Watch Now: Fox News Channel features Climate Depot on Obama’s bypass of Congress on climate regs: Morano: ‘The Obama admin. is being strategically brilliant by doing this behind the scenes. They’re going to achieve everything that cap and trade, and UN treaties and even a carbon tax would achieve through the invisibility of federal regulations’
Complete Fox News Article here.
Fox News excerpts: ‘Marc Morano, a global warming skeptic and publisher of the website ClimateDepot.com, applauds the administration’s strategy, if not its purpose
“The Obama administration is being strategically brilliant by doing this behind the scenes,” he says. “They’re going to achieve everything that cap and trade, and UN treaties and even a carbon tax would achieve through the invisibility of federal regulations. ”
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Morano believes the statement smacks of intimidation. “”They’re saying if you’re a skeptic and you work for the administration, you better keep your mouth shut and not express your views.”
He also points out that the scientific method is based upon skepticism and continually challenging assumptions, not accepting them.
Morano’s website is a repository of global warming skepticism. He points to new studies from highly credentialed Russian skeptics, including scientists from Russia’s Pulkovo Observatory and Academy of Sciences, who are predicting,based upon a diminution of sunspot activity, a mini-ice age lasting up to 250 years.
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UN IPCC doubles down: 95% sure on AGW while unable to explain why there has been no warming over past 16 years
…The UN IPCC’s new certainty is 95% What? Not 97%?? — Reuters claims that 95% certainty ‘will steadily squeezing out the arguments by a small minority of scientists that natural variations in the climate might be to blame’
…Global Sea Ice Area Above Normal In 2013: ‘Averaging 1,600 Manhattans above normal in 2013’
…Reuters: New IPCC report is likely to ‘play down’ past claims that CO2 contributes to more droughts; also tones down claims that CO2 causes more intense tropical cyclones
Reuters: New IPCC report is likely to “play down” past claims that CO2 contributes to more droughts; also tones down claims that CO2 causes more intense tropical cyclones
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2013/08/reuters-new-ipcc-report-is-likely-to.html
Experts surer of manmade global warming but local predictions elusive – ReutersDrafts seen by Reuters of the study by the UN panel of experts, due to be published next month, say it is at least 95 percent likely that human activities – chiefly the burning of fossil fuels – are the main cause of warming since the 1950s. That is up from at least 90 percent in the last report in 2007, 66 percent in 2001, and just over 50 in 1995 [Were those number calculated, or just pulled out of some orifice?], steadily squeezing out the arguments by a small minority of scientists that natural variations in the climate might be to blame….And gauging how warming would affect nature, from crops to fish stocks, was also proving hard since it goes far beyond physics. “You can’t write an equation for a tree,” [Reto Knutti] said. …it is likely to play down some tentative findings from 2007, such as that human activities have contributed to more droughts. …Drew Shindell, a NASA climate scientist, said the relative lack of progress in regional predictions was the main disappointment of climate science since 2007. “I talk to people in regional power planning. …The report slightly tones down past tentative findings that more intense tropical cyclone are linked to human activities. Warmer air can contain more moisture, however, making downpours more likely in future. “There is widespread agreement among hurricane scientists that rainfall associated with hurricanes will increase noticeably with global warming,” said Kerry Emanuel, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “But measuring rainfall is very tricky,” he said.…
Landmark Legal Foundation Wins Discovery in EPA FOIA Case
Landmark Wins Discovery in EPA FOIA Case!August 14, 2013 |
Federal District Judge Royce C. Lamberth today ordered that Landmark may conduct discovery to determine the extent to which EPA made a good faith effort to search senior officials’ offices in response to Landmark’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for information relating to the possible politicizing of the Agency’s rulemaking process. Judge Lamberth’s order was accompanied by a denial of the EPA’s motion for summary judgment in the case.
More on Landmark Legal Foundation here.
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Sec of State John Kerry: Obama Will Act on Climate Change Without Congressional Approval
…‘Rare summer snowfall’: Snow already falling in China – in August!
Snow already falling in China – in August!
http://iceagenow.info/2013/08/snow-falling-china-august/
“Rare summer snowfall in Xinjiang,” reads the headline.
China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region witnessed a rare display of summer snowfall on Tuesday as a powerful cold air front moved into the area.
“… one netizen under the username “Chief of the Daolang Tribe” uploaded a group of photos taken near the Tieliemaiti Pass to his microblog account on August 13, saying that some rare summer snowfall occurred near the Duku section of National Highway 217.”
http://www.china.org.cn/environment/2013-08/15/content_29727296.htm
Thanks to Argiris Diamantis for this link
“Xinhua had the story, but deleted it,” says Argiris. “WHY ???”
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2013-08/15/c_132632946.htm
ECNS confirms the story:
http://www.ecns.cn/visual/hd/2013/08-15/23833.shtml
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Summer chill: Atlanta breaks century-old cold temperature record by 4 degrees!
Atlanta breaks a century-old temperature record – CBS Atlanta 46
http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/23151205/atlanta-breaks-a-century-old-temperature-record
Atlanta’s high temperature on Thursday was only 73 degrees which is the coolest high temperature on record for August 15th.
The previous record was a high of only 77 degrees from 1908.
The average high temperature for this time of year is 88 degrees, putting Thursday’s high 15 degrees below average.
Atlanta has seen a cooler-than-average summer due to a lot of rain. We’re about 15 inches above average on rainfall this year.…
‘AGW lies, Hiroshima and academics’.: ‘This is a disgraceful bit of misanthropy made nonsensical by the fact that the natural energy of the system on Earth is a million times greater than the energy produced by humans and that the energy produced by humans is incremental’
AGW lies, Hiroshima and academics.
http://theclimatescepticsparty.blogspot.com/2013/08/agw-lies-hiroshima-and-academics.html
AGW lies, Hiroshima and academics.by Anthony CoxThe comparison between the alleged destruction cause by (Anthropogenic Global Warming) AGW and the atomic bomb dropped at Hiroshima was first raised by professor of geology Mike Sandiford. Sandiford compares the human effect on the environment to the atomic bomb:To put these numbers into a more human context we need a new measure for our energy use. The “Hiro” is one. It is the equivalent to the energy released by detonating one Hiroshima “Little Boy” bomb every second. One Hiro equals 60 trillion watts. In these terms, our human energy system operates at a rate of 0.25 Hiros, or one Hiroshima bomb every four seconds. That is the equivalent of more than eight million Hiroshima bombs going off each year.This is a disgraceful bit of misanthropy made nonsensical by the fact that the natural energy of the system on Earth is a million times greater than the energy produced by humans and that the energy produced by humans is incremental. We don’t set off atomic bombs when we walk out the door; our energy is expended over time.Such is the insignificance of the energy impact of humans on the Earth’s system that if humanity were to disappear tomorrow all traces of our energy would be gone in a geological blink of an eye.However Sandiford’s insidious metaphor has been picked up by another academic with even less pretension to expertise in the field of AGW. This time the Ivory Tower has let loose one David Holmes, a lecturer in communications, whatever that is.Holmes outdoes Sandiford because now humanity is letting off FOUR Hiroshima atomic bombs every second. Not one but four!As a taxpayer are you getting annoyed yet?Holmes continues by saying all these Hiroshimas, Hiros for short, are going into the oceans which is accumulating heat or energy or Joules or something at the usual rate leading to the destruction of all life on Earth as we know it; in short the usual hysterical alarmism from AGW acolytes.Holmes’ article is the usual garbage tip of scary images and smokestacks billowing out black smoke. If these people were not causing witless governments of all persuasions to waste billions this would be hilarious. But they are causing the wastage of billions so hilarious this is not.To go through each and every one of the canards dribbled out by Holmes the communicator …