Heliogenic Climate Change

Look for me at heliogenic.wordpress.com. (Sorry to be paranoid, but after recent events you’ll excuse me.)
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This blog was deleted Dec. 30, restored the next day, then deleted again this morning! I have no idea what is going on but if anyone else in the skeptic community is having this problem with blogspot I would like to hear about it. I am informed that this should not happen again to this blog, but I am wary after recent events. Happy New Year all.
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Last night I received an email from Blogspot.com informing me that this blog had been “deleted” because of “spam”. As there is no spam on this blog I was perplexed.

All last night and today this blog was dark. Now, with a little help from my friends, this blog has been restored. I don’t know why this happened. I am not paranoid, but blogspot bloggers, be on notice.
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“Berkeley High School is considering a controversial proposal to eliminate science labs and the five science teachers who teach them to free up more resources to help struggling students.

The proposal to put the science-lab cuts on the table was approved recently by Berkeley High’s School Governance Council, a body of teachers, parents, and students who oversee a plan to change the structure of the high school to address Berkeley’s dismal racial achievement gap, where white students are doing far better than the state average while black and Latino students are doing worse.

Paul Gibson, an alternate parent representative on the School Governance Council, said that information presented at council meetings suggests that the science labs were largely classes for white students. He said the decision to consider cutting the labs in order to redirect resources to underperforming students was virtually unanimous.” “Berkeley High May Cut Out Science Labs” h/t Climategate

“This nauseating piggery took two forms. First were the Third World kleptocracies – led by the likes of Hugo Chavez and Robert Mugabe – using “Global Warming” as an excuse to extort guilt-money from the Western nations.

Second, and much more dangerous, were the First World Corporatists who stand to make trillions of dollars using the Enron economics of carbon trading. Never mind all the talk of President Obama’s trifling $100 billion pledge. This is very small beer compared with the truly eye-watering sums that will be ransacked from our economies and our wallets over the next decades in the name of “carbon emissions reduction.”

Richard North has spotted this, even if virtually nobody else has. The key point, he notes, is the Copenhagen negotiators’ little-publicised decision to save the Kyoto Protocol. This matters because it was at Kyoto that the mechanisms for establishing a global carbon market were established. Carbon trading could not possibly exist without some form of agreement between all the world’s governments on emissions: the market would simply collapse. By keeping Kyoto alive, the sinister troughers of global corporatism have also kept their cash cow alive.” “Climategate: we won the battle, but at Copenhagen we just lost the war”

“As for saving the planet, well no-one really believes that greenie shit anyway … except the greenies, and they don’t matter. There is plenty of pepper spray left and no shortage of temporary detention space. Now that the money men have got what they came for, all the rest is theatre.” “Going for the money”
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“We don’t need a cap-and-trade deal. What we need is a RICO trial.

Every now and then, apparently, history challenges us with a crisis far too important to be left to the democratic process or the vagaries of public opinion. In these instances, the enlightened, the powerful, the moral must act swiftly.

So sayeth the Obama administration this week, empowering the Environmental Protection Agency to police greenhouse gases as a danger to public health and welfare, thus giving the agency discretion to regulate … well, anything it pleases — or, I should say, whatever is left. …

No worries, we’re told. The EPA wouldn’t do it. It’s a bluff. It has other things in mind. In this case, it is all about hastening much-needed “action” on climate change by employing a technique universally known as blackmail. …

Obama, as we know, has no authority to enter into a binding international treaty (isn’t the Constitution irritating?), as any treaty must be ratified by the Senate — a Senate that won’t pass a cap-and-trade scheme any time soon if we’re lucky.

Now that the EPA can duplicate any suicidal emissions pact world leaders can cook up (exempt: emerging nations, poor nations and nations that value prosperity), the president would not need to ratify a thing. And who needs treaties when the Obama administration already has threatened the Senate with unilateral regulations on greenhouse gases unless a cap-and-trade bill is passed? The administration need only mirror the agreement it can’t make.

In effect, the EPA is warning most of the nation’s businesses that burdensome regulations are coming unless the president is suitably mollified with a law that severely caps carbon emissions. In other words, figure out your own punishment, kids, or we’ll have to come up with one for you. You know, choice.

The administration also acts as if this were the last chance to save mankind, when, in fact — on the heels of the ClimateGate scandal, sagging poll numbers on warming hysteria and genuine economic worries (worries that would be exacerbated by more growth-inhibiting regulations) — it might only be its last chance to cram through a framework for harsh emissions standards.

Granted, there are a few obstacles standing in the way. Votes. People. Process. And so on …” “Our Way or … Well, Our Way“

“Drastic cuts in carbon emissions may not be sufficient to avoid the worst ravages of global warming and the world will need to suck carbon from the atmosphere to avert permanent damage to the climate, according to a leading world authority on climate science.” “Carbon must be sucked from air, says IPCC chief Rajendra Pachauri”
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“The headline, if true, would be a news story indeed: the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, according to a press release e-mailed to journalists this morning, had decided to reverse its opposition to strong climate change legislation. But that’s false. Some unknown group decided to punk the Chamber. And in the process, at least one news organization, Reuters, fell for it.” “Fake “Chamber” Press Release Dupes Reuters” Update: CNBC, NYT, and WaPo also duped.
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“The Central Intelligence Agency is opening a Center on Climate Change. Its mission is to examine the national security impact of phenomena such as desertification, rising sea levels, population shifts and heightened competition for natural resources. …

“Decision makers need information and analysis on the effects climate change can have on security. The CIA is well positioned to deliver that intelligence,” said CIA Director Leon Panetta in a statement announcing the center’s opening.

[B]ut the center … [i]s drawing critics.

Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., says the center is the wrong priority. “The CIA should be combating terrorists, not spying on sea lions,” he says. A formal statement on his Web site says the freshman senator will fight the center’s funding.

“The CIA is responsible for gathering foreign intelligence information for the United States. I don’t believe creating a center on climate change is going to prevent terrorist attacks,” Barrasso says. …

“Is this climate change center going to make demands on the current CIA bureaucracy? Will someone sitting in a dark room watching satellite video of northern Afghanistan now be sitting in a dark room watching polar ice caps?” asks Barrasso. “We have boots on the ground in the Middle East. Diverting resources to polar ice cap surveillance squanders concentration on national security. The CIA claims to have scarce resources and competing priorities. Let’s focus on the safety of the American people.”" “CIA spies global warming“

“Tens of billions of pounds will have to be raised through flight taxes … according to the Government’s advisory body on climate change.

Ticket prices should rise steadily over time to deter air travel … the Committee on Climate Change says. It believes that airlines should be forced to share the burden of meeting Britain’s commitment to an 80 per cent cut in emissions by 2050. …

The committee was established under last year’s Climate Change Act. It has a strong influence on government policy and proposed the 80 per cent target accepted by ministers.

It says that initially the cost per passenger of compensating for climate change would be small but would rise over time and eventually reach a level that would put people off flying.” “Passengers face new tax to halt rise in air travel” h/t CCNet
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“A JET-setting delegation of American politicians is in hot water after embarking on a $US500,000 ($595,592) taxpayer-funded trip to Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and Hawaii.

The 10 members of Congress dived or snorkelled on the Great Barrier Reef, visited a Queensland rainforest, observed a penguin rookery on the South Pole, watched a New Year fireworks display in Christchurch and finished the trip on Hawaii’s famous Waikiki Beach.

They flew from destination to destination on a specially-equipped $US70 million ($83.38 million) US Air Force C-40 jet, described as the military’s business-class version of a Boeing 737.

The 11-day mission was designed to study climate change …” “Politicians spent $500,000 on Great Barrier Reef trip” h/t Aussie Climate Madness
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“Just like a majority of books on the subject, Dr Alexander makes the readers understand that the global warming alarm is almost completely an artifact of manipulation with the human psychology and with the data. But unlike the case of many other books, you will see that Dr Alexander is actually a mainstream scientist (and an applied scientist in the environmental sector) who cares about the good name and functioning of science. Years ago, he was inclined to believe the “general wisdom” about the problem. His diametrically opposite conclusions are a result of his long research of the problem. And his pride of a scientist has been hurt. Climatology has become an ugly example of a scientific discipline that has largely ceased to be scientific.” “Ralph Alexander: Global Warming False Alarm“
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“If the Senate doesn’t pass a bill to cut global warming, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer says, there will be dire results: droughts, floods, fires, loss of species, damage to agriculture, worsening air pollution and more.” “Boxer faces ‘challenge of a lifetime’ on climate change bill”
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“My god Mike Mann is full of himself. His rubbish math and media appearances have taken him right off the deep end. Now he’s demanding a new class of scientist – a super scientist who apparently can work in public policy complete with a reward system (public funded I assume). …

RC actively suppresses any dissent on their site, they won’t even allow references to improvements on their work. In fact my posts are snipped faster than I can type. Yet look at how far gone Dr Mike Mann is:

They find fault in the way policy makers often abuse science (cherry-picking those particular scientific findings which suit their agenda), and in the behavior of corporate special interests who, in areas such as our own area of ‘climate change’, have often deliberately manufactured false controversy and confusion to dissuade the public from demanding action be taken.

The lies of consensus followed by the FALSE accusations of corporate special interests. What about the largest corporations in the world Mike? What about the government special interests Mike? What about suppression of dissent Mike?

We’ve had about half dozen people try and comment at RC on Ryan’s latest reconstruction, I even saw one post go up (Jon P) only to be snipped later. Supression of dissent and supression of non-warming science are the norm in this highly politicized field. RC doesn’t mind it one bit. Another layer of governance simply adds another hurdle for real scientists to communicate to the world, it’s no wonder that Mike Mann would be happy about that.

I’ve got an idea Mike, how about anyone with a voice can speak.. Crazy huh?” “Off the deep end“

“Essentially the site [RealClimate.org] exists to promote global warming alarm-ism and attack anyone who does not agree with their declaration of doomsday (proven of course by their own computer climate models) and the need for government intervention against the life supporting, atmospheric trace gas, carbon dioxide. Standard operating procedure is to post “rebuttals” to everything they disagree with and then declare victory, making sure to censor comments challenging their position. It doesn’t matter if they actual rebutted any of the science or facts just so long as they provide the existence of a criticism. This gives their fanboys “ammunition” to further promote alarmist propaganda across the Internet (and of course declare victory). Their resident propagandist William Connolley’s job is to edit dissent and smear skeptical scientists on Wikipedia.” “The truth about RealClimate.org“
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I’ll be away for about a month. Until then no posts, no comments, no comment moderation. I’m going to Idaho to run the Selway, Middle Fork Salmon, and Salmon rivers, about 400 miles of pristine rivers, lots of whitewater. Too bad I’ll be away, these are very interesting times.
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“Climate change is increasing the mobility of sand dunes in the southwest, posing threats to roadways, infrastructure, human health, cultural practices of the Navajo Nation, and much more. Vegetation on dunes serves as stabilizers, but as the climate warms and precipitation decreases, there is less vegetation growth.” “Sand Dunes on the Loose Due to Climate Change“

“Green dreams“

My post April 7 was a bit premature, but now Marc Morano’s new website, Climate Depot, is up and running. Check it out.
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“Climate Clearinghouse to Challenge Mainstream Media’s Eco-Reporting

Washington, DC (ClimateDepot.com) – Marc Morano, former Communications Director for the Senate Environment & Public Works Committee and senior aide, speechwriter, and climate researcher for Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), will become the executive editor and chief correspondent for ClimateDepot.com, a pioneering climate and eco-news center. The news effort, set to debut this week, will be a special project of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) with the goal of becoming the most comprehensive information center on climate news and the related issues of environment and energy.

CliimateDepot.com will serve as a premier news and information center for global warming and related news on environment and energy. The news outlet will be a climate and environmental clearinghouse complete with special investigative reports, voluminous data bases, and guides for policymakers, parents, teachers, scientists, and the general public.

“For far too long, climate and environmental news has been tainted by the woeful reporting of journalists like ABC’s Bill Blakemore, the Associated Press’ Seth Borenstein, Newsweek’s Sharon Begley, CBS’s Scott Pelley, NBC’s Anne Thompson, Time Magazine and many others,” Morano said. “Sadly, many of today’s mainstream climate reporters would be better suited writing newsletters for Al Gore than attempting to inform the public about the latest climate science developments,” Morano added.” “ClimateDepot.com Launch Aims To Redefine Global Warming Reporting“