IPCC reviewers pointed out wildfire mistake, ignored by authors

Written by Climate Quotes | 09 March 2010

In a previous post I mentioned that the IPCC's claim of reduced tourism due to wildfires (section 14.2.7 of WGII) didn't match their source. They claimed there were millions of dollars in tourism losses, but their source did not make that claim. One of the reasons the claim was false was explained in their own source, a British Columbia Tourism newsletter. It said:

It is possible that the stronger performance of regions far from the fires is due to travellers who changed their plans to visit these regions instead of those heavily affected by the forest fires.

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Climate Wars!

Written by Alan Caruba, Warning Signs | 09 March 2010

Wars come and go, cities are destroyed and rebuilt, monuments are erected, and life goes on. This is the traditional view of war, but right now the world is engaged in the latest battle of a “climate war” that has been going on since the 1970s when the Club of Rome concluded in a report titled, “The real enemy then, is humanity itself”, that the world’s population had to be reduced.

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Global warming challenge

Written by Orange County Register Editorial | 09 March 2010

Clueless in Sacremento

The possibility of suspending California's Global Warming Solutions Act, a law unlikely to change temperatures but certain to wreak economic havoc, appears to have increased dramatically.

Two large Texas-based refineries have pledged as much as $2 million to pay for signature-gathering to place an initiative on the November ballot that would suspend the global warming law if passed by voters, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing Sacramento sources.

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Methane Madness

Written by Jeffrey Folks, American Thinker | 09 March 2010

The environmentalist assault on economic growth resembles the old shell game practiced by con artists for centuries. Just when you're sure the pea will appear at the right, it shows up in the middle. Place your bet on the middle, and the pea appears somewhere else.

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As the global warming movement falters, Al Gore’s dying Climate Project is folded into The Alliance for Climate Protection

Written by Klockarman, Gore Lied | 08 March 2010

As Al Gore’s global governance effort via global warming fraud collapses on itself under the heavy burden of Climategate and assorted other scientific scandals, Team Gore has made a laughable announcement:

Washington, D.C. and Nashville, TN — Signaling the historic opportunity before us to transition to a clean energy economy and heal the planet, the Alliance for Climate Protection and The Climate Project, two organizations founded by Nobel Laureate and former Vice President Al Gore, announced today that they are officially uniting their programs and activities under the Alliance for Climate Protection. This unification will strengthen their existing campaigns and initiatives.

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Global warming: Another manufactured worry disappears

Written by Thomas Fuller, SF Environmental Policy Examiner | 08 March 2010

Penguins playing on the Antarctic ice

Recent months have brought to light data that has (or should have) reduced fears about some of the dramatic effects of global warming. It seems we no longer have to worry about Himalayan glaciers disappearing by 2035--the IPCC just got it wrong. It appears that the Amazon, African agriculture, damages due to hurricanes and floods and the continued existence of the polar bear are also at lower risk due to global warming than previously thought. Hallelujah!

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Yet Another Incorrect IPCC Assessment: Antarctic Sea Ice Increase

Written by Chip Knappenberger, MasterResource | 08 March 2010

Another error in the influential reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports has been identified. This one concerns the rate of expansion of sea ice around Antarctica.

While not an issue for estimates of future sea level rise (sea ice is floating ice which does not influence sea level), a significant expansion of Antarctic sea ice runs counter to climate model projections. As the errors in the climate change “assessment” reports from the IPCC mount, its aura of scientific authority erodes, and with it, the justification for using their findings to underpin national and international efforts to regulate greenhouse gases.

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Kerry Sparks Fight on Climate

Written by Emily Pierce, Roll Call | 08 March 2010

John Kerry: Wind Breaker!

In an already challenging election year for the majority, Sen. John Kerry’s (D-Mass.) rush to pass a climate change bill has many Democrats scratching their heads and charging that their 2004 presidential nominee could further imperil vulnerable Members this fall.

Climate change had been considered all but dead this year, and Senate Democrats have little appetite to take up the controversial issue after the beating that they have endured over their as-yet-unfinished health care reform efforts.

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Political Agendas Continue to Drive Climate Fiasco

Written by Dr. Tim Ball, Canada Free Press | 08 March 2010

The greatest scandal connected to global warming is not exaggeration, fraud or destruction of data to conceal the weakness of the argument. It is those who are personally profiting from promoting this fantasy at the expense of the rest of us.

The comment is absolutely wrong because by far the greatest scandal is the continued political exploitation, fraud and destruction of the economy.

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E-mail leaks that clouded climate issue

Written by Fiona Harvey, Financial Times | 08 March 2010

Every night, Anthony Watts blogs on developments in a climate change scandal that he helped uncover. The routine has made the Californian meteorologist one of the most followed global warming sceptics in the world.

“It’s busier than ever – it’s hard to keep up,” says Mr Watts, a TV weatherman for 25 years who now sells weather equipment. “I’ve been blogging every day and some days I wish I could take a vacation.”

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IMF Head Calls For Huge Global Warming Slush Fund

Written by Paul Joseph Watson, Prison Planet | 08 March 2010

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn today called for a huge global warming slush fund to be established as an interim measure before carbon taxes are implemented in the name of preventing weather disasters related to alleged man-made climate change.

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EU climate chief delivers treaty blow

Written by Fiona Harvey, Financial Times | 08 March 2010

Connie Hedegaard, Danish minister

The world will almost certainly fail to draw up a new treaty on climate change this year, the minister in charge of last year’s Copenhagen summit has admitted, delivering a heavy blow to the barely flickering hopes for a swift global ­settlement.

Connie Hedegaard, the Danish minister who masterminded the summit of world leaders on global warming last year and is now the European commissioner for climate change, told the Financial Times negotiations were not progressing fast enough for a treaty to be signed soon.

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