WUWT
"It is not difficult to understand why people and institutions exaggerate the potential dangers of global warming and omit any mention of the probable benefits. There are billions of dollars available for climate change research. Obama’s 2011 budget allocated $2.6 billion for the “global change research program.” This stream of cash has created a monstrous industry that produces junk science that feeds demands for even more money. It is a scam."
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Her Royal Hydropowered-ness: Queen goes green as second 40-ton turbine is moved into position on the Thames to power Windsor Castle
Daily Mail
"The Queen will be green in just over a month when a hydropower station on the River Thames is finally completed. The second of two custom-built turbines - the largest in the UK - was lifted into place by a crane on a water barge during a delicate 30-minute operation today.The 40-ton turbines form part of a £1.7million scheme to provide hydro-electric power to Windsor Castle."
ED: Taxpayer Funded ..???
"The Queen will be green in just over a month when a hydropower station on the River Thames is finally completed. The second of two custom-built turbines - the largest in the UK - was lifted into place by a crane on a water barge during a delicate 30-minute operation today.The 40-ton turbines form part of a £1.7million scheme to provide hydro-electric power to Windsor Castle."
ED: Taxpayer Funded ..???
Monday, 19 December 2011
Radical environmentalism, not Wall Street, sabotaging the American Dream
Climate Change Dispatch
"What if, the voiceover asks, everything ran on gas?...This beautiful lie, however, is sullied by the ugly fact that, in reality, almost everything does. Americans obtain about 86 percent of our power from gas- and coal-fired sources. This means that the Leaf’s lithium batteries are ultimately charged by fossil fuel, or another form of non-renewable energy, nuclear fission. It also means that electric vehicle owners’ claim to green chest-thumping rights is really so much smoke up a distant stack."
"What if, the voiceover asks, everything ran on gas?...This beautiful lie, however, is sullied by the ugly fact that, in reality, almost everything does. Americans obtain about 86 percent of our power from gas- and coal-fired sources. This means that the Leaf’s lithium batteries are ultimately charged by fossil fuel, or another form of non-renewable energy, nuclear fission. It also means that electric vehicle owners’ claim to green chest-thumping rights is really so much smoke up a distant stack."
Lies, Damned Lies & Enviro-Fraud
GWPF
“The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda”. The late science writer Michael Crichton certainly put his finger on the spirit of our age."
“The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda”. The late science writer Michael Crichton certainly put his finger on the spirit of our age."
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Tallbloke: a Christmas Appeal
Telegraph
"Tallbloke – the blogger whose computers were confiscated during a nocturnal visitation from Norfolk's finest – is appealing for funds. Here's a letter from his solicitor: .......This blog urges all readers to think of the Spirit of Christmas and give generously."
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Tallbloke to take to torts (WUWT)
"Tallbloke – the blogger whose computers were confiscated during a nocturnal visitation from Norfolk's finest – is appealing for funds. Here's a letter from his solicitor: .......This blog urges all readers to think of the Spirit of Christmas and give generously."
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Tallbloke to take to torts (WUWT)
Climategate's Smoking Gun
GWPF
"Last time I googled 2526.txt to see if this email had been commented upon I did not find any. This is as near the smoking gun proof as we will get, that Professor Phil Jones’ instruction to delete all emails “re AR4” was complied with – at least using the team definition of the word “delete”. Note that on 29 May 2008 Jones had emailed,...."
"Last time I googled 2526.txt to see if this email had been commented upon I did not find any. This is as near the smoking gun proof as we will get, that Professor Phil Jones’ instruction to delete all emails “re AR4” was complied with – at least using the team definition of the word “delete”. Note that on 29 May 2008 Jones had emailed,...."
Saturday, 17 December 2011
Post COP 17 – The Road to Nowhere
WUWT,Professor Will Alexander
"Returning to the real world, I firmly believe that there are few if any scientists in southern Africa who have a wider, longer, and more scientific experience in the interfaces between the climatological, hydrological, environmental and sociological sciences than I have.
Equally, I believe that this whole global warming/climate change issue is no more than a monumental scam perpetrated by the affluent nations to protect their economic supremacy, regardless of the effects on the many millions of poor and disadvantaged populations of Africa and elsewhere.
I do not for one moment believe that the nations of the world will abide by the nebulous decisions reached by COP17 in Durban, with legal ratification by 2015, and implementation by 2020. It is not going to happen."
"Returning to the real world, I firmly believe that there are few if any scientists in southern Africa who have a wider, longer, and more scientific experience in the interfaces between the climatological, hydrological, environmental and sociological sciences than I have.
Equally, I believe that this whole global warming/climate change issue is no more than a monumental scam perpetrated by the affluent nations to protect their economic supremacy, regardless of the effects on the many millions of poor and disadvantaged populations of Africa and elsewhere.
I do not for one moment believe that the nations of the world will abide by the nebulous decisions reached by COP17 in Durban, with legal ratification by 2015, and implementation by 2020. It is not going to happen."
The BBC's myth-makers serve up a double helping of propaganda
Christopher Booker,Telegraph
"There was much excitement over the revelation that David Attenborough’s Frozen Planet had “faked” a scene where polar bear cubs, actually born in a Dutch zoo, seemed to be in Arctic wilderness. Yet no interest at all was aroused by a much more serious misrepresentation – of the speed at which ice is melting at the poles.
I was criticised for pointing this out last week, but as anyone can see, from satellite-based charts on the Cryosphere Today website, the extent of polar sea ice was last year 1.6 million square kilometres greater than its average over the last 30 years – something which could never have been guessed from Attenborough’s dramatic film sequences, carefully chosen to convey the very different message the BBC wanted us to believe."
"There was much excitement over the revelation that David Attenborough’s Frozen Planet had “faked” a scene where polar bear cubs, actually born in a Dutch zoo, seemed to be in Arctic wilderness. Yet no interest at all was aroused by a much more serious misrepresentation – of the speed at which ice is melting at the poles.
I was criticised for pointing this out last week, but as anyone can see, from satellite-based charts on the Cryosphere Today website, the extent of polar sea ice was last year 1.6 million square kilometres greater than its average over the last 30 years – something which could never have been guessed from Attenborough’s dramatic film sequences, carefully chosen to convey the very different message the BBC wanted us to believe."
Friday, 16 December 2011
Britain wakes to snowfall as bookies slash odds of a White Christmas
Daily Mail
*London and the Home Counties experience their first snow of the winter
*Snow hits Wales, the Midlands and South East England
*Heavy rain in other parts leads to 33 flood alerts
*London and the Home Counties experience their first snow of the winter
*Snow hits Wales, the Midlands and South East England
*Heavy rain in other parts leads to 33 flood alerts
Climategate Bombshell: Did U.S. Gov't Help Hide Climate Data?
Fox News
"Are your tax dollars helping hide global warming data from the public? Internal emails leaked as part of “Climategate 2.0” indicate the answer may be "Yes."
The original Climategate emails -- correspondence stolen from servers at a research facility in the U.K. and released on the Internet in late 2009 -- shook up the field of climate research. Now a new batch posted in late November to a Russian server shows that scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit refused to share their U.S. government-funded data with anyone they thought would disagree with them." (H/T Climate Depot)
"Are your tax dollars helping hide global warming data from the public? Internal emails leaked as part of “Climategate 2.0” indicate the answer may be "Yes."
The original Climategate emails -- correspondence stolen from servers at a research facility in the U.K. and released on the Internet in late 2009 -- shook up the field of climate research. Now a new batch posted in late November to a Russian server shows that scientists at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit refused to share their U.S. government-funded data with anyone they thought would disagree with them." (H/T Climate Depot)
Climategate: Obama's boot boys strike back
Telegraph
"But no: it seems the true instigator of this vexatious abuse of power by arbitrary authority may be none other than President Obama. Here's Chris Horner with the lowdown in the Washington Examiner:"
"But no: it seems the true instigator of this vexatious abuse of power by arbitrary authority may be none other than President Obama. Here's Chris Horner with the lowdown in the Washington Examiner:"
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Norfolk Vice
Bishop Hill
"Suddenly, as if by magic, Norfolk Constabulary, asleep atop their haystacks, have been transformed into something out of Miami Vice. Tallbloke reports:
An Englishman’s home is his castle they say. Not when six detectives from the Metropolitan Police, the Norfolk Constabulary and the Computer Crime division arrive on your doorstep with a warrant to search it though.
I waved the first three in and bid them head through to the sitting room, where there was less of an chill near the woodburner. Then they kept coming, being introduced by the lead detective from Norfolk as they trooped in. I thought I’d been chosen to host the secret policemen’s ball or something."
"Suddenly, as if by magic, Norfolk Constabulary, asleep atop their haystacks, have been transformed into something out of Miami Vice. Tallbloke reports:
An Englishman’s home is his castle they say. Not when six detectives from the Metropolitan Police, the Norfolk Constabulary and the Computer Crime division arrive on your doorstep with a warrant to search it though.
I waved the first three in and bid them head through to the sitting room, where there was less of an chill near the woodburner. Then they kept coming, being introduced by the lead detective from Norfolk as they trooped in. I thought I’d been chosen to host the secret policemen’s ball or something."
Electricity bills to rocket by 25% because of 'green' targets, says Government
Daily Mail
"The study concluded that electricity prices are likely to rise by 41 per cent by 2020 in real terms – with more than half the increase a result of switching to ‘low carbon’ energy sources. In total, ‘green’ measures will add 23.8 per cent to the price of electricity. The impact on families will vary according to consumption, but the report found that those whose homes are heated by electricity could see their annual bills rise by more than £400. The analysis also suggests that a new ‘carbon price floor’ – introduced on the pretext of cutting carbon emissions – will effectively act as a tax, raising £3billion a year for the Treasury from electricity consumers by 2020. The CCC’s report suggests that people whose homes are heated by electricity will see their average bills rise from about £1,500 to £2,100 in 2020."
"The study concluded that electricity prices are likely to rise by 41 per cent by 2020 in real terms – with more than half the increase a result of switching to ‘low carbon’ energy sources. In total, ‘green’ measures will add 23.8 per cent to the price of electricity. The impact on families will vary according to consumption, but the report found that those whose homes are heated by electricity could see their annual bills rise by more than £400. The analysis also suggests that a new ‘carbon price floor’ – introduced on the pretext of cutting carbon emissions – will effectively act as a tax, raising £3billion a year for the Treasury from electricity consumers by 2020. The CCC’s report suggests that people whose homes are heated by electricity will see their average bills rise from about £1,500 to £2,100 in 2020."
Cops Target Climate-Sceptic Bloggers In Three Countries
GWPF
"Police have targeted at least four climate bloggers in three countries, with constabulary taking computers and networking equipment from a science blogger in the UK. ...............Last week WordPress hosting site Automattic, based in San Francisco, notified several climate skeptics including Tattersall, Id and Canadians Steve McIntyre (Climate Audit) and Donna Laframboise (No Consensus) that the US Department of Justice Criminal Division had requested evidence for the period in November when the second batch of emails were uploaded."
"Police have targeted at least four climate bloggers in three countries, with constabulary taking computers and networking equipment from a science blogger in the UK. ...............Last week WordPress hosting site Automattic, based in San Francisco, notified several climate skeptics including Tattersall, Id and Canadians Steve McIntyre (Climate Audit) and Donna Laframboise (No Consensus) that the US Department of Justice Criminal Division had requested evidence for the period in November when the second batch of emails were uploaded."
UK police seize computers of skeptic blogger in England
WUWT
"The first blogger to break the Climategate2 story has had a visit from the police and has had his computers seized. Tallbloke’s Talkshop first reported on CG2 due to the timing of the release being overnight in the USA. Today he was raided by six UK police (Norfolk Constabulary and Metropolitan police) and several of his computers were seized as evidence. ......Strange and troubling that they’d seize his computers for comments dropped onto a US service (wordpress.com) from the cloud. There wouldn’t be any record on his PC’s of the event from FOIA’s placing comments, that would be in the wordpress.com server logs.
Either there’s more than meets the eye or they have no idea how the blog system works."
"The first blogger to break the Climategate2 story has had a visit from the police and has had his computers seized. Tallbloke’s Talkshop first reported on CG2 due to the timing of the release being overnight in the USA. Today he was raided by six UK police (Norfolk Constabulary and Metropolitan police) and several of his computers were seized as evidence. ......Strange and troubling that they’d seize his computers for comments dropped onto a US service (wordpress.com) from the cloud. There wouldn’t be any record on his PC’s of the event from FOIA’s placing comments, that would be in the wordpress.com server logs.
Either there’s more than meets the eye or they have no idea how the blog system works."
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