UN Climate Chief: Disasters good for putting climate on agenda
http://australianclimatemadness.com/2014/03/06/sick-disasters-good-for-putting-climate-on-agenda-figueres/
North American snow cover at 3rd-highest level on record
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2014/03/05/north-america-snow-cover/6089667/
Oversensitive: How The IPCC Hid The Good News On Global Warming: ‘The best observational evidence indicates our climate is considerably less sensitive to greenhouse gases than climate models are estimating’
Oversensitive: How The IPCC Hid The Good News On Global Warming http://www.thegwpf.org/oversensitive-ipcc-hid-good-news-global-warming/ Nicholas Lewis and Marcel Crok show that the best observational evidence indicates our climate is considerably less sensitive to greenhouse gases than climate models are estimating. Full report here
Guacpocalypse NOT Now: Chipotle walks back global warming-quacamole alarm – ‘This is way overblown’
http://www.latimes.com/nation/shareitnow/la-sh-chipotle-guacamole-20140305,0,1040665.story#axzz2v3c2KJ6R
Report: EPA’s global warming agenda will cost the economy $2.23 trillion
climate rules aimed at phasing out coal-fired power in favor of low-carbon fuels will come at a high cost, according to a newly released report. Over the next two decades, the EPA’s rules to fight global warming will cost the economy $2.23 trillion, raise energy prices and lower families’ incomes. Using economic models based on the […]
NYT’s Tom Friedman plan to ‘frighten Putin’: Raise U.S. gas taxes and enact a carbon tax! ‘I’d also raise our gasoline tax, put in place a carbon tax’
Friedman Excerpt: Why Putin Doesn’t Respect Us I’d also raise our gasoline tax, put in place a carbon tax and a national renewable energy portfolio standard — all of which would also help lower the global oil price (and make us stronger, with cleaner air, less oil dependence and more innovation). You want to frighten […]
Developing Nations Demand $$$ to support new UN climate treaty: ‘We will want more than the $100bn to agree to a new Paris protocol’
A new one: Man-made global warming causes ‘feminizing’ of turtles! UN climate chief Figueres: Because of CO2, ‘scientists are seeing the feminizing of marine turtle populations’
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/03/world-wildlife-day-climate-deal-paris
Statue of Liberty ‘will be lost to sea level rise’ – Global warming to put Statue of Liberty underwater by 4000 AD, says new warmist study
Marzeion said that by looking at sea level rises over such a long timespan – 2000 years – such short-term uncertainties would be smoothed out. His co-author, Anders Levermann, of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said: “After 2000 years, the oceans would have reached a new equilibrium state and we can compute the […]