"Global Warming" - 'Sure looks like global temperatures track Total Solar Irradiance.'

                                       Reconstructed TSI (solar flux) chart 1610 to 2012.

"Global Warming" - 'Sure looks like global temperatures track Total Solar Irradiance.'HT: IceAgeNow.

See how low the TSI was during the Little Ice Age? And how high it was in the late 1900s?

How can anyone look at this chart and think that anything other than the sun drives our climate?

See larger version of chart here:  http://lasp.colorado.edu/lisird/tsi/historical_tsi.html


“Sure looks like global temperatures track Total Solar Irradiance,” says @NJSnowfan. Thanks to @NJSnowFan for this link

"Global Warming" - Eskimo walrus harvest down 83% in Alaska village – Too much ice.

"Global Warming" - Eskimo walrus harvest down 83% in Alaska village – Too much ice.HT: IceAgeNow.

Residents scrambling to find alternate sources of food before winter sets in.
Gambell, Alaska – For as long as many here can remember, hunters in this tiny village on St. Lawrence Island have managed to kill enough walruses to last through the brutal Arctic winter. After harvesting only 108 walruses this year, residents are scrambling to find alternate sources of food before winter sets in.

Unusually thick ice in the Bering Sea.

“The ice was so bad we couldn’t get out,” said Brian Aningayou. The 38-year-old hunter bagged only four walruses compared with his normal take of 20.

See photos of Gambell:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303464504579109442504589158.html#slide/1

'Global Warming' - Moscow weather: Cold spell could break records.

Moscow weather: Cold spell could break records.(MN).

Moscow is in the grips of a cold spell, and the abnormally low temperatures are not about to let up, weather forecasters say.

The first week of October will be chilly, with temperatures on Tuesday and Wednesday hovering between 0 and 7 degrees Celsius, according to Gidrometcenter, Russia’s official weather forecasting service. According to Fobos, temperatures could drop to minus 3 degrees, with snow and ice.

Those temperatures are about 5-7 degrees lower than the average for this time of year.

“This week the weather will be more like it is in late October,” RIA Novosti quoted a statement from the Fobos Weather Center as saying. “We are under the spell of very cold air. It’s quite likely that there will be record-low temperatures at night.
By Thursday, temperatures could drop to negative 5 degrees at night.
Slightly warmer weather is expected towards the weekend, but the temperatures will still be 4 degrees below the norm, according to Gidrometcenter.

"Global Warming Scam" - IPCC report “A Cowardly Cover-Up and a disgrace to science,” says astrophysicist.

"Global Warming Scam" - IPCC report “A Cowardly Cover-Up and a disgrace to science,” says astrophysicist.HT: IceAgeNow.

“If followed, (it) will lead to malnutrition, starvation and impoverishment of millions as world agriculture and economies are hit by the developing Mini-Ice-Age."

Piers Corbyn, astrophysicist and long-range weather and climate scientist and forecaster, comprehensively, scientifically, demolishes the UN IPCC 5th Report and MetOffice/BBC role in a 12page pdf complete with exciting graphs and dynamic quotes.

“The report is indeed totally laughable but also deadly dangerous,” says Piers.

“It is a cowardly cover-up of climate reality in which the BBC and Met Office play an especially dishonest role and an utter disgrace to science. It is a product of self-interested warmist parasites and Big Oil & energy giants who gain from high energy charges.

“It points the world in the wrong direction and if followed will lead to malnutrition, starvation and impoverishment of millions as world agriculture and economies are hit by the developing Mini-Ice-Age while the UN IPCC and Governments (Australia now excepted) impose green taxes in supposed preparation for warming climate changes which are opposite to what will happen.”

“the UN IPCC, Governments, Met Office and warmist media BBC, New York Times etc….prefer the public to suffer and even die than admit their deluded CO2 theory has failed every objective scientific test and can predict nothing."

See entire pdf:   http://www.weatheraction.com/docs/WANews13No39.pdf

Related:  Coldest September in Moscow this century.Record cold week in Eastern Europe

Many regions are expecting snowfall for the first time this season. It is estimated that the east of the continent and the Black Sea region will see temperatures up to 10-12 ° C cooler than normal.

Antarctic sea ice more than 1.3 million Km above average.

Antarctic sea ice more than 1.3 million Km above average.HT: IceAgeNow.

“We’ve just had the 4th greatest anomaly of the Antarctic sea ice,
with more than 1.3 million Km^2 above average,” says reader F. Guimaraes.

http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/seaice.anomaly.antarctic.png
And ~ 19 months straight above average of the sea ice in the S. Pole.
All the four greatest records since 1979 happened in the last 6 years.
The cooling of the climate is happening in both hemispheres simultaneously as we see here,
http://iceagenow.info/2013/06/arctic-sea-ice-greatest-extent-mid-june-years/
and
http://iceagenow.info/2013/06/coldest-start-arctic-summer-record/
“Just at the beginning of the new solar grand minimum, ultimately proving that solar radiations drive the climate,” Guimaraes points out.

Exposing the global warming con job.Hmmmm.......BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!Read the full story here.

President Obama’s Climate Initiative — The Bad News and Good News.

President Obama’s Climate Initiative — The Bad News and Good News.HT: WhattsUpWithThis.By Steve Goreham.

Originally published in The Washington Times
In his speech at Georgetown University on Tuesday, President Obama announced, “So today…I’m directing the Environmental Protection Agency to put an end to the limitless dumping of carbon pollution from our power plants and complete new pollution standards for both new and existing power plants.” This is the first proposal in the President’s new climate initiative. The President also called for expanded efforts to use “clean energy” and for the US to lead the world in bold actions to “combat climate change.”
For the last decade, an obsession with global warming has dominated a wide array of US government policies. Climatism, the belief that man-made greenhouse gases are destroying Earth’s climate, skews federal automobile, transportation, energy, and infrastructure policies. Billions are spent in the ongoing effort to fight climate change.

Today, US policies toward the automobile industry are “driven” by Climatism. In his speech, the President praised new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards that rise to 54.5 miles per gallon by year 2025 and that are designed to achieve reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Plug-in electric vehicles are promoted and subsidized as a solution to global warming.

Transportation is shaped by climate policy. Ethanol mandates result in the consumption of 40 percent of the US corn crop in vehicle fuel. Biodiesel is promoted as a way to reduce emissions. Even high-speed rail is proposed as a solution to move citizens from airplanes to trains to reduce emissions.

US energy policy is dominated by Climatism. Earlier this week, Dr. Daniel Schrag, an advisor to the president on climate, stated that “a war on coal is exactly what’s needed.” Despite the fact that more than 30 percent of US electricity is produced from coal today, regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency will make it impossible to build a new coal-fired plant. At the same time, the Obama administration provides loans and subsidies that promote wind, solar, and other forms of renewable energy.

At Georgetown, the President addressed the proposed Keystone Pipeline, which has been delayed for almost five years, stating, “…the pipeline’s impact on our climate will be absolutely critical to determine whether this project will be allowed to go forward.” When operating, the Keystone Pipeline can replace 45 percent of Persian Gulf oil imports with oil from Canada and the northern United States. But our President considers emissions to be a larger issue than reducing OPEC oil imports.

US infrastructure policies are heavily impacted by global warming fears. Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions is at the core of LEED building standards. Urban planning aims to reduce emissions by replacing private automobile transit with public transit. The current administration proposes tens of billions for a “smart electrical grid” to promote renewable energy and residential “smart meters” to promote energy efficiency, both pushed forward by the ideology of Climatism.

The bad news is that US citizens pay twice for the President’s war on climate. First, taxpayers subsidize green energy. The Production Tax Credit for wind energy will cost over $12 billion this year. Department of Energy loan guarantees to more than 20 bankrupt renewable energy companies, including Abound Solar, Beacon Power, Evergreen Solar, Solar Trust, and Solyndra have cost taxpayers billions. Taxpayers also pay for US military efforts to make biofuel out of algae at exorbitant prices.

Second, citizens pay higher costs for electricity, automobiles, and housing from green policies. The Department of Interior offshore wind program will deliver electricity to homeowners at three times the price of conventional power. Fuel economy mandates will raise the price of automobiles. Consumers must pay for smart meters that can curtail electricity usage.

The good news is that, despite fears, man-made emissions have very little effect on Earth’s climate. Water vapor, not carbon dioxide, is Earth’s dominant greenhouse gas. Emissions from human industry cause only about one percent of Earth’s greenhouse effect. And contrary to predictions by all 73 of the world’s top climate models, global temperatures have failed to rise over the last 15 years.
Someone needs to inform the president.
Steve Goreham is Executive Director of the Climate Science Coalition of America and author of the new book The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania.

Obama’s “Case for Action” on Climate Change Doesn’t Cut It.

Obama’s “Case for Action” on Climate Change Doesn’t Cut It.HT: Heritage.By Katie Tubb.

Yesterday, President Obama announced his climate action plan to drastically cut carbon dioxide emissions and mandate greater energy efficiency. This four-paragraph “case for action” on climate change does not legitimize the next 15 pages of federal overreach into the energy sector (and by extension the homes, businesses, and pocketbooks of anyone who uses energy).
“Climate change is no longer a distant threat—we are already feeling its impacts across the country,” according to the White House’s plan. The climate is always changing—that’s what it does. So how do we know this is a problem? President Obama gives us four reasons that don’t quite pass muster:

1. “Last year was the warmest year ever in the contiguous United States and about one-third of all Americans experienced 10 days or more of 100-degree heat.” Since global warming is a global phenomenon, it makes more sense to look at global temperatures. Last year didn’t even make it into the top three hottest years since accurate data have been collected. In fact, for the past 16 years, global temperatures have plateaued. And though 2012 had many days with record-high temps in the U.S., the 1930s were a whole lot hotter.
2. “Asthma rates have doubled in the past 30 years.” Asthma incidences have, it seems, increased, but the National Institute of Health (NIH) doesn’t know why, nor has it been able to explain why rates have leveled off in the U.S. over the past few decades. The NIH has identified this puzzle as an area where more research is needed, so the most that can be said is that is that we simply don’t know—hardly a recipe for regulatory action.
3. “And increasing floods, heat waves, and droughts have put farmers out of business, which is already raising food prices dramatically.” Droughts and floods in fact have not increased. Whether in South Korea, the United States, or globally, droughts and floods continue as they always have. Further, there doesn’t seem to be any correlation between the U.S. Climate Extremes Index and carbon emissions—the third highest-ranking year on the index was 1934. A better explanation for high food prices than climate change: the ethanol mandate.
4. “Last year alone, there were 11 different weather and climate disaster events with estimated losses exceeding $1 billion each across the United States.” The last time America suffered a hurricane greater than category 3 was Hurricane Wilma in 2005. We’ve been experiencing a hurricane “drought” of sorts. New York has been hit by large hurricanes before; the difference now is that millions of people and billions of dollars of infrastructure cover the same ground. The annual occurrence of strong tornadoes also hasn’t increased over the past half-century. But now the stories and images of human suffering in the wake of such a storm are pretexts for political blustering and maneuvering in Washington.

This isn’t heel-digging denial; the President is simply wrong. Though almost no one denies that the earth has warmed, there is no consensus on climate sensitivity, the role carbon dioxide plays or doesn’t, whether global warming is a problem, or how data fit into the broader climate context. Obama cannot solve a problem if we don’t know what it is or even if there is one. And it’ll certainly take more than four paragraphs to explain why.

Related: The Whitehouse releases a laughable state by state climate impact report

Uproariously laughable now, the White House state climate impact report claims there are 31 counties in Hawaii, when there are actually 5, see post.

The President’s Climate Action Plan – the good, the bad, and the ugly (with full documents)

The President’s Climate Action Plan – the good, the bad, and the ugly (with full documents).HT: WattsUpWithThat.

Summary:
I’m not impressed at all with the Obama plan. It lacks real vision, and seems written mainly to appease activist groups. While there are some glimmers of positive things in it, the lack of a real way forward (solar, biofuels, and wind aren’t it) combined with new restrictions can only mean higher energy prices in our future, most of it due to government meddling in the free market.
Like most everything from this president, it is likely to be mostly lip service and tied up in legal battles for years. By that time Obama will no longer be President, and we’ll be left to wrestle with the consequences.
The documents: (Thanks to Marc Morano of CFACT for getting access to these documents.)

Fact Sheet(PDF)
President’s Climate Action Plan (PDF)

Read and see the full story here.

The President’s Climate Action Plan: Intervention Where It Isn’t Necessary

The President’s Climate Action Plan: Intervention Where It Isn’t Necessary.HT: Cato. By Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger.

In his speech today, President Obama laid out his plan—formulated around executive action—to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in hopes of mitigating future climate change.
Funny thing is, absent his Climate Action Plan, the U.S. greenhouse gas emissions have been on the decline for a decade, and now are at about the same level as our emissions in the early 1990s. In fact, the decline in emissions is taking place at a rate faster than the one sought by the president.
So why mess with a good thing? There is no way that introducing a bunch of new government regulations is going to improve the situation. If the Great Recession is any indication, the outcome of government involvement in the energy industry will be a poor one.
And to what end? As I have repeatedly shown, reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions has no significant impact on the future course of climate change.
On top of that, new science is accumulating that indicates that the future course of climate change is likely to be less steep than our current climate model-based estimates.
And despite the president’s long list of supposed climate wrongs that are consistent with human-caused climate change, there is an equally long list of climate wrongs that have been averted for reasons “consistent with” climate change.
Taken together, declining U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and declining estimates of climate change, should have been enough to convince the president that things were already on the proper track—no government intervention necessary.

But this administration is characterized by intervening where it is not necessary. The president’s Climate Action Plan is more of the same. 

Snowfall changes in Antarctica

Obama’s “for the children” climate change video announcement.

Obama’s “for the children” climate change video announcement.HT: WattsUpWithThat

AP: Obama says he’ll unveil climate plan in Tuesday speech ‘for the sake of our children’. It seems though, that the world is making a collective yawn (consensus?) so far given the views.

The video has been up for nearly a day and has only 12.000 views and has 546 “likes” as of this writing.
This quote from the video makes me laugh and angry at the same time:

“We’ll need scientists to design new fuels and farmers to grow them,” he said. “We’ll need engineers to devise new sources of energy and businesses to make and sell them.”

The hell with “new fuels and farmers to grow them”, biofuels are low return on investment and raise the cost of our food supply; just get a Thorium reactor program started. The technology has been around for years, and the Chinese are already headed down that path.

Boehner: Obama’s climate plan ‘absolutely crazy’

Boehner hits the nail on the head

President Obama’s soon-to-be-revealed second-term climate change proposal is “absolutely crazy,” Speaker John Boehner said Thursday.

The Ohio Republican was incredulous when asked to react to reports that the White House plans to regulate carbon emissions from power plants as part of its climate change strategy.
“I think this is absolutely crazy,” Boehner said at his weekly press conference. “Why would you want to increase the cost of energy and kill more American jobs at a time when American people are asking, ‘Where are the jobs.’ “

Meanwhile: 

UCLA pulls a “children aren’t going to know what snow is”

As one comment points out:

Apparently they cannot do web searches:

“This is the first time snow has fallen in the state of Arkansas during the month of May. …May 4, 2013 will go down in the record books as the latest snowfall in Arkansas.”
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tsa/?n=weather-event_2013may2
“Even though it is now May, the brutal, never-ending winter of 2012-13 obstinately refuses to relent, and has dumped heaps of snow from Denver to southern Minnesota. Single-day record May snowfalls have likely fallen in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/05/02/historic-snow-and-cold-strike-rockies-and-upper-midwest/
Blizzard Of 2013 Reaches Top 5 Snowstorms In New England History
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/02/09/snowfall-nearing-record-levels-several-more-inches-coming/

Obama Climate Change Push Begins Tuesday.

Obama Climate Change scam Push Begins Tuesday. HT: WhiteHouseDossier.By KeithKoffler.

President Obama will begin his attempt to make the waters recede with an address on global warming Tuesday afternoon at Georgetown University in Washington.

He announced the speech in a carbon-friendly tweet this afternoon.The tweet contained a video.


As you may be aware, the push will come by executive fiat, Congress having been unwilling to concur with the wisdom of The One.

“This Tuesday, I’ll lay out my vision for where I believe we need to go — a national plan to reduce carbon pollution, prepare our country for the impacts of climate change, and lead global efforts to fight it,” the president said. “This is a serious challenge — but it’s one uniquely suited to America’s strengths.”

Hmmmmm.....New Zealand: Mt Hutt ski area closed – Too much snow - Obama this week "We must act on global warming before it's too late'.As Anthony and others have pointed out, even the New York Times has at last been constrained to admit what Dr. Pachauri of the IPCC was constrained to admit some months ago. There has been no global warming statistically distinguishable from zero for getting on for two decades.

Met Office releases new figures which show no warming in 15 years

Damn.........IT'S TOO LATE FOR THE SCAM TO WORK !

21 June 2013 New Zealand: Mt Hutt

Contrary to the Numerous prophet’s assertions, the Earth has been cooling for 2000 years.

Contrary to the Numerous prophet’s assertions, the Earth has been cooling for 2000 years.HT: IceAgeNow.

“Thoroughly debunks the claim that temperatures on the planet today are in any way historic or unprecedented.”

A new study of tree-ring data has concluded that not only has our climate often been noticeably hotter than today, temperatures have actually been on a falling trend for the past 2,000 years.

Measurements stretching back to 138 BC prove that the Earth is slowly cooling -0.3°C per millennium due to gradual changes to the position of the sun and an increase in the distance between the Earth and the sun.

The climate was HOTTER in Roman and Medieval times than it is now.

Despite the absence of any significant amounts of human-released carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the climate was HOTTER in Roman and Medieval times than it is now.

“We found that previous estimates of historical temperatures during the Roman era and the Middle Ages were too low,” says Doctor Jan Esper of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, one of the scientists leading the study. “Such findings are also significant with regard to climate policy.”

Orbital shifting on climate up to four times as powerful as AGW (human-caused warming)

The cooling effect of orbital shifting on the climate has been up to four times as powerful as anthropogenic (human-caused) warming pressures, the study concluded.Read the full story here.

Obama's Energy Secretary says Climate Change not Debatable.

Thunk! That’s the sound of the EU carbon credit inverse hockey stick hitting the floor.

Thunk! That’s the sound of the EU carbon credit inverse hockey stick hitting the floor.HT: Wattsupwiththat.By Anthony Watts.

After hitting record lows back in January, there was a plan to prop up the EU carbon market. That worked…for a while. Then the backloading plan was rejected, and the real market forces took over.

From: Environmental leader: EU Carbon Prices Plunge to Record Lows

Carbon prices hit record lows today after the European Parliament rejected an emergency plan to boost the ailing EU carbon market.

In a 334-315 vote, with more than 60 abstentions, lawmakers rejected a proposal to postpone — or backload — the auctioning of 900 million EU Emissions Trading Scheme allowances from the years 2013-2015 to 2019-2020. This measure was intended to rebalance supply and demand, and reduce price volatility.

European commissioner for climate action Connie Hedegaard said the plan will now go back to the Parliament’s environment committee for further consideration.Hmmm......Don't worry i'm sure Pres Obama will start Carbon trading soon in America......As P.T. Barnham allegedly said: "There's one born every minute'.Read the full story and more here.

"How Will a Carbon Tax stop or cure this?" - Melting Permafrost: 'Scientists Warn of Dangers of Trapped Carbon'.

"How Will a Carbon Tax stop or cure this?" - Melting Permafrost: 'Scientists Warn of Dangers of Trapped Carbon'.(Spiegel).Research published Thursday in the journal Science says that even slightly warmer temperatures could start melting permafrost, which in turn threatens to trigger the release of huge amounts of greenhouse gases trapped in ice.
The frosty dungeon hides a dark secret. At least a quarter of the Northern Hemisphere's landmass is frozen and, like a vault, it holds 1,700 gigatonnes of carbon. This unimaginably high quantity of carbon comes from countless generations of creatures that have lived and died in the area over millions of years.
A portion of those dead plants and animals weren't decomposed by microorganisms because, at a certain point, it was simply too cold for that. But the permafrost is slowly melting. If large areas of ground underneath were to thaw one day, the bacterial decomposition process would pick up where it left off, releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases. In total, permafrost contains twice as much carbon as what is currently billowing through the Earth's atmosphere.
If major portions of that carbon become released, the world's climate would suffer fatal consequences. For this reason, scientists have for some time now been asking the frightening question of just how strongly global warming affects permafrost areas. Using ingenious measuring methods, they are meticulously monitoring the fate of the planet. A new study, published in the professional journal Science on Thursday, suggests that it's possible that even slightly higher temperatures could thaw out significant portions of the region's permafrost areas.
A portion of those dead plants and animals weren't decomposed by microorganisms because, at a certain point, it was simply too cold for that. But the permafrost is slowly melting. If large areas of ground underneath were to thaw one day, the bacterial decomposition process would pick up where it left off, releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases. In total, permafrost contains twice as much carbon as what is currently billowing through the Earth's atmosphere.
In periods with higher tempatures, the permafrost retreats further north. The Lenskaya Ledyanaya Cave lies at 40 degrees north latitude, in an area currently on the border of continuous permafrost. If the temperatures rise another one or two degrees, to approach something like what they were in the interglacial period 400,000 years ago, the situation would most likely look differently. "That is probably the threshold where continuous permafrost becomes vulnerable," says Vaks.
If major portions of that carbon become released, the world's climate would suffer fatal consequences. For this reason, scientists have for some time now been asking the frightening question of just how strongly global warming affects permafrost areas. Using ingenious measuring methods, they are meticulously monitoring the fate of the planet. A new study, published in the professional journal Science on Thursday, suggests that it's possible that even slightly higher temperatures could thaw out significant portions of the region's permafrost areas. Read the full story here.

Power chief: Carbon credits face a ‘junk bond’ future.

Power chief: Carbon credits face a ‘junk bond’ future.(Euractive).Europe is staring at a ‘lost decade’ that will make decarbonisation impossible and reduce carbon credits to the value of ‘junk bonds’ unless politicians back a carbon market reform package, the head of Europe’s electricity industry association has told EurActiv.

Last week, MEP’s on the European parliament’s industry (ITRE) committee rejected a proposal to firm up carbon prices by withholding – or ‘backloading’ – 900 million EU allowances from the 2020 auctioning period.

Analysts expect a narrow majority for action in key votes on the parliament’s environment committee on 19 February and, crucially, in a plenary later this Spring.
But Hans ten Berge, secretary-general of Eurelectric, warned that “if we choose the strategy of a lost decade then we are going for a collapse of the carbon market and it will be impossible to achieve the 2050 decarbonisation targets.”

Carbon prices, which are supposed to entice low-carbon investments, plunged to a record low of just €2.81 per tonne after the ITRE committee vote, down from a peak of €32 in April 2006. But ten Berge said that the price could yet fall further.

“Just ask investors what the value is of a bond that you would not be able to cash before 2025,” he said. “I think that would be called a junk bond.”Hmmmm....'There's one born every minute'.Read the full story here.