Judith Curry: ‘If the discrepancy between climate model projections and observations continues to grow, will the gig be up in terms of the huge amounts of funding spent on general circulation/earth system models?’
…A vote for McAuliffe for VA Gov. is a vote for Michael Mann’s research! Terry McAuliffe claims: ‘If you don’t show up & have your vote counted, the people who want to stop Michael Mann’s research will prevail.’
…From the Left: ‘The Keystone Fight Is a Huge Environmentalist Mistake’ – Warmist admits: ‘The whole crusade increasingly looks like a bizarre misallocation of political attention’ – McKibben & Hansen blamed!
Excerpts From Jonathan Chait’s NY Mag article: “To an increasingly disillusioned environmental movement,” environmental activist Bill McKibben writes in the Huffington Post, “Keystone looks like a last chance.” It may be a last chance for the movement McKibben has helped lead — he has spent several years organizing activists to single-mindedly fight against approval of the Keystone pipeline — but Keystone is at best marginally relevant to the cause of stopping global warming.
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Hansen’s dire warning about Canada’s unconventional oil deposits was based on the assumption that every ounce of oil in the sands would be burned. (Only a small fraction of the total estimated reserves is recoverable, and doing so will take decades.)
Oh! So developing the Canadian tar sands isn’t Game Over, or anything close to Game Over? While framed in the story as a minor detail, this seems like an enormously damning fact.…
Actual USA Today Headline: ‘Save polar bears one electric car at a time’ – Climate Depot Response: ‘We have truly reverted back to medieval witchcraft’
…Prince Charles: Environmental problems were ‘significant’ factor in Syrian war
…In a humiliating climb-down, the French government ‘suspended indefinitely’ a green tax on heavy goods vehicles following violent protests against ‘ecotax’
The unpopular “ecotax”, aimed at encouraging environmentally-friendly commercial transport, was designed to impose new levies on French and foreign vehicles transporting commercial goods weighing over 3.5 tonnes.
Critics in Brittany said the tax would seriously damage the region’s precarious farming and food sectors by increasing transportation costs, driving companies out of business and leading to major job losses.…
1 Year Later: Media Link Climate Change, Sandy Every Single Time
…Berkeley Climate Scientist Jane Long: IPCC Predictions ‘Getting Worse’ – HuffPost Live concedes climate forecast flaws, but laments truth will hurt climate change alarmism
…Gore in WSJ: ‘The Coming Carbon Asset Bubble’- ‘Fossil-fuel investments are destined to lose their economic value. Investors need to adjust now’
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304655104579163663464339836…
Investor rebuts: ‘3 Reasons You Shouldn’t Take Investing Tips From Al Gore’ – ‘My advice to investors is to look elsewhere for guidance’
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/10/20/3-reasons-you-shouldnt-take-investing-tips-from-al.aspx…