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- Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo: National Geographic’s Sea Level Folly
- Bravo! Al Gore denied firestorm footage: ‘Filmmaker refuses to sell footage of a firestorm to Gore — to use in Mr Gore’s climate presentations — because the event was unrelated to climate change’
'In an email exchange with Mr Gore's office, Tangey said using the footage in a climate-change framework would be 'deliberately deceptive'
- Plunge In CO2 Output Due To Natural Gas Fracking
'Increasingly, power plants are turning to natural gas because it has become abundant, and therefore cheap. And though technology is improving our ability to reduce emissions from coal usage, natural gas is still a much cleaner source'
The shale gas revolution: US carbon emissions back to 1990 levels this year
- A Return To Superstition & Witchcraft: ‘The idea that witches lay waste to crops was once conventional wisdom’
'The witches themselves, however, were simply climate-change scapegoats...The climate alarmist community is doing exactly the same thing. They assign blame for cyclical changes in weather to all people who don't perceive the world in the same muddled fashion as themselves. The hilarious part is that these same superstitious nutcases imagine that they are intelligent and wise'
- Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Ivar Giaever: ‘Is climate change pseudoscience?…the answer is: absolutely’ — Derides global warming as a ‘religion’
'He derided the Nobel committees for awarding Al Gore and R.K. Pachauri a peace prize, and called agreement with the evidence of climate change a 'religion'... the measurement of the global average temperature rise of 0.8 degrees over 150 years remarkably unlikely to be accurate, because of the difficulties with precision for such measurements—and small enough not to matter in any case: “What does it mean that the temperature has gone up 0.8 degrees? Probably nothing.”
- Time Mag’s Bryan Walsh demotes global warming: ‘Maybe the most pressing enviro problem in the world [is air pollution]
- World Cooling To Global Warming: ‘Increasingly, [warmists’] warnings of impending doom & their character attacks on their opponents will be performed before empty houses, as in Rio’
'As the climate-change theory crumbles, expect its supporters to be more vocal in its defence, more insistent that the science is ironclad...Like the cultish followers of any faddish religion when it nears the end of its fashionableness, they will proclaim their views even more vociferously and denounce more forcefully all those who disagree'
- Skepticism spreads to Brazil: ‘Mark yet another day in the Diary of How the Skeptics Won. Skeptics are getting heard (funny how the truth spreads)’
- Progress! Wash. Post warmist Juliet Eilperin says Rio+20 Earth Summit ‘may produce one lasting legacy: Convincing people it’s not worth holding global summits’
'I think this process is totally broken,” wrote Melinda Kimble, the U.N. Foundation's senior VP
'I don't know if they'll ever do this again, and I don't know if we'll need it again,' said the Pew Environment Group's director of international policy, Susan Lieberman. 'It's a 12-ring circus here.'
- NBC: California’s global warming law making ‘some companies millions of dollars without significant benefits to the environment or significant reductions in greenhouse gases’
'While Cap and Trade is being sold as the first step towards reversing global warming, NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit discovered some critics who point to the very law and say there are loopholes built into it that allow the program to be 'gamed' to make some companies millions of dollars without significant benefits to the environment or significant reductions in greenhouse gases'
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Another New Study Says Warming & CO2-Induced Greening Leads To COOLING Of Land Surface Temperatures
Since the 1980s, 29% of human CO2 emissions were cancelled out by the CO2-induced greening of the Earth. The post-2000 vegetative greening expansion has been so massive (5.4 million km²) its net areal increase is equivalent to a region the size of the Amazon rainforest.
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Arctic Cool Off: Canada, Greenland & Iceland Have Seen Almost No Warming So Far This Century
Canada: no warming in a quarter century
Greenland stations have cooled off
Iceland has cooled since 2001
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Bill Gates & UN Launch New Climate Agenda – Seeks ‘to kick start a transformational decade’ of climate ‘action’
Boris Johnson, Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron, and Narendra Modi will apparently gather in the Netherlands. There, along with Bill Gates, UN head Antonio Guterres, and personnel associated with the European Union, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, they’ll attend a climate summit hosted by the Global Center on Adaptation. ...
We’re told this summit "will launch a comprehensive Adaptation Action Agenda to kick start a transformational decade."
Donna Laframboise: "The chutzpah is astonishing. The global economy is in tatters. Billions face an uncertain future. Health care workers are exhausted. Yet this Clique of Self-Important People™ is full speed ahead, determined to impose its climate vision on the rest of us."
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The Return of the Dead: Countering Species Extinction Claims – The most aggressive claims rest on shaky foundations’
In the last 500 years only some 80 mammals are recorded as having gone extinct. In his book, More From Less, Andrew McAfee, a board member of HumanProgress.org, discusses how relatively rare recorded extinctions are – with some 530 across all species in the last five centuries. More importantly, he notes, the rate of extinction “appear[s] to have slowed down in recent decades; for example, no marine creatures have been recorded as extinct in the last fifty years.”
Matt Ridley, another board member and frequent contributor to this site, argues that despite the human population doubling in the last half-century, “the extinction rate of wild species, especially in the most industrialized countries,” seems to have fallen rather than increased. While absence of evidence isn’t the same as evidence of absence, and there might be millions of unrecorded species in the world’s oceans and tropical forests, the most aggressive claims rest on shaky foundations.