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» A Classic Tale of Global Warming Alarmism

» More Evidence Against a Methane Time Bomb

» Agriculture: Tropical Cyclones are Welcome Visitors

» Sea Level Acceleration: Not so Fast

» Hansen Is Wrong

» Earth’s Carbon Sink Still Strong and Growing

» Wild Speculation on Climate and Polar Bears

» Illiteracy at NASA

» The Heat Was On—Before Urbanization and Greenhouse Gases

» What’s to Blame for the Rains on the Plains?

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NewsBusters - Global Warming

» MSNBC's Hayes Plugs 'Incredible Story' of Felon Who Disrupted Oil Lease Auction

» TIME's Kluger Warns Manhattan Residents Could Soon Be ‘Swimming’ Due to Global Warming

» NYT's Gillis, Writing Under False Headline, Rants Against Warming Skeptics With 'Little Scientific Credibility'

» Dennis Miller Slams 'Phony,' 'Detestable' Al Gore, 'Everybody Should Shun'

» British Journalist Melanie Phillips: Environmentalists ‘Wrench’ Evidence to Fit Climate Conclusions

» Professors Publish Picture of Them Burning Book Refuting Global Warming

» CA Dem: Global Warming Will Force Women Into Prostitution

» Billionaire Tom Steyer -- the 'Liberal Analogue of the Koch Brothers'

» ABC Celebrates Earth Day By Pushing Carbon Taxes, Touting Anti-Keystone 'Agitator'

» Environmentalism of Sam Champion, Who Previously Hyped Avoiding Toilet Paper, Now Mostly Ignored

» U.S. Carbon Emissions Have Dropped Thanks To Free Market Economics, Natural Gas Exploration

» Senator: Climate Change Must Be ‘Right Behind Immigration and Gay Rights As An Issue'

» As Latest Global Warming Scare Report Crumbles, Where's the New York Times's Follow-Up?

» Matthews Trashes Republicans With New Conspiracy Theory Poll, Ignores Democrat Responses

» Ted Turner Tells Obama to Get 'Climate Change Under Control'

» WaPo Omits Bad Pew Study Numbers On Global Warming

» Higher Gas Prices the ‘Price of Cleaner Air’

» Al Roker Appalled by Poll Showing 37 Percent Believe Global Warming is a Hoax

» As Warming 'Hiatus' Nears Two Decades, AP Reports Continue to Unskeptically Assume 'Global Warming' Is Real

» Media in Love with Bloomberg’s Nanny State Policies

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Science and Public Policy Institute

» Atmospheric Methane Concentrations

» Solar Influence on Temperatures in Europe

» Solar Influence on Climate: Cosmic Rays

» Request for Correction of Serious Inaccuracy

» Cook "The Books" is Wrong to Slam Roy Spencer

» Is C02 Mitigation Cost-Effective?

» Solar Influence on Global Temperature

» Evidence of a Medieval Warm Period in Antarctica

» Analysis of US and State-by-State Carbon Dioxide Emissions & Potential "Savings" in Future Global Temperature & Global Sea Level Rise

» Storm Trends Across the North Atlantic Ocean

» Drought Trends Across the Eastern United States

» Storm Trends Across North America

» Historical Response of Heat Waves to Global Air Temperature

» Drought Trends Across the Western United States

» Drought Trends in the Northern Great Plains, USA

» Precipitation Variability in Europe

» Historical Trends of Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclones

» Historical Flood Trends in Europe

» Precipitation Variability in Asia

» Effects of Atmospheric C02 Enrichment on Wood Density

» Drought Trends in Asia

» No Global Warming for Almost Two Decades

» Droughts in South America

» Storm Trends Across the Globe

» Rising Temperatures and Tropical Cyclones in the Atlantic Basin

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Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group

» 2012 Climate Science Weblog in Review by Dallas Jean Staley – A Guest Post

» The Weblog Is Retiring

» Publication Of “Reply to “Comment On ‘Ocean Heat Content And Earth’s Radiation Imbalance. II. Relation To Climate Shifts’ ” by Nuccitelli Et Al. By Douglass and Knox 2012

» Q&A From A Group Of Retired NASA Personnel And Associates

» The Importance of Land Use/Land Practices On Climate – A Perspective From Jon Foley

» Interview With James Wynn In The English Department At Carnegie Mellon University

» University Of Alabama At Huntsville October 2012 Lower Tropospheric Temperature Analysis

» USA Election Day 2012

» New Paper “Climatic Variability Over Time Scales Spanning Nine Orders of Magnitude: Connecting Milankovitch Cycles With Hurst–Kolmogorov Dynamics” By Markonis And Koutsoyiannis

» New Paper “Indian Ocean Warming Modulates Pacific Climate Change” By Luo Et Al 2012

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» PAGES2K Online “Journal Club”

» Cook’s Survey

» More Kaufman Contamination

» Gifford Miller vs Upside-Down Kaufman

» Steig’s Bladeless “Hockey” Stick

» Non-centring in the Forest 2006 study

» PAGES2K Reconstructions

» PAGES2K South America

» PAGES2K, Gergis and Made-for-IPCC Journal Articles

» The Hockey Team and Reinhart-Rogoff

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Watts Up With That?

» Nenana Ice Classic – closing in on all time record latest ice-out

» Hurricane Main Development Region Sea Surface Temperatures & Anomalies – Plus a Couple of Other Regions

» Good news: World’s biggest ice sheets likely more stable than previously believed – upsets previous estimates of melting and sea level

» Climate control – lather, rinse, repeat

» Are regional models ready for prime time?

» Mike Mann’s global warming = tobacco claims on Al Jazeera

» Claim: How the IPCC arrived at climate sensitivity of about 3 deg C instead of 1.2 deg C.

» Friday Funny – great moments in 97% beliefs

» Another blow to the ‘extreme weather is climate’ alarmism meme – Australian cyclone activity down

» Tropical lizards safe from climate change forced extinction

» The 97% consensus – a lie of epic proportions

» An analysis of night time cooling based on NCDC station record data

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Global Warming News

» No Fine If Wind Farm Kills Endangered Condors — Fish and Wildlife Service

» Gina McCarthy’s Responses to Sen. Vitter’s Questions Part II: Fuel Economy

» EPA Demonstrates IRS-like Bias on FOIA Requests

» WSJ Op-Ed Explains Benefits of CO2

» Gina McCarthy’s Responses to Sen. Vitter’s Questions Part I: Bait-and-Fuel-Switch

» CO2 Litigation: Court and EPA Can’t Both Be Right — and Both May Be Wrong

» EPA Doubles Down on E15 — Literally

» Senate Schedules Vote for EPA Nominee

» Biofuels Policy Itself is Warning That It’s Near Breaking Point

» Hansen Compares Conservatives and Climate Change Skeptics to Neanderthals

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Fox News - Climate Change Stories

» Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean

» Who is the most incredible Christian ever?

» Caribbean talks conservation on Branson's island

» UN: $2.5 trillion in disaster losses since 2000

» Meet the teenager who designed a safer nuclear power plant

» Mount Everest is melting

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Michelle Malkin - Enviro-Nitwits

» Dueling headlines — ‘Is is hot in here or is Al Gore crazy?’ edition

» News flash: Al Gore still trying to get everybody to panic

» A grisly Earth Day reminder: Eco-pacifist fraud Ira Einhorn, a killer in P.C. clothing

» Federal study concludes man-made climate change not cause of 2012 drought

» Taxpayer-backed Fisker lays off 75 percent of workforce; poor sales attributed to global shortage of people named Leonardo DiCaprio

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DailyTech Michael Asher`s blog

» Will the Real Antarctica Please Stand Up?

» Global Warming May Decrease Hurricanes, Research Suggests

» Japanese Report Disputes Human Cause for Global Warming

» Sea Ice Ends Year at Same Level as 1979

» A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the (Climate) Forum

» Climate Report Downgrades Ice Loss; Media Reports Opposite

» Princeton Physicist Calls Global Warming Science "Mistaken"

» Defying Predictions, Sea Level Rise Begins to Slow

» Electric Car Sales in Freefall; Industry Risks Collapse

» Glaciers in Norway Growing Again

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C3 - Climate Cycles Change

» Obama Administration's View On Disappearance of Global Warming - "I Don't Know"

» Simple, Basic Factual Truths: Dangerous, Accelerating Global Warming Does Not Exist

» Global Warming: Fabrication of Misleading Temperature Data By IPCC Related Scientists Continues

» Michael Mann's Scary New Sea Level Predictions Identified As Bogus, Confirms 97% Consensus That He Fibs

» Reality Wake-Up Call: Climate "Experts" Sea Level Prediction Found To Be Wildly Wrong

» Multiple Proxy Study Confirms "Global Warming" Skeptic Views - Modern Temps Not Unprecedented, Not Global

» New Major Study Determines Dangerous, Accelerating Sea Levels Due To CO2 Emissions Is Fantasy

» The Known Physics of Global Warming Vs. The Anti-Science of Green-Fundamentalists

» Fact Check: Rice Crop Yield Improves With Global Warming, Higher CO2 Levels - Opposite of Alarmist Predictions

» Boiling Oceans? Warming of Oceans On Path To +0.16°C Increase Over Next 100 Years Say Experts

» IPCC Climate Science Confirmed By NOAA: Global Warming Causes Global Cooling

» Newly Released Evidence Establishes That Arctic Region Was Warmer During Medieval Period

» Stuck-On-Stupid: Majority of Mainstream Journalists Too Stupid To Recognize Failure of CAGW Climate Science

» U.S. Breadbasket At Risk From Global Cooling NOAA Indicates - Crop Failures, World Hunger A Result?

» Climate Science Confirms: The Unprecedented Medieval Warming vs. The Modern Warming

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CATO - Global Warming

» Is the Government Spying on Reporters More often than We Think?

» Hospital Lobby Fears They Might Not Get Medicaid Subsidies

» Obama’s War on the Young

» Why People Keep Misunderstanding the 'Connection' between Race and IQ

» Blame Campaign Finance Crusaders for IRS Mess

» At Last, Justice for Locked-in Juveniles?

» U.S. Defense Cuts: An Ax Is Needed, Not a Scalpel

» Putting out the Welcome Mat for Prosperity

» Nothing to Joke about in a Partisan IRS

» The Perils of Religious Persecution in Iran

» Immigration's Clear Benefits

» Electoral College Was Framers' Antidote to Popular Vote

» Fast Growth Will Save Lives Not the Food Security Bill

» When We Began

» The Minimum Wage Is a Jobs and Freedom Killer

» FBI's Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Internet Should Be Trashed

» Krugman's Still Wrong

» Graduates, Your Ambition Is the Problem

» Prodding China to Pressure North Korea: How US Policy Should Change

» The Biggest Tax Catch

» Park Geun-Hye Comes Calling

» Growing Government and Slowing Growth -- Obama's Contradiction

» Is Obama Continuing Bush-Cheney Torture?

» The Minimum Wage Delusion, and the Death of Common Sense

» What's Wrong with Internet Sales Tax

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»UN IPCC Lead Author Hans Von Storch Warns: Climate Scientists Have Been ‘Taking On The Roles Of Medicine Men And Priests’ — Accuses his colleagues of spreading panic
»The New York Times bitches about Obama offering ‘no visible sign of a coherent climate strategy’
»Germany’s Der Spiegel Newspaper Trashes John Cook’s 97% Consensus Survey. Man’s Impact ‘Remains Hotly Disputed’…Only 10% Have Faith In Models
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»Fact checking for the New York Times Editorial Board: Editorial claims ‘Climate warnings growing louder.’
»This is crazy — ’Eco-psychiatry’: ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’. ‘Climate refugees’ with PTSD. Solastalgia, or grief for the changes in one’s home environment
»Hillary Clinton Has ‘Hard Hitting’ Climate Change Chat with Harrison Ford: “We are in a race against time,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned Wednesday night, in an interview with actor Harrison Ford.’We still live in a state of denial. We see it, we experience it, but we have a great deal of difficulty in summoning the political will … to address it’
»U.S. Snow cover sets new record: ‘Snowfall data from NOAA Rutger’s Snow Lab for April is in. It ranked high enough to make the cold season (Nov. 2012 to April 2013) average the HIGHEST in the record (back to 1966)’
»Good news: World’s biggest ice sheets likely more stable than previously believed – upsets previous estimates of melting and sea level
»Episcopal ‘green’ bishop Bud Cederholm conducts service to bless solar panels
»Watch Now: Princeton U. Physicist Dr. Will Happer on CNBC on benefits of rising CO2: ’1,000 ppm of CO2 would be beneficial for the productivity of agriculture’
»‘The 97% consensus claim – a lie of epic proportions’ – Warmist John Cook’s study exposed
»Gore rips GOP ‘deniers’: ‘Sooner or later, climate deniers in the GOP will have to confront their willful blindness to the climate crisis’


Date published: Sun, 19 May 2013 12:08:06 +0000
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»On the Lighter Side: HAARP Tornado Vortex Clouds Attack!
I get scattered e-mails from a lot of people, but I get routine updates from someone named “Ol ...
»A Simple Experiment to Show How Cool Objects Can Keep Warm Objects Warmer Still
The standard explanation of the “greenhouse effect” is that it keeps the surface of the Earth warmer ...
»Surface Radiation Budget: Where’s the Proof?
I’ve had several requests for evidence of the hundreds of watts of downwelling infrared sky ra ...
»Time for the Slayers to Put Up or Shut Up
I have allowed the Sky Dragon Slayers to post hundreds of comments here containing their views of ho ...
»Global Microwave SST Update for April, 2013: -0.04 deg. C
The satellite-based microwave global average sea surface temperature (SST) update for April 2013 is ...
»Imaging the Greenhouse Effect with a FLIR i7 Thermal Imager
What is the atmospheric greenhouse effect? It is the warming of the surface and lower atmosphere cau ...
»UAH Global Temperature Update for April, 2013: +0.10 deg. C
Our Version 5.5 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for April, 2013 is +0.10 ...
»A Simple Model of Global Average Surface Temperature
And, yes, you can try this at home. I put together a simple surface energy balance model in an Excel ...
»How Can Home Insulation Keep Your House Warmer, When It Cools Your House?!
<sarc> There is an obvious conspiracy from the HVAC and home repair industry, who for years ...
»Global Warming Slowdown: The View from Space
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»Amherst, MA Presentation, March 7
I will be rolling out version 3.0 of my presentation on climate that has already been around the Int ...
»Climate De-Bait and Switch
Dealing with facile arguments that are supposedly perfect refutations of the climate skeptics ...
»Lame, Desperate Climate Alarm Logic
Via Kevin Drum: Chris Mooney reports today that there’s also a very simple reason: global warm ...
»Extrapolating From A Single Data Point: Climate and Sandy
I have a new article up at Forbes on how crazy it is to extrapolate conclusions about the speed and ...
»A Great Example of How The Climate Debate is Broken
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»I Was Right About Monnett
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»Lewandowsky et al. Proves Skeptics are Reasonable and Pro-Science
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»Worst Study Ever?
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»I Was Reading Matt Ridley’s Lecture at the Royal Society for the Arts….
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»Still Toying With Security
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Date published: Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:36:44 +0000
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»Obama administration gives wind farms a pass on eagle deaths, prosecutes oil companies
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»In Defense of Carbon Dioxide
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»Cooling in the Arctic: what to expect?
By Oleg Nekhai Global warming which has been the subject of so many discussions in recent years, may ...
»Dem Resolution Warns Climate Change Could Push Women To ‘Transactional Sex’
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»Second Coldest Spring in US History
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»PAGES2K Online “Journal Club”
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»Cook’s Survey
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»More Kaufman Contamination
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»Gifford Miller vs Upside-Down Kaufman
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Date published: Sun, 19 May 2013 17:07:21 +0000
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»Atmospheric Methane Concentrations
Atmospheric methane's contribution to anthropogenic climate forcing is estimated to be about half th ...
»Solar Influence on Temperatures in Europe
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»Solar Influence on Climate: Cosmic Rays
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»Request for Correction of Serious Inaccuracy
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»Cook "The Books" is Wrong to Slam Roy Spencer
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»Is C02 Mitigation Cost-Effective?
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»Solar Influence on Global Temperature
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»Evidence of a Medieval Warm Period in Antarctica
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»Analysis of US and State-by-State Carbon Dioxide Emissions &amp; Potential "Savings" in Future Global Temperature &amp; Global Sea Level Rise
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»Storm Trends Across the North Atlantic Ocean
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»Snow in UK and downunder on 15th of May
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»Vote NO to referendum to amend the Australian Constitution to recognize local councils
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»Ongoing decline in efficiency of Perth Dam catchments – reply from WA Minister
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»RI sunspot numbers just out for April – NASA/NOAA SWO number confirms the “rabbit ears”
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»ACORN-SAT – The Australian Bureau of Meteorology temperature database – is not to be trusted
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»113 years of rainfall at Merredin in the heart of the Western Australian wheat belt
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»Update chart monthly irregular boat arrivals – Australian borders still open, come on down
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»New ice core study from Antarctic Peninsula fails to detect Medieval Warm Period
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»Proposal that there is a long standing mathematical error in IPCC’s AGW theory
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StopSmokingPot    [02/01 09:01]
I'm loving this Gore getting bashed by MSM for selling to "big oil", the MSM of course is worried about the CO2, but the real worry should be that the programing will just continue to attack drilling in the U.S. giving the middle east the edge and the profits and the jobs, etc. etc.


WCK    [11/25 10:52]
Scientists are try to figure out what fossil fuel was used by a 9,000 year old society that caused their city to end up 120 feet below sea level. lol ;-)


WCK    [11/25 10:48]
Here is the story of the 9,000 year old city found under 120 feet of water.




WCK    [11/25 10:46]
Scientists are try to figure out what fossil fuel was used by a 9,000 year old society that caused their city to end up 120 feet below sea level. lol ;-)


ron    [11/18 05:47]
And I am still learning how to edit after recording. I come from the good old days of a 5 inch reel-to-reel.



ron    [11/18 05:46]
I'm still having problems adapting the mic to record. I sing so loud on the high parts that the mic clips and produces that distortion that you hear.


ron    [11/18 05:43]
Hey WCK, I am playing a Spectrum acoustic with Ernie Ball Slinkies. The song is the theme song from the tv show "Sons of Anarchy."


WCK    [11/17 20:56]
Hi Ron you're a blast from the past. I really like the song and am thrilled to see you're pursuing your passion. What guitar are you using in the song and what kind of strings?


ron    [11/17 17:17]
I haven't checked in for a while. Still cooking on my charcoal grill, driving a gasoline engine. And still singing.





WCK    [10/21 11:42]
SSP - Here's another group across the pond working on the same process of making fossil fuels green. and others

CO2 is a green fuel not just for plants but for humans, who knew? Since current wind and solar require Rare Earth Elements that are as limited of a resource as fossil fuels that have to be mined from the Earth, this new technology of recycling CO2 into gasoline provides an inexhaustible supply of fuel without increasing CO2. See SSP you and I have been supporting green renewable energy all along.


StopSmokingPot    [10/16 08:55]
WOW Battery maker get 9 million in Taxpayer money and the investment goes bankrupt. Hows that happen? Govt. does not know how to invest in anything.


StopSmokingPot    [10/16 08:39]
WCK CO2 to gasoline! What's the name of that company? I know the Govt. would rather invest in bankrupt solar/wind. But that typical but I wouldn't mind investing in gasoline anything.


WCK    [10/10 16:41]
Fossil fuel can be a renewable energy with a net zero CO2 impact and the technology to make it so is being developed. An artificial tree that can absorb 1 ton of CO2/day can then transfer that CO2 to be combined with other chemicals to make gasoline. The cycle can be repeated indefinitely.




WCK    [08/11 08:35]
The climate disinformation ministry earlier this year tauted forest fires as more evidence of extreme weather caused by warming. As usual the public was lied to as fires this year are well below normal.

2012 (1/1/12 - 8/10/12) Fires: 39,445 Acres: 5,047,443
2011 (1/1/11 - 8/10/11) Fires: 47,187 Acres: 6,320,510
2010 (1/1/10 - 8/10/10) Fires: 41,614 Acres: 2,167,361
2009 (1/1/09 - 8/10/09) Fires: 59,990 Acres: 4,969,641
2008 (1/1/08 - 8/10/08) Fires: 56,778 Acres: 3,991,073
2007 (1/1/07 - 8/10/07) Fires: 59,258 Acres: 5,548,273
2006 (1/1/06 - 8/10/06) Fires: 74,045 Acres: 5,994,790
2005 (1/1/05 - 8/10/05) Fires: 41,003 Acres: 5,285,571
2004 (1/1/03 - 8/10/04) Fires: 50,774 Acres: 5,623,787
2003 (1/1/03 - 8/10/03) Fires: 39,467 Acres: 1,958,238



The latest satellite based global temperature fell in July and didn't even make the top 10 but in the USA we are told to just look out the window for proof of AGW. lol


WCK    [08/09 05:46]
Here is an article describing a scam in which money from carbon trading is not really reducing GHGs. It exists because the cost of producing the harmful GHG is much less than the profit from destroying the GHG. It allows companies to make 10s of millions in carbon credits by increasing the production of the harmful gas in one factory and then destroying it at their other factory. It's like paying an arsonist to put out fires and having the arsonist going out and starting more fires to put out. This reminds me of the instance where feed-in tarrifs for green energy were so high in Germany that people bought fossil fuel powered generators to run at night to shine light onto their solar panels which netted a handsom profit. Last year 800,000 German families couldn't afford heat last winter as energy costs were unaffordable.



StopSmokingPot    [08/08 15:59]
I think it's interesting that they are using sat images that are not the actual images of Greenland but use "computer generated images" to show that ice melted countrywide and visually make people think all the ice melted in 48 hours even though the ice is 2 miles thick. The amount of ice that melted nation wide was most likely less than a 16th of an inch melt.
Yes they have ramped up the disinformation they sound like the current administration. They just blurt out stuff even though they know our own eyes see different and if we question it they a attacked verbally today... but tomorrow?? It's feeling a bit Soviet.


WCK    [08/06 09:56]
SSP - The alarmists' have ramped up the disinformation campaign to frighten the ignorant and uninformed. They ignore the scientific fact that paleoclimate researchers have identified periods of past drought that lasted 200+ years in the last 1,000 years when CO2 was below 300PPM and then pretend that a few months of drought today is unprecedented and "proof" that global warming is the culprit for more extreme weather. However the actual scientific evidence that something is wrong with the current CO2 based models/theory continues to grow. Antarctic ice melt models have been found to be wrnong and now the Greenland models are being questioned for accuracy. What a shock! lol





StopSmokingPot    [08/02 19:06]
Hey guy's you've seen the sat images of Greenland purported to be take on the 8th full of ice then on the 12th with no Ice?? Just to let you know I flew over Greenland on the 14th and it was solid white what is known about this sat. imagery??


WCK    [07/16 21:10]
One of the key tenets of global warming is that warming amplification will occur in the form of increased water vapor feedback. Bryan Walsh of Time Magazine claimed that the heavy snow in D.C a few years ago was due to increased water vapor in the atmosphere caused by global warming. Of course Walsh never had data to back up his assumption and now there is 22 years of NASA "special project" data that shows that his assumption was wrong.

This is quite inconvenient as climate models base 2/3 of future warming on non-CO2 based feedbacks like water vapor. It also means that the models used by the IPCC are not robust and that it would be illogical to assume that future predictions are accurate when models are unable to replicate what the Earth is actually doing. Other problem areas for these models are aerosols, clouds and Stratospheric water vapor.


stopsmokingpot   [07/14 20:26]
At one time man new weather was Poetry not to be feared.

"Rain falls, clouds rise, rivers dry up, hailstorms sweep down; rays scorch, and impinging from every side on the earth in the middle of the world, they are broken and recoil and carry with them the moisture they have drunk up. Steam falls from on high and again returns on high. Empty winds sweep down, and then go back again with their plunder. So many living creatures draw their breath from the upper air; but the air strives in the opposite direction, and the earth pours back the breath to the sky as if to a vacuum. Thus as nature swings to and fro like a kind of sling, discord is kindled by the velocity of the world's motion."Pliny the Elder, from the Natural History, AD 77


stopsmokingpot   [07/14 20:23]
Date Line July 14 2012-Just flew back from London, Greenland pure white from head to toe, Southern Baffin Bay plenty of Ice flows from the spring & summer thaw as always. long way from not having Ice in the Arctic... You Crazy Moonbats.
Altitude 37,000 ft over Denver -60 degrees F and that's where all the Heat goes up and cooled and dispersed. HEAT-TRAPPED! No place but between you crazy ears Moonbats. Fires in Denver no, Rain, YES.


Thetruth   [07/13 16:02]
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Thetruth   [07/13 16:02]
WCK is an Alien! Listen to what he's saying! This guys wicked smart because hes from outterspace and has a spaceship! GO GLOBALWARMING HOAX!!!


WCK    [07/13 10:25]
New tree ring reconstructions refute the IPCC/Michael Mann hockey stick.


Global reconstructions using better proxy methodology than tree rings, also provide growing evidence that the hockey stick is wrong, that there were warm/warmer periods such as the RWP and MWP and that they were global events. The writing is on the wall. The IPCC has lost all a scientific credibility and it is clear that the idea of consensus on global warming is mythology at best. I have provided numerous examples on this site over several years explaining climate model divergence from reality and honest scientists like James Lovelock can mo longer ignore evidence of climate model divergence and are recanting their consensus support. Without a .3 degreeC temperature rise in satellite readings by 2013, the models are falsified.


WCK    [07/13 09:49]
The Antarctic was covered with vegetation during the Miocene when CO2 levels were 280 PPM. Can any of you that believe in a consensus of unprecedented global warming explain this decoupling between global warming and CO2? Japanese sea level experts find that sea level was 2 meters higher than today just 4,000 years ago when CO2 levels were below 300PPM. This corraborates seperate studies in the Carribean that also provide evidence of sea level being higher by 1 to 2 meters earlier in the Holocene period.

Those that believe in a climate consensus are anti-science types who have not examined any paleoclimate data, satellite data, etc. and who let their lizard brain flight or flight fears overtake logic based on evidence. They are unable to realize their own confirmation bias but rely on it to ignore scientific evidence that challenges them.


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The Breakthrough Institute's Twelve Theses & The Death Of Environmentalism by Doug L. Hoffman

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Breakthrough Institute co-founders Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus returned to Yale University last month for a retrospective on their 2004 essay, “The Death of Environmentalism.” Rarely does a critical assessment of an inflamed public debate so clearly shine the light of reason on why a cause was lost. In their speech Shellenberger and Nordhaus, bloth life long environmentalists, argued that green politics and the climate change crisis were destroyed from within, by exaggerated scientific claims, fantasies about green jobs and “An Inconvenient Truth.” After detailing how climate change alarmists managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, the authors go on to offer some advice for the green movement: 12 theses for a post-environmental approach to climate change. In effect, they are saying that the world needs to concentrate on solving the problems that matter to people—food, energy, economic development—and the environment will be fixed as a side effect.

Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger spent most of their careers working for environmental groups as political strategists. Seven years ago, frustrated by the movement’s focus on pollution regulations rather than public investment in technology, they started interviewing America's environmental leaders with the intention of writing a report on the politics of global warming for the October 2004 meeting of the Environmental Grantmakers Association. “We came away from the experience deeply disappointed,” they reported. “Not one of the environmental leaders we interviewed articulated a compelling vision or strategy for dealing with the challenge.”



Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus of the Breakthrough Institute.

This experience led to the writing of their celebrated paper, “The Death of Environmentalism,” a wake-up call for green activists that was both praised and excoriated by members of the environmental movement. In it they wrote: “Over the last 15 years environmental foundations and organizations have invested hundreds of millions of dollars into combating global warming. We have strikingly little to show for it.” Perhaps an indication that the public is not as gullible as most activists believe.

The paper argued that “issue group liberalism” was declining and that “the environmental community's narrow definition of its self-interest leads to a kind of policy literalism that undermines its power.” The stakes are too high to go on with business as usual, they pleaded. In early 2005 Yale invited them on campus to publicly debate that essay and in 2008 they were named Heroes of the Environment byTime magazine.

In February, 2011, the duo returned to the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies for a retrospective on “The Death of Environmentalism.” The resulting essay amounts to a true “breakthrough” in environmental thinking—a clear understanding of how the climate change crisis was so mishandled, so poisoned by green politics and irrational thought, that it now lies in ruin. Here some of the highlights of their postmortem of the death of environmentalism will be presented.




The Death of Environmentalism

After noting how American greens, with a Democratic White House and large Democratic majorities in Congress, squandered their best opportunity in a generation, by gambling everything on a single roll of the legislative dice—a fatally flawed energy bill that in the end could not be passed—Shellenberger and Nordhaus recapped the global nature of global warming's defeat:

The picture is no less grim internationally. Australia has abandoned efforts to cap its emissions. Japan announced last month that it would, under no circumstances, agree to further emissions reduction commitments under the auspices of the Kyoto Accord. The European Union will meet its Kyoto commitments thanks to the collapse of Eastern Bloc economies in the early 90's and the collapse of the global economy in 2008, not through public policy efforts to decarbonize its economy. And the collapse of diplomatic efforts to negotiate legally binding emissions caps, first in Copenhagen and again in Cancun, has set the international process back to where it started in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro.


Throw in a confusing and unexplainable cap and trade policy, along with the failure of green Jobs to materialize, and the green bubble soon burst. More interesting than what they call “the crash” is the authors' assessment of what went wrong. Suggesting that interest in climate change and green jobs was primarily an elite phenomenon that had little effect on public opinion, Shellenberger and Nordhaus mark the start of environmentalism’s fall with the release of that paragon of disinformation, Al Gore's “An Inconvenient Truth.”

From virtually the moment that "An Inconvenient Truth" was released, public skepticism about global warming began to rise. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that from July 2006 to April 2008, belief that global warming was occurring declined from 79 percent to 71 percent. Gallup polls also revealed similar backlash to the movie, with the percentage of Americans who believed in global warming was exaggerated, rising from 30 percent in March of 2006 to only 35 percent in March of 2008.


It was the turn to scientifically unsupportable exaggeration and scare tactics that were the proximate cause of global warming's downfall, claim the authors, noting that: “When Gore said "we are going to have to change the way we live our lives" he could not have uttered a statement better tailored to trigger system justification among a substantial number of Americans.” In other words, Gore told America it had to make sacrifices and America told Gore to pound sand.



Gore's “An Inconvenient Truth” was the beginning of the end.

“Environmentalist appeals to scientific authority led conservatives not to abandon their opposition to state intervention in the energy economy but to reject climate science,” they continue. Environmentalists were simply unable to understand how the public could deny the reality of anthropogenic warming. The rising tied of skepticism led to a closing of the ranks by mainstream climate scientists, who were now fatally committed to supporting the activists' claims of impending climate apocalypse. The chasm between the public and the true believers grew ever wider.

Greens reacted to these developments not by toning down their rhetoric or reconsidering their agenda in a manner that might be more palatable to their opponents. Instead, they made ever more apocalyptic claims about global warming - claims that were increasingly inconsistent, ironically, with the scientific consensus whose mantle greens claimed. These efforts both further increased political polarization among conservatives and undermined support for action among many others. UC-Berkeley political psychologist Robb Willer recently demonstrated through a series of experiments that catastrophic presentations of global warming actually reduce belief in global warming.


There is much more detail about the fall of anthropogenic global warming in the Shellenberger and Nordhaus essay, but that story is known to many who have been in the trenches fighting off the greens. In stead, I would like to turn to the palliative 12 theses offered by the authors.

The Twelve Theses

Shellenberger and Nordhaus are dedicated environmentalists, believers in the dangers of climate change. But they are also realists, who have figured out the futility of the course the climate change lobby has chosen: “Today, the need to remake ecological politics is clearly more urgent than ever. That will require that we actually learn from our failures and let those lessons become the underlying assumptions for a new, post-environmental climate movement.”

Here is a condensed version of the 12 theses offered by Shellenberger and Nordhaus as guidelines for the future of climate change and environmentalism activism. They are nothing short of a watershed revelation for eco-activists—if they have the sense to adopt them.

First, more, better, or louder climate science will not drive the transformation of the global energy economy. The reality is that the more our understanding of the full complexity of the climate system advances, the greater the uncertainties about the impacts of climate change and the attribution of those impacts to anthropogenic activities will become.

Second, we need to stop trying to scare the pants off of the American public. Doing so has demonstrably backfired. Skepticism about climate science has been motivated by concerns about the remedies that greens have proposed.

Third, the most successful actions will not be justified for environmental reasons. The only two countries to significantly decarbonize their energy supplies – France and Sweden – did so for energy security reasons in response to oil price shocks, not for environmental reasons.

Fourth, we need to stop imagining that we will solve global warming through behavior changes. Global development and urbanization are salutary trends – for they bring with them the opportunity for billions of us to live longer, healthier, and freer lives.

Fifth, we have to stop treating climate change as if it were a traditional pollution problem.

Sixth, we will not regulate or price our way to a clean energy economy. Regulatory and pricing solutions tend to succeed when we have good, low cost alternatives to the activities which we are attempting to discourage or eliminate.

Seventh, we need to acknowledge that the so-called "soft energy path" is a dead end. Renewables still cost vastly more than fossil based energy, even before we calculate the costs associated with storing and transmitting intermittent forms of energy.

Eighth, we will not internalize the full costs of fossil fuels, even if we are able to agree upon what they actually are. Like the climate science upon which they are based, economic models that attempt to model the social costs of carbon emissions are endlessly disputable.

Ninth, we will need to make clean energy technologies much cheaper in order to decarbonize the global energy economy. Clean energy technologies, where they have been deployed at all, still require vast public subsidies in order to be commercially viable.

Tenth, we are going to have to get over our suspicion of technology, especially nuclear power. There is no credible path to reducing global carbon emissions without an enormous expansion of nuclear power.

Eleventh, we will need to embrace again the role of the state as a direct provider of public goods. Virtually the entire history of American industrialization and technological innovation is the story of government investments in the development and commercialization of new technologies.

Twelveth, big is beautiful. The rising economies of the developing world will continue to develop whether we want them to or not. The solution to the ecological crises wrought by modernity, technology, and progress will be more modernity, technology, and progress.


Remember, these guys are environmentalists! The criticism of the way anti-nuclear activists hijacked the environmental movement in item 7 is particularly poignant. And the call for an “enormous expansion” of nuclear power in item 10 echoes calls from other environmentalists, like Patrick Moore, for a return to the nuclear path. As Moore has said, we now know that you can't really be an environmentalist and be opposed to nuclear power.




Not that I agree with all twelve points listed above. Take number 9, making clean energy technologies much cheaper, good luck with that. And as for number 11, the state as a direct provider of public goods, that is just plain wrong. Crash government projects, often in time of war, have developed many stunning new technologies—nuclear power, radar, drugs—but the government has never proven adept at providing those technologies to the people.

Such programs tend to be inefficient, profligate spenders of public monies, good for proving a concept or a one off technological triumph—the race to the moon come to mind. The best role for “the state” is as an incubator of new ideas. America's national lab systems has turned out an impressive number of new innovations, the newly developed Brayton cycle CO2 gas turbine system is but one example. Commercial development, however, should be left in the hands of businessmen not bureaucrats.

Caveats aside, there are several explanatory paragraphs accompanying each one of the theses and I urge you the read them for your selves, it will be time well spent. In all, this is a stunning appraisal of the failure of conventional environmentalism and its cause célèbre—anthropogenic global warming. In the words of Shellenberger and Nordhaus: “The world in which we live, economically, technologically, politically, and most importantly ecologically, has so profoundly changed that the very foundations upon which contemporary environmental politics was constructed no longer hold.”

Does this mean that the warmists have been defeated and we can all rest safely in our beds tonight? Not if statements linking the recent earthquake in Japan and global warming by EESC president Staffan Nilsson are any indication. On the contrary, we skeptics must remain vigilant. Irrational climate change diehards will continue to spew disinformation and lies to the idiot news media. Many of the movement's political stooges will remain bought and paid for until the shift in public opinion renders such positions totally untenable. No, environmentalism and its bastard child, anthropogenic global warming, are not yet dead—but they are mortally wounded and here's hoping their expiration is both short and painful.

Be safe, enjoy the interglacial and stay skeptical.


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