Carbon Dioxide: The Gas of Life
Carbon Dioxide: The Gas of Life
http://www.cfact.org/2013/08/19/carbon-dioxide-the-gas-of-life/
In this special report, CFACT senior policy advisor Paul Driessen examines carbon dioxide and its many benefits. While global warming alarmists rail against it, carbon dioxide is actually the “gas of life,” without which life on earth would perish.…
The polar bear who died of old age
The polar bear who died of old age
http://iceagenow.info/2013/09/polar-bear-died-age/
But the Guardian calls him “The polar bear who died of climate change.”
Bull pucky.
A picture of a dead polar bear appeared in the The Guardian yesterday (6 Aug13). The photo was meant to wring your heart.
But did climate change kill him?
“The average life span of a polar bear in the wild is 15 to 18 years,” says reader Dan Angel. “This bear died at 16 years. Why is that news?”
Old bears die of starvation
“When adult polar bears die, it is almost always a death by starvation,’ says this article on polar bear science.com.
Stop lying to us! The polar bear population is thriving!
http://polarbearscience.com/2013/08/07/ian-stirlings-latest-howler-the-polar-bear-who-died-of-climate-change/
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Bjørn Lomborg: ‘There is No Bee Crisis’ — ‘Yes, honeybees are dying in above-average numbers, but the most likely cause is the varroa mite and associated viruses. Moreover, if you look at the actual numbers, they undermine much of the catastrophic rhetoric’
Bjørn Lomborg: ‘There is No Bee Crisis’
http://www.nationalreview.com/planet-gore/357439/bj-rn-lomborg-there-no-bee-crisis-greg-pollowitz
Shocker. There are “bee alarmists,” too. Lomborg writes:Contrary to what you may have heard, there is no “bee-pocalypse.” There is lots of alarmist talk about colony collapse disorder, people are blaming pesticides and talking about hundreds of billions of dollars at risk. But a closer look tells a very different story.Yes, honeybees are dying in above-average numbers, but the most likely cause is the varroa mite and associated viruses.Moreover, if you look at the actual numbers, they undermine much of the catastrophic rhetoric. In the United States, where we have good data, beekeepers have adapted to CCD. Colony numbers were Read More …
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Global Sea Ice Extent Anomaly Percent Mean For Year = +0.9%
Global Sea Ice Extent Anomaly Percent Mean For Year = +0.9%
Right now the mean for the year for Global Sea Ice Anomaly percent is +0.9% above the 1981-2010 mean.
The anomaly have been over +4% earlier in the year and is now almost -2%.
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WSJ Op-Ed: What changed the Australian political climate was climate change
WSJ Op-Ed: What changed the Australian political climate was climate change
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2013/09/wsj-op-ed-what-changed-australian.html
The Triumph of Tony Abbott
Once derided as unelectable, Mr. Abbott made his convictions into an asset.
By
TOM SWITZER
WSJ.COM 9/8/13: According to the conventional wisdom of just a few years ago, Tony Abbott should never have become prime minister of Australia. The doyens of the press gallery had marked him as a right-wing throwback to a bygone era.
After all, Mr. Abbott is skeptical about alarmist claims of man-made global warming. He is a former Catholic seminarian who opposes abortion and same-sex marriage. His gaffes—he recently said a female parliamentary candidate had “sex appeal”—have provided fodder for left-leaning satirists. He is an Anglophile, a former Oxford boxing blue and an unashamed constitutional monarchist who sides with America in the world.
European Pressphoto Agency
Tony Abbott takes a victory lap Sunday morning.
Yet for all his evident shortcomings, Mr. Abbott led his center-right Liberal-National coalition to a resounding victory at the weekend, handing the Australian Labor Party one of its biggest defeats. How did this political outcast win power down under? And is he a role model for conservatives around the world?
To understand the momentousness of this weekend’s election outcome, let’s recall how the Liberals wandered in the political wilderness after Kevin Rudd took power in 2007. The consensus then was that he would consign conservatives to opposition for a generation, much as American pundits predicted Barack Obama’s victory in 2008 would mark a liberal realignment of the U.S. political landscape.
In response, the Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull and other so-called moderates within the party jettisoned policies of the conservative era of Prime Minister John Howard from 1996 to 2007, believing the way forward was to ape the Rudd agenda. So they agreed to reverse pro-market labor laws that made it easier for business to hire and fire. Apologies and feel-good pronouncements were offered to indigenous Australians for past western sins. They grew more relaxed about illegal immigration and people-smuggling rackets that had virtually ended under Mr. Howard.
And crucially, the opposition’s leaders embraced the global warming agenda. As if to demonstrate the liberal Liberals’ fitness for government, they endorsed Mr. Rudd’s signature legislation, a cap-and-trade emissions trading scheme. The result was that the governing Labor party held commanding double-digit leads over its conservative opponents.
But Labor’s Indian summer came to an end, and what changed …
Reuters: Hurricane season a record-breaking dud? ‘May even enter the record books as marking the quietest start to any Atlantic hurricane season in decades’
…Twenty-Three Consecutive Months Of Above Normal Antarctic Sea Ice
Twenty-Three Consecutive Months Of Above Normal Antarctic Sea Ice
Every day for the last 23 months, Antarctic sea ice area has been above normal. It is currently 13,100 Manhattans above normal. To put this in perspective, alarmists got hysterical last year about a perfectly normal glacier calving in Greenland – which was 2 Manhattans in size. arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/timeseries.south.anom.1979-2008 Greenland Glacier Sheds Two Manhattans’ Worth of […]…