11 Nov 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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Chinese Climate Jujit...
Energy Tribune - Houston,TX,USA
Climate-change-related initiatives and carbon tariffs by Western countries ... of Western worries about “climate change” which, if real and anthropogenic, ...
EPA lawyers equate cap and trade to Challenger disaster
Examiner.com - USA
Williams and Zabel firmly believe that a reduction in carbon dioxide
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http://www.examiner.com/x-25061-Climate-Change-Examiner~y2009m11d10-EPA-lawyers-equate-cap-and-trade-to-Challenger-disaster
The Cloudy Future for Climate Alarmism [Greg Pollowitz]
National Review Online (blog) - New York,NY,USA
President Obama's headed to Copenhagen next month to talk climate change. ... our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, ...
Controversial new climate change results
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
This work is extremely important for climate change policy, because
emission ... More information: Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions ...
Clouds hang over the global-warming alarmists
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
Mojib Latif is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, ... and the amount of carbon dioxide in the climate will have little effect on it ...
World Climate Report » Airborne Fraction of Human CO2 Emissions ...
By Administrator
Keeping in mind the various sources of potential errors inherent in these data, he developed several different possible solutions to fitting a trend to the airborne fraction of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions. ...
Given the importance of the [the anthropogenic CO2 airborne fraction] for the degree of future climate change, the question is how to best predict its future course. One pre-requisite is that we gain a thorough understand of why it has stayed ...
Don't buy those carbon credits just yet | Washington Examiner
Democrats' cap-and-trade climate change bill contains a provision that could suddenly render useless the carbon credits it creates, says Sen. David Vitter, R-La. Vitter will speak at a press conference later today on how the bill ... http:/ /www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/ ), the carbon dioxide (CO_2) concentration will hit the 450 ppmV level in 26 years (2036) or so. As shown by Kramm et al. (2008) the mean atmospheric concentration will increase as long as the total ...
EU researchers call for more ambitious CO2 reduction targets for ...
By Krithi
Scientists working on the EU-funded CARBOOCEAN project have reiterated calls for a greater reduction of man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Current targets are not strict enough, they argue, as contrary to popular belief, their findings show how the regional ... Fuelling human knowledge about how anthropogenic emissions affect the climate by warming up the atmosphere is vital. CO2 is the most significant and manageable agent for climate change, the researchers say . ...
Global Warming malarky - Dennis Byrne's Barbershop
By Dennis Byrne
For example, the IPCC claimed that "most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely (at least 90 percent certain) due to the increase in anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gas ... The NIPCC reveals that the IPCC failed to consider naturally occurring "feedback" factors that reduce the impact of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Reviewing the empirical data, the NIPCC finds no evidence that climate change in the last ...

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41 Nations Join Island Effort for Fast

Phase-down of Super Greenhouse Gases Under Ozone Treaty



11 November 2009, Port Ghalib, Egypt. On Sunday, 8 November, two small islands fighting rising seas and growing storm surges driven by climate change were joined by a growing army of nations in their battle to phase down super greenhouse gases. The weapon of choice for the Federated States of Micronesia and Mauritius is the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty. Their target is a group of super greenhouse gases known as hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs.



The support from the coalition came in the form of an official declaration on phasing down HFCs issued by 41 countries at the conclusion of the High-Level segment of the annual meeting of the ozone treaty Sunday night. This is expected to lead to an amendment to the treaty next year.



“If we don’t control HFCs, they could warm the world almost half as much as CO2 emissions by 2050,” said Durwood Zaelke, President of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development. This assumes that CO2 emissions are stabilized at 450 parts per million in this time frame. “We could win the battle against CO2 and still lose the war against climate change if we let HFCs continue to grow,” he added.



“The declaration sends a clear signal to the world that the super greenhouse gases we are targeting will soon be gone,” said Antonio Oposa Jr., delegate from Micronesia. “We would have preferred even faster action to amend the treaty this year, but many of our fellow parties wanted more time to study climate-friendly alternatives and we respect that. A bit more time on the front end will help us at the back end when we’re implementing the HFC phase out, and keep the treaty’s record of perfect compliance with our commitments.”



Yahyah Patel, head of the Mauritius delegation, formally presented the declaration on behalf of the 41 sponsors. Pathel stressed that:



· Climate change is “occurring faster than previously predicted” and “will threaten present and future generations unless more stringent measures are adopted and implemented urgently”;

· HFCs are “powerful greenhouse gases” that the “Montreal Protocol is well-suited to phase-down…, having already phased-out similar chemicals in the same sectors”;

· All Parties should “urgently consider phasing-down the production and consumption of high-GWP alternatives” including HFCs, and “take appropriate measures … as soon as practicable.”



The Parties directed their Technology and Economics Assessment Panel to study and report on environmentally friendly alternatives to HFCs as quickly as possible next year.



The 27 members of the European Union offered their support to Micronesia and Mauritius in a statement from the floor at the close of the meeting. Japan, Australia, and New Zealand also supported the islands from the floor.



“Fast HFC cuts can prevent a decade of warming and reduce the equivalent of up to 100 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide,” said Zaelke. “The question now is whether the rest of the world will move fast enough. Time is of the essence for the islands.” Zaelke attended the treaty negotiations in Port Ghalib to present evidence on the harm HFCs are causing. He spoke at an official event on the role of the military in the Montreal Protocol organized by the United Nations Environment Programme.



“The Montreal Protocol is the best climate treaty to date, and has already delayed climate change by up to 12 years by reducing climate emissions by a net of 135 billion tonnes of CO2-equivalent,” Zaelke explained to the group of generals and other senior military officials.



Micronesia and Mauritius launched their initiative against HFCs in April when they called on the ozone treaty to phase down these greenhouse gases. The United States, Mexico, and Canada followed with a similar proposal.



“Phasing out these super greenhouse gases would have immediate benefits for climate and entirely eliminate one of the six greenhouse gases responsible for global warming,” said Mark W. Roberts of the Environmental Investigation Agenct (EIA).



The Montreal Protocol Parties also took a formal decision to expand programs for destroying chemical stockpiles of ozone-depleting substances that damage the ozone layer and cause climate change. “This decision could lead to climate mitigation significantly bigger than the emissions targeted under the first phase of the Kyoto Protocol climate treaty,” said Sam LaBudde of EIA. Kyoto’s first commitment runs from 2008 to 2012 and is seeking five billion tonnes of CO2-equivalent below 1990 levels.



HFCs are used primarily in refrigeration and air conditioning, and are known as ‘super’ greenhouse gases because the combined effect of their soaring use and high-global warming potential (GWP) threatens to cancel the benefits expected from reduction of other greenhouse gases.



“Despite the fact that it is already regarded as the most effective environmental accord in history, this week’s efforts illuminate the possibility that the Montreal Protocol’s best work lies in its future rather than in the past,” added Roberts.



The Montreal Protocol’s historic success in controlling and eliminating ozone-depleting substances means that it already has the infrastructure and experience necessary to phase down HFCs quickly and effectively.



Other Parties to the Montreal Protocol said they are looking to the climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month for further support for a fast HFC phase-down. The two treaties would address different aspects of HFCs. The Kyoto Protocol addresses downstream emissions of HFCs. The Montreal Protocol would phase down the upstream production and consumption of HFCs.



“The Montreal Protocol has already phased out nearly 100 other gases that harm the ozone layer and warm the climate,” Zaelke added. “The treaty’s compliance record is hard to top. The past phase-outs have cut production and consumption of targeted chemicals by 97%.” Zaelke heads the International Network for Environmental Compliance & Enforcement, a coalition of over 4,000 government officials fighting for stronger compliance.

http://igsd.org/documents/PREgypt11Nov09.pdf



Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Rabett Run - The American Physical Society Stays Real
The Breakthrough Blog - EPA Attempts to Rein in Lawyers' Critique of Cap and Trade
The EPA attempted to prevent two of its attorneys from citing their experience as background for their opinions about cap and trade on the grounds that they violated federal policy, but the effort does not detract from the couple's important critique of pending climate and energy legislation
DeSmog Blog - Friends of Science Ads Are Wrong and Should Be Pulled

Skeptical Sources
the Air Vent - The Drain is Bigger than the Faucet
Heliogenic Climate Change - AAAS off the deep end
Heliogenic Climate Change - Lightning: a new tool for accurately measuring the sun’s rotation when sunspots are not presentSelf-hating true believers in "deep despair"
Heliogenic Climate Change - Propaganda blitz from Reuters as Nohopenhagen approaches
Watts Up With That? -
Watts Up With That? - Georgia Tech: “50 percent of the [USA] warming that has occurred since 1950 is due to land use changes rather than greenhouse gases”
Watts Up With That? - Pachauri claims Indian scientific position “arrogant”
Watts Up With That? - Bombshell from Bristol: Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions increasing? – study says “no” (Oops!)
Watts Up With That? - New geologic evidence of past periods of oscillating, abrupt warming, and cooling
Climate Science Blog - GERMAN RENEWABLE ENERGY A FAILURE
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Alternative Hypotheses About Climate Change
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Correspondence in Nature
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Wolfgang Knorr on Uncomfortable Research

Balanced Sources
Global Warming Blog - Stem Cell Gene Therapy Succeeds
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Pan Evaporation Trends And Its Relation To The Diagnosis of Global Warming – Comments On A New Article By Roderick Et Al 2009
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Is Pine Island Glacier the Weak Underbelly of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet?
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Bombshell from Bristol: Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions increasing? – study says “no”
AccuWeather - An October to Remember, At Least in the States
Science Daily - Controversial New Climate Change Data: Is Earth's Capacity To Absorb CO2 Much Greater Than Expected?
Science Daily - Central Africa's Tropical Congo Basin Was Arid, Treeless In Late Jurassic

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10 Nov 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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Beware the climate change alarmists
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
Nor do the data demonstrate an anthropogenic effect on climate change. ...
It ignored research showing that rising carbon dioxide levels actually increase ...
Bristol University | News from the University | Climate change
Controversial new climate change results. Press release issued 9 November
2009. New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having ... The paper: Is the airborne fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions increasing? by Wolfgang Knorr. Geophysical Research Letters, VOL. 36, L21710, doi:10.1029/2009GL040613,
2009. tree stumps in wasted soil ...
"Joe Romm is Climate McCarthyite-in-chief" - Hit & Run : Reason ...
By Ronald Bailey
This is the state of liberal debate about climate change. Those who
question apocalyptic predictions are treated as global warming deniers or traitors or worse. Those who advocate solutions other than cap-and-trade have their characters ..... Now would be a good time for you to tell us your thoughts about anthropogenic global warming. Do you believe that human-caused release of carbon dioxide is causing measurable and irreversible warming of the planet, and that it is the ...
McIntyre and Lindzen to appear on Finnish TV documentary ...
By wattsupwiththat
VO: The threat is based on assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. According to the panel, the Earth is going
through an unprecedented period of temperature increase, caused by man and his carbon dioxide ...


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Believer Sources
Stoat - India 'arrogant' to deny global warming link to melting glaciers?
Brave New Climate - Follow Britain’s nuclear lead
Brave New Climate - Fee-and-dividend is superior to cap-and-trade for effective carbon emissions reductions
Celsias - Why Demanding 'Political Will' is Lazy and Unproductive
Celsias - Death Denial

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - UK Government: Met Office Source Code ‘Available For External Use’
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - CO2 Obsession Takes Over NASA(’s Press Releases)
The Reference Frame - Police state starts at 450 ppm CO2 equivalent
the Air Vent - Michael Mann, Having an impact
Climate Observations - Global Temperatures This Decade Will Be The Warmest On Record…
Heliogenic Climate Change - APS rejects climate science, bows to AGW clergy
Heliogenic Climate Change - Windmill v. bird
Heliogenic Climate Change - Assisted economic suicide REQUIRED by Ration & Tax bills
Heliogenic Climate Change - Ax about to fall
Heliogenic Climate Change - "Controversial" because it's heresy
Heliogenic Climate Change - Behold the face of a true believer
Icecap - Nov 10, 2009
Don’t buy those carbon credits just yet
Icecap - New geologic evidence of past periods of oscillating, abrupt warming, and cooling
Watts Up With That? - Countdown to an “unprecedented warm decade” – 2 months to go
Watts Up With That? - Lindzen and McIntyre’s Finnish TV interview – issues that US journalists fail to investigate
Watts Up With That? - 2009 shaping up to be a “normal” temperature year in the USA
Watts Up With That? - A statistically significant cooling trend in RSS and UAH satellite data
Watts Up With That? - Shindell, Methane, and Uncertainty
Climate Science Blog - UK LEAST WORRIED ABOUT GW - NEW SURVEY
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Pushing Back Against Joe Romm's Character Assassination

Balanced Sources
The blackboard - Satellite Trends: RSS and UAH
Global Warming Blog - MAVEN to Mars
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - 1996 Paper By Bill Gray Of Colorado State University Titled “Forecast Of Global Circulation Characteristics In The Next 25-30 Years”
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - New Article “Climate Change: The Need to Consider Human Forcings Besides Greenhouse Gases” In EOS
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) .continue » [more] - Another Normal Year for U.S. Temperatures?
AccuWeather - Time to Paint, as Glaciers Recede
Science Daily - Antarctica Glacier Retreat Creates New Carbon Dioxide Store; Has Beneficial Impact On Climate Change
Science Daily - Past Climate Of Northern Antarctic Peninsular Informs Global Warming Debate
Science Daily - Changing Arctic Affecting Air, Ocean, And Everything In Between
Science Daily - Climate Studies To Benefit From 12 Years Of Satellite Aerosol Data


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09 Nov 2009 Articles & Interesting Posts/Finds

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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Regime Change Short-Circuited: Japan's Feed-in Tariff System
Japan Focus - Ithaca,NY,USA
... carbon dioxide emissions by 2020, relative to 1990 levels. 1 This forthright declaration from Japan, long a laggard in dealing with climate change, ...
The Climate Engine « Climate Change
By erlhapp
That part is much more than half of one percent, the quantity of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The tropical troposphere tends to lose energy by decompression associated with uplift whereas the subtropical latitudes is a place of ..... The evidence suggests that natural variation rather than anthropogenic influences drives climate change. Conclusion. Between 1948 and 1976 the tropics and the globe as a whole was fairly stable in temperature with obvious cooling ...
Letters from Readers - November 05, 2009 - Below are a few letters ...
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So what's next on the climate change team? They've used up their global warming claim when the track record for temperatures went south. And their new claim is carbon dioxide levels, but even those claims are fabricated by well-placed scientists. ... "Anthropogenic Global Warming" itself appears to be approaching a crossroads in the scientific community, and it's Al Gore who risks irrelevance. As worldwide temperatures continue to recede and more and more scientists are ...
EU researchers call for more ambitious CO2 reduction targets for ...
By Anne-Marin Nisumaa
Scientists working on the EU-funded CARBOOCEAN project have reiterated calls for a greater reduction of man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Current targets are not strict enough, they argue, as contrary to popular belief, ... The CARBOOCEAN consortium underlines that goodwill is not enough to save the world from the effects of climate change. Fuelling human knowledge about how anthropogenic emissions affect the climate by warming up the atmosphere is vital. ...


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Real Climate -
Is Pine Island Glacier the Weak Underbelly of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet?
Only In It For The Gold - Against Waxman-Markey
The Breakthrough Blog - The Real Policy Lesson From the Chinese Wind Turbine "Scare"
The Breakthrough Blog - Australian Prime Minister Ignores Cap and Trade Critique
Analysis of late-release data on Australia's cap-and-trade plan revealed significant flaws but Prime Minister Rudd seems unperturbed and unwilling to listen to those calling for improvement
Climate Feedback - Montreal delegates hold off on HFC amendment
Climate Feedback - Australian agency denies gagging climate researchers
Bunzl's Blog - Why Copenhagen Matters
Celsias - Road to Copenhagen - Part 5
Celsias - Bolivia: The Necessity of Adaptation
Celsias - Playing the Futures Game

Skeptical Sources
World Climate Report - Another Normal Year for U.S. Temperatures?
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Global Warming Obsession Takes Over BBC Religious Programme
The Reference Frame - El Niño is strengthening
the Air Vent - None of the Above – An alternate solution to global warming
the Air Vent - The Unstoppable Dirty Dozen
Climate Resistance - Dead Babies - Conscripts in the Climate War
Climate Observations - October 2009 SST Anomaly Update
Climate Observations - October 2009 ERSST.v3b Global and NINO3.4 SST Anomalies
Climate Change by Erl Happ and Carl Wolk - The Climate Engine {What follows is a general theory of natural climate variation supported by observation of the changing temperature of the atmosphere and the sea between 1948 and September 2009. This work suggests that strong warming after 1978 is an entirely natural phenomenon.}
Climate Audit - RCS Homogeneity- Esper in Jaemtland
Icecap - Nov 09, 2009
Al Gore Encourages Civil Disobedience
Heliogenic Climate Change - New solar spin-orbit coupling presentation
Heliogenic Climate Change - The Sun, cosmic rays, and Earth's cloud cover/albedo
Heliogenic Climate Change - Parody of ACT ON CO2 commercial
Heliogenic Climate Change - “We’ll just have to deal with those people”
Watts Up With That? - No longer the ENVI of the green revolution, Chrysler drops electric vehicle plan
Watts Up With That? - EPA sends CO2 endangerment finding to the White House
Watts Up With That? - The climate engine
Watts Up With That? - RSS Global Temperature out for October – down, nearly identical to UAH
Watts Up With That? - MIT takes on the politics of climate fixes
Watts Up With That? - USA Today: Expanding cities contribute to global warming
Climate Science Blog - CHINA AND INDIA CLIMATE SCEPTIC ACCORD
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - IPCC vs. Indian Environment Ministry

Balanced Sources

Global Warming Blog - Mickey Mouse In Shanghai
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Comments on “Beyond Climate Science” By Eric Barron
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - How industry pressures and competing national agendas dim prospects for a climate treaty
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) continue [more] - Forget Global Warming, The Sky Really Could Fall
AccuWeather -
Science Daily -

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This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

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08 Nov 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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Results From Today's Google Alert
History of the Global Warming "Hoax"
Record-Searchlight - Redding,CA,USA
"Plass' work was pivotal in the establishment of the central role of carbon dioxide in climate change, and in the danger that anthropogenic carbon emissions ...
We Can Stop Global Warming Today
Scienceline - New York,NY,USA
News stories on how our addiction to carbon based fuels and nonstop
emission of .... Those of us who can see the big picture of climate change should also ...
National Post editorial board: Jim Prentice gets it right
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Man can't change the climate and neither should he try. ... I suggest we
use the fact that trees eat C02 (nature's carbon sinks) and plant lots, ...
Climate talks end in division and pessimism | Australian Climate ...
By Simon
The longer an emissions reduction treaty can be delayed, the more the earth will fail to match the flawed climate models, and the more obvious it will be that anthropogenic carbon dioxide has little to do with the climate. ...
The last United Nations negotiating session before next month's Copenhagen summit on climate change has ended in Spain, with rich and poor nations still deeply divided. Officials say a new treaty to replace the Kyoto accords on greenhouse gas ...
The Oil Drum | Drumbeat: November 7, 2009
By Leanan
(Bloomberg) -- The lobbying group for oil companies such as Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. hired a nephew of U.S. Senator Richard Durbin toargue the industry's case against climate-change legislation that threatens to slash profits. ... A 100-story smokestack belches a roiling, white cloud of water vapor, carbon dioxide and other leftover gases after burning daily as much as 12000 tons of coal at the Mountaineer Power Plant—a total of
3.5 million tons a year. ...



Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Celsias -
Forecast

Skeptical Sources
Niche Modeling - EMD Estimates of Natural Variation
Watts Up With That? - Watching Ida – Now a Category 2 hurricane
Watts Up With That? - Jan Janssen’s presentation on Solar Cycle 24 hints at Dalton or Maunder type minimum ahead
Watts Up With That? - Antimatter signature spotted in Earth’s lightning
Watts Up With That? - A tale of two overkills
Climate Science Blog -
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Kevin Rudd's Gallery of Dangerous Deniers
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Open Invitation

Balanced Sources
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Another Excellent News Article On Our Paper Fall Et Al 2009
AccuWeather - Benefits Outweigh Costs of Reducing Emissions, say Economists
Science Daily - Seafloor Fossils Provide Clues To Climate Change
Science Daily - Nitrogen Loss Threatens Desert Plant Life, Study Shows

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This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
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This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

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07 Nov 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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EU researchers call for more ambitious CO2 reduction targets for ...
Cordis News - Brussels,Belgium
Higher atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations will accelerate ...
anthropogenic emissions affect the climate by warming up the atmosphere is vital. ...
Rudyard Griffiths: The case against action on climate change ...
By NP Editor
The assumption that "anthropogenic CO2 causes global warming"! The reality is that there is no scientific evidence of proof of "the theory". Every IPCC model has proven wrong and most have involved fraudulent manipulation of data. .... in spite of the climate change debate. The carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere would be much higher if not fixed as coal, oil and natural gas over the Earth's history. What's wrong with putting CO2 back where it came from? ...
WathsAlive - Kevin Rudd bitchslaps climate change deniers.
By Wathsala
This group believes the science is inconclusive and does not provide an evidentiary basis for anthropogenic climate change. In Australia, before the 2007 election, this group was thought to be relatively small. There appeared – for a time – to ... “Levels of carbon dioxide have risen in the world, but whether or not this is the sole cause or just a contributor to climate change is, I think, unanswered.” (11 AUGUST 2009) Liberal Senate leader Nick Minchin said this year: ...
Australian PM Rudd takes Global Warming Deniers to the Shed for a ...
By A Siegel
“If we decrease the use of carbon dioxide, are we not taking away plant food from the atmosphere?” These people, Rudd says, “happily play with our children's future.” The clock is ticking for the planet, but the climate change skeptics .... in 2007 was that “warming of the climate system is unequivocal” and the “increase in global average temperatures since the mid 20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.” ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
DeSmog Blog - U.S. Climate Envoy Slams Inhofe's Attempts To Influence Copenhagen
DeSmog Blog - What Would Frank Luntz Do with the Copenhagen Climate Treaty?


Skeptical Sources
Icecap - Science is in on climate change sea-level rise: 1.7mm
Heliogenic Climate Change - Economic death march in Europe
Climate Audit - Another Correction from Upside Down Mann
Climate Audit - Devi et al 2009
Watts Up With That? - Watching Ida – gaining strength, Gulf Coast wary
Watts Up With That? - Chilled Kiwi’s: Coldest October since 1945
Watts Up With That? - Close call – Asteroid near miss for Earth yesterday
Watts Up With That? - October 2009 3rd Coldest for US in 115 Years, What about the Upcoming Winter?
Watts Up With That? -
Watts Up With That? - Why Copenhagen Will Achieve Nothing
Watts Up With That? - Boxer-Kerry: “climate” bill or green jobs program?
Climate Science Blog - THE GREEN INDUSTRIAL STATE
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog -

Balanced Sources
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Mass extinction blamed on fiery fountains of coal
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - IPCC Crushes Scientific Objectivity, 91-0.
Science Daily - Lightning's 'NOx-ious' Impact On Pollution, Climate
Science Daily -


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This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
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This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


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06 Nov 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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AGW-“deniers” have repeatedly ridiculed suggestions for geo ...
made) global warming (AGW). AGW does not pose a global crisis but the policy of .... The AGW-hypothesis says increased greenhouse gases – notably carbon ..... constraints to GHG emissions in the period until effects of AGW are detected. ...


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Believer Sources
Stoat - Wadhams on sea ice
The Breakthrough Blog - Jon Stewart Challenges Al Gore On Climate Technology Challenge
Daily Show host Jon Stewart challenged Al Gore's assertion that we have all the technology we need to solve climate change and questioned whether the urgent and apocalyptic tone in Gore's newest book, "Our Choice," precludes the solution to global warming
Climate Feedback - Copenhagen conference: Call it a wrap
Climate Feedback - Barcelona climate: Momentum builds for a "political agreement" in Copenhagen
Brave New Climate - Carbon emissions and nuclear capable countries
Celsias - Climate Change and Public Health
Celsias - Now or Never
DeSmog Blog - Coal Industry Coloring Book Spins "Clean Coal" for Kids

Skeptical Sources
The Resilient Earth - Global Warming Predictions Invalidated
Global Warming [Dr Roy Spencer's Blog] - October 2009 UAH Global Temperature Update +0.28 deg. C
Climate Audit - Taimyr and Yamal Location Maps
Heliogenic Climate Change - James A. Marusek on solar cycle 24
Heliogenic Climate Change - Biofuel madness continues to level tropical forests
Icecap - Nov 06, 2009
Australian PM warns skeptics ‘are too ‘dangerous to ignore’ and are ‘holding the world to ransom’
Icecap - Nov 06, 2009
October 2009 3rd Coldest for US in 115 Years
Icecap - Gordon Brown’s assumptions on climate change
Icecap - The Sun’s magnetic funk continues
Watts Up With That? - Copenhagen – not happening
Watts Up With That? - October’s significant chill – take your pick on descriptors
Watts Up With That? - Semi-truck Boat Tail Improves Fuel Efficiency 7.5%
Climate Science Blog - THE WIND FARM SCAM
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Nicholson vs Grainger plc, An Interpretation by Mike Hulme
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Dumbest Argument for Climate Action Ever?
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Jon Stewart Interviews Al Gore
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Australia Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Chilling Speech
The Reference Frame - Predicting exact monthly UAH anomalies up to the year 2109


Balanced Sources
Global Warming Blog - Tokamak Awakens
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - New Paper “Global Urban Land-Use Trends And Climate Impacts” By Seto and Marshall 2009
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - News Article in USA Today By Doyle Rice Titled “Expanding Cities Contribute To Global Wrming”
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - “The Potential Impact Of US Biofuels On Regional Climate” By Matei Georgescu
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Survey: Economists see threat in climate change
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Global Warming Predictions Invalidated
AccuWeather - Positive Climate Feedback from Lightning?
AccuWeather - Warm Winds in Early October Impacted Sea Ice Extent
Science Daily - Lightning's 'NOx-ious' Impact On Pollution, Climate
Science Daily - Innovative Plan To Save Rainforest, Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions





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05 Nov 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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Can geoengineering schemes fix climate change?
Hindu - Chennai,India
These schemes counter the global warming effects of anthropogenic
greenhouse ... that each ton of Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere leads to climate change. ...
Going vegetarian for the planet?
Sideways News - London,UK
Focusing on the issue of climate change alone you'd be hard pushed to argue
... “A vegetarian diet avoids excessive carbon dioxide production and reduces ...
Kerry, Graham & Lieberman Launch Climate Change Framework ...
By Jay Newton-Small
“Carbon dioxide is part of a very complicated feedback system,” Wunsch said Monday. “Assertions that you can show that carbon dioxide change led, or lagged, temperature change proves that there is, or is not, a human component is absolute ... And anthropogenic global warming is not a figment of anyone's imagination, but the consensus of the relevant scientific community. (Hint: "consensus" doesn't mean "absolute unanimity". Politically, 80% agreement is good enough. ...
– climate change beliefs now have religious equality ...
By wattsupwiththat
The first thing every human born does once expelled from our mother (Gaia) is we inhale oxygen and breath out carbon dioxide, there by committing “Original Sin”. The parallels between environmentalism and Christianity are beyond mere ..... Contrast the substantial objective historical evidence with the lack of evidence for anthropogenic alarmism. e.g., See: New Evidence that Demands a Verdict and Climate Change Reconsidered. 4 11 2009. Lucy Skywalker (11:47:16) : ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
The Breakthrough Blog - Everything EPW Republicans Need to Know They Should Have Learned in Kindergarten
Republicans on the EPW committee are reverting to schoolyard tactics to stall markups of pending climate and energy legislation and in the process, are belittling the functionality of the American democracy
Climate Feedback - Barcelona climate: safeguarding primary forests under REDD
Celsias - Road to Copenhagen - Part 2
Celsias - One Year After His Election, Obama on Verge of Fulfilling Promise as Green FDR
Celsias - The BrightBuilt Barn Sets Sustainability Paradigm
Celsias - Three Models of Social Change
DeSmog Blog -
Who is the Bernie Madoff of Climate Change?

Skeptical Sources
World Climate Report - A Rational Look at Sea Level Rise
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Lonnie G. Thompson’s Kilimanjaro Fallacies
the Air Vent - Invisible Elephants
the Air Vent - Who’s in Denial
Heliogenic Climate Change - Turning off the lights
Heliogenic Climate Change - Senate Democrats hell bent on destroying what's left of U.S. economy
Climate Audit - Core Count in Phil Trans B
Icecap - Nov 04, 2009
U. S. Chamber Caves to Special Interests on Energy-Rationing Legislation
Watts Up With That? - HadCRUT for September out – finally – but has data holes
Watts Up With That? - The Sun’s magnetic funk continues
Watts Up With That? - Arctic warming goes with the floe
Watts Up With That? - US Chamber of Commerce reverses stance
Watts Up With That? - Study – Solar winds magnetically driven
Climate Science Blog - US WEATHER AUTHORITY REMOVES WEB PAGE QUESTIONNING GW HYPOTHESIS
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Update on David Nutt, Formerly of the ACMD
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Update on Clive Spash at CSIRO

Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - HadCrut posted September Temperature Anomalies!
Global Warming Blog - Shifting Atlantic Fish Stocks
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] -
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Kilimanjaro's famous icy peaks are thawing fast
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Promises, Promises
AccuWeather -
Science Daily - Professor To Predict Weather On Mars

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Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

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This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
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This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


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04 Nov 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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NOAA deletes an “inconvenient” kids science web page « Watts Up ...
By wattsupwiththat
It has been thought that an increase in carbon dioxide will lead to global warming. While carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has been increasing over the past 100 years, there is no evidence that it is causing an increase in global .... Using Venus to demonstrate C02 as a GHG is ridiculous. Venus' orbit is .72 AU, so due to the inverse square law receives roughly double the intensity of sunlight. Add a 243 day period of rotation, and a nearly pure C02 atmosphere, ...
Michelle Malkin » Barbara Boxer's eco-power grab
By Michelle Malkin
The big enchilata of the man-made global warming scam is 'positive
feedback' which is built into the computer climate models from supposedly learned climate scientists in the IPCC camp. Yes! All AGW models rely on positive feedback in ...
Emissions from deforestation overestimated; 12% rather than 17%
Mongabay.com - USA
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), using 1980s and 1990s-era ... degradation at around 17 percent of total anthropogenic carbon dioxide. ...
Saving the trillionth tonne
BBC News - UK
Odd, when cumulative emissions of carbon dioxide are the principal
determinant of the risk of dangerous long-term human-induced climate
change. ...
An Understanding of Where We Are at Today With Climate Change ...
By corymorningstar
13 Susan Solomon, Gian-Kasper Plattner, Reto Knutti and Pierre
Friedlingstein, 'Irreversible climate change due to carbon dioxide
emissions', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 106, no.
... In particular, anthropogenic warming is likely to disrupt the natural carbon cycle. This is not place to describe the carbon cycle in any detail, 16 except to note that when we dig up and burn coal over half of the CO2 released is absorbed by land and ocean sinks. ...
Spencer on Lindzen and Choi climate feedback paper « Watts Up With ...
By wattsupwiththat
Such measurements are critical to our understanding of feedbacks in the climate system, and thus to any estimates of how the climate system responds to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. ... The implication of their results was clear: most if not all climate models that predict global warming are far too sensitive, and thus produce far too much warming and associated climate change in response to humanity's carbon dioxide emissions. A GOOD METHODOLOGY: FOCUS ON THE ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Climate Feedback - Barcelona climate: A rough start, tinged with hope
Celsias - Artificial Glaciers Help Farmers Battle Global Warming
Celsias - Asia’s Progress with Corporate Social Responsibility: Is Business Really Taking the Issues Seriously?
DeSmog Blog - A politically binding climate change agreement is great... if you're a politician
DeSmog Blog - Groups Impersonated by Big Coal Testify Before Congress

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Don’t Be Fooled By Another Non-Climate Satellite
The Reference Frame - Cooler Heads: Richard Lindzen on cap-and-trade
the Air Vent - Past Arctic Warming Also Created by Currents
the Air Vent - Guest Post at Pielke Sr. on RSS UAH Differences
Climate Audit - Response to Briffa #2
Climate Audit - Sciencemag Enforces Data Archiving
Watts Up With That? - NASA grant to create Mars weather forecasts
Watts Up With That? - It’s official – climate change beliefs now have religious equality status
Watts Up With That? - Video of Lindzen’s recent presentation
Watts Up With That? - Boxer’s global warming hearing gets cold reception
Watts Up With That? - NOAA deletes an “inconvenient” kids science web page
Watts Up With That? - Spencer on Lindzen and Choi climate feedback paper
Climate Science Blog - US POLL SHOWS PUBLIC NOT WORRIED ABOUT GW
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Warren Buffett's Big Bet
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Joe Romm's Climate McCarthyism
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Even in Boulder
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Is Environmentalism a Religion?
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Klotzbach et al. 2009 Published
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - China's Resource Grab

Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - Change log tease….
Global Warming Blog - Nasca Collapse
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Our Paper “An Alternative Explanation For Differential Temperature Trends At The Surface And In The Lower Troposphere” By Klotzbach Et Al 2009 Is Published
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Wind, water and solar technologies can provide 100% of the world's energy by 2030
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Ross McKitrick: The models are unreal
AccuWeather - Second Thoughts?
Science Daily - Deep-sea Ecosystems Affected By Climate Change
Science Daily - Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Satellite Forms Three-pointed Star In The Sky
Science Daily - Green Is Cool, But US Land Changes Generally Are Not
Science Daily - North Atlantic Fish Populations Shifting As Ocean Temperatures Warm
Science Daily - Newly Drilled Ice Cores May Be The Longest Taken From The Andes
Science Daily - Abiotic Synthesis Of Methane: New Evidence Supports 19th-Century Idea On Formation Of Oil And Gas

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This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

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This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

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02 Nov 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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An established myth
Enter Stage Right - Sudbury,Ontario,Canada
He points to the fact that there are currently twenty climate-change models .... to behave inconsistently: we see that in his own carbon-emissions level. ...
A real 'pollutant' is the cap-and-trade legislation
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
To reduce the emission of a harmless gas called carbon dioxide. ... "Eleven academies in industrialized countries say that climate change is real; ...
In Their Own Words: The IPCC on Climate Feedbacks « Roy Spencer ...
By Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
Despite the fact that the magnitude of anthropogenic global warming depends mostly upon the strengths of feedbacks in the climate system, there is no known way to actually measure those feedbacks from observational data. ...
And without direct evidence, the IPCC can conveniently point to carbon dioxide change as the culprit. But this explanation seems rather anthropocentric to me, since it is easier for humans to keep track of global carbon dioxide changes than cloud ...
GREENIE WATCH
By JR
The AGW-hypothesis says increased greenhouse gases – notably carbon
dioxide – in the air raise global temperature and anthropogenic emissions are increasing the carbon dioxide in the air to overwhelm the natural climate system. But empirical evidence says the ... In 2007, a survey of 1150 seven to 11-year-olds in Britain found that more than half had lost sleep as a result of worrying about climate change. "It's making me and my friends go mad," said a 12-year-old girl. ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Rabett Run - Ken Briffa REALLY Responds
Only In It For The Gold - Against Overstating or Understating the Case
The Breakthrough Blog - EPA Lawyers Criticize Cap and Trade, Carbon Offsets in Pending Climate and Energy Legislation (Several more articles. Go on over and review.)
Climate Feedback - Our emissions: 532,151,027,622 and counting
Climate Feedback - In quotes: Road to Copenhagen train calls in at Barcelona
Brave New Climate - Critique of ‘A path to sustainable energy by 2030′
Celsias - Climate Change in Africa -
Celsias - Bipartisan Commission Asks America to Focus on Tropical Deforestation
Celsias - Kerry Says Cap and Trade Should Take Backseat to Pollution
DeSmog Blog - Barcelona Climate Talks: US Congress, Science and International Treaties

Skeptical Sources
William M. Briggs Statistician - When zombies were scary
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - UK Government Shows Its True ‘Scientific’ Colors
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - ‘Elders’ And Grandchildren Fly To Istanbul To Praise Virtual Conferencing
the Air Vent - UAH Temperature Anomaly Video
the Air Vent - Fixing Briffa’s Latest
Jo Nova's Blog - The Consensus is Fake
Icecap - Team of Scientists' Open Letter To U.S. Senators: 'Claim of consensus is fake'
Icecap - Response Letter from John Kerry to My Letter on the Kerry-Boxer Bill
Global Warming: A Worn-Out Hoax - 18 Deep Maunder-like Minima In Last 7500 Years
Global Warming [Dr Roy Spencer's Blog] - Some Comments on the Lindzen and Choi (2009) Feedback Study
Global Warming [Dr Roy Spencer's Blog] - In Their Own Words: The IPCC on Climate Feedbacks
Climate Observations - Regarding Missing Comments At The Minnesota Public Radio Climate Change Blog
Icecap - Nov 02, 2009
Wind Lobby Huffs and Puffs, But Can’t Blow the Facts Away
Climate Audit - Rank Gavin Noise
Watts Up With That? - Oh no, not this Kilimanjaro rubbish again!
Watts Up With That? - HadCRUT watch
Watts Up With That? - Physicists send letter to Senate — Cite 160 scientists protest regarding APS climate position
Watts Up With That? - Equatorial Volcano shows signs of imminent eruption
Watts Up With That? - Green programs in Oregon bleeding the state books red
Watts Up With That? - Australia’s CSIRO tries to squelch a dissenting view on carbon trading
Watts Up With That? - Spot the science error
Watts Up With That? - Spencer on IPCC admission on climate feedbacks
Climate Science Blog - BEWARE AS THE NEW RELIGION GATHERS PACE
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Open Invitation
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Normalized Flood Losses in Europe: 1970-2006
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Row Over UK Science Advice After Advisor Sacked
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - The Narrow Defintion of Climate Change

Balanced Sources
Global Warming Blog - MultiYear Sea Ice Gone
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Further Evidence On The Breadth Of The Role Of Humans With Respect To Climate Change
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) continue » [more] - We still have a chance to save polar bears
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - In Their Own Words: The IPCC on Climate Feedbacks
AccuWeather - Status of Global Sea Ice Concentration
Science Daily - Snail Fossils Suggest Semiarid Eastern Canary Islands Were Wetter 50,000 Years Ago

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Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

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This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
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This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

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01 Nov 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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Southeast Asian Nations Conference on Biodiversity 2009
Manila Times - Manila,Philippines
Marine and terrestrial ecosystems currently absorb half of the
anthropogenic carbon-dioxide emissions. This means climate change will accelerate further if ...
Strategic Analysis of the Global Status of Carbon Capture and Storage
By CostBenefit
The set of technologies that encompasses CCS include those that capture, transport and safely store anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) deep underground. 1.1.2 Is CCS optional to mitigate CO2 emissions to atmosphere to avoid dangerous climate change? No. Development and deployment of CCS must occur to reduce CO2 emissions to the atmosphere as part of a portfolio of solutions to combat climate change. As estimated by the International Energy Agency (IEA, 2008) a variety of ...
Is Eating Meat The Global Warming Equivalent To Driving A Hummer?
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Humans are expediting the natural carbon cycle by the burning of fossils fuels that nature has yet to burn via its natural processes. This obviously has the effect of increasing the amount of carbon dioxide, a green house gas, in the atmosphere above natural levels. Incidentally,the irony here is your knowledge regarding the cyclical nature of the climate comes from the
very climatologists that have discovered anthropogenic climate change, which you apparently deny. ...
Papers on anthropogenic carbon dioxide observations « AGW Observer
By Ari Jokimäki
Seasonal cycle of carbon dioxide and its isotopic composition in an urban atmosphere: Anthropogenic and biogenic effects – Pataki et al. (2003) “Atmospheric CO2 mixing ratios and carbon and oxygen isotope composition were measured at 18 ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
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Watts Up With That? - In-betweeners: Enjoy the warmth while it lasts (Read this one for the graph!)
Watts Up With That? - Prius and Tesla gang up on SUV – The SUV wins
Watts Up With That? - Weather Balloon Challenge – WUWT reaches far and wide – we can win
Watts Up With That? - A real hockey stick
Climate Science Blog - WEST ANTARCTIC ICE SHEET MELT OVERESTIMATED
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Australian Government Allegedly Interferes in Peer Review Process

Balanced Sources
AccuWeather - Speaking of CO2


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Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

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This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
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This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

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Q&A: what do we know about climate change and the world's future?
Times Online - UK
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen from 280 parts ... recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), ...
A possible means of escape from the horrors of carbon dioxide ...
By Co2sceptic
Friends: Climate change is a serious problem and all governments - national and local - need to address it. Climate has always changed everywhere and always will: this has been known since th... ... This attempt at global climate control arises from the hypothesis of anthropogenic (that is, man-made) global warming (AGW). AGW does not pose a global crisis but the policy of attempted global climate control does. AGW is a political issue. It is not a scientific issue. ...
Roger Pielke Jr.'s Blog: Roger Pielke Sr. is Sure Going to Like This
By noreply@blogger.com (Roger Pielke, Jr.)
According to Shindell, the new findings underscore the importance of
devising multi-pronged strategies to address climate change rather than focusing exclusively on carbon dioxide. ... 9). . . there is growing demand among governments and commentators for fast-action mitigation to complement cuts in CO2 emissions, including cuts in non-CO2 climate forcing agents, which together are estimated to be as much as 40–50% of positive anthropogenic radiative forcing (17, 18). ...


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Believer Sources
Brave New Climate - Red Necked Aussie Greenies
Celsias - Water and Population (Part Two)
Celsias - The Electric Vehicle, a Missed Opportunity for Good Design?
Celsias -
Palm Oil: The Contentious Climate and CSR Issue in Asia
DeSmog Blog -

Skeptical Sources
Icecap - An Expensive Urban Legend
Niche Modeling - Possible Error in OHC?
Icecap - Oct 31, 2009
Controlling climate? More like controlling humans
Watts Up With That? - An idea I can get behind – regulate methane first
Watts Up With That? - Previously Unknown Volcanic Eruption Helped Trigger Cold Decade
Climate Science Blog - THE GREATEST INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY EVER
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog -

Balanced Sources
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) .YouTube » [more] [more] - Multiyear Arctic ice is effectively gone: expert
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Exaggerated claims undermine drive to cut emissions, scientists warn
AccuWeather -
Science Daily -

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Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

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This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
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This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

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30 Oct 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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What happened to Global Warming? Scientists say just wait a bit
PhysicsToday.org - USA
There is no Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) (and therefore no human caused climate change) from added atmospheric carbon dioxide.
wildsingapore news: Q&A: what do we know about climate change and ...
By hello@wildsingapore.com (ria)
The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen from 280 parts per million (ppm) in pre-industrial times to 387ppm today. Concentrations of methane have risen from 700 parts per billion (ppb) to 1745 ppb. ... Only if anthropogenic (man-made) greenhouse gases are included do the models replicate what has actually happened. The most recent report from the ntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 2007, states that the evidence for global ...
Global warming talk cools down - Opinion
Some scientists and critics are convinced global warming is all hooey, but more have the evidence to prove that the melting ice caps and longer summers are effects of a rising global temperature due to anthropogenic reasons. ... The current concentration of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is 387 parts per million. Though climate change campaigners and some prominent scientists from all over the world emphasize the
importance of keeping carbon dioxide levels ...
Explaining plummeting belief in anthropogenic climate change : The ... joce on Explaining plummeting belief in anthropogenic climate change ..... This is the same carbon dioxide that is being disputed for causing 'global ...

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Military Experts Call for Action on Climate Change to Avoid Security Threats



Washington, D.C., October 30, 2009 – Yesterday, a group of serving and retired military officers from around the globe called on governments to “work for an ambitious and equitable international agreement” at the Copenhagen climate negotiations in December. Participants at the conference on “Climate Change and Security at Copenhagen” emphasized the critical importance of addressing climate change now in order to avoid exacerbating current security threats and creating new ones. .



“To avoid conflicts from climate change-related impacts, we need to employ every tool and strategy available, and the military is a critical ally in this fight,” said Durwood Zaelke, President of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development and speaker at the conference.



The officers, representing Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the US, are part of an international initiative on Climate Change and the Military led by the Institute for Environmental Security (IES) in The Hague and 10 other think tanks from Asia, Europe and North America.



A key focus of the climate-security effort is the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau, which was discussed at length in Brussels earlier this month at the officers’ first meeting. This 500,000 km2 of snow and ice supplies the dry season irrigation for more than a billion people. It is predicted to shrink to 100,000 km2 in 20 years, threatening climate chaos and conflict among dependent countries, including three with nuclear weapons.



Quoting from the military climate statement released at the conference, Air Marshal (ret) AK Singh of India, Chairman of the project’s Military Advisory Council, warned that “failure to recognise the conflict and instability implications of climate change, and to invest in a range of preventative and adaptive actions will be very costly in terms of destabilising nations, causing human suffering, retarding development and providing the required military response.” AK Singh also serves as Project Director, Climate Change & Security, Centre for Air Power Studies, New Delhi.



Food and water shortages due to climate change threaten to increase conflicts between nations. Inhospitable living conditions from sea level rise and other impacts will contribute to a growing problem of environmental refugees. With the world nearing the tipping points for abrupt climate changes, little time remains before military organizations will be faced with increased challenges.



“We need meaningful action in Copenhagen to address CO2, but CO2 is only half the climate problem,” added Zaelke. “We also need to take fast and aggressive action to reduce the other, non-CO2 half of warming. Reducing black carbon soot, tropospheric ozone, methane, and HFCs, as well as expanding biosequestration through biochar production, are strategies that can help delay abrupt climate change while we wait for reductions in CO2 to kick in.” Because these non-CO2 climate change agents are short-lived in the atmosphere compared with CO2, which can persist for up to 1,000 years, reducing them will produce significant benefits quickly.



A new paper published by Nobel Laureate Mario Molina in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences promotes these fast-action strategies as essential complements to CO2 reductions. HFCs are one of the major targets. These powerful greenhouse gases, widely using as coolants in air conditioning systems, can be up to 12,000 times more potent than CO2 and their emissions are growing rapidly. Molina and his co-authors recommend using the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty to phase down the HFCs, and report that this could produce mitigation of up to 100 billion tonnes of CO2-equivalent or more by 2050 and up to a decade of delay in climate forcing. Every country of the world is Party to the Montreal Protocol and has the opportunity to express its support for an HFC phase-down next week at the treaty’s annual meeting in Egypt.




Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Real Climate - An open letter to Steve Levitt
Climate Feedback - Climate games: small pacts are no big deal
Celsias - Palm Oil: The Contentious Climate and CSR Issue in Asia
Celsias - U.S Public Still Unconvinced on Climate Change
DeSmog Blog - Halloween Murder Mystery: Who is killing Copenhagen?

Skeptical Sources
Icecap - Oct 30, 2009
Who Else Will Challenge Gore’s ‘Truth’?
Watts Up With That? - Yamal treering proxy temperature reconstructions don’t match local thermometer records
Watts Up With That? - Met Office Climate Official on Arctic Ice Forecasts: “The danger is they can be accused of scaremongering.”
Watts Up With That? - Minnesota Public Radio can’t handle comments on climate change
Watts Up With That? - Al Gore still addicted to nonexistent hurricane-climate link in new book
Watts Up With That? - Arizona gets some interesting new minimum high records
Climate Science Blog - SOLAR ENERGY TO ACHIEVE PRICE PARITY WITH FOSSIL FUELS BY 2014
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Important New Paper on North Atlantic Hurricanes
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Roger Pielke Sr. is Sure Going to Like This
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Roger Pielke Sr. is Sure Going to Like This

Balanced Sources
Global Warming Blog - Sharp Solar Cell
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Interesting Post On Biofuels By Katharine Sanderson On The Nature.com Website
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - An open letter to Steve Levitt
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Deconstructing Global Warming
AccuWeather - CO2 Taking Too Much Blame?
Science Daily - Interactions With Aerosols Boost Warming Potential Of Some Gases

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29 Oct 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Keeping India's options open at Copenhagen
The Hindu - Chennai,India
What precisely is at stake in global climate change negotiations for India and ... the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere was roughly 280 ppm ...
Inhofe: Cap-and-Trade Largest Tax Increase in US History
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
... of greenhouse gases — mainly carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels such as ... Martella noted that the climate change bill was written by two of the ...
EPA Finalizes GHG Reporting Rule, Proposes New GHG Permitting ...
Linex Legal - London,UK
Covered entities must report emissions of anthropogenic GHG emissions covered under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), ...
Tackling Climate Change
By Surbhi Bhatia
There is now increased concentration of these gases leading to rise in temperature more because of anthropogenic causes than the natural ones like volcanic eruptions and solar variations. ... A number of factors can be listed for climate change. Plants and trees help to clean the air by absorbing harmful gases but practice of cutting down forests poses a grave threat. Carbon dioxide is released when wood is burnt and Methane when wood rots. Livestock cattle, oil drilling, ...
Brendan Demelle | Monster List: Skeptics Have Touted "Global ...
By Brendan Demelle
“'Lou Dobbs Tonight' segment dismisses manmade global warming theory -- 'effects of greenhouse gas have a small impact on climate change.' If you're fortunate enough to have it – don't sell that oceanfront property for fear that the icecaps will melt .... "Climatologists have reported carbon dioxide has increased in the atmosphere, yet there has been a cooling trend over the past decade. They are now forecasting a continued cooling trend for at least the next two decades. ...
The Washington Monthly
By Steve Benen
... 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide GHG emissions." I do believe in worldwide climate change and that it is at least partially anthropogenic. However, I have a question about the above. ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Stoat - Tiljander
Stoat - Oh dear oh dear oh dear oh dear (Connolley emotes about R Pielke Jrs commentary)
Rabett Run - Elections have consequences
The Breakthrough Blog - Google Calls for $15bn/year for R&D in Testimony Before Senate EPW Committee
The Breakthrough Blog - TNR: Brookings' Muro Calls on Senate for More Investment in Clean Energy R&D
The Breakthrough Blog - Nation's Leading Universities Echo Calls for $15b/year in Clean Energy R&D; Draw $5b/year Bottom Line for Climate Bill
Open Mind - Born-Again Bayesian
Brave New Climate - Energy dialogue, Green debate, Blog updates
Celsias - Population and Water (Part One)
Celsias - Iceland Bank Focusing On U.S. Geothermal Growth
DeSmog Blog - Astroturf King Jack Bonner's Long History of Deceitful "Grassroots" Lobbying

Skeptical Sources
World Climate Report - Cato Journal
William M. Briggs (statistician) - The “Statisticians: ‘Global Cooling’ a Myth” story
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - ‘Cold’ Scientist Cool About Global Warming (Hysteria)
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - A Quick Note About Corbyn’s Solar Weather Technique Conference
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Green Belief Helps You Channel The Future
the Air Vent - Circling Yamal 3 – facing the thermometers
the Air Vent - Hockeystickization Revisited
MY CLIMATE BUZZ - Early Global Warming In Perspective
Jo Nova's Blog - Six words to expose the scam (They are: Banks want us to trade carbon)
Climate Skeptic -
Regression Abuse
Climate Observations - Like Others Of Its Ilk, The Minnesota Public Radio Censors Comments On Its Climate Blog
Heliogenic Climate Change - Biofuel insanity
Climate Audit - Connolley Endorses Upside Down Mann
Icecap - Has Anyone Read the Copenhagen Agreement?
Icecap - A Nickel a Day
Icecap - North Carolina Sea Levels Rising 3mm a year? UC Sea Level data says differently
Watts Up With That? - IPCC Climatologist: “It would ruin the US economy and it wouldn’t save the climate either”
Watts Up With That? - North Carolina Sea Levels Rising 3mm a year? UC Sea Level data says differently
Watts Up With That? - Asteroid explosion over Indonesia
Climate Science Blog - CLIMATE SCIENTIST GUILTY OF CORRUPTION
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Will William Connolley do the Right Thing?
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Climate Whiplash
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Keeping Prediction in Perspective
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Should Bugaria Pay Brazil?
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Blogs vs. MSM
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Pakistan's Coal

Balanced Sources
Rashid's Blog - Biofuel Displacing Food Crops May Have Bigger Carbon Impact Than Thought
Rashid's Blog - Protected Alaska Habitat for Polar Bears
Global Warming Blog - Solar Variability
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Comments On Len Ornstein’s Post “How To Quickly Lower Climate Risks, At ‘Tolerable’ Costs?”
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) continue » [more] - Considering an Alternative Fuel for Nuclear Energy
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - The Dark Side of Green
AccuWeather - Sounds like a Great Invention!
Science Daily - North Carolina Sea Levels Rising Three Times Faster Than In Previous 500 Years, Study Finds
Science Daily - Global Warming Cycles Threaten Endangered Primate Species

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Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

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28 Oct 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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Climate Depot
Gore Lied
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Results From Today's Google Alert
Quotes Of The Day
Canada Free Press - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... carbon dioxide is “not guilty” and as for what lies ahead in the
upcoming ... I believe the anthropogenic (man-made) effect for climate change is still ...
Climate Science for dummies
News24.com - Green Point,South Africa
by Michael Roper Carbon dioxide today commands a global free market trade ... that CO2 causes anthropogenic climate change categorically believing
there is ...
Conservation Value Notes: Biodiversity Can Mitigate Climate Change
By Jon Gelbard, Ph.D.
Marine and terrestrial ecosystems currently absorb half of anthropogenic carbon-dioxide emissions. This means climate change will accelerate further if biodiversity and ecosystems are not effectively protected,” Standertskjöld said. ...
THE SUN DEFINES THE CLIMATE by Habibullo Abdussamatov, Dr. Sc ...
By Co2sceptic
It follows that warming had a natural origin, the contribution of CO2 to it was insignificant, anthropogenic increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide does not serve as an explanation for it, and in the foreseeable future CO2 .... I will continue to be responsible with the resources of the Earth. It would make no difference to the Earths resources if we did not recycle household waste. I'm confused and only recycle to save the world from "Man Made Climate Change." ...
Prominent Russian Scientist: 'We should fear a deep temperature ...
It follows that warming had a natural origin, the contribution of CO2 to it was insignificant, anthropogenic increase in the concentration of carbon dioxide does not serve as an explanation for it, and in the foreseeable future CO2 will ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Real Climate - 350 (Sorry, missed this yesterday!)
Celsias - 25 years After The Ethiopian Famine, What Have We Learned?
Celsias - Smart and Sexy Secrets to Sustainable Style
DeSmog Blog - Monster List: Skeptics Have Touted "Global Cooling" Theory Anywhere They Could
DeSmog Blog - WaPo to Inhofe: "It must be very lonely being the last flat-earther"


Skeptical Sources

Icecap - Global Warming or Global Cooling: Does Air Temperature Really Matter?
Icecap - The “Statisticians: ‘Global Cooling’ a Myth” story
Icecap - Oct 28, 2009
From Global Warming to the New World Order
Climate Audit - Briffa on Yamal Impact
Niche Modeling - Temperature in 2200
Watts Up With That? - Tornados and global warming link – “just not there”
Watts Up With That? - The “Statisticians: ‘Global Cooling’ a Myth” story
Watts Up With That? - UK Met Office backpedals on Arctic Ice – “…unlikely that the Arctic will experience ice-free summers by 2020.”
Watts Up With That? - Lindzen: Deconstructing global warming
Watts Up With That? - Copenhagen hits the brakes – announcement of “scaling back expectations”
UN signals delay in climate change treaty
Climate Science Blog - IAN PLIMER SHORT RADIO INTERVIEW
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - What is Graham's Bill?

Balanced Sources
Global Warming Blog - Economist on Hydrogen Boron Fusion
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Further Support For Temperature Trends Associated With Land Use Change – Rosenzweig Et Al 2009 “Mitigating New York City’s Heat Island”
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Further Comments On The Vulnerability Perspective
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Putting the recent Antarctic snowmelt minimum into context
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Freaked Out Over SuperFreakonomics
AccuWeather -
Science Daily - Ocean Acidification May Contribute To Global Shellfish Decline
Science Daily - Saving Sand: South Carolina Beaches Become A Model For Preservation

Today's Interesting Finds


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Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.


Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
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This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


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27 Oct 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
SA lawmakers take on climate challenge at home
Mail & Guardian Online - Johannesburg,South Africa
As global warming fails to materialise and world temperatures even indicate cooling, ... However, we should not focus too much on GHG and CC. ...
An Expensive Urban Legend
Prison Planet.com - USA
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas whose concentration in the atmosphere is ... of the report of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Real Climate - Putting the recent Antarctic snowmelt minimum into context
Rabett Run - Statisticians reject global cooling
The Breakthrough Blog - Kerry-Boxer "Clean Energy Jobs" Bill's Clean Energy Investments a Fraction of Expert Recommendations
The Breakthrough Blog - Turning Rhetoric to Reality?
The Breakthrough Blog - Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill Allowance Allocation Breakdown
The Breakthrough Blog - Friday Factoids: So You Want To Spur a Clean Energy Revolution?
Bunzl's Blog - EPA Scenarios
Climate Feedback - Countdown to Copenhagen
Celsias - Global Day of Climate Action a Huge Success
Celsias - When the Changes Come, Where Will All the People Go?
Celsias - Aspen Tree Death in American West Linked to Rising Temperatures
Celsias - Question Box: Accessing the Internet's Knowledge Offline
DeSmog Blog - Solar Power Boss to Announce "A Solar Bill of Rights"
DeSmog Blog - Statisticians Confirm: No Global Cooling Despite Skeptic Spin

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Tipping Points Revisited – 2- Swedish And Depressed Planetary Boundaries
The Resilient Earth - Forget Global Warming, The Sky Really Could Fall
Niche Modeling - Robustness of Linear Regression
Icecap - Oct 27, 2009
Editorial: Scrap the Cap
Icecap - Comments On AP Story “Statistics Experts Reject Global Cooling Claims”
Icecap - Russian Scientist: ‘We should fear a deep temperature drop—not catastrophic global warming
Icecap - Pacific Island Sea Levels Are Not Rising
Global Warming: A Worn-Out Hoax - Wind Turbines: How To Make Energy As Expensive As Possible
Climate Realists - THE SUN DEFINES THE CLIMATE by Habibullo Abdussamatov, Dr. Sc. - Head of Space research laboratory of the Pulkovo Observatory
Climate Observations - Preliminary October 2009 OI.v2 SST Anomaly Data Appears To Have An Error
Niche Modeling - Zhen-Shan and Xian (2007)
Watts Up With That? - Climate Craziness of the Week #2: Steak Watch
Watts Up With That? - Pielke Senior on the Borenstien AP statistics article
Watts Up With That? - How not to measure temperature, part 91: find the official climate thermometer in this photo
Watts Up With That? - Not scary enough: more Americans believe in haunted houses than human caused global warming
Climate Science Blog - METHANE NOT RISING AS PREDICTED
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Mixed Messages
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Tornado Losses in the United States
William M. Briggs (statistician) - Briggs and Big Oil
World Climate Report - “AP IMPACT: Statisticians reject global cooling”

Balanced Sources
EU Referendum - We should fear cooling
Global Warming Blog - Kenyan Mobile Phone Industry
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Comments On AP Story “Statistics Experts Reject Global Cooling Claims”
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) continue » [more] - AP IMPACT: Statisticians reject global cooling
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - An Expensive Urban Legend
AccuWeather - Earth is Not Cooling, according to Statisticians
Science Daily - Climate Events Let Ice Age Mammoths Pass Far Below 40 Degrees North Latitude
Science Daily - Marine Lab Team Seeks To Understand Coral Bleaching

Today's Interesting Finds


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Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
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This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

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26 Oct 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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Climate Depot
Gore Lied
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Results From Today's Google Alert
Climate Change Fraud - An Expensive Urban Legend
By tom@climatechangefraud.com (Dr. Roy W. Spencer)
The IPCC thought it was way cool…until it was debunked, after which it was quietly downgraded in the IPCC reports from the poster child for anthropogenic global warming, to one possible interpretation of past climate. And let's even go further and suppose that the climate system is so precariously balanced that our injection of a little bit of that evil plant food, carbon dioxide, pushes our world over the edge, past all kinds of imaginary tipping points, ...
tonyocruz.com » Full Text: Climate Change Act of 2009 (Republic ...
By tonyo
(n) “Mitigation” in the context of climate change, refers to human
intervention to address anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all GHG, including ozone- depleting substances and their substitutes. (o) “Mitigation potential” shall refer to the scale of GHG reductions that could be made, relative to emission baselines, for a given level of carbon price (expressed in cost per unit of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions avoided or reduced). ...
A Chilly Day to be Protesting Global Warming | Chicago Daily Observer
By Chicago Tribune
There is no Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) (and therefore no human caused climate change) from added atmospheric carbon dioxide. # 25 October 2009 at 2:43 pm. John Maynard Krebs said: Are there any Anthropogenic Hoagie Shops in ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
More Grumbine Science - Doing science, with sea ice
Brave New Climate - Crunch Time: Using and abusing Keynes to fight the twin crises of our era
Celsias -
Wind,Water and Sun Are All We Need

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - UK Science Museum Fails To ‘PROVE IT!’
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Warmist Master Of Game Theory ‘Most Optimistic For the Future’ (Despite Copenhagen)
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - NOW On BBC World Service (Radio): The Importance Of AGW Skepticism
The Reference Frame - Related posts from blogosphere
350 day: a failing struggle for an unattractive utopia
The Reference Frame - Kyoto pays you for deforestation
The Reference Frame - U.S. public support for AGW orthodoxy dropped by 14 percentage points since 2008
The Air Vent - Why Reconstructions Matter Part II
The Air Vent - Walk Away
The Air Vent - Land/Sea Bias In Satellite Temperature Metrics
Icecap - The Dark Side of Green
Climate Audit - Satellite Adjustments
Climate Audit - The Kaufman Corrigendum (Uh Oh!)
Watts Up With That? - Newsweek: Green subsidies aren’t working
Watts Up With That? - On the Vikings and Greenland
Watts Up With That? - Monday Funny
Watts Up With That? - Is Climate Change 10 minutes of fame over?
Watts Up With That? - Bob Carter with a down under view of climate science
Watts Up With That? - What does a reduction to 350 PPM of CO2 get you?
Climate Science Blog - GW AND HURRICANES - NO PROOF OF A CONNECTION
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - An Inconvenient Comment
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - How Much Future Hurricane Damage Can Stopping Global Warming Achieve?
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - The Hohenkammer Consensus on Climate Change and Disaster Losses
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - A Point Resolved in the Hockey Stick Wars

Balanced Sources
Global Warming Blog - Photovoltaic organic polymer advance made
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Guest Weblog By Len Ornstein “How To Quickly Lower Climate Risks, At ‘Tolerable’ Costs?”
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) [report] - The Economic Case for
Slashing Carbon Emissions
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - The science of deceit
AccuWeather - New Clues about Climate Change since the Mid-20th Century
Science Daily - Treaty To Limit Carbon Dioxide Should Be Followed By Similar Limits On Other Greenhouse Pollutants
Science Daily - Arctic Sediments Show That 20th Century Warming Is Unlike Natural Variation
Science Daily - Volcanoes Played Pivotal Role In Ancient Ice Age, Mass Extinction

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25 Oct 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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Climate Depot
Gore Lied
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Results From Today's Google Alert
Don't Miss Out On The Superfreakonomic AGW Storm « The Unbearable ...
Oct 14, 2009 ... I have been reading Chill: A Reassessment of Global
Warming Theory, Does Climate ... for temperature variations than does greenhouse gases. ...
An Expensive Urban Legend « Roy Spencer, Ph. D.
By Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas whose concentration in the atmosphere is increasing, and since greenhouse gases warm the lower atmosphere, more CO2 can be expected, at least theoretically, to result in some level of warming. ... Just as the tales of marauding colonies of alligators living in New York City sewers are based upon some kernel of truth, so too is the science behind anthropogenic global warming. But there is a big difference
between reports of people finding ...
The Disaffected Lib: Global Warming Deniers Losing Grip on "Little ...
By The Mound of Sound
The tinfoil hat brigade will be sad to learn that the Little Ice Age itself is now seen as anthropogenic or "man made." Okay, the global warming theory goes that man's rampant emissions of greenhouse gases causes the earth's climate to ... What would happen to carbon dioxide and methane if humans disappeared? The answer is a tale not of drought but of rain, not of warming but of cooling. Its relevant technology consisted not of internal combustion and the steam engine but ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Brave New Climate - TCASE 5: Ocean power I – Pelamis

Skeptical Sources
Niche Modeling - Natural Variation Predicted the Flat Temps
Icecap - The science of deceit
Icecap - Crap and Tax - A Lobotomy for the United States of America?
Brave New Climate - TCASE 5: Ocean power I – Pelamis
Watts Up With That? - The “cold war” hits home – October in like a lion, out like a fridge
Watts Up With That? - Spencer: AGW has most of the characteristics of an “urban legend”
Watts Up With That? - 350 day fails to impress (A world wide Global Warming awareness ?spectacle?)
Climate Science Blog - WHY CHANGING ALARMIST VIEWS WON'T BE EASY
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog -

Balanced Sources

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Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

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This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
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This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


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24 Oct 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



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Climate Change Fraud
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Climate Depot
Gore Lied
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Results From Today's Google Alert
Cap and Trade Will Hurt Virginia - ken_cuccinelli's Diary - RedState
By Ken Cuccinelli (Profile)
Furthermore, since Waxman-Markey is a unilateral measure, it would put American farmers at a competitive disadvantage: No other food-exporting nation has announced any plans to impose similar energy price boosting global warming measures ... Achieves at least a 25% reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020 and an 80% reduction below 1990 levels by 2050;. Page 32- 10.
Virginia should consider a more aggressive GHG reduction goal. 10A. The Governor and General Assembly should ...
Weekend Opinionator: Are Americans Cooling on Global Warming?
New York Times
There are going to be those who cynically claim — make cynical claims that contradict the overwhelming scientific evidence when it comes to climate change, ...
Guest Editorial: Climate Change Steps Crucial
Cincinnati CityBeat
The IPCC published a report in 2007 that stated the scientific evidence for climate change was “unequivocal,” and man-made (anthropogenic). ...
The bottom line starts 350
Addison County Independent
Because that is the parts per million of carbon dioxide that most
scientists now agree is the maximum number allowable in the atmosphere to keep it safe. ...
Global Warming: Arctic CO2 Sequestration
By arclein
In short, an increase in anthropogenic CO2 causes an increment of global warming which then causes a major increment of CO2 release in the Arctic, which then causes an additional increase in global warming. ... The arctic could potentially alter the Earth's climate by becoming a possible source of global atmospheric carbon dioxide. The arctic now traps or absorbs up to 25 percent of this gas but climate change could alter that amount, according to a study published in the ...
Australia's Version of Obama's Carbon Trading Scheme Under Fire ...
By Krithi
Australia today faces a debate about climate change that close mirrors that of the U.S. There are many that believe in an anthropogenic influence, but there are others that argue that cyclic factors or other mechanisms may be afoot. ... He states, “Another reason for my concern is that embarking on setting a price on carbon dioxide is effectively putting a tax on everything and will give the control freaks a level of control on all human enterprise within a nation not ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Celsias - New Label Aims to Extend the Levi's Lifecycle

Skeptical Sources
Icecap - Climatism and the new green industrial state
Icecap - Oct 24, 2009
China-India Accord to Scuttle UN Climate Treaty
Niche Modeling - Natural Variation vs Human Influence (A very interesting comparison. Go read this short article!)
Climate Audit - Tingley and Huybers 2009 (Follow on comments re: Yesterday's emailed article.)
Watts Up With That? - Why does Ocean Heat Content diverge from GISS projections?
Watts Up With That? - Cold start to fall continues, 252 more low temperature records set in the USA this week
Climate Science Blog - A NEW VERSION OF THE 'BEDTIME STORY'
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Joe Romm's Latest 3,500 Words on Me

Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - Channel 5 Temps for Oct. (so far).
Global Warming Blog - Radical Islam Dying
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Is The Human Input Of CO2 A First Order Climate Forcing?
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Climate: When the ice melts
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Cosmic Rays and tree growth patterns linked
AccuWeather -
Science Daily -

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.


Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

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23 Oct 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



Today's Articles

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David Appell - There's Still a Blade

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Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
What to expect from Copenhagen
Cebu Daily News
The issue is that this time carbon dioxide in the atmosphere counts for some 380 parts per million (ppm) already or higher by about 100 ppm before the ...
Government TV climate ad is propaganda
Telegraph.co.uk
I am afraid that a constructive argument in support of the conjecture “anthropogenic global warming is causing climate change” isn't available either to ...
Local authors take on climate change deniers
Georgia Straight
... in anthropogenic [human-generated] greenhouse gas concentrations”. Canada emitted 22.6 billion metric tonnes of carbon dioxide between 1990 and 2002. ...
"Not Evil Just Wrong": Dissecting Environmental Extremism
The New American
A particularly convincing skeptic of anthropogenic global warming was Dr. Patrick Moore, a founding member of Greenpeace who left the organization when it ...
Climate Feedback: No forest too wide or mountain too high in the ...
From undersea meetings by Maldives' ministers to debates in the US Senate, talk of climate change is echoing around every corner of the globe. The message: needs are great and growing fast, while resources remain few and far between. ... Tropical deforestation accounts for 20% of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions and there is broad agreement that the new treaty should include a forest protection element. This element, REDD, would allow
developed nations to meet ...
The Global Warming Consensus Has Been Shattered
By John Carney
The drop also was seen during a time of mounting scientific evidence of climate change — from melting ice caps to the world's oceans hitting the highest monthly recorded temperatures this summer. .... In the article I do not see clear differentiation as to whether any warming is anthropogenic. Specifically, it is possible to agree with the statement, "The Earth is warming" but disagree with the statement, "The Earth is warming due to human activities. ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Celsias - The Rising Tide of Environmental Refugees
DeSmog Blog - New Pew Center Poll Confirms The Effects of Climate Confusion Campaign

Skeptical Sources
Icecap - Where are the Hurricanes, Mr. Gore?
MY CLIMATE BUZZ - Climate Chains
Watts Up With That? - Pielke Senior: Erroneous Claim in an AP News Article
Watts Up With That? - Now playing at a museum near you, the “Day After Tomorrow Map”
Watts Up With That? - A little known 20 year old climate change prediction by Dr. James Hansen – that failed badly
Climate Science Blog - SCEPTICS WELCOME BBC U-TURN
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - President Obama's MIT Speech
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Steve Rayner Speaking Today at CIRES!
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Japan Lays Groundwork for a Stepback
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Two Views of BAU in China (BAU = business as usual)
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - IPCC Chief Criticizes President Obama

Balanced Sources
Global Warming Blog - Arctic CO2 Sequestration
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Erroneous Claim in an AP News Article
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Comments On Roy Spencer’s Excellent Post “IPCC Crushes Scientific Objectivity, 91-0″
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) -
Baffin Island reveals dramatic scale of Arctic climate change
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) .continue » [more] - Number of Americans who believe in climate change drops, survey shows
AccuWeather - Cutaway Animation of the Progression of Sea Ice
Science Daily - Climate Scientists Uncover Major Accounting Flaw In Kyoto Protocol And Other Climate Legislation
Science Daily - Treaty To Limit Carbon Dioxide Should Be Followed By Similar Limits On Other Greenhouse Pollutants
Science Daily - Genome Of Microbe Silently Shaping Ecology Of Ocean Dead Zones Described
Science Daily - Future Consequences Of A Global Biofuels Program Predicted





Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.


Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

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22 Oct 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



Today's Articles

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Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Pacific Disaster Center Hosts Climate Change Workshop
Maui Weekly
The PDC message, “Not if, but when,” applies to disasters of all kinds, including the anthropogenic effects of climate change due to increased production of ...
Opinion - Reducing our emissions a matter of justice
CathNews
What the anthropogenic climate change believers should realise is that the climate computer models used by the IPCC to project the alarmist outcomes ...
Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - Not all ...
By info@climatechangefraud.com (William F....
The sole premise upon which Waxman-Markey is based is that the recent minor increase in global temperature was due to carbon dioxide increases resulting from human activities — anthropogenic global warming — and that adding more CO² ...
GREENIE WATCH
By JR
I believe those on both sides of the anthropogenic global warming issue are honorable and have best interests of the world as their motivation. Those claiming increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide has a negligible influence on climate want a more prosperous world with ..... The concession from a Greenie source that fluctuations in the output of the sun have driven climate change for all but the last 20 years (See the first sentence of the paper) really is invaluable. ...
Shoddy journalism by Sagarika Ghose on Global Warming « Recurring ...
By BongoP'o'ndit
Consider that most die-hard skeptics now agree that climate change is real, and there is even a major consensus regarding the anthropogenic contribution to climate change. But how to solve the issue is however a highly charged debate involving as it does socio-economics and politics of a wide variety of ... reminds me of Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachman trying to argue that global warming is of no concern because carbon-dioxide is natural and causes no harm! ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Brave New Climate - Danish fairy tales – what can we learn?
Celsias - Alternative Adventure: Eco-explorer David De Rothschild to travel the Pacific in Plastic Ship
Celsias - Too Dirty For College
Celsias - Climate Cover-Up

Skeptical Sources
Niche Modeling - Natural Variation – 60 year cycle
Icecap - Pine beetles as a harbinger of manmade climate change destruction
Icecap - The Weather Channel To Show Movies
Icecap - Oct 22, 2009
Utah Lawmakers hear contrasting primers on climate change (There are several other articles today. Go take a look!)
Watts Up With That? - Survey Says: Americans Not Worried About Global Warming
Watts Up With That? - Ethiopia had higher rainfall, warmer soil, millions of years ago
Watts Up With That? - Scientists Develop New Method to Quantify Climate Modeling Uncertainty
Watts Up With That? - Harris Poll: Europeans Tend to Care More Strongly about Climate Change than Americans
Watts Up With That? - NASA GISS, a division of Vandelay Industries?
Watts Up With That? - Sustainable living now includes “edible pets” to curb global warming
Climate Science Blog - 'FORCE MOTORISTS TO PAY TO USE ROADS' - CLIMATE COMMITTEE
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Public Opinion Realities
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Elephant in the Negotiations
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Greenpeace: Optimists, Apologists, Opposition and Principled Action

Balanced Sources
Global Warming Blog - Dam the Yangtze
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Australian Dust Storms And Land Use Change
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2201
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Are Solar Panels Really Black? And What Does That Have to Do With the Climate Debate?
AccuWeather - Rate of W. Antarctic Ice Sheet Loss Slightly Overestimated
Science Daily -

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.


Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

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21 Oct 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



Today's Articles

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Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Forward Towards a Proper Climate Policy
The People's Voice (blog)
Of course, if the Senate passes the carbon dioxide taxation bill on its second submission next month, then the next time that Norm visits Australia he is ...
Forests: Crucial And Vital Role To Combat Climate Change
CounterCurrents.org
Old growth forests also soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,
offsetting anthropogenic emissions. “There is also another important
reason to protect ...
The World Wildlife Federation's "You can help: Stop Global Warming"
campaign ...
DailyTech
MP Dennis Jensen, Ph.D in Materials Science, is a skeptic of anthropogenic climate change blame. He is fighting a bill in Australia that would enact a ...
Climate Cover-Up: A (Brief) Review
RealClimate
The fact is that anyone who denies the reality of anthropogenic climate change is either trying to pull the wool over people's eyes or does not understand ...
I Love CO2: Harper's inconvenient truth
By ME
The problem is with the centrepiece of Obama's plan -- creating a U.S. cap-and-trade market in carbon dioxide emissions into which Canada will be sucked, along with the rest of the world. This is the wrong policy for a resource-rich, ... Even scientists who believe in anthropogenic climate change are now theorizing, as more becomes known, that there may be a decades-long pause in global warming, unforeseen by early computer models. Media that led the global hysteria, ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Stoat - Bad policy will boil the planet?
Rabett Run - Two Questions
The Breakthrough Blog - Politico Poll Shows Climate Still Ranks Dead Last Among Voter Concerns
The Breakthrough Blog - Leaked Letter Says India May Cooperate on Climate Without Kyoto
Climate Feedback - Countdown to Copenhagen
More Grumbine Science - Antarctic Snow and Ice
Celsias - Navigating the Twitter-verse for Green thumbs

Celsias - Climate Spoof Forces Chamber to Decry 'Public Realtions Hoaxes'.
DeSmog Blog - US Chamber's Long History of Killing Clean Energy Policy
DeSmog Blog - UPDATE: Revkin repsonds to Rush Limbaugh's Ridiculous Comments
DeSmog Blog - Mohawk Paper Joins Chamber of Commerce Exodus

Skeptical Sources
William M. Briggs Statistician - Not Evil, Just Wrong reviewed: Guest Post by Bernie
the Air Vent - Gridded Comparison of Temperature Metrics
Heliogenic Climate Change - Greens on jihad against RBS
Heliogenic Climate Change - "Green" energy policies impoverishing Britons
Heliogenic Climate Change - Harper afraid to be honest
Heliogenic Climate Change - Carbon cult sacrifices Navajos to Gaia
Heliogenic Climate Change - Media, alarmist blogosphere, breathless over Baffin
Climate Resistance -
Gordon Browns His Trousers and Goes Green
Icecap - Oct 21, 2009
Senate climate bill would place U.S. on wrong path
Watts Up With That? - Extremists More Willing To Share Their Opinions, Study Finds
Watts Up With That? - More debunking of the Yarrow Axford midge study: glaciers releasing pollutants into lakes years later.
Watts Up With That? - Baffin Island Midge Study – debunked for a 3rd time – nearby weather station shows no warming
Watts Up With That? - Spencer: IPCC Crushes Scientific Objectivity
Watts Up With That? - The Midge Warm Period
Climate Science Blog - NEW TECHNOLOGY BOOSTS GAS RESERVES
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - IPCC Advocate in Chief

Balanced Sources
EU Referendum - The real cost (UK aid to people seeking assistance with fuel bills up 50%)
Global Warming Blog - Focus Fusion Firing
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Recent Papers On The Uncertainty and Biases In the Long Term Assessment Of The Global Average Surface Temperature Trend
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - State of the Climate Global Analysis September 2009
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Ice Age Terminations: Orbital Cycles, Ocean Circulation and Shifting Monsoons
AccuWeather - Television has Little Impact on Climate Change Knowledge
Science Daily - Glacial Melting May Release Pollutants Into The Environment

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.


Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

20 Oct 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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A Look at Climate From Anthony Watts (Watts Up With That?



Today's Articles

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Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Taking Charge of Our Climate - Megan McArdle
It's also worth noting that even if we eventually resort to geoengineering, our job will be a lot easier if we've already made some progress on reducing greenhouse gases. Trying to solve a 7°C temperature rise entirely with atmospheric ...... The global warming types want to reduce CO2 by at least 80% from 1992 levels. You say that will result in only a slower growth in our already exceedingly high standard of living. Do you believe people in the bottom fifth of national ...
Liberal MP rubbishes human link to climate change
ABC Online "It will come as no surprise that I am sceptical on the anthropogenic component of climate change," he said. "Climate change is real - the liability of ...
Copenhagen: A new global deal for sustainable development?
Christian Science Monitor
This profoundly changes the agenda on solving the problem of anthropogenic climate change, as it indicates the need for an Earth systems approach to climate ...
Global hysteria, a growth industry
National Post So who and what are being protected with the hysterical reporting on climate, climate change and stopping anthropogenic climate change? ...
Ask Pablo: Do Solar Panels Actually Contribute To Climate Change?
Treehugger
In addition to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, which disrupt the earth's energy balance by acting like a blanket around the planet, ...
RI to promote forest, ocean at int'l climate conference in Bali
Jakarta Post
“Our delegates will demonstrate the ability of forest and ocean to absorb carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions,” head of climate change and air pollution at the ...
The most trusted name in news covers NEEM « Constitutional ...
By Railroad One
At times of cold temperatures, carbon dioxide is low. Which, you know, reinforces what science has showing, recently, that carbon dioxide does cause warming.” In the report, climate change and global warming terror threats are used. What the report omits is why they are using a naturally ... 1 Anthropogenic effects, processes or materials are those that are derived from human activities, as opposed to those occurring in biophysical
environments without human influence. ...
Yet More Superfreakonomics Blogging. Yes. I Know. I Know... - J ...
By Brad DeLong
Yes there are agnostics who “grumble that human activity accounts for just 2 percent of global carbon-dioxide emissions”, but this is not a reason to doubt the theory of anthropogenic climate change. The book makes it sound like YOU are ...
Patriots and Liberty » Blog Archive » Thatcher adviser (Lord ...
By LindyKimball
A former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says the real purpose of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen on Dec. 7-18 is to use global warming hype as a pretext to lay the foundation for a ... Holdren based his prediction on a bizarre theorythat human emissions of carbon dioxide would produce a climate catastrophe in which global warming would cause global cooling with a resultant reduction in agricultural production ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Only In It For The Gold - Political Theater or Just Plain Delusion?
Celsias - The Humble Toilet: Key to Solving Economic, Environmental, and Social
Celsias - Ice Caps melt Faster Than Ever
Celsias - Dressing for Copenhagen
Celsias - Scientists Predict Climate Change Will Trigger Violent Seismic Activity - So Could Tsunami in Indonesia have Links to Global Warming?
DeSmog Blog -
More Grumbine Science - Sound and Fury at WUWT (Claims that are not substantiated and is reinforced by BG's own sound and Fury)

Skeptical Sources
The Resilient Earth - Ice Age Terminations: Orbital Cycles, Ocean Circulation and Shifting Monsoons
The Reference Frame - Luxembourg: EU climate talks collapse
Icecap - “Not a Shadow of a Doubt”
Climate Realists - Open Letter to President Mohamed Nasheed of the Maldives by Nils-Axel Morner, Leader of the Maldives Sea Level Project
Harmless Sky - Government’s £6m advertising campaign targets sceptics
Helioganic Climate Change - MEP Nick Griffin tells it like it is (must view video)
Helioganic Climate Change - MEP Godfrey Bloom tells it like it is (must view video)
Helioganic Climate Change - Carbon capture madness in Canada
Watts Up With That? - If a hurricane dies in the middle Atlantic, does it make a sound?
Watts Up With That? -“Proof” that media is hyping AGW shamelessly without asking basic questions like: “did you check the lake for DDT”?
Watts Up With That? - Hurricane Katrina Victims Have Standing To Sue Over Global Warming
Watts Up With That? - Study: model in good agreement with satellite temperature data – suggest cooling
Watts Up With That? - Revealed: the UK government strategy for personal carbon rations
Climate Science Blog - 'GW WORSE THAN 2 WORLD WARS & GREAT DEPRESSION' SAYS PM
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Limbaugh Attacks Andy Revkin
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Giant Fish, Big Fish and Minnows of the Liberal Blogosphere
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - My Denier Credentials Exposed
World Climate Report -

Balanced Sources
EU Referendum - One small setback for man ...
Global Warming Blog - Energy Subsidies
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Roger A. Pielke Sr. Answers To A Survey “Futures Of The Global Energy Game By Year 2030″
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Why Superfreakonomics' authors are wrong on geo-engineering
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - None Dare Call It Fraud
AccuWeather -
Old Sea Logbooks will Help Climate Models
Science Daily - Killer Algae: Key Player In Mass Extinctions
Science Daily - West Antarctic Ice Sheet May Not Be Losing Ice As Fast As Once Thought
Science Daily - Predicting Seabed Response To Climate Change
Science Daily - Conservation: Minimum Population Size Targets Too Low To Prevent Extinction?


Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.


Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

19 Oct 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Climate

Today's Articles

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Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
The Geoengineering Quandary (In Living Color)
Energy Collective - Maplewood,NJ,USA
In doing so, it will no doubt simultaneously enrage deniers of
anthropogenic climate change, and those who fervently maintain that
technological fixes are ...
Part 5: Error-riddled Superfreakonomics claims Caldeira's ...
By Joe
18 Responses to “Part 5: Error-riddled Superfreakonomics claims
Caldeira's “research tells him that carbon dioxide is not the right
villain.” Caldeira updates his website to read “Carbon dioxide is the right villain.”” ... The general pattern from their writings is one that is inappropriately misleading about the scientific consensus about climate change. (In case anybody's forgotten, that consensus—as expressed in IPCC 2007—is: “Most of the observed increase in global ...
Washington Post Allows Debate On Anthropogenic Global Warming ...
By William Teach
The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases in carbon dioxide cause higher temperatures over time. We know that this will mean changes in rainfall, melting of snow and ice, a rise in sea level, and other impacts on plants , ... Nonetheless, blatant disregard of the robustness of climate change science continues in some quarters. Last month, the Washington Post ran a half-page ad by a group that proclaims that nearly doubling atmospheric CO2levels would ...
The Greenroom » Forum Archive » Have You Stopped Beating Your ...
By Dafydd ab Hugh
Or — what about the science that correctly states that we just don't know what the climate will do over the next twenty years, let alone the next century, nor to what extent the change will turn out to be anthropogenic? ... “I think it's a real concern, and we need to find ways to be able to reduce [carbon dioxide] emissions,” Mr. McDonnell said in advocating development of technology to eliminate pollutants from coal-fired energy plants….” “Well, there's some debate that ...
More Superfreakonomics: emails from Steven Levitt | Stand-Up Economist
By Yoram
Yes there are agnostics who “grumble that human activity accounts for just 2 percent of global carbon-dioxide emissions”, but this is not a reason to doubt the theory of anthropogenic climate change. The book makes it sound like YOU are ...
Big Lizards:Blog:Entry “Have You Stopped Beating Your Climate ...
By Dafydd
The issue had simmered since a debate Monday with Democratic rival R. Creigh Deeds, in which Mr. McDonnell never definitively answered a question about whether he thinks man-made climate change is a serious threat [wow, that's specific! -- DaH]. ... "I think it's a real concern, and we need to find ways to be able to reduce [carbon dioxide] emissions," Mr. McDonnell said in advocating development of technology to eliminate pollutants from coal-fired energy plants...." ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Only In It For The Gold - The Geoengineering Quandary (In Living Color)
The Breakthrough Blog - OPED: A carbon tax, not a cap and trade
The Breakthrough Blog - Kyoto Pronounced Dead, Makes Room for New Kaya-Direct Framework
The Breakthrough Blog - Symbolism? German Solar Team Bests U.S. In Shadow of U.S. Capitol
Bunzl's Blog - How much government?
Climate Feedback - The Two-Degree Target film on YouTube
Celsias - You Have 25 Years
Celsias - Global Classroom Learns the Importance of the Water Cycle
DeSmog Blog - Pity Rex Murphy. At this point, he has no place to go.

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - “It’s Amazing How A Single New Observation Can Change An Entire Concept That Most Scientists Had Taken As True For Nearly Fifty Years”
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - AGW Evidence In The Lack Of Atlantic Hurricanes
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Boehmer-Christiansen: BECC Sponsor List May Show True Face Of AGW Lobby
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Med Journals Adopt New Disclosure Rules
The Reference Frame - Cosmic rays probably drive tree growth directly
The Reference Frame - Klaus: Notes on the economic analysis of the global warming issue
The Reference Frame - Astronomical and economical numbers
the Air Vent - Crossing the Rubicon – An advert to change hearts and minds
the Air Vent - What is Up With This
Global Warming [Dr Roy Spencer's Blog] - IPCC Crushes Scientific Objectivity, 91-0.
Climate Observations - Mid-October 2009 SST Anomaly Update
Heliogenic Climate Change - Another insane Circuit Court ruling
Heliogenic Climate Change - The biofuel insanity
Heliogenic Climate Change - Reuters duped by fake U.S. Chamber of Commerce press release
Climate Audit - Re-Visiting the "Yamal Substitution"
Icecap - Oct 19, 2009
Climate assumptions from another planet
Icecap - Lindsey Graham Climate Dance with the Democrats
Watts Up With That? - Global warming may spur increased growth in Pacific Northwest forests
Watts Up With That? - Cosmic Rays and tree growth patterns linked
Watts Up With That? - West Antarctic ice sheet may not be losing ice as fast as once thought – GRACE readings overestimated
Watts Up With That? - Video of Monckton’s Speech on Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty in Copenhagen
Watts Up With That? - Maldivians sink to new low with an underwater publicity stunt
Climate Science Blog - WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - "brad" is Brad DeLong
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Journalistic Ethics and Political Gamesmanship

Balanced Sources

Global Warming Blog - Oil Plateau
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - New Paper Accepted “The Roles Of Atmospheric And Land Surface Data In Dynamic Regional Downscaling” By Ray Et Al 2009
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - The BBC should report climate change facts rather than political spin
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - The "Shameful Article": A Review and Update
AccuWeather - Arctic CO2 Sink could become a Source
Science Daily - New Insights Into Marine Ecosystems And Fisheries Production

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.


Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......

18 Oct 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

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Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
Harper's inconvenient truth
Toronto Sun - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Even scientists who believe in anthropogenic climate change are now ...
global warming for a decade despite carbon dioxide concentrations
continuing to rise ...
Climate Cover-Up — Hot Topic
By Bryan Walker
Hoggan initially thought there was a fierce scientific controversy about climate change. Sensibly he did a lot of reading, only to find to his surprise that there was no such controversy. How did the public confusion arise? ... Their advocacy, such as the infamous TV commercials portraying the benefits of carbon dioxide, obviously involves heavy expenditure. Lists of scientists reportedly expressing dissent over anthropogenic global warming have become a staple of the ...
Only In It For The Gold: The Geoengineering Quandary
By Michael Tobis
So if every ecological and climate indicator demonstrates that the earth is becoming less livable because of increasing carbon dioxide concentrations and other global land uses, then is it realistic to take geoengineering off the table just because someone ... In doing so, it will no doubt simultaneously enrage deniers of anthropogenic climate change, and those who fervently maintain that technological fixes are not the solution to theconsequences of humanity's excesses. ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Real Climate -
Why Levitt and Dubner like geo-engineering and why they are wrong
Brave New Climate - TCASE 4: Energy system build rates and material inputs
Celsias - NYC: A Car-Free 42nd Street?
Celsias -
U.S Headed for Massive Decline in Carbon Emissions
Brave New Climate - TCASE 4: Energy system build rates and material inputs

Skeptical Sources
Heliogenic Climate Change - We're all on the take from Big Oil
Heliogenic Climate Change - California enviros in a food fight
Heliogenic Climate Change - More alarmist crap from AP
Heliogenic Climate Change - EPA's tailoring rule won't protect small businesses
Icecap - Moscow Meteorological Whodunit?
Climate Audit - Revkin Interviews Vaclav Smil
Watts Up With That? - A cold start to fall: over 4500 new snowfall, low temp, and lowest max temp records set in the USA this last week
Watts Up With That? - Live Streaming links for Climate Movie: Not Evil, Just Wrong
Watts Up With That? - IQ Test: Which of these is not upside down?
Climate Science Blog - MORE STATE CONTROL AND SUBSIDY FOR ENERGY SECTOR IN UK
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Anatomy of a Smear
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Economist Brad DeLong Calls me "Wrong and Dishonest, ... a Clever Denier"

Balanced Sources
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Results From Today's Google Alert
Cooling the Hysteria: Time to Ask the "Nasty Questions"
Energy Tribune - Houston,TX,USA
Debate on the science of climate change is heating up as scientists
forecast ... by ocean cycles rather than carbon dioxide emissions as we've been told, ...
How to act fast against dangerous climate change
environmentalresearchweb - Bristol,England,UK
"We need to remember that we can't win the climate battle without also winning on the carbon dioxide side, which is the other 50%," he said. ...
Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - Cooling ...
By info@climatechangefraud.com (Dana Joel...
Latif—not known to be in the "skeptic" camp himself—says while warming may be "anthropogenic in nature," you nonetheless see a lot of fluctuations in the warming trend that are heavily influenced by natural changes. ...
Nasty Question #3: If so many climate-related occurrences are driven by ocean cycles rather than carbon dioxide emissions as we've been told, how do we know that warming in past decades wasn't primarily the effect of natural ocean variations rather than ...
Not even God believes in Anthropogenic Global Warming any more ...
By James Delingpole
Every day, more and more scientific evidence emerges to suggest that
mankind's contribution to the ongoing, natural process of climate change is negligible and that AGW is the biggest money-making scam since the South Sea Bubble. .... One day it's 'the globe isn't warming'; next day its' 'the globe is, in fact, cooling'; the next day it's 'the globe is warming, but it's not down to the increase in carbon dioxide (a scientifically proven greenhouse gas).' ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Celsias - Creative Youths to Receive Environmental Award
Celsias - Tuneful Ode to the Electric Car


Skeptical Sources
Heliogenic Climate Change - So we're all gonna die if we don't get to 350 ppm CO2
Heliogenic Climate Change - More alarmist crap from AP
Watts Up With That? - How to trick yourself into unintentional cherry picking to make hockey sticks
Watts Up With That? - Discoveries from the IBEX satellite show we still don’t know quite a few things about the heliosphere and solar system
Watts Up With That? - Follow up: Meteorite from September 25 hits SUV, warmists thrilled
Watts Up With That? - http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/16/searching-the-paleoclimate-record-for-estimated-correlations-temperature-co2-and-sea-level/#more-11753 (Uh Oh, Read this one!)
Watts Up With That? - Connecting ENSO, PDV, and the North and South Pacific
Climate Science Blog - HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THE RECORD LOW ANTARCTIC ICE MELT?
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog -

Balanced Sources
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Videobreak: Acid Test – The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty in Copenhagen, Claims British Lord Monckton
AccuWeather -
Science Daily - Global Surface Temperature Was Second Warmest For September

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This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

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Gore Lied
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Results From Today's Google Alert
KDKA's Jeff Verszyla is tweeting up a storm
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
"It is safe to say that the science of how and why burning fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide and causes climate change is not a subject of any serious ...
Nobel laureate maps fast climate action
tce today - London,UK
... gases other than carbon dioxide could slow down dangerous climate change and ... Molina points out that current emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse ...
The Reaction: Blog Action Day: Energy, climate change, and the ...
By Michael JW Stickings
As newly evolved forests drew carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and fell where they stood, buried under layers of sedimentary rock, the climate cooled and glaciers formed. Hundreds of millions of years later, ... This is what is known as the anthropogenic cause of global climate change. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, there has been a noticeable rise in seas levels worldwide. Currently, 46 million people live in areas at risk of flooding. ...
Observations of a Nerd: Climate Change - what's worse than the heat?
By Christie Lynn
But the most dramatic effect of climate change won't be due to the heat - it will be due to ocean acidification. I might seem biased (being a marine biologist and all), but trust me, the addition of carbon dioxide to the ocean and its .... R., Slater, R., Totterdell, I., Weirig, M., Yamanaka, Y., & Yool, A. (2005). Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms Nature, 437 (7059), 681-686 DOI: 10.1038/nature04095 ...
Blog Action Day: Is Climate Change / Global Warming Real? – Neatorama
By Alex
I've been following this story for a very long time, and it's clear to me that the people who promote the idea of anthropogenic global warming have been ignoring some key evidence. ..... People who deny the human effects or worse the Carbon Dioxide effects of global warming need to look at the basic chemistry of the situation. Chemical bonds can be excited through absorption of energy, often through the absorption of photons, bit of light with distinct amounts of energy. ...
A Headline That Will Make Global-Warming Activists Apoplectic ...
By By Stephen J. Dubner
And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise. So what on Earth is going on? ... Climate change sceptics argue that this is evidence that they have been right all along. They say there are so many other natural causes for warming and cooling, that even if man is warming the planet, it is a small part compared with nature. Let the shouting begin. ...
climate change - what can I do? | urban sprout
By turbosprout
Yes there may be a few maveric scientists out there that believe human activity (anthropogenic) has nothing to do with the rise in global temperatures, melting of glaciers and thawing of perma-frost. ... Current levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are 390 parts per million. Scientists (and recently the head of the UN's Panel on Climate Change) now say a safe limit is 350 ppm. Nasa's James Hansen, who first raised Climate Change to the US Govt twenty years ago: "If ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Brave New Climate - The Integral Fast Reactor – Summary for Policy Makers
DeSmog Blog - If it’s Not Evil, Fraser Institute should open its books

Skeptical Sources
Heliogenic Climate Change - Congress breaks own tax record
Heliogenic Climate Change - Climastrology
Climate Audit - The NAS Panel and Polar Urals
Icecap - Oct 16, 2009
Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty, Claims British Lord
Watts Up With That? - UPDATE: Trampling – Not Climate Change or Poaching – Likely Cause of Icy Cape Walrus Deaths
Watts Up With That? - Study: Television Has Less Effect on Education about Climate Change than Other Forms of Media
Watts Up With That? - Obama Poised to Cede US Sovereignty in Copenhagen, Claims British Lord Monckton
Watts Up With That? - AMSRE Global SST down – near zero – trend since 2002 also down
Climate Science Blog - UK ENERGY BILLS TO GO UP BY 60% IN NEXT DECADE
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - $24 Billion Blowing in the Wind
- What Will Happen at Copenhagen
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Understanding Decarbonization of the US Economy in 2008

Balanced Sources
Global Warming Blog - The Obama Fiasco with Conrad Black
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Further Evidence That The IPCC Has Provided An Inaccurate Narrow Perspective Of The Role Of Humans Within The Climate System
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) .continue » [more] - Curbing Emissions by Sealing Gas Leaks
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Linking health, wealth, and well being with the use of energy
AccuWeather -
It`s Not All about CO2
Science Daily - Survey Data Supports Rapid Ice Loss: Largely Open Arctic Seas In Summer Within 10 Years
Science Daily - Magnetic Leaves Reveal Most Polluted Byways
Science Daily -

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Carbon-Based
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Gore Lied
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Results From Today's Google Alert
Emissions blame game has started
The Australian - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
While the blame game will not solve global warming, the mounting panic could lead to a .... the level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere by almost 40%. ...
Glossary of Key Climate Change Terms
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has noted, the unequivocal attribution of climate change to anthropogenic causes would require controlled ...
EPA Releases Bush Administration's Proposed Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
SolveClimate
“The Administrator is defining the air pollution to be the elevated
concentrations of the mix of six GHGs: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4),...
Tell President Obama it's Time to Act on Climate Change ! TA ...
By Cher C.
2) 2007 – GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISM REACHES A TIPPING POINT – October 26, 2007 (Editor's Note: 2007 is also known as the year 'Anthropogenic global warming bites the dust' as 'New Peer-Reviewed Scientific Studies Chill Global Warming ... See: Climate Activists Shock Admission: 'Climate change campaigners should not have fixated on carbon dioxide' – Sept. 18, 2009 & See: Even activists at green festivals are now expressing doubts over
man-made climate fears: 'I'm not sure ...
Early start to winter ≈20% of USA is covered in snow already ...
By wattsupwiththat
There's a link below this story to something called “Protect our
Winters” who want to “fight climate change”. I wonder what they think now? This map below is from NOAA's NOHRSC National Snow Analysis page. nsm_depth_2009101305_National ..... Anthropogenic greenhouse gasses are causing global warming which is causing global cooling. It's worse than we thought! 14 10 2009. anna v (10:02:07) : Snow in Hawai,.
Climate Change the big debate
This topic is about climate change and the carbon dioxide you fear so much isnt ... data with established cause and effect to anthropogenic carbon dioxide ...
Lifetime of Anthropogenic Climate Change: Millennial Time Scales ...
By analyzing...result of different processes that carbon dioxide undergoes ...


Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
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Celsias - America's Water Supply: Scarcity Becoming Endemic
Celsias - Using the Road to Power Electric Cars
DeSmog Blog - The Incredible Shrinking U.S. Chamber of Commerce Faces Intense Pressure Over Extreme Climate Position

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - The IPCC Is Never Wrong -2- “Settled Science” Of Chinese Whispers
Niche Modeling - Is OHC Accelerating (II)?
Jo Nova's Blog - Environmentalists who value science over ideology
Climate Observations - NODC's CORRECTION TO OHC (0-700m) DATA
Icecap - Seasonal Tropical Cyclone Activity Still at 30 Year Lows
Icecap - Oct 15, 2009
Global Warming and Sea-Level Rise
Icecap - Oct 14, 2009
Hansen Still Embarrassing NASA After 2 Decades
Climate Audit - Upside-Side Down Mann and the "peerreviewedliterature"
Watts Up With That? - The Top Ten Reasons why I think Catlin Arctic Ice Survey data can’t be trusted
Watts Up With That? - Video: How some skeptics might view the “rush to save the planet now!” meme
Watts Up With That? - Another possible DMSP/SSMI sea ice sensor failure?
Climate Science Blog - 1970's FILM DISCUSSES THE COMING ICE-AGE
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - More from the Korholas: EU Has to Stop its Climate Gimmickry

Balanced Sources
Rashid's Blog - Kashmir’s main glacier Kolahoi melting at alarming speed
The Blackboard - Tricking yourself into cherry picking. (Read Lucia's latest. It's worth the time.)
Global Warming Blog - Bakken in Canada
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Repost Of “NODC Ocean Heat Content (0-700 Meters) Versus GISS Projections” By Bob Tisdale
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) continue » [more] - what is global warming?
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Global Warming? The "Deniers" are my Heroes
AccuWeather - Arctic Summers will be Ice Free within 20 Years, according to Expert
Science Daily - Arctic Has Potential To Alter Earth's Climate: Arctic Land And Seas Account For Up To 25 Percent Of World's Carbon Sink
Science Daily - Harvest And Save Water To Increase Crop Yields, Say Researchers
Science Daily -
Science Daily -

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Results From Today's Google Alert
Letter: Warming and carbon dioxide
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
... debate over the best approach to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), ... arguments purporting to deny anthropogenic global warming (AGW). ...
Spotting the AGW fingerprint « Watts Up With That?
Oct 11, 2009 ... 2) The hot spot would exist if there is GHG positive feedback, regardless of ..... The “global” nature of global warming means that everyone feels entitled to ... “Whether the warming is from greenhouse gases, El Nino's, ...
Daily Mail joins BBC in writng about climate skepticism « Watts Up ...
By wattsupwiththat
The evidence for both remains inconclusive, which is unlikely to help the legions of world leaders meeting in Copenhagen in December to negotiate a new climate change deal. There is no doubt the amount of man-made carbon dioxide, the gas believed to be responsible for heating up the planet, has increased phenomenally over the last 100 years. For the final few decades of the 20th century and as the atmosphere's composition changed, scientists
recorded the planet was ...
The Hudson Tunnel @ Jo Abbess
By Jo
The evidence for anthropogenic man-made Global Warming is
“unequivocal”, says the group of experts who wrote the United Nations' IPCC Fourth Assessment Report in 2007.
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/syr/ar4_syr.pdf ... And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise. So what on Earth is going on? Climate change sceptics, who passionately and ...
California Cool Cars regs put the kibosh on radio, cellphone, and ...
By Joseph L. Flatley
“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don't buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA. “Even doubling or tripling the amount of carbon dioxide will virtually have little impact, as water vapour and water condensed on particles as clouds dominate the worldwide scene and
always will.” – . ...


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Believer Sources
The Breakthrough Blog - Soros Slams Emissions Trading, Hires Kyoto Critic
Climate Feedback - Superfreakonomists spout off about global cooling
Brave New Climate - Life and death on Earth – the Cronus hypothesis
Celsias - Giving the Gift of Ownership to Municipal Trees
Celsias - Jasmine Rice in the Weeping Plain: Successful Adaptation to Climate Change
DeSmog Blog - House Committee Hearing To Investigate Coal Lobby’s Fraudulent Letters to Congress
DeSmog Blog -
David Suzuki wins honorary "Alternative Nobel"

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Peradventure There Shall One Be Found There – Open Letter To The Royal Society
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Don’t Miss Out On The Superfreakonomic AGW Storm
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - The IPCC Is Never Wrong -1- Why Kevin Trenberth Is Right
The Resilient Earth - Climate Fools Day Anniversary Conference
The Resilient Earth - Global Warming Vanquished, Vows To Return
the Air Vent - Significance in Global Trend Metrics
Niche Modeling - Is OHC Accelerating?
Heliogenic Climate Change - NC legislature created a monster
Heliogenic Climate Change - WWF factually challenged -- again
Heliogenic Climate Change - Florida enviros: "higher energy costs save consumers money"
Heliogenic Climate Change - "Choose your own noise"
Global Warming [Dr Roy Spencer's Blog] - Global Average SST Update to October 14
Climate Skeptic - By Popular Demand… (“What happened to Global Warming.” most read article on BBC site)
Icecap - Apple, Nike and the U.S. Chamber: Putting green politics above the interests of shareholders
Heliogenic Climate Change - Clueless, brainless at FWS
Heliogenic Climate Change - "No hurricane damage in the United States this year"
Heliogenic Climate Change - Burn the forests?
Climate Audit - AR4 WGIII Lead Authors' Responses online - at last!
Watts Up With That? - Early start to winter ~20% of USA is covered in snow already
Watts Up With That? - The new urban future: stilt houses to manage global warming’s rising sea levels
Watts Up With That? - NOAA: September Temperature Above-Average for the U.S.
Watts Up With That? - Daily Mail joins BBC in writng about climate skepticism
Climate Science Blog - ARE YOU "IN DENIAL" OVER GW?
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - A Silent Revolution

Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - The Bunny Reports that “Jimmy” is Banned for Mentioning “The Lorax” at CA.
Global Warming Blog - Thinning Ice Caps
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - E-Mail Communication Between Josh Willis and Roger A. Pielke Sr On The Murphy Et Al 2009 Paper
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Birth of a Climate Crock
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Global Warming Vanquished, Vows To Return
AccuWeather - A Rare GW Debate between Climate Experts
Science Daily - Harvest And Save Water To Increase Crop Yields, Say Researchers
Science Daily - Report Documents Risks Of Giant Invasive Snakes In The United States

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This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
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This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


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Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change,

Solve “Fast Half” of Climate Problem

Washington, D.C., October 12, 2009 – Reducing non-CO2 climate change agents such as black carbon soot, tropospheric ozone, and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), as well as expanding bio-sequestration through biochar production, can forestall fast approaching abrupt climate changes, according to Nobel Laureate Dr. Mario Molina and co-authors in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

The paper’s authors said that pursuing these solutions could change the character of the United Nations climate change conference taking place this December in Copenhagen.

“Cutting HFCs, black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and methane can buy us about 40 years before we approach the dangerous threshold of 2˚C warming,” said co-author Professor Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a Distinguished Professor of Climate and Atmospheric Sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.

“By targeting these short-term climate forcers, we can make a down payment on climate and provide momentum going into the December negotiations in Copenhagen,” said co-author Durwood Zaelke, President of the Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development. “The Obama Administration and other key governments need to take up the fast-action climate agenda before it is too late.”

HFCs are powerful greenhouse gases originally developed as substitutes for ozone-depleting chemicals. They are poised to become a larger part of the climate problem over the next few decades. HFCs are used primarily as refrigerants and in making insulating foam, and emissions are expected to grow dramatically due to increased demand for air conditioning in developing countries. By 2050, HFC emissions could equal up to 19 percent of global CO2 emissions under business-as-usual scenarios. The good news, the paper points out, is that a binding legal agreement exists that can cut HFCs now—the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty—and that many alternatives to HFCs have already been developed and are on the shelf waiting for the right regulatory incentive from the Montreal Protocol to be deployed.

“The Montreal Protocol has already delayed climate change by seven to 12 years, and put the ozone layer on the path to recovery later this century,” said Dr. Mario Molina, recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his path-breaking work in 1974 that sounded the alarm on ozone-depleting CFCs. “The Montreal Protocol is critical for avoiding abrupt climate change. We have to take advantage of the proven ability of this legally binding treaty to quickly phase down HFCs.”

The small island nations of Micronesia and Mauritius submitted a joint proposal in April to phase down production and consumption of HFCs under the Montreal Protocol. North American leaders followed suit with their own joint proposal, which builds on the islands’ submission. The Montreal Protocol is an essential strategy for the island nations to achieve fast mitigation to slow sea-level rise that is already starting to destroy their countries. “We must consider all viable strategies that will help protect vulnerable island nations, in particular, those strategies that have a track record of success, such as the Montreal Protocol,” said Ambassador Masao Nakayama, Permanent Representative of the Federated States of Micronesia to the United Nations. Although the Kyoto Protocol currently addresses emissions of HFCs, it does not address production and consumption.

A neglected fast-action strategy presented in the paper is reducing black carbon soot, an aerosol produced largely from the incomplete combustion of diesel fuels and biofuels, and from biomass burning. It is now considered to be the second or third largest contributor to climate change. Black carbon is responsible for almost 50 percent of the 1.9˚C increase in warming of the Arctic since 1890 as well as significant melting of the Himalaya-Tibetan glaciers that feed the major rivers of Asia, providing fresh water to billions of people.

Researchers consider black carbon an ideal target for achieving quick mitigation because it only remains in the atmosphere a few days to a few weeks and can be reduced by expanding the use of diesel particulate filters for vehicles and clean-burning or solar cookstoves to replace those burning dung and wood. With indoor air pollution killing 1.6 million people a year, global action to cut soot emissions would reap major benefits for both public health and climate.

“If we reduce black carbon emissions worldwide by 50 percent by fully deploying all available emissions-control technologies, we could delay the warming effects of CO2 by one to two decades and at the same time greatly improve the health of those living in heavily polluted regions,” said Dr. Ramanathan.


Like black carbon, ground level or tropospheric ozone doubles as a major climate forcer and health hazard. It also lowers crop yields. A recent study reported that ozone’s damage to crop yields in 2000 resulted in an economic loss of up to $26 billion annually. It is formed by “ozone precursor” gases such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, methane, and other hydrocarbons, many of which can be reduced by improving the efficiency of industrial combustion processes. Reducing tropospheric ozone by 50 percent could buy another decade’s worth of time for countries to start making substantial cuts in CO2.

Biochar is one of the few promising “carbon-negative” strategies that can drawdown existing concentrations of CO2. The fine-grained charcoal product is a stable form of carbon that can be plowed into soil where it remains for hundreds to thousands of years, also serving as a natural fertilizer. Biochar comes from cooking biomass waste at low temperatures with minimal oxygen—a process called pyrolisis. “The other fast-action strategies can quickly mitigate emissions, but to back away from the cliff of abrupt climate change, we need biochar,” said Zaelke.

Although most of the world is focused on CO2 in the months leading up to Copenhagen, the authors of the paper hope that policymakers will recognize the advantages of implementing these fast-action strategies to complement reductions in CO2. “These fast-action strategies will support the long-term CO2 solution by stopping near-term climate change with non-CO2 solutions,” said Dr. Stephen Andersen. “This will bring momentum to those negotiating the international agreement and the U.S. legislation.”

The paper is part of a “Tipping elements in Earth systems” special feature to be published in PNAS later this year.

“Cutting CO2 emissions is essential, but it won’t produce cooling fast enough to avoid passing tipping points for abrupt climate change,” said Zaelke. “With the world already committed to more than 2˚C of warming, we need these fast-action strategies to put the brakes on climate change, and in the case of biochar, put us in reverse by reducing existing atmospheric concentrations of CO2.”

“We intend our paper as a call to action,” said co-author K. Madhava Sarma of the Montreal Protocol’s Technology and Economic Assessment Panel.



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Title: Reducing abrupt climate change risk using the Montreal Protocol and other regulatory actions to complement cuts in CO2 emissions
Authors: Mario Molina, Durwood Zaelke, K. Madhava Sarma, Stephen O. Andersen,

Veerabhadran Ramanathan and Donald Kaniaru
Available online: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/10/09/0902568106.full.pdf+html
For further information on the Montreal Protocol and its contribution to climate protection:
IGSD background note on Montreal protocol: http://www.igsd.org/documents/OzoneDayPR15Sept1055am.pdf

IGSD press release on “North American leaders submit joint proposal to phase down HFCs under Montreal Protocol”: http://www.igsd.org/documents/PR_NAHFCproposal1245pm.pdf



Results From Today's Google Alert
California to Charge Fee for Emissions - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
By By Kristina Shevory
Beginning late next year, California pollution regulators will charge companies 15 cents per metric ton of greenhouse gases they emit. ... It is time to get action on really stopping unneeded GHG emissions rather than just taxing them. Some of the companies getting taxed ought to be looking at such actions on those messes for doing more than just paying the piper. Dr. J. Singmaster. — Dr. James Singmaster. 4. October 12, 2009 5:21 pm Link. Keep California green! ...
'Nature' attacks the BBC for its U-turn over climate change
Telegraph.co.uk
The problem for them now is how to continue their claim that carbon dioxide is harming our planet. Saying, “well of course it does” doesn't hold water ...
Beijing CBD expansion to focus on low-carbon design
People's Daily Online
Globally implemented Low-Carbon Economy is therefore proposed as a means to avoid catastrophic climate change, and as a precursor to an ideal, ...
A few degrees warmer
News24
Now, if these institutions are the support vehicle for the anthropogenic climate change argument attempting to prove the earth is doomed and man is to blame ...
Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State
By Don Pesci
The IPCC Report warrants the section-by-section refutation which Climate
Change Reconsidered (CCR) provides. CCR's two lead authors are Craig Idso,
of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, ... the ultimate impact of the OCS [carbonyl sulfide] cycle on climate, and then incorporate them into the climate models, we cannot be certain how much of the warming experienced during the twentieth century, if any, can be attributed to anthropogenic causes.” ...
Climate Change Fraud - Because the debate is not over - The Myth ...
By info@climatechangefraud.com (Dr. Roy W. Spencer)
But I have never been convinced that there is ANY fingerprint of
anthropogenic warming. And the reason is that any sufficiently strong radiative warming influence – for instance, a small (even unmeasurable) decrease in cloud cover letting ... cover themselves just in case most warming eventually gets traced to natural internal changes in the climate system, rather than to that exceedingly scarce atmospheric constituent that is necessary for life of Earth – carbon dioxide. ...

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Believer Sources
Rabett Run - Auditing the auditor, or Dr. Once-ler tree hater
The Breakthrough Blog - Kerry-Boxer Carbon Price Will Remain at Price Floor According to First Modeling of Draft Bill
Climate Feedback - The greedy side of green consumers
Climate Feedback - Soros commits $1bn to clean-tech
Climate Feedback - IMarEST launches position statement on climate change
Celsias - The Phone Made Out of Corn
Celsias - Nobel Prize Recognizes Link Between Peace and Climate Change
Celsias - Activists End Their Roof Top Stint in London
DeSmog Blog -
Canada: Criminal NegliGENTS are us.

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Tipping Points Revisited – The Impossibility Of Action Between Rare Examples And Complex Behavior
The Resilient Earth - Global Warming Vanquished, Vows To Return
the Air Vent - Interesting Post
the Air Vent - The Climate of Climate
Niche Modeling - Links for October
Jo Nova's Blog - Australian conservatives get gift opportunity: wreak it
Icecap - Gamecock Peacocking (Senator Graham comment)
Icecap - Dr. William Gray and Dr. Kevin Trenberth Debate Global Warming
Icecap - Oct 13, 2009
A Cherry-Picker’s Guide to Temperature Trends
Global Warming: A Worn-Out Hoax - Obama to Save Food, Potato Supply
Climate Skeptic - Followup on Antarctic Melt Rates
Climate Observations - NODC Ocean Heat Content (0-700 Meters) Versus GISS Projections
Heliogenic Climate Change - GISS winter warming bogus?
Heliogenic Climate Change - Svensmark's new paper published -- confirms Svensmark effect
Watts Up With That? - Signs of Internal Climatic Discord in Copenhagen – hic!
Watts Up With That? - Fixing the nitrogen cycle in climate modeling
Watts Up With That? - Linking health, wealth, and well being with the use of energy
Climate Science Blog - GLOBAL WARMING SCARE "ALL BUT OVER"
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Senator Lindsey Graham Wants to Kill Waxman-Markey!?
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Our Coal-Fired Future
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - Does This Make Sense?

Balanced Sources
The Blackboard - Adding Apples and Oranges to Cherries.
Global Warming Blog - Protectionism Again
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - A New Newsletter From The Department Of Atmospheric And Oceanic Sciences (ATOC) At The University Of Colorado In Boulder
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) .continue » [and the Arctic] [more] - Arctic sea ice extent remains low; 2009 sees third-lowest mark (Don't forget the other icecap!)
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - The Ups and Downs of Methane
AccuWeather - Measured Land and Ocean Temperatures for September
Science Daily - A Tree's Response To Environmental Changes: What Can We Expect Over The Next 100 Years?
Science Daily - New Mobile Lab Allows Researchers To Study Air Quality, Health Effects
Science Daily - First Neotropical Rainforest Was Home Of The Titanoboa -- World's Biggest Snake

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.


Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

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12 Oct 2009 Articles & Interesting Finds/Posts

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Today's Articles

Media Sources
Use the following portals/Blogs to see the major news articles not listed here.

Climate Ark
Carbon-Based
Climate Change Fraud
Greenie Watch
Planet Gore/Newsbusters
Tom Nelson Blog
Solve Climate
Climate Depot
Gore Lied
Grist


Results From Today's Google Alert
agw : Uganda Trees First in Africa to Count as CO2 Emissions ...
Oct 11, 2009 ... GHG Emissions · global warming · greenhouse gas ...
force Texas to regulate greenhouse gases: http://tx.ly/1Sy #climate carbon environment ...
South Dakota Politics: Global Cooling
By Ken Blanchard
We also note that the climate models on which the anthropogenic global warming hypothesis are based aren't accurate, over the last ten years. Man-made carbon emissions have sure enough been increasing, but clearly that has not produced ... To confuse the issue even further, last month Mojib Latif, a member of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) says that we may indeed be in a period of cooling worldwide temperatures that could last another 10-20 years. ...
What is to be Done? « Neptunus Lex
By lex
And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise. Just don't ask any inconvenient questions of the lead apologist for Gaia. I'll admit to being a climate change skeptic, with the important caveat that I'm nowhere near smart enough to understand the underlying science, and I'm more than a little frightened that my skepticism may be ill-founded. ...
Blogs For Victory » Blog Archive » Sorry, Gore, But the Global ...
By Mark Noonan
And our climate models did not forecast it, even though man-made carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for warming our planet, has continued to rise. So what on Earth is going on? Climate change sceptics, who passionately ... Seems that denying anthropogenic global warming isn't the province of kooks on par with Holocaust deniers, after all. Any of you AGW zealots want to apologize? To me, its pretty clear that the AGW theory was a hoax - not just a mistaken ...
In your face evidence of climate change
How about a visible human signal in global climate temperature data with established cause and effect to anthropogenic carbon dioxide ...

Results From Today's Blog/Site Reviews
Believer Sources
Rabett Run - It's not a bug it's a feature
Only In It For The Gold - Should Emissions be Allocated Per Capita?
Bunzl's Blog - Collaring cap and trade
More Grumbine Science - Sea Ice Finals 2009
Celsias - Review: The Year of the Flood
Climate Feedback - Cutting non-CO2 climate agents

Skeptical Sources
The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE - Behavior, Energy and Climate Change (BECC) Conference: Nov 15-18, Washington, DC
The Reference Frame - Cosmoclimatology: Svensmark et al. Forbush paper published
the Air Vent - Lucky Number 0.07
the Air Vent - H. Leighton Steward – Ten Myths About CO2
Jo Nova's Blog - Science Communication Pollution
Jo Nova's Blog - Turnbull’s crushing loss called a “Win”?
Heliogenic Climate Change - "A weapon of mass taxation"
Icecap - Multidecadal variability in the Arctic/North Atlantic climate system
Icecap - How Bad is the Global Data
Icecap - Record Early Snows in US and Austria
Icecap - Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory - Yes We Can (Pass Climate Change Legislation)
Icecap - Oct 12, 2009
Mann’s Best Friends
Watts Up With That? - Spotting the AGW fingerprint
Climate Science Blog - TOO MUCH DOOM AND GLOOM FROM THE GW CAMP
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - A Cherry Picker's Guide to Global Temperature Trends
Roger Pielke Jr's Blog - First Progress Report of the UK Committee on Climate Change

Balanced Sources
Rashid's Blog - Dust Storm in Australia Leads to Life Explosion (Not the effect we have been expecting?)
EU Referendum - (Too many articles to list here. Go on over and take a peak.)
Global Warming Blog - Earthsong
Climate Science [Dr Pielke Sr's Site] - Is 2 US$ Billion Dollars Worth Spending On Improved Multi-Decadal Global Model Predictions?
Climate Debate Daily (Pro argument) - Pulling CO2 from the Air:
Promising Idea, Big Price Tag
Climate Debate Daily (Con argument) - Lawrence Solomon: Global blushing
AccuWeather -
Science Daily - Going Green On Hold: Human Activities Can Affect 'Blue Haze,' World's Weather
Science Daily - Banded Rocks Reveal Early Earth Conditions, Changes
Science Daily - Satellite Data Instrumental In Combating Desertification
Science Daily - Climate Change Boosts Scallop Stocks In UK Waters

Today's Interesting Finds


Semi-permanent Interesting Finds

Some interesting questions that skeptics want answered.


Semi-permanent Historical Look Using Graphs

I will keep these graphs permanently here. I believe it is important to keep the picture of longer range climate front and center for a historical perception.

This is the Short Term Look at Climate!

From Tamino's site and an article entitled What's up with that?
Click below for additional graphs.

This is the Intermediate Term Look at Climate!

From Icecap


This is a Longer Term Look at Climate!

From the GeoCraft site

Read More......