http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/globalwarminghoax/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 19:37:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419638/posts The UK's official weather forecasters are determined that winters should be mild, in the face of the frozen facts, says Christopher BookerShortly after midnight on Friday morning, as 200,000 merrymakers were departing from the Thames after enjoying a spectacular fireworks show in sub-zero temperatures, flakes of snow began to fall on Whitehall. In light of the Met Office's prediction that this would be a "mild" winter, with temperatures above average, it seemed an apt way to start the New Year. But hasn't the time come for us to stop treating the serial inaccuracy of Met Office forecasts as just a... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419638/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 19:37:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419627/posts Britain is bracing itself for one of the coldest winters for a century with temperatures hitting minus 16 degrees Celsius, forecasters have warned. They predicted no let up in the freezing snap until at least mid-January, with snow, ice and severe frosts dominating. And the likelihood is that the second half of the month will be even colder. The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419627/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 19:13:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419487/posts The complete lack of any significant coverage in the U.S. media of environmental issues in general, and global warming in particular, is not surprising. Television coverage of global warming in the nightly news peaked in 2007 and has been declining since then. The only variation is a one-time increase in December 2009 associated with COP 15. For global warming, it appears that the appearance of the movie “An Inconvenient Truth” served as a triggering event. However, since the peak of media coverage in January 2007, coverage of global warming has steadily declined, and has been replaced by concerns over the... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419487/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 14:51:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419027/posts ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) — Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere. Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419027/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:44:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418203/posts Lefties have long mocked Christians on the fringe for proclaiming the imminent end of the world and the coming of God. Yokels, bumpkins, knuckle-draggers, Bible-thumpers, crazies, and zealots are but a few of the epithets that have been hurled at End-Times Christians.  It's therefore more than a little ironic -- perhaps divinely ironic -- that many of these same oh-so-worldly liberals have come to embrace their own version of the end times. Theirs, though, hasn't a hint of the divine in it; that would smack of the wrong sort of primitivism and violate their steadfast secularism and their claim to... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418203/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:18:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418049/posts Agriculture: Already buffeted by rising food prices due to biofuels, consumers face a bigger hike if climate-change legislation is passed. Farming costs will rise, and it may be more profitable to plant trees than crops. If the cap-and-trade provisions of the Waxman-Markey bill become law, you can wave goodbye to those amber waves of grain as America's heartland falls victim to a perverse set of incentives and a process called "afforestation." Soybeans and wheat will give way to elms and oaks. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack wants a review of what amounts to an agricultural impact study of HR 2454, which... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418049/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:22:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417774/posts A big chill across the northern and eastern half of country will lead to plummeting temperatures over the next few days. Arctic air will push from Canada into the northern Plains by Thursday, Accuweather http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417774/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:19:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416147/posts With trillions of dollars at stake in the battle over global warming, now would be the time for the press to closely scrutinize the claims of those who would reorganize the world's economy from farm to factory and laboratory to living room. And the Climategate scandal - where leaked e-mails and dodgy computer programs from the University of East Anglia raise powerful new questions about the role of politics in climate science - would be the perfect opportunity to explore what is going on behind the scenes. That's not happening.... [snip] Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416147/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 10:14:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415303/posts NASA finally mentions the Maunder Minimum in its discussion of the current prolonged solar minimum, but it STILL does not mention that the Maunder Minimum coincided with the onset of the Little Ice Age, or that the Dalton Minimum in the early 1800’s was also cold, as was the unnamed fin-de-the-1800’s minimum. Thar she blows, the Maunder Minimum of sunspot activity: As it has done for two years now, NASA is predicting that solar cycle 24 will ramp up tomorrow. Should that broken-clock prediction hits its hour, then NASA is also predicting that solar cycle 24 will have the modest... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415303/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:12:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414619/posts The global warming jamboree in Copenhagen was surely the most outlandish foray into intellectual fantasizing since the fourth-century Christian bishops assembled in 325 AD for the Council of Nicaea to debate whether God the Father was supreme or had to share equal status in the pecking order of eternity with his Son and the Holy Ghost. Shortly before the Copenhagen summit, the proponents of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) were embarrassed by a whistleblower who put on the Web more than a thousand e-mails either sent from or received at the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit, headed by Dr.... Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414619/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:23:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414966/posts LEGAZPI CITY – (UPDATE) Alert level 5 could be declared any time on Mayon Volcano but volcanologists are waiting for one important sign – a chocolate-colored mass of ash column shooting straight up into the air as high as 10-15 kilometers from the crater. “Parameters are high until now and the intensifying activity might force us to raise the alert level to its highest level but it would happen only when Mayon shoots a straight ash column containing pyroclastic materials and molten, burning rocks as big as houses or buses from its crater, accompanied by intense rumbling and jittering of... The Inquirer (Philippines) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414966/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 15:49:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414739/posts Climate Change: A peer-reviewed study by a respected Canadian physicist blames the interplay of cosmic rays and chlorofluorocarbons for 20th-century warming. The CFCs are now gone, and so is warming — perhaps for the next 50 years. Much of the nation got a white Christmas this year, some in unprecedented quantities. A record-breaking storm deposited 12 to 30 inches of snow in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. Many places set records for the most snow in a single December day as more than 50% of the U.S. was covered by the white stuff. Scientists (and here we use the word... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414739/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:44:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414709/posts Mohib Ebrahim has created professional timelines for exhibitions, so it must have seemed only natural to him to want to visually piece together the full timeline of ClimateGate, laying out the analysis, graphs, emails and history of the scandal as revealed by dozens of researchers over the past weeks, months and years. Download The PDF (788k)ThereÂ’s a gif version of the poster if you donÂ’t like pdfÂ’s (1.7Mb)The PDF chart is available in different sizes, each also with the 10  pages of cited references. The full chart is over 2 meters wide (94″x34″, or 2 A0  landscape pages) and best... JoNova http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414709/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:36:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413782/posts Copenhagen was much worse than just another bad deal, because it illustrated a profound shift in global geopolitics. This is fast becoming China's century, yet its leadership has displayed that multilateral environmental governance is not only not a priority, but is viewed as a hindrance to the new superpower's freedom of action. I left Copenhagen more despondent than I have felt in a long time. After all the hope and all the hype, the mobilisation of thousands, a wave of optimism crashed against the rock of global power politics, fell back, and drained away. Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413782/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:10:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414276/posts It was probably a whistleblower that released files from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA)? If so then the information is admissible in court and we will get greater detail on the greatest deception in history. Phil Jones, former Director of the CRU knew the potential damage and legal implications of the file’s content. Jones told the police the files were from CRU, and claimed a crime was committed. Ludicrously, he said the information had no value because it was criminally obtained. Why an Insider? Major clues suggest the leaks were from an insider.... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414276/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 04:38:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413671/posts Carbon prices plunged yesterday in the aftermath of the Copenhagen conference on climate change, dealing a blow to the credibility of the European Union's carbon-trading scheme. Prices for carbon permits for December 2010 delivery, the benchmark contract for pricing European permits, dropped nearly 10 per cent in early trading, before recovering to end the day 8.3 per cent lower at €12.41. Lower prices give companies less incentive to invest in cutting their greenhouse gas output. Analysts estimate that prices of more than €40 a tonne are required to stimulate investment in new low-carbon technologies. Carbon traders blamed the price fall... FT.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413671/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:51:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413853/posts Over the past few months, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has witnessed the nation's energy secretary applauding companies for leaving the group, activists masquerading as its officials to hold a mock press conference, and now, protesters attempting to take over its building. And this is all because the group doesn't agree that global warming is man-made and that federal cap-and-trade policies are the answer to stopping it. Last Thursday, Greenpeace brought ladders to the chamber's D.C. headquarters, located directly across from the White House, to wrap yellow "crime scene" tape around the building. Roughly a dozen protesters descended on the... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413853/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:29:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2413436/posts Albert the Green Nosed Reindeer, had a growing bank account And if you ever saw it, you would even wonder how All of the other watermelons, used to scheme in smoke filled rooms But now because of Albert, they will gain control of you Then one smoky kwanzaa eve, Barack came to say Albert with your friends on high, won't you skew the truth tonight Then all the watermelons loved him, as they shouted out with glee Albert the green nosed reindeer, you'll go down in infamy! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2413436/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:25:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412068/posts Back in the days when war was a form of romance, there was a tactic called the "forlorn hope". When an army reached the end of its string while laying siege to a fortress or walled city, a single unit of several hundred men would be selected for a final attempt at overcoming the walls. Artillery would fire one last series of rounds to make a breach, and the forlorn hope would make its mad dash toward the walls, to try to overcome through muscle and will what months of patient strategy had failed to do. As for the level... Americn Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412068/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:48:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413207/posts Der Spiegel blasts the Copenhagen conference as “a Club for Losers” after it utterly failed to produce a consensus even on Barack Obama’s facesaving non-binding resolution.  They excoriate everyone from China to Obama and even the UN, but retain their most pungent shots for European diplomats who bungled both expectations and diplomacy.  And Der Speigel now says the best hope for progress won’t come from Turtle Bay, but from a process set in motion by a man whom AGW hysterics used to regard as the devil incarnate: After days of negotiations, debate, political drama and pages of will-they or won’t-they... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413207/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:37:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413095/posts The climate campaign, built step-by-step over the last 20 years, has reached its Waterloo. The Copenhagen conference that ended Friday was an exercise in political theater. It not only failed to produce a binding agreement, but the potential emissions curbs it endorsed fall far below what climate orthodoxy demands, while the proposed wealth transfer from rich nations to poor nations is a political nonstarter. Back home, cap and trade legislation remains on life support, even though it has been significantly watered down so as to postpone real costs to consumers for a decade or more. In the midst of this... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413095/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:35:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412978/posts For years, global warming alarmists have pointed to every drought and heat wave as proof that global warming was a real environmental threat. They had few qualms about blurring the line between weather and climate to make a PR point. Perhaps, then, it was karma that brought a blizzard and freezing temperatures to the U.N. climate change Conference of Parties confab in Copenhagen (or COP-15 for short) last week. You may have read about the 1,200 limos and 140 private planes commissioned to transport COP-15 dignitaries in style. Critics love to point to the hypocrisy of world leaders - such... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412978/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:33:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412593/posts A few years ago, I accepted global warming theory with few doubts. I wrote several columns for this paper condemning what I thought were unfair attacks by skeptics and defending the climate scientists. Boy, was I naive.Since the Climategate emails and documents revealed active collusion to thwart skeptics and even outright fraud, I’ve been trying to correct the record of my earlier foolishness. In one of those columns, I even wrote: “And see Real Climate (www.realclimate.org) for global warming science without the political spin.” In fact, Real Climate was and is nothing more than the house organ of global warming... North County Times (California San Diego County ) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412593/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:56:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412093/posts Global energy businesses are disappointed and confused by the climate deal agreed in Copenhagen, saying it does not provide enough certainty to justify the huge investments needed to cut carbon emissions. The deal – agreed by major economies including the US and China on Friday evening but not formally adopted by the United Nations – makes a commitment to limit the rise in global temperatures but does not specify caps on emissions to achieve that objective. Chief executives and business groups in Europe were particularly critical of the deal. Peter Voser – the chief executive of oil and gas group... The Financial Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412093/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:17:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412344/posts Prices drop as European Union sticks to 2020 emissions targetLONDON (MarketWatch) -- The price of European carbon emission permits dropped nearly 9% Monday after climate talks in Copenhagen resulted in an accord that fell short of initial expectations.Emission allowances for December 2010 delivery fell to 12.77 euros a ton Monday, from Friday's settlement price of 13.58 euros. The contract earlier dropped as much as 8.7% to 12.40 euros a ton. Emission allowances haven't traded that low in more than six months. The decline came after the United Nation's Copenhagen summit acknowledged a U.S.-led accord to combat climate change and prevent... MarketWatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412344/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:57:06 GMT