Global warming

It’s worth remembering just how extensively global warming alarmism has been used to justify expansions of taxation and government control.  The politicians have justified policies that do everything from control what we can drive to control what we can eat with hysterical pronounce...

By Sonic Charmer So yes, I used to believe in global warming. After all, as far as I knew (=what other climate scientists told me), the temperature record was pretty unequivocal in showing a warming trend the past 100+ years. I had no reason to doubt them. I mean, data is data. Who can argue with data? Not me. So yes,...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) The log spans four years of work at the university's Climatic Research Unit, the British keeper of global temperature records. The programmer rails that the information has "no uniform integrity". No global warming in Texas Using biofuels won't reduce "greenhouse" gases

By Jaren Consider it the latest inconvenient truth about climate change. However, wind does not depend on fossil fuel and does not emit greenhouse gases, he said. Wind power also uses no water, which Flowers said gives it a big advantage over coal-fired and nuclear power plants.

By webmaster@nationalreview.com (Veronique de Rugy) There have been a series of posts on this blog and others about whether or not the climategate debacle means anything about global warming per se. Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen weighs in the debate by pointing out that scientific research is a decentralized process, which mean...

By papundits Perhaps they can’t account for cooling because their code for creating the models is geared toward making the earth appear warmer. In fact, the code may be more damning than the e-mails. One line of code features, for example, a variable called “fudge factor,” which allows these scientist...

By cinderella8 Lord Stern accused climate sceptics of undermining efforts to tackle climate change by using leaked e-mails from scientists to spread doubts about man-made global warming. He said that the e-mails, which sceptics have suggested show temperature data was manipulated, did not alter th...

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...

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...

By F. Swemson The IPCC’s infamous and now discredited “hockey-stick” graph that falsely abolished the medieval warm period and enhanced by at least half of the true temperature increase since 1980, giving the misleading impression that temperatures in the latter half of the 20th century were unpr...

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)

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...

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...

By Joe Any religion, meanwhile, has its heretics, and global warming is no exception. I compare CO2 emissions to mugging little old ladies … It is wrong to mug little old ladies and wrong to emit carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. The right target for both mugging little old ladies and carbon dioxid...

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...

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?

By climatesight The IPCC may seem extreme in some circles, as it supports the drastic notions that the Earth is warming and carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. This basic support for the mechanisms of anthropogenic climate change has led the IPCC to be boxed in to the “climate change is real” camp in the gene...

By omnologos ‘Chill: a reassessment of global warming theory‘ To encourage you, I quote from W.Jackson Davis, author of the first draft of the Kyoto Protocol (and former colleague of mine on UN committees regarding ocean pollution), who has endorsed my book:

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Regardless of whether or not changes in atmospheric CO2 have any measurable on global climate the true deceit of the IPCC is clearly shown by the statement that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels are the source of observed 20th century global warming. Twentieth century global warming did no...

By Ian Katz The environmental thinker Tim Helweg-Larsen explains the urgency by likening climate change to a bath with the tap running. Since warming is caused by the total amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, it is the volume of water in the bath, rather than simply how much water is flowing...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Mariann Fischer Boel, the EU agriculture commissioner, said on Tuesday (15 September) that the farm sector should cut emissions of methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide. "It [the sector] can do more to store carbon in farmland soils," she told European agriculture ministers at a me...

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...

By Jim Manzi Will Wilkinson ably takes on the idea that economists have a whole lot to say about what discount rates should be used in comparing costs and benefits in the debate over global warming. I have a more aggressive take: I dispute that we should care about discount rates, per se, at all. Let me star...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) Is the U.S. Surface Temperature Record Reliable? How do we know global warming is a problem if we can't trust the U.S. temperature record? India Chooses Coal, Not Kyoto British car emissions exceed forecasts Australia: Greenie opposition to evolution

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 "...

By JR(jonjayray@gmail.com) So how will the EPA define greenhouse gas emissions from ethanol production and use? Given the political clout of farm interests, will the science conflict with the politics? Environmentalists, citing various studies and scientific papers, say the agency must factor in more than jus...

By Joe “What can we do this year? I want to see a bipartisan bill on health care. I want to us attack this issue of global warming and climate change, and to make sure that America is moving toward energy independence, green jobs in this new economy. Those are things we can accomplish,” Durbin said on F...

By Max and Carlin By transforming the United States to a low-carbon economy and negotiating a meaningful global climate agreement, Kirk said, the administration would stimulate domestic economic growth while avoiding circumstances in which carbon emissions are exported abroad….

By mcauleysworld Another Ice Age? Monday, Jun. 24, 1974 In Africa, drought continues for the sixth consecutive year, adding terribly to the toll of famine victims. During 1972 record rains in parts of the U.S., Pakistan and Japan caused some of the worst flooding in centuries. In Canada’s wheat belt, a particu...

By mcauleysworld “ There is, overall, a good match between temperature and CO2 and temperature. One important piece of information that can be determined from ice core data is whether changes in temperature follow or proceed changes in CO2.” “Changes in temperature precede changes in CO2″  http://www.b...

By Emily Gertz Ethanol Backers Abandon Green Pretenses: Ethanol investors met with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week in an effort to derail California’s far-reaching proposal to slash carbon emissions from transportation fuels...[T]he rule would be the first in the nation to restrict planet-hea...

By Juliana Williams Let’s take a step back: in order to avoid the worst effects of global warming, emissions will need to be cut massively.  Exactly how massively is the subject of debate, but the real target should be zero emissions by as soon as f’ing possible.  At the recent Copenhagen Climate Congress this w...

By isiria What’s clear from Copenhagen is that policymakers have fallen behind the scientists: global warming is already catastrophic Presentations by climate scientists at this week’s conference in Copenhagen show that we might have underplayed the impacts of global warming in three impor...

By mcauleysworld After George F. Will wrote a column last month questioning the faulty premises and apocalyptic predictions of global-warming alarmists, he caught holy heck from America’s “eco-pessimists.” He and his editors at The Washington Post were blasted with thousands of angry e-mails, most of...

By JR(noreply@blogger.com) Russia is one of the biggest producers of carbon dioxide as it burns vast amounts of oil and gas to heat houses during the bitter months where temperatures regularly fall below minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit).

By Michael Eden It turns out that the “consensus” of scientific opinion concerning global warming - and in particular man-caused global warming - is itself the result of academic fraud. For further facts on the myth of man-caused global warming, see: What the Science REALLY Says About Global Warming

By cheaplikeme This is especially good considering news that was released on NPR today that global warming is irreversible, for practical purposes — meaning that we should reduce our carbon dioxide emissions NOW to try to have a positive influence for people in, oh, a thousand years. Good news on the car...

By Jeff Id Well here’s an article which claims we will do exactly that. The other global warming Even if we contain the greenhouse effect, says a Tufts astrophysicist, we’ll have another heat problem on our hands —– How much energy can all of our cultural devices—automobiles, stoves, factories, wh...

By JR(noreply@blogger.com) How far do politicians believe they can push the global-warming scam? We know, after his inauguration, Barack Obama intends to officially classify carbon dioxide as a "dangerous pollutant." After such a declaration, his actions will reveal whether he truly views carbon dioxide as a th...

By JR(noreply@blogger.com) If water vapor and CO2 are both greenhouse gases, and there's 100 times more water vapor than CO2 in the atmosphere, what effect would it have on the level of total greenhouse gases to double the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere? Trees Causing Global Warming - Again

By Ken LOWE, David C.: National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, NZ MANNING, Andrew C.: University of East Anglia, UK, New Zealand WRATT, David: National Climate Centre, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, NZ Reviewers

By JohnnyRook We Must Stop Using Coal New climate change scenarios quantify the idea that oil is only a small component of the total global warming problem — the real problem is coal. … shared by Pushker Kharecha from Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (Giss).

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...

By David Adam It says developed nations including Britain, the US and Australia, would have to slash carbon dioxide emissions by 5% each year over the next decade to hit the 450ppm target. Britain's Climate Change Act 2008, the most ambitious legislation of its kind in the world, calls for reductions o...

By Joseph Romm Voters who care about either global warming or clean energy have only one choice -- and it isn't McCain-Palin. It's time to stop trying to... Voters who care about either global warming or clean energy have only one choice -- and it isn't McCain-Palin.

ARTICLE: "Global Fishing Trade Depletes African Waters: Poor Nations Get Cash, The Rich Send Trawlers; A Dearth of Octopus," by John W. Miller, Wall Street Journal, 18 July 2007, p. A1. ARTICLE: "The New Wal-Mart Effect: Cleaner Thai Shrimp Farms," by Kris Hudson and Wilawan Watcharasakw...

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...

By David Roberts If that's not enough to sour your Obamamania, get a load of this: Obama, who is sponsoring separate legislation to cap carbon dioxide emissions, said his support for coal fuel depended on finding a way to remove the greenhouse gases emitted in production.

By Carl Pope As the conference went on, it emerged that the problem is both worse and easier to solve than most of us think, but you have to add the numbers up. Take nuclear power. Mindy Lubber of CERES, greeted me by saying, "The next big wave to hit us is going to be this push for nuclear power." My comment, by n...

By Ron Dembo The Stern Review provides some figures to fortify this argument. Sir Nicholas argues that we need to be spending 1 percent of GDP to tackle climate change. In other words, many billions. A lot of money. But here's why we need to spend it: because if we don't, global warming is going to cost us 5 per...