Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
h/t Maz2
Y2Kyoto: “Think of the larvae.”
Bye, Bye, Green Blog
The New York Times throws in the towel.
The Times is discontinuing the Green blog, which was created to track environmental and energy news and to foster lively discussion of developments in both areas.
Meanwhile, there’s trouble down at the Bloggies;
“Reflecting such concern, I have learned that Skeptical Science, who have never lobbied to be nominated and are the only non-climate sceptic blog on the Science shortlist, has now asked to be withdrawn from the shortlist due to its concerns about the legitimacy of the voting process.”
I blame the climate.
Y2Kyoto: If You Don’t Believe In Global Warming
Just look out your window: Northern Hemisphere Sets New, All-Time Record Cold Temperature: -96.1°F In Oymyakon Siberia…
Y2Kyoto: EU Emissions Trading In Freefall
Via Global Warming Policy Foundation:
Related:
If people are prepared to ban innocent childish pastimes on the flimsiest of environmental excuses, what else are they prepared to ban? What other aspects of our public and private lives will the green police intrude on?
See above. Where there is no reason, there are no limits.
h/t Kevin B, Adrian
Howie Chong Is President Of Sierra Club Of Canada
There are over 130 buses bringing people into Washington DC for the #ForwardOnClimate march.
— Howie Chong (@howiechong) February 17, 2013
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Taxpayers.com: Crunching the tax dollars obliterated under the Pacific Carbon Trust.
The Sound Of Imaginary Science
The BBC now has egg on its face. As Leo Hickman at the Guardian explains, a television show narrated by David Attenborough recently claimed that:
Some parts of the [African] continent have become 3.5C hotter in the past 20 years.
Hickman is no climate skeptic, but even his radar went off.
The Sound Of Settled Science
After the planet’s average surface temperature rose through the 1990s, the increase has almost leveled off at the level of 2000, while ocean water temperature has also stabilized, the Research Council of Norway said in a statement on its website. After applying data from the past decade, the results showed temperatures may rise 1.9 degrees Celsius if Co2 levels double by 2050, below the 3 degrees predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Elizabeth May could not be reached for comment.
Y2Kyoto: State Of Anorexia Envirosa
Chase Power, the parent company behind the $3 billion Las Brisas coal power plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, announced yesterday that it was cancelling the project.
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Freysinger made it very clear who was responsible for the projects death. “The (Las Brisas Energy Center) is a victim of EPA’s concerted effort to stifle solid-fuel energy facilities in the U.S., including EPA’s carbon-permitting requirements and EPA’s New Source Performance Standards for new power plants,” he said.
The Las Brisas power plant had been part of a larger Las Brisas Energy Center project planned for Corpus Christi’s Inner Harbor.Economists had projected that in the first 5 years of construction and operation the project would create as 1,300 direct and 2,600 indirect jobs. Now none of those jobs will exist.
The Sound Of Settled Science
The Gore Effect
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
January 2nd, 2013 – Al Gore pockets $100 million in oil money.
January 23, 2013 – US sets 662 all-time low temperature records over past 22 days
The Sound Of Settled Science
Video Lecture: Solar vs. Anthropogenic–Better Understanding of 20th Century Climate Change
The Sound Of Settled Science
A forecast the Met Office hoped you wouldn’t see.
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Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Polar Ice Caps
This story is clearly false.
A community in Quebec’s Far North is calling for outside help to free about a dozen killer whales trapped under a vast stretch of sea ice.
And then, there’s this;
One woman who made the journey to the gap in the ice said even a curious polar bear approached the hole amid the commotion.
They must take us for fools.
Update – SDA gets results!
(h/t Canuck Jack)
This Is Awkward
Paul Watson — founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society — has been sued by Ady Gil … who claims he owned the famous Ady Gil ship featured on “Whale Wars.” Gil claims he let Watson’s organization use his boat, so long as they took care of it.
In his suit, filed yesterday in L.A. County Superior Court, Gil says his vessel was rammed by a Japanese whaling ship in 2010 … and suffered damage to the nose … but the damage was repairable.
According to Gil, Watson saw the collision as an opportunity to spin the incident into a major publicity and money maker for his organization … so instead of towing the boat to port for repairs, he secretly gave an order to sink the ship “under the cover of darkness” … and blamed the Japanese.
I admit to being disappointed. I’d long admired the Japanese for that.
Y2Kyoto: I’ll Miss The Panda Bears
Planetary fever update:
Temperatures in China have plunged to their lowest in almost three decades, cold enough to freeze coastal waters and trap 1,000 ships in ice, official media said at the weekend.
al-Gore
He’s living large on oil money now, dear. RT @katrinanation: Al-Jazeera buys Current TV. What’s that mean for Al Gore?
— RB (@RBPundit) January 3, 2013
More: “Mr. Gore and his partners were eager to complete the deal by Dec. 31, lest it be subject to higher tax rates that took effect on Jan. 1.”
Related: #CurrentAlJazeeraShowPitches
Why Not Wait ‘Til It Melts?
An ambitious plan by a team of British scientists at the Antarctic to look for life in a lake buried under almost two miles of ice was abandoned this week, after a decade of preparation and almost a month of drilling.
h/t Maz2