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There Has Been No Statistically Significant Warming Since 1995
Who is making this bold claim? Some right-wing Global Warming denier probably on the pay roll of Big Oil? Actually, it comes from none other than Phil Jones of the IPCC, which shared a Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for Global Warming research and advocacy, by way of the British Meteorological Office (a reliable advocate of the Global Warming mythos): [T]he data on the Met Office’s and CRU’s own websites show that global temperatures have been flat, not for ten, but for the past 15 y...

Global Warming Stopped...15 Years Ago
How inconvenient: A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN Copenhagen world climate summit, the British Meteorological Office issued a confident prediction. The mean world temperature for 2010, it announced, 'is expected to be 14.58C, the warmest on record' - a deeply worrying 0.58C above the 19611990 average. World temperatures, it went on, were locked inexorably into an everrising trend: 'Our experimental decadal forecast confirms previous indications that about half the years ...

Climate goal may spell end for some coral reefs
FILE - In this Dec. 2005 file photo provided by the National Park Service shows National Park Service fisheries biologist Jeff Miller examining the Coral Reef in the Buck Island Reef National Monument in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, after bleaching from record hot water followed by disease has killed ancient and delicate Caribbean coral.According to coral experts like Roberto Iglesias the so-far elusive goal of world climate talks at the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, limiting glo...

David Kroodsma: A Better Voice for Environmentalism: Sir Richard Branson - VIDEO
Cross posted on Hub Culture. During the World Climate Summit, a conference for businesses leaders during COP16 in Cancun, Sir Richard Branson sat down with me for a four-minute interview. Branson is one of the world's ultimate success stories. Born with unbounded charisma, he founded his first company at the age of 16 in 1966, selling records out of the back of his car. He grew the business into Virgin Records, a leader in the industry, and then launched Virgin Airlines in 1984 and Virgin Mob...

Bangladesh Minister Responds To GOP: We Are Struggling With The Impacts Of Climate Change
Bangladesh Minister Responds To GOP: ‘We Are Struggling With The Impacts Of Climate Change’ The Wonk Room is reporting and tweeting live from the international climate talks in Cancun, Mexico. At the beginning of the Cancun climate talks, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and other Republican senators questioned the threat to the developing world from climate change, telling President Obama to kill the global climate impacts fund he helped establish last year. Inhofe’s letter argued th...

A warning at climate talks: Glacier melt speeding up
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) — The lives and livelihoods of people in South Asia are at "high risk" as Global Warming melts Glaciers in the Himalayas, sending floods crashing down from overloaded mountain lakes and depriving farmers of steady water sources, U.N. and other international experts reported Friday. Worldwide, "since the beginning of the 1980s, the rate of ice loss has increased substantially in many regions, concurrent with an increase in global mean air temperatures," the U.N. Environme...

Climate Researchers Claim Illegal Immigrants Flooding Over Mexican Border to Escape Global Warming
(National Journal)- Just when you think you’ve heard everything, we’re told that impoverished Mexicans are fleeing north to escape Global Warming. Despite the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), vast natural resources and bright, hard-working people, the host country for the Cancun climate summit remains impoverished. Wealth and power are still concentrated in relatively few powerful Mexican families. Employment and economic opportunities are few. The government is plagued with corrupti...

'Warmest Year on Record'? The Truth is Global Warming Has Halted
© Daily Mail Winter's icy grip: Drivers and Pedestrians battle through blizzards in Kent last week. A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN Copenhagen world climate summit, the British Meteorological Office issued a confident prediction. The mean world temperature for 2010, it announced, 'is expected to be 14.58C, the warmest on record' - a deeply worrying 0.58C above the 1961-1990 average. World temperatures, it went on, were locked inexorably into an ever rising trend: ...

What happened to the 'warmest year on record'?
A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN Copenhagen world climate summit, the British Meteorological Office issued a confident prediction. The mean world temperature for 2010, it announced, 'is expected to be 14.58C, the warmest on record' - a deeply worrying 0.58C above the 19611990 average. Met Office officials openly boasted that they hoped by their statements to persuade the Copenhagen gathering to impose new and stringent carbon emission limits - an ambition that was not to b...

What happened to the 'warmest year on record'?
A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN Copenhagen world climate summit, the British Meteorological Office issued a confident prediction. The mean world temperature for 2010, it announced, 'is expected to be 14.58C, the warmest on record' - a deeply worrying 0.58C above the 19611990 average. Met Office officials openly boasted that they hoped by their statements to persuade the Copenhagen gathering to impose new and stringent carbon emission limits - an ambition that was not to be...

Experts: Glacier melt speeds up, risking lives
An Activist from Via Campesina, an international movement of peasants, holds a container filled with incense during the 'Global Forum for Life, Environmental and Social Justice', an alternative event parallel to the UN Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 6, 2010. According to the UN weather agency, 2010 is "almost certain" to rank among the three Hottest years on record, and the 2001-2010 decade is the warmest period since the beginning of weather records in 1850. United N...

Cancun, Climate Change and WikiLeaks
Cancun, MEXICO—Critical negotiations are under way here in Cancun, under the auspices of the United Nations, to reverse human-induced Global Warming. This is the first major meeting since the failed Copenhagen summit last year, and it is happening at the end of the Hottest decade on record. While the stakes are high, expectations are low, and, as we have just learned with the release of classified diplomatic cables from Wikileaks, the United States, the largest Polluter in the history of t...

Carl Pope: Is America the New Becky Sharp?
Becky Sharp, Thackeray's anti-hero in Vanity Fair, lived beyond her means and rarely paid her bills, particularly those she owed to "tradespeople" who had provided her with basic but unglamorous services. Are we really ready to emulate her as a nation? Most Americans would find that distasteful. After all, we are the country that admired Finland for being the only nation to fully repay its World War I Debts to us. But the debate swirling around this year's UN Climate Summit in Cancun is as mu...

Cancun climate talks: Island states plead for survival
Among the delegates from 190 nations wrestling over international climate agreements in Cancun this week, there is nary a hint of the skepticism over Global Warming that has surfaced in the U.S. Congress, where oil, coal and other industrial interests have battled Climate Legislation to a standstill. Floods in Pakistan, fires in Russia, typhoons in Vietnam, drought in Mexico -- every nation seems to have a tale of climate-related woe.  The most vulnerable nations include the small island s...

QUESTION: Didnt the New York Times refuse to print the Climategate emails because they said that was wrong
Here’s Joe Leiberman calling for a Congressional investigation of the New York Times for publishing sensitive diplomatic cables leaked by Julian Assange and Wikileaks…including material that identifies key targets for Terrorists at US installations around the world. I remember the New York Times making up a lame excuse for why it was not properly covering ClimateGate…where the Times said it was because it was “wrong” to publish “private emails” going bac...

Huhne asked to 'bridge Kyoto gap' between nations
Britain's Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Chris Huhne, was yesterday handed the job of solving the key problem which threatens the collapse of the UN climate talks in Cancun. Mr Huhne has been asked by the Mexican organisers of the conference to try bridging the "Kyoto Protocol gap", between those countries that insist they will never sign up to a new period of Kyoto, the current climate treaty (such as the Japanese, Russians and Canadians) and those who insist that without a Kyoto extensio...

More plants could slow warming: NASA
In a world with twice as much Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere, plants could grow larger and create a cooling effect on a warming globe, but could not halt or reverse Climate Change, NASA says. One of the main mysteries scientists face with climate change is how to project it over time, particularly how to account for Earth's reaction to warmer temperatures, a phenomenon known as "feedback." It has long been known that plants -- which use carbon dioxide, sun and water to grow through the process...

Don't Teach College Economics Students Global Warming Denial
Think slowing Climate Change will cost a lot of money? Think again. As most Economists will tell you, the costs of not acting to slow Climate Change are far scarier. Unfortunately, you might not realize that if you are a college economics major. In fact, you might not even believe that Climate Change is happening at all. At least that's true if you are studying from one of five popular college economics textbooks that recently received a "Not Recommended " grade in The Sightline Institute's revi...

Temperature may hit high in 2010
The global average temperature could reach a record high in 2010, according to the UK's Met Office. Forecasters predict that the annual figure for 2010 will be 14.58C (58.24F), 0.58C (1.04F) above the long-term average of 14.0C (57.2F). They say the combination of Climate Change and a moderate warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean are set to drive up temperatures next year. The current record record is 14.52C (58.14F), which was set in 1998. "The latest forecast from our climate scientis...

2010: the warmest year on record that wasn't
Last year, the prediction was that 2010 will be the warmest year on record. Last Thanksgiving, the AP was ringing the Global Warming alarm bells (again) right when the CRU Scandal was unfolding: AP ignores CRU emails, instead says Global Warming accelerating! Quotes people in CRU emails! So much for that meme. From the UK Daily Mail: What happened to the 'warmest year on record': The truth is Global Warming has halted A year ago tomorrow, just before the opening of the UN Copenhagen world clima...

Shocker: IPCC Alarmism About Melting Ice Caps And Flooded Cities Turns Out To Be False
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the “scientific consensus” that is endlessly referred to by Environmental Activists like Al Gore when they want to silence any dissent to Global Warming dogma. In fact, the IPCC was the co-recipient of the Nobel Prize with Al Gore for their work on the climate change issue. One of the most over-the-top claims made by the IPCC was that sea levels were going to rise due to melting ice caps (among other things) and those rising sea levels...

AGW Today: Marshall Islands Could Disappear Due To Sea Rise
Unshockingly, this breathless report comes from a reporter in.......exotic Cancun, Mexico, rather than from the Marshall IslandsCANCUN, Mexico - Encroaching seas in the far Pacific are raising the salt level in the wells of the Marshall Islands. Waves threaten to cut one sliver of an island in two. "It's getting worse," says Kaminaga Kaminaga, the tiny nation's Climate Change coordinator.Two things to pre-notice: if all the Glaciers and ice are melting, and they are composed primarily of f...

Experts: Glacier melt speeds up, risking lives
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) - United Nations and other international experts say the lives and livelihoods of people in South Asia are at "high risk" as Global Warming melts Glaciers in the Himalayas. The glacier melt is sending floods crashing down from overloaded mountain lakes and depriving farmers of steady sources of water. The U.N. Environment Program says that worldwide, "since the beginning of the 1980s, the rate of ice loss has increased substantially in many regions, concurrent with an increa...

Experts: Glacier melt speeds up, risking lives
CANCUN, Mexico — The lives and livelihoods of people in South Asia are at "high risk" as Global Warming melts Glaciers in the Himalayas, sending floods crashing down from overloaded mountain lakes and depriving farmers of steady water sources, U.N. and other international experts reported. Worldwide, "since the beginning of the 1980s, the rate of ice loss has increased substantially in many regions, concurrent with an increase in global mean air temperatures," the U.N. Environment Program ...

World Bank makes a play for climate finance role
By CAP’s Richard Caperton. Yesterday, a group of multilateral development banks - including the World Bank Group - made the case for their role in managing climate finance.  These banks clearly have the appropriate tools to move the significant amounts of capital called for in the Copenhagen Accord, but there are still questions about their ability to direct that capital to Climate Change mitigation and adaptation. Multilateral development banks - or “MDB’s”