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Witch Trial of the 21st Century
Original at faithfulinprayer (WordPress)
• Fri, Nov 20
By Jackie Durkee In our century, the witch is carbon dioxide and the witch hunters believe that it is responsible for global warming that threathens to bring the earth to extinction. Think for yourself. Follow the research. Research by scientists – not computer models.
Profile in Courage -- By: Mark Krikorian
Original at National Review Online Blogs
• Fri, Nov 20
By webmaster@nationalreview.com (Mark Krikorian) She deemed climate change a "serious issue" but at the same time suggested the science surrounding global warming is less than conclusive. She said she supports "controlling the border" against illegal immigration and establishing a better temporary worker program, but she declined...
This is not good, the CRU computer hack
Original at greenfyre (WordPress)
• Fri, Nov 20
By greenfyre DBClimateGate: Hacked Emails Reveal Global Warming Deniers Are Crazed Conspiracy Theorists Evidently due to this e-mail conspiracy, Arctic sea ice is at historically low levels, Australia is on fire, the northern United Kingdom is underwater, and the world’s glaciers are disappea...
Hacked Emails Show Climate Scientists Manipulating Data To Support Global Warming Theories
Original at Say Anything
• Fri, Nov 20
And not just manipulating data, but also plotting with one another to keep data inconvenient for their global warming alarmism crusade out of the publics’ hands. John Daly (not to be confused with the professional golfer of the same name) is identified in one of the e-mails as a global-war...
Scientists Baffled by Global-Warming Time-Out -- By: Jonah Goldberg
Original at National Review Online Blogs
• Fri, Nov 20
By webmaster@nationalreview.com (Jonah Goldberg) Ironically, climate change appears to have stalled in the run-up to the upcoming world summit in the Danish capital, where thousands of politicians, bureaucrats, scientists, business leaders and environmental activists plan to negotiate a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. Bi...
A National Smart Grid Will Be Key 21 Century Accomplishment, Gore Says
Original at techpulse360.com
• Thu, Nov 19
By Mark Boslet But he said at the GreenBeat 2009 conference there is reason for hope. A consensus is growing that fixing global warming will help the economy and enhance national security. Australia and India, too, are considering links to potential solar-producing regions within their borders.
Podcast: Guardian Daily: Road to Copenhagen
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• Thu, Nov 19
By Jon Dennis, Phil Maynard, Suzanne Goldenberg, Jonathan Watts, James Randerson Activist and commentator George Monbiot is pessimistic about Copenhagen's chances of success, even though time is running out both in terms of the science of global warming and in the expiry of the Kyoto pact. And in Beijing, Jonathan Watts, our Asia environment correspondent, says tha...
Al Gore's New Book - Yet More Scaremongering (and Photoshopped) Fakery
Original at scottthong (WordPress)
• Thu, Nov 19
By Scott Thong Many more facts, graphs and photos with citations at my collection, Global Warming is Unfactual, and excellent overview for those uninitiated into serious global warming debate. He lies 180 degrees about the relationship between carbon dioxide and temperature.
Kevin Grandia: Robert Redford's Sundance Channel to Air Climate Denier Propaganda
Original at Huffington Post
• Tue, Nov 17
By Kevin Grandia The list goes on. In spite of the tsunami evidence that the Great Global Warming Swindle is both laughably wrong and criminally irresponsible, this polemic will air tonight to a nation-wide audience on a network renown for its lefty credentials.
Opinion: Energy and Global Warming News for November 17: South Korea confirms strictist CO2 cuts for 2020; Concentrated solar thermal goes dry (cooling)
Original at Climate Progress
• Tue, Nov 17
By Michael Their report — “Livestock and Climate Change: What if the key actors in climate change are … cows, pigs and chickens?” — factors in emissions from the tens of billions of animals exhaling CO2 annually, as well as deforestation for feed production and grazing, which prevents the reductio...
Temperatures 'could rise 6C by 2100'
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• Tue, Nov 17
By Alok Jha The global trends we are on with CO2 emissions from fossil fuels suggest that we're heading towards 6C of global warming," said Corinne Le Quéré of the University of East Anglia who led the study with colleagues at the British Antarctic Survey.
Opinion: Superfreakonomics authors abandon climate scienceOriginal at Climate Progress
• Tue, Nov 17
By Joe This is of course utter nonsense — aerosols like sulfur dioxide certainly masked the heat-trapping effects of greenhouse gases, but global warming is caused by the greenhouse gases. If a methamphetamine addict is using alcohol to blunt the side effects of his meth habit, his hyperactiv...
Podcast: Cato Institute talks with Jay Richards about Christianity and capitalism
Original at winteryknight (WordPress)
• Mon, Nov 16
By Wintery Knight Did you know that the libertarian Cato Institute has a podcast? I like listening to it, even though I am not a libertarian on many issues. But I like their views on economics, government and liberty. I think that they are right on issues like school choice, consumer-driven health care, and gl...
Global Warming: Exposing the Far Left’s Lies, Part 5Original at newsrealblog.com
• Sun, Nov 15
By F. Swemson As for lies that have been perpetrated on America (and indeed the entire world) about our environment and climate change, by liars like Al Gore, the IPCC, and the extremists in the environmental community, all I can say is that like many other lies that the American people have fallen for i...
Brazil pledges deep emissions cuts
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• Tue, Nov 10
By Tom Phillips Brazil will take proposals for voluntary reductions of 38-42% by 2020 to the Copenhagen climate change conference next month, chief of staff says The Brazilian government is preparing to pledge a big curb in its greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 as a "political gesture" aimed at pressin...
John Kerry: A New Green Youth Movement
Original at Huffington Post
• Mon, Nov 9
By John Kerry Now is the time for young people who learned to flex their political muscle last November to shift into high-gear and get Washington to take on our historic legislation to combat global climate change. But you can't stop now. We face a threat to the very existence of our planet. Rising sea leve...
Opinion: Global Warming Obsession Takes Over BBC Religious Programme
Original at omniclimate (WordPress)
• Mon, Nov 9
By omnologos From: Maurizio Morabito To: “Sunday: Religious News” at the BBC Date: 8 Nov 2009 Subject: About your obsession with global warming actual statistics for Global Warming time on “Sunday”: 5 July: 11m47s in two tranches; 1 Nov: 12m45s; 8 Nov: 18m56s)
Opinion: Gore On Windpower and Birds
Original at grizzleo (WordPress)
• Sat, Nov 7
By grizzleo 1) Some of the strongest supporters I have seen supporting alternative forms of energy are birders. I also know that at least two of the smartest skeptics I have seen opposing mitigations of global warming are birders. In both cases I see these birders as being very close to accepting the neg...
Original at antigreen (Blogspot)
• Sat, Nov 7
By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Here the answer will depend on what is meant by 'significant' -- and whether 'human activity' should include urbanization, land changes, agriculture, irrigation, deforestation, etc. Many might answer 'Yes' – even if they don't think that GH gases are a significant factor in climate ch...
Deforestation CO2 overestimated
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• Tue, Nov 3
By David Adam The study showed previous assessments exaggerated the rate of tropical deforestation. It also took into account soaring emissions from fossil fuel burning since 2000, which reduces the relative role of deforestation. The scientists say 12% is an estimate, and the figure could be betwe...
Original at antigreen (Blogspot)
• Sat, Oct 31
By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) By using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land-use change, we found that corn-based ethanol, instead of producing a 20% savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years," the Princeton authors say. "Bio...
Opinion: Caldeira tells Yale e360: “Thinking of geoengineering as a substitute for emissions reduction is analogous to saying, ‘Now that I’ve got the seatbelts on, I can just take my hands off the wheel and turn around and talk to people in the back seat.’ It’s crazy…. If I had to wager, I would wager that we would never deploy any geoengineering system.”
Original at Climate Progress
• Mon, Oct 26
By Joe e360: They also write that you are convinced that human activity is responsible for “some” global warming. What does that mean? Caldeira, like the vast majority of climate scientists, believes cutting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse-gas emissions is our only real chance to avoid r...
Podcast: Warmist Master Of Game Theory 'Most Optimistic For the Future' (Despite Copenhagen)
Original at omniclimate (WordPress)
• Mon, Oct 26
By omnologos So how might we solve global warming and make the world in five hundred years look attractive to our future selves? [...] New wind, rain, and solar technologies will be solving the problem for us. Climate change due to global warming will add to our supply of rain, wind and fire, and if it raises t...
Europe offers to cut emissions 95%
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• Wed, Oct 21
By Ian Traynor Europe attempted to reassert its international leadership in the fight against global warming today, offering to slash its greenhouse gas emissions by up to 95% by 2050 and by 30% by 2020 if a climate change pact is sealed in Copenhagen in six weeks' time.
Corporate Support for Global-Warming Measures Won't Make It Any Cheaper for the Rest of Us -- By: NRO Staff
Original at National Review Online Blogs
• Mon, Oct 19
By webmaster@nationalreview.com (NRO Staff) Next time you hear company announcing with pride that it wants to help fight global warming by supporting a cap-and-trade bill, it is at least worth asking who they expect to pick up the tab. — Ben Lieberman is senior policy analyst for Energy and Environment in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for...
Original at antigreen (Blogspot)
• Sun, Oct 11
By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) He notes that Britain has been much warmer in the relatively recent but pre-industrial past If you hate energy, join an environmental organization. If you hate science, join an environmental organization. If you hate jobs in America, join an environmental organization.
Opinion: Public Citizen Urges Texas Court to Force State Air Agency to Regulate Global Warming Emissions
Original at texasvox.org
• Tue, Oct 6
By citizensarah Texas law gave the TCEQ the authority to regulate climate change emissions in 1991. In May 2009, the Texas Legislature passed a series of laws that would give incentives for new power plants that capture carbon dioxide, allow the TCEQ to regulate the disposal of CO2 emissions, set up a volu...
Podcast: Guardian Daily: Tories cautious of victory
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• Tue, Oct 6
By Jon Dennis, Michael White, Phil Maynard, Andy Duckworth, Tim Maby From climate talks in Bangkok, environment editor John Vidal explains why developing countries - and China - have accused the world's wealthiest nations of "sabotaging" a global warming treaty.
Opinion:
Original at antigreen (Blogspot)
• Wed, Sep 30
By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Among all environmental issues, global warming was the one people cared about least 1. Is the earth getting warmer? 2. Is the cause of global warming human activity? 3. How much warmer is it going to get? 4. What are the consequences of a warmer climate?
Podcast: UK Met Office: Catastrophic climate change, 13-18°F over most of U.S. and 27°F in the Arctic, could happen in 50 years, but “we do have time to stop it if we cut greenhouse gas emissions soon.”
Original at Climate Progress
• Mon, Sep 28
By Joe No, I’m not taking about a simple analysis of what happens if the nation and the world just keep on our current emissions path. We’ve known that end-of-century catastrophe for a while (see “M.I.T. doubles its 2095 warming projection to 10°F — with 866 ppm and Arctic warming of 20°F“). I’m talk...
Michael Shermer: Chill Out: An Economic Triage for Global Climate Change
Original at Huffington Post
• Sun, Sep 27
By Michael Shermer If global warming continues unchecked through the end of the century there will be 400,000 more heat-related deaths annually; there will also be 1.8 million fewer cold-related deaths, for a net gain of 1.4 million lives. Are you a global warming skeptic, or are you skeptical of the global wa...
Podcast: Guardian Daily: We control Met, say Tories
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• Thu, Sep 3
By Jon Dennis, Andy Duckworth, Tim Maby Ed Miliband, the climate change secretary, and Douglas Alexander, the international development secretary, tell our correspondent in Delhi, Randeep Ramesh, of their hopes of India's role in securing an agreement on global warming at the crucial summit in Copenhagen in December.
Podcast: “Global Warming Is A Medical Emergency”: Hellish heatwaves to harm health of millions
Original at Climate Progress
• Wed, Aug 26
By Joe We’re starting to see more and more work on the health impacts of global warming (see “The Lancet’s landmark Health Commission: “Climate change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century” and “Climate change helps spread dengue fever in 28 states“).
Tackling climate change cost-effective
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• Mon, Jul 20
By Damian Carrington Measures needed to tackle global warming could save economies more money than they cost, the world's top climate change expert said today. The IPCC meeting raised a range of further issues that it believes need more attention, including extreme weather events, new greenhouse gases, th...
Opinion: John Moore: One world government and global warming/climate change/whatever
Original at network.nationalpost.com
• Thu, Jul 16
By NP Editor I knew I was poking the bear when I sent my most recent column (Climate skeptic arguments don't hold ice, July 14) to my editor here at the National Post. The [Financial] Post publishes almost weekly columns about the fiction of climate change so understandably some readers are well persua...
Podcast: Guardian Daily: Revolution in green
Original at The Guardian (UK)
• Thu, Jul 16
By Jon Dennis, Iain Chambers Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, has set out the government's plans to move Britain towards a low-carbon economy and meet the UK's ambitious climate change targets. The environment editor, John Vidal, says it is a historic shift away from fossil fuels, but may not be enough to avert the...
Podcast: Energy and Global Warming News for May 28th: Exxon Mobil says transition from fossil fuel is century away, China plans tougher fuel standards than U.S.
Original at Climate Progress
• Thu, May 28
By Max and Carlin Global emissions of the main greenhouse gas carbon dioxide will jump more than 39 percent by 2030 without new policies and binding pacts to cut global warming pollution, the top U.S. energy forecast agency said on Wednesday. Climate health costs: bug-borne ills, killer heat
Opinion: Joseph Romm: Must-Read Study: "The Media's Decision to Play the Stenographer Helped Opponents of Climate Action Stifle Progress"
Original at Huffington Post
• Fri, May 8
By Joseph Romm Pooley is one of the few major journalists in the country who understands that global warming is the story of the century -- and if we don't reverse our emissions path soon, it will tragically be the story of the millennium, with irreversible impacts lasting for many, many centuries (see "...
Matthew 7:26
Original at iamyouasheisme (WordPress)
• Mon, May 4
By lichanos The reliability of data used to document temperature trends is of great importance in this debate. We can’t know for sure if global warming is a problem if we can’t trust the data. The conclusion is inescapable: The U.S. temperature record is unreliable.
Senator Bernie Sanders How to Solve Global Warming for Twice ...
Original at strimoo.com
• Sat, Apr 4
Senator Bernie Sanders joins Greenpeace to launch their Energy Revolution report which shows how to tackle climate change without using nuclear ... www.strimoo.com
Advice for how to save the global climateOriginal at YouTube
• Thu, Apr 2
By rss@youtube.com (dodgen66) None Author: dodgen66 Keywords: Antarctica polarbear seal penguin climate change global warming polar Added: April 2, 2009
Re: The Climate Change Debate
Original at National Review Online Blogs
• Thu, Apr 2
By Jim Manzi Jerry -- Thanks for the clear and respectful reply. Let me respond to your two points. In regard to your first point: Yes, you understand me exactly when you say: Even if we accept the absolute worse case scenarios of future warming offered by the IPCC and the Stern Review on the economics of c...
How To: get moving on climate changeOriginal at YouTube
• Sat, Feb 21
By rss@youtube.com (vishnu89sb) This video shows some ways through which the youth can minimize the climate change and problems.This shows how to act against global warming.. Author: vishnu89sb Keywords: get moving on climate change Added: February 21, 2009
How To: Why ?Original at YouTube
• Tue, Feb 3
By rss@youtube.com (JonThm) In 2003 I told Sheffeild University how to do nuclear fusion. Why have they not told teh world? Author: JonThm Keywords: nuclear fusion global warming climate change Added: February 3, 2009
Our Common Cause: Climate change — the danger is now
Original at dandelionsalad (WordPress)
• Mon, Jan 26
By dandelionsalad Moreover, additional warming of at least 0.5°C, the result of greenhouse gases already emitted, is built into the climate system. see Download the Socialist Alliance Climate Change Charter here (pdf) Global Warming on Dandelion Salad
How To: recycling ecobots nappies in the gardenOriginal at YouTube
• Fri, Jan 9
By rss@youtube.com (gairdner) Author: gairdner Keywords: environment nappies diapers recycling compost worm farms wormfarms supacycla ecosystem reuse smart thinking climate change global warming Added: January 9, 2009
Opinion: New Research Ranks Top Renewable Energy Options
Original at WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future
• Fri, Dec 12
By Sarah Kuck New research from Stanford University ranks wind power as the most promising alternative source of energy. Titled Review of solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security, the report from civil and environmental engineering professor Mark Z. Jacobson ranks the world...
Guardian Daily podcast: FBI arrest Illinois governor; plus UK’s record on child safety
Original at EducationGuardian.co.uk
• Tue, Dec 9
By Jon Dennis, Andy Duckworth, Tim Maby The UN summit on climate change is under way in Poznan, Poland. Stavros Dimas, the European commissioner for the environment, says Europe would be prepared to become virtually carbon-free in order to secure a new deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol. Environment correspondent David Adam t...
Podcast: UK Climate Camp Besieges Power StationOriginal at Global Features
• Sun, Aug 10
By UK Indymedia Related links: Climate IMC | Days of Climate Action (UK) | Earth First (UK) | Fossil Fools Day | Network for Climate Action (Uk) | Rising Tide: Australia | North America | UK Climate Camps: UK | Belgium | Germany | Quebec | Australia | New Zealand | Climate Convergence US | Climate Convergenc...
Opinion: Steve Kirsch: The Leadership Test
Original at Huffington Post
• Wed, Jun 6
By Steve Kirsch Ultimately, this race comes down to one word: leadership. We need leadership to get out of Iraq. We need leadership to solve global warming. We need leadership to solve our domestic issues such as health care. In February 2007, the European Union ministers pledged to cut greenhouse gas emiss...