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Premier’s epiphany nothing more than feelings
Written by Maureen Bader, BCLocalNews   
Friday, 09 May 2008
 

truth_poster.jpg(h/t to Sharon) B.C. [British Columbia] is about to be hit with new taxes to achieve the government’s greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction goal of 33% below current levels by 2020. But the BC Liberals were elected to reduce taxes and burdensome regulations, not increase them.

So just how did the premier come up with this goal and what is the outlook for B.C.?

While in Hawaii for his Christmas 2006 vacation, the premier is said to have read a couple of books on catastrophic climate change, including Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth. Tellingly, the British High Court ruled showing the movie version of that book, and misleading students into believing it accurately represented climate science, was in violation of the political indoctrination section of the country’s Education Act. The experience in Europe goes beyond propaganda, however. The experience in Europe is one of job losses with little, if any, GHG reduction.

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Real Climate's Bold Bet
Written by Roger Pielke, Jr., Prometheus   
Friday, 09 May 2008
 

deal-or-no-deal.jpg The Real Climate guys have offered odds on future temperature changes, which is great because it gives us a sense of their confidence in predictions of future global average temperatures. Unfortunately, RCs foray into laying odds is not as useful as it might be.

The motivation for this bet is the recent Keenlyside et al. paper that has caused a set of mixed reactions among the commenters in the blogosphere. Some commenters here have stridently argued that the predictions in the Keelyside et al. paper are perfectly consistent with predictions of climate models in the IPCC. However, when one such commenter here was asked to show a single IPCC climate model run showing no temperature increase for the 2 decades following the late 1990s he submitted an irrelevant link and disappeared. Others have argued that the Keenlyside et al. projections (and this includes Keenlyside) are inconsistent with the IPCC predictions. Real Climate apparently falls into this latter camp.

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Propaganda-driven kids attack think tank
Written by Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily   
Friday, 09 May 2008
 

ice-warming.jpgStudents at a California public school have written a series of letters to Chicago's Heartland Institute, which works to discover and develop free-market solutions to society's problems, attacking its members for "destroying our planet" by refusing to endorse the politics of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" film.

According to students in the sixth-grade class of teacher Michael Steria at David A. Brown Middle School, the institute consists of "fools" and "horrible people."

"I think your (sic) fools for denying G.W. you know it could kill us all & you're just adding to it. I want you to help stop G.W. not increase it," said one letter.

"We are going to tell you about global warming. I don't care if you don't want to read, but I'm making you read it you horrible people," said another.

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Cyclone Bandwagon Gains Another Passenger
Written by Paul, Dr. Jennifer Marohasy's blog   
Friday, 09 May 2008
 

cyclone-over-land.jpg A TOP Indian advocacy group that monitors climate change in south Asia warned last night that the Nargis cyclone that devastated Burma was "a sign of things to come", as climate change caused extreme weather to increase in intensity.

"Nargis is a sign of things to come. Last year, Bangladesh was devastated by the tropical cyclone Sidr," CSE director Sunita Narain said in a statement.

"The victims of these cyclones are climate change victims and their plight should remind the rich world that it is doing too little to contain its greenhouse gas emissions."

The Australian: Cyclone 'is a sign of things to come'

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Britain learning true green costs
Written by LORRIE GOLDSTEIN, Welland Tribune   
Friday, 09 May 2008
 

gas-prices-cartoon.jpg (h/t to Jacob) Great Britain is a decade ahead of Canada in the global warming debate and what's happening there today is instructive for us.

Former British prime minister Tony Blair was a major booster of the Kyoto Accord.

A 2006 report his Labour government commissioned from British economist Sir Nicholas Stern, predicting world-wide environmental and financial disaster if immediate steps weren't taken to combat global warming, is the Holy Grail of the international green movement.

Initially, Great Britain thought it would have a relatively easy time implementing Kyoto because of its "dash for gas" starting in the 1980s, during which coal-fired energy plants were replaced by natural gas facilities.

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'The Deniers' details flaws in the theories on global warming
Written by Mark Milke, Special to the Sun   
Friday, 09 May 2008
 

the-deniers-book-cover.jpg (h/t to Stefanie) An anti-nuclear, Toronto-based, urban-loving, 1970s peace activist who opposes subsidies to the oil industry might be the last person expected to detail cracks in the science of global warming.

But Lawrence Solomon has done just that in a short book with a long subtitle: The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud (and those who are too fearful to do so).

The spark for the book came after an American TV reporter compared those who question the Kyoto Protocol to Holocaust deniers. But Solomon wondered about that so he sought out the experts in specific fields to garner their views.

Consider Dr. Edward Wegman, asked by the U.S. Congress to assess the famous "hockey stick" graph from Michael Mann, published by the UN's International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which purported to show temperatures as mostly constant over the past 1,000 years -- except for a spike in the last century.

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[Heartland Institute] defends naming Kiwis as climate change sceptics
Written by Angela Gregory, New Zealand Herald   
Thursday, 08 May 2008
 

joseph-bast.jpg An American organisation is defending its decision to publish names of scientists in association with an article supporting the theory that most of the recent global warming is natural and not manmade.

Joseph Bast, president of the Heartland Institute, said today that a list of 500 scientists on its website had published work which contradicted some of the tenets of "global warming alarmism".

Many of the scientists, including five in New Zealand, have reacted angrily to being included on the list as they say their research does not support that argument.

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Greenland Ice Has Sensitive History to Warming
Written by Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News   
Thursday, 08 May 2008
 

greenland-melt-past.jpg The idea that Greenland's ice melts sluggishly in response to global warming has long been one hedge against rapid global sea level rise -- but the idea may be wrong, say researchers.

New geologic evidence from the seafloor off the southern tip of Greenland shows that during the two past periods of global warming, the melting of Greenland glaciers was right in synch with rising global temperatures -- rather than lagging behind as models have predicted.

In other words, the ice is very sensitive to global warming and recent losses of ice there could be the beginning of a much larger melt than expected.

"People had thought that there was this thermal lag," said Anders Carlson of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.


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Burma killed by tyranny
Written by Andrew Bolt, Melbourne Herald Sun   
Thursday, 08 May 2008
 

cyclone-nargis-damage.jpg THE vultures are circling over Burma's dead. Hey, isn't that fat one Al Gore?

Sure is. And - flap, flap, plop - there he lands, the first to go picking over carcasses for scraps to feed his great global warming scare campaign.

What the world should be learning from this terrible loss of at least 60,000 people in the cyclone that hit Burma last week is that tyrannies kill more surely than any freak of weather.

But Al Gore, who won a Nobel "Peace" Prize for terrifying people with his error-riddled An Inconvenient Truth, wants you to blame instead his pet bogeyman. Tremble, sinners, before the wrath of a hot planet!

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Cold Water Thrown on Antarctic Global-Warming Predictions
Written by Andrea Thompson, FoxNEWS   
Thursday, 08 May 2008
 

antarctic_satellite_map.jpg Antarctica hasn't warmed as much over the last century as climate models had originally predicted, a new study finds.

Climate change's effects on Antarctica are of particular interest because of the substantial amount of water locked up in its ice sheets.

Should that water begin to melt, sea levels around the globe could rise and inundate low-lying coastal areas.

The new study, detailed in the April 5 issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters, marks the first time that researchers have been able to give a progress report on Antarctic climate model projections by comparing climate records to model simulations. (These comparisons have already been done for the other six continents.)


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ALL THINGS JURY: Why 'junk' science works
Written by R. Robert Samples, W. Virginia Record   
Thursday, 08 May 2008
 

junk-science-2.jpg The term "junk" science has been around for several years now. A working definition for the term is "faulty scientific data and analysis used to advance special, or hidden, agendas."

A few examples of claimed junk science include the degree of impact of carbon dioxide emissions on global warming, negative health effects for women with silicone breast implants, and the side effects of some prescription medicines.

So, if there truly is legitimate debate between cause and effect in these cases, why do jurors readily accept a "junk science" causation relationship?

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