by Russell Cook

Remember that Steve McIntyre, the whistleblower on Michael Mann’s IPCC hockey stick graph, protested about EPA lack of science due dilignece in June 2009 at his blog here:  http://climateaudit.org/2009/06/23/climate-audit-submission-to-epa/

“…EPA guidelines require that highly influential scientific assessments meet a variety of sensible standards for transparency, data availability and due diligence – policies that [ClimateAudit] readers know not to have been implemented by the IPCC. I discussed these issues in my prior post and have amplified these arguments in my submission which is online…EPA submission 3951.1 …”

Source:  SPPI

2 F or not 2 F? That is the question

SPPI announces that, by an astonishing 15 distinct methods, Christopher Monckton of Brenchley demonstrates in his latest SPPI technical paper Empirical determination of climate sensitivity that the global warming we can expect in response to the doubling of CO2 concentration that is expected this century will be around 2 F, not the  IPCC’s central estimate of 6 F.

Monckton said: “My commentary shows that there is really no need for any more spending of taxpayers’ money on ‘global warming’. There is not going to be enough of it to matter. That does not seem to be a message the editors of most climate journals want to hear.

Four of the 15 methods of determining climate sensitivity – the amount of warming to be expected if CO2 doubles – are based on looking at recent trends in global temperature. Warming since 1950, when CO2 emissions began in earnest, has occurred at a rate of 2 F per century.  Again, comparing the warming since 1950 with the radiative forcings, climate sensitivity works out at just 2 F.  Doing the same comparison since 1750 also gives a climate sensitivity of 2 F. And if the maximum rate of warming that lasted more than a decade since global temperature records began in 1850 were to become the average rate of warming for the next 90 years, global temperatures would rise by – yes, 2 F. (more…)

Source:  Sen. Injhofe Press Release

Sen. James Inhofe

EPA Cut Corners – Scolded on Review Process – Report with Wide Reaching Implications
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Posted by matt_dempsey@epw.senate.gov

“Obama Administration Cut Corners” – “EPA scolded on greenhouse gas report review process” – “Wide-Reaching Implications” – “fresh ammunition to vocal EPA critics”

Inhofe EPW Press Roundup

Link to Inhofe EPW Press Blog

Link to Inhofe Press Release

AP: “Obama Administration Cut Corners”: The Obama administration cut corners when it produced a key scientific document underpinning its decision to regulate climate-changing pollution, an internal government watchdog said Wednesday.The inspector general’s report says the Environmental Protection Agency should have followed a more robust review process for a technical paper supporting its determination that greenhouse gases posed dangers to human health and welfare, a finding that ultimately compelled it to issue costly and controversial regulations to control greenhouse gases for the first time…The Obama administration has made a big deal about the importance of peer review. Six weeks after taking office in 2009, Obama issued a memo that said: “When scientific or technological information is considered in policy decisions, the information should be subject to well-established scientific processes, including peer review where appropriate, and each agency should appropriately and accurately reflect that information in complying with and applying relevant statutory standards.” A year later, the president’s science adviser, John Holdren, emphasized the “particular importance” of outside review by scientists. (more…)

Press release:  Senator John Barrasso

EPA Inspector General Slams EPA for Skipping Scientific Standards

Barrasso: “It’s clear we’ve all been repeatedly misled.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) responded to a report by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Inspector General that found that the EPA did not follow their own rules and safeguards when making their finding that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.  The EPA’s determination has led to a mountain of Clean Air Act regulations that could cost over a million American jobs.

“Throughout the past two and a half years, the Environmental Protection Agency has used its ‘endangerment finding’ as a reason to roll out red tape that destroys jobs across America.  EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson has regularly assured Congress and the American people that its finding is based on sound scientific practices.  (more…)

Source:  Reuters

(Reuters) – China may treat shale gas as separate from conventional hydrocarbons to encourage companies outside of state-owned industry to invest, government officials said on Sunday.

It may also offer pricing and other incentives across the industry to further to tap the potentially huge resource.

A handful of state-run energy majors now dominate the sector in China as private and foreign firms face hurdles such as securing mining rights for onshore drilling activities or the ability to bid in tenders. (more…)

Source:  Investor Place

U.S. doesn’t having gov’t or VC backing to keep up with China

Source:  Moneywise

Source:  Bishop Hill

PRESSRELEASE

Source:  The Stockholm Initiative

London, September 5, 2011

Last week’s incident of censorship in Brussels is testimony to the power of the message delivered by climate research veteran Dr. Fred Singer. Presently on a seminar/lecture roadshow through Europe initiated at the Majorana Conference in Erice, Sicily, two weeks ago, Dr. Singer lectures today at 5 PM at IEA (Institute of Economic Affairs) in London, before rounding off his European tour in Paris in a week from now.

Contrary to popular belief, on which current and planned climate policies are based, Dr. Singer’s conclusion is that natural causes are very likely the dominant cause of the climate change that took place in the twentieth and at the start of the twenty-first centuries. Costly measures to curb greenhouse gas emissions are meaningless since the evidence shows that they are not playing a substantial role. (more…)

Source:  Tom Nelson

Herman Cain wins the GOP Florida straw poll: Don’t miss this short list of his well-informed quotes about the global warming scam

Source:  Reason Foundation

Aggregate mortality attributed to all extreme weather events globally has declined by 98% since the 1920s

Source: Climate Etc.

Judith Curry

by Judith Curry