tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57692865806912898762024-03-12T21:11:25.943-07:00Baseball Media Watch 3Major League Baseball sold the game to man made global warming profiteers disguised as do-gooders who 'care' about children and animals. Teams allowed athletes to be exploited, some bought 'carbon offsets.' It all rests on the false premise that US citizens are evil and must pay billions in climate 'reparations.' The NRDC's own mission statement says global warming is a social justice issue.susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-51369528371367998352011-03-31T22:35:00.000-07:002011-03-31T23:43:29.480-07:00Global warming forecast significantly reduced, US gov. NSF scientists say-CO2 'self-correcting'<span style="font-size:130%;">"'<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/iceberg_phytoplankton_boost/">Global implications for</a> climate research', says US gov."</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />3/29/11,</span> "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/iceberg_phytoplankton_boost/">Antarctic ice breakup makes ocean absorb more CO2</a></span>," UK Register, Lewis Page<br /><br />"<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/iceberg_phytoplankton_boost/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Some cheerful news on the climate change</span></a> front today, as <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">US government boffins report</span> that ice breaking off the Antarctic shelves and melting in the sea <span style="font-size:130%;">causes carbon dioxide to be removed from the environment. This powerful, previously unknown "negative feedback" would seem likely<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;">to revise forecasts of future global warming significantly downwards. </span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size:130%;">The <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/iceberg_phytoplankton_boost/">US National Science Foundation</a> (NSF) which funded the iceberg study, describes the results as having <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">"global implications for climate research".</span></span></p> <div id="article-mpu-container"> <div style="width: auto; height: auto; margin-top: 0px;" class="ad-now" id="ad-mpu1-spot"> </div> <p>"These new findings... confirm that <span style="font-size:130%;">icebergs contribute yet another, previously unsuspected, dimension of physical and biological complexity to polar ecosystems,</span>" says Roberta Marinelli, director of the<br /></p><ul><li>NSF's Antarctic Organisms and Ecosystems Program.</li></ul> </div> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/iceberg_phytoplankton_boost/">A team of NSF-funded scientists</a></span> examined the effects on an area of the Weddell Sea of a large (20 mile long) berg moving through, melting as it went and diluting the salty sea water - </span>also adding key nutrients carried from the land. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">They found that after the iceberg had passed,<br /></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">levels of CO</span><sub style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"><small>2</small></sub><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> had plunged</span> and<br /></span></li></ul><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/iceberg_phytoplankton_boost/">much more chlorophyll </a>was present. </span><span style="font-size:130%;">Chlorophyll is the substance in green plants which lets them suck in nasty CO<sub>2</sub> and emit precious life-giving oxygen</span>: in the Weddell Sea it was present in phytoplankton, tiny seagoing plantoids<br /></p><ul><li>which are thought to account for half the carbon removed from the atmosphere globally.</li></ul> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">The scientists say that more and <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/iceberg_phytoplankton_boost/">more icebergs are</a> set to be found</span> in the seas around the Anatarctic as more ice breaks off the shelves attached to the peninsula which reaches up from the polar continent towards South America. This should mean more phytoplankton</p><ul><li> <span style="font-size:130%;">and thus less CO<sub>2</sub>.</span></li></ul> <p>The iceberg team consider that the increased number of bergs coming from the western Antarctic is the result of warming temperatures in the region, <span style="font-weight: bold;">though </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/21/autosub_in_pig_melt_clue/">recent research</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> from British boffins has suggested that in fact other factors may be in play</span> - at least in the case of the Pine Island Glacier, one of the major sources of sea ice in that area.</p> <p>If the phytoplankton-boosting effect of the bergs is as big as the NSF appears to be suggesting, however, it would seem that<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">any carbon-driven temperature rise </span><br /></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">could be at least partly self-correcting.</span></li></ul><p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/iceberg_phytoplankton_boost/">Increased iceberg shedding</a> would seem likely to be seen mainly or only around the western peninsula: <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">antarctic sea ice shelves elsewhere are <span style="font-size:130%;">actually growing</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;">, not shrinking, </span>and at such a rate as to outweigh the peninsular losses</span>. <span style="font-size:130%;">The past three decades <a target="_blank" href="http://nsidc.org/seaice/characteristics/difference.html">have seen</a> the south-polar ice sheets grow by 300,000 square kilometres overall.</span></p> The NSF study was originally <a style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VGC-520M1SK-1&_user=10&_coverDate=01%2F21%2F2011&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=gateway&_origin=gateway&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1696521774&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=e4d033ddff211ce947ab7c76e601d6f5&searchtype=a">published</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> in the journal </span><i style="font-weight: bold;">Deep Sea Research Part II</i><span style="font-weight: bold;"> (subscription required). It was flagged up more recently in </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><i style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/iceberg_phytoplankton_boost/">Nature Geoscience</a></i><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/29/iceberg_phytoplankton_boost/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">'s </span></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" href="http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v4/n3/full/ngeo1105.html">top picks</a> (again, subscription link). </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">The NSF also has a</span><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">statement </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" target="_blank" href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=119058&org=NSF&from=news">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span></li></ul>via Climate Depotsusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-31337662004650952672011-01-16T22:01:00.000-08:002011-03-31T22:34:16.642-07:00How 'climate change' works: transfer billions of middle class American taxpayer dollars to rich guysAmericans are <a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/ArticlePrint.aspx?id=558016&p=1"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">starving while their</span></span></a> living in luxury government gives billions upon billions of their tax dollars<br /><ul><li>to global warming and '<a href="http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2011/01/great-climate-change-2011-taxpayer-rip.html">climate change'</a> research and indoctrination.<br /></li></ul>1/13/11, "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2011/01/great-climate-change-2011-taxpayer-rip.html">The great 'climate change' taxpayer ripoff of 2011</a>,</span>" "Unless I am seriously mistaken or misinformed, the rate of unemployment in the U.S. remains high and <span style="font-weight: bold;">the foreclosure rate on homes</span> is approaching the level of the Depression years." (Note, it has <span style="font-weight: bold;">officially surpassed </span>the Great <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/41019790"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Depression</span></a>, and is heading <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110113/bs_nm/us_usa_economy_jobs;_ylt=AnOzlWB4xkKiyOSaplLs0sayBhIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJrbzRkZHZuBGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTEwMTEzL3VzX3VzYV9lY29ub215X2pvYnMEY3BvcwMyBHBvcwM2BHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA25ld2pvYmxlc3NjbA--"><span style="font-weight: bold;">for worse</span></a>, -ed.) "Two major bond rating companies, Moody’s and Standard and Poor’s just warned that, if the federal government doesn’t stop spending and borrowing, America’s Triple-A highest ranking will be down-graded.<br /><br />Along with all the other things in the federal budget wish list for 2011 <span style="font-weight: bold;">are millions to be spent on climate change </span>(actually, billions ed).<br /><br />It helps to understand <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%3Cspan%20style="></a><a href="http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2011/01/great-climate-change-2011-taxpayer-rip.html">how obscene this is</a> if you pause to consider (1) there is not one damn thing anyone can do about climate change, (2) <span style="font-weight: bold;"> climate change has been researched and studied since the late 1980s, enough to fill an entire wing of the Congressional Library to hold all the reports, </span>and (3) the only climate change Americans really need to know about is what the <em>weather</em> will be tomorrow.<br /><br />With a tip of the hat to Climatequotes.com and the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s (AAAS) report on “research development, fiscal year 2011”, let me share just a few of the ways<br /><ul><li>the Obama administration intends to squander your money.</li></ul>The magic number is $2,481,000 and it represents specific amounts devoted to "climate change" research or other programs requested for the 2011 budgets by an alphabet soup of federal agencies that include the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA, Department of Energy (DOE), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of the Interior (DOI), and the Department of Agriculture (DOA).<br /><br />The figures cited all come from chapter 15 of the AAAS report and you can access it via <a href="http://climatequotes.com/2011/01/08/how-can-climate-scientists-spend-so-much-money/">Climatequotes.com</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">NOAA’</span>s total budget request is for $5.6 billion, an increase of 17%. It intends to <span style="font-weight: bold;">devote $437 million for climate research funding,</span> an increase of $77 million over last year.<br /><br />Over at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">National Science Foundation (NSF)</span>, its <span style="font-weight: bold;">budget of $7.4 billion</span> (that’s a lot of science!) includes a request for $480 million for Atmospheric and Earth Sciences, $765.5 million for NSF’s Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability program and <span style="font-weight: bold;">$19 million for a joint program with DOE “to promote education in clean energy research.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">An additional $10 million would fund<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">“Climate Change Education” in the nation’s schools. </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">It’s not education, it’s indoctrination. </span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a rhef="http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2011/01/great-climate-change-2011-taxpayer-rip.html">The Department of Energy</a> which currently is projecting that permits for deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico won’t be forthcoming until,<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">maybe, June.</span></li></ul> DOE seems oblivious to the fact that the price of oil is set to hit <span style="font-weight: bold;">$100 a barrel </span>and higher costs will hit everyone driving anything using gasoline or diesel fuel. Fuel oil prices will rise and any business that uses oil or anything made with oil<br /><ul><li>will be forced to raise its prices. In short, everything.</li></ul> DOE, however, is in no hurry and, of course, the Obama administration is dead set against ANWR or off-shore exploration and extraction of the BILLIONS of barrels of crude oil projected to exist.<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">However, DOE is set to receive $28.4 billion in 2011 and </span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2011/01/great-climate-change-2011-taxpayer-rip.html">that includes $4.6 billion</a> for research and development in its Office of Science and<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"> $2.4 billion for energy research and development. </span></li></ul>Its Office of Biological and Environmental Research is devoted to atmospheric science, including <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">“climate modeling”, which would be allocated $627 million. </span>Last time I checked, oil, coal, and natural gas were<br /><ul><li>not found in the “atmosphere”, but rather were extracted from deep within the Earth.</li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2011/01/great-climate-change-2011-taxpayer-rip.html">The entire global</a> warming hoax was and is based on <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">“climate modeling”</span>, all of which consistently found that the Earth was warming at an alarming rate.</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Except that the Earth is NOT warming. It has been cooling since 1998.</span> </span><br /><ul><li>And DOE intends to waste $627 million on more modeling. </li></ul>It is worth noting that the most sophisticated models of the National Weather Bureau still cannot predict with any confidence what the weather—not the climate—will be next week.<br /><br />The Environmental Protection Agency, gearing up to regulate all utilities that produce carbon dioxide and all other industries that do the same,<br /><ul><li>has zero authorization to do so under the Clean Air Act. </li></ul>It is CO2 that is designated by the warmists as the chief culprit for the global warming that is NOT happening.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Despite this, EPA has requested $169 million </span>“to reduce greenhouse gas emissions”, with $43.5 million in new funding for<br /><ul><li>“regulatory efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions” through the Clean Air Act. </li></ul>And it wants $22 million for its Global Change Research Program. It is time to shut down this rogue agency before it totally destroys the economy.<br /><br />Even the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Department of Agriculture wants $159 million for “climate change research”, an increase of 42% and <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">$179 million for renewable energy, to “help farmers.”</span> </span>Farmers are heavy users of fossil fuels to operate the machinery needed to till, plant, and harvest crops. They need reliable energy, not "renewable" energy.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2011/01/great-climate-change-2011-taxpayer-rip.html">The Recovery Act of 2009</a> has managed to blow more than $600 million on climate change research and<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">billions on greenhouse gas mitigation. </span></li></ul> This is just the tip of the ‘climate change’ rip-off in terms of billions wasted or soon to be wasted on “research” that can only be deemed an obscene diversion of taxpayer money that will<br /><ul><li>not benefit a single taxpayer, </li></ul><ul><li>generate any new jobs except for those in government agencies, </li></ul>and further bankrupt a bankrupted nation about to have its credit rating reduced.<br />The “scientists”, “regulators”, and “administrators” feasting off this federal largess should be handed a shovel to earn a living on one of those “shovel ready” projects we were told about.<br /><br />Beyond that, if Congress was really intent on cutting back on spending, they could begin by <span style="font-weight: bold;">defunding or <a href="http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2011/01/great-climate-change-2011-taxpayer-rip.html">shutting down the</a><br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Energy, and all the other federal grifters </span>with their snouts rooting around in the climate change trough."</li></ul><ul><li>####</li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">12/28/10</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/ArticlePrint.aspx?id=558016&p=1">24/1% of Fresno, California families are going hungry</a></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">12/21/10</span>, "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/21/news/economy/food_stamps/index.htm">1 in 7 rely on food stamps,</a></span>" CNN/Money, Aaron Smith</li></ul><ul style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><li><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/21/news/economy/food_stamps/index.htm">12/21/10, Washington, D.C.</a> leads the nation, <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">with 21.5% of the population on food stamps.</span></li></ul><br /><br />article by Alan Caruba<br /><br /><ul><li>via Climate Depot</li></ul>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-49419874469574093872011-01-02T22:48:00.000-08:002011-01-02T23:11:06.496-08:00Large dust particles missed by climate models act as 'warm blanket,' trap heat near Earth, PNAS study12/30/10, "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/dust-shatters-like-glass/">Climate Models Miss Effects of Wind-Shattered Dust</a>,</span>" Wired Science, Lisa Grossman<br /><p>"<a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/dust-shatters-like-glass/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Clumps of dust in</span></a> the desert shatter like glass on a kitchen floor. This similarity may mean the<br /></p><ul><li>atmosphere carries more large dust particles than climate models assume.</li></ul> <p>Dust and other airborne particles’ effect in the atmosphere is “one of the most important problems we need to solve <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">in order to provide better predictions of climate,</span>” said <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://sitemaker.umich.edu/jasperkok/home" target="_blank">climate scientist Jasper Kok</a> of the <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. </span>Other researchers suspect current models also neglect a large fraction of<br /></p><ul><li>the climate-warming dust that<br /></li></ul><ul><li>clogs the skies after dust storms.</li></ul> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/dust-shatters-like-glass/">Most climate models</a></span> use dust data from satellites that measure how many particles of different sizes are suspended in the atmosphere. These measurements reveal an abundance of tiny clay particles roughly 2 micrometers across (about one-third the width of a red blood cell), which can reflect sunlight back into space and cool the planet.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/dust-shatters-like-glass/">But satellites may be missing larger</a> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">particles, called silts</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">,</span> which don’t hang around in the air as long. Silts up to 20 micrometers in diameter can<br /></p><ul style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><li>act as a warm blanket to trap heat inside the Earth’s atmosphere.</li></ul> <p>To figure out how much clay and silt is actually kicked up from the Earth’s deserts, Kok turned to a well-studied problem in physics: how glass breaks.</p> <p><span id="more-45937"></span></p> <p>Cracks spread through breaking glass in specific patterns, creating predictable numbers and sizes of glass shards. The final distribution of small, medium and large glass fragments follows a mathematical law called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale_invariance" target="_blank">scale invariance</a>.</p> <ul><li>“It shows up all across nature, from asteroids to atomic nuclei,” Kok said. “It’s really just beautiful.”</li></ul> <p style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/dust-shatters-like-glass/">In a paper published Dec. 28</a> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">in the</span> <em><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/12/23/1014798108" target="_blank">Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</a></em>, <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Kok showed that the physics of how dust clumps break apart<br /></span></p><ul><li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">is similar to glass breaking....</span></li></ul><p>Kok’s theory suggests that dust storms produce two to eight times more silt-sized particles <span style="font-weight: bold;">than climatologists</span> previously thought. Neglecting the boost in particles <span style="font-weight: bold;">suggests that climate models, and even short-term weather models for dusty regions, are somewhat off</span>. Until climate scientists better understand how dust changes over time, however, Kok said it’s tough to gauge the effects.</p> <p>“I thought it was a breakthrough, a real original idea,” said atmospheric physicist <a href="http://www.ess.uci.edu/%7Ezender/" target="_blank">Charles Zender</a> of the University of California at Irvine, who was not involved in the new work. Similarities to fractured glass may show up in other earth science systems,<br /></p><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">like earthquakes or glacier calving, he added. </span><br /></li></ul><p>“Whether it’s submicron and invisible to the human eye, or as large as Greenland, it doesn’t matter. It’s the same property.”</p> <p>Dust expert <a href="http://www.geo.utep.edu/pub/gill/" target="_blank">Tom Gill</a> of the University of Texas at El Paso thinks Kok’s theory is elegant, though it will have to be backed up by lab and field experiments. If it holds up, however, “it has the potential to make <span style="font-weight: bold;">some real improvements in modeling</span> how dust and dust-like things move around and disperse and fall out of the air. That has implications for everything<br /></p><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/dust-shatters-like-glass/">from global climate</a> to volcanoes to hurricanes,</span>” he said. “I’m very encouraged by it.”"</li></ul><ul><li>####</li></ul>From AlFin, 1/2/2011, "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://alfin2100.blogspot.com/2011/01/climate-models-flying-blind-deaf-dumb.html">Climate Models Flying Blind, Deaf, Dumb</a>"</span><br /><br /> "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://alfin2100.blogspot.com/2011/01/climate-models-flying-blind-deaf-dumb.html">Top leaders of the US and the EU are</a> </span>prepared to send their respective economies into a fatal tailspin on the basis of climate pseudo-science. Obama and his fellow cargo-cultists across the pond are willing to destroy the futures of their nations on the claims and declarations of climate modelers whose models omit the most salient movers of climate.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://reason.com/blog/2010/12/09/clouds-and-climate-confusion">Clouds and water vapour, for example, may be the most crucial determinants</a> of how the climate adapts to genuine climate forcings -- yet climate modelers haven't a clue how to deal with these crucial factors.<br /><ul><li>Another important factor -- <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=soot-more-culpable-in-cli">black carbon soot -- </a></li></ul><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=soot-more-culpable-in-cli">is likely the primary determinant of melting of the Arctic ice and high latitude northern glaciers</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span>yet climate models have not been savvy about modeling this crucial driver of melting.<br /><br />Just as crucial in the overal scheme of climate is<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5804831/Climate-change-The-sun-and-the-oceans-do-not-lie.html"> </a><br /><ul><li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/5804831/Climate-change-The-sun-and-the-oceans-do-not-lie.html">the changing sun, and how the oceans react to changing solar activity</a>. Models haven't a clue what to do with it.</li></ul> Certainly recent winters are much colder with more snowfall than modelers have been predicting. And to top it off, a recent paper claims that <b><u><br /></u></b><ul><li><b><u><a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/01/01/new-peer-reviewed-paper-absence-of-correlation-between-temperature-changes-and-co2/">there is no correlation between CO2 and temperature changes</a></u></b>.</li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://alfin2100.blogspot.com/2011/01/climate-models-flying-blind-deaf-dumb.html">Finally, there is dust</a>.</span> Climate models seem to miss larger dust particles called "silts" altogether. How can they expect to get anything right when they keep missing the most important drivers of climate, and emphasise things like CO2 which may actually be confounders, or "pseudo-drivers?"<br /><i><blockquote>Kok’s theory suggests that dust storms produce two to eight times more silt-sized particles than climatologists previously thought. Neglecting the boost in particles suggests that climate models, and even short-term weather models for dusty regions, are somewhat off. Until climate scientists better understand how dust changes over time, however, Kok said it’s tough to gauge the effects. _<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/dust-shatters-like-glass/">Wired</a></blockquote></i>Dust, soot, clouds, ocean cycles, cyclic solar activity, water vapour, and more. <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/12/29/prediction-is-hard-especially-of-the-future/">Climate models even do a poor job with aerosols</a>, as recent analyses are discovering. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">If climate models over-emphasise CO2 and under-emphasise the real drivers of climate, what are they good for </span>-- other than<br /><ul><li>providing a basis for carbon taxes, cap and trade, and the strangulation of energy supplies and industry for the US and the EU?</li></ul> Remember, if energy supplies are choked off, the underlying economy gets strangled. Startups and new technologies go elsewhere. Job prospects shrivel and die. <br /><ul><li>Ever more people are unable to make mortgage payments or get away from dependency on government.</li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://alfin2100.blogspot.com/2011/01/climate-models-flying-blind-deaf-dumb.html">That seems to be what Obama</a> and leaders</span> of the EU want for their constituencies. But what do the people want? More debilitating cargo-cult<br /><ul><li>pseudoscience from their witch-doctors in chief, </li></ul>or a <a href="http://alfin2100.blogspot.com/2011/01/climate-models-flying-blind-deaf-dumb.html">fair chance to succeed</a> in the world?"<br /><br /><br />via Tom Nelsonsusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-52596813683547810682010-11-24T18:10:00.000-08:002010-11-24T18:42:06.784-08:00Spanish government slashes subsidies for solar projects, industry sues Spain<span id="ContentBody"><p><strong>To Mr. Springsteen: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/us-politics/8153491/Bruce-Springsteen-The-boss-rails-against-very-ugly-political-climate-surrounding-Barack-Obama.html">You eventually run out</a> of other people's money. Most people from New Jersey know this.<br /></strong></p><p><strong>11/23/10, "</strong><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/2111556883/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/solar-power-in-spain-falters.html">The Spanish government</a> </span>has launched a new regulatory framework that will result in subsidized tariffs for <a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/article-display/3377728980/articles/Photovoltaics-World/cpv/concentrator-technology/2009/04/pv-tracking_applications.html">ground-mounted solar</a> energy projects<br /></p></span><ul style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><li><span id="ContentBody"><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">drop 45% this year, killing future investment in the trade,</span> </p></span></li></ul><ul><li><span id="ContentBody"><p>which industry leaders expect will be frozen in the next few years.</p></span></li></ul><span id="ContentBody"><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/2111556883/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/solar-power-in-spain-falters.html">We expect new</a></span><a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/2111556883/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/solar-power-in-spain-falters.html"> </a>ground-mounted projects will be paralyzed because there won't be any new investments," says Tomas Diaz, communications director of a trade lobby <a target="_blank" href="http://www.asif.org/">Asociación de la Industria Fotovoltaica (ASIF)</a>. "Last year, many projects were cancelled. Banks did not provide financing because of the regulatory uncertainty and electricity companies' growing campaign against the sector," he said,<br /></p></span><ul><li><span id="ContentBody"><p>adding that utilities are working to bolster subsidies for their own renewable projects, most of which involve wind power.</p></span></li></ul><span id="ContentBody"><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/2111556883/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/solar-power-in-spain-falters.html">Indeed, the Spanish solar</a></span> industry has seen investment plunge in the past two years with only 100 MW of generating capacity having been installed in 2009 and 2010 - compared to 2,700 MW in 2008.</p><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">In addition, approximately 75,000 jobs have been lost with countless firms moving abroad to find new growth opportunities.</p><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/2111556883/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/solar-power-in-spain-falters.html">The industry is so</a> frustrated that it has sued Spain's government, arguing that that new regulation is way too harsh and even "unconstitutional" as the <a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/article-display.articles.Photovoltaics-World.thin-film_solar_cells.cadmium-telluride.2009.08.global-pv_market_may.QP129867.dcmp=rss.page=1.html">tariff cuts</a> are<br /></p></span><ul><li><span id="ContentBody"><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">expected to apply to both new and existing projects, </p></span></li></ul><ul><li><span id="ContentBody"><p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">meaning the industry <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">may have to make retroactive payments.</span></p></span></li></ul><span id="ContentBody"><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/2111556883/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/solar-power-in-spain-falters.html">A recent study</a></span> showed that Spain stands to lose €4.9bn until 2020 as well as 40,000 "quality and stable" jobs because of the new law. However, if it where to change the legislation and boost tariffs, 1000 - 1500 MW of solar generating capacity could be installed annually, resulting in as much as €14bn in proceeds. Proceeds would come from the reduced need to import energy from neighboring countries,<br /></p></span><ul><li><span id="ContentBody"><p>CO2 reduction benefits, higher tax revenues, labor social security contributions </p></span></li></ul><ul><li><span id="ContentBody"><p>and other energy distribution and transport savings.</p></span></li></ul><span id="ContentBody"><p><strong>Cutting renewable energy spending </strong></p><p>The new decree is on the brink of becoming law, with the Spanish congress expected to approve it in mid- or late November.</p><p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Spain has <a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/2111556883/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/solar-power-in-spain-falters.html">needed to curb spending</a> as it was hit with one of the biggest recessions ever to rock the country in its long history</span>. The government wants to cut renewable subsidies, which reportedly<br /></p></span><ul><li><span id="ContentBody"><p>cost public coffers €6.2bn last year. </p></span></li></ul><span id="ContentBody"><p>Of this, €3bn went to the solar power industry, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">which meets just 2% of Spain's power needs, according to government representatives. </span>Moreover, there are claims that<br /></p></span><ul style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span id="ContentBody"><p>the industry has engaged in "fraudulent" management of state subsidies, which it disputes.</p></span></span></li></ul><span id="ContentBody"><p><a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/2111556883/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/solar-power-in-spain-falters.html">Madrid's decision is</a> also the result of the sector's rapid development in recent years, in which 3,800 MW of generating capacity was installed, nearly half the 2020 target of 8,673 MW. As of the first half of 2010, 39% of Spain's electricity came from renewable sources, bringing the country very close to its 2020 goal of 47%.</p></span><ul><li><span id="ContentBody"><p><span id="ContentBody">"We can certainly do 4,000 MW by 2020," Diaz says, adding that not everything in the law is bad for the sector. Indeed, he said <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">the tariff cuts for rooftop projects still make them profitable </span>and he expects investment to increase sharply next year for these projects. </span></p></span></li></ul><span id="ContentBody"><p><span id="ContentBody"><p><a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/2111556883/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/solar-power-in-spain-falters.html">Rooftop projects will see</a> 35 MW of capacity installed this year but that should surge to 250 MW in 2011 and 260 MW in 2012 as investors pour into the space, where there already are a flurry of planned projects, observers say. The new law will see tariff drop 5% for small installations and 25% for large ones. Regarding ground-mounted projects, Diaz says these projects may become profitable again in a few years when solar system prices fall strongly.</p><p><strong>Moving abroad</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/2111556883/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/solar-power-in-spain-falters.html">Still, many companies </a>whose business depends on ground-mounted projects will need to look for opportunities elsewhere. And given, their know-how and technological expertise, this should be feasible, industry participants say. These firms are expected to firm up markets in<br /></p></span></p></span><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li><span id="ContentBody"><p><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">places such as Italy, France, Germany, Eastern Europe and the U.S. where ground-mounted projects are still viable.</span> <a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/8769662029/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/october/pv-installs_poised.html">Read more about solar business in 2011 here.</a></p></span></li></ul><span id="ContentBody"><p><span id="ContentBody"><p>"<a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/2111556883/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/solar-power-in-spain-falters.html">Approximately 50% </a>of our companies are present in the foreign markets so ground-mounted companies are going to do whatever they can to grow even more there now," Diaz points out, adding that<br /></p></span></p></span><ul style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><li><span id="ContentBody"><p>most Spanish firms are currently operating in Italy, Czech Republic, France and the U.S.</p></span></li></ul><span id="ContentBody"><p><span id="ContentBody"><p><a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/2111556883/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/solar-power-in-spain-falters.html">While Spain is expected</a> to see 100 MW of <a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/7889085936/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/isuppli_-germany_strong.html">solar power installed this year</a> (down from a meager 70 MW in 2009), France, Italy and Germany are forecast to add 500 MW, 1,500 MW and 7,000 MW, respectively.</p></span></p></span><ul><li><span id="ContentBody"><p>In addition to the lawsuit, which the government would not comment on, ASIF continues to pressure the government to be easier on the sector. After all, Spain has Europe's highest insolation rates.</p></span></li></ul><span id="ContentBody"><p><span id="ContentBody"><p><a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/2111556883/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/solar-power-in-spain-falters.html">Greenpeace is highly critical</a> of the government. "Spain's government is making a historical mistake by deterring investments in our country's photovoltaic industry because the economic, employment and CO<sub>2</sub> emission-reduction benefits will now go to other countries."</p><p>"<a href="http://www.electroiq.com/index/display/photovoltaics-article-display/2111556883/articles/Photovoltaics-World/industry-news/2010/november/solar-power-in-spain-falters.html">Solar power falters in Spain: Is this lights out?</a>" Photovoltaics World, 11/23/10, <span id="ContentBody"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/u/reporter360">Ivan Castano</a>, contributor, shares this article with the Renewable Energy World network. </span></p><p><br /></p><p>via Tom Nelson</p></span></p></span>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-76519599436289087052010-11-13T21:04:00.000-08:002010-11-13T21:14:56.869-08:00Arctic temps below normal, coldest autumn since 2004 after Coldest Summer on Record--sorry Hansen<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TN9ueTU8ZLI/AAAAAAAAGck/ugNdHNF10t0/s1600/arcticTempsBelowNormalDenmarkMet111210.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TN9ueTU8ZLI/AAAAAAAAGck/ugNdHNF10t0/s400/arcticTempsBelowNormalDenmarkMet111210.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539267533552247986" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Click on years <a href="http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php">listed on left of page</a> from Danish Meteorological Institute,<br />DMI, <a href="http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php">Center for Snow</a> and Ice.</span> from <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/arctic-temperatures-below-normal/">RealScience</a></span><br /><br />via Tom Nelsonsusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-10002168251222679622010-10-25T00:08:00.000-07:002010-10-25T01:41:34.106-07:00Humble representative Obama consumes 570 rooms at Taj Majal, scolded us not to drive SUV's or have thermostat above 72, other countries would be madUS citizens have been softened up to the point they're <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w">guilty they're even alive</a></span>, collapse in tears if they use a piece of paper, go to a ball game, or drink a glass of water. They are <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w">well-primed to</a></span> hear<br /><ul><li>Obama's message that "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w">other countries</a>" </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">aren't going to allow us</span> to be as bad as we have been, eating so much, driving so much. They've really had it.<br /></li></ul>If we give them more millions of our dollars and live in a gutter, they still won't like us but we deserve it. <a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Obama has said</span></a> this over and over, and no one questions him.<br /><ul><li>From Tom Nelson as Obama travels to India and <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Barack-and-Michelles-Mumbai-darshan-plans/articleshow/6797379.cms">books 570 rooms in the Taj Majal</a> <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"><a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/Barack-and-Michelles-Mumbai-darshan-plans/articleshow/6797379.cms">Hotel</a>:</span></span></li></ul>"<a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w">Pitching his message</a> to Oregon's environmentally-conscious voters, Obama called on the United States to "<a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w">lead by example"</a> on global warming, and develop new technologies at home which could be exported to developing countries. From "Obama camp spies end game in Oregon," AFP, 5/16/08:<br /><ul><li>"<a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w"><b>We can't drive our SUVs </b></a><b>and eat as much as we want</b> and keep our homes on <a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w">72 degrees</a> at all times ... and<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w">then just expect</a></span> that other countries are going to<br /></li><li>say OK," Obama said.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">"<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">That's not leadership</span>. <a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w">That's not going to happen</a>," he added.</span>"...<br /><ul><li>The last time a <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/18/newsid_2540000/2540209.stm">passive mentality</a> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">like this existed 900 people quietly</span><br /></li><li>committed <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/18/newsid_2540000/2540209.stm">mass suicide.</a></span> Jim Jones followers in Guyana in 1978. ed.</li></ul>post via Tom Nelson, "<a href="http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2010/10/first-green-president-travels-to-india.html">The first green president travels to India</a>"<br /><br />P.S. It's wonderful the Yankees didn't get to the World Series, because it would have been selfish. Discretionary driving of course must be cut out completely, which means ball games. As Obama said, other countries <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-wpxs1Re-8vx2Zk5xnYygW1W67w">won't allow it</a>.</span> So it's good fans won't be selfish and go to more games. ed.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TMVA5JUViWI/AAAAAAAAGUs/CplNNoUPaRk/s1600/tajmajalhotelweaselzippers.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 409px; height: 297px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TMVA5JUViWI/AAAAAAAAGUs/CplNNoUPaRk/s400/tajmajalhotelweaselzippers.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5531899067792460130" border="0" /></a><br />Taj Majal Hotel, photo via Weasel Zipperssusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-56498242534644508682010-10-17T02:09:00.000-07:002010-10-17T03:20:25.280-07:00$615,000 US taxpayer dollars to brainwash children in Massachusetts with global warming propaganda, see internet as enemy"“<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.lowell.com/umass-lowell-awarded-a-614k-climate-change-education-grant-from-nasa-8282/">In today’s media world</a> of twitter, blogs, and sound bites,<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.lowell.com/umass-lowell-awarded-a-614k-climate-change-education-grant-from-nasa-8282/">confusion about</a> the <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">scientific reality of climate change </span>frequently <a href="http://www.lowell.com/umass-lowell-awarded-a-614k-climate-change-education-grant-from-nasa-8282/%20">dominates the</a> discourse in classrooms and communities,</span>”</li></ul><p style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:130%;">“We aim to change this""...<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >(with tax dollars taken from<span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><span style="font-size:100%;">chump American tax payers)</span></span><br /></span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"></span></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">10/15,</span> "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.lowell.com/umass-lowell-awarded-a-614k-climate-change-education-grant-from-nasa-8282/">UMass Lowell has received a $614,691 grant</a> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">from NASA </span></span>to create unique methods of educating K-12 and college students about the<br /></li></ul>science of global climate change. The award was announced today at a climate change “Teach-In” at UMass Lowell. <p><span style="font-size:130%;">“Engaging students in the development of <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">new and different ways to communicate the science </span>of climate change is key to a deeper understanding of this critical global issue,” </span>"...</p><ul><li>(That's their new thing. If they just explain this giant fraud better, we'll drink the Kool Aid). ed.<br /></li></ul><p>(continuing): "said Chancellor <a href="http://www.lowell.com/marty-meehan">Marty Meehan</a>. “As a university,<br /></p><ul><li>we are committed to cutting our carbon footprint.<br /></li></ul><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.lowell.com/umass-lowell-awarded-a-614k-climate-change-education-grant-from-nasa-8282/">We are making strides</a></span> by constructing LEED-certified buildings, using electric cars and installing solar energy systems on four campus buildings.”</p> <p><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >The project “Climate Change Education: Science, Solutions, and Education in an <span>Age of Media</span>” </span>will get underway this month.<br /></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.lowell.com/umass-lowell-awarded-a-614k-climate-change-education-grant-from-nasa-8282/">It will integrate climate change</a> </span>science with video to create a unique and stimulating approach to global climate change education. Students will gain an understanding of<br /></p><ul><li>cutting- edge science and of the media through which they access information.</li></ul> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.lowell.com/umass-lowell-awarded-a-614k-climate-change-education-grant-from-nasa-8282/">Congresswoman Niki </a></span><a href="http://www.lowell.com/umass-lowell-awarded-a-614k-climate-change-education-grant-from-nasa-8282/">Tsongas</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span>who kicked off the Climate Change Teach-In event today at UMass Lowell, said “I want to congratulate Chancellor Meehan and university faculty for leading this unique initiative. Expanding understanding about climate change is the first step in finding solutions to its harmful impacts. Not only is tackling climate change critical for our planet’s future,<br /></p><ul><li>but the clean energy technology that allows us to do so holds tremendous economic opportunity for our country and the Fifth District, in particular, which has one<br /></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;">the highest concentrations of clean energy employers in New England.”</span></li></ul> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.lowell.com/umass-lowell-awarded-a-614k-climate-change-education-grant-from-nasa-8282/">Under the grant, videos</a></span> produced by students will incorporate their peers’ questions, concerns, and perspectives on climate change. Students will learn to ‘write’ in the language of video and, through this experience, they will gain a deeper and more sophisticated literacy in a medium that is emerging as a major means of communication."...</p><ul><li>(Ah, yes, that pesky internet. They can't stand the internet, because they don't control the message there<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"></span>. They want to control the discourse on global warming. With trillions of dollars at stake, I guess so. ed.)<br /></li></ul> <p>continuing: “<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.lowell.com/umass-lowell-awarded-a-614k-climate-change-education-grant-from-nasa-8282/">In today’s media world</a> of twitter, blogs, and sound bites,<br /></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;">confusion about the scientific reality of climate change frequently dominates the discourse in classrooms and communities,</span>”<br /></li></ul><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.lowell.com/umass-lowell-awarded-a-614k-climate-change-education-grant-from-nasa-8282/">said Associate Prof. Juliette</a> </span>Rooney-Varga who is the lead researcher on the project and an expert on the ecological consequences of climate change.</p><p> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">“We aim to change this</span> by integrating climate change science with the expressive power of video to create a unique and stimulating approach to global climate change education.”</span></p> <ul><li>The expected outcomes of the project include <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">new climate change courses at </span>UMass<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Lowell, </span>the development of a high school summer video program and <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">professional development training for teachers</span>. UMass Lowell students will have an opportunity to apply for paid summer internships working with <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Cambridge high school students</span> during a climate change video production summer program.</li></ul><p>UMass Lowell is partnering with Cambridge Educational Access TV, TERC, Sage Fox Consulting Inc., Carleton College and filmmaker Randy Olson."...</p><ul><li>####<br /></li></ul><ul><li>Great that NASA taxpayer funds are being used for the purpose of manipulating the message for the greatest crime against mankind in history--because they're fed up that they don't have the power they had before the internet.<br /></li></ul>It has nothing to do with science-this giant criminal fraud has been up and running with or without any 'science.' Organized crime has already made billions. More billions of US tax dollars have funded the so-called 'science.' How many 'scientists' would be out of jobs if they said there was no global warming? How many millions would colleges lose? Soros is a firm believer in taking whatever amount of time it needs while spending whatever amount of US taxpayers' own money is needed to get the job done. Congress doesn't care. By using up every available unit of time and space in a culture over decades (taxpayer funded), allowing only one message into the mind, well you can convince everyone to drink the Kool Aid. Those who don't will be isolated by ridicule. They start brainwashing children at the age of 5, continue throughout college and you've got them. The problem is, many of us don't like the fact that our country has been stolen from us via this and other scams, and we plan to get it back. ed.<br /><br /><em><br /></em>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-24810913258204602562010-09-30T22:17:00.000-07:002010-10-17T02:02:52.845-07:00Big Losses in Asia 'Green' Funds-Reuters<span id="articleText"><p><span id="articleText"><span class="focusParagraph"><p>9/30, "<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68T1PF20100930?pageNumber=1">Big losses at Asia Green Funds spark move to safety,</a>" Reuters</p><p>"<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68T1PF20100930?pageNumber=1">Big losses at so-called 'green'</a></span> equities funds this year are halting the proliferation of the once hot investment products in Asia and triggering a shift by investors in some centers such as <a href="http://www.reuters.com/places/japan" title="Full coverage of Japan" onclick="Reuters.article.trackInlineLink(5)">Japan</a> into safer bond options.</p> </span><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68T1PF20100930?pageNumber=1">Green equities funds</a> -</span>- a big draw over the past few years on heightened concerns on energy prices and the environment -- have been clobbered as stock market volatility, economic pessimism and falling energy costs have driven investors away from the sector.</p><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68T1PF20100930?pageNumber=1">The poor performance</a> </span>comes as Asian governments are pumping vast amounts -- spending exceeded $39 billion in 2009, with China accounting for the bulk of that -- into renewable energy and other environment-related projects. It may mean that companies in the business will find it harder to attract new capital.</p><p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">A third of the 20 worst-performing Japanese funds this year are green funds, with returns down a fifth or more for several of them,</span> according to data from Lipper Inc. By comparison, the broad TOPIX index has lost just 8.6 percent....</p></span></p></span><ul><li><span id="articleText"><p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The Deutsche Global Warming Prevention Equity Fund of Deutsche Asset Management (Japan) is down nearly 20 percent </span>in 2010 and has seen its assets drop 36 percent this year to $292 million as of end-August, according to Lipper, a unit of Thomson Reuters.</p></span></li></ul><span id="articleText"><p><span id="articleText"><p><span id="articleText"><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68T1PF20100930?pageNumber=1">The fund's three biggest</a></span> exposures were to utility contractor Quanta Services, wind turbine components maker American Superconductor and <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Danish wind turbine maker Vestas</span>, whose shares are down 7.3 percent, 24.4 percent, and 33.7 percent, respectively, this year....</p></span></p></span></p></span><ul><li><span id="articleText"><p>"If we invest in a stock or a mutual fund </p></span></li></ul><span id="articleText"><p><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE68T1PF20100930?pageNumber=1">it's difficult to really tell whether</a></span><span style="font-size:130%;"> the money is actually used to benefit society,</span>" said Yoshida, who is also a retail investor."...</p></span><ul><li><span id="articleText"><p>via Tom Nelson</p></span></li></ul><span id="articleText"><p><br /></p></span>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-19486573050209632892010-09-22T00:10:00.000-07:002010-09-22T00:40:09.741-07:00Land surface temperature MADNESS! Location problems... SATELLITE TEMPS DIFFER...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TJmuNnwMhfI/AAAAAAAAF-8/2f9RAvSHwws/s1600/weatherstationRussiaNoTrickZone92110.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 224px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TJmuNnwMhfI/AAAAAAAAF-8/2f9RAvSHwws/s400/weatherstationRussiaNoTrickZone92110.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519634367351916018" border="0" /></a><br />9/21/10, "<strong><a href="http://notrickszone.com/2010/09/21/a-light-in-siberia/">Arctic stations</a> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">near heat sources show warming</span> over the last century.<br /></strong><ul><li><strong><a href="http://notrickszone.com/2010/09/21/a-light-in-siberia/">Arctic stations</a> that are <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">isolated from manmade heat sources </span></span></strong></li><li><strong><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">show no warming. </span></strong></li></ul><strong>The plots of “isolated stations” and “urban stations” below <a href="http://notrickszone.com/2010/09/21/a-light-in-siberia/">clearly illustrate the</a> differences.<br /></strong><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://notrickszone.com/2010/09/21/a-light-in-siberia/">All the GISS temperature</a></span> anomaly maps show the Arctic warming faster than the rest of the globe, especially northern Alaska and Siberia,</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://notrickszone.com/2010/09/21/a-light-in-siberia/">but the satellite data</a></span> shows a different pattern. "...<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://notrickszone.com/2010/09/21/a-light-in-siberia/">(maps)</a></span><br /><br /><a href="http://notrickszone.com/2010/09/21/a-light-in-siberia/">"<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Contrary to GISS claims</span></a>, many of these stations are actually not “rural” with respect to their siting quality.<br /><ul><li>Many are at airports associated with sizable towns or research stations with sizable staff and infrastructure. </li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://notrickszone.com/2010/09/21/a-light-in-siberia/">In the Arctic</a></span>, any town of more than a few families can be a large heat source. In the case of many towns in Russian Siberia, “central heating” takes on a whole new meaning. These towns have a central power plant that provides electricity and steam heat to the whole town. Large pipes, both insulated and un-insulated, carry steam, water, and sewage, up and down the streets to and from each dwelling.<br /><ul><li>These pipes cannot be buried because of the permafrost, so they are elevated, and at street crossings are elevated 4 or 5 meters. </li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://notrickszone.com/2010/09/21/a-light-in-siberia/">The temperature differential</a></span> between these pipes and the surrounding air can be 140° C in winter, and even more for a pressurized system. <ul><li>But GISS applies the same Urban Heat Island (UHI) criteria to all stations globally, regardless of the latitude or average temperature.<br /></li></ul><p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://notrickszone.com/2010/09/21/a-light-in-siberia/">They look at the satellite</a></span> night brightness and population to judge whether urban or rural.<br /></p><ul><li>By GISS criteria, all the stations in the high Arctic are rural; <strong></strong></li><li style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><strong>there are no corrections for UHI</strong>....</li></ul><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><a href="http://notrickszone.com/2010/09/21/a-light-in-siberia/">There is very little, if any, global warming</a>.</span></span> We need to wait until the bottom of the next AMO cycle to get a decent reading of global temperature change. That will be in about 2050 if the AMO cycles as it has since 1850."...<br /><br /><ul><li>from "<a href="http://notrickszone.com/2010/09/21/a-light-in-siberia/">A light in Siberia,</a>" by guest contributor Ed Caryl, <a href="http://notrickszone.com/2010/09/21/a-light-in-siberia/">NoTricksZone</a> blog by P. Gosselin, 9/21/10</li></ul>via Climate Depot<br /><p><br /></p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-62915747243595163242010-09-14T16:53:00.000-07:002010-09-14T17:45:04.058-07:00Mob goes Green, eco-Mafia established in global warming industry, 'RENEWABLES' SEEN EASY ROUTE TO LAUNDER FUNDS all over Europe, politicians bribed<ul><li>"<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/7981737/Mafia-cash-in-on-lucrative-EU-wind-farm-handouts-especially-in-Sicily.html">Renewable energy seems</a> like a good thing, run <span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">by saintly people saving the world,</span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">"</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span>said Jason Wright,"...</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">2/14/10,</span> BBC, "<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11303030"><span style="font-size:130%;">Italian authorities have confiscated</span></a> assets worth 1.5bn euros (£1.25bn) from a Sicilian businessman accused of working with the Mafia.... <ul><li>The businessman, Vito Nicastri, had <span style="font-size:130%;">invested heavily in renewable energy, seen as<br /></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11303030">an emerging way for criminal</a><span> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">groups to launder money.</span></span></li></ul> <p>The suspect is thought to be close to Matteo Messina Denaro, considered as the Mafia's current "boss of bosses".</p><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;">Among the assets seized were <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></li></ul><p id="story_continues_1"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">43 wind and solar power companies</span> registered in Sicily and in Calabria,<br /></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;">the southern Italian region that is home to the 'Ndrangheta organised crime group.</span></li></ul> <p><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11303030">Buildings, plots of land, and</a> the contents of current accounts and other deposits</span> were also confiscated."...</p><ul><li>####</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">2/5/10, </span>Telegraph UK, "<span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/7981737/Mafia-cash-in-on-lucrative-EU-wind-farm-handouts-especially-in-Sicily.html">Attracted by the prospect</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>of generous grants designed to boost the use of alternative energies, the so-called <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">"<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/7981737/Mafia-cash-in-on-lucrative-EU-wind-farm-handouts-especially-in-Sicily.html">eco Mafia" has begun fraudulently</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>creaming off millions of euros from both the Italian government and the European Union. </span> <ul><li> And nowhere has the industry's reputation become more tarnished than Sicily, where windmills now dot the horizon in Mafia strongholds like Corleone, the town better known as the setting for the <i>Godfather</i> films. </li></ul> <p> <span style="font-size:130%;">"<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/7981737/Mafia-cash-in-on-lucrative-EU-wind-farm-handouts-especially-in-Sicily.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Nothing earns more than</span></a> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">a wind farm</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">,</span>" said Edoardo Zanchini, an environmental campaigner who has investigated Mafia infiltration of the industry. "Anything that creates wealth interests the Mafia." </p> <ul><li> It is not just Italian criminals, however, who have spotted the potential for corruption. Recent research by Kroll, the international corporate security firm, has discovered<br /></li></ul><p><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/7981737/Mafia-cash-in-on-lucrative-EU-wind-farm-handouts-especially-in-Sicily.html">examples all over Europe</a> of so-called "clean energy" schemes being used <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">to line criminals' pockets rather than save the planet. </span><br /></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;">Some involve windmills that stand derelict or are simply never built, while others are<br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">used to launder profits </span>from other crime enterprises. </span></li></ul> <p> "<span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/7981737/Mafia-cash-in-on-lucrative-EU-wind-farm-handouts-especially-in-Sicily.html">Renewable energy seems</a> like a good thing, run <span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">by saintly people saving the world,</span></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">"</span> said Jason Wright,<br /></p><ul><li>a senior director with Kroll, which performs background checks on renewable energy schemes on behalf of legitimate investors, and which has documented a sharp rise in the<br /></li><li>number of <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/7981737/Mafia-cash-in-on-lucrative-EU-wind-farm-handouts-especially-in-Sicily.html">wind farms with suspect</a> ownership."...</li></ul><p>####<br /></p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">2/17/09</span>, "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/01/mafia-wind-farm-operation_n_170825.html">Mafia wind farm operation busted in Sicily</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span>" Huffington Post, by Ariel David<br /><ul><li>"<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/01/mafia-wind-farm-operation_n_170825.html">The project, worth hundreds of</a></span> millions of euros (dollars), was first devised in 2003 and later uncovered by an investigation that included wiretaps, police said in a statement.</li></ul> <p>Investigators discovered that luxury cars and thousands of euros in<br /></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/01/mafia-wind-farm-operation_n_170825.html">bribes were given to politicians</a></span> to ensure that a Mafia-backed company won the lucrative public contract.</p> <ul><li>The suspects also illegally accessed the municipality's safe to copy the proposal of a rival company, which was<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/01/mafia-wind-farm-operation_n_170825.html">later excluded</a> </span>from the bidding."...</li></ul>Reference, Telegraph, 9/5, "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/renewableenergy/7981737/Mafia-cash-in-on-lucrative-EU-wind-farm-handouts-especially-in-Sicily.html">Mafia cash in on lucrative EU wind farm handouts,</a>" by Squires and Meosusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-37406703725030109202010-09-09T20:05:00.000-07:002010-09-09T20:55:52.513-07:00UN investigation into carbon trading fraud slows other traders<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-09/un-risks-huge-mistake-in-carbon-trading-investigation-energy-markets.html">The UN is investigating</a> </span>large scale fraud in its carbon trading program, CDM's. This is a good thing. Other entities try to make money via carbon trading and are finding news of suspected UN fraud and its investigation <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-09/un-risks-huge-mistake-in-carbon-trading-investigation-energy-markets.html">putting a drag</a> on sales. A Bloomberg News headline indicates alarm that 'fraud' news is slowing business down:<br /><ul><li>9/9, "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-09/un-risks-huge-mistake-in-carbon-trading-investigation-energy-markets.html">UN risks 'huge mistake' in carbon-trading investigation: Energy Markets</a>,</span>" Bloomberg News, Carr and Airlie</li></ul>Bloomberg owns <a href="http://bnef.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">New Energy Finance</span></a>, involved in various aspects of carbon trading.<br /><ul><li>9/8, <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >"<a href="http://www.internationalrivers.org/en/blog/payal-parekh/2010-9-8/international-rivers-comments-two-proposed-cdm-hydro-projects">Hydro developers continue efforts to rip off the climate</a>," </span><span style="font-size:100%;">InternationalRivers.org, Uganda</span></li></ul>via Tom Nelsonsusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-26450825862366283342010-08-26T20:23:00.000-07:002010-08-26T21:07:26.277-07:00John Deere latest to drop out of cap and trade global warming pressure group<span style="font-size:100%;">Deere follows <a href="http://www.automatedtrader.net/real-time-dow-jones/13419/deere-quits-climate-coalition-supporting-cap_and_trade">Caterpillar, BP</a> and ConocoPhillips Co. <span><a href="http://www.automatedtrader.net/real-time-dow-jones/13419/deere-quits-climate-coalition-supporting-cap_and_trade">out of USCAP</a></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">.</span><br /><ul><li>8/25, Dow Jones: "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.automatedtrader.net/real-time-dow-jones/13419/deere-quits-climate-coalition-supporting-cap_and_trade">Deere & Co. has quietly dropped</a> </span>out of a coalition of large companies that has supported a cap-and-trade program for reducing carbon dioxide emissions. </li></ul> <p> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.automatedtrader.net/real-time-dow-jones/13419/deere-quits-climate-coalition-supporting-cap_and_trade">Deere, the world's</a> </span>largest manufacturer of farm machinery, opted to leave the U.S. Climate Action Partnership in May because the group's legislative strategy "no longer served as a foundation for moving forward" with climate change regulation, Ken Golden, a spokesman for the company said Tuesday. </p> <ul><li> "<a href="http://www.automatedtrader.net/real-time-dow-jones/13419/deere-quits-climate-coalition-supporting-cap_and_trade"><span style="font-weight: bold;">We came to the conclusion</span></a> that Deere had other opportunities to be involved in climate change initiatives," Golden said. </li></ul> <p> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.automatedtrader.net/real-time-dow-jones/13419/deere-quits-climate-coalition-supporting-cap_and_trade">The Moline, Ill.</a>, </span>company joins a handful of other companies that have left the partnership in recent months, as political support erodes for comprehensive energy legislation that includes a cap-and-trade program and stricter mandates for energy conservation. Other members to leave the group include construction machinery company Caterpillar Inc. (CAT), and energy companies BP PLC (BP.LN, BP) and ConocoPhillips Co. (COP) </p> <ul><li> A spokesman for the partnership, Tad Segal, offered no reaction to Deere's reasons for leaving the group, but credited the company with "playing a valuable and significant role" in developing the group's policy initiatives....</li></ul><p> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.automatedtrader.net/real-time-dow-jones/13419/deere-quits-climate-coalition-supporting-cap_and_trade">About two dozen</a></span> companies remain in the group, including corporate heavyweights General Electric Co. (GE), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Siemens AG (SIE), and Alcoa Inc. (AA) The group also has picked up four new members in the past year, including Honeywell International Inc. (HON) and Weyerhaeuser Co. (WY) </p> <ul><li> The Washington-based coalition, which was founded in 2007, has been a lightning rod for opposition since its January 2009 Blueprint for Legislative Action recommended creating a phased-in cap-and-trade system for U.S. producers of carbon dioxide, the main ingredient in the heat-trapping greenhouse gas<br /></li><li>identified as the <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.automatedtrader.net/real-time-dow-jones/13419/deere-quits-climate-coalition-supporting-cap_and_trade">source of climate warming</a>."...</span></li></ul><p>(Dow Jones apparently believes 'climate warming' exists but doesn't say how they know this. ed).<br /></p><ul><li> (continuing, Dow Jones): "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.automatedtrader.net/real-time-dow-jones/13419/deere-quits-climate-coalition-supporting-cap_and_trade">Deere made a decision</a> </span>independent of the opinions of other organizations," Golden, the company spokesman, said. "Our involvement with various trade and industry organizations is routinely reviewed." </li></ul> <p> He added the company remains affiliated with other environmental groups that it believes can effectively influence climate change legislation. Deere is a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program and participates in the Business Environmental Leadership Council."</p><ul><li>"<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.automatedtrader.net/real-time-dow-jones/13419/deere-quits-climate-coalition-supporting-cap_and_trade">Deere quits climate coalition supporting cap and trade</a></span><a href="http://www.automatedtrader.net/real-time-dow-jones/13419/deere-quits-climate-coalition-supporting-cap_and_trade">,</a>" Dow Jones, by Bob Tita, 8/25<br /></li></ul><p>via Climate Depot<br /></p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-90686307730791420972010-08-15T19:00:00.001-07:002010-08-15T19:40:03.990-07:00Hockey Stick disproved again, but Michael Mann is backed by Obama & Co. who insist global warming cannot be questioned & US taxpayers must keep paying<ul><li>2/16/10: "<span style="font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=542:nsf-should-review-stimulus-grants-to-scientist-involved-in-e-mail-scandal&catid=22&Itemid=3&layout=default&date=2010-01-01">The Obama Administration</a> has resisted any efforts at a full-scale investigation</span> <span style="font-size:100%;">into the veracity of climate research.</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">"...</span></li><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;">1/15/10: <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=542:nsf-should-review-stimulus-grants-to-scientist-involved-in-e-mail-scandal&catid=22&Itemid=3&layout=default&date=2010-01-01">Obama gave $541,184</a> in US taxpayer 'stimulus' funds <a href="http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=542:nsf-should-review-stimulus-grants-to-scientist-involved-in-e-mail-scandal&catid=22&Itemid=3&layout=default&date=2010-01-01">to Michael Mann</a>.</span></span><br /></span></li></ul>8/15/10, Reference Frame: <a href="http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/08/paper-fake-random-data-are-better.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LuboMotlsReferenceFrame+%28Lubos+Motl%27s+reference+frame%29">"<span style="font-weight: bold;">Why are there still people</span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span> including people employed as climate scientists, who claim that they don't realize that the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/14/breaking-new-paper-makes-a-hockey-sticky-wicket-of-mann-et-al-99/">Mann methodology is flawed?</a> </span>They're clearly not up to their job. Could someone please finally fire them? One of the reasons why some laymen may fail to get the point is that they just don't understand the technology, not even the simple argument above.<br /><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;">They're waiting for journals.</span></li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/08/paper-fake-random-data-are-better.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LuboMotlsReferenceFrame+%28Lubos+Motl%27s+reference+frame%29">Well, a prestigious statistics journal,</a></span> <em>Annals of Applied Statistics,</em> has just scheduled a paper for publication in the next issue. The paper has the same content:<br /><blockquote><b>McShane and Wyner</b>: <a href="http://www.e-publications.org/ims/submission/index.php/AOAS/user/submissionFile/6695?confirm=63ebfddf" rel="nofollow">A Statistical Analysis of Multiple Temperature Proxies: Are Reconstructions of Surface Temperatures Over the Last 1000 Years Reliable?</a> (full text PDF, <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/mcshane-and-wyner-2010.pdf" rel="nofollow">backup</a>, <a href="http://docs.google.com/gview?url=wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/mcshane-and-wyner-2010.pdf" rel="nofollow">Google Docs Viewer as a HTML</a>)</blockquote>McShane and Wyner 2010 has 2.5 MB and 45 pages in this format and it shows that the MBH-selected proxies are actually leading to <em>worse</em> predictions than their fake data. The Mann proxies won't score well in their match against more sophisticated null hypotheses. You will find <span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">explicit sentences that you have seen written on this blog many times, for example</span></span><br /><blockquote><em style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/08/paper-fake-random-data-are-better.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LuboMotlsReferenceFrame+%28Lubos+Motl%27s+reference+frame%29">That is, the very <em>method</em> </a>used in Mann et al. (1998)<br />guarantees the [hockey stick] shape of Figure 1.</em><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> (Page 5)</span><br /></blockquote><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Well, this point has been known</span> at least for 7 years but maybe, some of the people suddenly start to take notice when papers with this no-longer-original finding start to<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/08/paper-fake-random-data-are-better.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LuboMotlsReferenceFrame+%28Lubos+Motl%27s+reference+frame%29">appear in conventional</a><span> </span> peer-reviewed journals.</span></li></ul> <span style="font-size:130%;">It's sad that science has to go through these irrational political battles when<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;">nasty folks and aggressive crackpots of Mann's type - who should spend their lives in jail - </span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/08/paper-fake-random-data-are-better.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LuboMotlsReferenceFrame+%28Lubos+Motl%27s+reference+frame%29">may prevent knowledge</a> from disseminating for 7 years. </span></li></ul><span style="font-size:130%;">But even in the real world, the lies have short legs, after all. They can't get <em>too far</em>."<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;">"<a href="http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/08/paper-fake-random-data-are-better.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LuboMotlsReferenceFrame+%28Lubos+Motl%27s+reference+frame%29">Paper: Fake random data are better predictors than Mann proxies</a><span>"</span></span></li></ul>(ed. note-The climate mob's position has been that <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/08/14/breaking-new-paper-makes-a-hockey-sticky-wicket-of-mann-et-al-99/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">statistical studies don't count</span></a>. Nothing counts according to them and why should it? They have Obama and the rest who have only contempt for US taxpayers and are happy to keep sending our money to climate guys).susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-36020659568729631972010-08-06T22:34:00.000-07:002010-08-08T02:05:47.907-07:00No records exist that can prove Greenland ice chunk due to global warming but US Rep. Ed Markey says it's global warming anyway from his bully pulpitUPDATE AS ANTICIPATED: <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/113171-markey-global-warming-deniers-should-start-their-own-country-on-giant-ice-island-">US Rep. Ed Markey SAYS THIS GLACIER</a></span> CHUNK IS DUE TO <span style="font-weight: bold;">GLOBAL WARMING</span>! Says "SCIENTISTS AGREE"...and <span style="font-weight: bold;">"<a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/113171-markey-global-warming-deniers-should-start-their-own-country-on-giant-ice-island-">SOME SCIENTISTS</a>" </span>say...How is Ed Markey not making criminal statements, in that the so-called "science" he sells from his bully pulpit has<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/113171-markey-global-warming-deniers-should-start-their-own-country-on-giant-ice-island-">as its basis that</a></span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Americans </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/113171-markey-global-warming-deniers-should-start-their-own-country-on-giant-ice-island-">are climate criminals</a></span> and <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">must pay billions</span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">in reparations </span>(to UN grifters and hedge fund scam artists) </li></ul>plus countless hidden and unhidden fees and taxes in perpetuity?<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Ruling Class</span> </span>politicians <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">such as Markey</span> have blithely sold out lifetimes of work and sacrifice of <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">innocent Americans</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">,</span> transferring the output of their effort to non-productive people. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Global warming is more of the same slavery.</span> That is, if you're stupid enough to work hard, take risk, make sacrifices, and you succeed, you will be punished. You don't deserve extra pay for extra effort. In fact, you should be ashamed to ever leave the house.<br /><ul><li>The Greenland glacier story from 8/7 cannot be global warming:<br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/07/biggest-ice-island-greenland">Records on area sea levels</a></span> have only been kept <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/07/biggest-ice-island-greenland">since 2003</a></span>-NSF scientist: </li></ul>"<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/07/biggest-ice-island-greenland">He (Muenchow) said it</a> </span>was hard to judge whether the event occurred due to global warming because<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">records on the sea water around </span>the glacier have<br /></li></ul> <ul style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><li><span style="font-size:130%;">only been kept since 2003."...</span></li></ul>A glacier expert quoted says breakages <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/07/biggest-ice-island-greenland">happen all the time</a></span>, although this was larger than usual. ...<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Prepare for <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">alarmist headline:</span></span><br /><ul><li>8/7, "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/07/biggest-ice-island-greenland">Biggest ice island for 48 years breaks of Greenland glacier</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span>" Guardian UK, D. Pearse<br /></li></ul><p>" (Associate Professor) Muenchow said he had expected an ice chunk to break off from Petermann, one of the two largest remaining glaciers in Greenland, because<br /></p><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/07/biggest-ice-island-greenland">it had been growing</a></span> in size for seven or eight years.<br /></li></ul><ul><li>But he said he did not expect it to be so large.</li></ul><p>"The freshwater stored in this ice island could keep the Delaware or Hudson Rivers flowing for more than two years," said Muenchow, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/07/biggest-ice-island-greenland"><span style="font-weight: bold;">whose research</span></a> in the area is<br /></p><ul><li> supported by the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/07/biggest-ice-island-greenland">National Science Foundation</a>....</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size:130%;">He said it was hard to judge whether the event occurred due to global warming because</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/07/biggest-ice-island-greenland">records on the sea water</a></span> around the glacier have<br /></span></li></ul><ul style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">only been kept </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">since 2003</span>.<span style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span style="font-size:85%;">[sorry Prince Charles...]</span></span><br /></span></span></li></ul><p>"<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/07/biggest-ice-island-greenland">Nobody can claim</a></span> this was caused by global warming. On the other hand nobody can claim that it wasn't," Muenchow said, adding that the flow of sea water below the glaciers is one of the main causes of ice calvings off Greenland."<br /></p><ul><li>(He pretty much had to hold out a bit of hope that it might be global warming as he's funded by the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/29/workers-porn-surfing-rampant-at-federal-agency/">National Science Foundation</a></span> which in 2008 for example received <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/29/workers-porn-surfing-rampant-at-federal-agency/">$6 billion in taxpayer funding</a></span>. The government/climate/social justice cartel wants to keep that money flowing. (ed.)</li></ul><ul><li>(continuing): "Regine Hock, a <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/07/biggest-ice-island-greenland">glacial geophysicist</a> </span>at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, told the National Geographic<br /></li></ul><ul><li>that the breakup of ice shelves is <span style="font-weight: bold;">"<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/07/biggest-ice-island-greenland">a normal process that</a> </span>happens all the time".</li></ul><p>But she said that such a "huge, huge piece of ice … is very unusual"....</p><p>Petermann Glacier spawned smaller ice islands<br /></p><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/07/biggest-ice-island-greenland">in 2001 (34 square miles</a>)</span> and 2008 (10 square miles)."</li></ul>#########<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">NSF (National Science Foundation) scandals</span><br /><ul><li>Washington Times by Jim McElhatton, "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/29/workers-porn-surfing-rampant-at-federal-agency/">Porn surfing rampant at US Science Foundation</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span></li></ul><ul><li>"<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://republicans.oversight.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=542:nsf-should-review-stimulus-grants-to-scientist-involved-in-e-mail-scandal&catid=22&Itemid=3&layout=default&date=2010-01-01">NSF should review stimulus grants to scientist involved in e-mail scandal</a></span>," 2/16/10</li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://climaterealists.com/?id=5571">"Mann claims his hockey stick was given "clean bill of health"</a>"</span> 4/19/10</li></ul><p><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090916/FREE/909169984/1055">National Science Foundation $10.5 million</a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">grant to PBS station investigated for misuse </span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">by the station</span>, 9/16/09, instances ongoing since 2000.<br /></p><ul><li>"The independent foundation <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/29/workers-porn-surfing-rampant-at-federal-agency/">(NSF), funded by taxpayers</a> </span>to the tune of <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/29/workers-porn-surfing-rampant-at-federal-agency/">$6 billion in 2008</a>,</span> is tasked with handing out scientific grants to colleges, universities and research institutions nationwide."...</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Ed Markey reference</span>, The Hill, 8/7, 4:04PM, "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/113171-markey-global-warming-deniers-should-start-their-own-country-on-giant-ice-island-">Deniers of Global Warming should 'start their own country</a></span>'" by S. D'Aprile, via Tom Nelsonsusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-75431438881442936962010-08-04T19:57:00.000-07:002010-08-04T20:28:02.450-07:00EPA to strangle factories one by one-Washington Post8/4, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/03/AR2010080306366_pf.html">"EPA left to pick up climate change where congress dropped the debate</a>," Washington Post, Fahrenthold and Eilperin<br /><ul><li>"<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/03/AR2010080306366_pf.html">The Environmental Protection Agency</a> will soon begin regulating greenhouse gases factory by factory, power plant by power plant. That could be unwieldy, expensive and unpopular -- even <a href="http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Barack_Obama" target="">President Obama</a> has said it's not his preferred solution. </li></ul> <ul><li> But for now, it's his only option....</li></ul><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/03/AR2010080306366_pf.html">David Doniger, of the Natural Resources Defense</a> Council, said his group intends to defend the EPA in the coming months.<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/03/AR2010080306366_pf.html%20">The EPA "needs political support</a> to sustain it. . . . We are going to come down very hard on any of the Democrats and moderate Republicans..." he said."...</li></ul>NRDC has great financial interest in carbon trading and in any case in taking the last remaining dollar from the last remaining American worker. <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:130%;" ><span><a href="http://www.nrdc.org/about/mission.asp">NRDC's mission statement</a> says</span></span></span> "<a href="http://www.nrdc.org/about/mission.asp">disproportionate environmental burdens</a>" are unfairly "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nrdc.org/about/mission.asp">borne by people of color and others who face social and economic inequalities</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span>" <ul><li>Bloomberg, 12/4/09: "Companies <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aXRBOxU5KT5M"><span style="font-weight: bold;">need the financial markets</span></a> to help them drive down their greenhouse gas emissions at a reasonable price,<br /></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aXRBOxU5KT5M">says the NRDC’s Andy Stevenson</a>.</span><p> </p><ul><li>“There are <a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aXRBOxU5KT5M"><span style="font-weight: bold;">trillions of dollars needed to</span></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">make this transition</span></span>, and companies need the banks,” </li></ul><ul><li>says Stevenson, <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aXRBOxU5KT5M">a former trader for London-based hedge fund</a> </span>firm Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP."</li></ul>via Climate Depotsusanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-72539712631211436232010-07-31T23:37:00.000-07:002010-08-02T18:02:31.900-07:00EPA: US citizens owe billions in climate crime 'reparations' based on 3 sets of temp. data-- ClimateGater Phil Jones disagreesRoger Pielke Sr. cites <a href="http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/comment-on-the-denial-of-petitions-for-reconsideration-of-the-endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-for-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a-of-the-clean-air-act/">a 2003 report from ClimateGate's Phil Jones</a> sharply at odds with<br /><ul><li>EPA's Jackson's statement that "3 sets of raw temperature data" have been exhaustively studied. Mr. Pielke notes 3 different sets of raw data do not exist, per P. Jones:<br /></li></ul><a href="http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/comment-on-the-denial-of-petitions-for-reconsideration-of-the-endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-for-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a-of-the-clean-air-act/">The EPA says </a>(from Mr. Pielke's blog):<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>"“<a href="http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/comment-on-the-denial-of-petitions-for-reconsideration-of-the-endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-for-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a-of-the-clean-air-act/">The global warming trend over the past</a> 100 years is confirmed by <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">three separate records of surface temperature</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">, all of which are confirmed by satellite data.”</span></li></ul> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">There are not</span> three independent records </span>of surface temperatures trends as we reported in our <a href="http://pielkeclimatesci.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/r-321.pdf">Pielke et al 2007</a>, i.e.</p><ul><li>“<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The raw surface temperature data</span> </span>from which <span style="font-weight: bold;">all of the different global surface temperature trend </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">analyses are derived are essentially the same.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>The best estimate that has been reported is that <span style="font-weight: bold;">90–95% of the raw data in each of the analyses </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;">is the same</span> (P. Jones, personal communication, 2003).""</span></li></ul>Some have <a href="http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/comment-on-the-denial-of-petitions-for-reconsideration-of-the-endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-for-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a-of-the-clean-air-act/">petitioned the EPA to reconsider the charge of greenhouse gas endangerment</a>. Nice idea, but the US government, bankers, and big business have built a fortress around carbon trading and won't quit so easily. It's a sure-fire killer of the American middle class so it's doubly good. This could have been stopped years ago if we had had one person in DC who wasn't spineless. (ed.)<br /><ul><li><a href="http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/comment-on-the-denial-of-petitions-for-reconsideration-of-the-endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-for-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a-of-the-clean-air-act/">Climate scientist Roger Pielke Sr's</a> comment on the EPA denial of <a href="http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/comment-on-the-denial-of-petitions-for-reconsideration-of-the-endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-for-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a-of-the-clean-air-act/">petitions to reconsider</a> greenhouse gas endangerment.</li></ul>"The EPA claim that <blockquote><p>“<a href="http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/comment-on-the-denial-of-petitions-for-reconsideration-of-the-endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-for-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a-of-the-clean-air-act/">After months of serious consideration</a> of the petitions and of the state of climate change science EPA finds no evidence to support these claims”</p></blockquote> <p>is absurd.</p> <ul><li>It is almost trivial to show that <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">the EPA is not properly considering peer reviewed research that differs from their findings.</span></li></ul> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">As just one example</span>, they write</p> <blockquote style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><p>“<a href="http://pielkeclimatesci.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/comment-on-the-denial-of-petitions-for-reconsideration-of-the-endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-for-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a-of-the-clean-air-act/">The global warming trend over the past</a> 100 years is confirmed by <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">three separate records of surface temperature</span>, all of which are confirmed by satellite data.”</p></blockquote> <p style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">There are not three independent records </span>of surface temperatures trends as we reported in our <a href="http://pielkeclimatesci.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/r-321.pdf">Pielke et al 2007</a>, i.e.</p> <blockquote style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><p>“<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">The raw surface temperature data </span>from which all of the different global surface temperature trend <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">analyses are derived are essentially the same.</span> The best estimate that has been reported is that 90–95% of the raw data in each of the analyses <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">is the same (P. Jones, personal communication, 2003).</span></p></blockquote> <p>They also ignored peer reviewed research that shows a discrepancy between the surface and lower tropospheric temperature trends; i.e.</p><ul><li>Klotzbach, P.J., R.A. Pielke Sr., R.A. Pielke Jr., J.R. Christy, and R.T. McNider, 2009: <a href="http://pielkeclimatesci.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/r-345.pdf">An alternative explanation for differential temperature trends at the surface and in the lower troposphere</a>. J. Geophys. Res., 114, D21102, doi:10.1029/2009JD011841.</li></ul> <p>This EPA Denial is yet another perpetuation of the group think that was so evident in the released CRU e-mails." ***<br /></p><ul><li>Wall Street is behind the whole thing:<br /></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">The 2007 Supreme Court 5-4 decision on CO2 endangerment was a gold mine for Wall Street-ENTERGY stock rocketed to an all time high:<br /></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">1.<span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> April 6, 2007</span>: </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/editorial_ruling_on_epa_favors_big_energy2007-04-06T07_00_00.html">Supreme court CO2 decision favored big business. Big energy company Entergy</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> was among <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">plaintiffs-and winners-in the 2007</span> US Supreme Court case ruling (5 to 4) that carbon dioxide was a pollutant (</span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.climatepolicy.org/?p=21">4/2/07</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">):</span><br /><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li>"<a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/editorial_ruling_on_epa_favors_big_energy2007-04-06T07_00_00.html">Wall Street understood this</a>. On Monday, when the EPA decision came down, Entergy stock<br /></li><li><br /></li><li><a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/editorial_ruling_on_epa_favors_big_energy2007-04-06T07_00_00.html">jumped to an all-time high</a><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> of $107.52 per share."</span>...</li></ul><ul><li>The ruling made and continues to make big money for big Entergy Corp.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">2. <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">October 2009,</span> </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-14-entergy-ceo-warns-of-humanitys-extinction-if-climate-legislation/">Entergy's chairman hysterically</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> advances the possible<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">extinction of humanity </span>without urgent </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-14-entergy-ceo-warns-of-humanitys-extinction-if-climate-legislation/">action on global warming and</a></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">cap and trade. The Chairman of Entergy speaks at a White House meeting portraying his<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">giant corporation as a </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-14-entergy-ceo-warns-of-humanitys-extinction-if-climate-legislation/">humanitarian against evil</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Wall Street interests.</span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">3. <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">December 10, 2009, </span>AP, <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010473070_apusentergyceoarkansas.html">Entergy Chairman invokes deadly threat</a> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">again, says<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"bullets" </span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">aimed at us due to global warming.</span><br /><ul><li><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/editorial_ruling_on_epa_favors_big_energy2007-04-06T07_00_00.html">Ebullient after the EPA CO2 ruling</a></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> in his company's favor, he says: ""With EPA moving forward, they're sending a clear message that this is a serious problem and</span></li></ul><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010473070_apusentergyceoarkansas.html">either you're going to deal with it</a></span> or we're going to deal with it ," Leonard said<br /></li><li>after a speech at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service....</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010473070_apusentergyceoarkansas.html">We're playing Russian Roulette with</a></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> the planet and our economy," Leonard said. "The difference is</span><br /></span><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">there's </span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010473070_apusentergyceoarkansas.html">a bullet in every chamber</a></span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> except one.""</span>...</span></li></ul>Reference.<br /><ul><li>1. "Editorial: <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/editorial_ruling_on_epa_favors_big_energy2007-04-06T07_00_00.html">Ruling on EPA favors Big Energy</a>," April 6, 2007, Washington Examiner</li></ul><ul><li>2. "<a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-14-entergy-ceo-warns-of-humanitys-extinction-if-climate-legislation/">Entergy CEO Warns of Humanity's Extinction</a> if Climate Legislation not Passed," 10/14/09, Gristmill.org, by Brad Johnson</li></ul><ul><li>3. AP, "<a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2010473070_apusentergyceoarkansas.html">Entergy CEO: EPA Sending Congress Message to Act,</a>" 12/10/09, by Andrew DeMillo, Seattle Times<br /></li></ul><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Shockingly</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" >Entergy also advises that </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" ><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://entergy.pewclimate.org/climate-change/mythbusters">the 'hockey stick' graph</a></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" > is just fine! </span></span>(item #30)<br /></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">P.S. How do they explain the <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">coming and going of global ice ages </span><span style="font-style: italic;">before the automobile existed?</span></span></li></ul><ul><li>via Climate Depot and Tom Nelson</li></ul>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-77844963945491623282010-07-29T17:27:00.000-07:002010-08-01T00:37:42.699-07:00Sorry NOAA-Peru freezing emergency, Los Angeles sets record low temps, 'gloomy'- LA TimesUpdate: 8/1, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/01/peru-freezing-weather-emergency">Peru declares state of emergency</a> due to <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/01/peru-freezing-weather-emergency">colder than usual</a></span> weather for 3 or 4 years.<br /><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;">LA, San Diego 'gloomy,' cool...</span>(no matter what, they still say it's all global warming, US citizens are climate criminals and owe billions in reparations. Period.)<br /></li></ul>7/29/10, "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/07/cool-summer-la-set-more-record-low-temperatures.html">Cool Summer: LA sets more low temperature records</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span>" LA Times blog, Shelby Grad<br /><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;">"<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/07/cool-summer-la-set-more-record-low-temperatures.html">The unusually cool summer continued</a> in Southern California, where several new record-low temperatures were recorded on Wednesday.</span></li></ul><p><span style="font-size:130%;">The 68-degree low at Los Angeles International Airport <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">broke the old record low</span> for the day, which was 70 degrees in 1991. Santa Barbara (68) and San Luis Obispo (69) broke records as well.</span></p><ul><li>The temperature at USC, 75, tied the record low set in 1999. UCLA also set a record, 56 degrees,<br /></li><li style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/07/cool-summer-la-set-more-record-low-temperatures.html">according to the National Weather Service</a>.</li></ul><p>While the region saw a heat wave a few weeks ago, temperatures have been gradually going down again as July comes to an end.</p><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;">June was also marked by <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/07/cool-summer-la-set-more-record-low-temperatures.html"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">gloomy conditions</span> <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">and lower-than-normal</span></a> temperatures." ***</span></li></ul>7/28/10, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/29/grsq-la-nina-cooling-san-diegos-weather/">SAN DIEGO ON PACE TO BE COOLEST SUMMER SINCE 1933</a></span>, (sorry, it's not 'El Nina' either)<br /><br /><p><br /></p>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-6263544812166364172010-07-27T21:08:00.000-07:002010-07-27T21:52:36.424-07:00Tax avoiding yachtsman Senator John Kerry on 7/22 said "Arctic would be ice-free in 5-10 years", but would not cite source for prediction<ul><li>7/23, "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/69845">Sen. Kerry predicts 'ice-free Arctic' in '5 or 10 years'"</a></span>, CNS News, P. Starr<br /></li></ul> "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/69845">When asked about Kerry’s</a> </span>statement that the Arctic sea would be ice-free in five to 10 years, (Muyin) Wang said that time-range is an extreme case scenario."...<br /><ul><li>“That’s the extreme case,” Wang said. “To me, that could be,<br /></li><li>but it’s <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/69845">less than a 50 percent</a> </span>chance.”</li></ul> CNSNews.com <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/69845">called Sen. Kerry’s office</a> on Thursday</span> to ask for the source of the senator’s assertion that there will be “an ice-free Arctic” in five to ten years. The office directed CNSNews.com to contact Kerry press secretary Whitney Smith by email.<br /><ul><li>Smith <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">did not respond to repeated</span> emails asking the source for Kerry’s assertion about the Arctic ice. </li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/69845">Kerry’s remarks came during</a></span> the second of three panels at an event sponsored by Clean Energy Works, an environmentalist coalition that brought supporters of to Washington, D.C., to show what it called “broad support” for a “clean energy and climate bill.”"<br /><ul><li>Blogger Bob Zimmerman of <a href="http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/an-ice-free-arctic-in-10-years">BehindtheBlack.com says</a> since the computer study apparently being referenced, <a href="http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/an-ice-free-arctic-in-10-years">Arctic Ice has</a> continually increased:<br /></li></ul>"<a href="http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/an-ice-free-arctic-in-10-years">Since that 2009 </a>paper was published, Arctic ice has seen a <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ijis.iarc.uaf.edu/en/home/seaice_extent.htm">rebound</a> in ice extent. Moreover, the Arctic oscillation <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/month_ao_index.shtml">remains in the deepest freeze</a> it has seen in years.<br /><ul><li>And the sun remains quiet, <a href="http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/an-ice-free-arctic-in-10-years"><span style="font-weight: bold;">less active than</span></a> we have seen it since scientists began tracking its behavior from space.<br /></li><li>Such inactivity means a dimmer sun, which in turn brings with it cold temperatures. Here is the most recent graph (updated on July 20) from the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.pmodwrc.ch/pmod.php?topic=tsi/composite/SolarConstant">Total Solar Irradiance Time Series</a> produced by Physikalisch- Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos (PMOD) using satellite data since 1978:</li></ul><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TE-yqDBVwgI/AAAAAAAAFe4/fZC0kdQtixc/s1600/bobzimmermangraph72810.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/TE-yqDBVwgI/AAAAAAAAFe4/fZC0kdQtixc/s400/bobzimmermangraph72810.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498810105477841410" border="0" /></a><br />Bob reminds climate is almost impossible to predict, <a href="http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commentaries/an-ice-free-arctic-in-10-years">including the claims made</a> by John Kerry.<br /><ul><li>via Bob's discussion on the John Batchelor show</li></ul>(John Kerry, among other things, is desperately trying to deliver the trillion dollar jewel in the global warming mob's belt. No major media question him, happy to leave citizens twisting in the wind against climate fraud.) ed.susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-66918526003322172822010-07-20T18:56:00.000-07:002010-07-20T19:35:44.104-07:00UN climate chief ties to oil and banking special interests-Business Week<ul><li>UN Climate chief Pachauri was hand picked by Saudis and fossil fuel interests for his post, ClimateGate emails, 4/19/2002: "<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">intense behind-the-</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> scenes </span><a href="http://www.eastangliaemails.com/emails.php?eid=270&filename=.txt">lobbying by Saudi Arabia</a>," <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">for Pachauri to be named UN Climate Chief.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"> </span></span></span>Oil guys allow themselves to be portrayed as bad guy vs climate, but they are laughing all the way to US cap and trade.<br /></li></ul>7/20/10, <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9089242&privcapId=22361&previousCapId=138823&previousTitle=General%20Catalyst%20Partners">Per Business Week,</a></span> following are some of those who have made or hope to make big money from being next to the UN Climate chief: "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BC0S520091213">Dr. Rajendra Kumar Pachauri </a></span>is a Director-General of The Energy Research Institute (TERI) since April 2001. He has been Head of Tata Energy Research Institute, New Delhi since April 2001. Dr. Pachauri was a<br /><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li>Strategic Advisor at <a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9089242&privcapId=22361&previousCapId=138823&previousTitle=General%20Catalyst%20Partners">Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P</a>. </li></ul>He has been the President of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Asian Energy Institute since 1992. </span>Dr. Pachauri has been the President of the International Association for Energy Economics since 1988. He has been<br /><ul><li>Chairman and Member of the Advisory<span id="hidden" style="display: inline;"> Group at <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9089242&privcapId=22361&previousCapId=138823&previousTitle=General%20Catalyst%20Partners">Asian Development Bank***</a> </span>since May 2009. </span></li></ul><span style="display: none;" id="dots"> ...</span><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">Dr. Pachauri has been an<br /></span><ul><li><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">Independent Director of Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd., since June 26, 2006. </span></li></ul><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">He serves as Vice-Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Dr. Pachauri serves as<br /></span><ul><li><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">Director of <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9089242&privcapId=22361&previousCapId=138823&previousTitle=General%20Catalyst%20Partners">GloriOil Limited</a>. </span></span></li></ul><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">He serves as Director of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan. Dr. Pachauri serves as a Member of External Advisory<br /></span><ul><li><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">Board of <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc. </span></span></li></ul><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">He serves as Member of the Advisory Board on Energy. Dr. Pachauri serves as a Member of the International<br /></span><ul><li><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">Advisory Board of <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9089242&privcapId=22361&previousCapId=138823&previousTitle=General%20Catalyst%20Partners">Toyota Motors</a>. </span></span></li></ul><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">He serves as a Member of Climate Change<br /></span><ul><li><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">Advisory Board of <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Deutsche Bank AG. </span></span></li></ul><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">Dr. Pachauri served as Chairman of the International Association for Energy Economics from 1989 to 1990. He served as an Independent Director of NTPC Ltd. (National Thermal Power Corp.), from January 30, 2006 to January 2009. Dr. Pachauri served as a<br /></span><ul><li><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">Director of the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9089242&privcapId=22361&previousCapId=138823&previousTitle=General%20Catalyst%20Partners">Indian Oil Corporation</a> </span>Limited until August 28, 2003. </span></li></ul><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">He served as non-official Part-time Director of NTPC Ltd., from August 2002 to August 2005. Dr. Pachauri served as a Director of Gail India Ltd. from August 18, 2003 to October 26, 2004. He served as Director of Tata Energy Research Institute., since 1981. Dr. Pachauri serves as Member of<br /></span><ul><li><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">National Environmental Council, Government of India </span></li></ul><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">under the Chairmanship of the Prime Minister of India. He serves as a Member of the International Solar Energy Society,<br /></span><ul><li><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">World Resources Institute, World Energy Council. </span></li></ul><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">Dr. Pachauri has been Member of the Economic Advisory<br /></span><ul><li><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">Council to the Prime Minister of India since July 2001. </span></li></ul><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">He serves as Member of the Oil Industry Restructuring Group, for the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. Dr. Pachauri serves as a Member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India. He served as an Advisor to the Government of India. Dr. Pachauri also served as Director of Consulting and Applied Research Division at the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad. ...Dr. Pachauri was a Senior Visiting Fellow of Resource Systems Institute, East -- West Center, USA. He was a Visiting Research<br /></span><ul><li><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">Fellow at <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><a href="http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=9089242&privcapId=22361&previousCapId=138823&previousTitle=General%20Catalyst%20Partners">The World Bank</a></span>, </span>Washington, DC and </span></li></ul><ul><li><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">McCluskey Fellow at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Yale School of Forestry </span>& Environmental Studies, Yale University. </span></li></ul><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">Dr. Pachauri received a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Economics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A. and a Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering in 1972."<br /></span><ul><li><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;">***"<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pressure," Reuters, 12/09, "</span></span><span id="articleText"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BC0S520091213">The head of the Asian Development Bank</a>, </span>Haruhiko Kuroda, warned governments that<br /></span></span></li><li><span id="articleText"><span style="font-weight: bold;">failure to reach a <span style="font-style: italic;">climate deal in Copenhagen</span> could lead to a<br /></span></span></li><li><span id="articleText"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">collapse of the carbon market"...</span><br /></span></span></li></ul><span id="hidden" style="display: inline;"><br /></span>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-7641643724563866052010-07-18T16:43:00.000-07:002010-07-18T17:17:37.218-07:00UN IPCC author Mike Hulme says 'consensus' was only a 'few dozen' experts, not 'thousands'4/12/2010, "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Without a careful explanation </span>about what it means, this <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">drive for consensus </span>can leave the IPCC vulnerable to outside criticism. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Claims such as ‘2,500 of </span>the world’s leading scientists have reached a consensus that human activities are having a significant influence on the climate’<br /><ul><li>are <span style="font-weight: bold;">disingenuous. </span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">That particular consensus</span> judgment, as are many others in the IPCC reports,<br /><ul><li>is reached by only <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><a style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://www.probeinternational.org/Hulme-Mahony-PiPG%5B1%5D.pdf">a few dozen experts</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span> in the specific field of detection and attribution studies; </li></ul>other IPCC authors are experts in other fields."...(see end of page 10, top of page 11)<br /><ul><li>6/13/10, from Lawrence Solomon, National Post:</li></ul><a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/06/13/the-ipcc-consensus-on-climate-change-was-phoney-says-ipcc-insider/">"<span style="font-weight: bold;">The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel</span></a> 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. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2010/06/13/the-ipcc-consensus-on-climate-change-was-phoney-says-ipcc-insider/">The actual number of scientists</a></span> who backed that claim was “<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.probeinternational.org/Hulme-Mahony-PiPG%5B1%5D.pdf">only a few dozen experts</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">,</span>” he states in a paper for <em>Progress in Physical Geography, </em>co-authored with student Martin Mahony. <p>“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.”</p> <p>Hulme, Professor of Climate Change in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia – <span style="font-weight: bold;">the university of Climategate fame </span>— is the founding Director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and one of the UK’s most prominent climate scientists. Among his many roles in the climate change establishment, Hulme was the IPCC’s co-ordinating Lead Author for its chapter on <em>‘Climate scenario development’</em> for its Third Assessment Report and a contributing author of several other chapters.</p> <p>Hulme’s depiction of IPCC’s exaggeration of the number of scientists who backed its claim about man-made climate change can be found on pages 10 and 11 of his paper, found <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.probeinternational.org/Hulme-Mahony-PiPG%5B1%5D.pdf">here</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span>"</p><ul><li>pdf document<br /></li></ul><div color="transparent" style="overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;"><ul><li><br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">School of Environmental Sciences</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">University of East Anglia</span><br /></li></ul></div><br />Norwich NR4 7TJ<br />Review Article for Progress in Physical Geography<br />5180 (plus) words<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">12 April 2010"</span><br /><ul><li>see end of page 10, top of page 11</li></ul>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-83003364483303166562010-07-12T21:40:00.000-07:002010-12-08T03:20:48.881-08:00Living on a bailout from a billionaire, the NY Times is so deeply invested in the politics of global warming, it cannot be viewed as a news source'<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aXRBOxU5KT5M">Carbon capitalists</a>'</span> thought up the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aehNEmSWfjiQ">global warming scheme</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>long before welfare-dependent climate scientists became media darlings. Alleged 'reviews' of scientists in 2010 don't matter to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aXRBOxU5KT5M">carbon profiteers</a>, deeply enmeshed in <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aXRBOxU5KT5M">big banks</a></span>. They would take the last crumb off an average unemployed American's table without blinking.<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2005/12/19/st-louis-host-nfls-first-climate-neutral-regular-season-game">In December 2005, An NFL game purchased</a></span> carbon offsets to fight alleged global warming. The Winter Olympics in <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.worldwatch.org/node/5134">2006 bought carbon</a></span> offsets. The racket was making money long before Al Gore's movie or ClimateGate. They haven't been waiting around <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704075604575356611173414140.html">for 'results' of a non-review</a></span> of 'the science.' </li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/opinion/11sun2.html?_r=1">The Times editorial </a></span><span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/opinion/11sun2.html?_r=1">(7/9, registration) <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">wants</span></a></span> to joyfully say that <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704075604575356611173414140.html">so-called 'approval'</a></span> of climate guys means full steam ahead, lets get to further whipping bloody the average American as responsible for sinking a strip of land in the Indian Ocean which was only another publicity stunt <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jun/11/pacific-islands-not-sinking-from-global-warming/">by the media</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/S29ROM-zJSI/AAAAAAAAD-g/bxABdM5Ubq0/s1600-h/maldivesunderwaterpres101709afp.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/S29ROM-zJSI/AAAAAAAAD-g/bxABdM5Ubq0/s320/maldivesunderwaterpres101709afp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435652579704120610" border="0" /></a><br /><br />11/2/2009, from the NY Times: "<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/world/africa/03melt.html?_r=1">Last month, the cabinet</a> of Maldives donned scuba gear and held an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/world/africa/03melt.html?_r=1">underwater meeting</a> to highlight the threat of global warming to that nation, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/world/africa/03melt.html?_r=1">world’s lowest</a>." </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">(last item in article)</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><br /></span><ul><li>(The NY Times is living on a bailout from a Lebanese-Mexican billionaire. It was otherwise 'unsustainable.' ****)<br /></li></ul>7/12/10, "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704288204575363012084806400.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Majorities say </span>the darndest things</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">,"</span> Wall St. Journal, Taranto,<br /><ul><li>'Green about the gills'</li></ul>"<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704288204575363012084806400.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">An editorial in</span> yesterday</span>'</a>s <a style="font-weight: bold;" class="" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/opinion/11sun2.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(registration)<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>offers an unwitting clue as to why environmentalism has lost its power to persuade:<br /><ul style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><li>"<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704288204575363012084806400.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion">Perhaps now we can put</a> the manufactured controversy known as Climategate behind us and turn to the task of actually doing something about global warming," </li></ul>the Times begins its utterly predictable screed, which goes on to assert that revelations of scientific misconduct are "trivial" and "diversionary" and global warming<br /><ul><li>is the unquestionable truth.</li></ul><p>Environmentalists' appeal to authority is no longer effective except with those, <span style="font-weight: bold;">like the <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Times's editors,</span><br /></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704288204575363012084806400.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion">who have an ideological stake </a>in accepting it. For the rest of us, it only further diminishes their credibility."...</span></li></ul>BCS (Before Climate Scientists) were even heard of, the trillion dollar carbon trading scam was underway:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aehNEmSWfjiQ"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The EU began</span></a> pushing for a climate <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aehNEmSWfjiQ"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">'cap' in 1996</span>,</a></span> and </li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/opinion/11sun2.html">In 1997</a><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">,</span> </span>the 'industry' got together for the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/opinion/11sun2.html">Kyoto agreement</a></span> to funnel money to the UN for global warming functions. </li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=532610">In 2000-2001 seed money</a></span> went to start up the <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Chicago Climate Exchange.</span> Who needs 'science?' The racket was up and running before 'scientists' in East Anglia and the UN opened their traps.<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aXRBOxU5KT5M">Big banks run the climate scam</a></span> and everyone knows it. (The NY Times could bring it down in one day with one front page headline). <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aXRBOxU5KT5M"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloomberg will report it</span> in a matter of fact manner, and is correct in assuming no one <span style="font-weight: bold;">will react</span></a>. The average American is overburdened and can't begin to deal with the hidden, intricate process by which he is being strangled. In any event, <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/09/stringer_on_russell/page2.html">"the science" was not examined</a> </span>or <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704075604575356611173414140.html">questioned</a>. ed.</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;">"Perhaps it relied on the </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://energybusinessreports.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=1143" title="GHG Emissions Credit Trading report">GHG Emissions Credit Trading</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> report (yours for a mere $397), which predicts a <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >$4.5 trillion carbon market by 2020.</span></span><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">No less chagrined must be <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jan/25/carbon-market-copenhagen-climate">Gordon Brown, who</a> sees the <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">carbon market </span>as key to the global response to climate change, </span><br /></li></ul><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li>and to the <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >economic fortunes of the City of London.</span><br /></li></ul><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">As Brown told WWF in 2007, the government wanted binding limits on developed country emissions in a post-2012 climate agreement, </span><br /></p><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li>because <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">London was the world's carbon trading capital,</span><br /></li></ul><p style="font-weight: bold;">and "only hard caps can create the <span style="font-size:130%;">framework necessary for a global carbon market to flourish".</span><br /></p><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li>Thus he made it clear that the <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jan/25/carbon-market-copenhagen-climate">health of the carbon market</a> took </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" >a rather</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></li></ul><ul style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><li><span style="font-size:130%;">higher priority than the health of the climate system."...</span></li></ul>from UK Guardian, 1/25/10, "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jan/25/carbon-market-copenhagen-climate">Don't let the carbon market die</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">,"</span> by Oliver Tickell.<br /><br /><br /><ul><li>via Tom Nelson. photo afp, staged in Maldives in 2009 leading up to the Copenhagen fest.</li></ul><ul><li>The planet changes naturally and at one time, was ice free.</li></ul>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-12104598704121330452010-07-06T19:11:00.000-07:002010-07-20T19:41:10.711-07:00Forget 'climate' guys, without propaganda from media outlets like BBC and the use of ridicule, where would the global warming scam be?<ul><li>Update, 7/19: ClimateGate central figure Phil Jones was <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/07/19/breaking-phil-jones-got-to-endorse-papers-for-oxburgh-inquiry/">allowed to endorse papers</a> </span>to be examined.</li></ul>Trillions in US carbon trading hang in the balance.<br /><ul><li>7/3, "'<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7870359/Climategate-Amazongate-when-will-the-truth-be-told.html">Climategate,' 'Amazongate,' When will the truth be told?</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span> Telegraph UK, C. Booker<br /></li></ul><div class="firstPar"><p> "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7870359/Climategate-Amazongate-when-will-the-truth-be-told.html">What are we to make of the efforts</a> </span>by the political and academic establishments to hold the line against all those revelations, such as "Climategate", which last winter rocked the authority of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change? The most obvious feature of the four official inquiries into the "Climategate" emails (a fifth report is due this week from Sir Muir Russell), is that<br /></p><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">not one has engaged with the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7870359/Climategate-Amazongate-when-will-the-truth-be-told.html">central point at issue</a>. </span>This is the evidence from the emails and other documents confirming that the key IPCC scientists involved had been<br /></li></ul><ul><li><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: bold;">manipulating data to show </span>temperatures having lately shot up to levels unknown in the past 1,000 years. </li></ul></div> <div class="secondPar"> <p> A familiar example was the IPCC's "hockey stick" graph, created by the American scientist Michael Mann, but shown by the statistics expert Steve McIntyre to be no more than a statistical artefact. Last week, a second inquiry by his own university cleared Dr Mann,<br /></p><ul><li>again making no attempt to discuss the central issue. Instead, it merely asserted – while acclaiming him as "among the most respected scientists in his field" – that the techniques used to compile his graph were wholly acceptable.<br /></li></ul><p> Similarly, McIntyre was startled last week to get a dismissive email from Lord Oxburgh, whose Science Appraisal Panel also avoided the crucial issue in its perfunctory five-page report,<br /></p><ul><li>bizarrely claiming that <span style="font-weight: bold;">"<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7870359/Climategate-Amazongate-when-will-the-truth-be-told.html">the science was not the subject of our study"</a>. </span><br /></li></ul><div class="body"> <p> Also defending the establishment line was last week's Panorama, with its "inquiry" into Climategate.<br /></p><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">This example of BBC propaganda at its most childish purported to be impartial</span>, by pitching two advocates of man-made global warming against two "sceptics", who turned out to be believers in man-made warming.<br /></li></ul><p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7870359/Climategate-Amazongate-when-will-the-truth-be-told.html">Its centrepiece was yet another</a> vindication of the "hockey stick"</span>, including a sycophantic interview with Dr Mann. Again, this gave not the faintest idea of how devastatingly the methods used to compile this graph have been challenged (for full accounts see A W Montford's The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science, or my book The Real Global Warming Disaster). </p> <ul><li> Meanwhile, there has been a <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">further twist to that other IPCC scandal, "Amazongate", on which I reported last week. </span>This centred on the claim in its 2007 report – attributed only to a paper from green activists at the WWF – that a slight reduction in rainfall caused by climate change could kill up to 40 per cent of the Amazon rainforest. After exhaustive analysis by my colleague Dr Richard North of every document cited by the WWF to back its claim, it seems clearer than ever that there is no good evidence. </li></ul> <p> I have given the WWF one more chance to come up with that evidence, and will reveal its response next week. If it is unable to do so, the IPCC will again be convicted of having made a wildly alarmist claim it cannot justify.<br /></p><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/7870359/Climategate-Amazongate-when-will-the-truth-be-told.html">Yet this is the body on whose allegedly</a> </span>unimpeachable scientific authority our Government and others propose to land us<br /></li></ul><ul><li>with the biggest bill in history."</li></ul><br /></div></div>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-48503590624565953842010-07-06T19:05:00.000-07:002010-07-06T19:11:07.496-07:00Global warming extremists are killing black communities7/5, "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.speroforum.com/a/36045/Climate-change-activists-are-killing-our-black-communities">A delegation of 20 black mayors</a> r</span>epresenting the National Conference of Black Mayors arrived in Washington, DC to lobby congress to pass legislation to promote "clean energy."<br /><ul><li>According to the delegation's press release, they want "a national plan to move their cities to become more energy efficient, reduce pollution and create new clean energy jobs and businesses." </li></ul> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.speroforum.com/a/36045/Climate-change-activists-are-killing-our-black-communities">But is black unemployment twice the</a></span> national unemployment rate because of<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> carbon emissions?</span> Are the budgets of state and local governments running in the red because of the kind of energy Americans burn? <br /><ul><li>One visit that the delegation of black mayors did not make was to the National Black Chamber of Commerce. </li></ul> There they could have discussed the study done for the NBCC by CRA International that estimates job losses to the American economy from "clean energy" initiatives - cap and trade bills passed by the House and Senate -<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.speroforum.com/a/36045/Climate-change-activists-are-killing-our-black-communities">at about 2.5 million jobs.</a></span>"...</li></ul>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-13805271197522234802010-07-06T18:41:00.000-07:002010-07-06T18:53:02.924-07:00It takes a certain kind of imagination to dream up a 'green' scam7/6, "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/a-blow-to-home-energy-retrofits/">A blow to home retrofits</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">,"</span> NY Times Green Blog<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/a-blow-to-home-energy-retrofits/">The federal agency that</a> oversees two government-chartered mortgage finance companies imposed new restrictions Tuesday on homeowners’ ability to take advantage of a program that allows them to <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">repay the cost of installing solar panels and </span></span>other energy improvements through an annual surcharge on their property taxes.</li></ul> <p>The <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.fhfa.gov/webfiles/15884/PACESTMT7610.pdf">new guidelines</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>could also make it more difficult for homeowners to obtain mortgages even if they don’t participate in the programs, called <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://pacenow.org/">Property Assessed Clean Energy</a>, or PACE, but happen to live in an area where they are offered....</p> <ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/a-blow-to-home-energy-retrofits/">In issuing the guidance to Fannie Mae</a> </span>and Freddie Mac, which buy and resell most mortgages, the Federal Housing Finance Agency was critical of the energy efficiency programs that have been authorized by 22 states and that have drawn $150 million in stimulus funding support from the Obama administration.<span id="more-59941"></span></li></ul> When a municipality pays for energy efficiency upgrades through the program, a lien is placed on the home. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/a-blow-to-home-energy-retrofits/">The liens, like other property tax assessments</a>, </span>take priority over the mortgage if the homeowner defaults."...<br /><ul><li>via Tom Nelson<br /></li></ul>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5769286580691289876.post-10523455693759299842010-07-01T20:56:00.000-07:002010-07-01T22:09:14.999-07:00Lord Oxburgh who cleared Climategate figures of scientific malfeasance backs off claim, says didn't look at science after all, moves along<ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li>WHERE ARE WOODWARD AND BERNSTEIN? <a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/missing-news-oxburgh-inquiry-science.html">THIS MATTER</a> CONVICTS US CITIZENS OF CLIMATE CRIMES AND CONDEMNS THEM TO PAY BILLIONS IN REPARATIONS IN PERPETUITY. </li></ul>The <span style="font-weight: bold;">"<a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/missing-news-oxburgh-inquiry-science.html">experts" are casually acknowledging</a></span> that global warming does not exist, yet no one is making this news. That is, the experts admit they <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/missing-news-oxburgh-inquiry-science.html">cannot prove their claims</a> </span>about temperatures in the Middle Ages, which is their entire basis for so-called global warming and the hockey stick graph (pictured below). Billions if not trillions have already been invested in something that does not exist.<br /><ul style="font-weight: bold;"><li>After all this time, one can only conclude that major media in the US along with David Rockefeller and others, absolutely despise Americans.<span style="font-weight: normal;"> We await the reason why<span style="font-weight: bold;">, </span>other than extreme mental illness.</span><br /></li></ul>7/2/10, <b>Australian Broadcasting Company News Watch, "<a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/missing-news-oxburgh-inquiry-science.html">Missing News: <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Oxburgh Inquiry-science was not the subject of our study</span></a><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">"</span><br /></b><ul><li><b>"</b>COMMENT<b>:</b> Steve McIntyre <a href="http://climateaudit.org/2010/07/01/oxburgh-and-the-jones-admission/#more-11331"><span style="font-weight: bold;">continues </span> </a>doing the work of a whole team of ABC investigative reporters revealing that </li></ul>in the course of the Oxburgh Inquiry <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/missing-news-oxburgh-inquiry-science.html">Climate Scientist </a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:Verdana,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/missing-news-oxburgh-inquiry-science.html">P</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/missing-news-oxburgh-inquiry-science.html">hil Jones admitted</a> </span>that<br /><ul><li>it was <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">probably impossible </span>to do the 1000-year temperature reconstructions <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"></span></li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">with any accuracy.".... </span><ul><li>(continuing): "As McIntyre notes</li></ul> <i>"Obviously, this would be a <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/missing-news-oxburgh-inquiry-science.html">hugely important admission</a></span> relative to this debate, but the Oxburgh Science Appraisal Panel “inquiry”<br /></i><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/missing-news-oxburgh-inquiry-science.html">did not report this admission</a></span></li></ul><ul><li><i> even though UEA had announced that </i><br /></li></ul><i>the Science Appraisal Panel would “re-appraise CRU’s science”."</i><div><ul><li>In response to McIntyre's question as to <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">why the Oxburgh Inquiry failed to report </span></li></ul></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Lord Oxburg replied: <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">"</span></span><i style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">the science </span><a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/missing-news-oxburgh-inquiry-science.html">was not the subject of our study</a></i><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">"</span>. </span><br /><ul><li>We concur with Steve McIntyre who asks: </li></ul>"<i><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/missing-news-oxburgh-inquiry-science.html">Why would anyone have expected</a> </span>that science would be the subject of study of the Science Appraisal Panel? Well, there’s a good reason why they would.<br /></i><ul><li><i>The University of East Anglia <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://abcnewswatch.blogspot.com/2010/07/missing-news-oxburgh-inquiry-science.html">and Muir Russell</a> </span>said over and over again that the Science Appraisal Panel would, uh, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"></span></i></li><li><i><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">“re-appraise” CRU’s “science”.</span></i><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">"</span></li></ul><div>Read more at Climate Audit <b><a href="http://climateaudit.org/2010/07/01/oxburgh-and-the-jones-admission">Oxburgh and the Jones Admission</a></b></div><div><ul><li>In the meantime we will send a request through to ABC's investigative unit to look into the matter."...</li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Great rejoicing that</span> Climategate "SCIENCE" was exonerated, now of course we find its <span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">'science' </span>wasn't even studied.</span><br /></div><ul><li><span style="font-size:130%;">4/14/10, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Science Magazine</span>,</span> "<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/04/oxburgh-report-clears-controvers.html">Oxburgh report clears controversial climate research unit,</a>"</span> by S. Reed</li></ul>"<span style="font-weight: bold;">Just over 2 months since </span>the University of East Anglia (UEA) announced an <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/02/and-then-there-were-five-new-inquiry-into-climate-science-unit.html">independent </a> <ul><li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/02/and-then-there-were-five-new-inquiry-into-climate-science-unit.html">"reappraisal of the science"</a></li></ul> of its Climatic Research Unit's (CRU's) key publications, the result is in.<br /><ul><li>The assessment panel today released a <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.uea.ac.uk/mac/comm/media/press/CRUstatements/Report+of+the+Science+Assessment+Panel">report</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>concluding that CRU's research was </li></ul><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/04/oxburgh-report-clears-controvers.html">honest and fair</a>, </span><br /><ul><li>even though the statistical methods and bookkeeping skills employed by the scientists there could have been improved. </li></ul>"We found <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/04/oxburgh-report-clears-controvers.html">absolutely no evidence</a> </span>of impropriety whatsoever," panel Chair Ron Oxburgh, a former geologist and Shell chair, said at<br /><ul><li>a media briefing this morning."...</li></ul><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/S0LjOhTZqAI/AAAAAAAAD1w/ekJ1mY_6gr8/s1600-h/HockeyStickCorrectedMcIntyreVolokh100510.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 321px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nMLR3Feb9RM/S0LjOhTZqAI/AAAAAAAAD1w/ekJ1mY_6gr8/s400/HockeyStickCorrectedMcIntyreVolokh100510.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423146739904915458" border="0" /></a>susanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14710989163705986252noreply@blogger.com0