Arkansas locations experience record snowfall, low temperatures for May
Sunday, May 5th, 2013Source: Mag Reporter 
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Loony Left: “We Are Incinerating the Planet…Because Too Many of Us Like to Eat Cheeseburgers”
Sunday, May 5th, 2013Source: CNSNews 
How do you top making national news for bigotry? Trying getting people to “Give Up (Eating) Hamburgers to Stop Climate Change.”
For loony lefty syndicated columnist David Sirota, it’s all just another day at the office. Sirota made national news for his bizarre and bigoted hope that the Boston bomber would turn out to be “a white American.”
Fresh off that fiasco, Sirota has turned his sights to changing the climate by changing America’s diet. According to Sirota’s May 2 column, “the fastest way to reduce climate change” simply “requires us all to eat fewer animal products.” (more…)
It’s Not About the Climate
Friday, May 3rd, 2013Source: The Breakthrough 
How the Left Lost Sight of Social Justice
Social justice was once synonymous with equal access to modern amenities — electric lighting so poor children could read at night, refrigerators so milk could be kept on hand, and washing machines to save the hands and backs of women. But today’s leading left-wing leaders, such as 350.org’s Naomi Klein, advocate a return to energy penury and harmonizing human civilization to Nature.
by Michael Shellenberger & Ted Nordhaus
Over the last few decades, humans achieved one of the most remarkable victories for social justice in the history of the species. The percentage of people who live in extreme poverty — under $1.25 per day — was halved between 1990 and 2010. Average life expectancy globally rose from 56 to 68 years since 1970. And hundreds of millions of desperately poor people went from burning dung and wood for fuel (whose smoke takes two million souls a year) to using electricity, allowing them to enjoy refrigerators, washing machines, and smoke-free stoves. (more…)
Pacific export terminals: The raging war on coal
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013Source: Wash Times
War on Coal
CHICAGO, April 10, 2013—Exports from the Pacific Northwest are an ongoing battleground in the environmental war on coal. Last week, the Sierra Club and three other groups announced that they would file suit against Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway and six coal companies over shipments of coal in open-topped train cars. The announcement is an escalation in the three-year battle to stop new export terminals proposed for ports in Washington and Oregon. Underlying all the rhetoric is a concern that mankind is causing dangerous global warming. (more…)
Book Burning
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013Source of photo:
http://www.sjsu.edu/meteorology/
Department of Meteorology and Climate Science
San José State University
Again, one picture worth a thousand words.
Here is book being burned: http://www.amazon.com/The-Mad-World-Climatism-Mankind/dp/0982499620/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367512857&sr=8-1&keywords=steve+gorham
The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism is the first book on climate change that is fun to read. Using figures, cartoons, and whimsical sidebars, Steve Goreham describes our crazy world, which is far down the primrose path of global warming fantasy. Contrary to popular consensus, global warming is natural and cars are innocent. But this book is not short on science. Goreham uses charts, graphs, and references to dozens of scientific papers to support his arguments. He shows that icecap melting, stronger storms, polar bear extinction, and many other climate fears are unfounded. At the same time, his large collection of zany pictures and quotes grabs the reader’s interest. Learn the real story about climate change.
UPDATE: 12:50PM PDT
The photo and caption has been removed – gone from the web page.
http://www.sjsu.edu/meteorology/
But is is permanently archived here: http://www.webcitation.org/6GJvAbb2t
Also, its time to again read: http://sppiblog.org/news/the-97-consensus-is-only-75-self-selected-climatologists
Book Review on Amazon
Different century, same mindset
“Goreham, the antidote for Gore!” –Doug Giles, Syndicated Radio Host“It’s all here. Replete with great graphics and much humor, Steve Goreham reveals the mountain of failed eco-predictions, rank green hypocrisies and outright fraud that currently masquerades in the guise of modern environmentalism and ‘climate science’… The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism is an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand expose of all the key facts behind the dirty ‘green’ politics of the greatest pseudo-science racket of our age.” –Peter Glover, author, journalist, and International Associate Editor, Energy Tribune“This is the first book written to make you laugh at the absurdity of man-made global warming—that is, until it makes you cry. If 250 pages of facts are too much, you can simply read the amusing cartoons and quotes on every page to fully understand how the world has been misled.” –Jay Lehr, PhD, Science Director, The Heartland Institute“I am extremely impressed with this work, easily the best of its kind I have ever read… an authoritative, well-referenced, but easy-to-understand summary of the climate scare and its dire implications for society and the environment.” –Tom Harris, Executive Director, International Climate Science Coalition“Interesting, accurate, compellingly readable, and directly relevant to one of today’s most important political debates. What more needs to be said beyond, ‘Buy this fascinating book!’” –Robert Carter, Australian Marine Geologist and Environmental Scientist“Steve’s new book is exactly what I hoped would be published. It makes climate science understandable to everyone. Finally, some common sense, presented in a way to inform, not to deceive.” –Burt Rutan, Aerospace Engineer, Innovator, Entrepreneur“Steve Goreham’s insightful and readable analysis of the ideology of Climatism and its socialistic goals is an important addition to public understanding of both the facts and the critical importance of making the right decisions for America.” –Harrison H. Schmitt, PhD, Geologist, former Senator and Apollo 17 Astronaut“Goreham’s book is an excellent, readable, comprehensive, and indispensable education for everyone. It should be required reading in all schools, universities, statehouses and Congress.” –Edwin Berry, PhD, Physicist and Meteorologist“Steve Goreham has provided the science, the motivations, and the examples of deceit that surround the man-made warming hypothesis. He leaves no excuse for the public and the policy makers to prolong the misguided effort to spend trillions of dollars trying to reduce the insignificant effect of CO2 on global climate change.” –Leighton Steward, Geologist, Author, and Environmentalist
About the Author
Steve Goreham is executive director of the Climate Science Coalition of America, a speaker and author on environmental issues, a former engineer and business executive, and a father of three. The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism is his second book. He holds an MS in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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Reader Note:
Here is the book:
Here is my response to a Professor C. Kennedy’s attack on Steve:
“I stopped reading C. Kennedy’s review when I read the following:
“HI is supported by unnamed donors and (among other pursuits) uses pseudoscience to question the broad, mainstream scientific consensus on topics ranging from the harmful nature of second-hand smoke to climate change. (Of course, the fact that previously-identified donors include Phillip Morris and Exxon has no bearing on their “scientific” positions!!!!)”
This is stupid, Professor Kennedy. Even if Goreham was funded by such sources (he is not), your bringing this up is a logical fallacy you should be ashamed of as a teacher of young minds. Nature cares not one whit about who funds whom. It just does what it does and it is your job to try to figure it out without resorting to stupid attacks on the messenger with whom you disagree. Shame.”
Tom Harris, B. Eng., M. Eng. (Mech.)
Executive Director,
International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC)
P.O. Box 23013
Ottawa, Ontario
K2A 4E2
Canada
www.climatescienceinternational.org
613-728-9200
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Update 5-7-13
From: Alison Bridger [mailto:alison.bridger@sjsu.edu]
Thank you for sharing your concerns. The Department of Meteorology and Climate Science has removed the material in question from its website, and regrets what was clearly an ill-conceived attempt at satire. Please be assured the university does not condone book burning for any reason.
Alison F.C. Bridger
Professor & Chair
Department of Meteorology and Climate Science
San Jose State University tel 408.924.5206
One Washington Square fax 408.924.5191
San Jose, CA 95192-0104
email: Alison.Bridger@sjsu.edu
www.met.sjsu.edu
www.met.sjsu.edu/~bridger
David Suzuki: All Mining Must Stop
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013Source: No Frakking Consensus
David Suzuki — anti-science alarmist
by Donna Laframboise
According to Canada’s most prominent environmentalist, the mining of gold, silver, copper and other minerals poses an unacceptable risk to the planet’s atmosphere.
Yesterday I observed that although the public is told that wind energy is clean and green, industrial wind turbines are made of steel – which depends on the mining of iron ore (see here).
I quoted Andrea Jennetta, who points out that “pretty much everything we use in modern life – including every form of renewable energy you can think of – requires the extensive mining of raw materials from the earth.” (more…)
Where Do Wind Turbines Come From?
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013Source: No Frakking Consensus
Mining the iron ore needed to build wind farms entails ripping mountains and valleys “to shreds.”
Andrea Jennetta is the publisher of Fuel Cycle Week – a newsletter for nuclear industry insiders. A yearly subscription costs US $2,750.
She also writes the I Dig U[ranium] Mining blog. One of her recent posts is titled Wind Turbines and ‘Dirty’ Mines – Hypocrisy at its Finest. It is accompanied by a large photo of an iron ore mine with the words “This is where wind turbines come from” superimposed over it. You can see that photo here.
In her blog post, Jennetta says “anti-industrial activists” like to “show people how sausage is made” so that hopefully they’ll never eat the stuff again. And they’ll fight tooth-and-nail to block any sausage factory from ever being built anywhere near where they live. (more…)
Awful April: Spring hard to find across northern USA
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013Source: USA Today 
Several cities had their snowiest single month of all time in April.
“The weather map … looks like something out ofThe Twilight Zone,” Minneapolis meteorologist Paul Douglas of WeatherNation TV wrote on his blog last week.
Record cold and snow has been reported in dozens of cities, with the worst of the chill in the Rockies, upper Midwest and northern Plains. Several baseball games have been snowed out in both Denver and Minneapolis. (more…)
You simply cannot make this stuff up — but they sure can!
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013Source: The Hill
Dem resolution warns climate change could push women to ‘transactional sex’
By Pete Kasperowicz
Several House Democrats are calling on Congress to recognize that climate change is hurting women more than men, and could even drive poor women to “transactional sex” for survival.
The resolution, from Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and a dozen other Democrats, says the results of climate change include drought and reduced agricultural output. It says these changes can be particularly harmful for women. (more…)
Support drilling, fracking, Keystone … and exports
Monday, April 29th, 2013Source: SPPI Blog
We don’t need to restrict oil or gas exports. We need to open more lands to leasing and drilling.
by Paul Driessen
The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again grows full.
Deepwater drilling, 3-dimension and 4-D seismic (the ability to visualize 3-D over many years), deep horizon horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, and other technological marvels have obliterated environmentalist claims that the United States and world are running out of oil and gas – and therefore we need to switch to subsidized, land-hungry, job-killing wind turbines, solar panels and biofuels. (more…)
The mercury is falling, but our MPs are full of hot air
Monday, April 29th, 2013Source: UK Telegraph
by Christopher Booker
Last week it was reported that 3,318 places in the USA had recorded their lowest temperatures for this time of year since records began. Similar record cold was experienced by places in every province of Canada. So cold has the Russian winter been that Moscow had its deepest snowfall in 134 years of observations. Here in Britain, where we had our fifth freezing winter in a row, the Central England Temperature record – according to an expert analysis on the US science blog Watts Up With That – shows that in this century, average winter temperatures have dropped by 1.45C, more than twice as much as their rise between 1850 and 1999, and twice as much as the entire net rise in global temperatures recorded in the 20th century. (more…)
Russian Scientists: ‘We Could Face Cooling Period For 200-250 Years’
Monday, April 29th, 2013Source: GWPF
| Global warming which has been the subject of so many discussions in recent years, may give way to global cooling. According to scientists from the Pulkovo Observatory in St.Petersburg, solar activity is waning, so the average yearly temperature will begin to decline as well. Scientists from Britain and the US chime in saying that forecasts for global cooling are far from groundless. –The Voice of Russia, 22 April 2013 (more…) |
Secret Climate Meetings
Sunday, April 28th, 2013Source: No Frakking Consenses
by Donna Laframboise
Confronted with what some believe is a house on fire, Canadian Members of Parliament retire to the shadows and whisper to each other in secret.
There’s a disturbing article in the weekend edition of Canada’s National Post. It’s titled Federal politicians use non-partisan climate group to meet in ‘safe space’ behind closed doors.
Apparently, our elected Members of Parliament (MPs) are on a par with sex abuse victims. They need a “safe space” to talk about what’s supposed to be the planet’s most pressing problem. Confronted with what some believe is a house on fire, they retire to the shadows and whisper to each other in secret. (more…)
The Climate Circus Leaves Town
Saturday, April 27th, 2013Source:
by Gary Locke
As traditional energy sources go from doom and gloom to boom
If you had told environmentalists on Election Day 2008 that four years later there’d be no successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, that a Democratic Congress would not have enacted any meaningful climate legislation, that domestic oil production would be soaring even after a catastrophic offshore oil spill, and that the environmental community would be having a lively internal debate about whether it should support reviving nuclear power, most might have marched into the ocean to drown themselves. Yet that’s the state of play four months into President Obama’s second term. (more…)
Explaining Energy Gridlock
Friday, April 26th, 2013Source: National Journal
By Marlo Lewis
Why is there is no momentum in Congress for the “comprehensive energy and climate legislation” once proudly championed by the Obama administration and environmental activists?
Starting with the most obvious reasons, 29 Democrats who voted for the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill in June 2009 got pink slips from their constituents in November 2010. Key to defeating Waxman-Markey was its exposure as a stealth energy tax. This prompted a search for “other ways to skin the cat,” but finding other ways to fool the public was not easy.
With few options to pick from, some climate activists now advocate carbon taxes. Most congressional Democrats, however, are reluctant to tax carbon unless the GOP gives them bipartisan cover. But most Republicans realize that if they cave on carbon taxes, they will demoralize and divide their base.
In addition, few members of Congress want to take responsibility for raising energy prices during a period of high unemployment and anemic economic growth. (more…)