Townhall.com
Paul Driessen
EXCERPT:
If 10% ethanol in gasoline is good, 15% (E15) will be even better. At least for some folks.
We’re certainly heading in that direction – thanks to animosity toward oil, natural gas and coal, fear-mongering about global warming, and superlative lobbying for “alternative,” “affordable,” “eco-friendly” biofuels. Whether the trend continues, and what unintended consequences will be unleashed, will depend on Corn Belt versus consumer politics and whether more people recognize the downsides of ethanol.
Federal laws currently require that fuel suppliers blend more and more …

The Cypress Times
Published 08/08/2010 – 1:53 p.m. CST

By Tony Elliott

EXCERPT:

The latest news is most countries in the world are backing out of the pseudo scientists’ wishes for limits on greenhouse gases and global warming legislation. Most industrial countries realize it is too expensive an endeavor to partake in at a time when the world’s economy is teetering on collapse, since over two hundred billion dollars would be needed from wealthy countries to help poor countries conform to proposed climate change rules. Poor countries also do …

Calgary Sun
Slandering the Alberta oilsands is a very profitable business for Greenpeace
By EZRA LEVANT, QMI Agency
Last Updated: August 8, 2010 12:00am
EXCERPT:
They must have had a good laugh over at Greenpeace’s headquarters in Amsterdam when they heard about the Alberta government’s latest plan to defend the oilsands.
Last week, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach announced a $268,000 advertising campaign to counter global anti-oilsands propaganda.
Just to put that in perspective, the government of Alberta will reap more than $7 billion in energy taxes this year.
So Stelmach is spending 0.0038% …

The Hockey Schtick
Sunday, August 8, 2010
EXCERPT:
The foundation of the greenhouse theory is that ‘greenhouse’ gases absorb infrared radiation from the earth and then ‘back-radiate’ this energy to the earth to cause global warming. Several prior posts have illustrated that the concepts of greenhouse gas ‘back-radiation,’ ‘heat-trapping,’ ‘heat capture,’ and ‘radiative forcing’ are essentially all referring to the same unphysical, fundamental error of the greenhouse theory that cannot be found in textbooks of physics. Several commenters have indicated that they think it is …

Hide the Decline
Posted by Frank Lansner (frank) on 5th August, 2010
EXCERPT:
GISS use a 1200 km radius for the temperatures measured from land temperature stations. The 1200 km radius is also applied to the coastal land/city/Airport temperature stations thus “covering” up to 1200 km over the oceans. GISS for example “covers” the Arctic ocean from land stations.

Fig1
From DMI we learn, that Arctic 80N-90N temperatures in the melt season this year is colder than average. This was the case last year too, while earlier years in the DMI analysis period …

The Reference Frame
Thursday, August 05, 2010
EXCERPT:
The Czech media just informed the nation about another study that rules out the industrial activity as the cause of the bulk of the 20th century climate change.
Warming is not related to the mankind’s industrial activity, a study shows (novinky.cz)
That’s a pretty clear title, isn’t it?
You may find it even more remarkable if I tell you that novinky.cz is a top left-wing news server on the Czech Internet – with loose institutional links to Právo, the newspapers …

ICECAP
By Will Happer
August 5,2010
EXCERPT:

The Montreal Protocol to ban freons was the warm-up exercise for the IPCC.  Many current IPCC players gained fame then by stampeding the US Congress into supporting the Montreal Protocol. They learned to use dramatized, phony scientific claims like “ozone holes over Kennebunkport” (President Bush Sr’s seaside residence in New England). The ozone crusade also had business opportunities for firms like Dupont to market proprietary “ozone-friendly” refrigerants at much better prices than the conventional (and more easily used) freons that …

JoNova
August 4th, 2010
EXCERPT:

Counting papers is not science, but it’s a hell of a way to show just how counterfeit the line is that “deniers” deny the evidence.
The PopularTechnology list of peer reviewed papers is still growing and is up to 800 now.  After thousands of sneering believers have ridiculed skeptics because “what-ever-you-say hasn’t been peer reviewed“, when they are given a list of hundreds of peer reviewed references, do they suddenly appear gracious, discover polite conversation and show an interest in the evidence? Not …

Hoover Institution STANFORD UNIVERSITY
by John Rosenthal
2010
EXCERPT:
Millions of euros come with an agenda
The leaking of the East Anglia “Climategate” e-mails and data last November shattered the appearance of a scientific consensus on supposed “man-made global warming” and provided a disturbing insight into the corruption of the scientific process as it relates to the “man-made global warming” hypothesis. The spectacle of scientists stonewalling freedom of information requests, destroying records, hiding unwelcome results, colluding to keep dissenting viewpoints out of scholarly journals, and even suppressing their …

The Hockey Schtick
August 2,2010
EXCERPT:
A paper published online today in the Journal of Geophysical Research, Atmospheres lends credence to the cosmoclimatology theory of Svensmark et al, finding that increases in galactic cosmic ray counts (GCRs) have a statistically significant correlation to increased cloud formation.
The theory of cosmoclimatology explains why small changes in total solar irradiance (TSI) during solar cycles may be amplified due to secondary effects on galactic cosmic rays and cloud formation:
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The Washington Post
By David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet Eilperin
Wednesday, August 4, 2010; A03
EXCERPT:
The Obama administration told Congress to find a way to regulate greenhouse gases — or else.
Last month, Congress refused: Democratic leaders in the Senate declined to take up climate legislation before their August break, which means it looks effectively dead for this session.
Now the White House is stuck with “or else.”
The Environmental Protection Agency will soon begin regulating greenhouse gases factory by factory, power plant by power plant. That could be unwieldy, …

Watts Up With That?
August 1,2010
Guest post By Girma Orssengo, MASc, PhD
EXCERPT:
Comparison of the claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of 1) “Most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely” man made, and 2) “For the next two decades a warming rate of 0.2 deg C per decade is projected” are shown in this article not to be supported by the observed data, thus disproving IPCC’s theory of man made global warming.
FIRST IPCC …

Quadrant Online
by Bob Carter
August 1, 2010
EXCERPT:
The phenomena of disinvitation and the brotherhood of silence
Scientists who venture to make independent statements in public about environmental myths soon come to learn about two post-modern-science tactics used to suppress their views – namely, disinvitation and the application of a brotherhood of silence. How these tactics work is explained in this article.
The modus operandi
A member of the organising committee for one or another conference comes to one of my talks, or chances to meet a friend who has …

World Climate Report
July 29, 2010
EXCERPT:
We have featured Antarctica many times in our essay series, and despite a million claims that “the icecaps are melting,” we continue to find no end of articles in major journals building a case for the opposite. Here we examine some recent research, and find evidence for decreased melting and, at least local, mass gains.

The first of our featured articles appeared recently in Antarctic Science by four scientists with various institutions in Chile. Wendt et al. selected …

Canada Free Press
By Dr. Tim Ball
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
EXCERPT:
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself. Erasmus (1466 – 1536)
Control of the science and content of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports was planned from before it was officially formed in 1988. Exposure of manipulation to achieve desired results also began early.
Benjamin Santer graduated from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU), where Tom Wigley supervised his PhD. He returned to the US working at the government’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He was appointed …

NoTricksZone
Posted July 31, 2010 by pgosselin
EXCERPT:
Today I’m coming out a day early and declaring July 2010 as the slowest melting July since the AMSR-E satellite record has been kept. The once ballyhooed “death spiral” is dead.
Reminds me of that line in Tarantino’s cult film Pulp Fiction:
“Who’s Zed?”
“Zed? Zed is dead.”
At the end of June I recall seeing lots of headlines in the newspapers about a record Arctic sea ice melt occurring. Words like ”alarming” and ”unprecedented” were used liberally. The reports were splashed with pictures of polar …

arXiv.org
Gerhard Kramm, Ralph Dlugi
(Submitted on 4 Feb 2010)

EXCERPT:

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the meaning of feedback parameter, greenhouse effect and transient climate response usually related to the globally averaged energy balance model of Schneider and Mass. After scrutinizing this model and the corresponding planetary radiation balance we state that (a) the this globally averaged energy balance model is flawed by unsuitable physical considerations, (b) the planetary radiation balance for an Earth in the absence of an atmosphere is fraught by the inappropriate assumption of …

CH3 Headlines
July 29,2010
EXCERPT:
Read here. Nasa’s climate group (GISS) receives billion’s of taxpayer dollars, supposedly to help us better understand the climate and global temperatures. One would have expected, and hoped, that this taxpayer largesse would result in properly placed temperature measuring instruments in the polar areas. No such luck.
Instead of creating a polar temperature sensor network, the GISS dumpkoffs decided to create magical Arctic temperatures based on temperature readings from 1,000 kilometers away. As the scientists and taxpayers are now finding, Hansen’s GISS …

The Resilient Earth
by Doug L. Hoffman on Wed, 07/28/2010
EXCERPT:
Throughout Earth’s history, there is evidence of large carbon dioxide releases, greenhouse conditions, ocean acidification, and major changes in marine life. About 120 million years ago (mya), during the early part of the Cretaceous period, a series of massive volcanic eruptions pumped huge amounts of carbon dioxide into Earth’s atmosphere. During the Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event, atmospheric CO2 content rose to about twice today’s level. Eventually, the oceans absorbed much of that CO2, which significantly …

SPPI
January 23,2010
by Steve McIntyre
EXCERPT:
The word “hide” has obviously attracted a lot of attention lately – “hide the decline” even occasioning its own song.
Today I’d like to discuss the following remarkable instructions by a NASA employee in the recently disclosed NASA emails (available at Judicial Watch):
Robert please move to the CU site and hide this after Jim checks it. Darnell please send it out to Jim’s email list. Jim said if I don’t want to you should do…
What is that they are planning to “hide”? And why would they be “hiding” …