http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globalwarming/ en-us Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:05:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051144/posts The coldest summer ever? Right now the so-called summer of '08 is on pace to produce the fewest days ever recorded in which the temperature in Anchorage managed to reach 65 degrees. That unhappy record was set in 1970, when we only made it to the 65-degree mark ... 16 days out of 365. This year, however ... there have been only seven 65-degree days so far. ... MEASURING THE MISERY In terms of "coldest summer ever," however, a better measure might be the number of days Anchorage fails to even reach 60. There too, 2008 is a contender, having... Anchorage Daily News, ref from Neal Boortz web site http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051144/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:05:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2049859/posts For the second time ever, Green Parties from around the world gathered together for a decision-making Congress. The first Global Greens Congress took place in April 2001 in Canberra, Australia. This time, with 625 delegates and observers participating from 88 countries, the Second Congress took place May 1-4 in São Paulo, Brazil. In 2001, one of the key objectives of the Congress was to approve the first ever Global Greens Charter. In 2008, the political content was driven by the planetary need to respond to the ever-worsening global climate crisis. One of the reasons São Paulo was chosen as the... International Committee of the Green Party of the United States http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2049859/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:42:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051032/posts GPs should tell parents not to have more than two children to help in the battle against climate change, according to doctors. The world's population increases by 1.5m each week and babies born in the UK will use more greenhouse gases during their lifetime than those born in the developing world. Two doctors, writing in the British Medical Journal, suggest that doctors should talk to their patients about climate change and encourage them to think about the consequences of having a big family. Investing in contraception would help in the fight against climate change, they argue. (snip) "We must not... Telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051032/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:30:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051016/posts GEORGE Monbiot, The Guardian columnist and predictor of the world's end, has undergone a metamorphosis of Kafkaesque proportions in recent years. Some time during the past five years he went to bed a hysteric and awoke to find himself labelled a man of reason, a "defender of truth" no less, who is praised on the dust-jacket of his latest book for possessing a "dazzling command of science" (only by Naomi Klein, admittedly, but still). His metamorphosis from green-tinted despiser of all things modern to man with a "dazzling command of science" reveals a great deal about the politics of environmentalism... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051016/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:17:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050998/posts WASHINGTON -- The housing and financial crisis convulsing the U.S. is powering a new wave of government regulation of business and the economy. Federal and state governments alike are increasingly hands-on in their effort to deal with failing businesses, plunging house prices, worthless mortgages and soaring energy prices. The steps add up to a major challenge to the movement toward deregulation that has defined American governance for much of the past quarter-century since the "Reagan Revolution" of the early 1980s. ... The U.S. has swung back and forth from a hands-on to hands-off regulatory approach over the past 230 years.... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050998/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:06:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050965/posts Canberra: Audit figures have revealed that television advertising can produce a large amount of carbon dioxide. According to a report carried out in www.news.co.au, this fact was revealed by audit figures from pitch consultants TrinityP3, who estimated that Australian television advertising is producing as much as 57 tonnes of carbon dioxide per hour, with thirty second ad breaks being among the worst offenders. Adding lime to seawater could cut back carbon levels Carbon emissions are particularly strong during high-rating programs such as the final episodes of the Ten Network’s Biggest Loser, which produced 2135kgs per 30-second ad, So You Think... Sify News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050965/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 03:10:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050936/posts WASHINGTON – Blacks are more likely to be hurt by global warming than other Americans, according to a report issued Thursday. The report was authored by the Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative, a climate justice advocacy group, and Redefining Progress, a nonprofit policy institute. It detailed various aspects of climate change, such as air pollution and rising temperatures, which it said disproportionately affect blacks, minorities and low-income communities in terms of poor health and economic loss. “Right now we have an opportunity to see climate change in a different light; to see it for what it is, a human... medill.northwestern.edu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050936/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:01:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050865/posts - Jerry Taylor is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Virtually every claim made by T. Boone Pickens to justify the lavish subsidies he is seeking for his wind energy investments is flat wrong. First, oil imports are not the cause of high gasoline prices. On the contrary, oil imports serve to keep gasoline prices down. After all, we import oil for a reason -- it's cheaper than the domestic alternative. If we were to restrict our energy diet to energy produced in the United States, it would make domestic energy producers (like Mr. Pickens) far richer and energy... Financial Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050865/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:50:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050858/posts “I read somewhere that the sun’s getting hotter every year,” said Tom genially. “It seems that pretty soon the earth’s going to fall into the sun — or wait a minute ... it’s just the opposite — the sun is getting colder every year.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby This is the time of year that we start to get warm again.For years I called it summer, but apparently it is more than that; it is now global warming. And it turns out we all are responsible for it, or so the story goes.In another sign that we have... TheDestinLog.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050858/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:39:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050810/posts The purpose of this paper is to provide a layman’s critique of the Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory, and in particular to challenge the fairly widespread notion that the science and projected consequences of AGW currently justify massive spending and government intervention into the world’s economies.  This paper will show that despite good evidence that global temperatures are rising and that CO2 can act as a greenhouse gas and help to warm the Earth, we are a long way from attributing all or much of current warming to man-made CO2.  We are even further away from being able to... Climate Skeptic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050810/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:20:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050793/posts ".....the End of the world is already near.....As  this same End of the world is drawing nigh , many unusual things will happen-----climatic changes, terrors from heaven, unseasonable tempests, wars, famines, pestilences and earthquakes."    The quotation is from a letter sent by a very famous and influential man to a European head of state. Its author is disclosed at the end of this essay. Climatology is a science. Climatism is an ideology. Climatologists are scientists. Climatists are social or political organizers who abuse climatology in the service of ideologues. Climatology was and still is an investigation of nature. Climatism is the... Right Side News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050793/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:48:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050608/posts California, six other Western states and four Canadian provinces launched plans on Wednesday for one of the world's largest carbon-trading systems, a sweeping effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming. The North American program, like a similar market-based system in Europe, focuses on heavy polluters such as electric utilities, oil refineries and large industrial and commercial facilities. Environmental groups immediately questioned whether the plan will be tough enough on polluters, while industry groups said the program lacks details. California officials said the proposal will be an integral part of the Golden State's ambitious goal of reducing... SFGate.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050608/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:20:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050640/posts Maybe you've noticed this, too. The less sure people are of their views, the more inclined they are to name-call, yell and bully. I've noticed this when it comes to religion and politics and life in general, but I've had trouble getting used to it when it comes to science. Science is supposed to be about irreducible facts, the discipline of the scientific method, repeatable experiments, rigorous analysis and solid conclusions rather than sound bites, insults, threats and public relations campaigns. But look at global warming and climate change. The Weather Channel's top climatologist says broadcast meteorologists who voice skepticism... The Oregonian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050640/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:22:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050619/posts Former Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown is waging war on California suburbs because of global warming, says Joel Kotkin, a presidential fellow in urban futures at Chapman University. Brown is concerned about the alleged environmental damage caused by the suburbs. He wants to compel residents to move to city centers or to high-density developments clustered near mass transit lines: • Brown has threatened to file suit against municipalities that shun high-density housing in favor of building new suburban single-family homes, on the grounds that they will pollute the environment. • He is also backing controversial legislation -- Senate bill 375 --... National Center for Policy Analysis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050619/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:37:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050546/posts I DEVOTED six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian Greenhouse Office. I am the rocket scientist who wrote the carbon accounting model (FullCAM) that measures Australia's compliance with the Kyoto Protocol, in the land use change and forestry sector. FullCAM models carbon flows in plants, mulch, debris, soils and agricultural products, using inputs such as climate data, plant physiology and satellite data. I've been following the global warming debate closely for years. When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty good: CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the old... The Australian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050546/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:59:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050507/posts   Senior Fellow  John R. Bolton   "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated," once wrote Mark Twain. "Greatly exaggerated" also described the repeated, periodic predictions of American decline. Indeed, from the very moment of Independence, there have been those predicting America's demise, decline or irrelevance. The only variation is whether the eclipse of the United States will be produced by its own shortcomings or the unmatchable superiority of those doing the eclipsing. Betting against the United States--a sport even many Americans engage in--may be popular, but is has never proven profitable. Nor will it as long... American Enterprise Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050507/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:47:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050370/posts Attorney General Jerry Brown sued the county in April 2007, charging that a general plan update approved a month earlier would worsen global warming. The general plan, a blueprint for growth through 2030, projects more homes and increased traffic as the county's population continues to increase. It was the first time the state sued a public agency for not taking into account global warming. State and county officials hailed the greenhouse reduction plan that the county agreed to as groundbreaking. Julie Rynerson Rock, the county's director of land-use services, said the county's plan will be the most far-reaching in the... Press Enterprise http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050370/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:37:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050364/posts At Hearing, Official EIB Clown Attacks Official EIB ClimatologistJuly 22, 2008 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The official climatologist of the EIB Network, Dr. Roy Spencer, a brilliant independent climatologist and scientist, former NASA, he's now at University of Alabama at Huntsville, testified before Senator Boxer's committee on climate change research, and they had the following exchange. SPENCER: In conclusion, I am predicting today that the theory that mankind is mostly responsible for global warming will slowly fade away in the coming years, as will the warming itself, and I trust you would agree, Madam Chair, that such a result deserves to... Rush Limbaugh .com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050364/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:26:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050333/posts Australia's state and federal governments must invest in training specialist emergency rescue crews to avert severe livestock and wildlife losses caused by climate change, a leading animal welfare campaigner says. The head of disaster rescue operations for the Boston-based International Fund for Animal Welfare, Dick Green, has told a national wildlife conference in Canberra, ''Your big three natural disasters here in Australia are bushfires, floods and wind storms and, as the world's climate changes, you're going to get more of them. You need to plan for that and be better prepared.'' He said the number of natural disasters across the... The Canberra Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050333/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:48:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050292/posts In the early- to mid- 1970’s, the current crop of liberal alarmists were coming to the fore and feeling their oats. There was Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the book which singlehandedly led to the elimination of DDT. And finally, there was the grand-daddy of them all, Paul Erlich’s The Population Bomb, an updated salute to Malthus. I can still remember the words on the cover: “While you were reading these words, people will die of starvation, most of them children.” It seems that the world was eating itself out of house and home, beyond any possibility of rescue. It is... grey_whiskers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050292/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:43:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050272/posts NOAK48 PAFC 232101 CCB PNSAFC PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ANCHORAGE AK 1125 AM AKDT WED JUL 23 2008 ...SUMMER 2008 CLIMATE STATISTICS... THE SUMMER OF 2008 IS NOTABLE SO FAR FOR THE FOLLOWING CLIMATE STATISTICS THROUGH JULY 23: DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURES OF 60 DEGREES OR MORE 35 SO FAR IN...2008 ** 46 TOTAL IN....1971 59 TOTAL IN....1932 AND 1973 61 TOTAL IN....1966 62 TOTAL IN....1939 AVERAGE NUMBER OF DAYS OF 60 DEGREES OR GREATER IS 88 DAILY HIGH TEMPERATURES OF 65 DEGREES OR MORE 7 SO FAR IN...2008 ** 16 TOTAL IN....1970 19 TOTAL IN....1920 21 TOTAL IN....1982... National Weather Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050272/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:07:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050257/posts A reader sent me a heads-up to an article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society ($, abstract here) titled "Climate Change Education and the Ecological Footprint".  The authors express concern that non-science students don't sufficiently understand global warming and its causes, and want to initiate a re-education program in schools to get people thinking the "right" way.So, do climate scientists want to focus on better educating kids in details of the carbon cycle?  In the complexities in sorting out causes of warming between natural and man-made effects?  In difficulties with climate modeling?  In the huge role that feedback... Climate Skeptic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050257/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:36:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050182/posts California, six other Western states and four Canadian provinces will launch a market-based carbon trading system in a major North American effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, according to a draft proposal released today. When it officially begins in four years, the program would first target heavy polluters such as electric utilities, oil refineries and large industrial and commercial facilities, which would be required to begin reporting emission levels beginning in 2011 to allow participating governments to agree on the maximum level of emissions for the region. The plan also includes an offsets system, part of... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050182/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:25:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050111/posts Usually, celebrity magazines gush over celebrities, from what they're wearing to the stupid political causes they pimp. But I must hand it to Us Magazine. While the glossy celebrity tabloid is guilty of featuring a several-page spread in its July 28th issue, with quotes and essays from myriad celebs telling us what they do to be green, Us does devote almost a a full page at the end to slam them for their hypocrisy. I believe it's TMZ, which has no prob slamming and dissing celebrity hypocrisy, for pushing Us and other magazines to tone the drooling down a notch.... debbieschlussel.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050111/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:55:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050075/posts Advocates claim that ethanol mandates and subsidies protect our planet, enhance U.S. security, and ease our pain at the pump. In fact, ethanol policy hurts all Americans except for the tiny slice of the population that grows corn or distills it into ethanol. What is ethanol? Basically, in the United States, it is moonshine derived from the starch in corn. You can drink it. Rowdy collegians have been known to mix 1 part ethanol with 40 parts fruit juice to make huge vats of punch for parties. The law does not allow you to drink and drive, but it now... American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050075/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:48:40 GMT