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RTCC Climate Change News - Ashton: Help Obama sidestep Congress and sign UN climate dealWorld governments should help President Obama to circumvent domestic opposition to a global, binding deal on climate change, the UK’s former climate change ambassador has said.
John Ashton warned that US attempts to build support for the new 2015 UN climate treaty to be voluntary must be resisted. Instead diplomatic efforts should be made to “creatively” include the country in a legal agreement.
Twitter / PaulREhrlich: Biggest criminal conspiracy ...Biggest criminal conspiracy in history. barons Go to and endorse science.
Tesla: The Other Government Motors | JunkScience.comThe Wall Street Journal editorial page exposes electric car maker Tesla for what it is — another taxpayer boondoggle
UnderCooked Statistics « Climate AuditYet another propaganda essay masquerading as a scientific paper has been published (SI here) in the journal, Environmental Research Letters. The latest entry, Quantifying the Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming in the Scientific Literature, written by a team of activist bloggers led by John Cook of the antithetically named Skeptical Science blog, attempts to further the meme of a 97% consensus of scientific support for a faltering Global Warming movement.
Have the climate sceptics really won? | Science | guardian.co.ukWhat is worse is that such strategies fail to recognize that the battle over public opinion on climate change has long been over – it has been won, decisively in fact, by those favoring action.
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The battle over public opinion on climate change has long been won, and not by the sceptics. But simply by virtue of their continued existence, the climate sceptics may have the last laugh, because many climate campaigners seem to be able to see nothing else in the debate. Climate sceptics are not all powerful and may not even be much relevant to efforts to decarbonise the global economy. They have, however, cast a spell upon their opponents.
Is Australia the Face of Climate Change to Come?"The one-in-a-hundred-year flooding event is going to happen every year, or even a bit more often," Steffen said.
Colorado's state climatologist says the High Park Fire granted him the permission, courage to talk about climate change. | The Coloradoan | coloradoan.com“I don’t know a lot of farmers that believe in the whole global warming thing,” said Gail Meisner, a member of the Larimer County Agricultural Advisory Board and Rocky Mountain Farmers Union in Wellington. “I’m very skeptical about it myself. If you look at history, this Earth started as a ball of fire. It’s a constant change, and, yeah, I’m not saying humans don’t contribute to it, but it’s something, it’s just the way it is. It’s always changed.”
Twitter / clim8resistance: Greenpeace forgets all that ...Greenpeace forgets all that coal power plant being built in Germany, and the high prices paid by the consumer.
Left-Wing Think Tank Hoist By Its Own Corporate Funding Petard | Somewhat ReasonableIt is so very tempting for me to cackle with glee upon seeing this story yesterday in The Nation (of all places): “The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks.” I will resist, but the irony is thick — and the schadenfreude is calling to me louder than a two-for-a-dollar cheeseburger special at Five Guys.
A leftist publication is upbraiding America’s leading liberal think tank for taking donations from eeeevvvvillll corporations? Bring on the smelling salts — not for me, but for the readership of The Nation and those poor souls who rely on only the mainstream media for news and commentary and think only right-leaning think tanks accept corporate donations.
Tony Katz (tonykatz) on Twitter.@elonmusk it’s a true shame that you deleted your part of our conversation on Global Warming “deniers”….I thought it was important and good
.@TwitchyTeam …how do I find deleted Tweets? @elonmusk, founder of PayPal and Tesla, deleted his conversation with me about global warming
.@elonmusk …why did you delete all of your tweets of our conversation on climate change “deniers?”
Where can I get the Tweets that @elonmusk deleted..especially the ones where he thinks climate “deniers” want to pave the Amazon? #help
I was having the conversation with @elonmusk, and @LeninsBarber and @jlakely commented on it. Their Tweets remain…why not Elon’s?
A guy who creates private space travel and electric cars isn’t willing to keep his conversation with me alive on Twitter? Why?
So I challenge @elonmusk on his climate change thesis, we have a pleasant exchange, and then he deletes all his tweets? What the hell?
Flat-Earth Democrats | FrontPage MagazineAl Gore once sneered, “Fifteen per cent of the people believe the moon landing was staged on some movie lot and a somewhat smaller number still believe the Earth is flat. They all get together on a Saturday night and party with the global warming deniers.” More and more scientific evidence suggests that it is Gore and his Democratic brethren who are the flat-earthers, clinging to an exploded paradigm not because of the “overwhelming judgment of science,” but because it gratifies their ideological and political preferences and interests.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: How taxpayers subsidized Tesla to make the rich richerAnd even if Tesla's cars do sell, the policy question is why billionaires in California couldn't have financed the business themselves. Why should middle-class taxpayers whose incomes are falling still pay to subsidize the purchase of cars that only the affluent can afford, and then partly as a gesture of their superior environmental virtue? When does the rest of America get its return on Tesla's profits?
Climate Lessons: 50 to 1 Project: still in with a chance of proceedingOne thing we shall need for years to come is good quality materials to help repair the damage done in politics and in education by the past decades of overblown alarmism about CO2. This video project promises to provide exactly that, and may yet manage to go ahead on a reduced budget. Here is the latest update
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: The global solar cartel is making solar energy even more uncompetitiveCall it tragicomic that the only way for the U.S. and EU to achieve their green objectives is to embrace China's model of state-managed capitalism. But the story is also a parable of how the cronyism inherent in the renewable-energy industry can clash with environmental goals.
Don’t mention the pause, or there may be Nazis | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog
Shock News : Sea Level Has Risen 120 Metres | Real ScienceClimate experts say that sea level rise is due to your SUV, but it was actually due to Fred Flintstone.
- Bishop Hill blog - A whiff of the Sunday SportHaving failed to reply to Matt Ridley's request to respond to Myles Allen's critique, Damian Carrington and his band of merry men have responded with another, but rather grubbier, attack in the same direction, this time from Nuccitelli.
Given that even Nuccitelli's co-authors at Skeptical Science have pointed to his misrepresenting those who disagree with him, and given the car crash of his article about Nic Lewis the other day, a reputable newspaper would steer clear. But when you haemorrhaging money, I guess the priorities are different.
Environmentalists question whether Brown's climate change actions match his rhetoric - Daily Democrat Onlinesome environmentalists say Brown's actions don't match his green rhetoric -- particularly his diversion of $500 million in cap-and-trade fee revenues away from clean-energy and pollution abatement projects and into a one-year loan to help California balance its books.
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UC Berkeley professor Anthony Barnosky, in presenting the report to Brown, noted the governor was "instrumental in spurring us to do this," starting with a phone call Brown made to Barnosky urging him and other climate-change scientists to "shout it from the rooftops."
Don't delay on renewable energy, government toldThe sooner the UK makes large investments in low-carbon generation – including offshore and onshore wind, nuclear power and energy from waste – the cheaper it will be, according to David Kennedy, chief executive of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), the statutory body that advises ministers on meeting emissions targets.
Bringing Skepticism (and Math) to Electric Vehicle Fuel Numbers | Coyote BlogTaking a different approach to the same problem, based on the wells-to-wheels methodology described in my Forbes article (which in turn was taken directly from the DOE), the Nissan Leaf has a real eMPG of about 42 (36.5% of the published 115), less than the Prius's at 50.
Global warming preachers burn the gases we must not | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogI won’t believe the planet’s future depends on me slashing emissions until Tim Flannery acts like he really believes it, too.
2010: Baby girl survives after being shot in the chest in parents' global warming suicide pact | Mail OnlineA seven-month-old baby girl survived three days alone with a bullet in her chest beside the bodies of her parents and toddler brother.
Argentines Francisco Lotero, 56, and Miriam Coletti, 23, shot their children before killing themselves after making an apparent suicide pact over fears about global warming.
Their son Francisco, two, died instantly after being hit in the back.
THE HOCKEY SCHTICK: New paper finds another non-hockey-stick in PeruClimate activist Lonnie Thompson has finally published his paper today on ice core data from the Quelccaya ice cap in Peru, data that Steve McIntyre requested to be archived for years. Plotting the variance-adjusted online data shows a non-hockey-stick from 1900-2009, with temperatures during the 1930's exceeding those of the 21st century and end of the record in 2009.
No Future For Climate Change Torts, Attys Say - Law360Law360, New York (May 23, 2013, 6:25 PM ET) -- With the U.S. Supreme Court and the Fifth Circuit recently pulling the plug on suits blaming energy companies for spewing greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming and extreme weather, attorneys say the pursuit of climate change tort litigation is approaching a dead end, leaving legislation and regulation as the only viable outlets to tackle the issue.
Gov. Moonbeam slams warmists as on ‘losing end’ of ‘contest for ideas’ | JunkScience.com“We’re really in a war here, a contest for ideas, and this crowd is on the losing end,” [Gov. Brown] said
Big snowfall for parts of MontanaThe calendar may say May 23, but Mother Nature doesn’t agree!
Record cold in OregonColdest in more than 100 years in multiple locations.
More climate alarmism from the ABC’s Lateline | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt BlogShowing a graphic of temperature change since 1997 might have solved the issue for ABC viewers, who were last night treated to a puff-piece on warming extremist Bill McKibben:
Gov. Brown: Pay Attention to Climate Change - Business - Mountain View, CA PatchBrown, speaking to about 100 people at the Water, Energy and Smart Technology Summit at the NASA Ames Research Park at Moffett Field, said, "We are really in a war here. You have to reach people who are disinterested and somewhat hostile."
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"This is about activism," Brown continued. "This is about converting people. This is an important challenge. If it's like this five years from now, it's over."
...He said the media emphasizes trivial stories that are only relevant for a short time. The governor said climate change is not seen as important as "getting the 50th Super Bowl. It's silly."
Warmists wrong again: Earth’s mantle affects long-term sea-level rise estimates — ‘big news’ says researcher | JunkScience.comnew findings by a team of researchers, including Robert Moucha, assistant professor of Earth Sciences in The College of Arts and Sciences, reveal that the shoreline has been uplifted by more than 210 feet, meaning less ice melted than expected.
Electric Vehicle Welfare Queen | Coyote BlogI hope you all enjoy Mr. Beisel's smug pride a driving a car using your money.
Art Markman, Ph.D.: Who Rejects Evidence of Global Climate Change?For those people who oppose climate change on the basis of beliefs about the free-market, it would be better to engage in a discussion about the economic costs of rising temperatures. For example, debate could focus on the impact of recent extreme weather patterns on business and agriculture. This debate might help to reduce the strength of the opposition to regulations on pollution, which might then influence people's beliefs about climate change.
Seriously? For people who don't believe that CO2 is overheating the planet, you want to sell the idea that CO2 is overheating the planet, which is in turn causing extreme weather?
Pakistan TodayISLAMABAD - Former Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) director general (DG) Qamaruz Zaman Chaudhry on Thursday said climate change was on the rise due to war on terror...
He said that due to excessive usage of heavy weapons in war on terror, the climate of South Asian region is changing notably.
He said that disaster frequency and intensity was also increasing day by day and the government had established Ministry of Climate Change to cope several issues regarding weather and climate change in the country.
Dear Oklahoma: We Feel for you, we love you, but do us some favors | Informed Comment[Warmist Juan Cole] And here’s the biggy. The tornado that so harmed you may not have been related to global warming. But it is indisputable that climate change will produce massive storms that will hit the Gulf and Atlantic coasts. By pumping out gas and oil you are dooming other small towns and big cities along the coasts to future destruction and loss of life, including childrens’ lives, of the sort you just suffered, except on a much bigger scale. You are not in any doubt that the climate can be dangerous. Please, please rethink your energy policies and turn in a big way to wind and solar (you have a lot of both) as quickly as possible. You’ve recently made a start with wind energy, but it is frankly a drop in the bucket compared with what you could do — indeed, you’re the state with perhaps the biggest wind power potential in the whole country. You need to build out your grid to supply the rest of us, and you need to put in turbines everywhere they make sense.
Your Senator Inhofe, in the back pocket of Big Oil, denies all this, and makes your state look buffoonish to the rest of the world.
Tesla CEO Musk: 'Reframe' climate argument - The Hill's E2-WireMusk, whose electric car firm repaid its $465 million Energy Department loan on Wednesday, urged attendees at a Washington, D.C., event to flip the burden of proof onto those who deny greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming.
“If you were to ask any scientist, ‘Are you absolutely certain’ about anything, they would say, ‘Well, no. There’s a .001 percent chance it could be different.’ So it’s better to actually say, ‘Look, how certain are you that it is not catastrophic?’ And then you’ll get the correct answer,” Musk said Wednesday night at the Climate Leadership Gala.
Musk also said he had a solution — albeit one Republicans have outright rejected — for reducing carbon emissions.
“The thing they’ve got to do is try to put a tax on carbon,” he said, inducing cheers.
Flashback: As planet-healing left-wing crony capitalist billionaire Elon Musk shuttles hundreds of times between his California mansion and DC, how much fossil fuel has his private jet burned?in the Bloomberg interview he estimated he’s visited Washington about 200 times
No 10’s new energy adviser is a former British Gas lobbyist - UK Politics - UK - The IndependentDavid Cameron has appointed a former lobbyist for British Gas to be his personal advisor on energy and climate change.
Tara Singh, whose previous role as public affairs manager at British-Gas owner Centrica involved frequent contact with the Conservative Party, took up her newly-created role at Number 10 this week.
She is responsible for briefing the prime minister on a day-to-day basis on issues relating to energy and climate change.
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Ms Singh is also likely to be heavily involved in the run-up to the crucial Paris climate change summit in 2015
Seven thrilling facts about carbon taxes from the CBOSo the CBO looks at things this way: “Given the inherent uncertainty of predicting the effects of climate change, and the possibility that it could trigger catastrophic effects, lawmakers might view a carbon tax as a reflection of society’s willingness to pay to reduce the risk of potentially very expensive damage in the future.” [Why, specifically, should we think that a 61 F. world is more risky than a 59 F. world?]
Keep climate change out of Keystone decision, GOP warns in letter to Obama - The Hill's E2-WireTwo dozen Senate Republicans are warning President Obama not to link “wholly unrelated” climate change policies to approval of the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.
Two major climbs cut from Giro stage 19 due to weather - Cycling - Eurosport AustraliaPOLSA, Italy (Reuters) May 23 - Two major climbs have been axed from Friday's key stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia because of snow and ice on their descent although the main stage finish at Val Martello remains in place, race organisers said on Thursday.
Capital Weather Gang 2013 summer outlook: Less stifling than last 3 summerswe anticipate our coolest summer since 2009, and a 50-50 chance at our 2nd coolest since 2005.
Ex-AccuWeather's Bastardi Slams 'Ambulance Chasing' by Global Warming Theory Activists | NewsBustersBastardi:
It's almost like ambulance chasing after these devastating events that cause misery to people, and then trying to tie an agenda into it.
Twitter / BigJoeBastardi: Anyone for memorial day weekend ...Anyone for memorial day weekend skiing. Killington, Jay Peak top could get foot.
Twitter / frannyarmstrong@BarryJWoods @Foxgoose @richardabetts Yes that 300K [annual CO2-induced bad weather deaths?] figure is discredited and no longer quoted by me or others. Kofi Annan's org was wrong
Conservative think tank blasts CAP hypocrisy | Washington Free Beacon“I find it ironic that the Center for American Progress may now realize how difficult it can be for a controversial nonprofit to have its corporate donors exposed,” Lakely said. “Maybe now CAP will tone down its celebration of crimes in the name of ‘disclosure’ and denunciation of corporate donations to nonprofits—but I have my doubts.”
Lakely’s comments followed on a report Tuesday in the Nation that revealed a partial membership list of CAP’s Business Alliance, a secretive collection of businesses that contribute to the liberal think tank.
The report also revealed CAP leaders have advocated for policies that benefitted a number of its corporate partners. CAP has previously accused conservative organizations of taking money from corporations before advocating in favor of policies that help them.
The Center for American Progress Action Fund’s ThinkProgress blog attacked the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank, in 2012. It published a list of Heartland’s corporate donors in a post titled, “EXPOSED: The 19 Public Corporations Funding The Climate Denier Think Tank Heartland Institute.”
CAP launched a pressure campaign against companies that contributed to Heartland’s operations.
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