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Endangermouse

Will he, or won’t he ?

Will Barack Hussein Obama formalise, finalise, documentise the “endangerment finding” in an EPA declaration, that Greenhouse Gases endanger public health under The Clean Air Act ?

https://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-obama-environment8-2009dec08,0,3159719.story

If he does, he should be awarded the epithet “Endangermouse”, the more-than-mouse hero, for subverting the slow and ineffective grinding of the United States Senate and Congress.

Without waiting for them to chew and chomp and perhaps spit out the Climate laws currently before them for their consideration, Obama could impose change through the Environmental Protection Agency; the back door, but the fast door.

We’re going to get sense and speed on Global Warming legislation. It could be faster than you think.

Tags Climate Change, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA

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Climate Change : Munk Debates 2009

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Post date December 7, 2009
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The Munk Debates 2009 on Climate Change is, I think, now completely uploaded to YouTube. I only caught part of this when it was streamed live because of the time zone issue. I really recommend you listen and watch :-

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMunkDebates#p/c/F60C6C685021CA27

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I Won’t Wear A Wristband For Carbon Trading

Post author By Jo
Post date December 7, 2009
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The Story of Cap & Trade from Story of Stuff Project on Vimeo

So, tens of thousands of people have made their way to the Copenhagen Climate Change negotiations. Now that they’re sealed in the conference, in all that holy, heady air of importance and relevance, they won’t be able to escape the dominant narrative of the agenda : the implementation of Carbon Trading.

This could be the largest appropriation of commonly owned resources the world has even known. By the banks :-

https://www.bluenext.fr/

Tags Carbon Trading, Climate Change

Climate Change Media

Climategate : The Great Global Warming Hoax

Post author By Jo
Post date December 7, 2009
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The machinations of the “Climategate” scandal are continuing to graunch gears and spit out fascinating tidbits of investigative rumour, intrigue and quite possibly conspiracy, too :-

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/was-russian-secret-service-behind-leak-of-climatechange-emails-1835502.html

“Was Russian secret service behind leak of climate-change emails? FSB accused of paying hackers to discredit scientists after stolen correspondence traced to server in Siberia : By Shaun Walker : Monday, 7 December 2009”

Tags Climate Change, Climategate, denial, denier, Fraud, Hoax, sceptic, skeptic

Climate Change Media

Journalism Makes Confession On Global Warming

Post author By Jo
Post date December 7, 2009
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One by one, the newspapers are coming to the altar of Anthropogenic Global Warming to make their confession.

I’m actually quite surprised that journalists can understand the Science sufficiently to be able to write accurately.

Wonders will never cease !

https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703819904574551303527570212.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1233622/Copenhagen-climate-summit-Q-A.html

A joint editorial will be published worldwide :-

https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/dec/06/papers-copenhagen-leader

https://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/06/copenhagen-editorial

“‘Fourteen days to seal history’s judgment on this generation'”

Besides all this affirmation, letters are being written :-

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/letters/article6946458.ece

Tags Climate Change, journalism, Journalist

Climate Change Media

Untidy Minds #10 : James Inhofe

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Post date December 7, 2009
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It’s a shame that the Financial Times saw fit to publish an article with the headline “US senator calls global warming a ‘hoax’”, considering the intense debate going on regarding the science of Climate Change.

On the other hand, it does show up the untidy mind of James Inhofe quite spectacularly, so maybe it is useful :-

https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b68c23ea-e0fc-11de-af7a-00144feab49a.html

Tags Climate Change, denial, denier, sceptic, skeptic

Climate Change

Untidy Minds #9 : Richard Lindzen (again)

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Post date December 7, 2009
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Richard Lindzen makes an ungracious return to this collection of untidy minds, appearing courtesy of The Times, which is rather disappointing. If any editors of any newspaper know the detrimental value of lying propaganda, it should be those at the top at The Times, which is normally the channel for Government-sourced snapshots and snippets, sometimes deliberate leaks.

The number of outright mistruths and sneaky fiddlings in Richard Lindzen’s statement is astounding.

Tags Climate Change, Climate Science, denial, denier, sceptic, skeptic

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Untidy Minds #8 : SuperFreakonomics

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Post date December 6, 2009
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[ Tongue-in-cheek note for sedate and aesthetic viewers : apologies for the excruciatingly brash, unappealing and over-complex nature of the video above and the nasal twangs and high-pitched, high-speed ranting of the speakers in the above presentation. They’re Americans. You need to forgive them. ]

Those who laughed and joked with Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner over the Freakonomics investigations may well have cause to blanche and run away screaming at their latest tome, Superfreakonomics.

Tags Climate Change, denial, denier, sceptic, skeptic

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Ed Miliband Raises His Game

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Post date December 6, 2009
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As the last week of Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband naysaying the Climate Change deniers does not seem to have had much impact on turning around the great ship of democratically expressed scepticism on Global Warming, Ed Miliband has turned to Public Relations on telly.

Tags Climate Change, Climate Change Science, denial, denier, sceptic, skeptic

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Untidy Minds #7 : Ian Plimer

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Post date December 6, 2009
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Who do you trust ? Professor Ian Plimer or 100 years of science ? I know what my money’s on, and it isn’t the Australian geologist with mining interests.

That doesn’t stop British journalists going with Professor Plimer. They are sorely in need of some decent education, in my view. Unless they’re going with a sensational story to get revenue. In which case they still need a decent education in the history of Climate Change scepticism and denial, so they know how divisive it is amongst the population. Publishing Climate Change denial makes the Media seem irresponsible, from my viewpoint.

I want to touch on just a snippet from a recent Daily Express article in order to demonstrate my resistance to Ian Plimer :-

https://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/143573

Tags Climate Change, denial, denier, sceptic, skeptic

Bait & Switch Climate Change Media Public Relations

Untidy Minds #6 : Mike Hulme ?

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Post date December 6, 2009
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Professor Mike Hulme has been the science chap the BBC nearly always call, of late, when they want to inject an alternate view into a piece on Climate Change.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6115644.stm
“Chaotic world of climate truth” Viewpoint by Mike Hulme, 4 November 2006

The author of the book “Why We Disagree About Climate Change” has been bravely trying to reframe Climate Change, not as a problem of science, but a problem of society. To some extent, I regard his work as useful. On the other hand, I find some of his work a mind trap.

Tags AGW, Anthropogenic Global Warming, Climate Change, Climate Change Science, Climate Science, denial, denier, Global Warming, Global Warming Science, Global Warming Theory, Man-made Global Warming, Manmade Global Warming, sceptic, Science, skeptic

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Untidy Minds #4 : David Davis

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Post date December 4, 2009
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Congratulations go to David Davis, who appears to have singlehandedly found the way to split the British Conservative Party for good, by coming out as a Climate Change sceptic, and thereby effectively challenging David Cameron for the leadership (which Davis will lose, like he did the last time, I reckon) :-

https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/david-davis-why-this-ferocious-desire-to-impose-hairshirt-policies-1832213.html

He writes :-

“The row about whether global warming exists gets even more virulent. The case is not helped by the fact that the planet appears to have been cooling, not warming, in the last decade. Last week, the row was fuelled after a hacker revealed emails between the world’s leading climate scientists that seemed to show them conspiring to rig the figures to support their theories. So it is unsurprising that more than half the public no longer believe in global warming.”

Tags Climate Change, denial, denier, sceptic, skeptic

Climate Change

George Monbiot Slamdunks Sceptics

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Post date December 4, 2009
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Without forceful words or frenetic accusations, George Monbiot calmly and methodically shreds the Climate Change denier-sceptics in this snippet from RealNews.

Tags Climate Change, denial, denier, sceptic, skeptic

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The Network of Factuality

Post author By Jo
Post date December 4, 2009
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Visualizing the East Anglia Climate Research Unit Leaked Email Network from Michael J Bommarito II on Vimeo.

I found this vimeo video on a webpage describing a Climate Change sceptic’s attempts to get data from NASA using Freedom of Information requests :-

https://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m12d3-NASA-may-be-Americas-CRU

Tags Climate Change, Climate Change Science, Climategate, Climatic Research Unit, CRU, Global Warming, Global Warming Science, Michael Mann, NASA, Penn State, UEA, University of East Anglia

Climate Change

Doomwatchers

If you want to see a simple visual representation of how bad the future is, keep your eyes on the Climate Scoreboard. And weep :-

https://climateinteractive.org/scoreboard

And watch the video. And wail :-

https://climateinteractive.org/scoreboard/download-and-info/scoreboard-video-1/scoreboard-video

Tags Climate Apocalypse, Climate Catastrophe, Climate Change, Climate Disaster, Climate Doom, Climate Hell, Climate Negotiations

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Untidy Minds #3 : Janet Daley

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Post date December 3, 2009
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We’ve had Oxbridge Classics and Language graduates denying Global Warming in the Press in the last couple of weeks; now we’re on to the political commentators.

Why Global Warming Science is a matter for adversarial politics, you know Left and Right, liberal and conservative, I don’t know.

Global Climate Change is affecting us all, and pretty much the same steps will need to be taken by whichever party is in power, in whichever country. It doesn’t really have a political flavour. It’s not a matter of choice, or choice of policy. Climate Change policy is not based on political ideology.

Tags Climate Change, denial, denier, Global Warming, Journalist, sceptic, skeptic

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Show Us Your Emails

Now, I believe in fairness, fair play and being a good sort, a good sport.

And so for that reason, I’ve been toying with the idea of suggesting that if you’ve been in email contact with a Climate Change denier, and you think the information exchanged would be interesting to others, to post that email correspondence here in a comment.

Truth is, I’m intrigued to know what Climate Change deniers (or “sceptics”) say to each other in private correspondence, and how it is that they have managed to coordinate over the “Climategate” affair when they are in different countries. I’m guessing it’s all been done by email, of course, so I would be interested to read what they’ve been saying to each other.

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Untidy Minds #2 : Melanie Phillips

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Post date November 29, 2009
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Melanie Phillips is a journalist with an Oxford education in the English language, according to Wikipedia :-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie_Phillips

She is also a Global Warming denier. I use the word “denier” literally, not emotively, because she denies the facts on Global Warming. If she were to express doubt about Climate Change science, then there would be some wiggle room to allow calling her a “sceptic”. But as it is, she denies it. Outright. Watch, and be amazed ! :-

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/8382037.stm

Tags Climate Change, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, denial, denier, sceptic, skeptic

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White Supremacist’s Revenge

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Post date November 29, 2009
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Super-double irony : Nick Griffin, the anti-immigration right-wing nationalist is going to the Copenhagen Climate Talks as a representative of the European Union, where, no doubt, he will probably attempt to exact a white supremacist’s revenge – throwing whatever spanners (wrenches) he can in the works to stop a global deal to protect the poor and vulnerable from Climate Change :-

https://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/29/nick-griffin-bnp-copenhagen-summit

“…Griffin, who was elected to the European parliament in June, confirmed last night that he would attend as the representative of the parliament’s environmental committee. World leaders, including Barack Obama and Gordon Brown, are hoping to forge a new global agreement to curtail greenhouse gas emissions. Without such a deal, scientists warn that world temperatures will increase by more than 2C by the end of the century, triggering ice cap melting, sea-level rises, widespread flooding, the spread of deserts and devastating storms. In a speech in the parliament last week, Griffin denounced those who warn of the consequences of climate change as “cranks”. He said they had reached “an Orwellian consensus” that was “based not on scientific agreement, but on bullying, censorship and fraudulent statistics. The anti-western intellectual cranks of the left suffered a collective breakdown when communism collapsed. Climate change is their new theology… But the heretics will have a voice in Copenhagen and the truth will out. Climate change is being used to impose an anti-human utopia as deadly as anything conceived by Stalin or Mao.” Griffin will be one of 15 representatives chosen to speak on behalf of the EU in Copenhagen…”

I agree with inclusion and tolerance, but this is a step too far ! Griffin’s agenda and purpose seems to consist entirely of exclusion, intolerance, might-is-right, anti-science and inequality. I don’t know how he can represent the European Union in any way…He might as well wear a Ku Klux Klan outfit for all the anti-democratic flames he carries around inside him.

I doth protest.

Tags Climate Change, denial, denier, fascism, nationalism, sceptic, skeptic, white supremacist

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Untidy Minds #1 : Richard Lindzen

Post author By Jo
Post date November 29, 2009
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I must admit : even though I try to read widely, there are some things I miss. I’ve just become aware of a research paper that was published in Geophysical Research Letters in August 2009 :-

https://www.drroyspencer.com/Lindzen-and-Choi-GRL-2009.pdf

Tags Climate Change Science, denial, denier, sceptic, skeptic

Climate Change

What Do I Know ?

Image Credit : David Archer

There’s been a spate of general ignorance in parts of the Press of late – people pleading the Fifth Amendment – claiming they don’t know enough about Global Warming, so they can’t possibly be expected to utter expertise or erudite commentary (which could get them into deep water). And yet they end up making a judgment anyway, or quoting Climate Change deniers without checking their facts. Here’s a few snippets :-

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/columnists/article-1231024/STEPHEN-GLOVER-I-know-truth-climate-change-I-recognise-trickery-slippery-excuses-I-them.html

“…My own response is to assume both sides are capable of twisting the facts. This is not based on scientific knowledge of climate change, since like almost everyone else I don’t have any…”