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Climate News Articles for 2010

Obama Uses EPA to Skirt Failure to Pass Cap and Trade. Fox News, December 28, 2010. After failing to get climate-change legislation through Congress, the Obama administration plans on pushing through its environmental policies through sweeping new EPA regs Sunday, and Republicans are ready to put up a fight. It will raise energy and food prices while killing jobs. Note: It could be worse. Originally, the EPA included all business that emitted 250 tons of CO2 a year. That would have hit about every business in America and caused a massive crash of our economy. So the EPA changed it to 25,000 tons/yr., which affects only large industrial and power producing plants. Even so, it will have a large impact on electricity and food costs. Fortunately, it appears the Republicans will fight it, but will be denigrated by the progressive mainstream press.

CO2 Enrichment Dramatically Increases Growth of Mature Trees. Planta, December 31, 2010. It has been long known that CO2 enhancement caused young sapling trees to grow 25 to 40 percent faster, but did not know if this extended to mature trees. Five year measurements of mature (100 feet tall) deciduous trees in Switzerland showed a growth rate increase of 42 to 48 percent by increasing CO2 levels by 50%! Note: It is well known that human food production can be increased by 25 to 50%. This study shows the same effect (even more) occurs in both immature and mature forests, greatly improving ecosystem health. There is still no evidence of a downside to increased atmospheric CO2 levels, but plenty of evidence that elevated CO2 is tremendously beneficial to both humans and ecosystems.

Get Ready to Pay More at the Pump. Heritage Foundation, December 29, 2010. $5 per gallon is projected by 2012 as the EPA begins to regulate power plants and oil refineries in a futile effort to combat global warming. The new regulations will seek to cut greenhouse gas emissions by making it more expensive to turn fossil fuels into energy. Obama has instituted a policy of not issuing any new off-shore drilling permits while speeding up the permitting process for wind farms. After all, The liberal mantra has long been to disincentivize Americans from purchasing cheap fossil fuels, by driving costs up. Note: It is almost impossible to believe the Obama Administration is so focused on their clean energy ideology that they are blind to the utter failure of alternative energy (wind and solar) in Europe. Worse, it gave Brazil billions of dollars to conduct deep water drilling off of its coast, while banning any drilling in US waters. The U.S. has plenty of oil (over a hundred years worth), but this administration is forcing us to depend more and more on unstable governments who hate us.

No Proof Man Causes Global Warming. Washington Times, December 28, 2010. In spite of the fraud exposed by the Climategate emails, the failure of both Copenhagen 2009 and Cancun 2010, and the inability to get cap and trade legislation passed because people don't believe man is causing global warming anymore, in most policy discussions- and in Al Gore's movie - it is still assumed, without question, that the warming trend, since about 1900, is human-caused. Dr. Fred Singer, one of the world's leading skeptic continues to warn that there is no good evidence to support this belief except constant repetition of the mantra "The science is settled." Programs and policies associated with Kyoto should therefore be scrapped - including uneconomic alternative-energy sources, carbon-capture-and-sequestration efforts and costly emission-trading schemes. Note: Singer, of course, continues to be right on target. The entire claim of man-caused warming is the greatest fraud in human history -- all designed to justify the alleged need for global governance.

Red Faces at Met Office in England. Financial Post, December 21, 2010. The British deep freeze of recent weeks (which has also immobilized much of continental Europe) is profoundly embarrassing for the official forecaster. Just two months ago it projected a milder than usual winter. This debacle is more than merely embarrassing. The Met Office is front and centre in rationalizing the British government’s commitment to fight catastrophic man-made global warming with more and bigger bureaucracy, so its conspicuous errors raise yet more questions about that “settled” science. Note: This debacle is making headlines all across Europe, which is in the throes of the coldest, snowiest December in recorded history. It is the third year in a row that extreme cold and snow has hit Europe and is reminiscent of the Little Ice Age in which the Thames River in London and the Holland canals froze every year. This doesn't prove global cooling anymore than a summer heat wave proves global warming. However, it does follow projections of global cooling made several years ago by those scientists who believe that warming and cooling are controlled primarily by solar activity and/or ocean current oscillations.

California Leads Way on Global Warming. San Francisco Chronicle, December 20, 2010. Washington failed miserably to take action on climate change this year. The nation's best hope is California, which first voted down AB32 which would have stopped the implementation of its harsh CO2 emission regs, and then made a historic leap forward last week when its Air Resources Board approved a broad-based cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases. Note: California perhaps leads the world in mass delusion. Deeply in debt to the tune of $10 billion, soon to be $16 billion, the citizens first voted down AB32 which would have stopped the madness of the CO2 regulation and now is about to implement those regs which will plummet the State into bankruptcy. That's what Europe found out when they followed the same path. California's madness can only be viewed as massive delusion as more and more science shows man is not responsible for global warming and these kinds of regs are not needed. In fact, they are counterproductive.

Global Warming Intellectual Disconnected Aberrations. London Telegraph, December 17, 2010. Cancun alarmist: "But don’t you realise," said the bearded, staring enviro-zomb with the regrettable T-shirt, “that global cooling is what we must expect because of global warming?” This in an attempt to explain why Cancun experienced the coldest 6 days in a row in history amid 3 years of extremely cold winters in the Northern Hemisphere. Another disconnect is that the 0.7^oC rise in temperature within a single century is "unprecedented in the last 600,000 years." The truth is that 11,400 years ago at the end of the last Ice Age, temperatures in Antarctica rose by 5C in just three years. England's temperature rose 2.2^oC in just 40 years from 1695-1735. Note: Yes folks, these people, even scientists, actually believe their own dogma, regardless of common sense and real facts. That they can change national and international policy based on their disconnected ideology is what makes them so dangerous.

Coral Reefs Thrive in Higher CO2, New Study Reports. Environment & Climate News, December 14, 2010. Coral species develop more tissue biomass in ocean water that contains elevated levels of carbon dioxide, reports a new study published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta. The study, which contradicts alarmist assertions that rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels threaten coral reefs, is summarized by Dr. Craig Idso in the current edition of NIPCC Update. While higher carbon dioxide levels reduced coral calcification and skeletal growth in two separate coral species, the corals were able to compensate by adding more tissue biomass. Note: In spite of the hyped-up fear generated by the alarmists, this is not surprising. Cycles of CO2 levels in the oceans have occurred for millennia. The coral reefs have managed to prosper through these cycles before.

Global Warming to Turn Clouds into Heat Traps. Sify News, December 12, 2010. Global warming will turn clouds into heat traps, worsening the greenhouse gas effects, and chances that clouds will save us from climate change are low, claims Andrew Dessler, professor of atmospheric sciences at the Texas A&M University. 'It's a vicious cycle -- warmer temperatures mean clouds trap more heat, which in turn leads to even more warming,' Dessler explained, according to a Texas statement. Note: This belief is at the very heart of the controversy. As long as a scientist believes warming causes fewer clouds and therefore more solar energy reaching the earth's surface and therefore more warming, the scientist will believe man is causing warming. Note that nothing in the article about Dessler's "science" proves this theory. However, Dr. Roy Spencer, pioneer of NASA's satellite system has show mathematically that this theory is 180 degrees wrong. Something else, the sun, ocean oscillations, or both, cause cloud levels to change which cause the earth to warm or cool. Watch a YouTube interview we conducted with Spencer.

COP 16 Attendees Sign Petition to Ban Water; Harm US.CFACT, December 9, 2010. Climate dignitaries, “experts,” and activists in Cancun for the United Nations COP16 global-warming conference were caught on film signing a petition to ban water and another to cripple the U.S. economy if the American government refused to cooperate with the “international community.” CFACT Collegians said the water-ban prank was meant to illustrate the gullibility of COP16 attendees. It succeeded on almost everyone the students approached. “It was designed to show that if official U.N. delegates could be duped by college students into banning water by calling it "dihydrogen monoxide", that they could essentially fall for anything, including pseudo-scientific studies which claim to show that global warming is man-caused,” the collegians reported on the CFACT website. And it worked Note: This is not the first time this has been done. It is the first time the victims should have had the education to know better. It is frightening to realize our leaders will fall for any claptrap.

Cancun UN Climate Conference--Redistributing Wealth. Sovereignty International, December 1, 2010. "The climate summit in Cancun at the end of the month is not a climate conference, but one of the largest economic conferences since the Second World War," proclaimed Ottmar Edenhofer, a German economist and co-chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Working Group III. Severe rationing is being called for to limit carbon emissions amid a cacophony of fear mongering; “Unless emissions are reduced dramatically in the next ten years, the world is set to see temperatures rise by more than 4C (7.2F) by as early as the 2060s, causing floods, droughts and mass migration.” Note: Hot air and desperation characterize the Cancun talks as alarmists try to convince the world that we are destroying earth and must redistribute the wealth (destroying our standard of living in the process) to save it. This shrill rhetoric will not convince anyone with two or more brain cells.

EPA’s New Greenhouse Gas Regulatory Requirements Likely to get De-funded. Hotair, November 30, 2010. Republicans are considering de-funding the EPA’s horrendous CO2 emission regulations scheduled to go into force in January 2011. Rep Jerry Lewis (R-CA) said he wants to target EPA’s “ongoing arbitrary interpretation of the Clean Air Act” to begin regulating greenhouse gases in January. He said he will refuse to support federal funding to regulate greenhouse gases in the 112th Congress “unless Congress passes bipartisan energy legislation specifically providing the authority to do so.” At this point Lewis is aiming for the 2012 budget, but doesn’t rule out doing the same for the 2011 budget. Note: This is great news. The EPA’s multi-thousand pages of new regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will be a bigger hit on the economy than the proposed, but never passed cap and trade legislation.

House Climate Panel to be Axed. Politico, December 1, 2010. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) made official what many had already expected — the GOP majority will axe the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, which Pelosi created in 2007. Committee chairman Ed Markey (D-MA) held his last hearing, inviting warming alarmists to warn of the catastrophe to come if something isn't done. Note: Although there has been an avalanche of "sky-is-falling" media reports this past year to re-instill fear into an increasingly skeptical populace people are not buying it. For those of you just reading these media updates for the first time, there is absolutely no credible empirical scientific evidence that man is causing global warming. None. It is all based on very flawed climate models that are based on wrong assumptions.

There Will Be Fuel. New York Times, November 16, 2010. Just as it seemed that the world was running on fumes, and the great alternative energy push a fraud that is now collapsing in Europe, giant oil fields were discovered off the coasts of Brazil and Africa, and Canadian oil sands projects expanded so fast, they now provide North America with more oil than Saudi Arabia. In addition, the United States has increased domestic oil production for the first time in a generation. Meanwhile, another wave of natural gas drilling has taken off in shale rock fields across the United States, and more shale gas drilling is just beginning in Europe and Asia. Note: It has always been well known that there remain vast deposits of oil and gas around the world, and especially in the shale oil of Wyoming, Utah and Colorado. Five years ago the World Energy Council estimated there are 97 billion barrels of oil -- a 1,260 year supply at current global consumption rates -- of commercially available shale oil. There is a several hundred year supply at the current $81/barrel price. The entire alternative energy push is nothing but a farce for government to gain more control.

UN IPCC Official Admits 'We Redistribute World's Wealth by Climate Policy. Global Warming policy Foundation, November 13, 2010. (Ottmar Edenhofer, IPCC Lead Author): First of all, developed countries have basically expropriated the atmosphere of the world community. But one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy. Obviously, the owners of coal and oil will not be enthusiastic about this. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole. Note: Global warming has never been about saving the world. It has always been a political agenda. Always. I have been warning of this for over 20 years.

Obama EPA Rules Face Fight in New Congress. Reuters, 12 November 2010. Republicans in the new Congress will pose a greater threat to the Obama administration's strategy to regulate greenhouse gas polluters than a plethora of industry lawsuits. President Barack Obama has always said the EPA would regulate carbon emitters if lawmakers failed to pass a climate bill. Republicans, who will control the House of Representatives in January after winning some 60 seats in the midterm elections, are organizing to stop that from happening. They say the regulations will cost industry jobs and billions of dollars as the country struggles to recover from the recession.

Obama Shifting Climate Strategy After GOP Gains. Washington Post, November 5, 2010. The new Congress will usher in an unprecedented number of lawmakers who question the link between human activity and global warming. As a result, the Obama administration is abandoning its two-year quest to convince the public and lawmakers that global warming is a matter of scientific urgency. Note: One could hope this is true. Nonetheless, beware of the lame duck session of Congress starting November 15. Even if nothing happens, we still have the 18,000 page EPA regulations to control CO2 emissions that will be sprung on the nation early next year.

CA Voters Reject Prop 23—Keep State’s Global Warming Law Intact. LA Times, November 3, 2010. California voters reject Proposition 23 that would have rolled back its stiff global warming law to limit CO2 emissions. Note: Only in California. The state’s deficit is tens of billions of dollars, it has 12% unemployment, and business and industry are fleeing the state because of its crushing regulations. Yet, the citizens voted to keep its 2006 law that rolls back CO2 emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 as well as other business crushing requirements. Then again they re-elected Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and Jerry Brown (formerly called “Space Cadet” because of his starry-eyed progressive ideology when he was governor in the 1970s). This is in keeping with a November 2, 2010 poll by Yale University published in “Solve Climate News,” which found that 68 percent of democrats believe humans cause global warming and must be stopped lest the earth be cooked, while only 33 percent of Republicans thought so. In spite of what you hear on the liberal news, science supports the Republicans. At this rate California will continue to self-destruct and the federal government will have to bail them out because “they are too big to fail.”

Only 47% of Republicans Think Global Warming Is Happening. Solve Climate News, November 2, 2010. 81 percent of Democrats think global warming is happening, compared to 57 percent of independents and 47 percent of Republicans. When asked what is causing the Earth to warm, 68 percent of Democrats attributed it to human activities, while 51 percent of independents and 33 percent of Republicans had that same response. A third section of the newly released numbers reveals that 78 percent of Democrats are very or somewhat worried about global warming. That compares to 52 percent of independents and 32 percent of Republicans. Note: Although there is absolutely NO empirical scientific evidence that man is responsible for global warming, there appears to be a disconnect from reality within Democrats. That explains the insanity of California politics (see companion News Notes). To understand why, you need to read psychiatrist Dr. Lyle Rossiter’s book, Understanding the Liberal Mind.

What Have Climate Activists Learned? Project Syndicate, October 12, 2010. Written by Bjorn Lomborg, an internationally recognized economist who has shattered the environmental assertion that man is destroying the planet in his book The Skeptical Environmentalist, nonetheless believes man is causing global warming. However, he decries the insane rush to green alternative fuels such as wind and solar, saying they can never replace fossil fuel energy with today’s technology. He also solidly refutes the idea that the cost of imposing expensive green energy is less than the cost of environmental destruction if nothing is done. A massive study shows the cost of environmental mitigation resulting from not stopping global warming is only about $0.06 a gallon of gasoline—infinitely less than the cost of green energy.

GOP Plans Attacks On The EPA And Climate Scientists. LA Times, October 30, 2010. If the GOP wins the House, Republicans will allegedly launch a blistering attack on the Obama administrations environmental policies, as well as scientists who manipulate data and opinion to support the man-caused theory of global warming. The primary target will be the EPA's current plans to severely limit emissions of greenhouse gases using junk science to justify it. These new rules will cause major harm to the US economy. They will focus on what they see as distortions of scientific evidence that are then used to create draconian rule-making by the EPA. Note: This could be a good thing if the distortions and bad science is first demonstrated before taking the EPA to the woodshed. Failure to do this would give ammunition to the progressives to claim the Republicans are doing a political hatchet job without any proof.

Little Change in Opinions about Global Warming

The Pew Research Center, October 27, 2010. Views about the existence and causes of global warming have changed little over the past year. However, comparison between 2006 and 2010 show American's are rapidly becoming skeptical about the claim of man-caused global warming. The belief that the earth is warming at all dropped from 79% to 59% from 2006 to 2010. (Note: There is good evidence the earth has warmed, but not by man). Those who believe the issue is serious dropped from 43% to 32% and those who believe the government must immediately do something dropped from 61% to 46%. Only 44% of Americans now believe there is scientific consensus on the issue, down from 59% in 2006. Note: The global warming fraud is gasping its last breath (except in the mainstream media) as people begin to catch on to the fraud. Unless the Senate passes the cap and trade legislation during the lame duck session, it will become a dead issue in 2011. There couldn't be a better RIP.

Spain's Solar Deals on Edge of Bankruptcy. Bloomberg, October 18, 2010. Solar investors were lured by a 2007 law passed by the government that guaranteed producers a so-called solar tariff of as much as 44 cents per kilowatt-hour for their electricity for 25 years -- more than 10 times the 2007 average wholesale price of about 4 cents per kilowatt-hour paid to mainstream energy suppliers. This huge subsidy is not sustainable and is now collapsing. The renewable energy plan failed on all fronts to do what was promised. This is a warning to the U.S. Note: This is happening all over Europe with wind as well as solar. Yet Obama and Congress are still promoting it and may (probably?) try to push it through during the lame duck session in November/December.

Global Warming Fraud: The Tide Begins to Turn. Lew Rockwell, October 14, 2010. The letter written by physicist Hal Lewis resigning from the American Physical Society because of its blatant support of what Lewis called the biggest science fraud about man-caused global warming in history has gone viral. Truth about this fraud is finally gaining traction. However, truth still has a major fight on its hands. US$2 million is spent annually in the US trying to get the truth out but $3billion is spent trying every which way to prove man is responsible. US$120 billion was spent on emissions trading in 2008. That will grow to US$1trillion by 2012 unless this fraud is exposed and stopped dead in its tracks. Note: Its good news that people are waking up to the fraud. It is horrifying to realize if we fail to stop it, that US$1 trillion will take nearly 3,000 right out of the pockets of every man, woman and child in America. Watch out for the lame duck session. Become educated by reviewing our short YouTube videos at www.nocapandtrade.us.

Global Warming is 'The Greatest Fraud in 60 Years. UK Express, October 12, 2010. A top American professor has quit a prestigious academic body after claiming that global warming has become a “scam” driven by “trillions of dollars” which has “corrupted” scientists. Professor Harold Lewis, described his “revulsion” at last year’s leaked “Climategate” emails which appeared to show scientists at East Anglia’s world-leading Climate Research Unit rigging evidence in favour of man-made climate change. He branded man-made climate change “the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud” he has ever seen. Note: More and more scientists are calling the man-caused theory a complete fraud. If Congress does not pass cap and trade legislation this year, it will be impossible in the future.

Exploding Children Featured in 10:10 UK Video. Mother Nature Network, October 4, 2010. Furor has erupted over the new 10:10 UK campaign video involving a school teacher who deliberately and literally blows up two of her students who are ambivalent about altering their lifestyles to reduce CO2 emissions. After blowing up the two students the teacher calmly gives homework assignments as if nothing had happened, although the students are covered in blood and gore from their two classmates who were blown up. The clip then goes on to do the same thing to adults in different settings, except they are even more graphic than what happened to the two kids. Note: This is the sickest of a progressively worsening attacks on skeptics. One can only assume the intent is to dehumanize skeptics so when violence actually is conducted, people will believe it is justified. The apology from 10:10 came across more as a scolding to those who were disturbed by the images. After all, can't we take a joke?! What it does do is show how sick and dangerous these people really are and their willingness to use violent coercion if possible.

Top Science Body Cools on Global Warming. The Australian, October 2, 2010. The British Royal Society now recognizes there are gaps in scientific understanding that make predicting the extent of climate change and sea level rises impossible. The Society's revised Guide to the Science of Climate Change has been interpreted as a retreat from politics by an organization regarded as the world's most authoritative scientific body following the scandal that engulfed the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Although it undercuts many of the claims of a looming ecological disaster that were made to get public support, it nonetheless will not have any influence on the government's push to put a price on carbon. Note: Read this as: "even though science doesn't support man-caused global warming, we like the idea so much we are going to commit national suicide anyway."

A New Hurricane Record? Roger Pielke's Blog, Sept 30, 2010. We’re now at the first of October, and there’ve been no Category 3 or higher hurricanes (IH) to make landfall in the U. S. so far this season. The chances of a U. S. landfalling IH decrease significantly after 1 October. If an IH does not make landfall in the U. S. during the remainder of this season, this will make five consecutive seasons without an IH landfall in the U. S. The last such instance of this (based upon the current HURDAT file) was 1910 – 1914. Note: There was a change in how Categories were assigned in 1975 that would change this slightly. However, the point is that IH hurricanes have been almost non-existent since the busy seasons of 2004-2005. The warmer it got, the fewer hurricanes struck the US--just as we had forecast.

Royal Society Bows to Climate Change Sceptics. London Times, September 30, 2010. Britain’s leading scientific institution has been forced to rewrite its guide to climate change and admit that there is greater uncertainty about future temperature increases than it had previously suggested. The new version avoids making predictions about the impact of climate change and refrains from advising governments about how they should respond. The Royal Society now says, “It is not possible to determine exactly how much the Earth will warm or exactly how the climate will change in the future....There remains the possibility that hitherto unknown aspects of the climate and climate change could emerge and lead to significant modifications in our understanding.” Note: This dramatic revision comes after a large number of the Society's members blasted its biased former version. There is hope yet!

Greens Throw Obama under the Bus. Grist, September 24, 2010.Going Green is yet one more thing about which Obama passionately speaks, but fails with the follow through. Obama responds in a way that is a caricature of his failure-by-committee administration: sending mid-level officials to tell the greatest American environmental activist of our time that the president was rejecting their request out of hand in favor of a continued "deliberative process." Note: By focusing on big spending programs like the Stimulus Plan and Obamacare, the president has failed miserably on his environmental campaign promises. But don't count him out quite yet. There is always the lame duck session.

The Glaciers of Greenland. NIPCCReport.org, September 20, 2010. In summarizing the existing body of research pertaining to “fluctuations of local glaciers in Greenland (e.g. ice caps and mountain glaciers independent of the Greenland Ice Sheet) during latest Pleistocene and Holocene time,” recent research found that “subsequent to late-glacial or early Holocene time, most local glaciers were smaller than at present or may have disappeared completely during the Holocene Thermal Maximum,” a warm period 2.5 degrees warmer than today about 6 thousand years ago. Note: So much for the proclamations that today is the warmest it has ever been and glacier melt is unprecedented

Former Civil Service Chief Calls For Climate Shakeup. BBC, 14 September 2010. The former head of the civil service has called for a new approach from scientists and policy makers to restore waning trust in climate scientists. Lord Andrew Turnbull, former cabinet secretary and head of the Home Civil Service between 2002 and 2005, says the University of East Anglia's internal enquiries into the Climategate affair were hasty and superficial, and called for Parliament to sponsor two wide-ranging investigations. Note: Apparently the CRU whitewash has been exposed and is under withering condemnation. It is totally out of character for the government to challenge any global warming science, but we'll take the truth wherever we get it.

Now All GOP Senate Candidates Deny Global Warming. Grist, September 15, 2010. The last lone climate realist -- Delaware Rep. Mike Castle -- has been knocked out by Christine O'Donnell yesterday. Now all GOP candidates for U.S. Senate deny the need for climate action. Note: The Grist is ultra liberal, so this is not a complement--it is a call to arms to defeat all Republicans. While there are those in both parties that believe the myth of man-caused global warming, it is refreshing that all the Republican candidates have studied the issue enough to know it is a fraud.

Chances of Climate Bill Making a Comeback Appear Unlikely. Dallas News, September 14, 2010. The summer has been marked by severe weather worldwide, a phenomenon that some scientists say matches the expected outcomes of global warming. But few who follow climate change legislation think recent events will revive the bill, which was declared effectively dead in the Senate in July. Note: We can only hope this analysis is true. Based on the complete disconnect between reality and legislation passed by Congress this year and the contempt shown the American people, it remains highly likely the outgoing progressives will attempt to pass cap and trade during the lame duck session after the elections. Be on guard.

Britain’s MPs Mull 'Climate Enquiries' That Failed To Enquire The Register, September 10, 2010. Apparently the whitewash of the several British investigations into Climategate have not sat well with Britain’s MPs. The two lead authors of the Climategate whitewash, Muir Russell and Lord Ronald Oxburgh, were blasted yesterday in the opening round of inquires by the House of Commons Science Committee. The committee was not at all pleased with what they heard. It rapidly became apparent that the inquires did not investigate the bad science revealed in the emails at all, but sought merely to determine if the Climatic Research Unit’s scientists intentionally distorted science data by asking the scientists involved if they were guilty. That is not an investigation. It is a whitewash. Note: It is refreshing that the whitewashed findings of the Climategate investigations are being challenged and are found to be sorely lacking. The House of Commons intends to conduct more hearings. Stay tuned.

It Was a Tough Summer for Global warming Deniers. The verdict is finally in, as if we didn't already suspect we were heading to a record for over 90-degree days this summer. According to the National Climatic Data Center and the National Weather Service, this record wasn't some barely-over-the-record new standard. It was a record-breaker by more than 2 degrees. Note: This doom and gloom scenario has been in the headlines all summer. It is true, but it only part of the story. Global temps reached a peak of about 0.6^oF (0.85^oF for land only) above normal in the first 3 months of 2010 and has declined by about 0.4^oF since then as the 2010 El Nino dissipated. Most of the increased temp occurred in the Northern Hemisphere. In fact, the land temps in the Southern Hemisphere have been 0.15^oF below normal for the past 3 months. Finally, the Ocean temps have declined by 0.2^oF in the Northern Hemisphere the past 3 months and have averaged about the same (with large shifts back and forth) in the Southern Hemisphere. Given that last winter was several degrees colder in the US than the rest of the world, the 2 degrees warming in this summer in the US means nothing.

Another Damaging 'Oops' From Global Warming Scientists. IVN, September 8, 2010. A US-Dutch team of scientists has found that the rate of melting ice in Greenland and the western Antarctic is only about half what was previously thought. The error occurred when the scientists failed to take into account movements in the crust of the earth that occur as tons of ice melts. This new reversal on the high rate of glacial melting undermines the public’s confidence in scientific objectivity and honesty, and lays the foundation for strengthening the position of the anti-global warming forces. For global warming skeptics, it’s simply another nail in the coffin of climate change theory. Note: Sigh. Looks like Al Gore won't get his 20 feet of ocean rise after all. The guy is in a real slump lately. The world can celebrate.

Climate Change Lies Are Exposed. Express News, UK, August 31, 2010. The InterAcademy Council (IAC), an international group made up of national academies found the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change provided “little evidence” for its claims about global warming. It also said the panel had emphasized the negative impacts of climate change and made “substantive findings” based on little proof. This has led to calls to completely restructure the IPCC so it has no political input. Some have called for its termination entirely. Note: Finally, an intellectually honest report has discovered what we knew all along.

Texas Fights Global-Warming Power Grab. The Washington Times, August 25, 2010. The attorney general has notified the EPA: "On behalf of the State of Texas, we write to inform you that Texas has neither the authority nor the intention of interpreting, ignoring or amending its laws in order to compel the permitting of greenhouse gas emissions." Texas sees the EPA's multi-thousand page set of regulations to prevent greenhouse gas emissions as unconstitutional and are refusing to obey them. Note: This is a big deal. It may be the opening salvo of a state's rights rebellion. The Times article did not name it, but it is called "nullification" and was used frequently early in the nation's history to successfully stop unconstitutional laws from being imposed upon the states. The liberals will try to say that nullification was used by Southern states to stop federal antislavery laws from being imposed on Southern states. That is patently not true. More on this in the future. The same thing could be used in refusing any cap and trade law that may be passed during the lame duck session and could be used against the health care law. Check out our book Rescuing a Broken America at www.rescuingamericabook.com

Energy Prices Set to Surge by As Much As 109% in 2011. London Mirror, August 17, 2010. Wholesale energy costs have shot up by 62% since last December in England and the forecast is for home energy prices to go up another 10 percent next year. Average costs per home will exceed £1,300 ($2,030 US) per year. "Green" levies account for half of the average bill. Note: Numerous studies show that if Obama's alternative green fuel plan is fully implemented, it would eventually cost the average American family an additional $4,600 per year with no return benefits. There is a high probability that the Senate will attempt to ram through a "energy" (read cap and trade) bill in the Lame Duck session of Congress following the election. This cannot be allowed to pass! There is absolutely no empirical science to support the need for passing this legislation.

Cap and Trade Not the Answer to Global Warming. The Times Herald, August 10. 2010. First, there is no scientific proof that global warming is caused by CO2. Second, during the Middle Ages--from about the years 1000 to 1300--an abundance of evidence reveals a period of warming that probably exceeded that of the present period. Third, there is a growing body of evidence, mainly from Arctic and Antarctic ice cores, that reveal long-term temperature cycles associated with variations in the sun's radiation that could explain the recent warming. This suggests government programs such as Cap-and-Trade to deal with CO2 emissions, while imposing huge costs in terms of jobs and slower economic growth, could fail to have any impact on global warming. Note: Amid an avalanche of hysterical doom and gloom articles in recent weeks there is finally one with a bit of sanity.

It's Hot! Global Warming or Normal Cycles? The State Journal, June 9, 2010. Last year was the summer that wasn't. If my fact checking is correct, we only had 3 days over 90 degrees all summer. This year it seems like every day is near or over 90 degrees. Ask people on the street and they say it is due to global warming but they forget about last summer. If it is global warming why Argentina is having a colder winter than Antarctica? Bolivia is suffering 6 million dead fish and other aquatic life as of Aug 3rd. This is due to the river waters being too cold for river life to tolerate. Record heat in North America and record cold in South America and Australia. Global Warming is supposed to make this a very active hurricane season. Fortunately they appear to be wrong for the 2nd year in a row. How can this be explained. I think its just normal weather cycles. NOTE: We have not been posting many articles recently because the news is jammed full of hysteria about the hot summer proving man-caused global warming. This article brings us back to reality.

Energy Update. Rasmussen reports 65% of U.S. voters feel finding new sources of energy is more important now than reducing the amount of energy. Americans now consume. 59% also think that investing in alternative (wind/solar) energy is better than investing in oil. 56% think offshore oil drilling should still be allowed. While only 57% regard global warming is a serious issue, only 34% believe human activity is the main contributor. Note: This poll continues a downward trend in concern about global warming. However, the mainstream media is still convincing American's that large-scale wind & solar alternatives are still a good investment--something that up to 11 years of actual experience in Europe has shown to be a disaster.

Global Warming Will Cause 7 Million Mexicans to Enter U.S. Illegally. Roger Pielke Jr. Blog July 27, 2010. The mainstream media is currently trumpeting an analysis by leftist Michael Oppenheimer for the National Academy of Sciences. As with all wild-eyed claims of links between man-caused warming and some far-out effect, Oppenheimer makes the claim that global warming will cause a mass migration of illegal immigrants into the U.S. Internationally respected scientist Roger Pielke throws water on the claim; "To be blunt, the paper is guesswork piled on top of "what ifs" built on a foundation of tenuous assumptions. The authors seem to want to have things both ways -- they readily acknowledge the many and important limitations of their study, but then go on to assert that "it is nevertheless instructive to predict future migrant flows for Mexico using the estimates at hand to assess the possible magnitude of climate change–related emigration." It can't be both. Note: Much, if not most, of the claims of horrendous damage caused by global warming is at best wild guesstimates with a lot of bias thrown in to make it sound good. Dr. Pielke debunks this effort. However, that it was sanctioned by the National Academy of Sciences does not bode well for the promotion of good science.

Weather is Not Indicative of Global Warming. Tuscaloosa News, July 27, 2010. This summer's heat wave is no more indicative of global climate change than was last year's record cold wave in Alabama and several blizzards and record lows in parts of the United States. But that fact does little to dissuade those on either side of the debate, especially the climate change 'deniers,' from buttressing their opinions by whatever they see outside their windows at a given time. Note: This is true and unusual weather should never be used to indicate overall climate change. The minimum to use as climate trends is 10 years; 20 years is better. Even with the abnormally hot 1998 and 2010 included, the climate temperature has not increased on average for the past 15 years. In fact, it still shows a slight decline in global temperatures.

Left-Wing Physicist Declares Global Warming Fears A Fraud. Climate Depot, July 26, 2010. Leftist Physicist Dr. Denis Rancourt, a former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa, declares that the entire man-made global warming movement is nothing more than a “corrupt social phenomenon.” “It is as much psychological and social phenomenon as anything else.” Rancourt, who has published peer-reviewed research asserts, “I argue that by far the most destructive force on the planet is power-driven financiers and profit-driven corporations and their cartels backed by military might; and that the global warming myth is a red herring that contributes to hiding this truth. In my opinion, activists who, using any justification, feed the global warming myth have effectively been co-opted, or at best neutralized,” Rancourt said. Note: Finally, the left-wing is catching on to the fraud. Read what has happened and how the cartel did it in Rescuing a Broken America.

Senate Dems Retreat on Global Warming. Washington Examiner, July 23, 2010. Lacking the requisite 60 votes, Senate Democrats shelved plans to take up an aggressive energy and global warming bill before the August recess and will instead settle on a much smaller bill that deals with the Gulf oil spill and some smaller "green" initiatives. However, the "green" initiatives include increasing federal oversight on oil drilling and cleanup. It would also increase more incentives for hybrid (including natural gas) cars and more money into Land and Water Conservation Fund. Note: While good news, watch out for the lame duck session--it could come roaring back! Also more federal oversight of oil drilling is not necessary. It is becoming obvious that the Gulf Oil Disaster was caused by failed oversight of existing laws. Enforce laws already on the books! More $ going to hybrid cars is not a wise use of a cash-strapped economy; and more money into the Land and Conservation Fund merely puts more landowners in jeopardy of federal condemnation actions.

China, Coal and the Insanity of Cap and Trade. U.S. Energy Information Administration, July 22, 2010. China is both the largest consumer and producer of coal in the world and it consumption is escalating rapidly. Putting (cap and trade) “controls” on US energy use (or European or Australian or New Zealand or Russian or…) will simply move the usage to China, increasing their economic growth at the expense of others and moving more energy usage TO COAL and away from more environmentally friendly fuels and sources. Cap ‘N Tax and Kyoto like treaties will result in a net increase in CO2 production as the sources simply move to China. This is NOT a theoretical, it’s already happening (and in large part has happened. Look at the size and growth of China steel production, for example.) Note: It is insane to talk about cap and trade legislation in the US when it will do no good for the environment and ruin us economically. Yet, the progressives in Congress are hell bent to do exactly that. And this comes from the US Dept of Energy!

2010 Heats Up News Hype Over Global Warming. Wall Street Journal, July 21, 2010. 2010 is promising to be the hottest year in recorded history and the mainstream media is predictably trumpeting the fact. Not only are they proclaiming harsher storms, heat waves (like this summer) and crippling droughts, they are also claim massive snow storms are caused by global warming. Of course no mention is made of the doubts raised about the data integrity by Climategate. Note: No mention that 2007-2008 were the coolest years in forty years, nor that the warmth is caused by an unusual El Nino that has dominated temperatures since June 2009. However, that El Nino disappeared last month and it is still warm. It could be a lag effect since the ocean temperatures are rapidly cooling, which should be causing a cooling global temperature any time now. To be honest, I thought it would kick in by now, but it hasn't. Stay tuned.

Does New Scientist Foresee Paradigm Shift on Climate Theory? Suite201.com, July 20, 2010. Popular international science magazine, New Scientist appears to give support to the claim that a recent official inquiry into the Climategate scandal may rightly be dismissed as a 'whitewash.' The change in tone from the usually emollient journal has some commentators foretelling a growing loss of faith in the science behind the global warming scandal. Note: Yet another liberal magazine is challenging the "independent" investigations of ClimateGate. Rather than settling whether the CRU is exonerated, the independent investigations are being labeled a whitewash, causing even more doubt about the integrity of the CRU.

Don't Forget Climategate Just Yet. National Post, July 15, 2010. Three allegedly independent inquiries into Climategate have declared Britain's Climatic Research Unit free of any scientific wrongdoing. Yet, "it would be hard to conclude any of the reports was truly independent." It turns out that Geoffrey Boulton, one of the investigators, once headed up the CRU and even signed a petition before the investigation started that the CRU was innocent. Another investigator and leader of one of the teams, Ronald Oxburgh, is also honorary president of Carbon Capture and Storage Assoc., chairman of a wind-energy company and much more. These companies have to have cap and trade legislation passed to survive. Note: These are huge conflicts of interest. These and other members of the investigative teams should never have been selected--unless, of course the British and American governments wanted the CRU to be exonerated.

Don't Touch That Thermostat. WorldNetDaily, July 12, 2010. "First it was the SUV, now it's your AC. Next it will be your dryer, then your flat screen TV, and eventually the power company will have complete control of your furnace's thermostat in the winter," says Sussman, an award-winning television meteorologist and author of the book Climategate. This is not fantasy, this is reality. Millions of smart meters monitor electricity usage minute-by-minute and can be read remotely. The remote controlled Smart Thermostats...further enable bureaucratic control the temperature of your abode. The Smart Grid, which was mandated in the 2007 Energy bill and funded with 'stimulus' money, is coming next. The grid will possess interactive broadband capabilities to further control all of the new generation Energy Star appliances you will be forced to purchase – like your washer, dryer, water heater, and even your flat screen TV." Note: There is absolutely no reason or demand for this technology other than to control everything you do.

Climate Change: A Collective Flight from Reality. Washington Times, July 8, 2010. Roger Helmer is a member of the European Parliament and offers an excellent recap of why man-caused theory is totally wrong. He then goes on to say: The EU's "Cap 'n' Trade" scheme has been a disaster. It has imposed high costs on industry, achieved little or nothing and introduced very severe distortions into the market. It is argued Cap 'n' Trade is a "market solution." But it's a wholly artificial market, trading in a virtual commodity, and subject always to the whims of bureaucrats and legislators. The carbon price in the EU has been extremely volatile, and often close to zero. Note: Helmer is right on all counts. The global warming controversy is a hoax and will destroy every economy that tries to implement cap and trade.

Climate Science's Watery Reprieve. National Post, July 7, 2010. The last of three British investigations into the notorious Climategate has just been completed. Like the others, this one exonerated the Climatic Research Center. The report did, however, "portray climate science as a field filled with uncertainty, debate, lack of openness, data hoarding and ill-will." That, at least, is more than the other investigations stated. Note: As a scientist, these investigations are a shame and are pure whitewash. To my knowledge, none of investigations (made by non-scientists) asked well-credentialed, but skeptical scientists, why these emails showed the CRU manipulated temperature data to achieve their preconceived "proofs" of man-caused warming, and how they sabotaged the peer-review process. Had the committees done so, their conclusions could never exonerate the CRU. It is disgusting and a tragic day for science—and civilization. Michael Coffman, Ph.D.

Dutch Admit More Bad Global Warming Science. New American, July 6, 2010. The Dutch put into the 2007 IPCC report that 55% of the Netherlands was below sea level, when in fact it is only 26%. While not enough to unravel the man-caused theory, the steady stream of corrections and amendments by groups with a profound vested interest in global warming generates problems: (1) the mistakes in evidence made are often such bad mistakes as to cast doubt on the professionalism of the contributors, and (2) the mistakes invariably overstate the case for global warming. Note: The credibility of the IPCC has been in free-fall since last fall, even after hand-selected investigative committees white-washed the Climategate email scandal.

John Christy on Models, Sensitivity and More. Examiner, July 1, 2010. Dr. John Christy is an atmospheric scientist and Professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a lead author of the 2001 IPCC Report, and winner of achievement awards from NASA and the American Meteorological Society. In his June testimony to the Inter Academy Council, Christy testified that he felt the IPCC's overconfidence in climate models was not justified. He also said: "The first objection I raised regarding the Third Assessment was that the fabled Hockey Stick was oversold as an indicator of past climate change. This was well before the critical work of the [Congressional] Wegman Report, National Academy of Sciences, McIntyre’s papers and the East Anglia emails. Indeed, I urge you in the strongest terms to engage Stephen McIntyre in your deliberations at a high level as he has accurately documented specific failures in the IPCC process, some of which I can attest to, as I was there." Note: Even as climate scientists abandon the man-caused global warming theory by the droves, the alarmists have published a blacklist for the media to ignore of all scientists who disagree with the alarmist's "correct" version of the science.

Higher Sea-level Forecast Likely by IPCC. Sydney Morning Herald, June 30, 2010. The IPCC will "almost certainly" make an increase in its predictions of sea-level increases due to global warming in its next landmark report in 2014 due to alleged increases in melting of the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Note: This is a gargantuan hoax and depends upon the use of apples and oranges comparisons--just like the infamous hockey stick curve that was exposed as a fraud. The mean tidal data that go back over 100 years show no increase from the 100 year average 1.8 mm per year increase in the past 20 years.

Sun Spot Numbers Running Backwards. June 27, 2010. Just when it looked like Solar Cycle 24 was going to take off the sunspot numbers turned around and started declining. Scientists have finally concluded we really do not know what is happening on the sun. In the past, disappearing sun spots has been a precursor to long term periods of colder winters and summers. The current sunspots trends could indicate some long term cooling is on the horizon. There is some irony here, Mother Nature is turning done the earths thermostat and our government is setting in motion programs and legislation to stop the earth from warming from CO2 emissions. Either way, there are long term economic impacts. Note: And, so the insanity continues.

British Wind Power Falls Short 7.5% So Far in 2010. Guardian, June 28, 2010. Britain's renewable energy revolution suffered an abrupt setback this winter when the power supplied from wind, hydro and other "clean" sources fell by 7.5%, despite years of promises and policies to end the nation's dependence on fossil fuels and slash global warming pollution. Why? The wind didn't blow. Britain's green energy policy is threatened as hundreds of billions of pounds needed to continue expanding the program are threatened by drastic austerity cuts in overall spending. Note: The failure of green energy to meet its promises dramatically illustrates its fatal flaw. It is not dependable so backup energy production must be maintained, adding a huge additional cost. As with all of the European green energy plans, the huge alternative energy subsidies are the first to suffer cutbacks as European nations suffer economic collapse and implement severe spending reductions.

Low Solar Activity Linked to Major Earthquakes and Volcanoes. Red Country News, March 6, 2010. Not only is the Sun the primary driver for climate change, but it may even be a significant influence in tectonic plate movement resulting in cycles of increased intensity of geological events such as earthquakes and volcanoes. The increased geologic activity occurs during historically low solar activity, such as we are entering now. Solar hibernations always bring long lasting cold climate eras to the Earth. We should expect and plan on a new round of historically large US earthquakes and globally impacting volcanic eruptions that can occur at any time for the next 20 years of the current solar hibernation. Note: Although an old article, if correct, it suggests not only a period of cold, but also increased geologic activity.

Sea Surface Temperatures Plummeting! WattsUpWithThat.com, June 22, 2010. Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) continue their plunge as a predicted La Nina approaches. What seems to be causing it is an unusually large increase in reflected sunlight over the last several months, probably due to an increase in low cloud cover. At this pace of cooling, the second half of 2010 could ruin the chances of getting a record high global temperature for this year. Oh, darn. Note: This portends a rapid decline in global air temperatures the last half of 2010, resuming a downward cycle started ten years ago.

IPCC 'Consensus' on Sun Is Only One Expert. Climate Change Fraud, June 25, 2010. The IPCC's 2007 'consensus' on the sun having no affect earth's temperature was based on only one solar scientist who cited her own paper as the 'consensus.' The IPCC dismissed 6 peer-reviewed papers showing that the did sun play an important role, and ignored numerous objections to the IPCC's conclusions, saying the solid contrary evidence and demands for change were "impractical." The six papers rejected by the IPCC clearly showed a strong role that the balance between solar winds and cosmic radiation played on earth's cloud formation and temperature. Note: The IPCC's reputation continues to plummet as more and more evidence of fraud is exposed.

Flawed Climate Policy Triggered Prime Minister Rudd’s Downfall Sydney Morning Herald, June 26, 2010. In a stunning coup, Australian Prime Minister Rudd, a global warming zealot, was removed from office and Australia's new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was named by the ruling majority in Parliament. Rudd's fall was precipitated by President Obama's foolish last minute effort to create a watered down Copenhagen Accord last December. Rudd was not invited, yet he had to agree to a toothless accord. This week he announced tougher standards, which caused a firestorm of protests which led to a coup to remove him in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. Julia Gillard is much less likely to push for global warming legislation. Note: Cap and trade legislation in Australia has been defeated twice in Parliament. With the exit of Rudd and declining public support, it is likely cap and trade is finally dead in Australia. It is ironic that Obama played a key role to kill it!

Coral Reefs Adapt to Global Warming

UPI, June 23, 2010. Over the past two years accusations of acidification and warming killing coral reefs is being shown wrong. Corals serve as hosts to algae that feed on its nitrogen wastes. Through photosynthesis, the algae then produce the carbohydrates that feed the coral. The theory was that acidification from CO2 and warming from global warming disrupt this delicate relationship and the coral dies (called bleaching). This study shows that certain populations of coral genes (within all the coral species) adapt quickly to temperature change rather nicely. Other studies show that even those coral sub-populations that die due to rapid temperature increase and acidification recover within a few years. Note: Another global warming myth seems to be biting the dust.

More Emails Reveal Relentless Effort to Shut Out Skeptics. New emails have surfaced dated 2006 between Susan Solomon with the IPCC and Rachel Garthwaite of the Royal Society (of England) discussing the speaker list of an upcoming major IPCC meeting. RG: "we have no intention of inviting any known sceptics to the meeting, and certainly would not have invited representation on any discussion panel should we decide to have one." SS: "Yes, that is the point - they should not be invited to take the podium as speakers or panelists because that is simply not an appropriate representation of the state of understanding and uncertainty." Note: While claiming neutrality on the issue to the public, these two organizations systematically and relentlessly worked to shut out any reasoned opposition to their man-caused mantra so the public would not be "confused."

IPCC Consensus on Climate Change Phony, Says IPCC Insider. National Post, June 13, 2010. The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change misled the press and public into believing that thousands of scientists backed its claims on manmade global warming, according to Mike Hulme, a prominent climate scientist and IPCC insider. The actual number of scientists who backed that claim was “only a few dozen experts,” he states in a paper for Progress in Physical Geography. Note: We have known for years that the claim was bogus. The United Nations released data two years ago that showed that only four scientists actually agreed with the consensus on Chapter 9 of the IPCC's report, which was the chapter on the science of man-caused warming.

New Oil Commission Has NO Oil Experience. NewsMax.com. June 18, 2010. It seems clear that this current administration does not have as its first priority actually solving the devastating catastrophe in the Gulf and the ever expanding corrupted ecosystems that have ensued. Political posturing is the order of the day. The new commission that the president has assembled to supposedly address the crisis, to a member, has no experience in the Oil Industry. If they actually wanted to Solve this problem, one would think they would have at least one member who knows something about drilling… Watch for ever more stringent regs and political maneuvering to push Cap and Trade.

Off-Shore Moratorium Killing Gulf Sates. Newsmax.com June 16, 2010. Rep. Senator David Vitter of Louisiana says that President Obama’s response to the catastrophe in the Gulf does not match the actual response. Leaders and everyday citizens alike all over the region are concerned and deeply offended that the president used this devastating crisis to push his political agenda while actual, practical solutions from the feds are nowhere in site. Furthermore, the only federal response that has packed any punch is a Moratorium on drilling which has only furthered the hardships in the area for the foreseeable future.

Manipulating a Crisis: WorldNetDaily. The mess in the Gulf of Mexico is a real problem, in real time. But, make no mistake. The hype of Obama visiting the region has little to do with pollution and everything to do with politicizing a crisis to meet a predetermined end. In the wake of the Climategate scandal and the hopelessly discredited man-caused global warming scam, author Brian Sussman warns that president Obama will use the crisis in the gulf to push through cap and trade. Cap and trade will very simply use energy policies to redistribute wealth and further socialize our national economy.

Italian Green Jobs: Where’s the Spaghetti? Master Resource, June 11, 2010. Recent studies on Spain (, Germany, and Denmark suggest that, in fact, RES (Renewable Energy Sources) subsidies destroy (2 to 5 jobs destroyed for every green job create), not create, jobs – a remarkable result, since these three countries are widely regarded as the most successful models in Europe. The U.S. Congressional Budget Office found similar results. We performed a similar study on Italy. Our estimates on the opportunity cost of green jobs show that, on average, every single green job comes at the expenses of 4.8 “grey” jobs. Note: No surprise here. We have been saying this for years. It is nice that there are hard facts to back it up.

Sen. Lindsey Graham Reverses Position on Climate Legislation. Mother Jones, June 9, 2010. On Tuesday, Neo con Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told reporters that he would vote against the climate bill he helped author. Graham now doesn't think pricing carbon is that important. "The science about global warming has changed," he noted. "I think they've oversold this stuff, quite frankly. I think they've been alarmist and the science is in question," Graham told reporters. "The whole movement has taken a giant step backward." Note: Graham may have had an epiphany, but this may be one more of his waffling on an issue in response to the political winds. Nonetheless, he is supporting a much better bill by Dick Lugar which calls for more nuclear energy and raises fuel economy standards. Unlike green energy, nuclear is at least cost-competitive with coal energy.

Global Warming Science: A Cross Examination. GWPF, June 7, 2010. A cross examination of global warming science conducted by the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Law and Economics has concluded that virtually every claim advanced by global warming proponents fails to stand up to scrutiny. The cross-examination, found that “on virtually every major issue in climate change science, the [reports of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] and other summarizing work by leading climate establishment scientists have adopted various rhetorical strategies that seem to systematically conceal or minimize what appear to be fundamental scientific uncertainties or even disagreements.”

Why Scientists Get It Wrong. Quadrant Online, June 1, 2010. The fact that the IPCC scientists believed in the global warming they were promoting means that their morality at that level was better than expected, but it also means that they are a lot more stupid than expected. Nevertheless, their behaviour in promoting the notion of global warming using fraudulent statistics is reprehensible and hopefully they will be duly punished in this world or the next. Note: Perhaps the IPCC/CRU scientists believe they are right and are therefore moral. However, that will never justify manipulating the data to back up their beliefs. That is criminal when destructive legislation is passed based on their wrong data.

Shape-Shifting Islands Defy Sea-Level Rise. New Scientist, June 2, 2010. For years, people have warned that the smallest nations on the planet - island states that barely rise out of the ocean - face being wiped off the map by rising sea levels. Now the first analysis of the data broadly suggests the opposite: most have remained stable over the last 60 years, while some have even grown. The trend is explained by the islands' composition. Unlike the sandbars of the eastern US coast, low-lying Pacific islands are made of coral debris. This is eroded from the reefs that typically circle the islands and pushed up onto the islands by winds, waves and currents. Because the corals are alive, they provide a continuous supply of material. "Atolls are composed of once-living material," says Webb, "so you have a continual growth." Note: So much for another theory down the drain of reality.

New Plans Try to Revive Carbon Trading. New York Times, May 24, 2010. Carbon trading was meant to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union by making polluting more expensive for heavy industries, encouraging them to invest in cleaner technology. The system, also known as cap and trade, is falling far short of that goal. Critics decry it as just another form of financial profiteering with little environmental benefit. New ways to revive carbon trading are falling short. Western banks are reluctant to increase their stakes because of uncertainty.

Sunspots May Predict Hurricanes As Well As Global Warming and Cooling. Financial Post, June 1, 2010. Sunspots may have a more profound effect on Earth’s climate than previously understood. During periods of low sunspot activity, the researchers discovered, the probability of three or more hurricanes hitting the United States increases dramatically. “With fewer sunspots, there’s less energy at the top of the atmosphere,” Jim Elsner of Florida State Univ. explained, making for a cooler atmosphere above the hurricane. This differential fuels atmospheric instability, propelling tropical storms into hurricanes. Note: This is a new wrinkle, but not surprising.

Uncertain Science. Newsweek, May 28, 2010. Is Newsweek joining the skeptics? "The backlash against climate science is also about the way in which leading scientists allied themselves with politicians and activists to promote their cause. Some of the IPCC’s most-quoted data and recommendations were taken straight out of unchecked activist brochures, newspaper articles, and corporate reports.... Just as damaging, many climate scientists have responded to critiques by questioning the integrity of their critics, rather than by supplying data and reasoned arguments." Note: For Newsweek to publish this is almost unbelievable; No less than a magnitude 9.0 earthquake in its implications. Newsweek is not the only staunch man-caused news media that is starting to hedge their articles. Cracks are also forming in the New York Times and London Times.

Rebel Scientists Force Royal Society to Accept Climate Change Scepticism. London Times, May 29. 2010. Britain’s premier scientific institution is being forced to review its statements on climate change after a rebellion by members who question mankind’s contribution to rising temperatures. The Society has taken an "unnecessarily alarmist position" and now admits "Any public perception that science is somehow fully settled is wholly incorrect — there is always room for new observations, theories, measurements.” The admission comes after Society members signed a petition forcing the leadership to recant. Note: This will go a long ways in killing the "science is not debatable mantra.

Time to Fight Back Against the EPA's Power Grab. Fox News, May 27, 2010. President Obama has been very made clear that his top domestic priorities are health care and global warming. We all know what happened on health care. Now the date is set for the key Senate showdown on global warming: June 10. That’s when the Senate will vote on a resolution introduced by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski (S.J. Res. 26) that would overturn the EPA’s 18,000 page global warming regulations. The regulations will ultimately control just about everything that uses carbon-based energy. It’s not subject to filibuster. There is no place for weak-kneed senators to hide. In just two weeks we’ll know where every member of the Senate stands. Note: Any business that emits more than 200 tons of carbon a year is subject to these regulations. About half the small businesses in the U.S. would come under the regulations.

NASA Accused of ‘Climategate’ Stalling. Washington Times, May 26, 2010. NASA has stonewalled Freedom of Information requests it has promised it would deliver 3 years ago. Chris Horner and the Competitive Free Enterprise has filed a lawsuit to force NASA to deliver on its promises. "What we've got is the third leg of the stool here, which is the U.S.-led, NASA-run effort to defend what proved to be indefensible, and that was a manufactured record of aberrant warming," Mr. Horner said. Horner suggests NASA is stalling until after the Senate passes its cap and trade legislation.

Tax Dollars Perpetuate Global-Warming Fiction. Washington Times Editorial, May 25, 2010. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) just spent $6 billion accumulating evidence to support the man-caused warming theory in a massive new report. After cooking the books, the NAS recommended almost exactly the same conclusions and remedies as is found in the UN IPCC report and the new Senate cap and trade legislation. Of course, it is just a coincidence. Note: Not surprisingly, the NAS report completely ignores the overwhelming scientific evidence that the warming was natural, and the earth is now cooling.

Renewable Energy Costs to Americans. Heritage Foundation, May 5, 2010. The levelized costs per megawatt hour are $78.10 for conventional coal power,[11] $149.30 for onshore wind power, $191.10 for offshore wind power, $396.10 for photo-voltaic solar power, $256.60 for thermal solar power, and $139.50 for power generated by natural-gas conventional turbines. An Renewable Energy Standard would:

· Raise electricity prices by 36 percent for households and 60 percent for industry;

· Cut national income (GDP) by $5.2 trillion between 2012 and 2035;

· Cut national income by $2,400 per year for a family of four;

· Reduce employment by more than 1,000,000 jobs; and

· Add more than $10,000 to a family of four’s share of the national debt by 2035.

Note: These numbers are very, very conservative.

Wounded Warmists Attack As Their Prophecies Fail. PajamasMedia, May 16, 2010. The global warming “science” community is feeling threatened by evidence and revealing emails — their funding, and therefore their careers, may be in peril. In reaction to this, they will mount an even more alarmist campaign to convince the world — and themselves — that humans cause global warming and that it must be stopped. As global temperature fails to rise in the future, we will be bombarded by increasingly shrill cries of global warming catastrophe. All forms of weather — cold, hot, record snow, record heat, floods, droughts, or anything else — will be considered proof of global warming. A more than willing media desperate for spectacular headlines will give them the front page.

CO2 Is Not a Pollutant. Climate Depot, May 24, 2010. Princeton Scientist, Dr. William Happer gave testimony to Congress May 20, 2010. He said, “Additional CO2 in our atmosphere will cause relatively less direct warming because we already have so much CO2 in the atmosphere that it has blocked most of the infrared radiation that it can… To get the frightening global warming scenarios that are bandied about, the added CO2 must substantially increase water’s contribution warming. The jargon is “positive feedback” from water vapor and clouds. [Recent] experimental observations further undermine the claim of a large positive feedback from water…. The feedback…may even be negative”

The Green Jobs Myth. Investors Business Daily, May 20, 2010. Last years finding by a Spanish professor, Gabriel Alvarez that 2.2 jobs were lost for every green job created in Spain. Environmentalists attacked Alvarez of being a stooge of big industry. A leaked Spanish government report now backs up Alvarez's claim. Worse, two Italian researchers found that in Italy, the losses were worse than they were in Spain: Each green job cost 6.9 jobs in the industrial sector and 4.8 jobs across the entire economy. Note: The numbers speak for themselves; the panacea of creating green jobs is truly insane.

Oxford Union Debate on Climate Catastrophe. Science and Public Policy Institute, May 24, 2010. For what is believed to be the first time ever in England, an audience of university undergraduates has decisively rejected the notion that “global warming” is or could become a global crisis by 135 votes to 110. This is a sign that students are now impatiently rejecting the relentless extremist propaganda taught under the guise of compulsory environmental-studies classes in British schools, confirming opinion-poll findings that British voters are no longer frightened by “global warming” scare stories, if they ever were. Note: This is highly significant. Schools in both the U.S. and Great Britain are bastions of global warming indoctrination.

Sea Levels Not Rising. New American, May 20, 1020. In addition to global cooling for awhile, Dr. Nils-Axel Morner of Sweden, the world's foremost experts on sea levels, said at the 4th Annual International Conference on Climate Change that there is no increase in the rate of rising ocean levels. The real-world data do not support the frightening scenarios of global doom and submerged coastal cities presented by the computer modelers. Even in Italy's famed city of Venice, often cited by alarmists, the water level is actually "slowly subsiding." "Any increase would be easily picked up, Dr. Morner said. "The sea level there has not risen for 40 years. There is no record sea level [rise]." Note: Another false theory bites the dust.

Global Warming Not Causing Malaria, Say Experts. The Med Guru, May 22, 2010. Researchers from University of Oxford, UK, contradicted the known fact that increasing global temperatures multiplies vector-borne population, saying that the incidences of malaria have reduced in the twentieth century owing to better medications and awareness among people. “We know that warming can boost malaria transmission but the major declines we’ve measured have happened during a century of rising temperatures, so clearly a changing climate doesn’t tell the whole story.” Note: Leading experts on Malaria have always said the historically that Malaria has always been found well into the northern latitudes (into Canada/Siberia).The reason it is not found today in developed nations is because of improvements in health and mosquito control, the same reason this study found for the decline in third world countries.

Freezing the Economy with Global Warming Taxes & Regulation. New American, May 21, 2010. As the politicians and special interests push for climate change legislation, they increasingly will be confronted with evidence from recent scientific and economic studies showing that their proposals not only will impose devastatingly destructive costs, but also will produce no significantly measurable environmental benefits. The massive expenditures contemplated under Waxman-Markey would reduce temperatures only five hundredths of a degree Centigrade ... over the next fifty years. Note: This is a easy to understand discussion why all of the cap and trade bills are not only economically devastating, but totally worthless to achieve any environmental gain.

Senate Should Reject EPA’s Regulatory Overreach on Global Warming. Heritage Foundation, May 21, 2010. The Clean Air Act was never intended to address global warming, and regulations attempting to do so would be very troublesome for the economy. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant but a natural constituent of the air and necessary for life on earth. Unfortunately, it is also the ubiquitous and unavoidable byproduct of fossil fuel use. Fortunately, the Congressional Review Act was enacted to stop just such bad regulations. S.J. Res. 26, sponsored by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R–AK) would use the act to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from imposing global warming regulations that would do tremendous economic damage in the years ahead. Note: The president and Democrats in Congress are using these EPA regulations, first as a club to justify the cap and trade bill because it is less onerous than the EPA regs. Second, should the legislation fail they can use the EPA regs to assume federal control of the U.S. economy.

New Ice Age ‘To Begin in 2014’ WorldNetDaily, May 17, 2010. A new "Little Ice Age" could begin in just four years, predicted Habibullo Abdussamatov, the head of space research at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia. The Little Ice Age is typically defined as a period of about 200 years, beginning around 1650 and extending through 1850. Abdussamatov predicted a reduction of sunspot activity that would reach a new minimum in 2042, resulting in a deep global temperature minimum in the years 2055-2060. The coming Little Ice Age will be better defined after his research is completed aboard the Space Station. In his speech's conclusion Abdussamatov said that to combat the very negative effects of global cooling we must "maintain economic growth in order to adapt to the upcoming new Little Ice Age in the middle of the 21st century." Note: Russians have been saying for years that a fairly severe and long lasting cooling period is about to begin. Most scientists who do not believe in man-caused warming believe that a slight cooling will only last 30-40 years, not the hundred or more years predicted by Abdussamatov.

Geologist Warns of Looming Threat of Global Cooling. ClimteDepot, May 16, 2010. While speaking at the 4^th International Conference on Climate Change in Chicago, Dr. Don Easterbrook noted, “That global warming is over, at least for a few decades, might seem to be a relief. However, the bad news is that global cooling is even more harmful to humans than global warming and a cause for even greater concern.” This was a common theme from a variety of scientists speaking at the meeting coming from all over the world. Easterbrook goes on to say that twice as many people are killed with extreme cooling than with extreme warming. Shorter, cooler growing seasons are already lowering global food production. Colder winters also means more heating fuel is needed when many people cannot afford it.

IPCC Chairman Says Use of “Gray” Literature OK. London Telegraph, May 14, 2010. IPCC Chairman Dr Rajendra Pachauri said there was a need to use information which was not from peer-reviewed scientific journals, because in some places that was the only research that had been done. He claimed un-refereed reports from the International Energy Agency, the World Bank, national governments and charities "cannot be ignored." His statements were the result of heavy criticism resulting from the IPCC’s use of a World Wildlife article stating the Himalayan Glaciers would all be melted by 2035. Note: Pachauri’s appeal does not pass the smell test. It has been shown that the IPCC deliberately ignored refereed research whose results strongly contradicted the IPCC’s position. Instead it used junk science refereed by the good-ol-boy system discovered in the Climategate email scandal.

EPA Unveils Emissions Rule Aimed at Large Polluters. Dallas News, Associated Press, May 14, 2010. The EPA said it is completing a rule requiring large polluters to reduce the amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that they release into the air. The rule, which will take effect in January, would require companies to install better technology and improve energy efficiency whenever they build or significantly modify a plant. The rule applies only to large polluters such as power plants, refineries and cement production plants that collectively are responsible for 70 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from stationary sources in the U.S. Industry groups and some GOP lawmakers called it a job-killer. Note: The press release hinted that with these rules, the proposed rules for smaller, more economically vulnerable manufacturers and farmers will be spared the destructive regs the EPA planned for them. Stay tuned for updates on what this will mean for electrical rates.

Kerry and Lieberman Introduce Energy and Climate Bill. Fox News, May 12, 2010. Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn. introduced the American Power Act Wednesday, their bill to overhaul America's energy pricing system. They say all of these groups are at the table because they would rather negotiate with the legislature than be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency. The bill establishes a "hard price collar" on carbon emissions credits that polluters would have to purchase in order to operate. It also invests heavily in clean coal, nuclear, and renewable energy technologies. Note: While adding clean coal and nuclear is an improvement, the bill heavily favors wind and solar power, which is extremely expensive and unreliable.

Eco-censors and the global warming hoax. Canadafreepress.com. For years scientists who don’t accept the rhetoric, that man is causing global warming, have been trying to get their voices past a very politically correct, agenda driven media. These scientists want the world to know that the so-called “Scientific consensus” that anthropogenic warming is a fact, simply does not exist. In fact, 31,486 Americans with university degrees in science - including 9,029 PhD, 7,157 MS, 2,586 MD and DVM, and 12,714 BS or equivalent have signed on with the Global Warming Petition project to let the world know there is no such consensus. In June, Nature Magazine, the academic journal that introduced the world to DNA double helix, x-rays, pulsars, and the human genome, will publish a paper that shows atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is responsible for only 5-10% of observed warming on Earth.

Climate Change Email Scandal “Heats” Up. Washington Post, May 4, 2010. In the wake of the leaked e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, the heat is turning up for the one of the authors of those emails and his former employer, the University of Virginia. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II is demanding the University release of a variety of documents from their former professor, Michael Mann. Mr. Cuccinelli’s goal is to determine whether Mann defrauded taxpayers when he applied for five research grants while he was at the university.

Strongest Emissions Bill In The Nation LA TIMES: In 2006, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the Global Warming Solutions Act into law in the state of California. The Bill established a timetable by which California will come into near compliance with the Kyoto Protocol. The bill requires a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to pre-1990 levels, roughly a 25% reduction. As defined in the bill, “greenhouse gases” include all of the following gases: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). These are the same gases listed as Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) in the Kyoto Protocol. Opposition to the Bill has been heating up in recent months with groups organizing a November ballot initiative which would delay the implementation of the bill. The California Teamsters Union has voted to oppose the initiative.

The Proof Is In The Pudding. Foxnews.com April 29, 1010: … A leading Global Warming skeptic is planning an indepth examination of the IPCC’s report on Climate Change. Donna Laframboise of NoConsensus.org is working with an Australian software developer to set up a researchable database of the IPCC report. Many skeptics have long doubted the validity of the IPCC’s methods. This new exhaustive examination of the report will show the science and the methods for what they are.

Too Much Caution Will Kill Off the Economy. London Times, April 21, 2010. We are becoming a risk-averse society and that is dangerous. Last week's grounding of airlines in Europe because of volcanic ash is a prime example. While we in the U.S. were shown black billowing clouds of ash while being told all flights were cancelled, the actual ash over most of Europe was miniscule, well within the engine tolerances of the airlines. Yet, the decision was made to ground the planes based on the precautionary principle (zero tolerance), the same theory driving the global warming theory. You cannot run a national economy on the precautionary principle; indeed, the sound position is to embrace as much risk as possible. Note: The airlines lost $1.7 billion and came dangerously close to bankruptcy. Yet, we are willing to incur trillions of dollars in cost for a largely phantom and very low risk of the planet warming 2 degrees.

Senators Postpone Climate Bill Unveiling. Washington Post, April 25, 2010. Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the promoters of the new global warming/energy legislation, has refused to go public with the new bill because the Democrats are taking up immigration reform as a result of the national debate over Arizona's controversial new illegal alien legislation. Without Graham's endorsement, many analysts believe the new energy bill is likely to be dead on arrival. Note: This is good news on one hand because any energy bill based on alternative energy (other than nuclear) significantly replacing fossil fuel would be a gigantic failure. However, don't go to sleep. The energy bill may yet rise from the ashes like the Phoenix.

EPA Rules Bad News for Blacks. The Dickinson Press, April 24, 2010. Five civil rights organizations recently condemned EPA’s plans to regulate carbon dioxide and other emissions. Pending anti-CO2 regulations will slam Americans hard and blacks and other minorities hardest. A recent Affordable Power Alliance study estimates that implementation of the EPA regs "would...significantly reduce U.S. GDP every year over the next two decades, and by 2030 GDP would be about $500 billion less” than otherwise. The report also predicts EPA’s destruction of 2.5 million jobs by 2030 and an increase of 50 percent for gasoline, 75 percent for residential natural gas, and 100 percent for industrial natural gas by 2030. Note: We have been warning the EPA regs and/or cap and trade will hurt minorities and the poor the worst. They are finally seeing it.

Twenty Years of Advocacy, Not Journalism, on Global Warming. Media Research Center, April 22, 2010. For more than two decades, the so-called mainstream media have preached the dangers of manmade global warming. Not even last November’s exposure of e-mails from leading scientists on the alarmist side of the debate — showing them conniving to fudge or suppress data, discredit critics and distort the peer review process — has caused journalists to finally take a skeptical approach to radical environmentalists’ doomsaying. A new study documents how ABC, CBS and NBC have been just as strident in their advocacy in the months following “ClimateGate” as they were in the 20 years that preceded the scandal. Note: We have discussed media advocacy before. What is new is that it has now been officially documented.

Global Warming Bill Likely Dead. Journal Sentinel, April 21, 2010. A bill to cut Wisconsin's greenhouse gas emission and boost the state's green economy appears dead as lawmakers move toward wrapping up their session Thursday. Note: Wisconsin follows New Jersey in killing global warming legislation. Perhaps this portends a trend back to sanity.

Top Climate Scientist Under Fire for ‘Exaggerating’ Global Warming. Fox News, April 15, 2010. Although an inquiry by a panel of scientists into the behavior and methodologies of researchers at Britain's East Anglia University found Britain's climatologists scatterbrained and sloppy, but ultimately innocent of intentionally skewing climate data, one of the top scientists selected for the panel slammed the methodologies used by Penn State climatologist Michael Mann to devise his infamous "Hockey Stick." Although discredited, Mann’s study still forms the backbone of global warming theories. Mann's colleagues at Penn State launched a probe into his work -- an investigation that came under severe attack by critics who argued that the university failed to interview any hostile witnesses, failed to examine the methodology that was at the heart of the controversy and was more concerned that the millions of dollars in grant money it gets by having Mann on the faculty could be jeopardized by adverse findings. Skeptics universally believe all these investigations are nothing more than whitewashes.

NJ's Gov Cutting $65 Million for Global Warming Prevention. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is taking $65 million, the entire allocation, from the state's global warming fund, and $5.9 million, from the toxic waste site cleanup program, to help close the over $10 billion deficit in his $29.3 billion 2010-11 state budget. Note: Unlike California's Arnold Schwarzenegger NJ's newly elected Christie is aggressively cutting the state's bloated budget to bring it into balance. Knowing Christie, it is doubtful it will ever be reinstated because he seems to realize man-caused global warming is a scam. Even though California's budget is far worse than New Jersey's, Schwarzenegger and the legislature just cannot let go of even one dime of their socialist budget--especially their global warming plan which admittedly will cost 1 million jobs and billions dollars of lost revenue.

Climategate Team Were "Guilty of Sloppiness - NOT Cheating" Mail Online, April 14, 2010. In the second of three investigations into the CRU Climategate scandal, it was determined the scientists were disorganized and statistically naive, but not dishonest. The first, commissioned by Britain's House of Commons came to similar conclusions. However, Lord Oxburgh, who led the investigation, is a director of one of the most powerful, but little known, environmental networks in the world, GLOBE. For instance, GLOBE issued guidelines for legislators on how to articulate positive language used at the UN's Copenhagen climate change conference last December. Note: It is no surprise the actions of the CRU are whitewashed. The investigations were rigged from the start. It is also no surprise that neither investigative committee interviewed any climate skeptics to determine what the email revelations really meant.

Is 'Green Goon Squad' at Your Front Door? WorldNetDaily, April 12, 2010. The progressive liberals are ramping up to pass cap and trade in the Senate. Veteran meteorologist Brian Sussman warns "Buried in the 2009 America Clean Energy and Security Act are federally mandated energy-efficient building regulations, which supersede all local and state codes and which will be enforced by a national, green goon squad... Each time a home is built, remodeled, or ... preparing to be sold, a G-man wearing a federal badge and armed with a clipboard will show up at your house to make sure ... all of your appliances have been updated with the most recent Energy Star-approved internal communication devices, and that the Home Area Network has been properly installed and connected to your new SmartMeter, whether you like it or not," he says. Note: We have been warning of this provision since last summer. Compliance will cost the average homeowner in excess of $10,000 or more. Perhaps much more.

Who Needs A Committee Report to Spot Rank Deception. ABC Australia, April 12, 2010. The UK's House of Commons whitewash of the CRU's Climategate scandal does not pass the smell test. The claim that the other two temperature data repositories (NOAA and NASA) still proves that man is causing global warming also doesn't pass the smell test. Not only does their data link directly with that of CRU, but NASA has admitted their data stinks, and NOAA is being accused of gargantuan data manipulation. According to the whitewash, scientists don't need the raw data; they should be happy with the adjusted data. Note: In spite of real and growing concerns of deliberate data tampering and glaring evidence of fraud, the whitewash implies we should proceed full steam ahead with its multi-trillion dollar, economy-busting cap and trade scheme. That really stinks!

A Superstorm For Global Warming Research In the 1970's and early 1980's climate scientists were projecting horrifying scenes of major cities being wiped off the face of the earth by flooding due to melting ice caps. Current models do not predict the complete melting of the Ice Caps. The reality is that sea levels are rising. Storm surges are often blamed on the rising sea levels which is blamed on global warming. The reasons for rising sea levels as well as for storm surges are varied and complicated. The IPCC claims that violent weather will absolutely occur in tandem with increased temperatures. It is just another example of the grossly exaggerated predictions proclaimed by the IPCC. Can we really expect to see stormier weather in a greenhouse climate?

The Smoking Gun of Climatology. (Part 4). There are enormous inconsistencies in the global temperature data. That is not surprising given the data comes from all parts of the world using different protocols for data collection and so forth. But even after the data is “adjusted” for those inconsistencies, there remains serious problems. Environmental economist Ross McKitrick, one of Steven McIntyre's associates in exposing the hockey stick fraud, examined all rapidly growing countries, in which this urban heat effect was to be expected, and found a correlation between economic growth and temperature rise. He submitted his study in time for the last IPCC report. Jones (Director of the Climate Research Center of email infamy) did everything he could to suppress the publication, which was critical of him. It proved advantageous to him that he had been one of the two main authors of the temperature chapter. In one of the hacked emails, he openly admitted that he wanted to keep this interfering publication out of the IPCC report at all costs, "even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!" Jones failed in the end, but he did manage to smuggle a devastating sentence into the IPCC report, which states that McKitrick's findings were "statistically insignificant" -- in other words, meaningless. Note: Many subsequent studies confirmed McKtrick’s analysis, which means the 2007 IPCC report grossly overestimated warming in the last half of the twentieth century.

A Climate Rebel Takes on the Establishment. (Part 3) Der Spiegel, April 1, 2010. Canadian engineer turned financial analyst Steven McIntyre first exposed the fraudulent hockey stick curve eight years ago through dogged determination. Michael Mann, author of the hockey stick, used tree rings to come up with his infamous graph. The graph eliminated the Medieval Optimum and Little Ice Age shown by hundreds of other research evidence showing it was much warmer than today around 1100 to 1200 AD and much colder in 1650 to 1850 AD. In doing so, Mann allegedly proved that the temperature increase the last half of the 20th century was unique (read man-caused). The IPCC heralded the graph as the smoking gun proving man-caused warming. McIntyre destroyed the graph by proving the statistics used by Mann would turn even randomized data into a hockey stick. Then after years of stonewalling by the CRU, McIntyre finally got the raw data and proved that Mann eliminated data from trees that no longer showed warming after 1960. Worse, Mann substituted thermometer data after 1980 because the tree ring data no longer showed warming. The CRU's efforts to stop McIntyre are all in the hacked emails.

A Politically Charged Science. (Part 2) Der Spiegel, April 1, 2010. No other branch of science is as politically charged as global warming. A religious war is raging between alarmists and skeptics. It is a critical conflict, because it revolves around something as massive as the total restructuring of industrial society, a venture that will cost trillions of euros. Powerful economic interests and unshakeable fundamental beliefs come into play. Only 42% of Germans now believe global warming is serious, down from 58% just three years ago. Anyone who speaks with leading climatologists today will discover how many questions remain open. The media, politicians and even scientists often talk about changes to the weather with a certainty that does not in fact exist.

A Superstorm for Global Warming Research. Der Spiegel, April 1, 2010. Once a stanch defender of man-caused warming Der Spiegel has launched a series of eight articles severely criticizing the theory. The first summarizes Climategate and how the once "100% confidence" of the IPCC is now in tatters. Sloppy work by the IPCC and apparent data manipulations by England's CRU and the U.S.'s NOAA and NASA temperature databases has put the entire science of climatology into a crisis -- despite a herculean effort by the mainstream media to downplay and cover up the stunning exposures of fraud. Der Spiegel is but one of Europe's leading papers that are now challenging the once unchallengeable warming theory. Note: None of this seems to have dissuaded the Obama administration from its "full-steam-ahead" mission of cap and trade legislation.

EPA's Global Warming Regulations: A Threat to American Agriculture. Heritage Foundation, April 2, 2010. An analysis conducted by The Heritage Foundation found that the Waxman-Markey bill would reduce farm profits by an estimated 28 percent starting in 2012, the first year the bill's provisions take effect, and average 57 percent lower through 2035.[1] A study of a several Missouri farms ranging from 800 to 1,900 acres of corn, soybeans, and wheat estimated annual cost increases of $4,903 to $11,649 by 2020, mostly from higher costs of natural-gas-derived fertilizer as well as overall increased energy costs. The EPA is also beginning to implement its draconian regulations. Any source emitting 250 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), an easily met threshold, would be subject to the statute's tough requirements. Overall, a number of onerous permitting and other provisions would apply to a million or more entities that use fossil fuels--small businesses, commercial properties, and agricultural operations.[4]

Climategate Investigation Clears UK Climate Scientists of Fraud. Examiner, March 31, 2010. A British investigation conducted by a panel of 14 members has exonerated the climate scientists involved, including Dr. Phil Jones. There will be no criminal indictments. The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee concluded there was no evidence to support accusations of tampering with data or the peer review process to exaggerate the global warming. The panel said as far as it could ascertain the reputation of Professor Jones, other scientists involved, and the CRU--remain intact. Note: This whitewash was a given. As reported earlier, the committee was loaded with environmentalists and led by a very powerful environmentalist.

Blame the Weatherman. BNet, April 1, 2010. A majority of meteorologists, 63 percent, told George Mason University that global warming mostly stems from natural causes, while 27 percent called the entire theory of global warming a “scam”. However, George Mason's spokesman warn American's not to believe meteorologists because they only have a four year degree and no grounding at all in climate studies. After all, the article states, weather forecasting models can barely predict the weather a few days ahead and have no knowledge of the sophisticated super computer models used by climatologists. Note: meteorologists have the background to understand general climate dynamics and that the sophisticated climate models use wrong assumptions.

Global Warming Alarmists Were Wrong About Gulf Stream Too.

Washington Examiner, March 30, 2010. An article published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters refutes the computer-concocted figures typically used to predict warming by the now discredited Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Between 2002 and 2009, scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have seen no, repeat NO, discernible long-term trend in the major oceanic circulation that affects major weather systems worldwide. Note: While seeming to be "so what," this is big. For over 2 decades the prevailing theory was that the Gulf Stream was being diluted by fresh water from glacial melt which would stop its circulation. The theory was it would result in cataclysmic climate change not unlike that depicted in the "sky is falling" movie Day After Tomorrow.

Freeing Energy Policy From The Climate Change Debate. Yale Environment 360, March 29, 2010. "The 20-year effort by environmentalists to establish climate science as the primary basis for far-reaching action to decarbonize the global energy economy today lies in ruins....Now is the time to free energy policy from climate science. In recent years, bipartisan agreement has grown on the need to decarbonize our energy supply through the expansion of renewables, nuclear power, and natural gas, as well as increased funding of research and development of new energy technologies. ...The primary role for carbon pricing, whether through auctioning pollution permits or a carbon tax, should be to fund low-carbon energy research, development, and deployment." Note: No energy policy should be implemented that increases the cost of energy. So far renewable energy increase the cost by orders of magnitude.

Oops: Chief Climategate Investigator Exposed as a Director of Powerful Environmental Lobby. The Register, March 24, 2010. Lord Oxburgh, appointed to lead the inquiry into the scientific aspects of the CRU's Climategate scandal, failed to disclose he is a director of one of the most powerful, but little known, environmental networks in the world, GLOBE. For instance, GLOBE issued guidelines for legislators on how to articulate positive language used at the UN's Copenhagen climate change conference last December. Note: There can be little doubt now that there has always been an effort to officially whitewash the importance of the CRU fraud.

EU Summit Cools Ambition on Global Warming. Earth Times, March 26, 2010. European Union leaders are cooling on their ambition to fight global warming, leaving a key greenhouse-gas emission reduction target out of a draft statement prepared for a summit on Friday. The draft leaves out any reference to the previously accepted target of 30% reduction goal after 2020. The goal of a 20% reduction by 2020 still remains in the draft document.

Senate Climate Bill Details Still Unfinished. Reuters, March 23, 2010. Emboldened by their historical win on health care, Democrats are once again turning to cap and trade legislation, which has been languishing in the Senate since last fall. The current bill sets a 17 percent reduction in emissions by 2020, but environmentalists decry that is not enough. Utilities would be hit first in 2012 while manufactures would start in 2016. Note: We have long predicted that if health care passed, the Senate would try to ram the full cap and trade bill through Congress. It now looks like that is exactly they are doing.

NASA's Bogus Data. Big Journalism, March 23, 2010. Chris Horner is evaluating thousands of NASA emails obtained via the Freedom of Information Act. According to NASA, it’s "data is worse than the “CRU” temperature data that was the central issue in ClimateGate. That is the temperature record which we now know was for all intents and purposes fabricated.... NASA’s data is not independent at all, but thoroughly dependent upon the non-existent/phonied-up CRU numbers." NASA also depends upon NOAA's Nat. Climate Data Center' data, which has also been shown manipulated by dropping out northern and high elevation data after 1990, but keeping the data from those stations before 1990. This gives a huge artificial bump in temperature that has nothing to do with global warming, but has been used to "prove" the 1990s and 2000s were the warmest in recorded history.

IPCC's Whitewash 'Review' is the AGW Camp's Biggest Mistake. London Telegraph, March 12, 2010. The IPCC's blatant attempt at whitewashing its cascade of errors in January and February may backfire. The UN's Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC head Ranendra Pachauri, both warming zealots, appointed the review body to look into to the IPCC's blatant propaganda attempt in its 2007 report. That's like putting the fox in charge of the hen house. The committee is to only review the IPCC's procedures, not the falsification of the report itself. In other words, the conclusions drawn from the falsified report will stand and little will be done to stop the falsification in the next report, which is scheduled to begin next fall and reported out in 2014. The attempted whitewash is so obvious that it in itself may destroy the IPCC's credibility.

ClimateGate Goes Back to 1980. Wall Street Pit, March 19, 2010. James Hansen of NASA's GISS appears to have systematically adjusted the historical temperature record to remove a cold patch in the ’70s in order to exaggerate the rise since. The amount of change of 0.6 degrees is for one decade is close to the measured change for the whole century. This is vividly seen in these three snapshots of his data being modified.... Watch how the cooling trend of the 1960’s to 1970’s is steadily adjusted up so that 0.3 degrees cooler gradually becomes 0.03 warmer (notice the red and blue horizontal lines in the graphs above). Note: Hansen, of "coal trains are death trains" fame, has long been suspected of cooking the books. It can't be proven, however, because he refuses to release the data or the algorithms he uses to re-adjust the curves. Yet, the IPCC and the media take everything he says at face value.

Global Warming Concerns in a Freefall. Gallup, March 16, 2010. A Gallup poll found that global warming ranked dead last when compared to concern specifically about environmental problems. Only 28% worry about global warming a "great deal," down from 33% a year ago and 41% in 2007. Note: The American people are starting to really understand this issue is a fraud.

Granddaddy of green, James Lovelock, Warms to Eco-skeptics. London Times, March 14, 2010. Note: James Lovelock is the most radical of the radical environmentalists. He was the one who developed the Gaia theory that the earth is a living, sentient being. Two years ago he said that billions of people will die if we don't stop global warming. This is what he said Saturday: “I think you have to accept that the sceptics have kept us sane — some of them, anyway,” he said. “They have been a breath of fresh air. They have kept us from regarding the science of climate change as a religion. It had gone too far that way. There is a role for sceptics in science. They shouldn’t be brushed aside. It is clear that the angel side wasn’t without sin.” Note: He also said more. This is nothing short of astounding. It made the headlines in all the British papers Sunday and Monday. It will have an impact on British environmentalists and may have a ripple effect in the U.S.

Wind Power the Worst Kind of Mirage. Financial Post, March 3, 2010. Wind energy is an engineer's nightmare. To begin with, the energy density of flowing air is miserably low. Therefore, you need a massive contraption to catch one megawatt at best, and a thousand of these to equal a single gas-or coal-fired power plant. If you design them for a wind speed of 34 mph, they are useless at wind speeds less than 22 mph and extremely dangerous at 44 mph. Since the power generated by modern wind turbines is so unpredictable, conventional power plants have to serve as back-ups. These run at less than half power most of the time. That is terribly uneconomical -- only at full power do they have good thermal efficiency and minimum CO2 emissions per kWh delivered. Note: Written by an aeronautical engineer, this article completely destroys the myth that wind can substitute for conventional power plants.

Graph of Temperature vs. Number of Stations. RossMcKitrick, March 15, 2010. Dr. Ross McKitrick, one of the two Canadians who exposed the famous Hockey Stick Curve, presents shocking pre-manipulated NOAA temperature data as affected by surface station dropout in the 1990s. The graphic is stunning. When NOAA’s global temperature database suddenly dropped from around 11,500 surface stations to under 10,000 in the early 1990s (mostly from colder latitudes and elevations) the unmodified global temperature suddenly shot up from about 10^oC to11.5^oC. However, after NOAA applied their “correction” algorithms the data showed a smooth, but rapid increase in temperature starting in the early 1980s through the mid 1990s. Joe D’Aleo, the first Director meteorology for the Weather channel discovered this and is currently challenging NOAA of cooking the books by leaving the data from the discontinued colder stations in the database prior to their discontinuance.

Memorandum Submitted by Stephen McIntyre to Parliament. United Kingdom Parliament, March 15, 2010. Steven McIntyre, one of the two Canadians who exposed the famous Hockey Stick Curve, submitted testimony about the CRU to Britain's Parliament. "Reconstructions of temperature over the past 1000 years have been an highly visible part of IPCC presentations to the public. CRU has been extremely influential in IPCC reconstructions through: coauthorship, the use of CRU chronologies, peer review and IPCC participation. To my knowledge, there are no 1000-year reconstructions which are truly "independent" of CRU influence. In my opinion, CRU has manipulated and/or withheld data with an effect on the research record. The manipulation includes (but is not limited to) arbitrary adjustment ("bodging"), cherry picking and deletion of adverse data..."

Increased Number Think Global Warming Is "Exaggerated." Gallup, March 11, 2010. A record-high 41% [for Gallup] now say it is exaggerated. This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade of Gallup polling on the subject. As recently as 2006, significantly more Americans thought the news underestimated the seriousness of global warming than said it exaggerated it, 38% vs. 30%. Now, according to Gallup's 2009 Environment survey, more Americans say the problem is exaggerated rather than underestimated, 41% vs. 28%. Note: Most polls show that over half of the American people believe global warming is exaggerated. It still ranks last in the top 30 problems that should be addressed.

California Global Warming Law May Lead to Job Losses. Los Angeles Times, March 10, 2010. California's nonpartisan legislative analyst's office has analyzed the state's stiff 2006 global warming legislation and has concluded it will cause job losses. Note: Job losses have followed every effort to implement a green energy system in the world. California has finally recognized it. The best analysis is from Spain last year which found after 10 years, 2.2 jobs were lost in the regular economy for every green job created (at a cost of over $750,000 by the way).

Global Warming Doubts Hamper Climate Legislation? Christian Science Monitor, March 8, 2010. The new polls released yesterday suggest that the cap and trade legislation passed by the House last June, and currently in the Senate may have suffered a fatal setback. The severe drop in support for global warming legislation is the result of the series of scandals since last November that reveal fraud at every level of the man-caused theory. Along with the horrible economy the scandals have created the "perfect storm" against any legislation that allegedly stops man-caused global warming (it can't be stopped because it is not happening in the first place). Note: Don't count on this happening. If the Dems get any form of healthcare passed, it is likely they will push ahead on cap and trade. President Obama essentially told us that in his State of the Union address. If they fail to pass healthcare, they will still push for converting to green energy (which will further bankrupt us) and imposing smart grid technology on us. More on this later.

After Errors, Global Warming Gets a Cold Shoulder. Boston Globe, March 8, 2009. Public confidence has been eroded by the string of email exposures of fraud, deliberate use of un-refereed articles from environmental advocates as scientific evidence of apocalyptic catastrophes, and systematic tampering of temperature data to show more warming than really exists. Recent polls found only 57 percent now believe global warming is even occurring at all, down from 71 percent in 2008. Fifty percent were "somewhat" or "very worried" about global warming, a 13 percent decrease from the fall of 2008, and 26 percent decrease from 2007. The percent of people who completely dismissed global warming as being man-caused jumped from 7 percent in 2008 to 16 percent today. Meanwhile 56 percent don't trust what the things scientists say about the environment; up from 49 percent in 2007. Note: The drop in warming alarmists continues a 3 year trend. What is discouraging is that the lies and politicization of this issue is also increasing mistrust in scientists in genera, which can spell trouble in the future. Look for a big push to get legislation passed this year as a last ditch effort.

Coal-State Dems Unveil Bills Stalling EPA Emission Curbs. New York Times, March 4, 2010. "Four influential coal-state Democrats introduced companion bills in the House and Senate today that would block U.S. EPA from implementing any climate-related stationary source rules for two years, a timeout of sorts that they think gives Congress time to pass legislation dealing with the issue." The " bill would give Congress the time it needs to address an issue as complicated and expansive as our energy future. Congress, not the EPA, must be the ideal decision-maker on such a challenging issue." This is in addition to the resolution by Senator Murkowski (R-AK) that would overturn EPA's "endangerment" finding that opens the doors for the multi-thousand page series of regulations that the EPA was scheduled to implement this month, but has postponed until 2011. Note: This may be an attempt by the Democrats to short-circuit Murkowski's resolution, but more likely is the political realization that Obama has said numerous times he plans to put the coal industry out of business, even though the U.S. has a 500 year supply of coal.

Climategate Statements from Physics, Chemistry and Statistical Societies. Climate Research News, March 5, 2010. Three British profession societies have sent scathing reviews of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit's email Climategate fiasco to Britain's Parliament. They are the Institute of Physics, The Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Royal Statistical Society. Contrary to the media's effort to downplay and whitewash the email's revelations, the three professional organizations are highly critical of what the email's revealed. The organizations criticized the effort to distort data, obstruct opposing ideas, the flagrant denial to release data to be evaluated by others, and more. The general conclusion was that the corruption was so bad that any conclusions drawn from the CRU data were highly suspect.

$90 Million Bill for the CO2 of Britain's Political Class. London Telegraph, February 20, 2010. Must Read: The British Government allocated £60 million ($90 mil) of taxpayers money to be spent on buying carbon credits from Third World nations to keep government offices warm and comfy. JP Morgan and Barclays (a branch of JP Morgan) gets a cool £9 million (13.5 mil) for brokering the deal. (Note: JP Morgan is one of the biggies pushing for global governance). Most of the carbon credits were bought from China and India. How does China have any credits to sell when they are the single biggest carbon polluter on the planet, with India close behind? The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has set up a sweet racket for them. Chinese and Indian firms are permitted to carry on the production of the refrigerant gas HCFC-23, which has a byproduct known as HCFC-23. HCFC-23 happens to be 11,700 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. The UNFCCC allows China and India to destroy the HCFC-23, claiming allocations of carbon credits worth billions for doing so while much of the useful HCFC-22 is then sold on to the international black market. China's profits can be used to build their military so they can destroy us. After millions of taxpayer money was spent, not one pound of carbon emissions was removed.

Global Warming Scientists 'Need to Go Back to Square One.' CNS News, March 3, 2010. Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) chided the EPA's regulations saying that global warming has not met scientific criteria; the theory does not match the facts. None of the alleged science cannot be verified, but is being used in computer models that provides the only evidence for man-caused warming. Scientists, he said need to start over again using verifiable empirical data. The comments were made during an announcement a resolution condemning the EPA's recent endangerment finding that greenhouse gases (CO2 specifically) are pollutants. They don't expect the resolution to pass in the Democrat-controlled House.

A Gas Tax to Cure Global Warming? Washington Examiner, March 2, 2010. Senators John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) are proposing a carbon tax to replace the unpopular cap and trade schemes that are stalled in Congress. NOTE: Ironically, a carbon tax is far more straight forward, less intrusive, less susceptible to corruption, and more transparent than the convoluted cap and trade ideas. Its biggest problem? The dreaded word "tax" is in the bill. Even though cap and trade is in reality the biggest tax ever passed by Congress, the word "tax" does not appear in the title. All the costs to the taxpayer are hidden by whopping increases in the cost of living to poor and rich alike. Cap and trade is OK, carbon tax is forbidden -- even though either one is not necessary because man is not causing global warming, and either one will pretty much sink our economy.

The Global Warming Blizzard Myth. Philadelphia Bulletin, February 18, 2010. In spite of record cold temperatures and snowfall, global warming alarmists are repeatedly trying to convince the American people that it is all part of global warming. The global warming computer models, they tell us, predict record heat will resume, along with higher frequency of extreme weather such as heat waves, drought, floods violent storms, and yes, blizzards. However, historical records don't support this. Record warmth across the globe occurred more frequently in the late 1800s and early 1900s than now. US precipitation has increased 10 % in the last 115 years, but it has been in low to moderate events, not extreme events. Drought in the US still happens, but has experienced a sharp decline the past century. Severe tornadoes were more common in the 1960s and 70s during global cooling in the 1990s and early 2000s when warming was occurring. Not surprisingly the number of tornadoes has increase the past 5 years as the earth once again was cooling. The winter of 2009-2010 is the coldest and snowiest since 1899.

Al Gore Won't Return Your Call. Fox News, February 26, 2010. "In the last three months, as global warming has gone from a scientific near-certitude to the subject of satire, Gore -- the public face of global warming -- has been silent on the topic. The former vice president apparently finds it inconvenient even to answer calls to testify before the U.S. Senate. You can call him Al . . . but he won't call back." Gore did attend the Apple's annual stockholders meeting last Thursday. "Gore was seated in the first row while several stockholders bashed his high-profile views on climate change. One reportedly said Gore 'has become a laughingstock. The glaciers have not melted.'" Ridicule is the least that could happen to Gore. Senator Inhofe (R-OK) derided Gore, "When his movie came out, parents of small children told me their kids had to go to the psychiatrist over bad dreams about global warming. We owe it to the public to find out where the science came from. This is the greatest scientific scandal of our generation."

EPA's Global Warming Power Grab. Washington Times, February 25, 2010. Next month the EPA is set to began to implement its multi-thousand page set of regulations to control carbon emissions. President George W. Bush's EPA administrator, Stephen L. Johnson, warned that such a finding would result in a major government power grab. "[T]he potential regulation of greenhouse gases under any portion of the Clean Air Act could result in an unprecedented expansion of EPA authority that would have a profound effect on virtually every sector of the economy and touch every household in the land," he explained. The EPA placed what it called a "primary reliance" on reports like those of the IPCC instead of conducting independent research to make its finding. Given the retractions and revelations of faulty science surrounding the global-warming religion, especially at the IPCC, it's time to take the issue out of the EPA's hands so Congress can address it in the open. Note: It is highly unlikely the Democratically controlled Congress will vote to do this.

Climategate II--NASA's Science as Corrupted as CRU's. Pajamas Media, February 17, 2010. NASA's GISS was finally forced to release emails under the Freedom of Information Act after being threatened with a lawsuit. Like the CRU email scandal, they are very revealing. Dr. James Hansen leads the GISS and a radical, even rabid global warming alarmist. This is what has been found so far. "The emails show the hypocrisy, dishonesty, and suspect data management and integrity of NASA, wildly spinning in defense of their enterprise. The emails show NASA making off with enormous sums of taxpayer funding doing precisely what they claim only a “skeptic” would do. The emails show NASA attempting to scrub their website of their own documents, and indeed they quietly pulled down numerous press releases grounded in the proven-wrong data. The emails show NASA claiming that their own temperature errors (which they have been caught making and in uncorrected form aggressively promoting) are merely trivial [the errors added 0.1^oC--that's not trivial], after years of hysterically trumpeting much smaller warming anomalies. NOTE: we will bring you more specific information in the future.

Even More Defections from Global Warming. Orange County Gazette, February 21, 2010. The global warming fear campaign is rapidly losing steam, and may even be reversing. ConocoPhilips, BP America, Caterpillar have announced they will not renew their membership in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, formed to seek federal reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and investment in lower-emitting technologies. This is convincing evidence that many major corporations now recognize the energy-rationing cap and trade legislation is not needed.

EPA Faces New Legal Challenges on GHG Ruling. Recharge, February 19, 2010. Alabama and Virginia have joined Texas and 13 other plaintiffs in filing court challenges to the US Environmental Protection Agency’s finding in December that heat-trapping greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. The 13 include the American Farm Bureau Federation; American Iron and Steel Institute; National Mining Association; Portland Cement Association; Ohio Coal Association; US Chamber of Commerce and Utility Air Regulatory Group, Gerdau Ameristeel; Peabody Energy; Southeastern Legal Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute, an advocacy group, American Petroleum Institute; Corn Refiners Association; National Association of Home Builders; National Association of Manufacturers; National Oilseed Processors; National Petrochemical and Refiners Association and Western States Petroleum Association. The EPA is confident it will win. NOTE: If the US Circuit Court of Appeals bases its decision on the science, the EPA will lose. We'll see.

Virginia Seeks to Block EPA's Finding of Endangerment from Global Warming. Richmond Times Dispatch, February 18, 2010. The EPA's finding of endangerment by greenhouse gases and their massive new regulations to control them is running into some snags. Several organizations have already filed lawsuits to stop the EPA and the State of Virginia just through its hat into the stew. Virginia's Attorney General said "An incredibly far-reaching decision has been made [by the EPA] using a clearly flawed process." He was referring to the avalanche of evidence showing fraud by climate research centers and the IPCC uncovered since late November. The EPA's decision rests entirely on the conclusions of the IPCC, which are now in serious doubt. NOTE: This is big. Unless Congress passes a simple law saying that the Clean Air Act does not pertain to greenhouse gases, which it should, but probably won't, individual states will likely issue direct challenges under the Tenth Amendment, which they are doing on other issues with increasing regularity.

What to Say to a Global Warming Advocate. Orange County Register, February 12, 2010. There apparently are 19, that's right, 19 reports of fraud by global warming alarmists, especially in the IPCC. We have reported on most of them, but there are a few that we seemed to have missed. 1) China's temperature database is missing 42 important sites; 2) Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC's Chairman, knew of the Himalayan glacier melting fraud before December's Copenhagen Conference, but still used it to scare attendees; 3) Britain's 2006 Stern report that painted an economic doomsday picture was mostly based on made up scenarios; 4) So far the 2007 IPCC report has been found to have at least 16 nonpeer-reviewed reports from the radical green World Wildlife Fund to back up the IPCC's catastrophic predictions; 5) Russia has accused the CRU/IPCC of leaving the coldest temperature stations out of the IPCC's analyses; 6) The IPCC's assertion that coral reef disintegration was based entirely on non-peer-reviewed assertions by Greenpeace; 7) The IPCC claim that African agricultural yields could be cut in half was from a green advocacy think-tank, not a peer reviewed journal; 8) claims that the 50% of the Netherlands was under sea level were false, it is only 20%; and the Alaska glacier loss was overestimated by 40% for the past 40 years.

Skeptical on Global Warming. The Star Ledger, February 14, 2010. Every state of the union had snow on the ground or was snowing late last week. There is some question about Hawaii, but there are reports that it was snowing at higher elevations. Even if Hawaii is left out, it is still the first time this has happened in recorded history. Even though there has been a desperate attempt by warming alarmists that the cold and snow is caused by global warming, there is growing evidence that we are truly in a cooling cycle. Even Dr. Phil Jones, who is facing possible indictment for his role in Climategate, now admits the earth has not warmed statistically since 1995. Yet, man-caused warming continues to take on the aspects of a pantheistic religion. Believers believe without any evidence at all. NOTE: Ironically, January turned out to be one of the warmest months since satellites began measuring earth's temperature. It is due to an moderate El Nino embedded within a cold 30 yr PDO (Pacific Decadal Oscillation). The El Nino should dissipate by spring when colder temperatures will return. We'll see.

Another Climategate Panel Member Proved Biased. The Scotsman, February 13, 2010. Only 24 hours after another ClimateGate panel member was forced to quit, questions emerged over Professor Geoffrey Boulton because of his previous views that climate change is caused by human activity. The public was assured that the panel members were "selected on the basis they have no prejudicial interest in climate science." Yet Boulton "was among a number of scientists who, in the wake of the climategate scandal, signed a petition to show their confidence that global warming was caused by humans. And for at least five years, he has made clear his strong views on global warming. He has given interviews and written articles – including in The Scotsman – that have spelled out his firmly held beliefs." He even argued "The argument regarding climate change is over." This led the editorial board of the Scotsman to question if the panel selection is an attempt at a cover-up.

Climate Emails Review Panelist Quits After His Impartiality Questioned. The Guardian, February 12, 2010. Philip Campbell, editor in chief of Nature, the most prestigious scientific magazine in the world, was forced to resign from a panel investigating whether the CRU's hacked email showed wrongdoing on the part of CRU known as Climategate. It turned out Campbell had already told the Chinese state radio, "The scientists have not hidden the data.... In fact the only problem there has been is on some official restrictions on their ability to disseminate data, otherwise they have behaved as researchers should." Nature was the scientific publication in which Michael Mann's infamous Hockey Stick Curve was published. The Hockey Stick Curve has been thoroughly debunked as a fraud and was one of the main topics of discussion in the hacked emails. NOTE: To have invited Campbell in the first place strongly suggests a cover-up in progress. Anyone who understands the facts behind the emails can see that the CRU and its associated scientists blatantly corrupted the scientific method. Worse, it was also announced the investigation will be behind closed doors with no transcript of the proceedings. It is quite shocking how the global warming alarmists will do anything to prevent the truth from being told to the world.

Record Snowfall Buries Climate Bill But Sparks Debate. NBC News, February 11, 2010. The historic snowfall in D.C. has shut down the federal government and hope seems to be withering that a significant climate change bill can be passed this year. In addition to paralyzing the nation's capitol, the blizzard has breathed new wind into the argument that the globe is not getting any warmer. Environmentalists are now pushing the counterintuitive notion that the heavy snow is further proof that global warming exists. Conservatives, meanwhile, are chilling -- confident that a northeast coated in white is the right indication that climate change is junk science. NOTE: GW alarmists proclaim the record cold and snow proves global warming. They're nuts, of course. On the other hand a batch of cold, snowy weather does not prove we are having global cooling either. We are in an warm El Nino that is happening in the Cold cycle of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). We entered the cold PDO ten years ago and it should be gradually cooling. It has been, which is right in line with cooling temperatures. At the same time we are in a moderate El Nino, which usually means a dry Pacific Northwest (Vancouver has no snow for the Olympics), a wet southern California and Southeast (which it is), and generally a wet central and northern Atlantic Coast (which it is). Conclusion? Man is not causing global warming. The sun and oceans control climate. Period.

Sara Palin calls global warming science snake oil. Seattle Post Intelligence, February 10, 2010. While speaking at the Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference in Redding CA, Sara Palin lambasted the federal government's decision in 2008 to list polar bears as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Those promoting polar bear listing really want to shut down oil and gas leasing in Arctic coastal waters off Alaska, Palin argued. "We knew the bottom line . . . was ultimately to shut down a lot of our development," Palin told the loggers. "And it didn't make any sense because it was based on these global warming studies that now we're seeing (is) a bunch of snake oil science." NOTE: Although Palin is correct, the mainstream media is faithfully regurgitating all of the alleged "scientific" evidence on the melting polar icecap proving her wrong. The don't mention that the icecap has been rapidly growing in size since 2007.

New Federal Office for Global Warming. Washington Times, February 9, 2010. President Obama is calling for a new federal office within National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to study, report and advise other agencies on global warming. NOAA's Climate Service office would help federal agencies and businesses prepare for and cope with global changes. "This service will be a vital part of our growing body of knowledge on climate change, and will be held to the highest standards of scientific integrity and transparency," said Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-MA). Markey is the co-author of last year's economy wrecking cap and trade bill that passed the House in June. NOTE: "the highest standards of scientific integrity and transparency?" Just like the IPCC at the international level, who has been exposed the past four months of data manipulation and outright science fraud. There is credible evidence that NOAA has already been cooking the books as well. This is nothing more that putting the wolf in charge of the henhouse.

Follow the Global Warming Money. Casper Tribune, February 8, 2010. "Liberal politicians are adherents [of global warming] because they thirst for unlimited tax revenue through cap and trade laws. For pseudo-scientists, the global warming scheme is a smooth path to lucrative government research grants and the resulting prestige. To green energy producers, it is a financial bonanza for startup companies since the federal government is the largest venture capitalist in this field. Global warming is the basis for green energy continually seeking special tax favors, carbon portfolios and other benefits from all levels of government. For undeveloped countries global warming is a justification for restitution payments from the U. S. taxpayers. To the hard left it provides an environmental basis for one-world government and complete control over the production and lives of the planet. To people like Al Gore, who refers to global warming as "settled science," it provided an effective vehicle for becoming a multimillionaire."

The Great Global Warming Collapse. The Globe and Mail, February, 6, 2010. First there was the e-mails leaked from the University of East Anglia, home of a crucial research unit responsible for collecting temperature data. Then the IPCC's claim that the Himalayan glaciers were melting was proved false. Next the IPCC's claim that large tracts of the Amazon forest world disappear was based on a radical green article in an environmental magazine not even related to global warming. Then came the revelation that the IPCC claim that the Alps glaciers were based on antidotal claims by hikers published in a hiking magazine. Now, well-known warming alarmists are saying the IPCC has crossed into advocacy and they don't want anything to do with it. "By exaggerating the certainties, papering over the gaps, demonizing the skeptics and peddling tales of imminent catastrophe, they've discredited the entire climate-change movement." NOTE: for the record, skeptical scientists have long known the IPCC's "evidence" was a fraud, and were suspicious that the CRU, NOAA, and NASA scientists were cooking the books. They just couldn't prove it until now.

Media Cools On Global Warming. The Australian, February 6, 2010. Two major staunch defenders of man-caused global warming are now questioning the integrity of global warming data. After stonewalling Climategate and numerous revelations of fraud in the 2007 IPCC report, the British Independent is now questioning just what CRU's head Phil Jones meant when he said that Michael Mann (University of Pennsylvania) meant when he tried to "hide" the decline the data really showed. Mann used tree-ring analysis until 1960 and then switched to "real" data thereafter because the tree ring data showed cooling, not warming. The media outlet also questioned Jones' suppression of the heat island effect, which skeptics believe caused most of the warming in the late 20th century. England's The Guardian is also starting to question the suppression of evidence supporting the heat island effect. NOTE: This is evidence that even the media has to acknowledge the man-caused theory is coming unraveled even though they still support the theory.

Climate Scientist Calls For 'Big Changes' at UN IPCC. The Heartland Institute, February 4, 2010. In his address to the Thirteenth Annual Energy and Environment Expo, Dr. William Sprigg took on the ClimateGate scandal and called for "serious reforms" of the global scientific community. He warned of a growing perception that "the IPCC is biased, conflicted, [and] pushing political agendas." Sprigg called for a new climate research agency supported not entirely by the government, but in conjunction with the private sector. "We need to stick to our scientific principles," Sprigg said, referring at least in part to the critical importance of sharing data with other scientists so that hypotheses and methodologies can be checked and double-checked. "We need to improve our peer preview process, and expand the stakeholders' role to keep us all honest."

The Hottest Hoax in the World. Open Magazine, India, January 30, 2010. Increasingly messages like this are being reported in media around the world: "The climate change fraud that is now unraveling is unprecedented in its deceit, unmatched in scope—and for the liberal elite, akin to 9 on the Richter scale. Never have so few fooled so many for so long, ever. The entire world was being asked to change the way it lives on the basis of pure hyperbole. Propriety, probity and transparency were routinely sacrificed. The truth is: the world is not heating up in any significant way. Neither are the Himalayan glaciers going to melt as claimed by 2035. Nor is there any link at all between natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina and global warming. All that was pure nonsense, or if you like, ‘no-science’!"

IPCC Based Claims on Student's Report and Magazine Article. London Telegraph, January 30, 2010. In the growing debacle of false reporting in its 2007 report, yet another false conclusion in the report. The IPCC's 2007 report stated that observed reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and Africa was being caused by global warming, citing two papers as the source of the information. the conclusion was based on two reports; one was from a feature article in a popular mountain climber magazine based on anecdotal evidence and the other was written by a geography student that quoted interviews with mountain guides in the Alps. NOTE: This is not science and shows how sloppy the IPCC's report really is. Mountain snows have probably retreated, but it is not caused by man-caused global warming, but by the recovery from the Little Ice Age in the 1700s and 1800s plus changes in land-use patterns (which is the major reason for the disappearance of the snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro). Claiming the IPCC is a "scientific" organization is ridiculous.

Can Climate Forecasts Still Be Trusted? ABC News, January 28, 2010. As the realization sinks in that the IPCC deliberately lied and then demonized anyone who questioned them about the lies, the mainstream media is becoming disillusioned about the integrity of the IPCC and it's increasingly shrill statements of doom and gloom. The word Glaciergate is now entering the language about all the exposures of fraud. Yet, even as the call for the resignation of IPCC Chairman and Nobel laureate Rajendra Pachuari increases daily, President Obama has just called for a 28 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020; 13 percent higher than what Congress called for in the House and Senate cap and trade bills. NOTE: It seems like the far left is insanely calling for more and more fascist laws in spite of overwhelming opposition by American citizens. Review the information on www.nocapandtrade.us.

UN’s Global Warming Report Attacked for Rainforest Claims. Foxnews, January 28, 2010. The UN’s IPCC is again under fire for the third time in two weeks for its claim in its 2007 report that 40 percent of the Amazon Rain Forest was threatened by global warming. The claim was totally discredited when it was discovered that the World Wildlife Federation’s study upon which the IPCC’s claim was based had nothing to do with global warming, but instead was about man-caused forest fires. Worse, the article was written by a freelance journalist/green activist. This new fraud by the IPCC follows the exposure of fraud by the IPCC earlier this week of its claim that global warming will cause increased extreme storm events, and the exposed fraud last week that the Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035. Note: This kind of fraud has been going on since the inception of the IPCC. (See our 4 minute YouTube video) If this were any other “science” organization it would be totally discredited and ignored in the future, or more likely, shut down entirely. That won’t happen to the IPCC because it is the key cog in a huge global agenda. They will go through the motions of a major housecleaning, but it will be a whitewash.

2 Climate Studies Offer Hope on Global Warming. Houston Chronicle, January 28, 2010. Two studies just published showed that global warming was not nearly as serious as previously thought. One study showed that atmospheric water vapor had declined over the past 10 years rather than increasing as all the climate models had showed. Increasing water vapor amplifies the warming. It is called a positive feedback. However, the decline in water vapor the past 10 years shows it to be a negative feedback, which has caused earth’s temperature to actually decline. This suggested future projected warming would be about 80 percent less than forecast. (We have known this for at least two years. See our 3 ½ minute video). Another positive feedback is as oceans warm they cannot hold as much CO2 and therefore emit more CO2, which amplifies its effect in the atmosphere. This is not happening because the ocean’s are not warming as expected. Why? See our 4 minute YouTube video. Note: the author’s of these two research papers still claim man-caused CO2 is the primary driver of warming even though their results disprove it. Of course, they must make this claim if they are to get future grant money from the federal government.

Carbon Currency: A New Beginning for Technocracy? The August Review, Carbon Currency: A New Beginning for Technocracy, January 26, 2010. Must Read There is growing evidence that national currencies, including the US dollar will be replaced with a single carbon currency. It is designed to support a revolutionary new economic system based on energy consumption and production rather than price. Our current price-based economic system and its related currencies that have supported capitalism, socialism, fascism and communism, is being herded to the slaughterhouse in order to make way for a new carbon-based world. Unfortunately for individual people living in this new system, it will also require authoritarian and centralized control over all aspects of life, from cradle to grave. Note: Economists have long thought the cap and trade system is an irrational means of controlling carbon emissions. However, if the long-term goal is to develop a carbon currency, it makes perfect sense. It's a well-worth reading report that may help explain the insanity of cap and trade legislation.

Obama to Continue Pushing for Cap and Trade. State of Union Address, January 27, 2010. Obama: "And, yes, it means passing a comprehensive energy and climate bill with incentives that will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America. I'm grateful to the House for passing such a bill last year. And this year -- this year, I'm eager to help advance the bipartisan effort in the Senate. I know there have been questions about whether we can afford such changes in a tough economy. I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But -- but here's the thing. Even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy efficiency and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future, because the nation that leads the clean-energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy, and America must be that nation." Note: While admitting there are scientists who disagree with the global warming mantra, it would still be the right thing to do to pass the legislation because it would create clean energy. He is wrong. It would not be profitable, it will not create new jobs, nor can it provide a lot of clean energy with today's technology.

Public's Priorities for 2010: Global Warming Dead Last. Pew Research Center, January 26, 2010. A Pew Poll of top priorities by the American public ranked global warming dead last, 21 out of 21. Only 28 percent thought it the highest priority, down from 38 percent in 2007. This follows an overall trend in which only 48 percent of all Americans now believe man is causing global warming compared to almost 80 percent in 2006. Such a low ranking in the new Pew poll is driven in part by indifference among Republicans: just 11% consider global warming a top priority, compared with 43% of Democrats and 25% of independents. Not surprisingly, nearly 70 percent of all Democrats still believe man is causing global warming. Note: Watch to see if Obama will still pursue cap and trade in his State of the Union Address. There is no scientific or political justification for him to do so.

China Officially Has Doubt About Man-caused Theory. Financial Times, January 25, 2010. China has made it official; cause of global warming is uncertain. Although global warming is a "fact," its cause very much remains in doubt. It is very possible it is nothing more than a natural cycle. China also strongly implied the IPCC must include "contrarian" evidence refuting the man-caused theory in the fifth assessment in 2013. Note: The man-caused theory of global warming is rapidly becoming unraveled. However, since it is part of an agenda, don't expect the media or politicians to give up trying to pass cap and trade and some sort of international agreement.

UN IPCC Falsely Linked Global Warming to Natural Disasters. London Times, January 24, 2010. Must Read. Still reeling from the inclusion of false warnings that the Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035, the IPCC has now been found to have used an unpublished, un-reviewed paper that shows that global warming creates the number and severity of natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods. One of the main emotional motivators for cap and trade legislation and international treaties has been the alleged "certainty" that global warming would cause catastrophic weather events. Indeed, almost every destructive storm the past 15 years has been blamed on global warming. It turns out that all these predictions of catastrophic weather were based on an unpublished report. Numerous scientists told the IPCC that it was wrong, but they included it in their 2007 report anyway. To add insult to injury, when the unpublished report was finally published it claimed, "We find insufficient evidence to claim a statistical relationship between global temperature increase and catastrophe losses." -- just the opposite of what the IPCC said. Note: Scientists have long known that the entire IPCC process is political and has nothing to do with true science. The proof is finally coming out. Even so, it is unlikely the IPCC will be shut down or will change its position. After all, it is advancing a political agenda, not the truth. (See why global warming can't cause the number and violence of storms. Get our highly acclaimed DVD)

Glacier Scientist: I knew Data Hadn't Been Verified. Daily Mail UK, January 24, 2010. The scientist behind the bogus claim in the 2007 IPCC report that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035 said he knew the claim did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research. "We thought that if we can highlight it [the unsubstantiated claim that exposed as false], it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action." When the report proving the melting claim was wrong IPCC Chairman, Raj Pachauri, rather than saying the IPCC would look into the report's accusation, said that the report questioning the IPCC was based on "voodoo science." It turns out the IPCC's report itself was based on voodoo science. Note: Skeptics have long known the IPCC was not a science institution, but rather a political institution instituting a political agenda to show man was causing global warming. It systematically eliminating all science that refuting its man-caused theory, and as evidenced by this controversy, made up "evidence" to support its agenda. It then demonizes anything or anybody that opposes it.

Ohio Professional Geologists Reject Warming Alarmism. Heartland Institute, 1-21-2010. The Ohio Section of the American Institute of Professional Geologists has adopted a position statement rejecting global warming alarmism and calling on Congress to defeat legislation aimed at restricting carbon dioxide emissions. They further requested Congress to reject all cap and trade legislation stating, "The Ohio Section of AIPG professes that there is no scientific evidence supporting this [man-caused warming] premise." The statement condemns the IPPC science as being dependent "on unreliable climate computer-model simulations" that have not predicted the current cooling trend because the models incorporate a fatal error whereby increases in CO2 have positive feedbacks resulting in amplified warming when new science shows it is a negative feedback that reduces warming and explains the current cooling. Note: for an explanation of positive/negative feedback issue, view one of our short YouTube videos. This destroys the entire man-caused global warming theory.

Global Warming Lower Than Expected. Lab News Daily, January 21, 2010. “Earth has warmed much less than expected during the industrial era based on current best estimates of Earth's "climate sensitivity"--the amount of global temperature increase expected in response to a given rise in atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide.” The article gives two possible explanations: 1) The earth is less sensitive to CO2 than previously thought; 2) and/or the sun energy is reflected back into space by haze particles. Note: While the second probably plays a role, the first is the primary reason, although, not in the way they explain it. The article simply states that it will take a few decades longer to reach doomsday than originally thought. However, the problem is the climate models are simply wrong because every one assumes a positive feedback to increased CO2, which has been shown to be wrong. It is a negative feedback which diminishes the warming effect of CO2. Note: for an explanation of positive/negative feedback issue, view one of our short YouTube videos. This destroys the entire man-caused global warming theory.

Will Senate Pass Cap and Trade in 2010? New York Times, January 19, 2010. The Senate is unlikely to consider climate change legislation this year after going through the contentious health care debate, says Sen. Brian Dorgan (D-ND). Instead Dorgan wants an Energy bill passed that is not a contentious as cap and trade. Meanwhile Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV, Majority Leader) will take the cap and trade bill up this spring. Note: Who's right? If the progressive Dems are following Saul Alinsky's strategy of attack and destroy (which seems to be what they have done all of 2009), Reid is right and Dorgan will be attacked. We could witness the destruction of the Democrat Party this year -- an election year to boot. The next few weeks should tell if the progressive Dems back off after their stunning defeat in Massachusetts Senate race on Tuesday. If they don't back off, expect a bloodbath because these progressives don't care who they hurt as long as they win.

Heat Turned On IPCC Over Himalayan Glacier Claim. Times of India, January 19, 2010. The assault by science on the UN IPCC and man-caused warming continues with the revelation that another key marker in the 2007 IPCC's "science" report was totally wrong. The IPCC report claimed that peer-reviewed science showed conclusively that the Himalayan glaciers would be gone by 2035, proof of man-caused warming. When India's Environmental Minister, Jairam Ramesh told the IPCC's chief R K Pachauri that his scientists totally disagreed with the IPCC's assessment, Pachauri told him India's conclusions were "based on voodoo science." It turns out the IPCC's science was based on voodoo science. The entire IPCC report on the Himalayan's was not based on peer-reviewed science, but on a careless comment decades ago. NOTE: Pachauri's voodoo science putdown is typical for warming alarmists. They can't argue the science so they resort to rhetoric and demonization (no pun intended). After years of knowing man-caused warming was based on fraud, skeptical scientists are finally being vindicated. Stay tuned; there is more to come.

World Mislead Over Himalayan Glacier Meltdown. London Times, January 17, 2010. The claim by the UN in its 2007 IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report that the Himalayan glaciers would all melt by 2035 has now been proven to be nothing but speculation by an obscure Indian scientist who had mentioned it as a concern in a conversation but had no intention for his statement to be official. He said there was no research to support his concern. Yet, it was made a major supporting fact in the 2007 UN IPCC report that claimed there was a 90% certainty that man was causing global warming. Note: This is merely another in a long list of fraudulent statements the UN IPCC made in its 2007 report. It clearly shows how this alleged "scientific" organization will use any conclusion that man is responsible for global warming without checking it, but eliminate all solid, peer-reviewed science results that shows the warming is not caused by man.

Climategate II. WorldNetDaily, January 16, 2010. Amid breaking news that scientist and climate alarmist Michael Mann, who gave the world the Hockey Stick fraud and played a central role in the Climategate scandal, received $541,184 from stimulus funds last June and another $1.9 million from the National Science Foundation this week, comes accusations against NOAA for cooking the books in the US. By now the Mann should be fully discredited as an unbiased scientist, instead is heavily rewarded by the Obama administration. Worse Joseph D'Aleo, first Director of Meteorology at the cable TV Weather Channel, has evidence that NOAA cooked the books by systematically eliminating most of the temperature data from northern and high elevation weather stations from the global temperature data base. This slight of hand would automatically show a large increase in global temperature. Note: There will likely be more revelations to come. The science from the CRU, NOAA and NASA stinks.

UN Should Be Sidelined in Future Climate Talks. London Guardian, January 14, 2010. America sees a diminished role for the United Nations in trying to stop global warming after the "chaotic" Copenhagen climate change summit, an Obama administration official said today. Instead, the official said a future path for negotiations should be dominated by the world's largest polluters such as China, the US, India, Brazil and South Africa, who signed up to a deal in the final hours of the summit. That would represent a realignment of the way the international community has dealt with climate change over the last two decades. Note: Watch this in the future. We could be witnessing a shift to the G-7 or G-20 as the vehicle to usher in global governance. The G-20 meeting in Pittsburg last year suggests the same thing because it would be much easier to control.

Insurance Group Warns Not to Accept Climate Science. New York Times, January 13, 2010. A major trade group for the insurance industry is warning that it is "exceedingly risky" for companies to blindly accept scientific conclusions around climate change, given the "serious questions" around the extent to which humans cause atmospheric warming. The reason? Climategate casts doubt over the reality of man causing global warming.

Climate Change Experts Clash Over Sea-rise 'Apocalypse.' London Times, January 10, 2010. Climate science faces a new controversy after the Britain's Met Office denounced research from the Copenhagen summit which suggested that global warming could raise sea levels by 6ft by 2100. Note: It is amazing that the Met disputes this outrageous research. It's own research is very biased and outrageous in its own right.

Global Warming is a Religion. Townhall.com, January 13, 2010. Manmade global warming, for many, is an Earth-worshipping religion. The essential feature of any religion is that its pronouncements are to be accepted on the basis of faith as opposed to hard evidence. Questioning those pronouncements makes one a sinner. That is exactly what is happening today on the global warming issue. In fact, as explained in the book Saviors of the Earth, most of the environmental catastrophes of the past 30 years are based in the earth-based religion of pantheism.

Clean Energy Sources: Sun, Wind and Subsidies. Wall Street Journal, January 8, 2010. In Germany, renewable energy from projects that qualified for feed-in tariffs between 2004 and 2008 will cost consumers [euro ]122.3 billion (about $175 billion) between 2008 and 2030 -- 46% more than the same amount conventional energy would cost, New Energy Finance predicts. In Spain, renewable energy from projects started under the country's feed-in tariff between 2006 and late 2008 will cost [euro ]53 billion over the Spanish tariff's 25-year life, the firm projects, a 75% premium over the likely cost of the same amount of conventional power. As part of the Obama administration's stimulus plan, renewable-energy producers are eligible for cash grants totaling 30% of the cost of projects they start this year -- however high those costs go.

Snow, Bitter Cold Grip Northern Hemisphere. Nocapandtrade.us, January 10, 2010. View a satellite image of the snow extent. Regional weather forecasts have all called for a warmer than average winter because a moderately strong El Nino has gripped the Eastern tropical Pacific. However, so far all have been totally wrong.

The Met Office Gives Us the Warmest Weather. London Telegraph, January 2, 2010. England's MET office, the official weather forecasting agency for Great Britain, forecast of warmer than normal 2010 winter is being frozen over by the lowest temps in decades. This agency, sister to Climategate's Climate Research Institute, has a state of the art super computer, yet has disastrously missed seasonal predictions the past 3 years. "The reason the Met Office so persistently gets its seasonal forecasts wrong is that it has been hi-jacked from the role for which we pay it nearly £200 million a year, to become one of the world's major propaganda engines for the belief in man-made global warming. Over the past three years, it has become a laughing stock for forecasts which are invariably wrong in the same direction." Note: So much for unbiased science. Tragically, this is the norm for U.S. federal agencies as well.

Scientist claims Cold Doesn't Negate Global Warming, But Privately Says He Has No Explanation. New American, January 8, 2010. Attempting to explain away the bitter cold and snow currently gripping the northern hemisphere, Dr. Kevin Trentworth told ABC News on January 6 that "weather is chaotic. It has an infinite amount of variability," including cold snaps. Putting aside the fact the current hemispheric cold is very rare, and a cooling trend has been in effect for 10 years, Trentworth is the same scientist who wrote in the climategate email scandal "the fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment and it is a travesty that we can't." Note: You decide which Trentworth quote you believe.

Climategate: You Should be Steamed. Seattlepi.com (Hearst), January 7, 2010. Neil Frank, retired Director of the National Hurricane Center, reminds us that the evidence that man is NOT causing global warming is huge, and growing. He discusses the climategate issue as rock-hard evidence of a fraud. He also notes that scientists are also coming out more and more against the man-caused theory. He cites 1) 32,000 scientists (including 9,000 Ph.D.s) who signed a petition saying there is no evidence man is causing the warming, 2) 700 scientists (many who are or were an IPCC member or author) who endorsed a 231 page Senate minority report that discredits man-made global warming, 3) and the endorsement of 800 scientists of an 881 page refutation of the 2007 IPCC report, and showing man is not causing global warming. Frank also provides a summary of the key points skeptics generally believe.

Cold Snap Doesn't Disprove Global Warming. ABC News, January 6, 2010. As more evidence that very unusual (in some cases record) cold and snowy weather is tightening its grip on the northern hemisphere, some scientists still reassure the public that it does not disprove man-caused global warming. They say that man-made climate change will cause more frequent and more severe weather extremes. Note: History does not support this claim. Records show that global cooling has always caused more frequent and violent weather (for instance during the Little Ice Age in the 1700-1800s) compared to warm periods like the Medieval Optimum in the 1100-1200s.

Arctic Freeze and Snow Weak Havoc Across the Planet. London Times, January 5, 2010. "There are few precedents for the global sweep of extreme cold and ice that killed dozens in India, paralyzed life in Beijing and threatened Florida orange crops. Chicagoans sheltered from a potentially killer freeze. Paris endured sunny Siberian cold, Italy dug itself out of snow drifts and Poland counted at least 13 deaths in record low temperatures of about minus 25C (13F)." Note: For the entire Northern Hemisphere to be hit with below normal cold and record or near record snowfall is extremely unusual. At the same time Solar Cycle 24 is delayed for three years, which historically has meant colder earth temperatures.

The Real Cost of Green Energy Hits Britain. Mail Online, January 2, 2010. British Parliament is rethinking its green energy policy enacted 3 years ago as the costs keep skyrocketing. Costs for an average family are certain to go up to £2000 a year ($3200 US), and perhaps as high as £5000 annually ($8000). Included in this new reality is also the almost certain realization that millions of jobs could be lost when energy intensive industry has to move off shore. To add to this troubling reality, reports that British pensioners are already buying cheap books instead of coal to heat their homes in the below normal cold gripping England this year.

China Gets Huge Snowfall, Cold Temperatures. Sidney Morning Herald, January 5, 2010. Beijing received its biggest snowfall since 1951, along with the harshest Siberian winds and temps down to -16^o, the coldest in 40 years. The cause? Global warming, say the Chinese. In Peru increasing cold temperatures are also blamed on global warming. The Midwest and East Coast get hammered with record snowfalls and bitter cold the last week in December and early January. You guessed it. Global warming. Note: Are we so dumbed down that we cannot see past this hoax?

Scientist Predicts Cooling. Times Argus, January 3, 2010. A Canadian Physicist asserts that there is no correlation of earth's temperature with CO2. Instead, he has found a striking correlation of temperature to cosmic radiation and CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons). The total amount of CFCs decreased around 2000, and "correspondingly, the global surface temperature has also dropped. In striking contrast, the CO2 level has kept rising since 1850 and now is at its largest growth rate." Note: Cosmic radiation has long been thought to play a role in earth's climate. The role of CFCs, however, is a new hypothesis. Is the decline of CFCs and temperature since 2000 a coincidence or did the CFCs play a role. Only further study will answer this question.

Scientist Need to Speak Up. Washington Post, January 3, 2010. Since the CRU's hacked emails were released in late November last year, America's distrust of scientists jumped to 40 percent. Nearly 60 percent of Republicans now distrust scientists. Note: As we have feared, one of the great casualties of the global warming debacle has been America's trust in science. The solution for this alarming distrust? Amazingly, the article calls upon scientists to speak up. Da? Isn't that what the hacked emails said they were doing? The emails clearly showed an incredible effort to control what was released to the public. Yet, the Post article asks that "mainstream" scientists speak out like the skeptics are doing. When will it occur to them that the skeptics are the mainstream of science, and the only reason the apocalyptic view of global warming has legs at all is because the mainstream media only parrot the propaganda from those scientists that got caught red-handed in climategate?