Update: Calif. Senate backs away from bill criminalizing climate change doubt
The California Senate won’t take up a bill that would make it illegal for businesses to not believe in climate change.
Senate Bill 1161 would turn not believing in climate change into an unfair business practice in California and would extend the statute of limitations on the charge. The bill has been criticized as being anti-free speech.
Democratic State Sen. James Monning took the bill off the Senate floor on Wednesday. The bill had passed both the state Senate’s environmental and judiciary committees and can be reconsidered at a later date.
State Sen. Ben Allen, a Democrat, introduced the bill after reading reports in the Los Angeles Times and Inside Climate News about Exxon Mobil’s alleged coverup of climate science dating to the 1970s.…
‘Billions of dollars’: John Kerry Tells Kids ‘Your Parents’ Money’ Pays For Global Warming Schemes
John Kerry Tells Kids ‘Your Parents’ Money’ Pays For Global Warming Schemes
‘Billions of dollars’
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Mark Steyn files to push Mann trial forward
Mark Steyn files to push Mann trial forward
http://joannenova.com.au/2016/06/mark-steyn-files-to-push-mann-trial-forward/
The process is the punishment. Agents of the Big-government Blob have access to a bottomless pit of lawyers. They can not only afford endless trials, for them it’s an advantage. Drag it out, wear opponents down, exhaust their coffers. And while the case is ever-pending and never-ending it’s already a win for the accuser — silencing critics, and endorsing celebrity “victim-status”. When the defendants witnesses are older and wiser, there’s another dark advantage too — vale Bob Carter. What they cannot afford though is discovery. So they can’t afford to sue a guy like Mark Steyn. This is about free speech and accountability of publicly funded scientists. Steyn could use your help. See also The criminalization of dissent. As Steyn says: “It is particularly absurd that an interlocutory ruling on a piece of legislation intended to expedite cases has now taken over two years and counting.” What is Mann hiding? – Jo Mark Steyn Files For Expedited Hearing in Mann v. Steyn, et al Washington, DC — Today, Mark Steyn requested that the Superior Court of the District of Columbia expedite the hearing and lift the […]Rating: 0.0/10 (0 votes cast)
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Al Gore Travels To China To Teach Citizens How To Fear Global Warming
Al Gore Travels To China To Teach Citizens How To Fear Global Warming
‘Our goal is to build upon the global consensus on climate change re-affirmed by the Paris Agreement’
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Liberal climate-change doc ‘Time To Choose’ is full of ridiculous claims
http://nypost.com/2016/06/02/liberal-climate-change-doc-time-to-choose-is-full-of-ridiculous-claims/…
California May Outlaw Free Speech on Climate Change
OMG! California May Outlaw Free Speech on Climate Change
http://lidblog.com/omg-california-to-outlaw-free-speech-on-climate-change/
California is considering a bill to outlaw free speech by climate skeptics. It’s called the “California Climate Science Truth and Accountability Act of 2016” According to the California Senate: This bill would retroactively extend the statute of limitation to 30 years for claims brought under the Unfair Competition Law alleging unfair competition with respect to scientific evidence regarding the existence, extent, or current or future impacts of anthropogenic induced climate change. The retroactive statute of limitation created by this bill would apply only to claims brought by specified public prosecutors. The explanation behind the bill makes it seem to be a way to target oil companies, as the examples it uses include: A few weeks before seminal climate change talks in Kyoto back in 1997, Mobil Oil took out a bluntly worded advertisement in the New York Times and Washington Post. “Let’s face it: The science of climate change is too uncertain to mandate a plan of action that could plunge economies into turmoil,” the ad said. “Scientists cannot predict with certainty if temperatures will increase, by how much and where changes will occur.” Their problem with that advertisement is that at the same time they were casting doubts on climate change, they were also investigating whether it is true. One year earlier, though, engineers at Mobil Oil were concerned enough about climate change to design and build a collection of exploration and production facilities along the Nova Scotia coast that made structural allowances for rising temperatures and sea levels. (Amy Lieberman and Susanne Rust, Big Oil Braced for Global Warming While it Fought Regulations, Los Angeles Times, Dec. 31, 2015. Let’s examine their claims for a moment. First of all, any corporate management that doesn’t constantly evaluate threats and opportunities is ignoring it’s responsibility and should be fired for malfeasance. The Mobile Oil research described above was exactly that type of effort. As to the ad mentioned by the California senate, Mobile Oil was entirely correct when it said, “Scientists cannot predict with certainty if temperatures will increase, by how much and where changes will occur.” Let’s look at some examples: In 2008 Al Gore predicted in front of a German audience that the “North Polar Ice Cap would be completely ice free in five years” and that “the entire North ‘polarized’ cap will disappear in 5 years.” It’s …
Wisconsin schools make kids create ‘climate-change raps’
…http://isthmus.com/music/middle-schoolers-climate-change-rap/
Another benefit of climate change? NASA says the Arctic is ‘greening’
Another benefit of climate change? NASA says the Arctic is ‘greening’
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/06/03/another-benefit-of-climate-change-the-arctic-is-greening/
NASA studies details of a greening Arctic From the NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER The northern reaches of North America are getting greener, according to a NASA study that provides the most detailed look yet at plant life across Alaska and Canada. In a changing climate, almost a third of the land cover – much of…
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2015 Updated NOAA Tide Gauge Data Shows No Coastal Sea Level Rise Acceleration
2015 Updated NOAA Tide Gauge Data Shows No Coastal Sea Level Rise Acceleration
Guest essay by Larry Hamlin NOAA has updated its extensive U.S. coastal tide gauge data measurement records (http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_us.htm) to include data through year 2015. These measurements include tide gauge data coastal locations for 25 West Coast, Gulf Coast and East Coast states along the Pacific Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean. In addition 7 … … Continue reading →
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The sea levels are now reducing in the “hotspots of acceleration” of Washington and New York
The sea levels are now reducing in the “hotspots of acceleration” of Washington and New York
Guest essay by Giordano Bruno Hopefully everybody remember Sallenger’s “hot spots” of sea level acceleration along the East Coast of the US. Asbury H. Sallenger Jr, Kara S. Doran & Peter A. Howd, Hotspot of accelerated sea-level rise on the Atlantic coast of North America, Nature Climate Change 2, 884–888 (2012), doi:10.1038/nclimate1597 This was one…
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