Two years after telling Detroit automakers to "get off your butt" and increase their vehicles’ fuel efficiency, Gov. Arnold Schwarzengger Thursday hailed the auto industry for making cars that will save us from climate change -- as if they have a choice, thanks to California’s dictatorial mandates for auto fuel [...]
Australia's Senate has voted down Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's flagship policy on climate change for a second time.
Two opposition senators crossed the floor but it was not enough to secure passage of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to reduce greenhouse gases.
The vote came a [...]
The largest scandal is scientific. The e-mails show climate researchers at a handful of universities and think tanks engaged in unscrupulous behavior. Phil Jones of CRU, Michael Mann of Penn State University, and other leaders of the climate cartel discussed statistical tricks they used to “hide [...]
Polar Bear Cannibalism Comes Early
Archival Planet Gore coverage of polar-bear cannibalism here.
To that end, Climate Justice Action and other groups are planning a number of activities to drive home their message. On Dec. 11, one group plans to take "direct action to confront corporations taking part" in the summit in an action called "Don't Buy the'" [...]
With no disrespect to sausages and laws, Bismarck’s most famous aphorism clearly requires updating. “Scientific research” is bidding furiously to make the global shortlist of things one should not see being made.
Understandably so. Sciences at the cutting edge of statistics and public policy can make [...]
A few seconds later she talks about a Berkeley study that shows' [...]
Sullivan's entire ad hominem conclusion -- that my views are animated by nothing but the basest, most corrupt [...]
That's a lot of numbers, a lot of assumptions, a lot of scenarios. But even if the Copenhagen summit is wildly successful, the concentration of heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere will continue to rise. This doesn't mean the whole exercise is futile, it just means' [...]
Climategate claims its first big political scalp
Australian conservatives have shown the way by dumping the party leader who was in favour of massive carbon taxes and replacing him with one who stated last month that AGW is “crap.”
This makes Malcolm Turnbull, the suddenly-ex-leader of Australia’s [...]
I suggest we may have just surpassed that in ClimateGate with the following passage from [...]
To force radical societal change, American greens from Thomas Friedman to Kleiner Perkins executives are increasingly embracing the green example of Communist China with its windmill quotas and state-financed electric-car development. “They have a different system,” sighed an envious David Gard to the Detroit News recently. Gard is [...]
Global-warming science is under renewed scrutiny thanks to the CRU e-mails, but government policies to fight the phantom menace are already in place and are now forcing changes among manufacturers and consumers.
Despite the global downturn in the auto market, sales in China have risen by 40 percent this year. But [...]
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions are set for almost certain defeat in a hostile Senate after the opposition on Tuesday elected a new leader opposed to the government's carbon trading scheme.
Australia's new opposition leader, Tony Abbott, said opposition Senators would reject the government's carbon-trade [...]
Dr Pachauri, speaking to The Times on Saturday before travelling to Paris to brief President Sarkozy, suggested that the fossil fuel lobby could be behind a hacking incident last month that led to the publication of thousands of leaked e-mails between [...]
Is there a reason to be alarmed by the prospect of global warming? Consider that the measurement used, the globally averaged temperature anomaly (GATA), is always changing. Sometimes it goes up, sometimes down, and occasionally -- such as for the last dozen years or so [...]
Last year, ExxonMobil donated $7 million to a grab-bag of public policy institutes, including the Aspen Institute, the Asia Society and Transparency International. It also gave a combined $125,000 to the Heritage Institute and the National Center for Policy Analysis, two conservative think tanks [...]
If you have not delved into the thousands of e-mail messages and files hacked from the computers of British climate scientists, let me give you the closest thing to an executive summary. It is taken from a file slugged HARRY_READ_ME, which is [...]
Document Reveals U.N.'s Goal of Becoming Rule-Maker in Global Environmental Talks
An excerpt:
Environmentalism should be regarded on the same level with religion "as the only compelling, value-based narrative available to humanity," according to a paper written two years ago to influence the future strategy of the [...]
“Solar power is a key component of our clean energy future,” said Gov. Deval Patrick this summer, announcing a plan to install large-scale solar photovoltaic power installations throughout the commonwealth.
Just a few weeks later, the governor helped cut the ribbon at the opening of [...]
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based.
It means that other academics are not [...]
Climate Change and Melting Glaciers -- Nepal's poor have more pressing problems.
Nine years ago, Maya Bishwokarma moved with her family to Kathmandu from Trisuli, a remote village in the hilly Nepal countryside. Their search for a [...]
Vice President Al Gore will travel to Copenhagen next month for the climate change talks.
We reported earlier that President Obama will be going with the aim of giving "momentum" to the U.S. team's negotiations.
TPMDC has learned that Gore, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 [...]
Are we going to stand up and give global politicians a hard slap in the face, to make them face the truth? It will take a lot of us -- probably in the streets. Or are we going to let them continue to kid themselves and us and [...]
The Web Discloses Inconvenient Climate Truths - The world cannot trust scientists who abuse their power.
For anyone who doubts the power of the Internet to shine light on darkness, the news of the month is how digital technology helped uncover a secretive group of scientists [...]
UN scientists turn on each other: UN Scientist Declares Climategate colleagues Mann, Jones and Rahmstorf 'should be barred from the IPCC process' -- They are 'not credible any more'
A UN scientist is declaring that his three fellow UN climate panel colleagues "should be barred from the IPCC process." [...]
Nicholas Stern remains positive . . .
We are seeking at Copenhagen an organisational framework with strong political commitment rather than a formal treaty. A formal treaty can follow in 2010 if the political framework is clear. But without such [...]
Western lifestyle unsustainable, says climate expert Rajendra Pachauri | Environment | The Observer
Ahead of the Copenhagen summit, leading scientist and IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri warns of radical charges and regulation if global disaster is to be avoided. . . .Why have you, a conservative senator from Oklahoma who has dismissed global warming as “a hoax,” announced that you plan to attend the United [...]
In the wake of the Climategate scandal that raises doubts about the objectivity of the global warming researchers and calls intio question all the data they have compiled, the editors at Talking Points Memo decided to attack conservatives:
There’s been a lot of recent evidence not only [...]
The CRU at East Anglia University is considered by many as the world's leading climate research agency. Here's how CBSNews.com's Declan McCullagh describes its enormous impact on policymakers:
"In global warming circles, the CRU wields outsize influence: It claims the world's largest temperature" [...]
Appearing on The Alex Jones Show yesterday, Lord Christopher Monckton went further than ever before in his vehement opposition to the elitists running the climate change scam, calling for the UN to be shut down and for fraudulent peddlers of global warming propaganda like Al Gore [...]
Climategate: University of East Anglia U-turn in climate change row
Leading British scientists at the University of East Anglia, who were accused of manipulating climate change data - dubbed Climategate - have agreed to publish their figures in full.
Detroit -- Environmental coverage went from bias to farce last week as mainstream media outlets strained to ignore the blockbuster story about the Climate Research Unit leak, while flogging the dead horse of climate crisis.
Here in Michigan -- an industrial state in the cross-hairs of cap-and-trade legislation, even as predictions [...]
DALI, China -- Justin Franchi Solondz, an environmental activist from New Jersey who spent years evading charges of ecoterrorism in the United States by hiding out in China, was sentenced to three years in prison by a local court on [...]
As the Senate debates climate legislation that could reinvent the country's energy infrastructure, it is richly ironic that lawmakers who consider themselves rock-ribbed fiscal conservatives are among the strongest backers of nuclear plants -- a vastly expensive, inefficient and dangerous source of [...]
First the Europeans suckered Al Gore into that phony 1990 baseline for the original Kyoto Protocol, giving them an assumed pass and nailing us. Now it seems the Chinese have suckered a panicked Barack Obama into trading our economy to China for a bag of magic beans.
BBC's reliable alarmist Richard [...]
On this day of thanks I am grateful for, among many blessings, the unfolding affirmation of what we have been warning policymakers about, now confirmed in lurid detail: the global warming industry's aggressive game of Hide the Baloney.
Here are my thoughts on the matter.
In short, just as after the Soviet [...]
Climate researchers use some of the most powerful computers in the world to run their models. Still, the sheer amount of data that must be crunched mandates that many details are simply left out. How accurate are the results?
"Give me ten parameters, and I'll simulate'" [...]
"I'm in the process of trying to persuade Siemens Corp. (a company with half a million employees in 190 countries!) to donate me a little cash to do some CO2 measur[e]ments here in the'" [...]
An excerpt:
No, there was no bombshell communiqué proving global warming to be an elaborate hoax.
But the e-mails do seem to document a coordinated, stunningly unscientific effort to quell dissent on the question.
CRU scientists and their colleagues, it appears:
* Coordinated efforts to oust journal editors who [...]
Last week, the California Energy Commission approved a groundbreaking series of efficiency standards for televisions, the first time government at any level in the United States has meddled in the details of how our boob tubes are made. The new rules set maximum power-consumption [...]
It’s been a tough couple of days for Al Gore. Anthropogenic global warming -- his cash cow since leaving the White House -- has been discredited thanks to leaked e-mails which show leading climate-change scientists merrily manipulating data. His chances of tiptoeing back to his solar-powered mansion to wait out [...]
Our friends at Minnesotans for Global Warming have posted a brilliant video adding some humor to the current historic meltdown.
But, was that Lindsey Graham singing backup? Hard to tell. Of course, maybe now he's changing his tune.
[Jones] provided the comments in an interview with the alarmist-friendly Guardian, which also helpfully linked updated statements from Jones and vice chancellor for research Trevor Davies, where [...]
Uhhh, we have sort of a problem here.
I’m sure this alleged e-mail is just out of context, nothing to see here, there’s really an implausible meaning that's more reasonable than the plain reading and all the rest of what we’re being told about the ClimateGate e-mails, but, well, [...]
And . . .
So put on your space suit and compare the two approaches yourself:
Which brings [...]
The information sought is directly' [...]
And as Mark Hemingway points out, the New York Times is not.
The campaign to stop global warming now has an A-list of supporters from the world of showbiz.
I'm sure they're all flying commerical, right?
I hope the next commercial from Plane Stupid has polar bears landing on celebrities from Hollywood.
And. . .
The language used to justify population scaremongering has changed dramatically over the centuries. In the time of Malthus in the eighteenth century the main concern was with the fecundity of poor' [...]
Sens. Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman have been working overtime to craft a climate bill that can attract significant GOP support. But they aren’t exactly scoring points with their mutual best friend in the Senate, John McCain.
“Their start has been horrendous,” McCain said Thursday. “Obviously, they’re going nowhere.”
McCain has [...]
Forgive my slackitude on providing details of the Hadley CRU hack that Chris referenced yesterday. We've been busy around here staying on top of health-care legislation and trying to keep the lights on.
Thankfully, Planet Gore contributor James Delingpole serves up some nuggets and analysis on' [...]
Now, none of us can attest to the validity [...]
Talk of Plan B -- a Power Plant-Only Climate Bill -- Emerges in Senate
What was once the central political battleground for addressing global warming in the United States may be making a comeback.
While President Obama and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill continue to focus on legislation covering [...]
“What happens when developing nations with soaring vehicle populations get tens of millions of petroleum-powered cars at the same time as the global economy recovers and there’s no large global oil supply overhang?” asks Felix [...]
Gore might be able to say [...]
As part of a newly announced $338 million boost for 123 geothermal energy projects nationwide, the Department of Energy will sink $25 million into what is called an “enhanced” or “engineered” geothermal demonstration project in Oregon being developed in part by [...]
Four centuries ago, “heretics” who disagreed with Church orthodoxy were burned at the stake. Many were the dissenting views that could send offenders to a [...]
Imagine if George W. Bush, John McCain, or the hated politician of the moment, Sarah Palin, had said such a thing -- spouting off some [...]
A wise man's heart inclines him toward the right, but a fool's heart toward the left.
-- Ecclesiastes 10:2
Henny Penny 
The Sun today: some activity, but no spots.
