itself as “the sustainability communications agency” and serves such global players as Shell, Microsoft, BBC, the UN Environment Programme, the UK government and the list goes on. The co-founder of Futerra, Ed Gillespie explains: “For brands to succeed in this new world order, they will have to become eco, ethical and wellness champions.” The document included within the climategate treasure-chest is called ‘ Rules of the Game’ [We saved a copy in case this disappears] and shows deliberate deception on the part of this agency to ensure that the debate would indeed be perceived as being settled. When facts do not convince, they reasoned, let us appeal to emotions in order to get the job done. Outlining the ‘rules of the game’ in regards to climate change communication strategies, Futerra considers these rules as a “first step to using sophisticated behaviour change modelling and comprehensive evidence from around the world to change attitudes towards climate change.” “We need to think radically”, proclaim the authors, “and the Rules of the Game are a sign that future campaigns will not be “business as usual.””  ..........  First " Rule" as outlined by Futerra is called “Blowing away Myths”. Pressing the point that any company wishing to sell global warming must be cautious in using the fear-card: “Fear can create apathy if individuals have no ‘agency’ to act upon the threat. Use fear with great caution.” Arrogantly stating to “Forget the climate change detractors”, the document goes on to say that “Those who deny climate change science are irritating, but unimportant.” Futerra also stresses that “There is no ‘rational man’” and “Information can’t work alone.” The second Rule all should abide by is “a new way of thinking”. “Once we’ve eliminated the myths”, the report goes on to say, “there is room for some new ideas.” These include: “Climate change must be ‘front of mind’ before persuasion works”, Futerra says. “Currently, telling the public to take notice of climate change is as successful as selling tampons to men” and “people don’t realise (or remember) that climate change relates to them.” Another one: “Use transmitters and social learning”. Futerra proposes targeting ‘trendsetters’ to persuade people to acknowledge climate change as a genuine threat to them: “people learn through social interaction, and some people are better teachers and trendsetters than others. Targeting these people will ensure that messages seem more trustworthy and are transmitted more effectively.”.......Under the header of the third ‘Rule’, “linking policy and communication” it is stated that “everyone must use a clear and consistent explanation of climate change” and “government policy and communications on climate change must be consistent.” Indeed. If the lie is to be sold effectively, they must all communicate the same lie. How to best sell it? -“Create a trusted, credible, recognized voice on climate change.” -“Use emotions and visuals: another classic marketing tool: changing behaviour by disseminating information doesn’t always work, but emotions and visuals usually do.” It seems that people have been listening. The advertisement of global warming is thick with apocalyptic visuals, ranging from polar bears crashing to their doom and a large family of hurricanes plaguing the continental United States. Last but not least, the old Edward Bernays-trick is being proposed, the power of repetition: “The communications must be sustained over time: all the most successful public awareness campaigns have been sustained consistently over many years.” Indeed they have. The good news is that with the unveiling of the recent e-mails and documents the lies are being exposed in such a quick pace, the propaganda will be hard pressed to keep up...."    Related: Futerra (UK) PR, Marketing, Communications for Climate, CSR, Ethics and Green.     [ Wide-spread influence sought by this UK company is seen in a Google search ]  Futerra Inc  (USA) North Carolina

RT: Top Scientist To Resign Over Climategate [11/26/09] VIDEO [4:18]     Search CRU Emails for Keywords and Phrases

Greenwash: The Big Fib [11/26/09]  PDF  "Greenwash is an environmental claim which is unsubstantiated (a fib) or irrelevant (a distraction). Found in advertising, PR or on packaging, and made about people, organisations and products. Greenwash is an old concept, wrapped in a very modern incarnation...."    

IPCC Admitted in 2001 That Climate Prediction is Impossible [11/26/09] "In climate research and modelling, we should recognise that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore that the long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible. ..."    

NZ: Climategate: the scandal spreads, the plot thickens, the shame deepens…  [11/26/09] "The alleged villains this time are the climate scientists at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NiWA) – New Zealand’s answer to Britain’s Climate Research Unit. And to judge by this news alert by the Climate Science Coalition of NZ, both institutions share a similarly laissez-faire attitude to scientific accuracy.  ..."   

CRU's Source Code: Climategate Uncovered [11/26/09] "Skimming through the often spaghetti-like code, the number of programs which subject the data to a mixed-bag of transformative and filtering routines is simply staggering. Granted, many of these "alterations" run from benign smoothing algorithms (e.g., omitting rogue outliers) to moderate infilling mechanisms (e.g., estimating missing station data from that of those closely surrounding). But many others fall into the precarious range between highly questionable (removing MXD data which demonstrate poor correlations with local temperature) to downright fraudulent (replacing MXD data entirely with measured data to reverse a disorderly trend-line). ... CRU relied on 8 papers linking tree ring growth to temperatures in historical times. However, these papers were full of errors despite being approved by the (now known-to-be compromised) "peer-review" process. These papers and indeed the entire CRU methodology was to express tree ring thickness solely in terms of temperature while ignoring or minimizing the effects of variations in water availability, nutrients, disease patterns, and the fact that increased CO2 would trigger more robust plant growth even though the actual temperature might remain constant or even decline. "  Note: The concept of "peer review' has been compromised in all areas of scientific endeavor, since it's inception.  Related:  "Manufacturing consensus: why Climategate hurts the warming faith"  Note: See, it's a belief system cult. 'Climategate' won't stop greens: they don't give shit about the science  Note: Billions of dollars in Carbon-Credit trading fees are on the line, as well as the push for a global government. With the revelation that New Zealand's Climate Center has also been exposed for faking a warming trend, this is truly an international scandal. The globalists are fearing for their very existence, and they know no morality to hold them in check. There is nothing they will not attempt to salvage their plans.

New Documentary Challenges Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' on Global Warming [11/26/09] "Al Gore's award-winning global warming film "An Inconvenient Truth," socked two years ago by a British court ruling that found several errors, is facing additional scrutiny with the release of a new documentary that seeks to rebut many of Gore's claims. Buoyed by the ruling, two Irish journalists -- Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney -- released a documentary in which they gather evidence outlining the damage of global warming hysteria. In "Not Evil Just Wrong," they challenge the claims made in Gore's film and conclude that the film is not worth screening in schools because it is shown there as "an article of science, not faith." "I wouldn't like our documentary to have nine significant errors and if it did, I certainly wouldn't be showing it to school children across America, and that's the important thing," McAleer told Fox News' Sean Hannity on Friday. In Gore's film, directed by Davis Guggenheim and released in 2006, the former vice president argues that humans are causing climate change, a problem he says is the biggest moral challenge facing the globe. If humans don't act to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, Gore contends, the deaths caused by climate change will double in 25 years to 300,000 people a year, and more than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction in half a century. The film went on to win Academy Awards for Gore and Guggenheim and to re-energize the environmental movement. But in 2007, a British High Court judge ruled that Gore's film contained nine significant errors and should no longer be screened in schools unless accompanied by guidance notes to balance Gore's "one-sided" views. .... The film's "apocalyptic vision" was not an impartial analysis of climate change, High Court Judge Michael Burton said, adding that the film is "substantially founded up scientific research and fact" but that the errors were made in "the context of alarmism and exaggeration." Just last month, McAleer publicly confronted Gore in an contentious exchange at an environmental journalist conference, where Gore was the keynote speaker and took questions from the audience. When asked by McAleer whether he would do anything to correct the errors found by the British court, Gore said he wouldn't go through each of the errors but added that the ruling was in favor of screening the film in schools. "There's been such a long discussion of each one of those specific things," he said. "One of them for example was that polar bears really aren't endangered. Well polar bears didn't get that word." The audience laughed. Phelim countered that the number of polar bears has increased and is increasing. "You don't think they're endangered?" Gore asked. "The number has increased," McAleer repeated, prompting the same question from Gore. "If the number of polar bears has increased, surely they're not in danger." Before McAleer could say anything else, he was interrupted by environmental journalists who said it wasn't a debate and shut off his microphone. Click here to watch the exchange. .....   McAleer, who has reported in the past for the Financial Times and the Economist, among other outlets, said he believes the incident shows that the members of the Society of Environmental Journalists are simply environmentalists, not journalists. "They see it's their duty to protect the multi-millionaire politician/businessman, rather than support the journalist asking difficult questions," he said. McElhinney, McAleer's filmmaking partner, said Gore, while doing research for his newly released book, "Our Choice," asked a scientist to dial back the science to fit his narrative. "So much for the inconvenient truth," McElhinney said. "He just doesn't like the truth." McElhinney said it's a flawed argument by environmentalists that there's a consensus that everyone agrees about the causes and consequences of global warming. "That's not how science works," she said. "It doesn't matter if 99,000 people all agree about something and one person is right. Politics works like that -- a certain number of people vote for something and then it becomes true. But with science, it's the one person who tells the truth." Click here to watch the Fox News' interview. ..."    

UK: Climate change will affect insurance [11/26/09] "Climate change is set to make insurance more expensive and harder to obtain, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has warned. The group said predicted rises in temperatures in the UK looked set to “significantly” increase the cost to insurers of flood and windstorm damage ..."  

Another Prominent Scientist Calls CRU Scientists "Criminals" [11/26/09] "A prominent scientist has called for criminal prosecutions to be brought against the UN affiliated scientists involved in what has been termed "ClimateGate". ..."  Note: Not just the scientists, but the NON-scientists who signed the grant checks and pulled the media strings. Al Gore, for one. And the people who swung his Academy Award and his Nobel Peace Prize for another. 

Climate Change Legislation Would Slow Economy, Says Congressional Budget Office [11/26/09] "The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report on Monday saying that the climate change legislation being considered by Congress could reduce the purchasing power of the middle class and shrink or slow the economy. The report, “The Costs of Reducing Greenhouse-Gas Emissions,” says market-based regulations such as a cap and trade scheme would boost the cost of emission-intensive activities. In turn, household incomes would shrink along with consumer consumption and savings, real wages would fall, the supply of labor would shrink, and economic investment ..."  

Climate change scandal deepens as BBC expert claims he was sent 'cover-up' emails a month before they went public [11/26/09] "The controversy surrounding the global warming scandal today deepened after a BBC correspondent admitted he was sent the leaked emails more than a month before they were made public. Paul Hudson, weather presenter and climate change expert, claims the documents allegedly sent between some of the world's leading scientists are of a direct result of an article he wrote..."   

Poor Nations Stiffed on Climate Pledges [11/26/09] "Huge sums of money promised by EU countries to help poor nations cope with climate change have melted away faster than Arctic ice. The EU and five other industrialized nations promised developing countries $410 million a year in the 2001 Bonn declaration, but the UN funds set up to deal with the funds have received only $260 million in the 8 years since, a BBC investigation finds. Not only have the funds not materialized, but it's impossible to pin down what happened to the money. EU officials say they met their end of the bargain and spent the promised money on other deals separate from the UN funds, although they admit that they can't provide any data to prove this. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon accuses the nations of breaking their promises. "There is an issue of trust," he said.."     

Viscount Monckton on Climategate: ‘They Are Criminals’ [11/25/09] "The man who challenged Al Gore to a debate is furious about the content of the leaked CRU emails. This is what they did — these climate “scientists” on whose unsupported word the world’s classe politique proposes to set up an unelected global government this December in Copenhagen, with vast and unprecedented powers to control all formerly free markets, to tax wealthy nations and all of their financial transactions, to regulate the economic and environmental affairs of all nations, and to confiscate and extinguish all patent and intellectual property rights. The tiny, close-knit clique of climate scientists who invented and now drive the “global warming” fraud — for fraud is what we now know it to be — tampered with temperature data so assiduously that, on the recent admission of one of them, land temperatures since 1980 have risen twice as fast as ocean temperatures. One of the thousands of emails recently circulated by a whistleblower at the University of East Anglia, where one of the world’s four global-temperature datasets is compiled, reveals that data were altered so as to prevent a recent decline in temperature from showing in the record. In fact, there has been no statistically significant “global warming” for 15 years — and there has been rapid and significant cooling for nine years. .... Worse, these arrogant fraudsters — for fraudsters are what we now know them to be — have refused, for years and years and years, to reveal their data and their computer program listings. Now we know why: As a revealing 15,000-line document from the computer division at the Climate Research Unit shows, the programs and data are a hopeless, tangled mess. In effect, the global temperature trends have simply been made up. Unfortunately, the British researchers have been acting closely in league with their U.S. counterparts who compile the other terrestrial temperature dataset — the GISS/NCDC dataset. That dataset too contains numerous biases intended artificially to inflate the natural warming of the 20th century. Finally, these huckstering snake-oil salesmen and “global warming” profiteers — for that is what they are — have written to each other encouraging the destruction of data that had been lawfully requested under the Freedom of Information Act in the UK by scientists who wanted to check whether their global temperature record had been properly compiled. And that procurement of data destruction, as they are about to find out to their cost, is a criminal offense. They are not merely bad scientists — they are crooks. And crooks who have perpetrated their crimes at the expense of British and U.S. taxpayers ..... What have the mainstream news media said about the Climategate affair? Remarkably little. The few who have brought themselves to comment, through gritted teeth, have said that all of this is a storm in a teacup, and that their friends in the University of East Anglia and elsewhere in the climatological community are good people, really. No, they’re not. They’re criminals. With Professor Fred Singer, who founded the U.S. Satellite Weather Service, I have reported them to the UK’s Information Commissioner, with a request that he investigate their offenses and, if thought fit, prosecute. But I won’t be holding my breath: In the police state that Britain has now sadly become, with supine news media largely owned and controlled by the government, the establishment tends to look after its own. At our expense, and at the expense of the truth. ..."   

Climate cash for poor countries 'has not materialised'  [11/25/09] "Large sums promised to developing countries to help them tackle climate change cannot be accounted for, a BBC investigation has found ..."     

RT Interview: Alex Jones on Climategate: Hoax of all time a global Ponzi scheme [11/25/09] VIDEO [8:02] 

Obama’s Science Czar John Holdren involved in unwinding “Climategate” scandal [11/25/09] "Lift up a rock and another snake comes slithering out from the ongoing University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) scandal, now riding as "Climategate". Obama Science Czar John Holdren is directly involved in CRU's unfolding Climategate scandal. In fact, according to files released by a CEU hacker or whistleblower, Holdren is involved in what Canada Free Press (CFP) columnist Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball terms "a truculent and nasty manner that provides a brief demonstration of his lack of understanding, commitment on faith and willingness to ridicule and bully people". ..."   

GOP Opens Probe Into Climate-Change E-Mails [11/25/09] "Congressional Republicans are 'investigating' e-mails stolen from a British climate change research center that they say show scientists attempting to suppress data that does not support man-made global warming. Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe, a global warming skeptic, sent letters Tuesday to the inspectors general of several agencies and to scientists asking them to retain records related to the e-mails. House Republicans want to know how much the scientists contributed to a widely cited U.N. report on climate change. The report has served as the basis for action in Congress and by the Obama administration to reduce greenhouse gases. One of those scientists, Kevin Trenberth, said the e-mails do not show scientists colluding but arguing vigorously about the science. ..."  

Climate Expert: “Compromised” UN Scientists should be excluded from IPCC, Peer-Review Process  [11/25/09] "A prominent German scientist who was attacked in the leaked CRU emails by UN affiliated climate scientists has stated that the group should be barred from taking part in the peer-review process and excluded from the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Professor Hans von Storch, who is referred to in very unflattering terms several times in the leaked emails, points out that the CRU scientists acted as “gatekeepers ..."  Note: Absolutely

Global warming exposed as UN-funded fraud  [11/25/09] "Russian computer hackers have published emails and source code from the UN-affiliated Climate Research Unit showing profound corruption, fraud, and criminal activity. What's really behind the Copenhagen treaty? ..."    

Copenhagen will fail – and quite right too [11/24/09] "... Exactly a fortnight from today, the United Nations climate change conference opens in Copenhagen. Its purpose is (or was) clear: to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. Under Kyoto, all those developed nations that ratified the treaty (all, in practice, except the US) agreed to cut their carbon emissions to 5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2012. The successor treaty, to be agreed at Copenhagen, was intended to secure a cut in global emissions, from the developed and developing world alike (and China has now overtaken even the US), of 50 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050, leading to more or less total decarbonisation by the end of the century. As Gordon Brown declared in his Guildhall speech only a week ago, Copenhagen must “forge a new international agreement ... [which] must contain the full range of commitments required: on emissions reductions by both developed and developing countries, on finance and on verification”. This is a pretty tall order; and, needless to say, nothing of the sort will be agreed. Even if the Kyoto 5 per cent cut is achieved, it will be only because the developed world has effectively outsourced a large part of its emissions to countries, such as China and India, without Kyoto constraints. Not only is 50 per cent rather more severe than 5 per cent, but (except in the unlikely event of world industry migrating to Mars) a global target removes the escape route of outsourcing emissions. Moreover there is a strong moral argument, too. The reason we use carbon-based energy is simply that it is far and away the cheapest source of energy, and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.  ..."   

India challenges Western data linking climate change, Himalayan melt  [11/24/09] "As countries around the world prepare to flex their negotiating muscles at next month’s climate-change summit in Copenhagen, India has begun to question the Western model of computing global warming statistics. ..."    

Climate Change Bombshell: Dr. Tim Ball on the hacked CRU emails [11/24/09] VIDEO [10:00]  "Retired climatologist Dr. Tim Ball joins us to discuss the significance of the recently leaked emails and documents from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University which expose deceit, duplicity and collusion between climate researchers to maintain the fraud of the manmade global warming theory. These emails reveal stunning behind-the-scenes details about how this fraud has been developed and perpetuated, and Dr. Ball shares his insights on what they show.  Intellectual Honesty and the Climate Change Debate VIDEO [10:00] 

Climategate: Why It Matters [11/24/09] ".... What the Climategate scandal does is prove just how murky and unreliable this supposed scientific “consensus” really is. This is the key point made by Dr Ball. “It confirms suspicions that I’ve had working in my thirty years of climate science. I saw the hijacking of climate science particularly by computer modelers and then by a small group associated with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change….” “What you’ve got here is confirmation of the small group of scientists who, by the way, Professor Wegman who was asked to arbitrate in the debate about the hockey stick, he identified 42 people who were publishing together and also peer-reviewing each other’s literature. So there’s a classic example of the kind of thing that bothered me. About twenty years ago, I started saying ‘Well why are they pushing the peer review?’..And now of course we realise it’s because they had control of their own process. That’s clearly exposed in these emails.” “On a global scale it’s frightening because this group of people not only control the Hadley Centre, which controls the data on global temperature through the Hadley Climate Research Unit but they also control the IPCC and they’ve manipulated that. And of course the IPCC has become the basis in all governments for the Kyoto protocol, the Copenhagen accord and so on  ..."   Related: Global Warming Meltdown: Climategate!  

Climate Emails Stoke Debate: Scientists' Leaked Correspondence Illustrates Bitter Feud over Global Warming [11/24/09] "The scientific community is buzzing over thousands of emails and documents -- posted on the Internet last week after being hacked from a prominent climate-change research center -- that some say raise ethical questions about a group of scientists who contend humans are responsible for global warming. The correspondence between dozens of climate-change researchers, including many in the U.S., illustrates bitter feelings among those who believe human activities cause global warming toward rivals who argue that the link between humans and climate change remains uncertain. Some emails also refer to efforts by scientists who believe man is causing global warming to exclude contrary views from important scientific publications. "This is horrible," said Pat Michaels, a climate scientist at the Cato Institute in Washington who is mentioned negatively in the emails. "This is what everyone feared. Over the years, it has become increasingly difficult for anyone who does not view global warming as an end-of-the-world issue to publish papers. This isn't questionable practice, this is unethical." ..."     

Lord Lawson calls for public inquiry into UEA global warming data 'manipulation' [11/24/09] "Lord Lawson, the former chancellor, has called for an independent inquiry into claims that leading climate change scientists manipulated data to strengthen the case for man-made global warming. ..."    

How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world, and they're exempt from current Protocol rules [11/24/09] " Last week it was revealed that 54 oil tankers are anchored off the coast of Britain, refusing to unload their fuel until prices have risen. We've all noticed it. The filthy black smoke kicked out by funnels on cross-Channel ferries, cruise liners, container ships, oil tankers and even tugboats. It looks foul, and leaves a brown haze across ports and shipping lanes. But what hasn’t been clear until now is that it is also a major killer, probably causing thousands of deaths in Britain alone. As ships get bigger, the pollution is getting worse. The most staggering statistic of all is that just 16 of the world’s largest ships can produce as much lung-clogging sulphur pollution as all the world’s cars .... A year ago, the IMO belatedly decided to clean up its act. It said shipping fuel should not contain more than 3.5 per cent sulphur by 2012 and eventually must come down to 0.5 per cent. This lower figure could halve the deaths. It should not be hard to do. There is no reason ship engines cannot run on clean fuel, like cars. But, away from a handful of low-sulphur zones, including the English Channel and North Sea, the IMO gave shipping lines a staggering 12 years to make the switch. And, even then, it will depend on a final ‘feasibility review’ in 2018 ....... Both international shipping and aviation are exempt from the Kyoto Protocol rules on cutting carbon emissions. But green pressure is having its effect on airlines. Ahead of next month’s Copenhagen climate talks, airlines have promised to cut emissions by 50 per cent by 2050. But shipping companies are keeping their heads down. A meeting of the IMO in July threw out proposals from the British Chamber of Shipping, among others, to set up a carbon-trading scheme to encourage emissions reductions. Amazingly, they pleaded poverty. Two-thirds of the world’s ships are registered in developing countries such as Panama. These are just flags of convenience, to evade tougher rules on safety and pay for sailors ....."  Note:  [Fred Pearce is an environmental consultant to New Scientist magazine]

The devastating book which debunks climate change [11/24/09] "Just imagine if we learned we were about to be landed with the biggest bill in the history of the world - simply on the say-so of a group of scientists. Would we not want to be absolutely sure that those scientists were 100 per cent dependable in what they were saying? Should we not then be extremely worried - and even very angry - if it emerged that those scientists had been conspiring among themselves to fiddle the evidence for what they were telling us? This is the extraordinary position in which we find ourselves thanks to news reported in Saturday's Daily Mail which has raised huge question marks over the reliability of the science behind the theory of global warming. I recently published a book on what I have no hesitation in calling the most alarming story I have ever reported in all my years as a journalist. This is the story of how the belief that the world has to fight the threat of global warming has crept to the top of the political agenda, to the point where, not just in Britain but across the world, governments are solemnly discussing by far the most costly series of measures any bunch of politicians has proposed. This is what they will all be discussing at next month's great UN conference, when 20,000 politicians, officials, scientists and environmental activists from all over the world gather in Copenhagen to discuss a new treaty to decide just what measures we shall all have to accept to keep the supposed threat of global warming at bay. We all know the basic thesis: that thanks to mankind burning fossil fuels, the world's temperatures are hurtling upwards, and that unless the most drastic action is taken, we can look forward to an unprecedented global catastrophe - droughts, hurricanes, killer heatwaves, melting icecaps, sea levels rising to the point where many of the world's major cities are submerged. All this is what has been predicted by the expensive computer models relied on by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC), which the politicians tell us we must trust as the ultimate source of authority on the future of the world's climate. On every side we are told that 'the science is settled', that '2,500 of the world's top climate scientists' agree that these terrifying predictions will all come true unless we take the most drastic action. So carried away have they all been by this belief that scarcely a single politician dares question it. Yet the oddest thing which has become increasingly evident in the past year or two is the fact that almost none of these things is happening, certainly not in the way those computer models have been predicting. Although carbon dioxide levels have continued to increase, temperatures have not been rising in the way the computer models all agree they should have done. ....... The fact remains that the models on which the whole global warming panic was based have been proved dismally wrong, suggesting that the theory on which they were programmed may itself have been fundamentally flawed. Yet on this basis, the world's politicians, led by our own in Britain, are nevertheless proposing the most damaging measures ever put forward in history - cuts in carbon emission which, if implemented, would plunge our world back into the Dark Ages - to meet a crisis which it now seems was never going to happen anyway. Before it is too late, we must insist our politicians re- examine the increasingly shaky scientific case on which all those proposals are based. For nearly 20 years, from Al Gore to President Obama, they have been intoning to us that 'the science is settled'. But as ever more scientists from outside the IPCC's self- selected 'magic circle' now maintain, it has never been more obvious that this simply isn't true. No one has put this better than Professor Lindzen, one of the world's leading climatologists, when he wrote: 'Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st-century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections contemplated a roll-back of the industrial age.' With the entire future of our civilisation at stake, it is no longer good enough for our politicians just to shout 'deniers' and 'flat earthers' at all those genuinely expert scientists now begging them to look properly at the evidence. They must be prepared to listen - and, for the sake of our planet, to think again.  

Developing nations call for UN body to police battle on climate change [11/23/09] "... At Copenhagen, the first decision on technology will be to decide if a new co-ordinating body should have powers to command the clean tech roll out. "The G77 [group of developing nations] and China have proposed a new central executive, political body," said Tomlinson. It would be part of the existing UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, which administers the Kyoto protocol. However, Europe and the US want only an advisory committee – their main concern is that a strong political body may end up channelling funds into state enterprises rather than keeping a level playing field for all businesses. Developing countries say an advisory body would have little power to drive the dramatic changes needed ..."   

Al Gore: ‘I’m gonna start acting crazy’ [11/23/09] "Al Gore details the ways that we can address climate change in his new book Our Choice. But on Saturday Night Live he said he has a new backup plan. "I'm gonna start acting crazy. I think it's crazy that our politicians aren't more worried about the climate crisis," he told host Seth Meyers. "So it's time for us to out-crazy the crazies." One of his ideas for mildly amusing stunts involved dumping ice water on members of Congress with a note saying, "We're melting, love the glaciers." His other idea was reminiscent of many environmentalist demonstrations, with a silly twist. "I'm gonna start planting trees in politicians' front yards... in the middle of the night... and tape toy guns to the branches pointed to the door," he warned. "So when they wake up and walk out of their houses in the morning, they'll think it's the forests coming to get their revenge." He eventually admitted his pranks were outlandish and hit on four key points ..."  Note: Putz. 

Spencer on elitism in the IPCC climate machine [11/23/09] "At a minimum, some of these e-mails reveal an undercurrent of elitism that many of us have always claimed existed in the IPCC. These scientists look upon us skeptics with scorn. It is well known that the IPCC machine is made up of bureaucrats and scientists who think they know how the world should be run. The language contained in a draft of the latest climate treaty (meant to replace the Kyoto treaty) involves global governance and the most authoritarian means by which people’s energy use will be restricted and monitored by the government. Even if this language does not survive in the treaty’s final form, it illustrates the kind of people we are dealing with. ..."   Related:  Bishop Hill’s compendium of CRU email issues [11/23/09] "For those of you who don’t know of the blog Bishop Hill, let me say that he is a succinct and careful writer who has earned praise from many (including myself and Steve McIntyre) in taking a difficult niche subject such as the Hockey Stick and paleoclimatology and condensed into into a readable form for the layman. He’s also writing a book about it called: The Hockey Stick Illusion. In his latest post, Climate Cuttings 33, he gives a list of interesting issues he’s identified. ..."  

New Documentary Challenges Gore's 'Inconvenient Truth' on Global Warming [11/22/09] "Al Gore's "award-winning" global warming film "An Inconvenient Truth," socked two years ago by a British court ruling that found several errors, is facing additional scrutiny with the release of a new documentary that seeks to rebut many of Gore's claims. Two Irish journalists -- Phelim McAleer and Ann McElhinney -- released a documentary in which they gather evidence outlining the damage of global warming hysteria. In "Not Evil Just Wrong," they challenge the claims made in Gore's film and conclude that the film is not worth screening in schools because it is shown there as "an article of science, not faith." In Gore's film, directed by Davis Guggenheim and released in 2006, the former vice president argues that humans are causing climate change, a problem he says is the biggest moral challenge facing the globe. If humans don't act to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases, Gore contends, the deaths caused by climate change will double in 25 years to 300,000 people a year, and more than a million species worldwide could be driven to extinction in half a century.The film went on to win Academy Awards for Gore and Guggenheim and to re-energize the environmental movement. But in 2007, a British High Court judge ruled that Gore's film contained nine significant errors and should no longer be screened in schools unless accompanied by guidance notes to balance Gore's "one-sided" views. ..."  Note:  See video clip 

Global Warming Bombshell--or "Mushroom Cloud"? [11/21/09] "The Climate Research Unit (CRU) is the world record keepers of global temperature data; it keeps the numbers that the IPCC bases its reports on. There have been some very dubious things recently where outside skeptics want the original temperature readings before CRU "smooths" them and does other things, and CRU basically stonewalled before saying, "We don't have the original readings anymore. All we have is the corrected data at this point." So anyway, apparently a whistleblower couldn't live with him or herself anymore, [UPDATE: The 'official story' is that the University's webmail server was hacked from the oustide, see the comments] and dumped a 61 MB file of CRU emails, data, etc. to an outside server, and now the blogosphere has gone nuts. ..."  Related:  "Intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy" "Remember those infamous words from the Downing Street Memo? Well, today, progressive hackers got into the computers of a leading climate research group in the world, University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), and made their records public. What a horror! Hoi Polloi can now look at the raw data and email exchanges, and find out how the climate data and facts are fixed around the policies promoted by the government. And this is only a few months after CRU declared that all its raw climate data was "accidentally" deleted. ..." | Files show warming scheme  "In one e-mail exchange, a scientist writes of using a statistical "trick" in a chart illustrating a recent sharp warming trend. In another, a scientist refers to climate skeptics as "idiots." Some skeptics asserted Friday that the correspondence revealed an effort to withhold scientific information. "This is not a smoking gun, this is a mushroom cloud," said Patrick J. Michaels, a climatologist who has long faulted evidence pointing to human-driven warming and is criticized in the documents. Some of the correspondence portrays the scientists as feeling under siege by the skeptics' camp and worried that any stray comment or data aberration could be turned against them. ..."  

WikiLeaks: Climatic Research Unit emails, data, models, 1996-2009k [11/21/09] "This archive presents over 120Mb of emails, documents, computer code and models from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, written between 1996 and 2009. The CRU has told the BBC that the files were "obtained by a computer hacker 3-4 days ago". [Actually an internal whistleblower, apparently) This archive includes unreleased global temperature analysis computer source code that has been the subject of Freedom of Information Act requests. The archive appears to be a collection of information put together by the CRU prior to a FOIA redaction process. ..."   

Climategate: how the MSM reported the greatest scandal in modern science [11/21/09] "Like the Telegraph’s MPs’ expenses scandal, this is the gift that goes on giving. It won’t, unfortunately, derail Copenhagen (too many vested interests involved) or cause any of our many political parties to start talking sense on “Climate change”. But what it does demonstrate is the growing level of public scepticism towards Al Gore’s Anthropogenic Global Warming theory. That’s why, for example, this story is the single most read item on today’s Telegraph website. What it also demonstrates – as my dear chum Dan Hannan so frequently and rightly argues – is the growing power of the Blogosphere and the decreasing relevance of the Mainstream Media (MSM). ..."     

"Hacked": Sensitive Documents Lifted from Hadley Climate Center [11/20/09] "The Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain was hacked yesterday, apparently by Russian black hats, and thousands of sensitive documents  (~62 MB. See here or here) , including emails from climate scientists dating back a decade, were posted online (reliable counts indicate at least 3485 documents present, not counting the e-mails) More about this here. Officials at Hadley, a leading global-warming research center, have apparently confirmed to an Australian publication (PDF) that the documents are genuine. The whole affair has much of the blogosphere alight. Blogs skeptical of man-made global warming see blood in the water. Some of the old emails from scientists made public apparently make references to things like “hid[ing] the decline,” referring to global temperature series and different ways to slice and dice climate data. In all, it seems there are more than 3,000 files in the hacked folders, which have been reposted in various places on the Internet. The big Copenhagen summit had lost a lot of its appeal in recent days, as world leaders kept dialing down expectations for the climate talks. Maybe this will spice things up. ..."  Related: Do hacked e-mails show global-warming fraud?  | Australia: 'Warmist' conspiracy exposed? " ...So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists pushing the man-made warming theory - a scandal that is one of the greatest in modern science. I’ve been adding some of the most astonishing in updates below - emails suggesting conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more. If it is as it now seems, never again will “peer review” be used to shout down skeptics. This is clearly not the work of some hacker, but of an insider who’s now blown the whistle ..." |Leaked FOIA files 62 mb of gold "This is the biggest news ever broken here. The first thing I have to say is that I have no connection to the source of these files. It was left as a link on my blog while I was hunting for cloaked deers (fruitlessly) in the Upper Penninsula. These files are real IMO but they cannot be one hundred percent verified as such. How can we be certain but IMO, real. They were potentially scraped from multiple computers in my opinion by a hacker or an insider involved in some of the endless FOIA requests. ..." Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'? "When you read some of those files – including 1079 emails and 72 documents – you realise just why the boffins at Hadley CRU might have preferred to keep them confidential. As Andrew Bolt puts it, this scandal could well be “the greatest in modern science”. These alleged emails – supposedly exchanged by some of the most prominent scientists pushing AGW theory – suggest: Conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organised resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more. ..."  Climate skeptics claim leaked emails are evidence of collusion among scientists [11/20/09] "Climate change sceptics who have studied the emails allege that they provide "smoking gun" evidence that some of the climatologists colluded in manipulating data to support the widely held view that climate change is real and "is being largely caused by the actions of mankind." ..."    Note: Interesting stuff!   In mid-August the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (CRU) disclosed that it had "destroyed the raw data for its global surface temperature data set" because of an alleged " lack of storage space." The CRU data have been the basis for several of the major international studies that claim we face a global warming crisis. CRU's destruction of data, however, severely undercuts the credibility of those studies. The CRU is the same unit whose leaked emails reveal collusion to block opposing points of view on the issue of anthropogenic global warming. See CRC Emails | Follow all of this on: Climate Depot  

Senate to Put Off Climate Bill Until Spring [11/19/09] "Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday they would put off debate on a big climate-change bill until spring, in a sign of weakening political will to tackle a long-term environmental issue at a time of high unemployment and economic uncertainty. Legislation on health care, overhauling financial markets and job creation will be considered before the Senate takes up a measure to cap emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases linked to climate change, Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday. Climate legislation will be taken up "some time in the spring," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada said Tuesday after a Democratic caucus meeting. ..." 

World Leaders Put Off Copenhagen Climate Change Treaty [11/16/09] "In Copenhagen, diplomats will aim to reach a less aggressive — and much less specific — "politically binding" agreement, with the hope that hard numbers and legal obligations to reduce climate change would be added soon, in a two-step approach. "There was an assessment by the leaders that it was unrealistic to expect a full internationally legally binding agreement to be negotiated between now and when Copenhagen starts in 22 days," said Mike Froman, Obama's deputy national security adviser. The news comes as little surprise to climate change experts, who have watched as the ultimate goal of the Copenhagen summit has been steadily scaled back to meet political realities. A year ago, the expectation was for diplomats in Copenhagen to negotiate — and sign — a true global successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. Today, the best the world can hope for are more words about the importance of fighting climate change...."   Related:  Gore heckled at climate speech [11/16/09] "Former Vice President Al Gore's global-warming speech Saturday night at Mizner Park drew about a thousand attendees, as well as more than 200 loud protesters. ..."  Copenhagen climate change agreement is impossible [11/16/09] "The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December has been billed as the world's last chance to stop global warming. But negotiations to forge a binding agreement have been hampered by a US refusal to sign up to targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The deadlock forced world leaders at a summit in Singapore at the weekend to admit that any deal this year will be little more than a "political agreement". However they insisted that a legally-binding treaty would be thrashed out by the end of 2010 and even suggested a timetable and deadline to ensure negotiations stay on track. ..."   

New geologic evidence of past periods of oscillating, abrupt warming, and cooling [11/16/09] "Recent laser imaging of the Earth’s surface provides new evidence for abrupt, fluctuating, warm and cool climatic episodes that could not have been caused by changes in atmospheric CO2. ..."   

The Antarctic Ice Sheet is Growing Thicker [11/16/09]  Note: Well, it IS winter. 

7,000 buildings collapse in China under heaviest snow on record [11/15/09] "Unusually early snowstorms in northern China have stranded tens of thousands of vehicles and motorists, led to the deaths of 38 people, forced the evacuation of 158,000 people, and forced delays or cancellation of hundreds of flights in several cities, including China's capital city, Beijing. The snow - heaviest in the area since records began - has caused more than half a billion dollars in damage, including the collapse of more than 7,000 buildings and damage to 297,000 acres (120,000 hectares) of crops, the Civil Affairs Ministry said Friday. ..."   

Scientist: CO2 is not causing global warming [11/14/09] "Professor Ian Plimer, a geologist from Adelaide University, argues that a recent rise in temperature around the world is caused by solar cycles and other "extra terrestrial" forces. He said carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, widely blamed for global warming, is a natural phenomenon caused by volcanoes erupting. "We cannot stop carbon emissions because most of them come from volcanoes," he said. "It is a normal element cycled around in the earth and my science, which is looking back in time, is saying we have had a planet that has been a green, warm wet planet 80 per cent of the time. We have had huge climate change in the past and to think the very slight variations we measure today are the result of our life - we really have to put ice blocks in our drinks." Most mainstream scientists agree that the recent warming period was caused by an increase in carbon dioxide since the industrial revolution. However Prof Plimer said the world has experienced three periods of cooling since 1850 and furthermore carbon dioxide was increasing during many of those cooler periods. "If we had only had warming, then there would be a connect between co2 and temperature, there is not," he added. Prof Plimer has come under attack as a "denialist poster boy" whose theories are in danger of stopping the world from tackling the grave dangers of climate change. But he said the scientists "frightening people witless by following the party line" are motivated by politics and research funding. "They are taking advantage of the current situation. That is understandable. In previous times people got wonderful research grants in a war against cancer and they achieved a lot of money for that. Now we have a war on climate change and we have a huge number of people out there who have their career staked on it and are beneficiaries of this process." Vicky Pope, Head of Climate Change Advice at the Met Office, said it is widely accepted that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has doubled in the last 200 years and as a result the globe is warming. She said there are "natural variations" in temperature caused by the weather as well as natural phenomenon like El Nino and human effects like pollution, but overall the climate has been getting hotter and has reached its warmest period in recent years. "The basic physics is that if carbon dioxide increases then the temperature goes up," she said. A number of "climate change skeptics" will be giving talks in the run up to a key UN Summit in Copenhagen in December when the world is expected to agree an international deal to stop global warming.  ..."   

Leaked G20 Documents Shed Light on Global Carbon Tax [11/12/09] "In addition to the expansion of the African Union and the population reduction goals that Estulin has identified as key G20 talking points, the documents also shed light on how the financial oligarchs hope to establish a global fund of "predictable public finance" to fight the phoney global warming problem. Startlingly, the draft document admits that the fund could be administered by "an existing international financial institution." Although this potentially explosive language was removed from the bland, politically palatable final version of the G20 communique, attendee notes indicate the nature and operation of this fund was a key discussion point during the conference ..."  Note:  More planned extortion under color of law.

University study: CO2 levels remained constant since 1850 [11/12/09] "A central tenet of “climate change” dogma holds that increased emissions (2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now) leads to greater CO2 levels in the atmosphere. But a new study from the University of Bristol could shake up traditional assumptions. The study suggests that CO2 levels have remained constant since 1850. According to the University, “The results run contrary to a significant body of recent research which expects that the capacity of terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans to absorb CO2 should start to diminish as CO2 emissions increase, letting greenhouse gas levels skyrocket.” In fact, the trend in the airborne fraction has only been 0.7 ± 1.4% per decade (essentially zero). ..."   

Predictions of Climate Change-Induced Natural Disasters Falling Flat [11/11/09] "Nature can be very fickle and predicting what will happen tomorrow is difficult. Trying to do so over a span of years is next to impossible. Complicating matters, recent empirical evidence indicates that despite increasing carbon dioxide temperatures are decreasing and there has been no increase in climactic related events at all ..."     

UN Climate Talks End Without Deal [11/11/09] "U.N. climate talks ended in a whimper Friday without progress on the pressing issues of emission cuts for wealthy nations or financing for the developing ones, both of which are crucial to reaching a global warming pact. Negotiations have been deadlocked for months and delegates have raised doubts whether a new climate pact to rein in greenhouse gases can be reached by the time world leaders gather in Copenhagen in December. The pact would replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. ..."    

Senate Democrats ram unprecedented climate bill (S. 1733) through Senate committee, ditching "Cap and Trade" Moniker  [11/8/09] "However, Senator Boxer decided to take advantage of the Fort Hood incident and the continuing health care debate to quietly pass the bill, according to one Washington insider. It also helped her to have the name of the bill changed from "Cap-and-Trade," since that term has caused widespread criticism by a majority of Americans. "Senator Boxer used the tragic {shootings at Fort Hood] to cloak the partisan passage of a bill certain to hurt a majority of American citizens," said political strategist Mike Baker. "Boxer wields a lot of power in the Senate and she's known as an abrasive, hard-nosed infighter," he added ..."   

Carbon traders deny sub-prime crisis brewing [11/07/09] "The environmental charity said not only does the current system of trading permits fail to tackle climate change, it is also financially dangerous. Currently only Europe has an emissions trading scheme, where companies can buy and sell permits giving them the right to pollute the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. Sarah-Jane Clifton, author of the report, said the growth of a secondary market in carbon trading involving “financial speculators and complex financial products, carries a risk that carbon trading will develop into a speculative commodity bubble”..."   

Even if global warming is the problem, "carbon trading" isn't the answer [11/06/09] "In a new report called A Dangerous Obsession, Friends of the Earth argues that carbon trading is not delivering either significant carbon cuts or the technical innovation required to encourage a shift to low-carbon options. Even advocates of carbon trading admit the first phase of the European Union's emissions trading system, which lasted from 2007-2009, was a disaster and the current phase, which runs until 2012, is hardly a triumph. In its report on the European experience, the US Government Accountability Office concluded that "carbon offsets. . . may not be a reliable long-term approach to climate change mitigation"; the Centre for Climate Change recently warned Parliament that, partly as a result of recession, "there is a risk that the carbon price will not be sufficiently high to incentivise investments in low- carbon technologies". Among other snags are perverse incentives to increase carbon emissions in the short term and difficulties in verifying the offsetting of emissions. ..."   

Senate Panel Passes Climate Bill Despite GOP Boycott [11/05/09] "Senate Democrats sidestepped a Republican boycott Thursday, pushing a climate bill out of committee in an early step on a long and contentious road to passage. ..."  

Climate change belief given same legal status as religion [11/05/09] "An executive has won the right to sue his employer on the basis that he was unfairly dismissed for his green views after a judge ruled that environmentalism had the same weight in law as religious and philosophical beliefs. .."

Flashback: The real climate change catastrophe  [11/05/09] "In a startling new book, Christopher Booker reveals how a handful of scientists, who have pushed flawed theories on global warming for decades, now threaten to take us back to the Dark Ages ...It is a story that has unfolded in three stages. The first began back in the Seventies when a number of scientists noticed that the world’s temperatures had been falling for 30 years, leading them to warn that we might be heading for a new ice age. Then, in the mid-Seventies, temperatures started to rise again, and by the mid-Eighties, a still fairly small number of scientists – including some of those who had been predicting a new ice age – began to warn that we were now facing the opposite problem: a world dangerously heating up, thanks to our pumping out CO2 and all those greenhouse gases inseparable from modern civilisation. .... In 1988, a handful of the scientists who passionately believed in this theory won authorisation from the UN to set up the body known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This was the year when the scare over global warming really exploded into the headlines, thanks above all to the carefully staged testimony given to a US Senate Committee by Dr James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), also already an advocate for the theory that CO2 was causing potentially catastrophic warming. .... The disaster-movie scenario that rising levels of CO2 could lead to droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves and, above all, that melting of the polar ice caps, which would flood half the world’s major cities, struck a rich chord. The media loved it. The environmentalists loved it. More and more politicians, led by Al Gore in the United States, jumped on the bandwagon. But easily their most influential allies were the scientists running the new IPCC, led by a Swedish meteorologist Bert Bolin and Dr John Houghton, head of the UK Met Office. .... The IPCC, through its series of weighty reports, was now to become the central player in the whole story. But rarely has the true nature of any international body been more widely misrepresented. It is commonly believed that the IPCC consists of “1,500 of the world’s top climate scientists”, charged with weighing all the scientific evidence for and against “human-induced climate change” in order to arrive at a “consensus”. .... In fact, the IPCC was never intended to be anything of the kind. The vast majority of its contributors have never been climate scientists. Many are not scientists at all. And from the start, the purpose of the IPCC was not to test the theory, but to provide the most plausible case for promoting it. This was why the computer models it relied on as its chief source of evidence were all programmed to show that, as CO2 levels continued to rise, so temperatures must inevitably follow ..."  

Gore Not Interested In Solutions To Climate Change That Don’t Line His Pockets  [11/05/09] " .... So there you have it – LaSalle proposed a way of solving the CO2 issue but was basically told to shove it by Gore’s team because the methods he advocated would eliminate the need for what Gore and his cronies are really pursuing, nightmare regulation, taxation, and control over American’s lives, along with billions of dollars flooding into the coffers of Gore and the rest of the “carbon billionaire” globalists via the carbon trading systems they own. “Could it be that Mr Gore and his team want the US economy and its free market system to be overturned regardless of the science? Could it be that they do not want to know about any science that does not allow them to tax and interfere in the lives of everyone?” ..."  

Cap-and-Trade Gag [11/05/09] [CSIRO bid to gag emissions trading scheme policy attack] "The Australian government's peak scientific research body, the CSIRO, has suppressed a research paper by one of its own environmental economists because it is critical of the design of the proposed 'cap and trade' greenhouse gas emissions reduction scheme. A paper by Dr. Clive Spash had been accepted for publication by the journal, New Political Economy. However, CSIRO managers wrote to the editor insisting that it not be published. In his paper, Dr. Spash warned that the design of emission trading schemes were skewed to favour vested interests rendering them economically inefficient. Nicola Berkovic reports that Dr. Spash's argues that in Australia "large polluters would be compensated with free permits while smaller, more competitive firms would have to buy theirs at auction" and that "carbon offsets bought from other countries were of dubious value; and the schemes "crowded out" voluntary action by individuals." The chief executive of the CSIRO, Dr Megan Clark, is currently considering whether publication of the paper can proceed or not. Clark previously worked as a senior executive with two major mining companies, BHP-Billiton and Western Mining Corporation. ..."  Report: Fallacies of economic growth in addressing environmental losses: Human induced climatic change PDF |  More

Al Gore could become world's first carbon billionaire  [11/05/09] "Al Gore, the former US vice president, could become the world's first carbon billionaire after investing heavily in green energy companies. ... Last year Mr Gore's venture capital firm loaned a small California firm $75m to develop energy-saving technology. The company, Silver Spring Networks, produces hardware and software to make the electricity grid more efficient. The deal appeared to pay off in a big way last week, when the Energy Department announced $3.4 billion in smart grid grants, the New York Times reports. Of the total, more than $560 million went to utilities with which Silver Spring has contracts. The move means that venture capital company Kleiner Perkins and its partners, including Mr Gore, could recoup their investment many times over in coming years. Few people have been as vocal about the urgency of global warming and the need to reinvent the way the world produces and consumes energy as Mr Gore. And few have put as much money behind their advocacy and are as well positioned to profit from this green transformation, if and when it comes. Critics, mostly on the political right and among global warming sceptics, say Mr. Gore is poised to become the world's first "carbon billionaire," profiteering from government policies he supports that would direct billions of dollars to the business ventures he has invested in. Representative Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, has claimed that Mr Gore stood to benefit personally from the energy and climate policies he was urging Congress to adopt. Mr Gore had said that he is simply putting his money where his mouth is. "Do you think there is something wrong with being active in business in this country?" Mr. Gore said. "I am proud of it. I am proud of it." "  Note: It's just as much a bullshit scam as were financial derivatives on Wall Street. Al Gore Ducks Warming Debate (Updated) | Al Gore's green investments prompt conflict of interest row 

The Thuggery of Al Gore [11/05/09] "Former vice president and environmental campaigner Al Gore has urged young people to protest against new coal-fired power plants that don't use carbon capture and storage technology. Speaking at the opening plenary session of the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York, Gore said: "If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration." There is a problem, of course, and that is that there is no developed technology of "carbon capture" for power plants that can be applied on a large scale, and the early reports are that such a technology would add another 50 percent to the capital costs of the project, making the plant so expensive that it is not worth building in the first place. Thus, my first reaction to this article was to dismiss it as Al Gore being Al Gore: like the idiot uncle in the closet who escapes once in a while. However, when one combines this latest outburst with his recent call to eliminate all coal-and-oil fired power plants from the United States and replace them with "renewable" energy sources such as windmills and solar panels, a whole different picture emerges. Gore claims that these "new technologies" will "stimulate the economy," but this is nothing more than the Broken Window Fallacy in different terms. Beyond all his claims of "new technologies" and the like, there was another statement that Gore made which exposes what he is doing – and it is not "saving the planet": "I believe for a carbon company to spend money convincing the stock-buying public that the risk from the global climate crisis is not that great represents a form of stock fraud because they are misrepresenting a material fact," he said. "I hope these state attorney generals around the country will take some action on that." Gore clearly is calling for executives of electric power companies that build power plants to be charged with felonies (securities fraud is a felony under state and federal laws), which means that he wants these people to go to prison simply for building electric power plants. Again, it is easy to dismiss this as more Gore rhetoric, except that his actions are much more nefarious than just a nutty guy running his mouth. Al Gore, you see, is a competitor of the electric power companies. He is not just an advocate; he is a major partner in a fund called Generation Investment Management Ltd., which just capped out at $5 billion. (I doubt seriously that Gore brought any money into the fund; he is the political front man, but stands to become an extremely wealthy person through it.) Now, if Gore simply were a guy making money on the free market who had radical opinions, I would not be writing this article. However, that is not what is happening. Al Gore is a powerful political figure who is calling for his shock troops to use violence – and don’t kid yourself, that is what he wants – against companies with huge cost advantages against his own technologies of choice. ..."    

Al Gore’s "Inconvenient Truth" sequel program recruits world religions for holy war on changing climate [11/04/09] "“I’ve done a Christian [-based] training program; I have a Muslim training program and a Jewish training program coming up, also a Hindu program coming up. I trained 200 Christian ministers and lay leaders here in Nashville in a version of the slide show that is filled with scriptural references. It’s probably my favourite version, but I don’t use it very often because it can come off as proselytising.” Nobel winner adapts fact-based message to reach those who believe they have a moral duty to protect the planet in Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis. ..."  Related Foolishness: Gore’s Dual Role: Advocate and Investor " .... Silver Spring Networks is a foot soldier in the global green energy revolution Mr. Gore hopes to lead. Few people have been as vocal about the urgency of global warming and the need to reinvent the way the world produces and consumes energy. And few have put as much money behind their advocacy as Mr. Gore and are as well positioned to profit from this green transformation, if and when it comes..."  Note: A New York Times article that's pretty revealing.  Al Gore Explains How Call For Climate Change Action Is Similar To Civil Rights Movement  Note:  " ... only I make much more money off of climate change!" 

Lobbying cash obscures US climate debate [11/04/09] "When it comes to the debate in the United States over what to do about climate change, cash may very well have clouded the issue. ..."   

Oil Companies Support Global Warming Alarmists, Not Skeptics [11/04/09] "A common charge leveled against global warming skeptics is that they are on the payroll of transnational oil companies, when in fact the opposite is true, oil companies are amongst the biggest promoters of climate change propaganda, emphasized recently by Exxon Mobil’s call for a global carbon tax. ..."   Note:  Aren't OIL and it's by products probably 90% carbon? Shouldn't this tax the oil companies out of existence? Why wouldn't it?

Winter crisis could see UK 'run out of natural gas in 6 hours' [11/01/09] "The UK could run out of gas within six hours this winter, the Observer has learned. The revelation has sparked a row between the Conservatives and Labour over who is doing more to keep the heating on. Last winter, the UK was left with only three days of reserves when foreign energy companies started exporting gas to supply their European customers after Russia cut supplies that used a pipeline through Ukraine. ..."   

The Origins of the “Global Warming” Scare [10/31/09] "Did you know, that the “Human caused Global Warming” hypothesis didn´t originate in the 1980s, but actually in the 1880s? Although, until the late 1970s, the hypothesis was considered “a curiosity”, since it contradicted observed events. Did you further know, that at first this hypothesis wasn´t publicly promoted by scientists or even environmentalists, but by an UN ambassador and a very ambitious British Lady-politician? ..."   

UN chief calls for ‘global governance structure’ 'to oversee greenhouse gasses' [10/29/09] "United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in an opinion piece published by The New York Times, laid out a number of benchmarks for success in the upcoming global climate talks, planned to be held in Copenhagen. Among them, Ki-moon argued in the Tuesday edition that a “global governance structure” must be levied to ensure that nations collaborate on how resources are deployed and managed. ..." 

The real climate change catastrophe [10/27/09] "In a startling new book, Christopher Booker reveals how a handful of scientists, who have pushed flawed theories on global warming for decades, now threaten to take us back to the Dark Ages ..."

India, China sign climate change deal [10/25/09] "India and China, known as the "leading polluters" as well as players in "fighting global warming", have signed an accord to cooperate on ways to 'tackle climate change'.  ..."  Note: Right, what a fiasco and scam. Human activity has only a negligible effect on the climate. The oceans pour out an ever increasing level of CO2 into the atmosphere, and that can't be controlled, and it exceeds human activity CO2, so there is nothing anyone can do about this -- not that they even have to do anything. There are natural cycles which last hundreds and thousands of years. Fools.

Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Tim Coleman rejects ‘hysteria’ of global warming [10/24/09] "It has now gotten to the point that almost any major weather event is blamed by someone on global climate change’...."  Related: Distrusting Climate Change Globalism "Many in the mainstream media would have you believe that someone must be crazy to voice skepticism toward the idea that human carbon emissions cause significant and disastrous global warming...."  

Hopes Fade for Comprehensive Climate Treaty [10/23/09] "The United States and many other major pollutant-emitting countries have concluded that it is more useful to take incremental but important steps toward a global agreement rather than to try to jam through a treaty that is either too weak to address the problem or too onerous to be ratified and enforced. Instead, representatives at the Copenhagen meeting are likely to announce a number of interim steps and agree to keep talking next year. “There isn’t sufficient time to get the whole thing done,” Yvo De Boer, the Dutch diplomat who leads the United Nations climate secretariat and oversees the negotiations, said late last week. “But I hope it will go well beyond simply a declaration of principles. The form I would like it to take is the groundwork for a ratifiable agreement next year.” ..."  Note: Good.  

Renowned Sea Level Expert Mocks Maldives 'underwater' climate meeting [10/23/09] "Calls flooding fears 'a wholly false notion that is nothing but an armchair fiction'.. Mohamed Nasheed, president of the Maldives, an island country off the coast of India, held a meeting of his Cabinet underwater to dramatize the risks he says his country faces from rising sea levels caused by global warming. Yesterday, Swedish scientist Nils-Axel Mörner, a specialist in sea level changes, wrote Mr. Nasheed the following letter: ..."   

Pew Poll: Only 36% say warming man-made, down from 47% last year [10/23/09] "   Note: Belief is a function of applied naivety and propaganda ... climate is the least thing they ought to be 'polling'.

UK: Gordon Brown - "Barack Obama must attend climate change talks to avoid 'catastrophe' for the planet" [10/20/09]  Note: Ha! What a nut case. He's in his own little delusional Al Gore movie ... he looks so tired, and he's sick, and an alcoholic politician whose career is basically trashed. If this is his attempt at 'redemption', it's too bad, because according to more than 31,000 scientists (and obvious weather) , he's as delusional as Al Gore.  That they think they can influence the planet AT ALL, meaningfully, is pretty arrogant, not possible, and transparently an avenue for profit making from a monitized concept. Nuts. 

UK: Terror Act used on climate activist  [10/18/09] "Terror legislation was used to stop a British climate change activist from travelling to Denmark, it has emerged. Chris Kitchen, 31, said he was prevented from crossing the border on Tuesday at about 5pm when the coach he was travelling on stopped at the Folkestone terminal of the Channel Tunnel. Mr Kitchen told the Guardian that police officers boarded the coach and, after checking all passengers' passports, took him and another climate activist to be interviewed under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000, a clause which enables border officials to stop and search individuals to determine if they are connected to terrorism. He was asked what he intended to do in Copenhagen and also about his family, work and past political activity. Mr Kitchen said he pointed out that anti-terrorist legislation did not apply to environmental activists but said the officer replied that terrorism "could mean a lot of things". ..."  : 

The BBC's amazing U-turn on climate change  [10/13/09] "The climate change correspondent of BBC News has admitted that global warming stopped in 1998 – and he reports that leading scientists believe that the earth’s cooling-off may last for decades. “Whatever happened to global warming?” is the title of an article by Paul Hudson that represents a clear departure from the BBC’s fanatical espousal of climate change orthodoxy. The climate change campaigners will go nuts, particularly in the run-up to Copenhagen. So, I suspect, will devout believers inside the BBC. Hudson’s story was not placed very prominently by his colleagues – but a link right at the top of Drudge will have delivered at least a million page views, possibly many more. Hudson’s piece is a U-turn – not because he has joined the ranks of sceptics who reject the theory of man-made global warming, but because at last he has written a story about the well-established fact that the earth’s temperature has not risen since 1998, and reports seriously the theories of climatologists (themselves not sceptics) who believe that we are in for 30 years of cooling caused by the falling temperatures of the oceans. According to research conducted by Professor Don Easterbrook from Western Washington University last November, the oceans and global temperatures are correlated. The oceans, he says, have a cycle in which they warm and cool cyclically. The most important one is the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO). For much of the 1980s and 1990s, it was in a positive cycle, that means warmer than average. And observations have revealed that global temperatures were warm too. But in the last few years it has been losing its warmth and has recently started to cool down. These cycles in the past have lasted for nearly 30 years. .."   

Winter Comes Earlier Than Ever To US  [10/11/09] "Forecasters predict the snow could arrive as early as this weekend, bringing with it below-freezing temperatures. Rain on Saturday night is expected to turn into snow on Sunday morning which - if it happens - will be the earliest recorded snowfall in Chicago. The current record stretches back just three years, to 12 October 2006. In 1989, 6.3 inches of snow landed in Chicago during the month of October - but none of it as early as this ..."   

Scientist: Carbon Dioxide Doesn't Cause Global Warming [10/11/09] "Trying to debunk theories that higher CO2 levels cause warming, he cites studies that show CO2 levels following temperature spikes, prompting him to back other scientists who say that global warming is caused by solar activity. ..."   

Flashback: Govt-Funded Research Unit Destroyed Original Climate Data [10/10/09] "America is being asked to spend trillions on a theory, some of whose foundational data has been destroyed, allegedly for a lack of storage space. If the data cannot be reviewed, it cannot be trusted, scientifically.."  

China: US is sabotaging Copenhagen climate treaty by 'changing Kyoto rules' [10/09/09] "The US and other rich countries are "sabotaging" the Kyoto protocol, the only international treaty in force that fights global warming, by rejecting their historical responsibilities, China and 130 other developing nations have said in coordinated statements. ..."   

Over the Summer, a Spread of Thicker Arctic Ice [10/08/09] "The National Snow and Ice Data Center released its summary of summer sea-ice conditions in the Arctic on Tuesday, noting a substantial expansion of the extent of “second-year ice” — floes thick enough to have persisted through two summers of melting. The result could be a reprieve, at least for a while, from the recent stretch of remarkable summer meltdowns. According to the center, second-year ice this summer made up 32 percent of the total ice cover on the Arctic Ocean, compared with 21 percent in 2007 and 9 percent in 2008. The percentage of ice that was many years old, forming thick pancaked expanses, was at its lowest since satellite observations began 30 years ago. But that could change next year as the second-year ice adds mass through the long winter freeze. ..."  Related: Antarctic Ice Melt at Lowest Levels in Satellite Era [10/08/09] "The ice melt across during the Antarctic summer (October-January) of 2008-2009 was the lowest ever recorded in the satellite history ..."   

Stanford U. Bans Skeptical Climate Film from Airing Interview [10/08/09] "Stanford University has banned a skeptical documentary film from airing a climate change interview with one of its prominent warming activist professors, Stephen Schneider ..."

UN Climate Reports: They Lie [10/07/09] "For years, claims that UN climate reports represent the consensus of the majority of international scientists have been mindlessly accepted and regurgitated by left-leaning policy makers and the media at large. But in the past week or so, it’s become more apparent than ever that those who’ve accused the international organization of politicizing science and manipulating data have been right all along. ..."  

GOP accuses Dems of trying to buy votes on global warming  [10/3/09] "Senate Democrats appear ready to follow the House playbook for passing contentious global warming legislation by trading pollution allowances for votes. But even with the aide of this tactic, the bill is unlikely to pass this year. The draft legislation circulated by Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and John Kerry, D-Mass., includes a requirement for steep emissions cuts, but does not stipulate how emission allowances will be allocated. Instead, those details will be filled in as Democratic Senate leaders work to strike deals with their moderate faction, many of whom are reluctant to support a "cap and trade" system, particularly while the jobless rate continues to climb ..."      

Energy Czar Raises Possibility Of EPA Implementing Cap-And-Trade [10/2/09] "There's more than one way to get cap-and-trade, President Obama's energy czar said today. ..."   

Is Copenhagen Dead? [09/26/09] "Is the Obama administration giving up on reaching a comprehensive international climate change agreement this year? A statement released on Friday by John Podesta, who headed Barack Obama's presidential transition, is a big hint that the White House is looking to dramatically downplay expectations. In the statement, Podesta, the head of the Center for American Progress, and Rajendra Pachauri, the chair of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, declare, "The world's leading economic powers remain inactive in preventing an increase in the serious impacts of climate change." The pair do not explicitly criticize the United States and the Obama administration. But their statement suggests that the Obama administration has not succeeded in leading the major global powers toward effective action ... Given that Podesta is quite well-informed on these matters, this appears to be a strong signal that the Obama administration—as the Senate puts off acting on climate change legislation—is giving up on achieving any grand accord to redress climate change this December. It's a stinging vote of no confidence in Copenhagen—and a sign that Obama administration officials, believing they cannot steer the nations of the world toward a meaningful treaty, are looking for a Plan B. ..."  Note: Plan B is probably the Carbon Credit Cap and Trade scam ... at least that makes money.

Cool Temps Chill Global Warming Proponents [09/24/09] "The world leaders who met at the United Nations to discuss climate change on Tuesday are faced with an intricate challenge: building momentum for an international climate treaty at a time when global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years..."   

Carbon Trade Swindle Behind Gore Hoax [09/23/09] "Look behind—if you dare—Al Gore and his science hoax, and you find the very same London-centered oligarchical financial crew that drove the 2003-2006 oil and commodity price increase, amidst the bubbles and hyperinflation that characterize the breakdown-phase of the financial system. The centerpiece of the U.S. emerging market for carbon emissions trading, is the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), created in 2003 as a "voluntary," or pilot agency, part of a London-based network positioned to reproduce the oil bubble on a scale orders of magnitude greater and more dangerous, while at the same time, destroying what's left of the physical economy ... The idea is that if governments cap CO2 emissions, then the "market" will take off for the buying and selling of emissions "allowances." This is the whole point of the "cap-and-trade" plan for CO2. If it sounds crazy, it is. But Gore is just one of the most visible parts of the elaborate (and bi-partisan) schemes that have been set in motion under cover of climate change. Gore's personal financial involvement is blatant, especially through Goldman Sachs—a large shareholder of CCX, and in 2004, the creator of Gore's very own London-based hedge fund, Generation Investment Management. ..."  Note: Al Gore and his partners created a product., literally out of thin air, and are going to force you to pay them for it.   

Greenpeace Leader Admits Arctic Ice Exaggeration [09/23/09] "Outgoing head of Greenpeace admits wild claims of Arctic ice vanishing is just scare tactics to trick people into $upporting their agenda. ..."    

Opinion: Climate deal failure 'could mean war' [09/22/09] "If the world fails to reach agreement on tackling climate change soon then it could end in war, climate scientist Tim Flannery has warned. Like many others, he is concerned at a lack of progress ahead of a crucial UN climate summit in Copenhagen in December. If there is no deal some time in the next year then there is a risk of momentum fading and the problem getting beyond the reach of world leaders, said Prof Flannery, who is in New York for climate talks. "My greatest fear is that once people stop negotiating, once diplomacy fails, that's potentially a prelude for war." That could mean conflict over carbon tariffs, over the mass migration of climate-affected people or over serious water shortages, Prof Flannery said. It might not happen for decades but it was a real threat if Copenhagen failed. "The triggers are there for conflict," the former Australian of the year said.   ..."  

Supermodel Gisele Bundchen becomes UN Environmental Ambassador [09/22/09]  Note:  When the UN is using supermodels to sell their agenda, you know things are really falling apart.

UN plans 'shock therapy' for world leaders on environment [09/21/09] "The United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty that, it is now widely acknowledged, are dangerously adrift. UN chief Ban Ki-Moon and negotiators say that unless they can convert world leaders into committed advocates of radical action, it will be very hard to reach a credible and enforceable agreement to avoid the most devastating consequences of climate change. As the digital counter ticking off the hours to the Copenhagen summit – which had been supposed to seal the deal on climate change – hit 77 days today, progress at the UN summit in New York is seen as vital. Nearly 100 heads of state and government are to attend the summit, for which a pared-down format has been devised. "We need these leaders to go outside their usual comfort zones," said one diplomat. "Our sense is that leaders have got a little too cosy and comfortable. They really have to hear from countries that are vulnerable and suffering."... Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel peace prize with Al Gore, agreed. Commenting on the leaders attending the G20 summit in Pittsburgh next week, he said: "We need to remind these people about impacts of climate change – the fact that they are inequitable and fall very heavily on some of the poorest people in the world. We are likely to see a large number of failed states if we don't act in time." The heads of state attending the UN summit are to be stripped of their entourages. Each will be allowed just one aide, generally their country's environment minister, in the sessions."  Note: No one can afford to do anything. 

Cap And Trade And The Smog Market Ripoff  [09/18/09] "Now that Senators have reconvened from summer hiatus, one of their first tasks will be to contemplate the greenhouse-gas cap-and-trade carbon market that President Obama would like to institute to blunt global warming. Their necks better be limber. Partisans of Keynesian, market-based regulations will undoubtedly point to the Midwest's federally run "acid rain" program to reduce harmful power-plant emissions as proof that giving industry profit incentives in cleaning up their operations can be successful. Regulation skeptics will wave that example off dismissively, urging Senators to swivel their heads for a look across the Atlantic, where the European Union’s Emissions Trading System has registered lousy results. ..."  

Obama Agriculture Secretary Admits CFR Influences “Climate Change” Agenda  [09/18/09] "Asked about emissions trading or “cap and trade” and its effect on Oklahoma’s agricultural economy, Vilsack noted having taken part in a recent climate change task force project with the Council on Foreign Relations...."   

Scientists pull a temporary about-face on global warming [09/18/09] "When a leading proponent for one point of view suddenly starts batting for the other side, it's usually newsworthy. So why was a speech last week by Prof. Mojib Latif of Germany's Leibniz Institute not given more prominence?..."   

Skeptics seize on climate cooling model [09/18/09] "Could it be true that global temperatures will fall before they rise? That's the thrust of a presentation at last week's World Climate conference. Mojib Latif of Kiel University in Germany suggested that cooling caused by natural factors could suppress global temperatures for several years, after which they will start to rise again...."   

UK: Scheme Fines or Fires People From Jobs For 'Exceeding Personal Carbon Emissions Target" [09/15/09] "People who emit more than their fair share of carbon emissions are having their pay docked in a trial that could lead to rationing being reintroduced via the workplace after an absence of half a century. Britain’s first employee carbon rationing scheme is about to be extended, after the trial demonstrated the effectiveness of fining people for exceeding their personal emissions target. Unlike the energy-saving schemes adopted by thousands of companies, the rationing scheme monitors employees’ personal emissions, including home energy bills, petrol purchases and holiday flights ..."  Note: Insane ... carbon trading is like derivatives .. imaginary concepts based on nothing, either substantive or rational. There is nothing anyone can do, or not do, to affect the carbon dioxide situation on a planetary scale. 

France set to impose "carbon tax" [09/11/09] "French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced plans for a new carbon tax aimed at combating global warming. The tax will be introduced next year and will cover the use of oil, gas and coal, he said. The new tax will be 17 euros (£15) per tonne of emitted carbon dioxide (CO2). It will be phased in gradually. It will apply to households as well as enterprises, but not to the heavy industries and power firms included in the EU's emissions trading scheme. ..."  Note:  It is the heavy industries and power firms that are the biggest polluters, making the whole fiasco not only a lie, but also disingenuous. 

Collapse of Climate Alarmism [09/10/09] PDF  "By the end of this year the whole charade of climate alarmism will be in tatters. These are some examples of the events leading up to Copenhagen in December from CCNet with acknowledgement, followed by my interpretations ..."  

"Global Warming" Proponents: "World’s climate could cool first, warm later"  [ 09/08/09 ] "Forecasts of climate change are about to go seriously out of kilter. One of the world’s top climate modelers said Thursday we could be about to enter “one or even two decades during which temperatures cool .... The world may badly want reliable forecasts of future climate. But such predictions are proving as elusive as the perfect weather forecast ..." Note: Ha! Global warming proponents are trying to weasel their way out of the fact that their climate 'assumptions' are political, not scientific. All the supercomputers in the world can't predict the weather, much less climate changes. Concern with 'climate' is a scam by those who intend on profiting from it. 

German 'Government Advisor' Proposes Personal CO2 Budget For Everyone On Planet   [ 09/08/09 ] "The top climate science advisor to the German government has proposed that everyone on the planet should have a personal CO2 budget and be forced to pay a tax if they exceed it, adding that westerners have already exceeded their allocations and should pay climate reparations to poorer countries. This is not just another tax being rammed through using the phony pretext of global warming, it’s the entrée for complete government tracking and control over your personal life. This is the “inventory” that Nancy Pelosi called for during her visit to China in May. On May 28, the Associated Press reported that Pelosi told a Chinese student that in order to cut back on CO2 emissions, “Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory ..."  Note: Idiotic scam from beginning to end.

2010 Farmers Almanac Predicts Numbing Cold in US Midsection  [ 09/01/09 ] "The venerable almanac's 2010 edition, which goes on sale Tuesday, says numbing cold will predominate in the country's midsection, from the Rocky Mountains in the West to the Appalachians in the East. Managing Editor Sandi Duncan says it's going to be an "ice cold sandwich." "We feel the middle part of the country's really going to be cold – very, very cold, very, very frigid, with a lot of snow," she said. "On the East and West coasts, it's going to be a little milder. Not to say it's going to be a mild short winter, but it'll be milder compared to the middle of the country ..."  

U.S. Chamber of Commerce seeks 'trial' on global warming   [ 08/27/09 ] "The business lobby, hoping to fend off potentially sweeping emission limits, wants the EPA to hold a 'Scopes'-like hearing on the evidence that climate change is man-made ..."

 Seven arrests in suspected £38m 'carbon credit' fraud  [ 08/20/09 ] "Seven people have been arrested and 27 addresses raided over an suspected £38m fraud involving the trade of carbon credits to avoid paying value-added tax (VAT). Officers from HM Revenue & Customs searched both residential properties and offices in both Gravesend and London targeting an alleged network of organised crime. Members are believed to have been trading large volumes of high-value carbon credits from overseas sources free of VAT. Tax investigators believe these may then have been sold on to businesses in the UK charging VAT that is never paid to the authorities. Officers said further arrests are likely, adding that the proceeds of this alleged crime have been "used to finance lavish lifestyles and the purchase of prestige vehicles". The Treasury removed VAT from carbon credits on July 31 as a temporary measure until the European Union works out a common policy to tackle fraudsters. The tax dodge appears to be a variation of "carousel" VAT fraud. Carousel fraud, also known as "missing trader" fraud, typically involves goods such as mobile phones and computer chips imported VAT-free from EU member states. These are then sold in the UK, including a VAT charge, but the trader then going missing without paying the taxman. Companies now need permits to emit carbon dioxide as part of the global fight against climate change and polluters are granted a certain number of emissions allowances that can be traded. "The Government took decisive action to prevent this type of fraud recurring by zero rating carbon credits for VAT," said Les Beaumont, deputy director of criminal investigation for HMRC ..."  Note: It's amazing how convoluted things get, so quickly, when you're dealing in 'hypothetical financial products' that have no real value, when the facts are examined. This is a huge financial scam being perpetrated on the planet, based on lies and misperceptions which have created an environmental 'belief system' unsupported by the facts, where criminals continue their endgame heyday.

 Greenpeace Leader: Urgent need for the suppression of economic growth in U.S  [ 08/20/09 ] Video [1:38] "The outgoing leader of Greenpeace has issued a call for the suppression of economic growth in the U.S. and Western nations. Under questioning by BBC reporter Stephen Sackur on the August 5, 2009 "Hardtalk" program, Gerd Leipold, the retiring leader of Greenpeace, said "the lifestyle of the rich in the world is not a sustainable model ... "Leipold told the BBC that there is an urgent need for the suppression of economic growth in the United States and around the world. He said annual growth rates of 3 percent to 8 percent cannot continue without serious consequences for the climate."  “We will definitely have to move to a different concept of growth. ... The lifestyle of the rich in the world is not a sustainable model,” Leipold told the BBC. “If you take the lifestyle, its cost on the environment, and you multiply it with the billions of people and an increasing world population, you come up with numbers which are truly scary," Leipold explained. You can watch the full BBC interview with Leipold here or here." Related:  Greenpeace Leader Admits Arctic Ice Exaggeration Video [1:38] "Gerd Leipold, the outgoing leader of Greenpeace, admitted that his organization's recent claim that the Arctic Ice will disappear by 2030 was "a mistake." Greenpeace said in a July 15 press release that there will be an ice-free Arctic by 2030 because of global warming. BBC reporter Stephen Sackur on the "Hardtalk" program pressed Leipold until he admitted the claim was wrong ..."

 2010: Legislation to curb emissions of carbon dioxide will become law [ 08/18/09 ] "Whether you believe it’s needed or not, climate change legislation is a solid bet. There’s a slim chance it will squeak through Congress this year, but a much greater one that, come 2010, legislation to curb emissions of carbon dioxide will become law. The impact will be both wide and deep, paring about 2.3% from gross domestic product in 2030. The costs of fuel and electricity will soar, despite the swift growth in alternative sources of energy, such as solar, wind power and geothermal. New regulations will add as much as 20% to utility rates by 2020. And that’s over and above any increases anticipated from changes in supply and demand. All told, the average cost for residential, commercial and industrial users may be 50% higher than today. In areas such as the Midwest and Southeast where coal fired power dominates, a 100% hike is likely. Note: The environmental movement warped: make no mistake ..."   Related:  Climate bill would bloat federal agencies

 Cap-and-Trade's Unlikely Critics: Its Creators [ 08/17/09 ] "Now legislation using cap-and-trade to limit greenhouse gases is working its way through Congress and could become the law of the land. But Mr. Crocker and other pioneers of the concept are doubtful about its chances of success. They aren't abandoning efforts to curb emissions. But they are tiptoeing away from an idea they devised decades ago, doubting it can work on the grand scale now envisioned ..." 

 Wobbling earth triggers climate change  [ 08/17/09 ] "Regular wobbles in the earth's tilt were responsible for the global warming episodes that interspersed prehistoric ice ages, according to new evidence. The finding is the result of research led by Dr Russell Drysdale of the University of Newcastle that has been able to accurately date the end of the penultimate ice age for the first time ..." 

 World’s Source for Global Temperature Record Admits It’s Lost or Destroyed All the Original Data   [ 08/16/09 ] "The world’s source for global temperature record admits it’s lost or destroyed all the original data that would allow a third party to construct a global temperature record ...." 

Oz Senate Rejects Curbs On Greenhouse Gases  [ 08/14/09 ] "Kevin Rudd's government vows to push legislation through despite setback ..."

Climate data spat intensifies [ 08/13/09 ] "A leading UK climatologist is being inundated by freedom-of-information-act requests to make raw climate data publicly available, leading to a renewed row over data access ... "  Note: "No, no, no, no no nonononono you don't want the raw data; the raw data is, well, raw! All you need is the conclusions we are showing you and trust us, the raw data really does support it. Honest! You don't need to see the raw data! You don't need to see the raw data! You don't need to see the raw data! " -- Saint Al of the Bore      Prevention of access to raw data is a clue that a scam may well be in progress, of course.

Meteorologist: ‘The ‘dangerous’ global warming predictions of UN IPCC have proved to be a chimera [ 08/13/09 ] "The coming Senate vote on the badly misnamed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) is the culmination of intense propaganda spanning more than three decades ... The coming Senate vote on the badly misnamed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) is the culmination of intense propaganda spanning more than three decades. The Senate Bill aims at restricting emissions of carbon dioxide, a colourless, odourless gas essential to life, and has nought to do with smokestack carbon particles and other pollutants that have been regulated since the 1950s. The basis of the Bill is an unsustainable hypothesis that dangerous global warming will be an outcome of continued burning of fossil fuels and the rising concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. ..." 

Rising ocean acidity: 'The other carbon problem'  [ 08/13/09 ] "What happens if there's no more "shell" in shellfish? A new documentary on Discovery's Planet Green network, Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification (premiering Wednesday), explores this and other questions related to ocean acidification, a little-publicized but potentially disastrous..."

Climate Change Seen as "Threat to U.S. Security" [ 08/09/09 ]  "A growing number of policy makers say that the world’s rising temperatures, surging seas and melting glaciers are a direct threat to the national interest ..."   Note: This is such a stupid, infantile statement only possible within a tyranny that's begging to either be overthrown or destroyed. The arrogance of these stupid people.

"Climate Engineering" As a Fools Pursuit [ 08/08/09 ]  "Susan Solomon, a climate scientist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Gabi Hegerl, a climate scientist at the University of Edinburgh, caution against the entrepreneurial “we can fix this thing” approach and say that a calm, methodical inquiry is needed. They say in the journal Science that climate modelling has focused largely on temperatures and that current models do a poor job at predicting rainfall ..." Note: One major problem with attempts at world-scale 'climate engineering', especially by idiots, is there are no "take-backs". In reality, they can do nothing that will change anything, and, the climate is changing to one which is inhospitable, and, the oxygen levels are almost to the point where the planet won't be able to support life. What would they do?  Order all existing balloons and car tires to be popped? Stupid people.

New film reveals how global warming activists cause economic destruction while spreading misery and death around the world [ 08/08/09 ]  "Commencing a full blown attack on the hypocrisy and ill-conceived policies of the modern environmental movement, Not Evil Just Wrong is a feature length documentary that shows how extreme environmentalism is damaging the lives of the most vulnerable populations in the developed and developing world. With examples from Indiana to Uganda the film shows how Global Warming "solutions" will destroy jobs and livelihoods in America during one of the biggest recessions in living memory ... "Documentary film co-director and producer Ann McElhinney invites everyday Americans to "Help us expose the true cost of global warming hysteria and become a part of cinematic history by making sure a documentary that finally tells the truth about their lives is shown across the nation." ... The film sweeps back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean, starting in the United States. It examines the history of environmentalism, rooted in Rachel Carson's famed 1962 book, Silent Spring, which led to a ban on DDT. This ban was disastrous for people in the developing world because DDT was the cheapest and safest way of combating malaria. An estimated 30 million people died when the DDT ban left them vulnerable to malaria. Not Evil Just Wrong exposes the full impact of robust and crushing environmental restrictions on the people of Uganda, before returning back to the United States to see how those same policies could impact American families in small towns like Vevay, Indiana. Not Evil Just Wrong also shreds outrageous claims made in Al Gore's award-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, and rips apart academics and actors alike as they promote bad science to raise money for "green" initiatives."  

Long debate ended over cause, demise of ice ages – solar and earth wobble – CO2 not main driver [ 08/08/09 ]  "A team of researchers says it has largely put to rest a long debate on the underlying mechanism that has caused periodic ice ages on Earth for the past 2.5 million years – they are ultimately linked to slight shifts in solar radiation caused by predictable changes in Earth’s rotation and axis. In a publication to be released Friday in the journal Science, researchers from Oregon State University and other institutions conclude that the known wobbles in Earth’s rotation caused global ice levels to reach their peak about 26,000 years ago, stabilize for 7,000 years and then begin melting 19,000 years ago, eventually bringing to an end the last ice age. The melting was first caused by more solar radiation, not changes in carbon dioxide levels or ocean temperatures, as some scientists have suggested in recent years ..."  

More than 60 German Scientists Dissent Over Global Warming Claims [ 08/06/09 ]  "More than 60 prominent German scientists have publicly declared their dissent from man-made global warming fears in an Open Letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The more than 60 signers of the letter include several United Nations IPCC scientists. The scientists declared that global warming has become a “pseudo religion” and they noted that rising CO2 has “had no measurable effect” on temperatures. The German scientists, also wrote that the “UN IPCC has lost its scientific credibility ..."  

India rejects 'key scientific findings on global warming'  [ 07/25/09 ] "India rejected key scientific findings on global warming, while the European Union called for more action by developing states on greenhouse gas emissions ..."

Government monopsony distorts climate science, says SPPI  [ 07/24/09 ] "The Science and Public Policy Institute announces the publication of Climate Money, a study by Joanne Nova revealing that the federal Government has a near-monopsony on climate science funding. This distorts the science towards self-serving alarmism.  In economics, a monopsony is a market form in which only one buyer faces many sellers. As the only purchaser of a good or service, the "monopsonist" may dictate terms to its suppliers in the same manner that a monopolist controls the market for its buyers.   Key findings: Ø The US Government has spent more than $79 billion of taxpayers’ money since 1989 on policies related to climate change, including science and technology research, administration, propaganda campaigns, foreign aid, and tax breaks. Most of this spending was unnecessary. Ø Despite the billions wasted, audits of the science are left to unpaid volunteers. A dedicated but largely uncoordinated grassroots movement of scientists has sprung up around the globe to test the integrity of “global warming” theory and to compete with a lavishly-funded, highly-organized climate monopsony. Major errors have been exposed again and again. Ø Carbon trading worldwide reached $126 billion in 2008. Banks, which profit most, are calling for more. Experts are predicting the carbon market will reach $2 - $10 trillion in the near future. Hot air will soon be the largest single commodity traded on global exchanges. Ø Meanwhile, in a distracting sideshow, Exxon-Mobil Corp is repeatedly attacked for paying just $23 million to skeptics—less than a thousandth of what the US government spends on alarmists, and less than one five-thousandth of the value of carbon trading in 2008 alone. Ø The large expenditure designed to prove the non-existent connection between carbon and climate has created a powerful alliance of self-serving vested interests. Ø By pouring so much money into pushing a single, scientifically-baseless agenda, the Government has created not an unbiased investigation but a self-fulfilling prophecy. Ø Sound science cannot easily survive the vice-like grip of politics and finance ...."  Related: Massive Climate Funding Exposed |  Joanne Nova’s important paper: Climate Money     

 'Mystery mechanism' drove global warming 55 million years ago  [ 07/14/09 ]  "A runaway spurt of global warming 55 million years ago turned Earth into a hothouse but how this happened remains worryingly unclear, scientists said on Monday." Note: It's 'worrying' because it illustrates how little human civilization affects the planet in terms of atmospheric changes, and that this is one more nail in the coffin of their bullshit. There is NO mystery here, the answer has been on the Discovery channel.

 Dark Side of Climate Change: "It's Already Too Late, Cap and Trade Is a Scam, and Few Will Survive"  [ 07/12/09 ]  "There is another, fourth voice in the debate over cap-and-trade, one ringing out from shadows rarely approached by the media. In these shadows dwell scientists who believe the time has passed for any sort of legislation at all, no matter how radical. The best known of these frightening climate gnomes is the legendary British scientist James Lovelock, father of Gaia Theory and inventor of the instrument allowing for the atmospheric measurements of CFC's. In recent years, Lovelock has emerged as the world’s leading climate pessimist, raining scorn on the new fashionable environmentalism and arguing that the time is nigh to accept that a massive culling of the human race is around the corner ..."    Note: Whatever the case, were life were to go on, it wouldn't be for very long.

 Democrats Admit That Their 'Cap and Trade Bill' Is a Job Killer  [ 07/07/09 ]  "According to Friday’s Washington Times, the legislation includes language that provides, should it become law, that people who lose their jobs because of it “could get a weekly paycheck for up to three years, subsidies to find new work and other generous benefits—courtesy of Uncle Sam.” ..."  Note: Of course, the procedure for 'proving' a cause and effect for your job will be so restrictive that it won't matter, and might as well not even been done, aside from those non-job hunters who benefit from the legislation.

 Great Global Warming Swindle  [ 07/07/09 ] Video [75 min] | Sen. Inhofe On Global Warming: 'This Thing Is Phony' [5:03]

 Sen. Inhofe Calls for Inquiry Into ‘Suppressed’ Climate Change Report  [ 07/01/09 ]  "A top Republican senator has ordered an investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency’s alleged suppression of a report that questioned the science behind global warming. The 98-page report, co-authored by EPA analyst Alan Carlin, pushed back on the prospect of regulating gases like carbon dioxide as a way to reduce global warming. Carlin’s report argued that the information the EPA was using was out of date, and that even as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased, global temperatures have declined. “He came out with the truth. They don’t want the truth at the EPA,” Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., a global warming skeptic, told FOX News, saying he’s ordered an investigation. “We’re going to expose it.” The controversy comes after the House of Representatives passed a landmark bill to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, one that Inhofe said will be “dead on arrival” in the Senate despite President Obama’s energy adviser voicing confidence in the measure ..."  Related: Ron Paul: Democrats Who Opposed Climate Bill Voted For It Anyway 

 CEI Releases Global Warming Study Censored by EPA  [ 06/30/09 ]  "The report finds that EPA, by adopting the United Nations’ 2007 “Fourth Assessment” report, is relying on outdated research and is ignoring major new developments. Those developments include a continued decline in global temperatures, a new consensus that future hurricanes will not be more frequent or intense, and new findings that water vapor will moderate, rather than exacerbate, temperature ..."

 Carbongate – Global Warming Study Censored by EPA  [ 06/27/09 ] "The Competitive Enterprise Institute is today making public an internal study on climate science which was suppressed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Internal EPA email messages, released by CEI earlier in the week, indicate that the report was kept under wraps and its author silenced because of pressure to support the Administration’s agenda of regulating carbon dioxide. The report finds that EPA, by adopting the United Nations’ 2007 “Fourth Assessment” report, is relying on outdated research and is ignoring major new developments. Those developments include a continued decline in global temperatures, a new consensus that future hurricanes will not be more frequent or intense, and new findings that water vapor will moderate, rather than exacerbate, temperature ..."

 Arizona Looks to Outlaw Global Warming Legislation  [ 06/26/09 ] "Arizona is now close to becoming the first state to outlaw climate change legislation. The state Senate voted Monday, 19-10 to approve a bill banning the Department of Environmental Quality from enacting or enforcing measures with language pertaining to climate change. The bill is now awaiting House approval ..."

 Dem mutiny on climate bill grows  [ 06/12/09 ] "More and more Democrats are ready to vote against Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s climate change bill, according to a congressional committee chairman who opposes his leader. The House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson (D-Minn.) said Wednesday that he’s at an impasse with the lead sponsor of a climate change bill strongly backed by Pelosi (D-Calif.), and that his list of Democratic members who would join him in voting against the measure is growing rather than shrinking ..."

Little Ice Age II, The Sequel? Link fixed [ 06/11/09 ] "The lingering cool temperatures being experience by much of North America has weather forecasters wondering it we are entering a new Little Ice Age—a reference to the prolonged period of cold weather that afflicted the world for centuries and didn't end until just prior to the American Civil War. From historical records, scientists have found a strong correlation between low sunspot activity and a cooling climate. At the end of May, an international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA released a new prediction for the next solar cycle: Solar Cycle 24 will be one of the weakest in recent memory. Are we about to start a new Little Ice Age? ...  New record cold temperatures have been seen in a number of locations around the world, marking this as one of the coldest springs in years. With reports of late season frost and snow falls, some are already forecasting a very cool summer. Not trying to sound alarmist or start any rumors but scientists' best conjecture regarding the conditions that signal the start of a new glacial period are cool, cloudy summers. Is this the beginning of Little Ice Age II, the sequel? If so, we will look back fondly on the time we were all so concerned about global warming. Remember, in the words of SF author Orson Scott Card, “'global warming' is just another term for 'good weather.'”    

OPED/Commentary:  ABC's 'Earth 2100': New World Order Agenda on Primetime   [ 06/10/09 ] "I saw some of this last night, it’s the most insane predictive programming I have ever seen, they tell some fictionalized story of a woman’s life in the future where the entire world is destroyed due to overpopulation, global warming and resource depletion. The earth is a hellhole, the whole middle of the United States is an unlivable desert with no water, they tell a fictional story of a plague killing people en masse and how everyone has to be quarantined to fight it, the US is in total bedlam but NY and California are the only places you can live because they are “sustainable” cities ... The ‘fictional’ character who is telling the story speaks of how much ‘hope’ she gets from seeing all the solar technologies etc., as she is saying all this they have some musical interlude where they have Obama’s voice speaking about how all the changes we made in the past saved us (in the shows present) etc. It really sounded like Obama actually personally recorded this in a studio just for this propaganda piece ... At the end they say how this whole disaster scenario is not set in stone, and how we can avert catastrophe (even though they made this whole thing up) if we only change our way of life and re-engineer our entire society through living “sustainably.” What they don’t tell you something like air conditioning is not considered sustainable, eating meat is not considered sustainable, having appliances in your house is not sustainable, having suburban housing is not sustainable, driving a car or using any fossil fuels is not sustainable, these are all things globalist millionaires like Maurice Strong (who no doubt lives a life of poverty and chastity) feel must no longer be allowed to be used by those of us in the “affluent middle class.” We are talking about the total destruction of our entire way of life, turning the US into a literal third world dictatorship where the new crimes will be things like taking too many showers, using too much air conditioning, using too much heating, failing to recycle, throwing away too much trash, etc. If these people get their way it will be hell on earth, this propaganda is so dangerous it must be exposed for what it is ... Read the quotes of these top globalists at the end of this article, and ask yourself if this is a world you want to live in, if this is a world you want your children to live in, hell, ask yourself if you even want the freedom to have children, because they feel that is a liberty which can no longer be afforded to the general public, and they have no qualms voicing that is how they feel. They are trying to make this world a reality and they have literally trillions of dollars to spend to see that it is made this way. We cannot all just lay down and wait to die, this agenda must be fought and resisted by every thinking human being on the planet, they cannot change things without our acquiescence and compliance, the responsibility lies completely in the hands of the average person themselves to stop this agenda, you and I and all of us have the power to stop this through our noncompliance, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. - Chris, IL" 

 The great carbon credit con: paying the Third World to poison its environment [ 06/02/09 ] "In the fields around this giant chemicals factory in Gujarat, the barren soil smells of paint stripper and the water from the well makes you gag. So why has it been given tens of millions of pounds of taxpayer-funded UN ‘green reward points’, which are traded hungrily on the financial markets at huge profit? ..."

 Report: Climate change crisis 'catastrophic'  [ 05/30/09 ] "The first comprehensive report into the human cost of climate change warns the world is in the throes of a "silent crisis" that is killing 300,000 people each year. More than 300 million people are already seriously affected by the gradual warming of the earth and that number is set to double by 2030, the report from the Global Humanitarian Forum warns...."

US climate change bill passes key hurdle [ 05/23/09 ] "The United States, long a bastion of global warming scepticism, has taken the first step towards introducing climate change legislation after a key congressional committee approved a hotly-debated bill ..."

The Climate-Industrial Complex  [ 05/22/09 ] "Some business leaders are cozying up with politicians and scientists to demand swift, drastic action on global warming. This is a new twist on a very old practice: companies using public policy to line their own pockets. The tight relationship between the groups echoes the relationship among weapons makers, researchers and the U.S. military during the Cold War. President Dwight Eisenhower famously warned about the might of the "military-industrial complex," cautioning that "the potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist." He worried that "there is a recurring temptation to feel that some spectacular and costly action could become the miraculous solution to all current difficulties." This is certainly true of climate change. We are told that very expensive carbon regulations are the only way to respond to global warming, despite ample evidence that this approach does not pass a basic cost-benefit test. We must ask whether a "climate-industrial complex" is emerging, pressing taxpayers to fork over money to please those who stand to gain. This phenomenon will be on display at the World Business Summit on Climate Change in Copenhagen this weekend. The organizers -- the Copenhagen Climate Council -- hope to push political leaders into more drastic promises when they negotiate the Kyoto Protocol's replacement in December..."

Climate lobbying dominated by 10 firms [ 05/21/09 ] "Lobbyists are cramming into a Rayburn House Office Building hearing room this week for the Energy and Commerce Committee’s markup of landmark legislation to curb global warming through a complex cap-and-trade system. But some of those lobbyists will carry a bit more weight — or at least a heftier client list — than others. A new analysis of Senate disclosure records by The Center for Public Integrity found that 10 lobbying firms — all with deep ties to Capitol Hill — have amassed such large client lists that they represent nearly 100 of the business stakeholders in the legislative brawl. Here they are: Alpine Group — 13 clients; Ogilvy Government Relations — 13 clients; Patton Boggs LLP — 11 clients; Morgan Meguire, LLC — 11 clients; McBee Strategic Consulting — 10 clients; Ryan, MacKinnon, Vasapoli and Berzok LLP — 9 clients; Bracewell & Giuliani LLP — 9 clients; Alcalde & Fay — 8 clients; Colling Swift & Hynes — 7 clients; Hunton & Williams LLP — 7 clients. Info on link above.       

Indiana Says 'No Thanks' to Cap and Trade   [ 05/16/09 ] "No honest person thinks this will make a dent in climate change. This week Congress is set to release the details of the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act, a bill that purports to combat global warming by setting strict limits on carbon emissions. I'm not a candidate for any office -- now or ever again -- and I've approached the "climate change" debate with an open-mind. But it's clear to me that the nation, and in particular Indiana, my home state, will be terribly disserved by this cap-and-trade policy on the verge of passage in the House...."

Thick Arctic ice surprises scientific expedition [ 05/10/09 ]  "Ice in the Arctic is often twice as thick as expected, report surprised scientists who returned last week from a major scientific expedition. The scientists - a 20-member contingent from Canada, the U.S., Germany, and Italy - spent one month exploring the North Pole as well as never-before measured regions of the Arctic. Among their findings: Rather than finding newly formed ice to be two metres thick, "we measured ice thickness up to four metres," stated a spokesperson for the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research of the Helmholtz Association, Germany's largest scientific organization...."  

Mystery worms turn on northwest China herdsmen [ 05/09/09 ]  "An invasion of unidentified worms has forced 50 herdsmen and their families from their grassland homes, taking 20,000 head of livestock with them, in northwest China's Xinjiang region, state news agency Xinhua said Friday. The worms are packed up to 3,000 per square meter and chew through the grasslands like lawnmowers, leaving only brown soil in their wake, Xinhua said. The agency described it as the worst plague in three decades in Usu, about 280 km (175 miles) west of the Xinjiang capital Urumqi. Local experts could not identify the 2-cm (1 inch) long, thorny green worm with black stripes and samples had been sent to Xinjiang Agricultural University, Xinhua said...."

10 Strange Looking Places on Earth [ 05/06/09 ]  Huh. Cool. 

"Global recession could worsen global warming"  [ 05/03/09 ]  How many layers of convolution is it possible to have at once? At least two.

Media Ignore Al Gore’s Financial Ties to Global Warming  [ 05/02/09 ]  "As NewsBusters reported here, here, and here, there are huge dollars to be made from global warming alarmism. However, conceivably no one is better positioned to financially benefit from this scam than Dr. Global Warming himself, former Vice President Al Gore, a fact that the media will surely not share with Americans any time soon...."  When you add it all up, this is a flimflam of epic proportions ..."

World Bank finds Israel’s water policy hard to swallow  [ 04/30/09 ]  "As a former, and by many accounts successful, finance minister, Benjamin Netanyahu presumably knows his way around economics. So when the Israeli prime minister says he will work to provide the Palestinians with economic, if not political, independence, might that not suggest his hard-line government understands that a prosperous Palestine would be an important first step towards a more stable Middle East?"

Chairman of Gore Climate Hearing Strikes Gavel, Cuts Off All Dissent  [ 04/29/09 ] Video [1:47]  "Al Gore & pals are trying to push through a very serious, very burdensome carbon tax, a new derivatives bubble stands to grow around it, and there is in fact no scientific consensus on the issue. Al Gore & pals are trying to push through a very serious, very burdensome carbon tax, a new derivatives bubble stands to grow around it, and there is in fact no scientific consensus on the issue-- and yet the chairman of the Commerce Subcommittee on Energy & Environment, Rep. Ed Markey cuts off every single member of the House who attempts to raise questions or challenge Al Gore's claims in any way, shape or form. While it happened to Reps. Scalise, Burgess and Barton, the most blatant example was to during questioning by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), who was repeatedly interrupted by the chairman's gaveling. Walden, for his part, protested the rude breach of order, as he was trying to ask some rather mundane, yet mildly challenging questions about the role of the CO2 debate in regards to protecting the forests. Walden rebuffs the interruption with a recognition of the childish behavior: "Mr. Chairman...." Chairman Markey proclaims he 'wasn't gaveling' but only 'tapping.' Gore, on the other hand, seemed free to rant & rave with little or any consideration of the formal time limits. The only gaveling during Gore's testimony came when Congressmen tried to respond to his statements or address certain points. Meanwhile, the cost of such a carbon tax could easily reach heights of $700 Billion per year, a serious blow that obviously must be debated and counteracted." 

Gore “can’t remember” if he worked with Ken Lay on the Carbon Tax Credits Plan in 1997? [ 04/29/09 ] "In a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee hearing yesterday, Al Gore gave a rather remarkable answer to a legitimate question posed by one of the committee members about whether or not he and Ken Lay started laying the ground work for this “Carbon tax Credits scheme” in meetings they held in 2007. “Well, lotta people met with him before everyone knew he was a crook.” was Gore’s response. He also stated that he “couldn’t remember” if he and Lay worked on the carbon tax credits plan. He was visibly shaken once this line of questioning started. He also seems to have lied about whether or not he is partnered with a former Goldman Sach’s CEO. He is. Watch it yourself and see what you think."  Video included

NBC Affiliate Meteorologist Rips MSNBC for Apocalyptic Global Warming Special [ 04/28/09 ] "Michigan affiliate's chief meteorologist slams disingenuousness of MSNBC's 'Future Earth' special; GE's financial stake in cap-and-trade passage...."

Al Gore Questioned About Green Investments'  [ 04/25/09 ]  Video [2:37]  "Gore To Blackburn: If You Think It's About Greed, "You Don't Know Me"

Democrats Refused Skeptic Testimony Alongside Gore: 'House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated'  [ 04/24/09 ] "UK's Lord Christopher Monckton, a former science advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, claimed House Democrats have refused to allow him to appear alongside former Vice President Al Gore at a high profile global warming hearing on Friday April 24, 2009 at 10am in Washington. Monckton told Climate Depot that the Democrats rescinded his scheduled joint appearance at the House Energy and Commerce hearing on Friday. Monckton said he was informed that he would not be allowed to testify alongside Gore when his plane landed from England Thursday afternoon. “The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face,” Monckton told Climate Depot in an exclusive interview. “They are cowards.” According to Monckton, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Energy & Commerce Committee, had invited him to go head to head with Gore and testify at the hearing on Capitol Hill Friday. But Monckton now says that when his airplane from London landed in the U.S. on Thursday, he was informed that the former Vice-President had “chickened out” and there would be no joint appearance. Gore is scheduled to testify on Friday to the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment's fourth day of hearings on the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The hearing will be held in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. “The Democrats have a lot to learn about the right of free speech under the US Constitution. Congress Henry Waxman's (D-CA) refusal to expose Al Gore's sci-fi comedy-horror testimony to proper, independent scrutiny by the House minority reeks of naked fear,” Monckton said from the airport Thursday evening." 

UK Study: Antarctic sea ice increasing  [ 04/24/09 ] "Scientists in the United Kingdom have produced a study which shows ice has grown by 100,000 square kilometres each decade in the past 30 years."

‘World News’ Airs Catastrophic Global Warming story for Earth Day  [ 04/24/09 ] "ABC correspondent Bill Blakemore recycles one-sided calamitous predictions, insists humans must agree to cut carbon emissions. It just wouldn’t be Earth Day without a catastrophic global warming segment from the network news, so ABC correspondent Bill Blakemore delivered just that April 22."

Earthquake prediction: Gone and back again [ 04/16/09 ] "The 1990s and early 2000s were hard times for earthquake prediction research. “For 10 years, there was limited funding in the U.S.,” says Dimitar Ouzounov, a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., and professor at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. That changed in 2004, Ouzounov says, after a magnitude-9-plus quake struck off the coast of Sumatra and set off a tsunami, killing more than 225,000 people in 11 countries ..."

Ice Survey Shows Thickening Arctic Ice [ 04/14/09 ] "The WUWT Arctic Ice Thickness Survey has been conducted from the comfort of a warm living room over the last half hour, without sponsors, excessive CO2 emissions or hypothermia. The data is collected from the US military web site http://imb.crrel.usace.army.mil. All of the active military buoys show significant thickening ice over the past six months to a year ..."  Related: Satellite Data Shows Arctic Cooling in February and March

Obama Advisor Back Pedals On Geo-engineering Announcement [ 04/11/09 ] "President Obama's chief scientific adviser is back pedaling over comments he made in an interview regarding planetary geo-engineering. As we reported earlier this week, John Holdren told Associated Press that the Obama administration has held discussions regarding the possibility of artificially altering the earth's climate, with the justification of countering global warming. According to the report, Holdren discussed methods of geo-engineering such as shooting pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays and other radical terraforming programs such as creating an "artificial volcano". "It's got to be looked at," Holdren was quoted as saying, "We don't have the luxury of taking any approach off the table." The AP also reported that Holdren said he has raised the concept in administration discussions. However, since both the mainstream and alternative media picked up on Holdren's comments and sent them viral, the former director of Harvard University's Science, Technology and Public Policy Program has backtracked, saying that his comments were exaggerated and that the Obama administration IS NOT considering geo-engineering ..." 

A farmer’s view on carbon credits [ 04/11/09 ] "I have changed my mind about participating in the carbon credit program. And have resolved to give the money I received to St Jude’s Children’s Hospital. Here is why. Recently I sat in the fire hall with a few dozen farmers. We had been invited to hear how we can get paid for carbon credits. The speaker explained how their satellites can measure the carbon in our land individually and how much money we could get, then asked for questions ..."

Antarctic Sea Ice Up Over 43% Since 1980, Where's The Media? [ 04/10/09 ] "Sea ice at Antarctica is up over 43% since 1980 and we hear nothing in the news, yet Arctic ice is down less than 7% and they're all over it! We've been waiting for the main stream media to pick up on the increase of Antarctic ice but so far they're been totally absent. Guess its doesn't fit the plan." Related: Global Warming Meltdown

Circular Reasoning in the Theory of Manmade Global Warming [ 04/06/09 ] "Assuming that cloud cover remains the same is part of the climate modelers’ worldview in which nature has been in balance until humans came along. But there is no way to support this worldview with data…it is a matter of faith. It takes only a 1% change in global average cloud cover to cause substantial climate change, either warming or cooling. It has only been since 2000 that have we had sufficiently stable satellite data (from NASA’s Terra and Aqua satellites) to determine whether there are any long-term, natural changes in global cloudiness, and unfortunately eight years of data is not much in the context of climate change ..."    Related: Climate Change "Clearly, evidence does not support the popular notion that carbon "causes" warming. Nor does logic. One of the common blunders identified in formal logic is the primitive syllogism, whereby two things that occur at the same time are claimed to be causally related. It's the old roosters causing sunrises syndrome. In this case, self-appointed custodians of the planet's health are committing a massive blunder in logic."  

Carbon Market With Trillion-Dollar Potential Sparks Early U.S. Turf Fight [03/30/09 ]  U.S. Representative Edward Markey says his committee should be in charge. No, says fellow Democrat Collin Peterson, this one should fall under my panel. Related: Farmers Want Obama to Make Carbon a Cash Crop Under Climate Law Proposal "Rex Woollen grows corn and soybeans. In 2007, the Wilcox, Nebraska, farmer started cultivating a new commodity: carbon."

Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Scheme He Is Now Pushing Through Congress  [03/29/09 ] "In 2000 and 2001, while Barack Obama served as a board member for a Chicago-based charitable foundation, he helped to fund a pioneering carbon trading exchange that is likely to fill a critical role in the controversial cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme that President Obama is now trying to push rapidly through Congress ... Obama served as one of 12 directors on the Joyce Foundation board from July 1994 until December 2002, according to a Joyce foundation spokesman. But it was only in 2000 and 2001 that the foundation gave money to the Climate Exchange -- funds deemed by the exchange itself to be fundamental to its successful launch, and in fact to its early survival ..."   

Choking on Growth: China's Pollution Crisis  [03/29/09 ] "A series of articles and multimedia examining the human toll, global impact and political challenge of China’s epic pollution crisis." 

World faces 'irreversible' climate change, researchers warn   [03/28/09 ] "The world is facing an increasing risk of "irreversible" climate shifts because worst-case scenarios warned of two years ago are being realized, an international panel of scientists has warned."

El Nino study challenges global warming intensity link   [03/26/09 ] "Research showing an El Nino event in 1918 was far stronger than previously thought is challenging the notion climate change is making El Nino episodes more intense, a U.S. scientist said ..." All the more so because the warming for El Nino itself is now thought to come from a chain of recently discovered undersea volcanoes.

People still being sacrificed to 'climate god'   [03/26/09 ] "That hefty sum to be paid out to a cap-and-trade carbon tax would snatch money from consumers far more than rising oil prices did, hinder economic growth and in still other ways generate human misery, and all in the name of what? Computer models that can’t get anything right, that’s what."

'Global warming' simply no longer happening   [03/24/09 ] "The modest global warming trend has stopped – maybe even reversed itself. And it's not just the record low temperatures experienced in much of the world this winter. For at least the last five years, global temperatures have been falling, according to tracking performed by Roy Spencer, the climatologist formerly of NASA. "Global warming" was going to bring more and more horrific hurricanes, climate change scientists and the politicians who subscribed to their theories said. But since 2005, only one major hurricane has struck North America. A new study by Florida State University researcher Ryan Maue shows worldwide cyclone activity – typhoons, as well as hurricanes – has reached at least a 30-year low. Two more studies – one by the Leibniz Institute of Marine Science and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology in Germany and another by the University of Wisconsin – predict a slowing, or even a reversal of warming, for at least the next 10 to 20 years ..."

Man's contribution to climate change is negligible in geologic time [03/22/09 ] "Some evidence exists suggesting that the current phase of warming MAY have peaked in the 1970s and the earth MAY be returning to a cooling phase. Regardless of the rhetoric on either side of the arguments, man's total contribution to global climate change is negligible and probably not measurable within the context of geologic time. Instantaneous events like the asteroid or meteor strike that ended the age of dinosaurs by creating a global wide "dust cloud" or continuous volcanic eruptions that have also shrouded the earth with ash and smoke clouds have had a far greater and long lasting effect on climates. If all of man's "contribution" were to cease immediately, the net effect, measured in geologic time, on the earth's natural warming and cooling cycles would not be measurable ..."

White House Admits Cap-And-Trade Tax Costs Triple Their Official Estimate [03/18/09 ] "I’ve already explained here on the Forum how the cap-and-trade energy tax works, and would be the biggest tax increase in the history of the country. Now, amazingly, the White House is telling something closer to the truth about this tax hike, admitting that the official budget estimate of $646 billion over 8 years—already a mighty steep price to pay—is far, far lower than the real cost. The deputy director of the White House National Economic Council, Jason Furman, is giving us a glimpse at the real number, telling Senate staff the energy tax scheme would actually raise “two-to-three times” the budget’s official $646 billion revenue estimate. Dow Jones reports that 5 people at the meeting confirmed the statement—we can be pretty sure he said it. It make sense, because the budget estimate was only half the official score from the Congressional Budget Office for last year’s Lieberman-Warner bill, even though the Obama version is designed to have much steeper costs because it requires steeper emissions cuts. If Furman is right that the real tax hike would be two or three times the official budget estimate—and it’s likely still a lowball—that would mean the actual tax hike would run well into the trillions, roughly between $1.3 trillion and $1.9 trillion between fiscal years 2012 and 2019 by Furman’s own estimate. The White House claims that this massive gusher of new tax revenue would be dedicated to tax relief, but judging by the budget that’s just a PR gimmick. More than 42 percent of the “tax cuts” in the Obama budget—according to its own official estimates—go to people who don’t pay taxes. Call it a handout; call it a welfare check; call it social spending; don’t call it a tax cut, though, because it means the burden of the federal government on people who actually work, save, invest, and build wealth will be higher than ever before. Remember that these staggering costs of $1.3 to $1.9 trillion are for just the first 8 years of a 40 year program that gets much more expensive over time. This would be the final knock-out blow for a wobbly U.S. economy, and we can only hope that as people learn the facts they’ll oppose it strongly enough to force Congress and the White House back to the drawing board."

Germany: Engineer on turning sewage into charcoal [03/17/09 ] "German engineers have come up with a remarkable machine that turns sewage into charcoal. If that was not enough of a feat, they say it helps the fight against climate change by locking up carbon from the sewage that would otherwise have gone into the air."  Note: Will there be a turd tax?

Nobody listens to the real climate change experts [03/15/09 ] "The minds of world leaders are firmly shut to anything but the fantasies of the scaremongers, says Christopher Booker. Considering how the fear of global warming is inspiring the world's politicians to put forward the most costly and economically damaging package of measures ever imposed on mankind, it is obviously important that we can trust the basis on which all this is being proposed. Last week two international conferences addressed this issue and the contrast between them could not have been starker. The first in Copenhagen, billed as "an emergency summit on climate change" and attracting acres of worldwide media coverage, was explicitly designed to stoke up the fear of global warming to an unprecedented pitch. As one of the organisers put it, "this is not a regular scientific conference: this is a deliberate attempt to influence policy". What worries them are all the signs that when the world's politicians converge on Copenhagen in December to discuss a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, under the guidance of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), there will be so much disagreement that they may not get the much more drastic measures to cut carbon emissions that the alarmists are calling for ....the message of this gathering was that the scare over global warming has been deliberately stoked up for political reasons and has long since parted company with proper scientific evidence.  Nothing has more acutely demonstrated this than the reliance of the IPCC on computer models to predict what is going to happen to global temperatures over the next 100 years ... Yet it is on this fundamental inability of the computer models to predict what has already happened that all else hangs ... For two days in New York we heard distinguished experts, such as Professor Syun-Ichi Akasofu, former director of the International Arctic Research Center, Dr Willie Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Professor Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute, authoritatively (and often wittily) tear apart one piece of the scare orthodoxy after another. "  

Al Gore Confronts Critics, Turns Down Debate Challenge  [03/06/09 ] "... Its “kind of silly” to keep debating the science, Mr. Gore said ..."  Related: Scientist forces Al Gore to back down "Gore is pulling a dramatic slide from his ever-evolving global warming presentation after having been called on his assertions that there is a link between manmade activity and natural disasters.."

Magnetic reversal “imminent,” says National Geographic  [03/01/09 ] "This video from the National Geographic says the reversal is “imminent.”

Japanese Scientists: Global Warming Not Man-Made  [02/27/09 ] "Japanese scientists have made a dramatic break with the UN and Western-backed hypothesis of climate change in a new report from its Energy Commission."  Related: Global Warming Is A Hoax - Quick and Dirty 

Princeton Physicist Tells Congress Earth in 'CO2 Famine'  [02/27/09 ] "Dr. Will Happer, once fired by Al Gore, challenges former vice president's much-published claim that warming debate over."

Satellite Data Show No Warming Before 1997. Changes Since Not Related to CO2 [02/20/09 ] "....Since this mean temperature did not change for twenty years the 'late twentieth century warming' touted by IPCC and others simply did not happen."

E.P.A. Expected to 'Regulate Carbon Dioxide'  [02/22/09 ] "The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act for the first time to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that scientists blame for the warming of the planet, according to top Obama administration officials." Note: Since they can't regulate the increasing CO2 coming from the oceans, swamps or volcanoes, it makes their effort moot.

Arctic Sea Ice Underestimated for Weeks Due to Faulty Sensor [02/20/09 ] "A glitch in satellite sensors caused scientists to underestimate the extent of Arctic sea ice by 500,000 square kilometers (193,000 square miles), a California- size area, the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center said. The error, due to a problem called “sensor drift,” began in early January and caused a slowly growing underestimation of sea ice extent until mid-February. That’s when “puzzled readers” alerted the NSIDC about data showing ice-covered areas as stretches of open ocean, the Boulder, Colorado-based group said on its Web site."

The stupidities of carbon geo-sequestration  [02/17/09 ]  "No possible climate benefits because carbon dioxide in the atmosphere does not control climate." 

UK: 'Apocalyptic climate predictions' mislead the public, say experts  [02/14/09 ] "Experts at Britain's top climate research centre have launched a blistering attack on scientific colleagues and journalists who exaggerate the effects of global warming. The Met Office Hadley Centre, one of the most prestigious research facilities in the world, says recent "apocalyptic predictions" about Arctic ice melt and soaring temperatures are as bad as claims that global warming does not exist. Such statements, however well-intentioned, distort the science and could undermine efforts to tackle carbon emissions, it says ... "The record-breaking losses in the past couple of years could easily be due to natural fluctuations in the weather, with summer ice increasing again over the next few years," she says. "It is easy for scientists to grab attention by linking climate change to the latest extreme weather event or apocalyptic prediction. But in doing so, the public perception of climate change can be distorted. The reality is that extreme events arise when natural variations in the weather and climate combine with long-term climate change."

Primary Cause of Global Warming Discovered  [02/13/09 ] "Ward observed that the highest rates of global warming in the past 46,000 years occurred precisely when volcanoes were most active. "When very large volcanic eruptions occur every few months," Ward says, "rapid warming follows. Too much sulfur dioxide in a short period of time causes warming."  

 Northern Ireland's Environment Minister Sammy Wilson blocks government ad campaign on climate change  [02/09/09 ]  "Northern Ireland's Environment Minister Sammy Wilson has blocked a government advertisement campaign on climate change. The advertisements urged people to reduce energy consumption and cut carbon dioxide output. Mr Wilson said the Scottish executive had objected to the advertisements and stopped them being broadcast. He said the adverts were part of an "insidious propaganda campaign" which would not be imposed on people in NI. Mr Wilson said they were "giving people the impression that by turning off the standby light on their TV they could save the world from melting glaciers and being submerged in 40ft of water". He said that was "patent nonsense"." 

 UK: Travel chaos after a year's snow falls in two hours    [02/07/09 ]  "Travel chaos has once again gripped parts of Britain after a year's worth of snow fell in just two hours in some areas, bringing roads, railways and airports grinding to a shuddering halt." 

 UK Court: Spreading Al Gores Theories in Schools Constitutes Unlawful Political Indoctrination  [02/04/09 ] "A spokesman for Al Gore has issued a questionable response to the news that in October 2007 the High Court in London had identified nine “errors” in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. The judge had stated that, if the UK Government had not agreed to send to every secondary school in England a corrected guidance note making clear the mainstream scientific position on these nine “errors”, he would have made a finding that the Government’s distribution of the film and the first draft of the guidance note earlier in 2007 to all English secondary schools had been an unlawful contravention of an Act of Parliament prohibiting the political indoctrination of children."  Well, there are 35 errors in Gores presentation. PDF

Ice Core Studies Prove CO2 Is Not the Powerful Climate Driver  [02/03/09]  This contention was challenged by Idso (1989), who wrote -- in reference to the very data that were used to support the claim -- that "changes in atmospheric CO2 content never precede changes in air temperature, when going from glacial to interglacial conditions; and when going from interglacial to glacial conditions, the change in CO2 concentration actually lags the change in air temperature (Genthon et al., 1987)." Hence, he concluded that "changes in CO2 concentration cannot be claimed to be the cause of changes in air temperature, for the appropriate sequence of events (temperature change following CO2 change) is not only never present, it is actually violated in [at least] half of the record (Idso, 1988)." In other words, the very data the cultists claim proves that CO2 drives global temperature actually shows that CO2 levels are reacting to climate change. The mode, is simple. Earth gets warmer, animal populations increase, resulting in more CO2. The oceans are releasing vast quantities of CO2 as well. CO2 is not a problem.

Australia faces collapse as climate change kicks in [02/02/09] "Leaves are falling off trees in the height of summer, railway tracks are buckling, and people are retiring to their beds with deep-frozen hot-water bottles, as much of Australia swelters in its worst-ever heatwave. On Friday, Melbourne thermometers topped 43C (109.4F) on a third successive day for the first time on record, while even normally mild Tasmania suffered its second-hottest day in a row, as temperatures reached 42.2C. Two days before, Adelaide hit a staggering 45.6C. After a weekend respite, more records are expected to be broken this week. Ministers are blaming the heat – which follows a record drought – on global warming. Experts worry that Australia, which emits more carbon dioxide per head than any nation on earth, may also be the first to implode under the impact of climate change. At times last week it seemed as if that was happening already. Chaos ruled in Melbourne on Friday after an electricity substation exploded, shutting down the city's entire train service, trapping people in lifts, and blocking roads as traffic lights failed. Half a million homes and businesses were blacked out, and patients were turned away from hospitals."

BBC abandons 'impartiality' on global warming [02/02/09] " ... Newsnight only reflected the shameless way in which the BBC makes not the slightest attempt to provide impartial coverage of this issue. As its editorial guidelines make clear, "mainstream science" is now so overwhelmingly agreed on global warming that the BBC sees no reason to give balancing coverage to the views of a minority of "sceptics"; and examples are now legion of how it loses no opportunity to propagandise for the cause ..."

"No Scientific Basis for Forecasting Climate" [01/29/09] "It has been an interesting couple of days. Today yet another scientist has come forward with a press release saying that not only did their audit of IPCC forecasting procedures and found that they “violated 72 scientific principles of forecasting”, but that “The models were not intended as forecasting models and they have not been validated for that purpose.” This organization should know, they certify forecasters for many disciplines and in conjunction with John Hopkins University if Washington, DC, offer a Certificate of Forecasting Practice. The story below originally appeared in the blog of Australian Dr. Jennifer Marohasy ...."

Global warming 'irreversible' for next 1000 years [01/27/09] "Even if by some miracle the nations of the world could bring carbon dioxide levels back to those of the pre-industrial era, it would still take 1,000 years or longer for the climate changes already triggered to be reversed, scientists said Monday. The gas already here and the heat that has been absorbed by the ocean will exert their effects for centuries, according to an analysis published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."  Note: This also affirms there is nothing that can be rationally done to change climate.

Scientists, Data Challenge New Antarctic ‘Warming’ Study  [01/23/09] "A new study on Antarctic temperatures – which is contrary to the findings of multiple previous studies - claims “that since 1957, the annual temperature for the entire continent of Antarctica has warmed by about 1 degree Fahrenheit, but still is 50 degrees below zero.”

NASA Eco-Shill: "President has four years to save Earth" [01/19/09] "Barack Obama has only four years to save the world. That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama's first administration, he added ...." Note:  Of course,  for Hansen and others, the climate is the new '9/11', and it's one of the biggest rafts of bullshit ever to embody an techno-control paradigm ... but, it won't matter. They have no idea about what it is to shortly overtake them.

Man Sleepwalks Into Oblivion, and the Big Cheese, in a Minnesota Big Freeze 40-58 Below [01/13/09] "Temperatures crashed to Arctic levels Tuesday as a severe cold wave rolled across the upper Midwest on the heels of yet another snowstorm ... The ice and snow that glazed pavement was blamed for numerous traffic accidents from Minnesota to Indiana, where police said a truck overturned and spilled 43,000 pounds of cheese, closing a busy highway ramp during the night in the Gary area ... A 51-year-old man in northern Wisconsin died from exposure after wandering from his Hayward home early Tuesday, authorities said. His son reported him missing and said he was prone to sleepwalking, and deputies followed footprints in the snow to find the man about 190 yards from his house ... Some Minnesotans took it as just another winter day, even in the state's extreme northwest corner where thermometers bottomed out at 38 degrees below zero at the town of Hallock and the National Weather Service said the wind chill was a shocking 58 below ..."    Interesting death experience for the man ... to sleep walk into oblivion ... how cool is that?

Oceanic heat levels increasing temperature on land [01/07/09]   "Scientists find greenhouse gas hysteria to be myth. As dignitaries from around the world gather for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, attendees are unlikely to champion a recent study that demonstrates oceanic heat levels – and not man-made greenhouse gases – are to blame for increases in temperature on land. A study released earlier this year by Gilbert Compo and Prashant Sardeshmukh of the University of Colorado and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and presented in the scientific journal Climate Dynamics, revealed that all the greenhouse gases humans have dumped in the atmosphere over the last 46 years – the primary factor most climate change proponents cite to blame humans for global warming – haven't affected land temperatures at all. The rise in land temperatures, the study states, can be tied directly to increased heat and humidity coming from warmer oceans, which in turn, the study admits, may be caused solely by natural forces ... "The recent worldwide land warming has occurred largely in response to a worldwide warming of the oceans," concludes the study's abstract, "rather than as a direct response to increasing greenhouse gases (GHGs) over land ... But if rising land temperatures are caused by rising ocean temperatures, what's causing the earth's seas to heat up? The study admitted it could be ... underwater volcanoes."

Mag 7.6 quake hits Papua Indonesia [01/03/09]  Related: More Yellowstone Earthquakes Raise Fears  Several more earthquakes rattled Yellowstone National Park on Friday, raising fears over the recent geological activity in the area.  Since Dec. 26, about 400 temblors have rumbled under the park, centered under the northern end of Yellowstone Lake. The small quakes Friday registered up to a magnitude of 3.5 ...."

Scientists watch unusual Yellowstone supervolcano (Potential Extinction Level Event) quake swarm [12/30/08 ] "Scientists are closely monitoring more than 250 small earthquakes that have occurred in Yellowstone National Park since Friday. If the Yellowstone Supervolcano lets go ..." "The University of Utah Seismograph Stations reports that a notable swarm of earthquakes has been underway since December 26 beneath Yellowstone Lake in Yellowstone National Park, three to six miles south-southeast of Fishing Bridge, Wyoming. This energetic sequence of events was most intense on December 27, when the largest number of events of magnitude 3 and larger occurred. The largest of the earthquakes was a magnitude 3.9 (revised from magnitude 3.8) at 10:15 pm MST on Dec. 27. The sequence has included nine events of magnitude 3 to 3.9 and approximately 24 of magnitude 2 to 3 at the time of this release. A total of more than 250 events large enough to be located have occurred in this swarm. Reliable depths of the larger events are up to a few miles. Visitors and National Park Service (NPS) employees in the Yellowstone Lake area reported feeling the largest of these earthquakes ... This December 2008 earthquake sequence is the most intense in this area for some years and is centered on the east side of the Yellowstone caldera. Scientists can not identify any causative fault or other feature without further analysis ... And what if the supervolcano blew? Kind of like if a giant rock hit the Earth. A planet killer. An extinction-level event. Within a week, the skies will be dark with dust from the impact and they will stay dark for years. All plant life will be dead within weeks. Animal life within a few months."  Check at the USGS link periodically for potential updates.

Rejection of "Global Warming" on Scientific Grounds

Princeton Physicist Calls Global Warming Science “Mistaken”    [12/25/08 ] "Scientist fired by Al Gore was told, “science will not intrude on public policy”.  Related: CNN Meteorologist: Manmade Global Warming Theory ‘Arrogant’

Soil study hints at climate model revision   [12/25/08 ] "A new study investigating the amount of carbon in Australian soil has cast doubt over the accuracy of current climate models."

Abrupt Climate Shifts May Come Sooner, Not Later  [12/25/08 ] " .... We have no smoking gun saying that humans are causing the current changes ..."  Related: No quick or easy technological fix for climate change

Earth’s short-term temperature anomalies and the solar flare intermittency are linked  [12/25/08 ] "The mean monthly temperature data sets cover the period from 1856 to 2002." 2008 coldest year since 2001  

Sea Ice is Shrinking at the North Pole, But Growing at the South Pole     [12/18/08 ] "Sea ice has been shrinking in the Arctic, at the "North Pole". See this side-by-side comparison of different years to get a sense of the shrinkage. For example, between September 1979 and September 2007, it shrunk from 7.2 to 4.3 million square kilometers. But at the South Pole (Antarctic), sea ice has been expanding. For example, if you select the appropriate dates in this side-by-side comparison, you will see that the area covered by sea ice grew from 18.4 to 19.2 million square kilometers between September 1979 and September 2007."

Climate change alters ocean chemistry: Study     [12/15/08 ] "U.S. researchers have discovered that the ocean's chemical makeup is less stable and more greatly affected by climate change than previously believed. The researchers report in the Dec. 12 issue of Science that during a time of climate change 13 million years ago the chemical makeup of the oceans changed dramatically. The researchers warn that the chemical composition of the ocean today could be similarly affected by climate changes now underway -- with potentially far-reaching consequences for marine ecosystems ..."

 Al Gore sued by over 30,000 Scientists for fraud  [12/09/08 ] [5:24] Related: Global Warming Hoax, Planned in 1961

As Talks Begin, Scientists Report Climate Breakdown Faster, More Sweeping Than IPCC Outlook    [12/04/08 ] "Even without additional drivers, the IPCC has warned that current rates of greenhouse gas emissions, if unchecked, would unleash devastating droughts, floods and huge increases in human misery by century's end." 

Global Warming Concept and CO2 Concerns Are Nonsense   [11/25/08 ] "More than 31,000 scientists have signed a petition rejecting claims of human-caused global warming. It is evident that 31,072 Americans with university degrees in science – including 9,021 PhDs, are not “a few.” Moreover, from the clear and strong petition statement that they have signed, it is evident that these 31,072 American scientists are not “skeptics.” Related: Oceans Release CO2  (search info) as Increased Undersea Volcanic Activity Warms Water  An increase of undersea activity as a part of an overall increase of volcanic activity on the planet heralds what is to come as Endgame progresses. Life in the ocean consumes and releases huge quantities of carbon dioxide. But in contrast to land, carbon cycles between photosynthesis and respiration vary rapidly; i.e., there is virtually no storage of carbon as there is on land (i.e., tree trunks and soil). The warmer the oceans, the greater the release, together with methane. People are noticing that the oceans are becoming more acidic, and being IGNORANT of the carbon cycle and its relationship to the oceans, they're calling for 'cutting human production of CO2', thinking that's the cause, because they're ignorant and stupid.  Oceans Passing Critical CO2 Threshold

Ancient Earth Had Magnetic Field Three Times Stronger Than Once Thought   [11/25/08 ] "A new technique for measuring the Earth's magnetic field back to the days of the dinosaurs and beyond has revealed that the magnetic field was as much as three times

Stubborn glaciers fail to retreat, awkward polar bears continue to multiply   [11/24/08 ] "Second only to the melting of the Arctic ice and those “drowning” polar bears, there is no scare with which the global warmists, led by Al Gore, more like to chill our blood than the fast-vanishing glaciers of the Himalayas."   Related:  Ice Age Now website

Weather apocalypse hits Europe    [11/24/08 ] "An enormous cyclone has wreaked havoc across Europe from Scandinavia to the Balkans, bringing snow gales and claiming lives. In Russia, weather surprises during the weekend started with beating two climate records, for warmth and low atmosphere pressure, and ended with a tempest and heavy snow which brought destruction and left more than 130,000 people without electricity."  Related: UK brought to standstill as five inches of snow falls in an hour | Snowfall, strong winds cause delays at Scandinavian airports  

Gale force winds and snow hit NSW Australia   [11/24/08 ] "Weather conditions across Australia's south-east appear to be easing after the region was battered over the weekend by gale force winds, flooding and snow."

Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply   [11/24/08 ] "Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies. The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jacques Diouf, has warned that the controversial rise in land deals could create a form of "neo-colonialism", with poor states producing food for the rich at the expense of their own hungry people." 

Meteor Over Denver Video  [11/22/08 ]   Meteor over Edmonton, Canada  Related:  Meteor sighted over Cyprus | Suspected Ohio plane crash may have been meteor | NASA Begins Hunt for New Meteor Showers |

52 whales die in mass stranding in Australia   [11/22/08 ] "Fifty-two pilot whales have died after a mass stranding on Tasmania's northwest coast, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Saturday." 

New Senate to get major global warming bill   [11/22/08 ]  "The US Senate will take up two sweeping global warming bills in January, in the latest sign that Barack Obama's election could quickly reverse years of US foot dragging on climate change. The time to start is now," said Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer, vowing to step up to Obama's challenge to combat climate change and create millions of "green jobs" in the reeling US economy. Her intervention came two days after Democrat Obama, in one of the few public policy pronouncements since his historic victory two weeks ago, told the world that "denial" would no longer be the US policy on climate change."   

IPCC Scientists Caught Producing False Data To Push Global Warming [11/17/08 ]  "Climate scientists allied with the IPCC have been caught citing fake data to make the case that global warming is accelerating, a shocking example of mass public deception that could spell the beginning of the end for the acceptance of man-made climate change theories. On Monday, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), run by Al Gore's chief scientific ally, Dr James Hansen, announced that last month was the hottest October on record. "This was startling," reports the London Telegraph. "Across the world there were reports of unseasonal snow and plummeting temperatures last month, from the American Great Plains to China, and from the Alps to New Zealand. China's official news agency reported that Tibet had suffered its "worst snowstorm ever". In the US, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration registered 63 local snowfall records and 115 lowest-ever temperatures for the month, and ranked it as only the 70th-warmest October in 114 years." It soon came to light that the data produced by NASA to make the claim, and in particular temperature records covering large areas of Russia, was merely carried over from the previous month. NASA had used temperature records from the naturally hotter month of September and claimed they represented temperature figures in October ..."

Sea Ice Growing at Fastest Pace on Record   [11/14/08 ]  "An abnormally cool Arctic is seeing dramatic changes to ice levels. In sharp contrast to the rapid melting seen last year, the amount of global sea ice has rebounded sharply and is now growing rapidly. The total amount of ice, which set a record low value last year, grew in October at the fastest pace since record-keeping began in 1979."

The Cooling World - Newsweek, April 28, 1975   [11/12/08 ]  "Here is the text of Newsweek’s 1975 story on the trend toward global cooling. It may look foolish today, but in fact world temperatures had been falling since about 1940. It was around 1979 that they reversed direction and resumed the general rise that had begun in the 1880s, bringing us today back to around 1940 levels." Related: 100-year media history on climate change  

UK: Snow blankets London for Global Warming debate  [11/03/08 ]  "Snow fell as the House of Commons debated Global Warming yesterday - the first October fall in the metropolis since 1922. The Mother of Parliaments was discussing the Mother of All Bills for the last time, in a marathon six hour session ..."

Evidence for Predicting Global Cooling for the Next Three Decades  [11/02/08 ]  " ... records of past climate changes suggest an altogether different scenario for the 21st century. Rather than drastic global warming at a rate of 0.5C (1F) per decade, historic records of past natural cycles suggest global cooling for the first several decades of the 21st century..." 

Coastal Maine tide change a mystery  [11/01/08 ]  "Meteorologists are baffled by rapid tidal changes along the Maine coast, which damaged some boats and piers. Witnesses say low tide turned and became high within a matter of minutes on Tuesday afternoon. The changes occurred six or seven times. The National Weather Service says reports from several locations indicated that water levels fell and rose from 4 feet to as much as 12 feet during the event. In a public information statement, the weather service says the cause "remains a mystery and may never be known." It said significant rapid rises and falls in tide levels were observed around 3 p.m. in Boothbay Harbor, Southport and Bristol. The statement said rapid surges can be caused by the underwater movement of land, most often due to an earthquake, or due to slumping of sediments along a steep canyon or shelf, but no earthquakes were reported in the area Tuesday. A similar event occurred on Jan. 9, 1926, in Bass Harbor, the statement said."

NOAA: U.S. breaks or ties 115 cold and sets 63 new snowfall records  [11/01/08 ] Of course many of you that live in this weather already know this, but there is an early start to winter this year, not only in the USA, but also in London, where it snowed in October for the first time in over 70 years. So far, no mention of this broadly distributed U.S. record event in the mainstream media. There are a few individual mentions or record lows in Florida.

Global Cooling: Record Low Temperatures Hit America  [10/27/08 ] "Global warming apocalypse debunked as big chill sets in ... Record low temperatures have hit dozens of areas across America as a natural period of global cooling accelerates, leaving man-made global warming advocates with egg on their face as the big chill sets in ... Data compiled by the IceAgeNow website shows that record lows are being matched and broken on an almost daily basis in states throughout the U.S. as the country prepares for a freezing cold winter ..."  

Spain’s ex-prime minister blasts ‘new religion’ of climate change  [10/23/08 ] "Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar Wednesday dismissed climate change as a “new religion” that is drawing hundreds of billions of euros at a time of economic crisis."

NASA Saw Arctic Ocean Circulation Do an About-Face in Nov 2007  "A team of NASA and university scientists has detected an ongoing reversal in Arctic Ocean circulation triggered by atmospheric circulation changes that vary on decade-long time scales. The results suggest not all the large changes seen in Arctic climate in recent years are a result of long-term trends ..."

Mass changes in earth’s global water reservoirs: 2008 Report  PDF  

WWF Resorts To Deception In Climate Fearmongering  [10/21/08 ] Global warming fearmongers the World Wildlife Fund have been caught in a new act of deception after citing shrinking Arctic ice coverage to suggest climate change is “faster and more extreme” than first thought, while failing to acknowledge that Arctic sea ice expanded over an area bigger than the size of Germany during the year of 2008 ... “The Arctic Ocean is losing sea ice 30 or more years ahead of the projections presented in the Fourth Assessment Report (Stroeve et al, 2007). There is near consensus in the Arctic scientific community that significant aspects of this hastened loss of sea ice are caused by feedback mechanisms, the effects of which had been severely underestimated in the report,” states the WWF report. The graphic depiction used to illustrate the point in a London Telegraph article shows Arctic sea ice coverage between 1979 and 2007 and a clear reduction in ice coverage. The problem with this statement, as well as using a 2007 satellite image to illustrate the point, is that Arctic sea ice coverage massively expanded during 2008 by a whopping 30 per cent - an area bigger than the size of Germany. According to collated data from the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of Illinois, Arctic ice extent was 30 per cent greater on August 11, 2008 than it was on the August 12, 2007. This is a conservative estimate based on the map projection. For the WWF and the London Telegraph to use 2007 data and completely discount a gigantic 30 per cent increase in Arctic sea ice coverage from August 2007 to August 2008 is not only misleading, it is completely dishonest and atypical of the politicized agenda-driven global warming lobby. The deception has echoes of the “stranded polar bear” hoax when global warming alarmists attempted to use an emotional photograph of “stranded polar bears” to convince people that global warming was melting ice caps and wiping out cute cuddly animals. The fact that the photos were taken in summer, when ice caps naturally melt, that the polar bears were close to the shore, and the fact that polar bears can swim a distance of around a hundred miles at a time, was not pointed out."

Obama's Carbon Ultimatum     [10/21/08 ] "Jason Grumet is currently executive director of an outfit called the National Commission on Energy Policy and one of Mr. Obama's key policy aides. In an interview last week with Bloomberg, Mr. Grumet said that come January the Environmental Protection Agency "would initiate those rulemakings" that classify carbon as a dangerous pollutant under current clean air laws. That move would impose new regulation and taxes across the entire economy, something that is usually the purview of Congress. Mr. Grumet warned that "in the absence of Congressional action" 18 months after Mr. Obama's inauguration, the EPA would move ahead with its own unilateral carbon crackdown anyway (June-July 2010) ..... The EPA hasn't made a secret of how it would like to centrally plan the U.S. economy under the 1970 Clean Air Act. In a blueprint released in July, the agency didn't exactly say it'd collectivize the farms -- but pretty close, down to the "grass clippings." The EPA would monitor and regulate the carbon emissions of "lawn and garden equipment" as well as everything with an engine, like cars, planes and boats. Eco-bureaucrats envision thousands of other emissions limits on all types of energy. Coal-fired power and other fossil fuels would be ruled out of existence, while all other prices would rise as the huge economic costs of the new regime were passed down the energy chain to consumers. These costs would far exceed the burden of a straight carbon tax or cap-and-trade system enacted by Congress, because the Clean Air Act was never written to apply to carbon and other greenhouse gases. It's like trying to do brain surgery with a butter knife. Mr. Obama wants to move ahead anyway because he knows that the costs of any carbon program will be high .... Thus Messrs. Obama and Grumet want to invoke a political deus ex machina driven by a faulty interpretation of the Clean Air Act to force Congress's hand. Mr. Obama and Democrats can then tell Americans that Congress must act to tax and regulate carbon to save the country from even worse bureaucratic consequences. It's Mr. Obama's version of Jack Benny's old "your money or your life" routine, but without the punch line. The strategy is most notable for what it says about the climate-change lobby and its new standard bearer. Supposedly global warming is the ' transcendent challenge of the age', but Mr. Obama evidently doesn't believe he'll be able to convince his own party to do something about it without a bureaucratic ultimatum. Mr. Grumet justified it this way: "The U.S. has to move quickly domestically . . . We cannot have a meaningful impact in the international discussion until we develop a meaningful domestic consensus." Normally a democracy reaches consensus through political debate and persuasion, but apparently for Mr. Obama that option is merely a nuisance. It's another example of "change" you'll be given no choice but to believe in." 

Global Cooling: Alaskan Glaciers Grow For First Time In 250 Years    [10/17/08 ] Plans to implement a worldwide carbon tax in the name of saving the planet from global warming have taken another blow after it was revealed that Alaskan glaciers have grown for the first time in 250 years after an abnormally cool summer."  Plenty of links on evidence in the article.

Scientists Challenge UK Govt Climate Committee to 'Drop flawed science and Climate Change millstone    [10/16/08 ] "CO2 is the Gas Of Life ('GOL'), it is not a problem ... The recommendation that the UK cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 per cent* is "total madness based on false science" said Piers Corbyn of WeatherAction long range forecasters ... "There is no evidence that Carbon dioxide has ever controlled, is controlling or will ever control world temperatures or climate and I challenge the promoters of this nonsense to produce evidence to justify their policies - or drop them, just as 13 world scientists have similarly challenged the UN." See a whole bunch of reference links at the end of the story.   

25% of Mammals at Risk of Extinction   "A five-year review done by experts from 130 countries paints a grim picture for the world's 5,487 known mammal species."  That's really good news. Shortly, it will be 100% of the life on the planet.

Earth's Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says   "Fluctuations in the magnetic field have occurred in several far-flung regions of Earth, the researchers found. In 2003 scientists found pronounced changes in the magnetic field in the Australasian region. In 2004, however, the changes were focused on Southern Africa. The changes "may suggest the possibility of an upcoming reversal of the geomagnetic field," said study co-author Mioara Mandea, a scientist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam."

The methane time bomb   "The first evidence that millions of tons of a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere from beneath the Arctic seabed has been discovered by scientists. The Independent has been passed details of preliminary findings suggesting that massive deposits of sub-sea methane are bubbling to the surface as the Arctic region becomes warmer and its ice retreats. Methane is about 20 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide and many scientists fear that its release could accelerate global warming in a giant positive feedback where more atmospheric methane causes higher temperatures, leading to further permafrost melting and the release of yet more methane ... At some locations, methane concentrations reached 100 times background levels. These anomalies have been seen in the East Siberian Sea and the Laptev Sea, covering several tens of thousands of square kilometres, amounting to millions of tons of methane, said Dr Gustafsson. "This may be of the same magnitude as presently estimated from the global ocean," he said. "Nobody knows how many more such areas exist on the extensive East Siberian continental shelves ..."

Global Warming's Kaput; 2008 Coolest in 5 Years  (9/8) "The first half of this year was the coolest in at least five years, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). And the global warming that has taken place during the past 30 years is over, says geologist Don J. Easterbrook, a professor emeritus at Western Washington University ... Victor Manuel Velasco Herrera, a researcher at the Institute of Geophysics at Mexico’s National Autonomous University, predicts that the ice period will begin in about 10 years. Predictions of a gradual increase in temperatures called global warming are erroneous, Velasco Herrera told a conference at the Centre for Applied Sciences and Technological Development regarding predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC models and forecasts are wrong because they are based only on “mathematical models and presented results at scenarios that do not include, for example, solar activity," he said ... "In this century, glaciers are growing," as seen on the Perito Moreno mountain in the Andes; on Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada; and on Franz-Josef Glacier, New Zealand, Velasco Herrera said. Satellite data indicate that a period of global cooling may have begun in 2005, he said. "Numb's the word," the almanac’s 2009 edition says, adding that at least two-thirds of the country can expect colder-than-average temperatures, with only the far West and Southeast in line for near-normal readings. "This is going to be catastrophic for millions of people," the almanac's editor, Peter Geiger, told The Associated Press, noting that the frigid forecast combined with high prices for heating fuel is sure to compound problems households will face in keeping warm. The almanac predicts above-normal snowfall for the Great Lakes and Midwest, especially during January and February, and above-normal precipitation for the Southwest in December and for the Southeast in January and February, the almanac states. Also, the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic regions can expect an unusually wet or snowy February. "

Snow in Kenya (Africa)   "A huge hailstorm turned parts of central Kenya white, thrilling residents most of whom had never experienced such conditions ..." (Video)

Climate Similar to the 1800s Within the Next 15 Years: First Stage of Global Cooling During 2008/09   "In the book “Global Warming—Global Cooling, Natural Cause Found”, meteorologist and climate researcher David Dilley utilizes nearly a half million years of data linking long term gravitational cycles of the moon explain the recent global warming, rises in carbon dioxide levels, and for 2200 global warming cycles during the past half million years. The gravitational cycles are called the Primary Forcing Mechanism for Climate (PFM), and act like a magnet by pulling the atmosphere’s high pressure systems northward or southward by as much as 3 or 4 degrees of latitude from their normal seasonal positions, and thus causing long-term shifts in the location of atmospheric high pressure systems. Research by Mr. Dilley shows a near 100 percent correlation between the PFM gravitational cycles to the beginning and ending of global warming cycles. Global warming cycles began right on time with each PFM cycle during the past half million years, as did the current warming which began 100 years ago, and it will end right on time as the current gravitational cycle begins its cyclical decline ..."

Arctic Ice Grows 30 Per Cent In a Year  "Predictions of "ice free summer for first time in history" completely debunked ... Alarmist scientists who predicted that the North Pole could be "ice free" this summer as a result of global warming have been embarrassed ... According to collated data from the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the University of Illinois, Arctic ice extent was 30 per cent greater on August 11, 2008 than it was on the August 12, 2007. This is a conservative estimate based on the map projection ... But what of the Antarctic down south? Figures tell us that ice coverage in the year since August 2007 has grown by nearly one million square kilometers ... A top observatory that has been measuring sun cycles for over 200 years predicts that global temperatures will drop by two degrees over the next two decades as solar activity grinds to a halt and the planet drastically cools down, potentially heralding the onset of a new ice age ..." Related:  Arctic Sees Massive Gain in Ice Coverage Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has indicated a dramatic increase in sea ice extent in the Arctic regions. The growth over the past year covers an area of 700,000 square kilometers: an amount twice the size the nation of Germany. 

Oceans on the precipice: scientist warns of mass extinctions and 'rise of slime'   "Health of the world's oceans is going down a rapid spiral ..."  Related:  Study shows continued spread of 'dead zones'

Assemblyman urges repeal of NJ global warming law, warns of 'dramatic cooling'   "Responding to various new scientific reports questioning the concept of global warming, Assemblyman Michael Doherty today called on Governor Corzine to hold off on proposing any new regulations associated with the state’s Global Warming Response Act and urged the Legislature to repeal that act when it returns to legislative business after Labor Day."

Last Ice Age happened in less than year say scientists  "The last ice age 13,000 years ago took hold in just one year, more than ten times quicker than previously believed, scientists have warned. Rather than a gradual cooling over a decade, the ice age plunged Europe into the deep freeze, German Research Centre for Geosciences at Potsdam said. Cold, stormy conditions caused by an abrupt shift in atmospheric circulation froze the continent almost instantly during the Younger Dryas less than 13,000 years ago – a very recent period on a geological scale. The new findings will add to fears of a serious risk of this happening again in the UK and western Europe – and soon."

NSF Awards Grant to Track 'Space Weather' in Earth's Near-Space Environment     "Global and real-time "space weather" observations of near-Earth space--and the solar storms that can knock out electric power grids--is about to happen for the first time, thanks to funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF)."  Equation: Sunspots => Solar Flares (charged particles) => Magnetic Field Shift => Shifting Ocean and Jet Stream Currents => Extreme Weather and Human Disruption. Related:  Changes In Winds Could Have Been Cause Of Abrupt Glacial Climatic Change |  Missing Deep Ocean Current 'Supergyre' Identified: Important In Climate Regulation - stories which form a strong endorsement from the science community indicating a Sun - Earth connection as the ultimate cause of climate change. In this research paper now being published in major scientific journals, it indicates jet stream winds are the cause of shifting ocean currents. Furthermore, it is the magnetic field shift which is caused by the Sun, which drives and directs jet stream winds."

Two Peer-Reviewed Scientific Papers Debunk CO2 Myth     "Three top scientists have once again contradicted the claim that a "consensus" exists about man-made global warming with research that indicates CO2 emissions actually cool the atmosphere, in addition to another peer-reviewed paper that documents how the IPCC overstated CO2's effect on temperature by as much as 2000 per cent."

Surprisingly rapid changes in the Earth's core discovered     "In a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience (*), the geophysicist Mioara MANDEA from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam and her Danish colleague Nils OLSEN from the National Space Institute/DTU Copenhagen, have shown that motions in the fluid in the Earth’s core are changing surprisingly fast, and that this, in turn, effects the magnetic field of our Planet ... The very precise measurements of the Earth’s magnetic field delivered by the geosatellite CHAMP combined with Ørsted satellite data and ground observations over the past nine years, have made it possible to reveal what is happening at 3000 km under our feet. Indeed, for the first time, Nils Olsen and Mioara Mandea have computed a model for the flow at the top of the Earth’s core that fits with the recent rapid changes in the magnetic field, and is also in agreement with the changes in the Length-of-Day variation. This core flow is rather localized in space, and involves rapid variations, almost sudden, over only a few months — a remarkably short time interval compared with the respectable age of our Planet or even with the time of the last magnetic field reversal, some 780000 years ago."

Extinction threatens more species than thought    "The true number of species at risk of extinction is likely to be many times higher than the current official estimate of 16,000, scientists have warned. A new study concludes that the risk that an endangered species will disappear completely may be underestimated by as much as 100-fold using present methods. The International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates more than 16,000 species worldwide are threatened with extinction: one in four mammals, one in eight bird species and one in three amphibian species are on the IUCN "Red List."  Related: Butterfly decline points to sixth mass extinction  

Australian Astronomical Society Warns of Global Cooling    "A new paper published by the Astronomical Society of Australia is warning of upcoming global cooling due to lessened solar activity. The study, written by three Australian researchers, has identified what is known as a "spin-orbit coupling" affecting the rotation rate of the sun. That rotation, in turn, is linked to the intensity of the solar cycle and climate changes here on Earth."

Earth's Core, Magnetic Field Changing Fast, Study Says    "The changes "may suggest the possibility of an upcoming reversal of the geomagnetic field," said study co-author Mioara Mandea, a scientist at the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam."

Volcanoes Erupt Beneath Arctic Ice    "Robert Reeves-Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts a nd his colleagues discovered jagged, glassy fragments of rock scattered around the volcanoes, suggesting explosive eruptions occurred between 1999 and 2001."

Temperature Monitors Report Wide-scale Global Cooling    "The only stations reporting higher temperatures are the ones set up in the exhaust from air conditioners and next to trash incinerators."

Put oil firm chiefs on trial, says leading climate change scientist    "James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer."  Related: Earth Near Tipping Point, Climatologist Warns    

  Sahara's Abrupt Desertification Started By Changes In Earth's Orbit, Accelerated By Atmospheric And Vegetation Feedbacks  "German scientists, employing a new climate system model, have concluded that desertification of the Saharan and Arabia regions was initiated by subtle changes in the Earth's orbit  ..." Related: Ancient Climate Excursion Linked To A Rare Anomaly In Earth's Orbit | Earth's Orbit Creates More Than A Leap Year: Orbital Behaviors Also Drive Climate Changes, Ice Ages 

China consuming twice its supply of resources    "China consumes more than double what its natural resources can supply, a report by Chinese and international environmentalists said."

Vast cracks appear in Arctic ice    "Dramatic evidence of the break-up of the Arctic ice-cap has emerged from research during an expedition by the Canadian military. Scientists traveling with the troops found major new fractures during an assessment of the state of giant ice shelves in Canada's far north. The team found a network of cracks that stretched for more than 10 miles (16km) on Ward Hunt, the area's largest shelf." 

Experts warn of never-ending drought in Eastern Australia   "There is no end in sight to the drought afflicting the Murray-Darling Basin and the big dry could become a permanent feature of eastern Australia, experts warn."

Gore Confronted On Global Warming Hysteria   "Former Vice-President Al Gore, fresh from exploiting the tragedy in Burma to push more climate change hysteria (since cyclones and storms didn't exist before global warming), was confronted during a recent speaking event by a group who dared to question the orthodoxy of the church of environmentalism."  5/8/08

Huge landslide hits Dorset's Jurassic Coast  "It began as a low rumble on Tuesday night, but soon giant chunks of land "the size of cars" were cascading into the sea off Dorset. By yesterday morning, a 400m section of the World Heritage Jurassic Coast between Lyme Regis and Charmouth had disappeared, in what has been described as the biggest landslide Britain has seen in a century." 5/8/08

UN sounds alarm over decline in migratory birds  "The United Nations Environment Programme on Thursday voiced concern over declining numbers of migratory birds globally, in what it said was an alarming sign of the state of world biodiversity."   Endgame. 

Tale of Two Thermometers: NASA History of Producing Fraudulent Climate Data  "Particularly troubling are the years from 1986-1998. In the 2007 version of the graph, the 1986 data was adjusted upwards by 0.4 degrees relative to the 1999 graph. In fact, every year except one from 1986-1998 was adjusted upwards, by an average of 0.2 degrees, irrespective of what the actual temperatures were, as measured by world bodies. If someone wanted to present a case for a lot of recent warming, adjusting data upwards would be an excellent way to do it. Looking at the NASA website, we can see that the person in charge of the temperature data is the eminent Dr. James Hansen - Al Gore's science advisor and the world's leading long-term advocate of global warming ..." Related: Climate Audit website (understand what they did) | Satellite Indicates Global Cooling 

Resource Documentation for the 2008 Update of the United States National Seismic Hazard Maps     

Earthquake Preparedness Conference Underway    [Midwest US] "Officials will discuss the possibility of disaster as they talk about the New Madrid fault at an earthquake preparedness conference in Metropolis, Illinois. The two day conference started with a noon luncheon at Harrah's conference center and will feature several panel discussions. Conference topics include preparing for disaster, earthquake communication plans, earthquake risk reduction and community planning. ." 5/6/08

'Baffling' rise in beached whales    "Whale and dolphin watchers are puzzled and alarmed at an unprecedented spike in the number of deep-water species being stranded and found dead on Irish beaches in the last 14 weeks."  5/3/08

An Urgent Signal For A Coming Ice Age   by Peter Harris, Engineer April 2008

 Climate Change May Put World At War    "Climate change could cause global conflicts as large as the two world wars but lasting for centuries unless the problem is controlled, a leading defence think tank has warned." 

 Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh    "Disconcerting as it may be to true believers in global warming, the average temperature on Earth has remained steady or slowly declined during the past decade, despite the continued increase in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and now the global temperature is falling precipitously. All four agencies that track Earth's temperature (the Hadley Climate Research Unit in Britain, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the Christy group at the University of Alabama, and Remote Sensing Systems Inc in California) report that it cooled by about 0.7C in 2007. This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record and it puts us back where we were in 1930. If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over." 

 Earth's Hum Sounds More Mysterious Than Ever    "Earth gives off a relentless hum of countless notes completely imperceptible to the human ear, like a giant, exceptionally quiet symphony, but the origin of this sound remains a mystery. Now unexpected powerful tunes have been discovered in this hum. These new findings could shed light on the source of this enigma. The planet emanates a constant rumble far below the limits of human hearing, even when the ground isn't shaking from an earthquake. In the past, the oscillations that researchers found made up this hum were "spheroidal" - they basically involved patches of rock moving up and down, albeit near undetectably. Now oscillations have been discovered making up the hum that, oddly, are shaped roughly like rings. Imagine, if you will, rumbles that twist in circles in rock across the upper echelons of the planet, almost like dozens of lazy hurricanes. Scientists had actually expected to find these kinds of oscillations, but these new ring-like waves are surprisingly about as powerful as the spheroidal ones are. The expectation was they would be relatively insignificant ... This discovery should force researchers to significantly rethink what causes Earth's hum. While the spheroidal oscillations might be caused by forces squeezing down on the planet - say, pressure from ocean or atmospheric waves - the twisting ring-like phenomena might be caused by forces shearing across the world's surface, from the oceans, atmosphere or possibly even the sun."  Note: This is the second article on this that I have seen over the last month or so. But it doesn't matter .. if there was a measured change over time, compared with now, we might be able to match those variations with an endgame process.  However, another aspect is that they would notice this now, during endgame.

 Freshening of deep Antarctic waters worries experts   "Scientists studying the icy depths of the sea around Antarctica have detected changes in salinity that could have profound effects on the world's climate and ocean currents. So-called Antarctic bottom water helps power the great ocean conveyor belt, a system of currents spanning the Southern, Pacific, Indian and Atlantic Oceans that shifts heat around the globe. "The main reason we're paying attention to this is because it is one of the switches in the climate system and we need to know if we are about to flip that switch or not," said Rintoul of Australia's government-backed research arm the CSIRO. "If that freshening trend continues for long enough, eventually the water near Antarctica would be too light, too buoyant to sink and that limb of the global-scale circulation would shut down," he said on Friday."

Unusual Earthquake Swarm Off Oregon Coast Puzzles Scientists    "Scientists at Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center have recorded more than 600 earthquakes in the last 10 days off the central Oregon coast in an area not typically known for a high degree of seismic activity. This earthquake “swarm” is unique, according to OSU marine geologist Robert Dziak, because it is occurring within the middle of the Juan de Fuca plate – away from the major, regional tectonic boundaries. “In the 17 years we’ve been monitoring the ocean through hydrophone recordings, we’ve never seen a swarm of earthquakes in an area such as this,” Dziak said." 

 European Mountain Top Vanishes  " The peak of the Stubai Mountains in the Austrian Alps has vanished. It was around a couple of months back, but since then no one can say exactly when it disappeared."

 The foolish overreaction to climate change  "Over the past five years I have become increasingly concerned at the scaremongering of the climate alarmists, which has led the governments of Europe to commit themselves to a drastic reduction in carbon emissions, regardless of the economic cost of doing so. The subject is such a complex one, involving science, economics and politics in almost equal measure, that to do it justice I have written a book, albeit a short one, thoroughly referenced and sourced. But the bare bones are clear ..."  No Global Warming Since 1998 As Planet Cools Off    "According to man-made global warming advocates, CO2 emissions are the main driver of climate change and natural weather patterns caused by sun activity and other native contributors play second fiddle. But here we have UN climate scientists admitting that natural climate change contributors have eclipsed the effect of CO2 emissions for the past 10 years, even as carbon belchers like China and India have increased CO2 output at record levels! Global temperatures have remained reasonably flat since a decline in 1998 and cooling trends are now being observed despite the fact that carbon dioxide levels have increased in the atmosphere. Indeed, the latest evidence from climatological surveys shows that the earth's upper oceans and the troposphere, the primary indicators of climate change, have not been warming for the last four years. 

On the whole, the world is getting colder,  which is why "global warming" suddenly became "climate change" when temperature levels since 2003 started to prove the alarmists wrong. Carbon emissions have never driven climate change because as ice core samples clearly show, carbon dioxide is a consequence of temperature increase and not a cause of it, sometimes lagging behind by as much as 800 years. Following the accelerated industrialization period of 1940-1970, when carbon emissions reached a crescendo, global temperatures plummeted, prompting an international fear-mongering campaign about the deadly consequences of global cooling. So-called experts were lavished with media platforms to tell us that all animal life in the sea would be extinct by 1979 and England would be underwater by the year 2000, amidst a myriad of other outlandish proclamations. 

As the graph above shows, an expected downturn in global temperatures over the next 15 years will force climate change alarmists to become even more feverish. Al Gore's army are going to have to get more creative and blame any weather event whatsoever, be it hurricanes, tsunamis, or floods that have battered the planet for eons, and yes even global cooling, on their favorite justification to tax, regulate and control every aspect of our life - global warming." 

 US 'sets terms' for climate talks    "Delegates at the UN summit in Bali have agreed a deal on curbing climate change after days of bitter wrangling. Agreement was reached after a U-turn from the US, which had wanted firmer commitments from developing countries. Environment groups said they were disappointed by the lack of firm targets for reducing emissions. The "Bali roadmap" initiates a two-year process of negotiations designed to agree a new set of emissions targets to replace those in the Kyoto Protocol." Related stories: Gore climate plea to US and China | Critics angry at Bush climate plan | and then there are items which relate to the misguided agenda of the Reptilians et al, that relate: 'Tropics expand' as world warms  | Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013'  etc, but, since the planetary entity is leaving, there will be no life energy system left on the planet. So, unless they're bringing plastic plants for their 'garden of Eden', they're out of luck. Won't happen anyway . Not part of the local game. Here are more connections to this:  Al Gore Seeks Earth Worship Cult Of Millions  "The establishment continues to hype the non-existent threat of global warming as part of an effort to establish a global carbon tax and a dangerous cult like army of new age earth worshipers."  Related: Obama Would Give Gore Key Role On Climate

 The Mystery of Global Warming's Missing Heat   "Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years. That could mean global warming has taken a breather. Or it could mean scientists aren't quite understanding what their robots are telling them. Or ... that global warming was politics masquerading as science, to sell the public on more taxes and more control over their lives." 

 New Evidence on CO2 Dynamics Discredits Global Warming Dogma   "... In the interlude between presentations by the ceos of Dow Chemical and Duke Energy, for example, the audience was shown a slide … of the diverging relationship between atmospheric co² levels and average global temperature since 1998. That slide should have caused jaws to drop and audience members to ponder why anyone is considering regulating co² emissions in hopes of taming global climate. Instead, it was as if the audience did a collective blink and missed the slide entirely. When I tried to draw attention to the slide during my presentation, it was as if I were speaking in a foreign dialect. The only conclusion I could come to was that the audience is so steeped in anticipation of climate profiteering that there is no fact that will cause them to reconsider whether or not manmade global warming is a reality ..." 

 Coldest Easter For More Than 40 Years    UK report.

 Climatologist says 'global warming' not alarming, carbon fuels not to blame   "Alabama's state climatologist says carbon fuels aren't to blame."

 NOAA: Coolest Winter Since 2001 for U.S., Globe   "The average temperature across both the contiguous U.S. and the globe during climatological winter (December 2007-February 2008) was the coolest since 2001, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. In terms of winter precipitation, Pacific storms, bringing heavy precipitation to large parts of the West, produced high snowpack that will provide welcome runoff this spring. A complete analysis is available online."

 Climatological Change Cannot Be Avoided   Hot or cold, nothing anyone 'does' will change anything. Those who think otherwise are manipulative, ignorant and delusional fools. Since most of the population are simple-minded and ignorant too ...

 Professor: Big Money Behind Global Warming Propaganda   "A retired physics professor became the latest public figure to debunk the myth of a "consensus" behind man-made global warming when he slammed big money interests for pushing climate change propaganda that was at odds with real science in a speech yesterday. Howard C. Hayden, emeritus professor of physics from the University of Connecticut, told a Pueblo West audience that he was prompted to speak out after a visit to New York where he learned that scaremongering billboards about the long-term effects of global warming were being purchased at a cost of $700,000 a month. "Someone is willing to spend a huge amount of money to scare us about global warming," Hayden said. "Big money is behind the global-warming propaganda ..."  Related: It’s About Freedom, Not Climatology 

Sydney Has Coolest Summer In 50 Years  "After four years of water restrictions, Sydney saw about 50 percent more rain than usual this summer, according to Mike De Salis, a spokesman at Australia's Bureau of Meteorology." 

Major Climate Conference in New York put on by Heartland Institute   "is bringing together scientists to discuss the widespread dissent in the climate science community to the alleged "consensus" that climate change is being caused by human activity. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the event is being ignored by the controlled corporate media, but is receiving alternative media coverage."  March 2 - March 4, 2008 Marriott New York Marquis Times Square Hotel  Related: Climate Scientist Compares CO2 Hysteria to Terrorist Hysteria  | B.C. government makes move to impose carbon tax on the province 

  Temperature Monitors Report Widescale Global Cooling  "Twelve-month long drop in world temperatures wipes out a century of warming. Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold in Minnesota, Texas, Florida, Mexico, Australia, Iran, Greece, South Africa, Greenland, Argentina, Chile -- the list goes on and on. No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously."

Clear Graphic That Shows Dramatic Fall in World Temp Jan 1, 2007 to Present

"No more than anecdotal evidence, to be sure. But now, that evidence has been supplanted by hard scientific fact. All four major global temperature tracking outlets (Hadley, NASA's GISS, UAH, RSS) have released updated data. All show that over the past year, global temperatures have dropped precipitously. A compiled list of all the sources can be seen here. The total amount of cooling ranges from 0.65C up to 0.75C -- a value large enough to wipe out nearly all the warming recorded over the past 100 years. All in one year's time. For all four sources, it's the single fastest temperature change ever recorded, either up or down. Scientists quoted in a past DailyTech article link the cooling to reduced solar activity which they claim is a much larger driver of climate change than man-made greenhouse gases. The dramatic cooling seen in just 12 months time seems to bear that out. While the data doesn't itself disprove that carbon dioxide is acting to warm the planet, it does demonstrate clearly that more powerful factors are now cooling it. Let's hope those factors stop fast. Cold is more damaging than heat. The mean temperature of the planet is about 54 degrees. Humans -- and most of the crops and animals we depend on -- prefer a temperature closer to 70. Historically, the warm periods such as the Medieval Climate Optimum were beneficial for civilization. Corresponding cooling events such as the Little Ice Age, though, were uniformly bad news."