Last November there was a world-wide outcry when a trove of emails were released suggesting some of the world’s leading climate scientists engaged in professional misconduct, data manipulation and jiggering of both the scientific literature and climatic data to paint what scientist Keith Briffa called “a nice, tidy story” of climate history. The scandal became known as Climategate.
Now a supposedly independent review of the evidence says, in effect, “nothing to see here.” Last week “The Independent Climate Change E-mails Review,” commissioned and paid for by the University of East Anglia, exonerated the University of East Anglia. The review committee was chaired by Sir Muir Russell, former vice chancellor at the University of Glasgow.
Mr. Russell took pains to present his committee, which consisted of four other academics, as independent. He told the Times of London that “Given the nature of the allegations it is right that someone who has no links to either the university or the climate science community looks at the evidence and makes recommendations based on what they find.”
Members of the congressional committees that oversee the oil and gas industry held more than $11 million in personal financial assets in that sector late last year, including at least $400,000 in the two companies at the heart of the Gulf of Mexico oil-drilling disaster.
From the nearly $100,000 in BP stock held by Rep. Frederick Upton (R-Mich.) to the nearly $650,000 in ConocoPhillips shares held by Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), lawmakers on five key panels with oversight of the oil industry held more than 110 assets in firms from that sector.
All told, the members of the five House and Senate committees had a minimum of $11.4 million in stock holdings in the oil and gas industry, with a maximum value that could have exceed $16.8 million, according to an analysis of financial disclosure forms released Wednesday.
Before the Gulf disaster, some lawmakers sold off shares in the companies at the center of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill for personal financial reasons. Among them was Kerry, whose wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, sold off the last remaining shares she held in Transocean, the company that owned the drilling rig.
At the end of 2009, however, Heinz family trusts still held between $350,000 and $750,000 in BP stock, coming in purchases last year.
The European Union has adopted a regulation that will ban the construction of ordinary family houses, starting from 2020. Only the so-called passive houses will be allowed:
For example, page 33/71 of the PDF document above says that all new buildings have to be “nearly zero-energy buildings” by the end of 2020. It has to be true by the end of 2018 for all new buildings occupied by public authorities.
The Science is in. Al Gore has proven climate change; at least in his case. After forty-years of marriage they are calling it quits. We wonder if she will get half of the carbon credits.
ABC just announced who’s going to be the next contestant on “The Bachelor.” Surprisingly, Al Gore.
Were you sad to learn that Al Gore and his wife, Tipper — I was. I was a little sad about that. Yeah, according to the report, the two are “separating amicably after a long process of careful consideration.” You know, even his divorce is boring.
Would you have ever guessed that Bill and Hillary would turn out to be Washington’s happiest married couple?
Web sites, such as Babble, are taking advantage of the split with spins geared toward the information they provide (Will your marriage outlast the Gore’s?).
How much media coverage will this provide? Mark Leccese of the Boston Globe observed already that,
“No daily newspaper played the story of Al and Tipper Gore’s divorce bigger on page one than the Boston Herald. The Herald used half its front page — a photo of Al and Tipper kissing at the 2000 Democratic Nation Convention torn down the middle with the headline “Kiss It Goodbye” — to get readers to buy the paper and turn to the stories on pages 2 and 16. The only other paper to give nearly as much page-one real estate was USA Today.”
Of course this will provide the media outlet the perfect opportunity to distract your attention away from the fact that the government is eroding your rights under the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and are allowing the Federal Reserve to shift your money into off shore accounts to “bail-out” other countries.
It is sad, actually, to see a marriage break up after forty-years, no matter who they are. But I gotta say that if I see Al Gore’s humongous black SUV driving down an LA freeway with cops and helicopters in hot pursuit, I’m gonna scream!
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) today released a new policy report, “Deploying Solar Power in the State of Arizona: A Brief Overview of the Solar-Water Nexus,” that provides a detailed look at the potential water-energy crisis in Arizona developing as a result of the rush to deploy water-intensive solar production in the state.
“While solar is a renewable resource, Arizona’s water is not,” said Senator Kyl. “Policymakers have an obligation to protect the state’s limited water supply and put its water resources to their highest and best use. Using Arizona’s water supplies to produce conventional CSP (Concentrating Solar Power), much of which will be exported out of state, does neither.”
A major objective of federal and state energy policy is to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy technology and invest in its development. Government-created incentives and mandates are being established to accomplish this objective. In Arizona, the state Corporation Commission has already mandated that electrical utilities generate at least 15 percent of their power from renewable sources, such as solar — and some would like to see that number set even higher in the future. Continue reading “Kyl Authors Policy Report on Impact of Solar Power Production on Water Resources” »
CHEYENNE — The junior senator from Wyoming, the nation’s top coal-producing state, says he will do everything he can to prevent a climate-change bill from passing the Senate.
The “cap and trade” legislation would set limits for gases blamed for global warming — mainly carbon dioxide — while allowing companies to buy and sell permits for emitting greenhouse gases. The bill passed the U.S. House along party lines Friday.
The legislation amounts to a tax on greenhouse emissions and is likely to raise energy costs for consumers, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press.
Army of Light and Truth 135, Forces of Darkness 110
For what is believed to be the first time ever in England, an audience of university undergraduates has decisively rejected the notion that “global warming” is or could become a global crisis. The only previous defeat for climate extremism among an undergraduate audience was at St. Andrew’s University, Scotland, in the spring of 2009, when the climate extremists were defeated by three votes.
Last week, members of the historic Oxford Union Society, the world’s premier debating society, carried the motion “That this House would put economic growth before combating climate change” by 135 votes to 110. The debate was sponsored by the Science and Public Policy Institute, Washington DC. Continue reading “Oxford Union Debate on Climate Catastrophe” »
A spokesman for Al Gore has issued a questionable response to the news that in October 2007 the High Court in London had identified nine “errors” in his movie An Inconvenient Truth. The judge had stated that, if the UK Government had not agreed to send to every secondary school in England a corrected guidance note making clear the mainstream scientific position on these nine “errors”, he would have made a finding that the Government’s distribution of the film and the first draft of the guidance note earlier in 2007 to all English secondary schools had been an unlawful contravention of an Act of Parliament prohibiting the political indoctrination of children.
Al Gore’s spokesman and “environment advisor,” Ms. Kalee Kreider, begins by saying that the film presented “thousands and thousands of facts.” It did not: just 2,000 “facts” in 93 minutes would have been one fact every three seconds. The film contained only a few dozen points, most of which will be seen to have been substantially inaccurate. The judge concentrated only on nine points which even the UK Government, to which Gore is a climate-change advisor, had to admit did not represent mainstream scientific opinion.
Ms. Kreider then states, incorrectly, that the judge himself had never used the term “errors.” In fact, the judge used the term “errors,” in inverted commas, throughout his judgment. Continue reading “35 Inconvenient Truths” »
Christopher Monckton, who once advised Margaret Thatcher, demonstrates via 30 equations that computer models used by the UN’s climate panel (IPCC) were pre-programmed with overstated values for the three variables whose product is “climate sensitivity” (temperature increase in response to greenhouse-gas increase), resulting in a 500-2000% overstatement of CO2’s effect on temperature in the IPCC’s latest climate assessment report, published in 2007.
Climate Sensitivity Reconsidered [http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/200807/index.cfm] demonstrates that later this century a doubling of the concentration of CO2 compared with pre-industrial levels will increase global mean surface temperature not by the 6 °F predicted by the IPCC but, harmlessly, by little more than 1 °F. Lord Monckton concludes –
“… Perhaps real-world climate sensitivity is very much below the IPCC’s estimates. Perhaps, therefore, there is no ‘climate crisis’ at all. … The correct policy approach to a non-problem is to have the courage to do nothing.”
Larry Gould, Professor of Physics at the University of Hartford and Chair (2004) of the New England Section of the American Physical Society (APS), has been studying climate-change science for four years. He said:
“I was impressed by an hour-long academic lecture which criticized claims about ‘global warming’ and explained the implications of the physics of radiative transfer for climate change. I was pleased that the audience responded to the informative presentation with a prolonged, standing ovation. That is what happened when, at the invitation of the President of our University, Christopher Monckton lectured here in Hartford this spring. I am delighted that Physics and Society, an APS journal, has published his detailed paper refining and reporting his important and revealing results.‘
“To me the value of this paper lies in its dispassionate but ruthlessly clear exposition – or, rather, exposé – of the IPCC’s method of evaluating climate sensitivity. The detailed arguments in this paper, and, indeed, in a large number of other scientific papers, point up extensive errors, including numerous projection errors of climate models, as well as misleading statements by the IPCC. Consequently, there are no rational grounds for believing either the IPCC or any other claims of dangerous anthropogenic ‘global warming’.”
CHICAGO, IL: In recent months, former vice president Al Gore has become the world’s most recognized advocate of the theory that human greenhouse gas emissions are altering the world’s climate and could cause catastrophic damage if not arrested and reduced. He is getting hundreds of millions of dollars in free publicity from the press and from environmental groups that echo his warning.
But Al Gore refuses to debate those who say global warming is not a crisis.
Today at 1:30 pm Eastern time Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) will host a press conference announcing the fifth Senate reinvention of “cap-and-trade” global warming legislation since 2003, the “American Power Act”. Call it the American Power Grab Act, instead, for reasons that will become obvious momentarily.
The orchestrated spectacle, with a cast expected to be in the dozens which massive alignment of special interest groups is apparently supposed to persuade you of the justness of their cause, is in fact a manifestation of all that is wrong with Washington and what Americans have become increasingly enraged by.
At this press conference, Sens. Kerry and Lieberman have both already indicated, they will insist that their scheme isn’t “cap-and-trade” because… they aren’t going to use that term this time around. Kerry has even said that “this is not an environment bill.” It seems that the public aren’t buying that argument, either, so it’s really about whatever appeals to you. Just not what it was about the previous four times they’ve tried to slip this Power Grab past you. Except that a summary of the bill makes plain it is, too, cap-and-trade. And worse. It includes billions of dollars each year in gas tax revenue to underwrite the wealth transfers these companies are so in favor of.
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- U.S. legislators have obtained a court order unsealing documents in a case involving a multi-million-dollar cap-and-trade fraud.
Republican legislators say the records–due to be opened to the public in early January–could shed light on the potential challenges of policing a new, trillion-dollar commodities market that would be created under climate legislation that Congress is considering.
In a rare filing by House lawyers, Reps. Joe Barton (R., Texas) and Greg Walden (R., Ore.), the ranking members respectively of the Energy Committee and the Oversight Subcommittee, asked a federal district court in California to unseal all the closed records regarding the successful prosecution for fraud of Anne Masters Sholtz, a former California Institute of Technology economist.
Lawmakers say Sholtz’s case could expose the weaknesses of a federal cap-and- trade system because it involved the same market mechanism meant to cut emissions.
By Ken Hedler, The Daily Courier
Monday, October 19, 2009
PRESCOTT – A documentary that seeks to debunk the Oscar-winning movie about Al Gore on global warming drew a near-capacity crowd Sunday evening in the Performance Hall at Yavapai College.
“Not Evil Just Wrong – The True Cost of Global Warming Hysteria” interviews experts who claim ice caps are melting because of natural causes, and contends measures to reduce carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels would be a financial burden for average Americans. Continue reading “Climate change film debut draws supporters, critics” »
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