WikiLeaks and the Great Myth of Global Warming

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 ...

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...

American Energy Policy III -- Wind Power
The property if fully developed would have over 3,000 square miles of suitable sites with a potential capacity of over 20 GW - an annual energy potential of more than 170,000 GWH per year of mechanical and electrical energy. This is enough to power the entire state with some left over for export. Ken Salazar's Department of Interior released a Request for Information on interest in bidding for leases in the center of Maryland's choice property that has a due date of January 10, 2011. If you re...

American Energy Policy III -- Wind Power
The property if fully developed would have over 3,000 square miles of suitable sites with a potential capacity of over 20 GW - an annual energy potential of more than 170,000 GWH per year of mechanical and electrical energy. This is enough to power the entire state with some left over for export. Ken Salazar's Department of Interior released a Request for Information on interest in bidding for leases in the center of Maryland's choice property that has a due date of January 10, 2011. If you re...

Compromise spirit at climate talks in last days
CANCUN, Mexico (AP) - It may not last, but a spirit of Compromise seems to have settled over the annual U.N. Climate Conference as negotiators enter its final days looking for agreements on secondary tools for coping with Global Warming. The open sniping between the U.S. and China that marked periodic talks earlier this year was not in evidence Monday as the second week of the two-week meeting got under way. "There were heated discussions at Copenhagen. Here the atmosphere is relatively mild,"...

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? Cool!, climatologist says
Global warming isn't such a bad thing, a leading Russian climatologist told a conference last week. The effects of rising temperatures will save on heating, increase farm production and open northern sea channels, said Vladimir Klimenko of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, according to a Moscow Times article. On the downside, several Siberian and Far Eastern Russian cities will have to be rebuilt, Klimenko conceded in his report to Russian and German scholars at a conference sponsored...

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...

Chinese cities can be model for low carbon
Published: Dec. 7, 2010 at 2:54 PM Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- The low carbon growth successes of some of China's largest and fastest-growing cities can serve as a model for other cities worldwide to reduce Greenhouse Gases, says a new report. The report by the Climate Group outlines how China's city governments have developed low carbon strategies, including rolling out industrial and domestic Energy Efficiency measures, investing in low carbon transport projects and promoting urban renewab...

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...

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...

Group brings Cancun delegates to nearby village without electricity
In case you were unaware, the United Nations is holding a climate summit right now in Cancun. They are sunning and making big plans to limit international Economic Growth, because they are convinced that the observed phenomenon of Global Warming will result in a disaster right out of some movie. (Cancun, Mexico) On Wednesday, December 8th, CFACT will bring COP16 delegates and press to tour La Libertad, a Mexican community only minutes from the comforts of the Cancun tourist zone, where the poor ...

Jeff Immelt seeks to map out GE's future beyond America
Jeff Immelt, the GE chief tells Damian Reece the firm is able to adapt to a 'reset' Global Economy...

The ultimate climate change FAQ: Keep your questions coming | Duncan Clark
Drought in Petersdorf, Germany, during summer 2010. Photograph: Patrick Pleul/EPA Last week we launched The ultimate Climate Change FAQ, a collaborative project designed to create the best and most useful online guide to all aspects of climate change. We kicked off by inviting readers to submit questions that they wanted to see answered - and to tell us how they would like to see the project develop. The response was fantastic. Hundreds of people submitted questions (more on those in a...

Michael Likosky: Obama's BiPartisan Stimulus
On the Campaign Trail, Candidate-Obama delivered a landmark Speech on the factory floor of the GM Auto Assembly Plant in Janesville, Wisconsin. He diagnosed the country's economic problems and proposed a concrete solution moving forward. It was the Speech through which Obama pivoted away from being the sole-candidate to have opposed the Iraq War and toward the champion of our Economic Recovery and reinvestment. Much has changed since the Janesville Speech in February of 2008. The GM plant did ...

Video: How to explain Milankovitch cycles to an anti-science Congressman in 30 seconds
This is an excerpt from Skeptical Science by John Cook about the inimitable Professor Richard Alley, who was grilled last month by Dana “Dinosaur flatulence” Rohrabacher (R-CA).  Alley was asked to explain in 15 seconds why climate has changed in the past and how we know humans are causing it now when they didn’t back then. I’ve long been a fan of Richard Alley. Not just because of his rendition of Geoman, possibly the nerdiest song in the history of science [reposted below].

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 ...

Liberalism in 120 Seconds: Global Warming Alarmists vs. Sanity
Liberalism in 120 Seconds: Global Warming alarmists vs. sanity Share this article! Conservatives with Attitude!...

Cancun Climate Change Conference: Illegal Immigration Caused By Global Warming
The UN junk scientists meeting this week in Cancun released a study that claims that illegal Immigration is caused by Global Warming. It all makes sense now. 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 concen...

Cartoon of the Day: Massive Partying to Cut Global Warming!
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What are future economists learning about climate?
This textbook gets an F.The financial collapse of 2008 has sent the authors and publishers of economics textbooks scrambling to update their books with lessons about the Great Recession -- you know, how to avoid future planetary economic meltdowns, revive a steamrolled economy, and be responsible economic leaders. So in the face of another kind of meltdown -- Climate Change in this case -- one would think they'd be falling head over heels to ensure the economic leaders of tomorrow have the most ...

Scientists fight Inhofe attack on climate fund
Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.).Cross-posted from the Wonk Room. A group of four Republican senators, led by climate denier Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), have lashed out at the Obama Administration's efforts to protect the poorest and most vulnerable people of the world from climate disasters. Inhofe, Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), David Vitter (R-La.), and George Voinovich (R-Ohio) wrote a letter to President Barack Obama telling him to drop an international adaptation fund for the least developed nati...

Another Global Warming Consequence Exaggerated
Well this is unfortunate timing. Just as it is being reported that the Cancun climate talks are in danger of collapse, a report is published that debunks one more of the extreme Global Warming consequences claims. Alarming predictions that Global Warming could cause sea levels to rise 6ft in the next century are wrong, it has emerged. The forecast made by the influential 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which would have seen cities around the world submerged by water, now looks ...

'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: ...

EPA wants more time to rework boiler emissions rule
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is requesting more time to issue a final rule meant to reduce potentially harmful air emissions from industrial boilers.   The request comes amid an industry effort to pressure the EPA to make changes to the draft boiler rule because the proposed regulations, industry groups say, would result in significant Job Losses.  EPA is under a court order to issue final boiler air rules by July 16. But in a motion filed in federal District Court Tuesday, EPA...