“On Christmas eve, they were apparently only ‘2 nautical miles from open water’ when they got trapped. Today they were grateful the Aurora Australis got as close as 10 nautical miles. Hmm.”
Y2Kyoto: Caught In The Icy Grip Of Irony
Global Warming Science Boat May Be Trapped For Years In Non-Existent Ice
Update! Antarctic ship passengers to be evacuated by Chinese helicopter
Y2Kyoto: Escape From Irony
More at Fox News.
h/t Kevin B
Y2Kyoto: The Time Has Come
…the Warmist said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing-wax–
Of cabbages–and kings–
And why the sea is boiling hot–
And whether pigs have wings.”
Mann Overboard
Score one for the good guys.
Y2Kyoto: Iceland VS Canada
Things Iceland believes in;
Things Canada believes in;
Any questions?
Just One?
Top climate official likely to be jailed.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
That which I predicted has come to pass:
Hundreds of businesses could be paid to switch off their power between 4pm and 8pm on winter weekdays as soon as next winter to prevent blackouts, under plans approved by regulator Ofgem.
Mothballed old gas-fired power stations will also be paid to come back to stand-by so they can be fired up to prevent the lights going out when demand is high.
The plans – which together could cost household energy bill-payers about £1 each – were drawn up in the summer after warnings that the risk of blackouts had dramatically increased because old power plants are being shut down and replacements not built.
Global Test
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
John Kerry, September 2013 – ‘The science is clear. It is irrefutable and it is alarming […] If we continue down our current path, the impacts of climate change will only get worse.’
John Kerry, December 2013 – Visiting US secretary of state’s convoy took several hours to make its way from Ramallah to Jerusalem through wintery storm
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
It’s Not His Fault
The job description made him do it;
The EPA’s highest-paid employee and top expert on climate change engaged in “crime of massive proportions” by pretending to be working as an undercover agent for the CIA so he could avoid doing his real job for years, according to federal prosecutors and the agency’s top investigator on the case.
In a memorandum filed days before his sentencing in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, prosecutors asked that John C. Beale, 65, be sent to federal prison for at least 30 months for bilking the government out of nearly $1 million in salary and other benefits over a decade, and said his “historic” lies are “offensive” to those who actually do dangerous work for the CIA.
[…]
[His laywer] Kern also said Beale was driven “to manipulate those around him through the fabrication of grandiose narratives … ”
The Al Gore Effect
FIVE YEARS AGO YESTERDAY… Al Gore Predicted the North Pole Will Be Ice Free in 5 Years
Sorry, Cairo.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Snow-Capped Pyramids
Denial ain’t just a snowstorm in Egypt.
Related.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Ice Caps
Emperor Penguins have to march an extra 35 km, due to Antarctic sea ice expansion.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Ice Caps
Check your premises: Antarctic sea ice has grown to a record large extent for a second straight year, baffling scientists seeking to understand why this ice is expanding rather than shrinking in a warming world.
YNoKyoto
This is about one of the most damning pieces on the European climate movement I’ve read all year, and that from Germany’s equivalent of the Washington Post. An atmosphere of resignation is truly sweeping through Germany’s climate movement. Flagship media are waking up.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Ice Caps
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss Kitzbuhel
Austrian meteorological data show that European Alps have been cooling, at times massively, over the last 20 years: We are obviously very far away from milder winters. The trend actually is moving in the opposite direction! A few years ago climatologists advised winter sports locations in the Alps to reduce their investments in winter sports facilities – because of the ever increasing mean temperatures, they soon would not be worth it. So we ask ourselves, which increasing temperatures are the ladies and gentlemen even talking about?”
h/t Kevin B.
Ontario Embraces Green Ruin
Related: Flurries forecast for the weekend.
YNoKyoto: Throw Another Climate Conference On The Barbie
Representatives of most of the world’s poor countries have walked out of increasingly fractious climate negotiations after the EU, Australia, the US and other developed countries insisted that the question of who should pay compensation for extreme climate events be discussed only after 2015.
The orchestrated move by the G77 and China bloc of 132 countries came during talks about “loss and damage” – how countries should respond to climate impacts that are difficult or impossible to adapt to, such as typhoon Haiyan.
Saleemul Huq, the scientist whose work on loss and damage helped put the issue of recompense on the conference agenda, said: “Discussions were going well in a spirit of co-operation, but at the end of the session on loss and damage Australia put everything agreed into brackets, so the whole debate went to waste.”
Australia was accused of not taking the negotiations seriously. “They wore T-shirts and gorged on snacks throughout the negotiation. That gives some indication of the manner they are behaving in,” said a spokeswoman for Climate Action Network.
More: Germany mutates into a climate protection obstructionist.
h/t Maz2