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The U.S. Intense Hurricane Drought: 'Record-long stretch of no intense hurricane landfalls still continuing'

'Gore effect': 'Hurricane drought days at an all time high – Katrina Karma ? 'Since Al Gore used hurricane Katrina as a false example of AGW driven severe weather, there has been a drought of major landfalling U.S. Hurricanes, which can only be a good thing'

Climate Depot's Morano: 'Every day now, skeptics are compared to Holocaust deniers & the media yawns' -- MSM Condemns Heartland's Billboard, Ignores What Alarmists Do Everyday

Morano: 'But Heartland does an edgy billboard accurately reflecting the views of those featured in it and the media acts as though they are offended? Here are a very few examples of this week's Holocaust denier comparisons and other nasty stuff by warmists – just this week! Please show some balance!'

Letter to Ed in NYT on Hansen: Consensus?! 'European scientists in the 15th century agreed that the earth was the center of the universe. That didn't make it true'

'Hansen uses apocalyptic predictions to justify increased government regulation, higher taxes and redistribution of wealth. His latest polemic is no different and would result in major economic impacts on Canadian and American citizens,more government bureaucrats to restrict and regulate fossil fuel production,and reduced living standards'

Does NASA's Hansen Ever Look At Actual Data? 'His claims of permanent drought are not consistent with US drought record, which shows a decrease in drought & increase in wetness since 1895'

Study: Shopping malls prevent animals from escaping global warming: ' '9% of Western Hemisphere´s mammals are not able to run fast enough in order to flee catastrophic global warming'

'The scientists behind the study propose the construction of 'corridors' past e.g. shopping malls to be used by slow moving creatures: As climate change transforms their habitat, some animals are already on the move. But a new analysis from the University of Washington warns that many species won't be able to run fast enough to survive a warming world'

Arctic seabirds doing fine despite of 'global warming': 'Little auks, the most common seabirds in the Arctic, are adapting their fishing behavior to warming surface waters in the Greenland Sea'

'So far, their reproductive and survival rates have not been affected Surprisingly, the birds have managed to make up for the warming of surface waters in the Greenland Sea by altering their diet and extending the duration of their foraging trips at sea'

Global Warming Predicted Hotspot Over Tropics Is Non-Existent: 'Empirical measurements confirm Hansen's predicted tropical hotspot has not happened, it's a 'coldspot' instead'

NASA's Hansen warns of end times! Global warming increasing by 'equivalent to exploding 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs per day 365 days per year'

'The amazing persistence of CO2 in the air has allowed billions of our small emissions, like those from the Enola Gay, to amass into an ever growing threat to civilization...NASA's Hansen says current increase in global warming is: '...equivalent to exploding 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs per day 365 days per year...That's 278 atomic bombs worth of energy every minute – more than four per second -- non-stop'

Greenie Grist Mag. laments lack of interest in AGW.: 'The most critical issue ever to face humanity is getting less attention this election season than dogs'

'Many of Obama's fellow Democrats are following his lead and shunting climate into the shadows, still smarting from the ignominious death of climate legislation in 2010'

Dogs? Flashback 2009: 'Your Pet Is a Global Warming Machine': 'A single dog can have a bigger ecological footprint than an SUV'

New paper in journal Weather finds large increase in sunshine since the 1980's; dwarfs alleged effect of CO2

Finds global summer avg. sunshine [solar short-wave radiation that reaches Earth's surface] dimmed during period 1958-1983 [prompting an ice age scare], but markedly increased from 1985-2010. The increase in summer avg. sunshine between those two periods is 6 Watts per square meter, which dwarfs alleged effects of CO2 by more than 5 times...Study states increase in sunshine reaching Earth's surface is due to a decrease in aerosols including clouds'

New paper in journal Weather finds large increase in sunshine since the 1980's; dwarfs alleged effect of CO2

Panel discussion: Ethics, Stanford: A question of balance

Response: 'Between all the 'Pal Review, the attempts to suborn editors and corrupt the peer review process, loss of data, 'Irreproducible Results', agenda driven science, grants being given to only one point of view, & Peter Gleick and mail fraud /computer fraud; there's a lot of 'ethical issues' in the way 'climate science' is being done. And Hansen both testifying that it's OK to commit crimes & damage private property if your cause is just'

New paper finds solar activity and natural climate cycles explain rainfall variations over past 160 years

'A paper published today in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics finds that sunspot numbers and the assumption of natural climate cycles 'accurately reproduces' the patterns of rainfall in Fortaleza, Brasil 'over the entire 160 years of observations.'

New paper finds planetary motions explain climate; predicts stable climate: Study in Journal of Atmospheric & Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Finds 'that GCMs [climate models] fail to reproduce major decadal & multidecadal oscillations found in global surface temp record from 1850 to 2011. On the contrary, the proposed harmonic model [based on solar system planetary motions] is found to well reconstructobserved climate oscillations from 1850 to 2011, and it is shown to be able to forecast climate oscillations from 1950 to 2011 using the data covering the period 1850–1950, and vice versa'

New paper finds 'no model consensus' on precipitation projections: Journal of Geophysical Research study finds 19 different models had 'no model consensus'

'...and a 'large spread' 'with both large positive and negative anomalies' in projections of future Australian tropical climate. Furthermore, the authors conclude that since model projections are all over the map, that indicates there is 'large internal or natural variability in tropical Australian precipitation relative to the climate change signal' [of alleged AGW]'

New finding may hold key to Gaia hypothesis: 'Is Earth really a sort of giant living organism?'

'Would You Believe Bill McKibben Doesn't Know Who Funds 350.org?' Says 'not very convincingly -- that he doesn't know, even though he says they have 7 full-time employees'

'McKibben is President and Co-Founder of 350.org. He's in charge. Presidents of nonprofits usually know who funds them. He doesn't seem to want to say...What is with these environmental organizations (Center for American Progress is another one) who expect transparency from their foes but won't provide it themselves?'

Conflict of Interest in Hansen's NYT Op-ed: 'Dan Miller, an engineer & venture capitalist focused on non-polluting energy technologies...helped Hansen craft his Times piece'

Lies, Data Tampering, Corruption: NASA's Hansen forgot to mention his article 'was co-written by an investor who stands to make or lose millions of dollars depending on how effective Hansen is at scaring people'

Is Sea Level Rise Accelerating? 'In the reconstructed analysis, there is no evidence of an acceleration in the long term rate of sea level rise, which remains at below 2mm/year'

Globally Warmed Over: Hatred Unmasked at Last: Warmists 'have finally given up the pretense of science in favor of pure, old-fashioned doomsday preaching'

WWF Calls For Global Poverty To Save The Planet: 'Report calls for all carbon emissions to be banned by 2050 and for entire human population to live in a state of poverty'

Climatologist Dr. Pielke Sr.: NASA's Hansen's 1981 Model Prediction Needs ScrutinyL 'Hansen is correct that the climate system has warmed. However, he is significantly overstating its magnitude'

Climate Audit's McIntyre gets some new Yamal data – still no hockey stick

AGW a National Security Threat? Climate Depot's Morano responds: 'Aside from the fact that the 'national security' angle rests on speculative doomsday scenarios...'

'...perhaps the biggest whopper of the new movement is the implication that we must pass the congressional climate bill to 'address'or 'remedy'the problem and thus 'avoid' future wars and loss of life. Left unanswered in this argument is how a climate bill that will have no detectable impact on global temperatures will help 'solve'the alleged looming national security threat'

Climate Depot on the 'utter nonsense' from the UN: 'The countries are so broke they can't talk about how they're going to mindlessly spend more money on climate and other env. issues through UN'

Morano: 'So there is some irony there that countries the U.N. wants to bankrupt with utter nonsense can't afford to come to these sessions where the U.N. is going to ask them for more money'

Obama: At Least Sen. 'McCain Believed In Climate Change' in 2008

Flashback 2010: Sen. McCain Climate Reversal Shocker: 'I think it's an inexact science, and there has been more and more questioning about some of the conclusions that were reached concerning climate change'

Analysis: 'Hansen has blamed practically every weather event since 1988 on coal death trains, evil oil executives, or missing Arctic ice'

'The most intense hurricane in US history occurred in 1935, and seven of the ten most intense hurricanes occurred below 350 ppm. It has been seven years since a major hurricane hit the US – the longest period on record'

Time Mag: 'An Exclusive Look at NASA's James Hansen's Scary New Math': 'For the first time ties specific weather events to human-induced climate change'

Warmist Holocaust survivor Prof. Tomkiewicz: 'I am using the term 'denier' to make a point...Hitler was clear about what he wanted to do in Mein Kampf –why did people not pay attention?'

Tomkiewicz: 'These [Hitler] 'deniers' might as well have been called skeptics in their day...I could not and would not 'cheapen' a genocide that killed most of my family and deprived me of my childhood'

Climate Depot Response: 'Your skeptic/Holocaust denier comparisons do 'cheapen' a genocide that killed most of your family.' You are not exempt from being offensive due to your horrible suffering'

Warmist Prof. Micha Tomkiewicz, who survived the Holocaust, doubles down on skeptic Holocaust denier link: 'Why Am I 'Dragging' the Holocaust into the Climate Change Debate?'

Tomkiewicz: 'I make my 'climate change denier' claim for one reason. It's easy today to teach students to condemn the Holocaust, but it's much more difficult to teach them how to try to prevent future genocides...I don't want my grandchildren to die in a climate change genocide that we could have helped head off'

Yet another warmist compares skeptics to Holocaust Deniers -- Warmist Prof. Andrew Glikson also claims AGW is 'the greatest threat humanity and nature are facing' Andrew.glikson@anu.edu.au

Prof. Andrew Glikson, Andrew Glikson of Australian National Univ. rips skeptical climate play: ' I wonder whether such a show, if concerned with denial of the holocaust of WWII, would have been conceived?...I suggest the show 'The Heretic'...can only lead to trivialization & further denial of what the scientific world regards as the greatest threat humanity & nature are facing'

Aussie report: Global warming will make us mad, quite mad -- AGW will 'lead to violence and more cases of mental illness'

'In a report to be released , climate commissioner Prof. Tim Flannery said (Western Sydney's) temperatures would rise sharply in coming years, leading to violence and more cases of mental illness... The commission's Professor Lesley Hughes said... “We know mortality goes up in heatwaves. If we get heat waves in western Sydney, yes, we would expect to see that'

WWF President Hopes To Kill Millions Of People In His Next Life: President Emeritus Prince Phillip of WWF

Prince Phillip: 'If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels'

A Review of Peter Jacques' 'A General Theory of Climate Denial' -- 'Belief that 'climate science' shows that the 'world political economic structure' is 'irreparably unsustainable'

Peter Jacques seeks to argue that 'denier' is an appropriate label for those who question the theory of catastrophic global warming, and further, that comparisons with holocaust denial are indeed valid'

Papers Showing Sun As Main Driver Keep Rolling In: Peer-reviewed paper appearing in the journal Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Yet Another Paper Shows 'The Enormous Importance Of Solar Activity Fluctuations On Climate'

'Another study has appeared in the Journal of Geophysical Research,this one looks at the precipitation history on the Tibet Plateau of . With every passing study,it is becoming increasingly clear that the CO2 warmists are either in deep denial or complete intellectual oblivion'

Holocaust denial and Climate denial: 'What makes some of these warmists so fond of the holocaust line? Only recently Clive Hamilton wrote a vitriolic rant about this subject'

Another Academic Says Climate Skeptics Criminals Against Humanity: Prof. Donald Brown puts skeptics 'into the company of such noted transgressors as Mao, Stalin, Pot'

'Brown thought that showing his publicly available email and head shot—which are not hidden and are trivially easy to find at Penn State—represented 'intimidation.'...But Morano himself hauls in plenty of scathing missives daily, as do others who run blogs expressing doubt that we should let government 'solve' climate change'

Study: 'Milk poured down Britain's kitchen sinks each year creates a carbon footprint equivalent to thousands of car exhaust emissions'

U.S. Govt Scientist vs. U.S. Govt Scientist: NOAA's Hoerling turns on NASA's Hansen: 'Facts should, and do, matter' -- Hansen is 'intent to instill fear rather than reason' - Claims 'patently false'

NOAA's Martin Hoerling: 'The [Hansen] piece is policy more than it is science, to be sure...But facts should, and do, matter to some. The vision of a Midwest Dustbowl is a scary one, & [Hansen] appears intent to instill fear rather than reason. [Hansen] asserts: 'The global warming signal is now louder than the noise of random weather...' --This is patently false'

An Unsent Memo to James Hansen: 'The content of your opinion shows that you're still hoping to appeal to those who are gullible enough to believe your claims'

'If the IPCC was Selling Manmade Global Warming as a Product, Would the FTC Stop their deceptive Ads?'

Climate Audit on RealClimate.org's Steig's 'Hockey Stick': 'Gavin Schmidt's rant does not refute anything in my Yamal post. Indeed, Schmidt barely touches on the actual content of my post'

Hiding The Post-1981 Decline In Hansen: 'The Internet is all abuzz with Hansen's not yet failed 1981 (and previously ignored) forecasts'

'The 1981 forecasts were of course superseded by his already failed 1988 Congressional forecasts, but the team is getting desperate to buy time. The graph below shows that his 1988 forecasts are already a total bust'

New article by Prof. Peter J. Jacques compares 'climate denial' to 'Holocaust denial' -- Published in MIT Press Journal pjacques@mail.ucf.edu

Prof. Jacques: 'The question at hand is, 'Why is there a social counter-movement that rejects climate change?' This article begins by first naming this counter-movement 'climate denial' and working through the various apparent options by specifically looking at scholarship on Holocaust denial for insight. Through this insight, we can understand the counter-movement as a reactionary force working to sow confusion for ideological reasons that promote a specific privilege'

Penn State 'Climate Ethics' Prof. Donald Brown says skeptics are guilty of a 'new crime against humanity' for delaying action on global warming -- 'It is really evil stuff. It is nasty'

Brown attacks Climate Depot for posting his email: [Climate Depot] puts my picture and my personal email and within 48 hours you get hundreds of really nasty [emails], some of them are up here, death threats, hate mail'

Green power failure: 'Climate mania impoverishes electricity customers worldwide'

'Denmark, an early adopter of the global-warming mania, now requires its households to pay the developed world's highest power prices — about 40¢ a kilowatt hour, or three to four times what North Americans pay today. Germany, whose powerhouse economy gave green developers a blank cheque, is a close second, followed by other politically correct nations such as Belgium, the headquarters of the EU, and distressed nations such as Spain'

What economist William Nordhaus gets wrong about climate change: 'His attempt to rebut the “global warming skeptics” is itself filled with misleading arguments'

'The actual situation is that the physical climate models have indeed predicted more warming than has actually occurred, while the economics literature casts serious doubts on the case for immediate government mitigation efforts'

NASA's Hansen Covering His Tracks In Iceland: New graph up after 'Hansen was caught massively altering the temperature record in Iceland – to produce a non-existent warming trend'

Revkin's NYT article disputes the 'severe weather is climate' meme, but balance problems remain

EPA Simulator Shows Potential Cost, Power Losses From Utility CO2 Cap

'Despite widespread political opposition to the concept of a carbon dioxide (CO2) cap-and-trade system,EPA has quietly uploaded to its website a computer simulator allowing users to act as an environmental compliance officer' -- 'Why is EPA is “spending time and financial resources developing a global warming cap-and-trade game for the classroom to begin with?'