Report: Obama Group Gets Zero Attendance for DC Climate Change Rally: ‘ Not a single person showed up at the Georgetown waterfront Tuesday for a climate change agenda event put on by Organizing for Action’

OFA Gets Zero Attendance for Climate Change Rally | Washington Free Beacon

http://freebeacon.com/ofa-gets-zero-attendance-for-climate-change-rally/

Not a single person showed up at the Georgetown waterfront Tuesday for a climate change agenda event put on by Organizing for Action, the shadowy nonprofit advocacy group born out of President Obama’s 2012 campaign, the NRCC wrote in its blog.

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http://freebeacon.com/ofa-gets-zero-attendance-for-climate-change-rally/

Russian TV Warming up to warming? ‘RT is the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel. RT’s Oksana Boyko asks: Global warming or global sham? Real emergency or conspiracy to hike taxes?’

Warming up to warming?

http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2013/08/warming-up-to-warming.html

RT is the first Russian 24/7 English-language news channel. RT’s Oksana Boyko asks: Global warming or global sham? Real emergency or conspiracy to hike taxes? Lord Christopher Monckton joins Oksana to untangle the politics behind climate science.Monckton: “It is very clear that, when the Berlin wall came down, the extreme communist or Marxist factions had to find somewhere alse to go to do the damage to the West that they wanted to do; and they found that in the environmental movement.…

Polar bear expert debunks dead polar bear claims: ‘Ian Stirling’s howler update: contradicted by scientific data’: ‘Winter/spring ice conditions in 2013 did not result in an unusual number of bears in poor body condition compared to previous years, back to 1993’

Ian Stirling’s howler update: contradicted by scientific data

http://polarbearscience.com/2013/08/11/ian-stirlings-howler-update-contradicted-by-scientific-data

Following up on my last post (Ian Stirling’s latest howler: “the polar bear who died of climate change”), I tracked down some details contained in the original Norwegian news report but which were left out of the articles that spread the story around the world. I also found some pertinent research posted online that appears to be the work of the researchers who captured this bear in April.
Figure 1. The Norwegian newspaper, The Local (Aug. 7, 2013), says the bear was found on “a small island near Texas Bar” (marked by the square on the above map) in the very north of Spitsbergen, and states it was found on July 7 – details other reports did not bother to include. [“Texas Bar” is a hut built by a Norwegian hunter in 1927]. To have been 250km south of that position in April (when he was tagged), he must have left the ice near the southern tip of Spitsbergen when there was still lots of ice further north.

Further details on the dead bear
The Norwegian newspaper, The Local (Aug. 7, 2013), included the following (which, among other things, explains why necropsy results were not given):
“[Ashley] Cooper, who runs the agency Global Warming Images, said that the eco-tourism expedition he was with,  accompanied by renowned polar bear expert Dr Ian Stirling, had travelled [sic] deep into the Arctic before it found ice. 
“We had to push up until 550 miles from the North Pole before we found any sea ice, which was kind of rotten. It was very patchy and broken up and thin, only just about holding the weight of a polar bear.” 
The bear, a 16-year-old male, was found on a small island near Texas Bar. When it was tagged in April in southern Svalbard, some 250 kilometres from where it was found, it had been in a healthy condition. 
Dr Ian Stirling, who works as an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta, told The Local that this spring’s record low levels of sea ice were the most likely reason for the bear’s death. 
“The bear was extremely thin, no apparent fat at all, and based on all these pieces of information, I thought the most likely cause of death was starvation.”
Stirling stressed however that as he was not able to handle the carcass or take …

NASA Apollo Astronaut Walter Cunningham says trust in NASA and science has been abused

NASA Apollo Astronaut Walter Cunningham says trust in NASA and science has been abused

http://joannenova.com.au/2013/08/nasa-apollo-astronaut-walter-cunningham-laments-nasa-and-science/

Donn F. Eisele, Walter M. Schirra, Jr. and Walter Cunningham. Walter Cunningham is a fighter pilot and a physicist and was the Lunar Module pilot on the Apollo 7 mission. In a 263 hour mission in October 1968 the three astronauts covered four and a half million miles. Over forty years later, he describes how the public trust built by the astronauts and technical specialists who put man on the moon has been abused by opportunists. NASA and science has changed. … * * * Below are selected snippets of Larry Bell’s interview with Walter Cunningham: Those of us fortunate enough to have traveled in space bet our lives on the competence, dedication, and integrity of the science and technology professionals who made our missions possible…In the last twenty years, I have watched the high standards of science being violated by a few influential climate scientists, including some at NASA, while special interest opportunists have abused our public trust.” Many of NASA’s retirees have grown increasingly concerned that GISS, a NASA organization located in a midtown Manhattan office building, was allowing its science to be politicized, compromising their credibility. Our concern, beyond damage to the NASA’s exemplary […]Rating: 8.0/10 (2 votes cast)

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Skeptic Murry Salby responds to the attacks on his record: ‘Salby was sacked from Macquarie U., & Macquarie  struggled to explain why, among other things, it was necessary to abandon, and strand him in Paris and hold a ‘misconduct’ meeting in his absence’

Murry Salby responds to the attacks on his record

http://joannenova.com.au/2013/08/murry-salby-responds-to-the-attacks-on-his-record/

Murry Salby was sacked from Macquarie University, and Macquarie  struggled to explain why, among other things, it was necessary to abandon, and strand him in Paris and hold a “misconduct” meeting in his absence. Since then he has been subject to attacks related to his previous employment. I’ve asked him to respond, which he has at length in a PDF here. The figures listed below refer to that PDF, which encompasses 15 years of events. I don’t have the resources (unlike the  National Science Foundation, the NSF) to investigate it all, but wanted to give Murry the right of reply. On closer inspection the NSF report used by people to attack Salby does not appear to be the balanced, impartial analysis I would have expected. Indeed the hyperbolic language based on insubstantial evidence is disturbing to say the least. Because of the long detailed nature of this I cannot draw conclusions, except to say that any scientist who responds to a question about Murry Salby’s work with a reference to his employment is no scientist. Remember the NSF report was supposedly an inhouse private document. It was marked “Confidential”, subject to the Privacy Act, with disclosure outside the NSF prohibited […]Rating: 10.0/10 (1 vote cast)

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New Study: Modern Climate Alarms ‘Resemble Pre-Modern Ideas About Divine Punishment’ — Study ‘shows the striking similarities between late modern notions of anthropogenic climate change and pre-modern ideas about divine punishment’

New Study: Modern Climate Alarms ‘Resemble Pre-Modern Ideas About Divine Punishment’

http://www.thegwpf.org/study-modern-climate-alarms-resemble-pre-modern-ideas-divine-punishment/

The Swedish historian David Larsson Heidenblad has published a study in which he shows the striking similarities between late modern notions of anthropogenic climate change and pre-modern ideas about divine punishment.

Dr David Larsson Heidenblad
Department of History, Lund University, Sweden
Below are a few excerpts from the summary of Heidenblad’s interesting thesis “Our own fault“:
In the late autumn of 2006 the topic of climate change had its major breakthrough in Western media. The impending threat of global warming was transferred from the cultural sidelines to the newspapers headlines. Throughout the public sphere the same basic message was, almost unanimously, carried out: ”Humanity is in grave danger, and it is our own fault”. Everyday practices, such as driving and meat-eating, were depicted as direct causes to the crisis. Urgent calls were made for individuals to alter their energy-intensive lifestyles. 
The future of mankind depended on our everyday choices, on our moral behavior. From a historical standpoint neither the threat of climate change nor the urgent calls for individual change were new. Rather, they had been put forward in the public sphere since the late 1980s. But in the autumn of 2006 the calls were more frequent and the public at large was markedly more responsive. Climate change was no longer considered a green issue in the margins of high politics. It was increasingly becoming an everyday concern. From a cultural historian’s viewpoint the calls for individuals to alter their way of living in order to avoid future catastrophes is a distinctly familiar pattern. The theme was an ever-recurring feature of the pre-modern Judeo-Christian World where wars, famines, and epidemics were repeatedly depicted as God´s punishment for the sins of man.
According to this biblical explanatory model man was habitually seen as responsible for his own misfortunes. Calls for individuals to change their sinful ways and do penance was hence repeatedly decreed as a means to avoid future calamities. Divine punishments was, in much the same way as anthropogenic climate change, considered to be our own fault.
The striking similarities between the near present and the distant past begs the question if history is repeating itself. Have man throughout the ages continuously envisaged connections between collective moral behavior and looming disasters? Can these ideas be seen as a deeply entrenched cultural pattern in the Judeo-Christian World? Is the …

Video: GOP calif. Rep. Rohrabacher says global warming a ‘ total fraud’ to help ‘create global government’

Video: Rohrabacher says global warming a ‘fraud’ to help ‘create global government’

http://junkscience.com/2013/08/12/video-rohrabacher-says-global-warming-a-fraud-to-help-create-global-government

The Hill reports: Global warming is a “fraud” orchestrated by people with a far-reaching agenda to restrict personal freedom, according to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.). “Just so you’ll know, global warming is a total fraud,” the 13-term lawmaker told a Tea Party group Thursday. Rohrabacher said global warming has its origins with liberals at the […]…