Gospel according to Ross Garnaut
FOR anyone with any doubts, the Kyoto climate change accord that caused so much anguish for the Australian and global political establishment is officially dead and buried.
Daily Archives: May 31, 2011
Lest anyone believe Australia is meekly accepting the UN’s global taxation scam
Posted in Cap and tax
Seriously? Have we not learned the lesson of William Ruckelshaus?
You would have thought that the debacle of Ruckelshaus with his culpability for so many millions of mainly African and Asian malaria deaths would have made misanthropists ineligible for any position of responsibility or power, wouldn’t you? And anyone who promotes the wellbeing of bugs and weeds before their own species is by definition misanthropic. Seriously, expunge all people haters from positions where they can do harm, don’t add more of them.
Obama taps environmentalist Bryson to head Commerce
By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY
President Obama, who’s repeatedly touted the benefits of a clean energy economy, has tapped the co-founder of one of the largest U.S. environmental groups to head the Commerce Department. (USAToday)
Sen. Inhofe pledges to block Commerce nomination
Continue reading
Posted in Activists, Enviros, Misanthropy, Rubber room
CO2 Science Volume 14 Number 22: 1 June 2011
Sixth International Conference on Climate Change
The 2011 Sixth International Conference on Climate change, organized by the Heartland Institute, will take place in Washington DC, June 30- July 1 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. We encourage you to attend this event that is co-sponsored by our Center. Details on registering can be obtained by clicking here.
Editorial
Vegetation Changes of the Semi-Arid Region of South Africa: Have the negative changes that climate alarmists have long predicted finally come to pass?
Journal Reviews
Climate-Change-Induced Disasters: How have they varied over the past few decades of (supposedly) unprecedented global warming?
A 135-Year Rainfall History of India: 1871-2005: What does it reveal about the impact of concomitant global (and country-wide) warming?
Up from the Depths: Regenerating Decimated Corals: When help is needed, from whence can it come?
Juvenile Marine Fish Learning to Take the Heat: Can they handle what the IPCC suggests they will encounter in the decades and centuries to come?
Effects of Elevated CO2 on Methane Emissions from Terrestrial Plants Growing Under Aerobic Conditions: Are they positive or negative?
Effects of Extra Cadmium and CO2 on the Growth of Pasture Plants: How do the two competing substances stack up against each other in a hydroponic experiment?
Ocean Acidification Database
The latest addition of peer-reviewed data archived to our database of marine organism responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment is Oarweed [Laminaria hyperborea]. To access the entire database, click here.
Plant Growth Database
Our latest results of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment obtained from experiments described in the peer-reviewed scientific literature are: Barnyard Grass (Zeng et al., 2011) and Raddish(Schubert and Jahren, 2011).
Medieval Warm Period Project
Was there a Medieval Warm Period? YES, according to data published by 981 individual scientists from 565 research institutions in 43 different countries … and counting! This issue’s Medieval Warm Period Record comes from Lake Joux, Jura Mountains, Switzerland. To access the entire Medieval Warm Period Project’s database, click here.
World Temperatures Database
Back by popular demand and upgraded to allow patrons more choices to plot and view the data, we reintroduce the World Temperatures section of our website. Here, users may plot temperatures for the entire globe or regions of the globe. A newly added feature allows patrons the ability to plot up to six independent datasets on the same graph. Try it today. World Temperatures Database.
Major Report
Carbon Dioxide and Earth’s Future: Pursuing the Prudent Path: Ten of the more ominous model-based predictions of what will occur in response to continued business-as-usual anthropogenic CO2 emissions are compared against real-world observations. (co2science.org)
Posted in Climate
T. Boone was against it before he was a beneficiary of it…
Wisdom from T. Boone against Rent-Seeking Pickens (remember when you said ….?)
by Robert Bradley Jr.
May 27, 2011
“The two greatest enemies of free enterprise in the United States … have been, on the one hand, my fellow intellectuals and, on the other hand, the business corporations of this country.”
- Milton Friedman. “Which Way for Capitalism?” Reason, May 1977, p. 21.
Special government favor. A little something for nothing at the other’s expense…. Sure, a particular business or industry can gain in the short run. But when everyone is getting the booty, almost all lose.
Just look where government is today. The chronic, gargantuan federal budget deficit is testament to the Enrons then, GEs now receiving government subsidies from either the U.S. Treasury or the tax code. The rest of us pay (or will pay) what the rent-seekers are getting and not paying for (outside of their lobbying costs).
Business has been a force for regulation. In the twentieth century, the energy industry was behind the large majority of major government intervention with oil, natural gas, and coal. (MasterResource)
Posted in Corporate welfare, Regulation
Actually we thought it important because it could improve people’s lives – these twits think it’s about carbon dioxide and gorebull warbling
Stoves, seeds could save African forests: report
Efficient cookstoves and better crop seeds could play a key role in saving forests in sub-Saharan Africa, helping to cut emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide, environmental experts reported on Sunday. (Reuters)
Posted in Agriculture, Development, Health care
We could wish: The Dawn of the Anthropocene Era
‘We Are the Top Predator on Earth’
Global warming, rising sea levels, mass extinction of species: Mankind is changing the planet to such an extent that an increasing number of scientists wants to proclaim a new geological epoch. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, British geologist Jan Zalasiewicz makes his case for the Anthropocene era. (Spiegel)
Posted in Misanthropy
A look at the loons who want to lower the quality and duration of your life
A Brief History of Ecology
by Ben Pile
Regular readers of this blog will know that one of its central themes is the idea that, in the environmentalist’s argument ‘the politics is prior’ to the science. Environmentalists seem to forget what it is they have presupposed, and appear to believe that instructions about how to live and how to organise society can be simply read off from ‘science’. For instance, in the climate debate, environmentalists presuppose an equivalence of the climate system’s sensitivity to CO2 and society’s sensitivity to climate, thus they claim that knowledge about the climate amounts to knowledge about how best society should be ordered, and if we fail to obey these imperatives, we will destroy ourselves. (Climate Resistance)
Posted in Activists, Enviros, Misanthropy
Regulation deform…
Editorial: Obama’s Regulatory Cuts Come Up Way Short
Regulation: Nobody should be fooled by President Obama’s latest effort to appear business-friendly by trimming a few old federal regulations. This is still the most pro-regulation, anti-business administration in decades.
Back in January, just after Republicans took control of the House of Representatives, Obama issued an executive order calling on agencies to sweep out their regulatory closets and toss any unneeded rules and regulations.
Last week, dozens of agencies delivered their lists, offering up hundreds of outdated, redundant or just plain crazy regulations that could be scrapped.
Posted in Regulation
Activist judges and other Left-coast loons
Fireworks shows need new environmental review
Court ruling could have sweeping impact
By Mike Lee and Christopher Cadelago
What started as a battle over fireworks shows led to a sweeping legal victory Friday for environmentalists that could stymie a wide range of events needing city permits, from the Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon to birthday parties held at parks.
“According to the strictest interpretation of this, jumpy-jumps and everything else would be subject to environmental review if this ruling stands,” said lawyer Robert Howard, who represented the La Jolla Community Fireworks Foundation in the case. “It’s a breathtaking ruling.”
Superior Court Judge Linda Quinn said La Jolla’s annual Fourth of July fireworks show requires evaluation under the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA. (Union Tribune)
Posted in EPA, Regulation
The United Nations States Environmental Protection Agency
The United Nations States Environmental Protection Agency
Written by Dennis Ambler
In view of the rejection by the EPA of challenges to their endangerment finding, why would we be surprised to find that they have a long-term stake in the IPCC’s climate models and in the continuance of the IPCC itself. (SPPI)
What “alarming sea level rise”?
The Great Sea-Level Humbug: There Is No Alarming Sea Level Rise!
Written by Nils-Axel Morner
In an interview and paper published in 21st Century in 2007, I have shown that global sea level is not in an alarming rising mode, which is the main threat in the International Panel on Climate Change scenario. (SPPI)
Posted in Climate
Roger Pielke Sr. highlights snow cover extent
There is an excellent, very informative presentation of Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent and long term trends and variability up to 2010 (Spring and Fall) and 2011 (Winter) from the Rutgers University Global Snow Lab. (Roger Pielke Sr.)
Posted in Climate
Hysterical “climate report” deconstructed
Climate Commission Report Debunked
Scientific audit of the Climate Commission Report
“The Critical Decade – Climate science, risks and responses”
May, 2011
Bob Carter, David Evans, Stewart Franks, William Kininmonth
PART I – INTRODUCTION, DISCUSSION & CONCLUSIONS
For PART II – SCIENCE AUDIT see the Full PDF file of Part I & II
INTRODUCTION
The Key Messages[1] summary of The Critical Decade[2] opens with a ringing statement of hyperbole:
Over many decades thousands of scientists have painted an unambiguous picture: the global climate is changing and humanity is almost surely the primary cause. The risks have never been clearer and the case for action has never been more urgent.
This declaration establishes two things. The first sentence signals that the report is committed to repeating the conclusions of the 4th Assessment Report of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC)[3], conclusions that are essentially reliant on computer modelling and lack empirical support. And the second signals that the report is long on opinionated analysis and political advocacy but devoid of objective risk analysis.
These same characteristics apply to the scientific basis of four earlier Australian global warming documents, in order the Garnaut review[4], two reports by the Department of Climate Change Change[5] [6], a report by the Academy of Science[7], and finally a science briefing[8] that Professor Steffen provided to the Multi-party Committee on Climate Change in November, 2010, prior to that committee entering policy-setting mode. (Jo Nova)
Posted in Climate change
Gosh! Coldings not good for people and Greenland naturally subject to multi-degree temperature changes. Go figure!
Greenland cold snap linked to Viking disappearance
A cold snap in Greenland in the 12th century may help explain why Viking settlers vanished from the island, scientists said on Monday. (Reuters)
Climate played big role in Vikings’ disappearance from Greenland
Greenland’s early Viking settlers were subjected to rapidly changing climate. Temperatures plunged several degrees in a span of decades, according to research from Brown University. A reconstruction of 5,600 years of climate history from lakes near the Norse settlement in western Greenland also shows how climate affected the Dorset and Saqqaq cultures. Results appear in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (Press Release)
Posted in Climate
All those “emission reductions” and inevitably, abject failure ensues
Even if you believe catastrophic enhanced greenhouse effect to be a real and present danger it’s time to wake up and face facts. Adaptation is and always has been the only viable option. Get over it.
IEA sees record CO2 emissions in 2010
Global emissions of carbon dioxide hit their highest level ever in 2010, with the growth driven mainly by booming coal-reliant emerging economies, the International Energy Agency’s chief economist said on Monday. (Reuters)
Posted in Climate change, Crazy carbon schemes
