Fund Managers Face a Conflict - The New York Times
Aug 12 2010

Fund managers should occasionally say no to new cash to keep from hurting performance. But in the money business, that’s easier said than done.

Warming trends may change global wine map - The Times of India
Aug 17 2010

The wine industry may be among the very few in which a leading figure will smile broadly when asked about climate change and declare, "I love it."

The Price of Wheat - The New York Times
Aug 28 2010

Wheat production may normalize. But unless climate change is forestalled, the next worrying harvest could be around the corner.

Media Ignores Latest "Deniers" Conference - Again - Global Warming Hysteria
May 19 2010

Alan Caruba notes that, yet again, the mainstream media is in denial about the climate facts. As the Heartland Institute met last week and set forth a plethora of facts, reason and logic that showed the climate may well be in cooling mode again, the MSM did what it does best: missed the real story.

Ah, we will miss it when its gone (which won't be too long).

Here's an extract:

The Fourth International Conference on Climate Change concluded Tuesday in Chicago. Sponsored by The Heartland Institute, a non-profit, free market think tank, it brought together eminent (and legitimate!) scientists and other distinguished folk for panels and speeches addressing the arcane mysteries of climate.

Among the dignitaries addressing the thousand or more people who attended was former astronaut, Harrison Schmitt, PhD, a one-term Senator who discussed why the U.S. Constitution makes no provision whatever for the Department of Energy or the Environmental Protection Agency. For three days men who know their science in ways that would fill entire libraries held forth.

A Google search for any mainstream media coverage of the event turned up little evidence of it, nor is it likely that were I to list the names of the speakers, you would have ever heard of them. These foremost “deniers” have received short shrift in a media that has been determined to convince Americans that the Earth is burning up due to an infinitesimal amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

And here are some key recent facts Alan points out. Facts that don't interest the MSM

UK - Coldest winter in a lifetime - Freezing in May - 12 May 10
Record Cold in Paris - 11 May 10
Snow in "sunny" Spain - Coldest May since records began - 6 May 10
Snow In Southern France - 5 May 10
Again? Yet another Alberta snowstorm! - 5 May 10

The biggest news emerging from the conference is that, in addition to the fact that the Earth is ten years into another perfectly natural cooling cycle, it is also verging on another ice age.

For the complete article go here.

Arctic Getting Colder, says Russian Scientist - Global Warming Hysteria
Apr 26 2010

Oops. Now it seems that the main reason over one quarter of the Arctic ice has recovered from its recent recession of ice mass is because ... the Arctic looks to be getting colder, not warmer.

Surprising is it not, to find that more more ice is due to more cold. Still, the logic of that will still be lost on the warmists whose intellect and scientific underastanding is suffering from an even worse recession. 

Anyway, here's what our Russian friend says at the UPI news agencey:

A Russian scientist says the Arctic may be getting colder, not warmer, which would hamper the international race to discover new mineral fields.

An Arctic cold snap that began in 1998 could last for years, freezing the northern marine passage and making it impassable without icebreaking ships, said Oleg Pokrovsky of the Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory.

"I think the development of the shelf will face large problems," Pokrovsky said Thursday at a seminar on research in the Polar regions.

Scientists who believe the climate is warming may have been misled by data from U.S. meteorological stations located in urban areas, where dense microclimates creates higher temperatures, RIA Novosti quoted Pokrovsky as saying.

"Politicians who placed their bets on global warming may lose the pot," Pokrovsky said.

Johann Hari: Writer, Climate Claptrap - Global Warming Hysteria
Apr 19 2010

Some of you must have caught the 'beware of the British deniers' piece by UK The Independent journo Johann Hari. If you didn't in a piece published by The Nation (and given wider readership by Real Clear Politics) he took a desperate swing at the Brit journos and alleged key-thinkers setting the real science record straight after media idiots like him screwed it up.

When he sat down to write Climate Claptrap, Hari cannot have considered the irony of his position, given zero evidence for the need to sign up to the 'End is Nigh' climate alarmist club (as he has). And why am I reminded of The Guardian's ill-fated campaign to defeat George W. Bush by telling smalltown USA who to vote for in 2004? If there's one thing Americans don't need, its my fellow countrymen failing to address the actual issues instead telling them how to think.

The patronizing Hari believes American's need his help to spot claptrap when they see it, not by considering the issues (as we do) but by directing flak at those who disagree - especially those who are prepared to put their head above the parapet and put their disagreement in writing - with the current science 'consensus'.

For my rebuttal to the intellectually-challenged Hari, go here to Canada Free Press.

The Great British Solar Scam (and the scourge of feed-in tariffs) - Global Warming Hysteria
Aug 23 2010

The British Government is pushing solar panels by paying homeowners in the UK to invest in them. Before you make the mistake of actually doing it if you live in the UK - or anywhere outside the tropics - you need to read "The Great British Solar Scam" here at Energy Tribune.

Here's a taster:

In April the outgoing Labour Government introduced a new feed-in tariff scheme obliging the power companies to pay their customers for any power they may produce either for themselves or for feeding into the grid. The money to pay them will, of course, be raised through higher energy bills. As Monbiot points out, the trouble is that these subsidizing feed-in tariff schemes too often end up rewarding schemes that are “comically inefficient.” It is not often I agree with George Monbiot, but I applaud the sense and humanity inherent in his biggest two gripes over the national solar plan:

1. The scheme hits the poor hardest by shifting a total wealth of $12.7 billion from society’s poorest (who will have zero chance of raising the large amounts of cash to install the wind, solar et al infrastructure in the first place) to the middle classes (the ones able to afford the investment in infrastructure).

2. The scheme makes no economic sense whatsoever as there are far more efficient ways to lower carbon emissions as the publication earlier this year of the government’s own table tariffs makes abundantly clear.



Scientists dig deep into ocean warming conundrum - The Times of India
Jul 22 2010

In the remote, frigid abyss of the deep oceans, temperatures are slowly rising. Not by much, but spread over the vast depths of the deep the change is significant, adding to sea level rise and possibly heralding even greater impacts for mankind and the planet.

Pak floods, Russia wildfires and China landslides due to global warming: Experts - The Times of India
Aug 11 2010

Climate change experts are of the view that global warming predictions are correct and the world weather crisis that is causing floods in Pakistan, wildfires in Russia and landslides in China is evidence that.

Global warming shrank carnivores 55 million years ago - The Times of India
Aug 25 2010

Extinct carnivorous mammals shrank in size during a global warming event that occurred 55 million years ago, according to a new University of Florida study.

No concrete proof to pin Leh cloudburst on global warming: Experts - The Times of India
Aug 18 2010

Two weeks back, a Himalayan desert town, Leh was ravaged by a fatal cloudburst - but scientists insist that there isn't sufficient evidence to confirm that it occurred as a result of global warming.

Weird Weather in a Warming World - The New York Times
Sep 07 2010

Though today’s extreme weather can’t be reliably attributed to the greenhouse effect, it does give us the feel of what’s to come if emissions are not reined in.

Warming could reduce rainfall - The Times of India
Aug 31 2010

Scientists have warned that global warming could reduce rainfall, contrary to the belief that rising temperatures lead to increase in overall precipitation levels.

Russia faces $15 billion heatwave losses: Economists - The Times of India
Aug 10 2010

Russia is starting to count the losses of the worst heatwave in its history, with economists warning the weather may cost the country up to 15 billion dollars and undercut a modest economic revival.

Energy and Climate Wars - Global Warming Hysteria
May 11 2010

So here is a first look at the newly designed cover for our book Energy and Climate Wars: How naive politicians, green ideologues and media elites are undermining the truth about energy and climate (Continuum Books).

What think ye? Personally, I like it.

Should any of you, thrilled at the sight of such well-creafted artistry be so moved as to want to have (and lovingly hold) a book that spells out the facts - debunking the speculation - about the vital energy and climate basics, then here it is!

For the chapter headings, (glowing!) endorsements and to buy go here (UK) or here (US).



Brace for solar tsunami - The Times of India
Aug 03 2010

The Earth could be hit by a "solar tsunami" anytime now as an unusually complex magnetic eruption on the Sun has flung a large cloud of electrically charged particles towards our planet, scientists have warned.

The Urgent Islands - The New York Times
Aug 30 2010

If a country sinks beneath the sea, is it still a country? That is a question about which the Republic of the Marshall Islands is seeking legal advice.

'50% rise in extreme rain incidence in last 50 yrs' - The Times of India
Aug 12 2010

The Leh cloudburst has again brought out the glaring lack of adequate documentation on such sporadic weather events. J Srinivasan, chairman of Divecha Centre for Climate Change and head of Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, tells TOI's Jayashree Nandi about the need for extensive research on extreme weather events like the cloudburst. Excerpts:

Near the North Pole, Looking at a Disaster - The New York Times
Aug 23 2010

Arctic warming may cause a global crisis. The time to prepare is now.

Cuccinelli’s Case Against Virginia Climate Researcher Rejected - The New York Times
Aug 31 2010

A judge ruled that the state attorney general failed to make his fraud case against Michael E. Mann but could try again.

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