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#globalwarmingfail – Record time between hurricane landfall in the US

A New US Hurricane Record: On December 4, 2011 it will have been 2,232 days since Hurricane Wilma made landfall along the Gulf coast as a category 3 storm back in 2005. That number of days will break the existing … Continue reading

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Climategate II – Longer, Harder, Uncut Emails

More emails, more bitchy scientific gossip, and more white labcoat backstabbing: You know what you get when you mix science and politics? You get politics, period. Hockey Stick Charlatan Michael Mann gets the worst of it from this batch of … Continue reading

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Sun may be headed for solar minimums in next decade

WattsUpWithThat – BREAKING – major AAS solar announcement: Sun’s Fading Spots Signal Big Drop in Solar Activity.

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My new favorite phrase: “A leash looking for a dog”

“The market (that is, all of us) ignore CO2 because it was never an issue. It became a convenient hobgoblin for interventionist busybodies and statist fucks… people with a leash looking for a dog, basically.” – Old Mexican

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Global Warming Skeptic Predicts Brutal Winter

Predicts “You ain’t seen nothing yet”. Hat tip to Instapundit. He couldn’t do any worse than the warmist predicters. How are those Pollyanna, post-Katrina hurricane predictions going, guys? Speaking of predictions, Oil Prices: Cornucopian Whomps Malthusian Once Again. Previously People … Continue reading

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“How many climate change scientists does it take to change a light bulb?”

“None. They all agree it will change.”

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Under Kyoto, the EU outsourced carbon emissions to third world

Kyoto Fraud Revealed: The left leaning Guardian newspaper in Britain let the cat out of the bag yesterday, reporting that while the EU’s emission of CO2 declined by 17% between 1990 and 2010, this apparent progress was bogus. If you … Continue reading

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James Cameron backs out of global warming debate at last minute

James Cameron: Gunslinger.

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The Emperor’s New Science

Seth Roberts reviews The Hockey Stick Illusion.

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So much for that peer-reviewed climate science

Reason – Climategate Update: About That Peer-Reviewed Stuff The Daily Telegraph is reporting that claims of rigorous peer-review [in the IPCC report] may have been exaggerated: a new study put this claim to the test. A team of 40 researchers … Continue reading

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Malthus, Population and Global Warming

Walter Russel Mead ties it all together. Doing What Comes Naturally: In the many, many years that have passed since I was a promising young sprout in pundit school the world has suffered through one Malthusian panic attack after another.  … Continue reading

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NASA/GISS has been adjusting temperatures since 2000

Thanks to emails revealed via FOIA requests, we now know that NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been adjusting satellite temperature data since 2000. But adjusting temperatures which way? Down? Sideways? In three-dimensional space? I’m kidding. Of course they … Continue reading

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Climategate’s Phil Jones publicly admits: No statistically significant warming for past 15 years

Link. I say publicly because he admitted it privately in emails that were exposed during Climategate. And from Ann Althouse: To talk about “sceptics” as the ones who will “seize” upon “evidence” of flaws is unwittingly to make global warming … Continue reading

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Shannon Love on Problems with Peer-reviewed Science

ChicagoBoyz – Scientific Peer-Review is a Lightweight Process: By the way that proponents of Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming (CAGW) wave it about as a talisman to ward off criticism, a lay person could be excused for thinking that peer review … Continue reading

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Climategate – the Timeline

That’s one gem from this amazing, extensively-footnoted PDF. The more you see of the data that was supposed to document warming the more pathetic it looks. EDIT: Did I say “pathetic”? I apologize. I meant to say “fraudulent.” Via Insty.

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The Science is Settled: Pets as Bad as SUVs for Planet

Terra Daily – Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man’s best friend: Combine the land required to generate its food and a “medium” sized dog has an annual footprint of 0.84 hectares (2.07 acres) — around twice the 0.41 hectares … Continue reading

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Disappearing the Medieval Warm Period in Wikipedia

“If a consensus of the majority is all it takes to determine what is right, then having and controlling information becomes extraordinarily important.” – Masamune Shirow Financial Post – Wikipedia’s climate doctor: All told, (U.K. scientist and Green Party activist … Continue reading

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Send that climate data to the Siberian gulag

WattsUpWithThat – Russian IEA claims CRU tampered with climate data – cherrypicked warmest stations: Climategate has already affected Russia. On Tuesday, the Moscow-based Institute of Economic Analysis (IEA) issued a report claiming that the Hadley Center for Climate Change based … Continue reading

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Vee haf vayz of making zee climate data talk, yah?

Pajamas Media – Climategate: Something’s Rotten in Denmark … and East Anglia, Asheville, and New York City: In this story, see how Central Park data was manipulated in inconsistent ways. The original U.S. Historical Climate Network (USHCN) data showed a … Continue reading

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Tales from the Climategate File

IPCC hid the decline by hiding part of their graph: Steve Schnieder claims the IPCC didn’t use the now-discredited hockey stick as part of the evidence for the IPCC report. Roger Pielke corrects him. Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as … Continue reading

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