Facing Severe Drought, Nicaragua Urges Eating More Iguanas
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/facing-severe-drought-nicaragua-urges-eating-more-iguanas-n198076…
Bristol Mass. DA: It’s OK To Break The Law As Long As You Believe In Global Warming
Bristol Mass. DA: It’s OK To Break The Law As Long As You Believe In Global Warming
In Bristol Massachusetts it is OK to break the law, that is the message district attorney Sam Sutter gave to the public dropped criminal charges Monday against a pair of fishermen who used their lobster boat last year to block a 40,000 ton shipment of coal heading for the Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset, Massachusetts. You see Sutter is a big believer in the global warming hypothesis. That’s what he said when he announced the deal.The decision that Robert Kidd and I—that’s the assistant district attorney who handled this case—reached today was a decision that certainly took into consideration the cost to the taxpayers in Somerset, but was made with our concern for their children, the children of Bristol County and beyond, in mind. Climate change is one of the gravest crises our planet has ever faced. In my humble opinion, the political leadership on this issue has been gravely lacking. I am heartened that we were able to forge an agreement that both parties were pleased with and that appeared to satisfy the police and those here in sympathy with the individuals who were charged. I am also extremely pleased that we were able to reach an agreement that symbolizes our commitment at the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office to take a leadership role on this issue.The two criminals will have to pay $2,000 to cover expenses incurred by Somerset police. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss a conspiracy charge and reduced three other charges to civil offenses. Ward and O’Hara were arrested after they used Ward’s anchored lobster boat to block a delivery of an estimated 40,000 tons of coal to the Brayton Point Power Station in Somerset in 2013. In statements released through the advocacy group Better Future Project, the men said they were pleased Sutter acknowledged the seriousness of the issue. ”The climate crisis is so terrible and so fast that it overwhelms ordinary political avenues,” Ward said. O’Hara said, ”The truth is that taking these sorts of actions is necessary in light of the drastic news that continues to be described by the science.” The only recent dramatic news about global warming is that it is now 17 years and 11 months since the earth warmed–well, that and the dramatic growth of the polar ice caps.I wonder what …
Lukewarm wildfire season throws damper on climate-change predictions
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/7/lukewarm-wildfire-season-throws-damper-on-climate-/…
Prosecutor’s climate zeal leads him to drop charges against climate criminals: Warmist prosecutor calls AGW ‘one of the greatest crises our planet faces’
New get out of jail free card & excuse: Climate change
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2014/09/new-get-out-of-jail-free-card-excuse.html
Climate of Corruption
A prosecutor’s zeal leads him to lenience.By JAMES TARANTO
September 9, 2014 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, Best of the WebIt was an obnoxious, futile and costly gesture, and it was also illegal. Global-warmist fanatics Ken Ward and Jay O’Hara “faced up to two years in jail for attaching a 200-pound anchor to their keel to block the path of [a] coal ship in May 2013,” the Boston Globe reports. The ship was to deliver fuel to the Brayton Point power plant in Somerset, Mass. Their small craft, the Henry David T., carries a banner with the hashtag #coalisstupid.At their trial, scheduled to begin yesterday, they had planned to invoke a “necessity defense.” That is, they sought to avoid culpability by blaming global warming [of zero degrees over past 18-26 years]. They “would have called a number of high-profile witnesses, including NASA climate scientist Jim Hansen and environmental activist and author Bill McKibben.”But we’ll never know if such an appeal to authority would have convinced a jury, for as the Globe reports, the case led to a breakdown in authority in the local prosecutor’s office. “Bristol District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter knew the law,” the Globe notes. “He also understood the threats [purportedly] posed by climate change. So for days he grappled with what to do. . . . Just as the trial was about to begin Monday, Sutter decided to drop all charges.”
Samuel Sutter Associated PressIt gets worse: “Then, in a dramatic appearance at Fall River District Court, he said he empathized with the stance of [the defendants]. . . . ‘Because of my sympathy with their position, I was in a dilemma,’ Sutter said afterward. ‘I have a duty to go forward to some extent with this case and to follow the applicable case law, but they were looking for a forum to present their very compelling case about climate change.’ He added: ‘I do believe they’re right, that we’re at a crisis point with climate change.’ “Sutter dropped all charges and required only that the defendants pay $4,000 in restitution. The Globe piece is accompanied by a photo of Sutter waving around a McKibben article, apparently from the antediluvian magazine Rolling Stone.The Globe raises the possibility that “the abrupt decision, which pleased environmental activists around the country, was meant to help him …
‘Gore Effect’ Set to Strike Largest Ever Global Warming March!? The People’s ‘Frozen’ Climate March Sept. 21 in NYC
Via Climatologist Dr. Roy Spencer: http://www.drroyspencer.com/2014/09/sept-21-nyc-the-peoples-frozen-climate-march/
Sept. 21, NYC: The People’s Frozen Climate March?
September 9th, 2014 by Roy W. Spencer, Ph. D.
It seems more than appropriate that the Gore Effect might be in full swing in NYC on Sept. 21 when climate hand-wringers from around the country gather to protest the world being maybe a full degree warmer than it was 100 years ago.
The latest Climate Forecast System forecast for the 10-day period around that blessed event (12 days from now) shows the eastern U.S. pretty dang chilly, with temperatures averaging 8-10 deg. below normal (Plot courtesy of WeatherBell.com):
Of course, now that cold weather is also the fault of global warming the participants can complain about that, too.
Background on People’s Climate march:
Claim: ‘People’s Climate March’ represents the biggest expansion of the climate movement so far’
#
Background on ‘Gore Effect’:
Man Unicycles Across Canada for Global Warming During Record-Breaking Cool Summer
British Antarctic Survey trapped without power during record cold -55.4° C
Al Gore’s climate-changers at EPA hearings foiled by cool temperatures
EPA forced to move climate hearings on coal plant restrictions due to ‘large scale power outage’ – EPA’s own version of ‘Gore Effect’?
The National Weather Service conditions for Washington DC sa of 9:52 PM EST:
Obama: ‘But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact. And when our children’s children
German Scientists Ridicule New York Climate Conference As Major World Leaders Decline To Show Up
German Scientists Ridicule New York Climate Conference As Major World Leaders Decline To Show Up
German scientists Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning ridicule the New York climate conference nobody is going to. Enjoy!
====================================
Imagine there’s a climate conference, but no one goes
By Sebastian Lüning and Fritz Vahrenholt
(Translated, edited by P Gosselin)
Imagine there’s a climate conference, but no one goes. Already months ago South Korean UN General Secretary Ban Ki-moon busily sent out invitations to world leaders, kindly requesting them to appear at the Climate Change Special Conference in New York on 23 September 2014. The aim of the conference is to agree on concrete actions for a CO2 reduced world in order to curb a menacing climate catastrophe. At the German Huffington Post Ban Ki-moon set forth his underlying motivation for September 2014 conference(translated from the German):
I have travelled the world in order to see the impacts with my own eyes. From the Arctic to the Antarctic, from low-lying islands of the Pacuífic, which are threatened by rising sea levels, to the melting glaciers of Greenland, the Andes and the Alps. I have seen expanding deserts in Mongolia and in the Sahel Zone, and threatened rainforests in Brazil. Everywhere I have spoken with the affected people who are deeply worried about the threat to their way of life and their future because of climate change.”
Dear Mr General Secretary: If you really wish to cut back on CO2 emissions, then you should NOT jet around the globe in your UN jet to supposedly see climate change with your own eyes. Perhaps you have heard that the Pacific Atolls are living corals that are growing along with sea level rise. The glaciers already melted before, 1000 years ago during the Medieval Warm Period when it was as warm as today. Currently the Sahel desert regions are not expanding as you claim, rather they are becoming greener. Moreover the rainforests of Brazil are threatened foremost by deforestation thanks to palm oil and biofuels. That is something to be really worried about, and not about climate change.
As opposed to the UN General Secretary, many world leaders have obviously realized that the science is overheated. An increasing number of scientists are distancing themselves explicitly from the catastrophe mindset. After 16 years of no global warming, the basis for trust between policymaking and the IPCC scientists is sustainably …
Poll: Voters skeptical of Obama’s energy agenda
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/217070-poll-voters-skeptical-of-feds-energy-agenda…
WSJ: Matt Ridley Replies to His Climate-Change Critics, cleans up the intellectual mess
WSJ: Matt Ridley Replies to His Climate-Change Critics, cleans up the intellectual mess
http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2014/09/wsj-matt-ridley-replies-to-his-climate.html
Matt Ridley Replies to His Climate-Change Critics
Jeffrey Sachs blows a gasket, and our contributor cleans up the intellectual mess.Sept. 9, 2014 9:56 a.m. ET THE WALL STREET JOURNALEditor’s note: Matt Ridley’s Sept. 4 op-ed, “Whatever Happened to Global Warming?,” stirred a strong response, not least among the enforcers of climate-change orthodoxy. Here is Mr. Ridley’s reply to his critics, adapted from his blog:Post-script. After the article was published, an astonishing tweet was sent by the prominent economist Jeffrey Sachs saying:”Ridley climate ignorance in WSJ today is part of compulsive lying of Murdoch media gang. Ridley totally misrepresents the science.”Curious to know how I had lied or “totally misrepresented” the science, I asked Sachs to explain. There was a deafening silence.There then appeared at the Huffington Post an article under Sachs’s name. Its style was quite unlike that of Sachs. The piece purported to—in a spin doctor’s words—expose:”The Wall Street Journal Parade of Climate Lies – @JeffDSachs destroys daft @mattwridley article in@WSJ”However, it does nothing of the sort. It’s all bluster and careful misdirection, and contradicts nothing in my article, let alone producing evidence of lies. The sheer inaccuracy of the riposte in its descriptions of what I said or what I think are breathtaking, as are its failure to address any of the issues I raise, let alone contradict them. I had respect for Jeffrey Sachs as a scholar before reading this. Here are some key passages:”Ridley’s “smoking gun” is a paper last week in Science Magazine by two scientists Xianyao Chen and Ka-Kit Tung . . .”Notice the quote marks around “smoking gun,” implying that I used the phrase. I did not. In any case, the Chen and Tung paper was only one of the pieces of evidence I cited.”. . . which Ridley somehow believes refutes all previous climate science.”I said nothing of the sort and I believe nothing of the sort. Chen and Tung is about currents in the Atlantic, not about “all climate science”!”The Wall Street Journal editors don’t give a hoot about the nonsense they publish if it serves their cause of fighting measures to limit human-induced climate change. If they had simply gone online to read the actual paper, they would have found that the paper’s conclusions are the very opposite of Ridley’s.”In his writing the real Mr. Sachs …
‘Oregon Comes Closer to Recognizing Animal Personhood’
http://www.ecorazzi.com/2014/09/08/oregon-comes-closer-to-recognizing-animal-personhood/…
Flashback 1919: Scientists Knew droughts and floods occur at regular intervals – ‘How Did Scientists Lose So Much Knowledge In less Than A Century?’
How Did Scientists Lose So Much Knowledge In less Than A Century?
A century ago, scientists understood that drought and flood occurred in regular cycles. That was before they were paid as propagandists. 10 Jun 1919 – PERIODICITY OF DROUGHT. SOME REMARKABLE FIGURES.…