Flashback 1912: Snow was a thing of the past?! ‘If December passes without snow, we indignantly demand to know what has become of our good old-fashioned winters.’ – ‘Weather Is Like Government – Always Wrong’
…GOP Sen. John Barrasso: ‘The climate is constantly changing. The role human activity plays is not known.’
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/208431-gop-leader-climate-change-science-not-known…
U.S. Postal Service issues ‘global warming forever’ stamp?
U.S. Postal Service issues ‘global warming forever’ stamp?
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/06/05/postal-service-issues-global-warming-forever-stamp
This just in from the U.S.Postal service. (h/t to Marc Morano) In 2014, the U.S. Postal Service introduces Global: Sea Surface Temperatures, a new Forever® international rate stamp. Hmmm, not only is it an oddball stamp, being round, it isn’t even of actual sea surface temperatures, it’s a model output. That’s not a real El […]…
Homebuyers must factor in climate change, warns Australian watchdog: ‘Consumer and climate experts say extreme weather could raise insurance premiums and lower property values’
EPA’s Next Wave Of Job-Killing CO2 Regulations
http://www.cfact.org/2014/06/03/epas-next-wave-of-job-XLR killing-co2-regulations/…
Watch Now: Prof. Ross McKitrick on Obama EPA regs: The health claims ‘are groundless’ – ‘Carbon dioxide is not a factor in smog or lung issues’ – Rips Obama for deceptive language: ‘Instead of calling it carbon dioxide, we are just going to call it ‘carbon pollution’
…U.S. Commits to New UN Climate Treaty! U.S. signs onto Brussels G-7 Summit Declaration: ‘We affirm our strong determination to adopt in 2015 a global agreement – a new protocol’
Climate Change
10. Urgent and concrete action is needed to address climate change, as set out in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report. We therefore remain committed to low-carbon economies with a view to doing our part to limit effectively the increase in global temperature below 2°C above pre-industrial levels. We affirm our strong determination to adopt in 2015 a global agreement – a new protocol, another legal instrument or an agreed outcome with legal force under the convention applicable to all parties – that is ambitious, inclusive and reflects changing global circumstances. We will communicate our intended nationally determined contributions well in advance of the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris (by the first quarter of 2015 by those Parties ready to do so) and call on others to follow our lead. We welcome the Climate Summit of the United Nations Secretary General in September and his invitation to all Parties to prepare for ambitious contributions and to deliver concrete action to reduce emissions and strengthen resilience. We look forward to a successful Summit.
11. We reaffirm our support for the Copenhagen Accord commitments to mobilise USD 100 billion per year by 2020 from a wide variety of sources, both public and private, to address the climate mitigation and adaptation needs of developing countries in the context of their meaningful and transparent mitigation actions. We welcome the adoption of the Green Climate Fund’s operating rules and the decision to commence its initial resource mobilisation in the coming months. We remain committed to the elimination of inefficient fossil fuel subsidies and continued discussions in the OECD on how export credits can contribute to our common goal to address climate change. We will strengthen efforts to improve measurement, reporting, verification and accounting of emissions and improve the reporting of international climate finance flows, consistent with agreed decisions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. We will work together and with others to phase down the production and consumption of hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) under the Montreal Protocol. We will also continue to take action to promote the rapid deployment of climate-friendly and safe alternatives in motor vehicle air-conditioning and we will promote public procurement of climate-friendly HFC alternatives.…
Aussie Scientists Have ‘Deep Divisions’ On Global Warming: ‘Geological Society of Australia has once again been unsuccessful in publishing a position statement on global warming’
…Warmist Ezra Klein calls himself ‘a climate pessimist’: ‘I think we’re f@cked’ – ‘7 reasons America will fail on climate change’
…Prof. Ross McKitrick on Dr. Richard Tol’s reanalysis of 97% climate consensus claim: ‘Correcting for misclassification, 95% of papers are silent on the hypothesis’
Tol’s reanalysis of 97% consensus: “Correcting for misclassification, 95% of papers are silent on the hypothesis.”
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421514002821#
https://twitter.com/RossMcKitrick/status/474568185321373696…