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• “Antarctica will soon be the only place to live”
• Have You Stopped Beating the Heat Yet?
• Glikson: decends to pseudo-psychology and projection?
• Good Science Writing or Bad Press for Climate Change Scientists?
• Alaska to Federal Government: Polar Bears are doing just fine
• All-Clear in the Stratosphere
• So this is Christmas
• 'Epic proportions' of snow could fall in Colo. mountains
• Why Bolivia stood alone in opposing the Cancun climate agreement
• Global Warming Policies and the Perverse Incentives They Create
• Angry earth delivers stern lecture on global warming
• Global Warming Hysteria: Mini Ice Age on the Way?
• GWPF Calls For Independent Inquiry Into Met Office's Winter Advice
• Baby, It’s Cold Outside
• When you're in a hole, George, stop digging
• CO2 Science Weekly Journal Reviews: Dec. 21, 2010
• Global Warming takes a holiday

“Antarctica will soon be the only place to live” Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:33 PM PST Home, sweet, home. Sunday, 2 May 2004 [The Independent] Antarctica is likely to be the world's only habitable continent by the end of this century if global warming remains unchecked, the Government's chief scientist, Professor Sir David King, said last week.

Have You Stopped Beating the Heat Yet? Posted: 21 Dec 2010 02:09 PM PST Want proof that "global warming" is nonsense? It's unfalsifiable. A March 20, 2000, article from the Independent, a left-wing London paper, has been making the rounds recently that declares: Britain's winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives.

Glikson: decends to pseudo-psychology and projection? Posted: 21 Dec 2010 01:04 PM PST 12.30 pm 14 December 2010. Hedley Bull Lecture Theatre 1 Remember the Great Debate between myself and Dr Andrew Glikson?  He's back – in Climate change denial: The misrepresentation of climate science he calls names, resorts to inventing a mental illness, creates strawmen whom he beats down mercilessly, all the while misrepresenting thousands of scientists who disagree with him, and making statements that can be proven false with a few seconds of Googling.

Good Science Writing or Bad Press for Climate Change Scientists? Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:43 PM PST Of the 250,000 people killed by natural disasters, over 220,000 of those deaths were from the earthquake in Haiti. In a 20 December article from Associated Press (covered by stuff.co.nz) from science writer Seth Borenstein, I get the impression that climate change is assumed to be behind the high disaster toll in 2010. Here is a link to the article, entitled: 2010's world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards – this was the year the Earth struck back Read it yourself – perhaps you already have. Decide for yourself whether the article represents good science writing.

Alaska to Federal Government: Polar Bears are doing just fine Posted: 21 Dec 2010 12:16 PM PST Image via Wikipedia In an attempt to reign in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the state of Alaska intends to sue the Feds over protections recently put in place as a precaution to possible climate-change effects: Polar bears are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, and as such more than 187,000 square miles of critical habitat in the Arctic has been designated to help the species recover.

All-Clear in the Stratosphere Posted: 21 Dec 2010 10:37 AM PST I stumbled across this article by Dr. Richard Keen from a link at "Watts up with that?" and found it interesting. Hopefully you will too: Earth's stratosphere is as clear as it's been in more than 50 years. University of Colorado climate scientist Richard Keen knows this because he's been watching lunar eclipses. "Since 1996, lunar eclipses have been bright, which means the stratosphere is relatively clear of volcanic aerosols. This is the longest period with a clear stratosphere since before 1960." Consider the following comparison of a lunar eclipse observed in 1992 after the Philippine volcano Pinatubo spewed millions of tons of gas and ash into the atmosphere vs. an "all-clear" eclipse in 2003. …

So this is Christmas Posted: 21 Dec 2010 10:09 AM PST National embarrassment deepened to abject humiliation last night as more than half a million Christmas travellers remained stranded in the UK. Major arterial roads and the Channel Rail Link ground to a standstill, unable to cope with drifting snow, black ice and "refugees" from Heathrow.

'Epic proportions' of snow could fall in Colo. mountains Posted: 21 Dec 2010 10:02 AM PST Great news for skiers. Bad news for warmists: Many ski resorts will be able to measure the snow in feet within the next few days. The Colorado weather forecast calls for a prolonged period of snow for the Colorado high country through the middle of the week. The National Weather service says snowfall of "epic proportions" could fall in some areas. … Locations between 8000 and 9000 feet could see 1 to 3 feet of snow by Thursday afternoon, while areas between 7000 and 8000 feet could see 6 to 12 inches of total snowfall.

Why Bolivia stood alone in opposing the Cancun climate agreement Posted: 21 Dec 2010 09:44 AM PST Pablo Solon Under political pressure to sign the "Cancun Accord," given only two hours to read it, and refused time to discuss it, Bolivia said enough. The following is excerpted from an editorial by Bolivia's ambassador to the UN, Pablo Solon: Diplomacy is traditionally a game of alliance and compromise. Yet in the early hours of Saturday 11 December, Bolivia found itself alone against the world: the only nation to oppose the outcome of the United Nations climate change summit in Cancún. We were accused of being obstructionist, obstinate and unrealistic. Yet in truth we did not feel alone, nor are we offended by the attacks. Instead, we feel an enormous obligation to set aside diplomacy and tell the truth.

Global Warming Policies and the Perverse Incentives They Create Posted: 21 Dec 2010 09:36 AM PST Money is a powerful incentive. When it comes to global warming, governments all over the world have created policies that intend to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but have led to fraud, scams, black markets, and increased emissions. Mark Schapiro of Reuters reports on the unintended consequences of European companies offsetting their carbon dioxide emissions by paying the Chinese to destroy a much more potent contributor to warming:

Angry earth delivers stern lecture on global warming Posted: 21 Dec 2010 09:30 AM PST I wish I were joking. The beginning of an Associated Press article carried by the Canadian Press carried by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: This was the year the Earth struck back. Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed more than a quarter of a million people in 2010 — the deadliest year for natural disasters in more than a generation.

Global Warming Hysteria: Mini Ice Age on the Way? Posted: 21 Dec 2010 08:10 AM PST A very accurate weather prognosticator in the UK fears we may be on the verge of a mini ice age.  Adding to his credibility in this matter are his accurate predictions of the arctic freezes that has crippled Europe for the last three years–a time when UK government scientists–perhaps with global warming models dancing in their heads–were predicting mild, damp winters. From the story:

GWPF Calls For Independent Inquiry Into Met Office's Winter Advice Posted: 21 Dec 2010 08:08 AM PST Image via Wikipedia LONDON, 21 December 2010: The Global Warming Policy Foundation has called on the Government to set up an independent inquiry into the winter advice it received by the Met Office and the renewed failure to prepare the UK for the third severe winter in a row.

Baby, It’s Cold Outside Posted: 21 Dec 2010 08:05 AM PST Australian newspaper columnist Andrew Bolt recently observed that there's an embarrassing gap between what the experts have long said the symptoms of global warming would look like and the bitter winters much of the world has experienced over the past few years.

When you're in a hole, George, stop digging Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:31 AM PST Somewhere down that hole is Monbiot and his AGW theory. As Dan Hannan has noticed, the Moonbat has finally flipped. Snow, he is trying to tell us in all earnestness, is another sign that Man Made Global Warming is definitely happening. Nothing to do with solar minima or El Nino and La Nina or any of that reality-based nonsense. No, sirree. It's definitely, definitely still our fault because of all that evil plant-food our factories have been pumping into the atmosphere. Weather is not the same as climate. Etc.

CO2 Science Weekly Journal Reviews: Dec. 21, 2010 Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:10 AM PST Below you'll find a list of this week's CO2 Science Magazine's latest Journal Reviews. Check 'em out as they are very interesting, factually based, and above all, digestible. The Ups and Downs of Greenland's Ice Sheet Wastage: It looks like they come and they go -- mini-tipping-points that flip both ways. Tropical Cyclones Impacting China: How have they varied over the past six decades? ... and what does the answer portend about the future?

Global Warming takes a holiday Posted: 21 Dec 2010 07:06 AM PST [h/t adam] Here in the sunburnt country, floods are running rife, temperatures are so low some people might have a White Christmas, indeed many people are wearing clothes that are from the wrong season, and all of this of course is just weather. Luckily we aren't getting as much weather as the UK and Europe.

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