Leonardo DiCaprio To Jet Off to Vineyard in St. Tropez, France For His Foundation’s Annual Gala to Fund Climate Projects
http://ecowatch.com/2016/06/27/ldf-gala/ The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation announced today its third annual gala at the Domaine Bertaud Belieu vineyard in St. Tropez, France on July 20. The major charity event raises funds to protect Earth’s last wild place, implement solutions that restore balance to threatened ecosystems and ensure the long-term health and wellbeing of all its inhabitants. […]
Guardian: Old People Voting Against Climate or Brexit is ‘Intergenerational Theft’
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/06/27/guardian-old-people-voting-against-climate-or-brexit-is-intergenerational-theft/ Oil industry consultant Dana Nuccitelli, writing for the Guardian, has launched yet another green attack on democracy, by suggesting that older people who voted for Brexit, or who vote against green policies, are committing “intergenerational theft”. The inter-generational theft of Brexit and climate change Youth will bear the brunt of the poor decisions being […]
Michael Mann, scientist: Data ‘increasingly unnecessary’ because ‘we can see climate change’
By Valerie Richardson – The Washington Times – Monday, June 27, 2016 Leading climate doomsayer Michael Mann recently downplayed the importance of climate-change science, telling Democrats that data and models “increasingly are unnecessary” because the impact is obvious. “Fundamentally, I’m a climate scientist and have spent much of my career with my head buried in […]
Dem Party Platform Calls For Prosecuting Global Warming Skeptics
Democratic operatives responsible for creating their party’s platform this year have unanimously adopted a provision calling for the Department of Justice to investigate companies who disagree with Democrats on global warming science. A panel of Democrats voted Friday to approve a final draft of the party’s platform to promote “Progressive Democratic Values,” which apparently includes investigating energy […]
DNC Platform Calls for ‘Fossil Fuel Investigations’, 100% Renewable Energy
DNC Platform Calls for Fossil Fuel Investigations, 100% Renewable Energy http://ecowatch.com/2016/06/27/dnc-platform-investigate-exxon/ The committee drafting the Democratic Party platform unanimously voted to… — gReader Pro
Warmist Michael Mann says there is no need for statistics: ‘We can see climate change…now, playing on our TV screens’
The Democratic Platform Drafting Committee held a series of hearings to solicit input on what issues should be front-and-center during the general election. Michael Mann spoke as follows: “What is disconcerting to me and so many of my colleagues is that these tools that we’ve spent years developing increasingly are unnecessary because we can see […]
India delays ratification of Paris climate treaty indefinitely
http://junkscience.com/2016/06/india-delays-ratification-of-paris-climate-treaty-indefinitely/ More bad news for Obama. From the Times of India:
Investigate the authors? Debunked 97‰ climate ‘consensus’ paper garners over 500K downloads
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27963/ Five hundred thousand. That’s the number of downloads which has graced the University of Queensland’s John Cook’s paper which claims 97% of scientists believe humans are “largely responsible” for global war– er, climate change. The average number of downloadsfor an academic paper is … 700. The 97% figure has widely been touted by activists […]
Tax viruses!? Ocean viruses may have impact on Earth’s climate – ‘Could be responsible for billions of metric tons of extra CO2 every year’
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/ocean-viruses-may-have-impact-earth-s-climate By Jessica McDonaldJun. 17, 2016 , 9:45 AM Viruses—already the bane of human existence—may also be having an impact on Earth’s climate. A new study reveals that the pathogens steal energy from ocean bacteria, preventing them from sucking up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. As a result, viruses could be responsible for billions of […]