Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"They are everywhere on the ABC, twittering that this cyclone is scary proof of the deadly perils of man-made warming. ..........We’ve in fact seen nothing in Queensland at all that we haven’t seen before, and worse.
Some people are really, really determined to see man-made global warming in every single inflection of the weather. And despite some of them calling themselves journalists, they assert that link without bothering to properly check the evidence. Indeed, they abuse or ignore those who do.
These really are shameful times. "
Thursday, 3 February 2011
Misery at the tills: Food prices to soar as crops hit a new all-time high
Daily Mail
"Looking at the international picture, Oxfam said: ‘Millions of people’s lives are at risk. ‘Poor people in developing countries spend between 50 and 80percent of their income on food, making higher prices, as well as unpredictable prices, a serious threat to their ability to eat.’ It blamed the price rises on reduced production due to bad weather, increased oil prices making fertilizer and transport more expensive, increased demand for biofuels, export restrictions and financial speculation."
"Looking at the international picture, Oxfam said: ‘Millions of people’s lives are at risk. ‘Poor people in developing countries spend between 50 and 80percent of their income on food, making higher prices, as well as unpredictable prices, a serious threat to their ability to eat.’ It blamed the price rises on reduced production due to bad weather, increased oil prices making fertilizer and transport more expensive, increased demand for biofuels, export restrictions and financial speculation."
UAH Update for January 2011: Global Temperatures in Freefall
Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
"LA NINA FINALLY BEING FELT IN TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES
January 2011 experienced a precipitous drop in lower tropospheric temperatures over the tropics, Northern Hemisphere, and Southern Hemisphere. This was not unexpected, since global average sea surface temperatures have been falling for many months, with a head start as is usually the case with La Nina. "
"LA NINA FINALLY BEING FELT IN TROPOSPHERIC TEMPERATURES
January 2011 experienced a precipitous drop in lower tropospheric temperatures over the tropics, Northern Hemisphere, and Southern Hemisphere. This was not unexpected, since global average sea surface temperatures have been falling for many months, with a head start as is usually the case with La Nina. "
European carbon ‘markets’
Catallaxy Files
"What makes the ETS different? The simplest explanation is that it isn’t a financial exchange at all; it’s merely designed to look like one. Its chief function is to serve as a political smokescreen. "
"What makes the ETS different? The simplest explanation is that it isn’t a financial exchange at all; it’s merely designed to look like one. Its chief function is to serve as a political smokescreen. "
How the BBC's Roger Harrabin was ensnared by his own tangled web
Telegraph
"A few weeks ago, you may remember, in a post called How The Doomed Met Office Tried To Spin Its Way Out Of Trouble, I reported on some extraordinary shenanigans involving the Met Office, the BBC, the BBC’s High Priest of Gaian Worship and Climate Alarmism Roger Harrabin and the Coalition government. .....Well now, thanks to some inspired digging from bloggers Katabasis and Autonomous Mind we know the answer – and it’s not looking good for Roger Harrabin or the Met Office. ....In other words the Met Office had not issued the warning Harrabin claimed it had. Even the Met Office now admitted this, in a statement to Andrew Orlowski at The Register."
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Roger Harrabin plays watch the birdie on WUWT(Autonomous Mind)
"A few weeks ago, you may remember, in a post called How The Doomed Met Office Tried To Spin Its Way Out Of Trouble, I reported on some extraordinary shenanigans involving the Met Office, the BBC, the BBC’s High Priest of Gaian Worship and Climate Alarmism Roger Harrabin and the Coalition government. .....Well now, thanks to some inspired digging from bloggers Katabasis and Autonomous Mind we know the answer – and it’s not looking good for Roger Harrabin or the Met Office. ....In other words the Met Office had not issued the warning Harrabin claimed it had. Even the Met Office now admitted this, in a statement to Andrew Orlowski at The Register."
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Roger Harrabin plays watch the birdie on WUWT(Autonomous Mind)
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
A challenge from Dr. Roy Spencer
WUWT
"If the science really is that settled, then this challenge should be easy:
Show me one peer-reviewed paper that has ruled out natural, internal climate cycles as the cause of most of the recent warming in the thermometer record."
"If the science really is that settled, then this challenge should be easy:
Show me one peer-reviewed paper that has ruled out natural, internal climate cycles as the cause of most of the recent warming in the thermometer record."
Storm Stops Travelers as It Moves Across U.S.
NYT
"A paralyzing 2,000-mile swath of winter at its snowy, icy, messy worst pushed eastward across the United States on Tuesday, disrupting the rhythms of everyday life and punctuating this season’s recurring lesson that humankind has no dominion over nature. .....“It’s having a gigantic geographical impact,” said Bob Oravec, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service who tracked the storm from the safety of his office in relatively unscathed Camp Springs, Md.
Mr. Oravec offered a basic lesson in meteorology to explain weather that transcends the word “inclement.” A cold air mass from Canada has become entrenched across the north-central United States, while storms in the Mississippi Valley have been drawing moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. Cold air plus moisture equals snow, and ice, and a new year that we are still ringing in with shovel scrapes against pavement. "
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OMG! ANOTHER GLOBAL WARMING SNOWSTORM!! (Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.)
"A paralyzing 2,000-mile swath of winter at its snowy, icy, messy worst pushed eastward across the United States on Tuesday, disrupting the rhythms of everyday life and punctuating this season’s recurring lesson that humankind has no dominion over nature. .....“It’s having a gigantic geographical impact,” said Bob Oravec, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service who tracked the storm from the safety of his office in relatively unscathed Camp Springs, Md.
Mr. Oravec offered a basic lesson in meteorology to explain weather that transcends the word “inclement.” A cold air mass from Canada has become entrenched across the north-central United States, while storms in the Mississippi Valley have been drawing moisture from the Gulf of Mexico. Cold air plus moisture equals snow, and ice, and a new year that we are still ringing in with shovel scrapes against pavement. "
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OMG! ANOTHER GLOBAL WARMING SNOWSTORM!! (Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.)
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
The next time a warmist tells you China’s going green…
Andrew Bolt,Herald Sun (Australia)
"Terry McCrann says the myth of China’s switch to “clean energy” has been accidentally exposed by HSBC Bank’s green analysts. .........That is to say, a China purportedly relentlessly pursuing so-called clean energy, would increase its coal-fired power generation over just ten years by more than 10 times the size of our entire coal-fired power sector.
By 2020 the Chinese coal-fired power sector will be close to thirty times the size of ours and triple that of the US."
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Who will be the first to blame global warming?
"In an almost certainly doomed attempt to head off the “global-warming-caused-Cyclone-Yasi” meme, here’s an extract from the Bureau of Meteorology site: ..."
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A man-made flood in Queensland, all right
"Terry McCrann says the myth of China’s switch to “clean energy” has been accidentally exposed by HSBC Bank’s green analysts. .........That is to say, a China purportedly relentlessly pursuing so-called clean energy, would increase its coal-fired power generation over just ten years by more than 10 times the size of our entire coal-fired power sector.
By 2020 the Chinese coal-fired power sector will be close to thirty times the size of ours and triple that of the US."
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Who will be the first to blame global warming?
"In an almost certainly doomed attempt to head off the “global-warming-caused-Cyclone-Yasi” meme, here’s an extract from the Bureau of Meteorology site: ..."
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A man-made flood in Queensland, all right
Time for a Skeptic Documentary Made on Our Terms
Climate Realists
"I've asked Martin Durkin to work with us to make an updated version of 'The Great Global Warming Swindle’ and he has confirmed his willingness to help, especially if Tim Ball is part of it. Can I please ask that you register your support to help Martin, Tim, me and others work towards this goal so that later in the year we can put the broader sceptic case more fairly in a 60-minute film under our own editorial control?"
"I've asked Martin Durkin to work with us to make an updated version of 'The Great Global Warming Swindle’ and he has confirmed his willingness to help, especially if Tim Ball is part of it. Can I please ask that you register your support to help Martin, Tim, me and others work towards this goal so that later in the year we can put the broader sceptic case more fairly in a 60-minute film under our own editorial control?"
BBC’s Baghdad Al Stitches Propaganda Against Sceptics – Opposite Picture Of German FOCUS Piece
NoTricksZone
"Once a premier news organisation, the BBC has reduced itself to being a pathetic caricature of journalism.
Without a doubt the BBC, a public network, has departed from its obligation of fairness and balance, and has assigned itself with the higher mission of “rescuing the planet” and has given itself a role in setting public policy. That is not its duty under its current charter."
"Once a premier news organisation, the BBC has reduced itself to being a pathetic caricature of journalism.
Without a doubt the BBC, a public network, has departed from its obligation of fairness and balance, and has assigned itself with the higher mission of “rescuing the planet” and has given itself a role in setting public policy. That is not its duty under its current charter."
Met Office document shows it only renamed its seasonal forecasts
Autonomous Mind
"A Freedom of Information request submitted to the Met Office by Autonomous Mind reveals the Met Office did not tell the truth when it said it had scrapped its seasonal forecast."
"A Freedom of Information request submitted to the Met Office by Autonomous Mind reveals the Met Office did not tell the truth when it said it had scrapped its seasonal forecast."
Met Office steps in it again
WUWT
"From Autonomous mind, a public relations train wreck:
A Freedom of Information request submitted to the Met Office by Autonomous Mind reveals the Met Office did not tell the truth when it said it had scrapped its seasonal forecast. .....The Met Office logic is that although it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck it is actually a horse. This explains the weak attempt to disown the seasonal temperature probability map that the department published in October. But Hirst’s actions now reveal the map is a forecast after all, in everything but name."
"From Autonomous mind, a public relations train wreck:
A Freedom of Information request submitted to the Met Office by Autonomous Mind reveals the Met Office did not tell the truth when it said it had scrapped its seasonal forecast. .....The Met Office logic is that although it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck it is actually a horse. This explains the weak attempt to disown the seasonal temperature probability map that the department published in October. But Hirst’s actions now reveal the map is a forecast after all, in everything but name."
BBC4′s “Meet the Skeptics”
WUWT
"My years in television news have shown me how editing can be brutally unfair in the hands of somebody skilled, and I basically told them to “stuff it” and refused to sign the contract. They spent the next two weeks via email and phone trying to come up with contract variations to get me to sign and I still refused. The entire affair was rushed and unprofessional in my experience.
The “repeated questioning of the same topic” interview technique of these blokes was a tipoff for me that the interview was a setup. I wanted no part of it and refused to allow them legal rights over me by not signing the contract. After watching the trailer below, I’m glad I stood my ground."
"My years in television news have shown me how editing can be brutally unfair in the hands of somebody skilled, and I basically told them to “stuff it” and refused to sign the contract. They spent the next two weeks via email and phone trying to come up with contract variations to get me to sign and I still refused. The entire affair was rushed and unprofessional in my experience.
The “repeated questioning of the same topic” interview technique of these blokes was a tipoff for me that the interview was a setup. I wanted no part of it and refused to allow them legal rights over me by not signing the contract. After watching the trailer below, I’m glad I stood my ground."
Global Warming Causes . . . Fall of American Empire to China.
hauntingthelibrary
"Yep. Climate change caused everything that has ever happened. Bubonic plague – climate change. Thirty years war – climate change. Fall of the Roman empire – climate change. And now there’s a new one to add to the list of everything that is caused by global warming in one way or another."
"Yep. Climate change caused everything that has ever happened. Bubonic plague – climate change. Thirty years war – climate change. Fall of the Roman empire – climate change. And now there’s a new one to add to the list of everything that is caused by global warming in one way or another."
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