Obama’s $3 billion for UN climate fund could ‘kickstart action on global warming’
Obama to pledge $3 billion of U.S. taxpayer money for new UN climate fund
http://www.ticotimes.net/2014/11/14/obama-to-pledge-3-billion-for-new-un-climate-change-fund…
Scientific American: ‘Greens Should Stop Claiming More Warming Means More War’
‘One chapter of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published this year, concludes on the basis of the work of Burke et al. that “the effect of climate change on conflict and insecurity has the potential to become a key risk.” But another chapter, written by different authors, examines a broader range of research and concludes that “collectively the research does not conclude that there is a strong positive relationship between warming and armed conflict.”anthropological research finds a weak linkage between resource scarcity and war.
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‘The research of Burke et al. has been critiqued by 26 researchers led by Halvard Buhaug of the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in Norway. In a new analysis in Climatic Change, Buhaug and his colleagues note that the research of Burke et al. “suffers from shortcomings with respect to sample selection and analytical coherence. A modified assessment that addresses some of these problems suggests that scientific research on climate and conflict to date has produced mixed and inconclusive results.” Buhaug’s group probes in detail one subset of the studies analyzed by Burke et al., involving conflicts between “organized non-state actors and state military forces.” Buhaug’s group found “no evidence of a convergence of findings on climate variability and civil conflict. Recent studies disagree not only on the magnitude of the impact of climate variability but also on the direction of the effect.”
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New documentary on the way: ‘Climate Hustle: The Global Warming Shakedown’
…Morano: Obama is saying ‘I don’t need no stinkin’ Congress’ – China ‘Committed to Nothing’ in Climate Deal
…New Book set to rock energy debate: ‘The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels’
…NYT’s Coral Davenport cites discredited Stanford pollster Jon Krosnick to claim Dems will win on climate issue
NYT environmental reporter Coral Davenport excerpt “In Climate Deal, Obama May Set a Theme for 2016.”:
But Democrats are increasingly emboldened by polls showing that in national elections, candidates who push climate change policies will win support from voters.
According to a 2013 poll by Stanford University, 73 percent of Americans believe that the earth has been warming over the past 100 years, while 81 percent of Americans think global warming poses a serious problem in the United States. In addition, 81 percent think the federal government should limit the amount of greenhouse gases that American businesses can emit.
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Climate Depot Rebuttal: Climate Poll Con Job: ‘When you don’t like the poll numbers, make up your own poll’ – Media Duped Again By Stanford U. Pollster Jon Krosnick’s Shoddy Agenda Driven Climate Polling
Krosnick Has Been Publicly Reprimanded for poor results and methods by both Gallup & Pew Research
Pew research in 2010 said ‘Krosnick’s [previous] survey is marred by faulty methodology. …used words that encouraged a positive response’
Even fellow global warming activists like UN IPCC’s Michael Oppenheimer acknowledged Krosnick’s Stanford polls tend to skew to more ‘believers’ in man-made global warming
Krosnick new 2013 poll relied in part on 2006 polling data to draw conclusions about 2013
Krosnick in 2013 relied in part ‘on self-completion of Internet questionnaires’
Krosnick’s previous surveys lumped the phrase ‘global warming’ in with ‘the environment’ despite the fact that global warming was the ‘lowest concern among all ENVIRONMENTAL issues’
New York Times’ Lead Story Exults About How ‘Climate Change’ May Win White House for Dems
…Watch Now: Alex Epstein’s ‘Moral Case for Fossil Fuels’ Official Book Trailer
…Study: ‘The US Will See 50‰ More Lightning Strikes, Thanks to Global Warming’
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/11/climate-change-means-more-lightning
Lightning strikes in the continental United States will increase roughly 12 percent for every degree Celsius of global warming, a study published today in Science finds. If warming continues unchecked, that could translate into a 50 percent increase in lightning by the end of the century—three strikes then for every two strikes now.…