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• The Consequences Of Damming The Columbia River
• Hats Off To “Live Free Or Die!” New Hampshire – Rejects Cap & Trade By A Veto-Proof Margin!
• Coldest Back-to-Back U.S. Winters in a Quarter Century
• Not Your Grandfather’s Greenpeace
• Is Obama With Eye On '12 Mulling An EPA Rollback?
• Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher deliberately posed as bidder, federal prosecutor says
• Groceries to carry the cost of carbon tax, warn supermarkets
• CO2 Science Weekly Journal Reviews: March 1, 2011
• Climate Change Deniers
• Oh, and a tax on cows, sheep and chickens, too
• The real cost of 'global warming'
• Galvanising against Gillard
• Free-for-all Topics and Discussion
• Unionized Teachers Abuse Children
• Unscientific hype about the flooding risks from climate change will cost us all dear
• OU professor calls global warming ‘a hoax’
• How to Live Freer in New Hampshire
• I wonder: do they even read their own press releases?
• Freeman Dyson v the 'Independent'
• Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up: Feb. 24, 2011
• Hiding the Decline: Part II
• ClimateDepot.com's Marc Morano on Cavuto, 2-23
• Judith Curry vs Gavin Schmidt
• Poll: Climate emails spurred TV meteorologist's global warming doubts
• New Poll. More skeptics than ever and yet the carbon tax is coming

The Consequences Of Damming The Columbia River Posted: 01 Mar 2011 01:14 PM PST Rock Island Dam In response to the posts: New Paper "The Influence Of Large Dams On Surrounding Climate And Precipitation Patterns" By Degu Et Al 2011 Daily Camera News Article By Laura Snider "Reservoirs Can Change Regional Rainfall Patterns- Research Highlights Ways Humans Inadvertently Affect Local Weather" Bill Lenihan has provided us with further insight into the role of dams on climate.

Hats Off To “Live Free Or Die!” New Hampshire – Rejects Cap & Trade By A Veto-Proof Margin! Posted: 01 Mar 2011 12:49 PM PST Back when I was a boy in the 1960s and 70s, northern New England was as conservative as could be. My home state of Vermont (which is French for "green mountain") was George Aiken and Winston Prouty country. Back then the revolutionary Yankee-spirit of Ethan Allen, fighter for freedom, was alive – but rapidly dying.

Coldest Back-to-Back U.S. Winters in a Quarter Century Posted: 01 Mar 2011 12:44 PM PST As the curtain falls on the climatological winter (December-February) of 2010-11 in the U.S., we are left shivering. For the second year in a row, the winter temperature when averaged across the contiguous United States came in below the average temperature for the 20th century. This marks the first time since the winters of 1992-93 and 1993-94 that two winters in a row have been below the long-term normal, and it makes for the coldest back-to-back winter combination for at least the past 25 years.

Not Your Grandfather’s Greenpeace Posted: 01 Mar 2011 12:35 PM PST $22-million Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior yacht While reading a newspaper editorial this morning about the public sector union fight unfolding in Wisconsin the phrase "not your grandfather's union" popped into my head. For me, this is emerging as an important theme of modern life which extends well beyond the global warming debate.

Is Obama With Eye On '12 Mulling An EPA Rollback? Posted: 01 Mar 2011 12:24 PM PST It looks as though President Obama may have decided that getting re-elected in 2012 is more important than saving the planet from the much-dreaded global warming. But then how does he break it to the people who helped elect him and whose support he will need in 2012?

Environmental activist Tim DeChristopher deliberately posed as bidder, federal prosecutor says Posted: 01 Mar 2011 12:20 PM PST Tim DeChristopher A trio of Bureau of Land Management employees took the witness stand Tuesday morning on the opening day of environmental activist Tim DeChristopher's trial. Diane Carol McComb was working at the front desk at the federal agency's downtown office on Dec. 19, 2008, when DeChristopher walked in. She testified that she asked everyone who walked through the door if they were an observer, a member of the media, or a bidder.

Groceries to carry the cost of carbon tax, warn supermarkets Posted: 01 Mar 2011 06:09 AM PST Woolworths supermarket in Temora, New South Wales Image via Wikipedia [h/t to Blair] FOOD prices are set to rise under the Federal Government's carbon tax, with some of the nation's largest food retailers expected to be hit with potential carbon bills of millions of dollars a year. A national survey of 500 food and grocery retailers also revealed 83 per cent intend to pass on the cost of a carbon price in higher prices, reports the Daily Telegraph.

CO2 Science Weekly Journal Reviews: March 1, 2011 Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:57 AM PST Seagrass 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. A Century of River Discharge Rates in Finland: Do they substantiate what climate alarmists predict about the effects of planetary warming on floods and droughts? The Effect of Elevated Ozone on Methane Emissions from Peatlands: Only the fourth study to address the complex subject may be revealing what the future may hold for the CH4 contained in the world's peatlands.

Climate Change Deniers Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:48 AM PST Bill McKibben Image via Wikipedia Radical green activist Bill McKibben cleverly responds in today's Washington Post to Glenn Beck having called McKibben a communist. Cleverly, that is, up until about halfway through. [The U.S. Chamber] submitted a petition to the Environmental Protection Agency arguing that it should avoid regulating carbon emissions because, in the event of global warming, "populations can acclimatize to warmer climates via a range of behavioral, physiological, and technological adaptations." To me that sounds absurd.

Oh, and a tax on cows, sheep and chickens, too Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:42 AM PST The only excuse for promising a great and damaging tax on our emissions is that you really do think we're heating the plane disastrously. And if you think that, you must of course extend that tax to two of the greatest sources of those emissions - petrol and farms: THE government's climate change adviser Ross Garnaut has recommended agriculture eventually be included in a carbon price regime, after it was ruled out by Julia Gillard.

The real cost of 'global warming' Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:39 AM PST Image via Wikipedia The renewable energy industry is helping to destroy the UK economy and drive up unemployment says a new report. For every one of David Cameron's "green jobs" created in the renewable energy sector (mainly solar and wind), another 3.7 jobs are being lost in the real economy, says the independent study by Verso Economics. In total, measurable policies to promote renewable energy cost £1.4 billion in the UK and £168 million in Scotland in 2009/10.

Galvanising against Gillard Posted: 01 Mar 2011 05:37 AM PST Julia Gillard Image via Wikipedia Welcome to another day in the lost democracy. The place where an elected government thinks that cheating is the answer. What was Julia Gillard thinking? This turnaround is happening so fast. She announced the Carbon Tax only last Thursday, and already former members of her own party are discussing what genre of "lie" it qualifies as, or speculating over who will take over as PM, the polls are falling, and thousands of people are getting organized behind the scenes.

Free-for-all Topics and Discussion Posted: 28 Feb 2011 09:23 AM PST Because of current priorities, posting will be light today. Please go ahead and post links to relevant articles, thoughts and/or comments about anything you like. Please play nicely. Use the "Report to Admin" link beneath inappropriate comments.  --Editor

Unionized Teachers Abuse Children Posted: 26 Feb 2011 11:34 AM PST The Ministry of Propaganda In one of my regular forum haunts, I'm reading comments from a parent whose son is still being subjected to global warming propaganda. It's one of the most atrocious political cons that's every been foisted on the public. You could call it the Big Lie that got out of control. It's political fraud, not science, not social studies. So why is it being "taught" in public schools?

Unscientific hype about the flooding risks from climate change will cost us all dear Posted: 26 Feb 2011 11:29 AM PST As the great global warming scare continues to crumble, attention focuses on all those groups that have a huge interest in keeping it alive. Governments look on it as an excuse to raise billions of pounds in taxes. Wind farm developers make fortunes from the hidden subsidies we pay through our electricity bills. A vast academic industry receives more billions for concocting the bogus science that underpins the scare.

OU professor calls global warming ‘a hoax’ Posted: 26 Feb 2011 11:23 AM PST Nobody can do anything about it, but everybody has an opinion on it — this winter's weather. Bill Deedler, weather historian at the National Weather Service's White Lake Township office, said the weather has been impacted by two factors. One is La Nina, an ocean effect that causes colder than normal temperatures in the Pacific, he said, and it's acting in conjunction with an Arctic low dropping from Canada's eastern half.

How to Live Freer in New Hampshire Posted: 25 Feb 2011 10:59 AM PST Inside the New Hampshire State House With all eyes on Wisconsin this past week, overlooked has been the conservative policy changes that are moving ahead in New Hampshire. In recent days the New Hampshire House, where the GOP controls nearly three-quarters of the 400 seats, passed a bill to repeal the state cap-and-trade law that imposes a tax on energy use and a bill to make New Hampshire a right-to-work state.

I wonder: do they even read their own press releases? Posted: 25 Feb 2011 08:27 AM PST All these things happened before CO2, AGW, and worldwide worry wartism, and yet someday, somehow, we are warned, it will be worse, except that it isn't likely. That and this zinger: "Climate models have yet to simulate the full scope of the event." Well, of course, how can you simulate such an event with such spotty paleo data anyway? And then the author says:

Freeman Dyson v the 'Independent' Posted: 25 Feb 2011 08:03 AM PST Professor Freeman Dyson Image via Wikipedia The Independent  isn't very "independent". So says perhaps the world's greatest living theoretical physicist Professor Freeman Dyson in a truly glorious exchange with the fervently warmist newspaper's fervently warmist science editor Steve Connor. (H/T Mitcheltj) Professor Dyson says:

Global Warming Hoax Weekly Round-Up: Feb. 24, 2011 Posted: 24 Feb 2011 09:23 AM PST CSI: NOAA fingerprints a snowstorm, mercury causes bipolar disorder at the EPA and the world can finally buy the cardboard computer it craves. The hippie of the week is a Aussie and the hottie of the week is a Texan.  Life doesn't get much better than this.

Hiding the Decline: Part II Posted: 24 Feb 2011 08:21 AM PST Sir John Houghton Ed. note: You can read part I here. The significance of the debate over the hockey stick and "hide the decline" is the following: Sir John Houghton made the hockey stick into an icon for the climate change problem, which became of substantial importance in the marketing of climate change to the public; therefore, challenges to the hockey stick, while maybe not being of particular scientific importance are highly important in the public debate on climate change.

ClimateDepot.com's Marc Morano on Cavuto, 2-23 Posted: 24 Feb 2011 08:18 AM PST Watch Now: Climate Depot's Morano on Fox News explaining why Greens are happy with high gas prices: 'Environmentalists are getting exactly what they want' {youtube}oZf5BVbo3us{/youtube}

Judith Curry vs Gavin Schmidt Posted: 24 Feb 2011 08:13 AM PST Judth Curry Gavin Schmidt has been fighting against Judith Curry for some time (on discussion pages of Curry's blog - Part I and Part II - Real Climate, Watts' blog, and other places); see e.g. Climate Progress. The ecoterrorists have even established a special anti-Curry website which is totally incoherent but it is still a testimony how much those folks dislike her, a new heretic.

Poll: Climate emails spurred TV meteorologist's global warming doubts Posted: 24 Feb 2011 08:08 AM PST Prof. Michael Mann A climate science brouhaha over e-mails stolen from climate scientists led to more doubt about global warning among TV weathercasters, suggests a new poll. Hacked in 2009, the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit cache of roughly 1,000 e-mails (and computer code) sparked investigations after climate naysayers complained the researchers spoke harshly about their critics and schemed to obscure shortcomings in their own research.

New Poll. More skeptics than ever and yet the carbon tax is coming Posted: 24 Feb 2011 07:00 AM PST PM Julia Gillard [h/t to Adam] The good news is that skeptics are the majority, the bad news is that we'll all have to pay the tax anyway. The IPA commissioned a Galaxy Poll in Australia and only one third of Australians believe that man-made global warming is real. Despite the advertising, the propaganda, the Nobel Prizes, the support of major institutions, the ABC censorship of skeptical science news, and the educational indoctrination at schools, most people are unconvinced.

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