The Naked Climate Change Emperor
…Analysis: Even the ‘lukewarmer’ position on global warming has become untenable on the basis of both observations & theory
…Unprecedented Arctic Sea Ice Growth Continues – Ice ‘extent highest for date since at least 2004’
Arctic sea ice continues to grow at record rates, with extent the highest for the date since at least 2004.
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Scientists Recycling The Identical Greenland Melt Scare From 75 Years Ago
Climate scientists are plagiarizing 75 year old scare stories for their latest alarmism.
Seventy five years ago, most of the glaciers in Northeast Greenland were on the verge of collapse. And scientists needed money to study it.
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31 May 1947 – Danger Seen In Mysterious Warning Of Arctic Climate
06 May 1940 – Greenland’s Climate Becoming Milder
‘Life on planet at stake’, France warns as climate ministers meet
France’s top diplomat, who will preside over a year-end Paris summit tasked with inking a climate rescue pact, warned Sunday of looming planetary “catastrophe” if negotiations fail.
“It is life on our planet itself which is at stake,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told journalists as ministers and climate envoys from 70 countries met for pre-summit talks to iron out tough political questions.
With the key UN conference just three weeks away, he also announced that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin would attend the November 30 opening.…
Dem Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse: ‘Civil RICO would only make Exxon & others tell the truth…the Constitution doesn’t protect fraud’
…‘Complex skeletons evolved earlier than realized, fossils suggest’ ~550 million years ago,when CO2 levels 15X higher
…Christians set out on climate ‘pilgrimage’ from London to Paris to support UN climate treaty
…CLIMATE COUNTDOWN: When’s a warming treaty not a treaty?
It’s the elephant in the negotiating room that few officials want to acknowledge: Whatever international deal comes out of Paris climate talks, it likely won’t be a treaty that needs ratification by a reluctant Republican U.S. Congress.
That’s not the only complication in Paris. China, the U.S. and India don’t want the international community dictating their carbon dioxide emissions, but they do want to do something about ever escalating greenhouse gas levels and the rising temperatures they cause. So they have to come up with an agreement that doesn’t dictate binding, internationally set targets or require U.S. Senate approval — and yet gets the job done. At least partly.
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Nigel Purvis, an international lawyer who was a top environmental diplomat and international negotiator for Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. It’s an issue of definitions and the way an agreement is framed, said Purvis, who is president of the non-governmental organization Climate Advisers.
The U.S. Constitution and the rest of the world have different definitions of the word “treaty,” Purvis said. Elsewhere, a treaty is a binding agreement. But in the U.S., there are several types of international agreements and only 6 percent of them end up being formal treaties that require Senate approval, he said. The last international, Senate-approved treaty was in 2010.
The climate treaty, Purvis said, is likely to end up as an “executive agreement” like the 1945 Yalta Accord at the end of World War II. This requires only presidential approval.
“If you can end World War II, I think you can do a climate agreement where the only obligation is to inform the international community what you are doing and demonstrate to them that you are doing it,” Purvis said.…