h/t concrete
Y2Kyoto: If You Don’t Believe In Global Warming
Just look out your limo window;
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Environmental Responsibilities of the Secretariat
The secretariat is developing a policy aimed at making its offices and use of transport environmentally sustainable. The policy, which will cover a broad range of aspects of ‘sustainability at work’, is being developed in cooperation with other United Nations organizations and is expected to be implemented when the secretariat moves to the new United Nations campus here in Bonn.
Meanwhile, the secretariat has undertaken a number of initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of its activities. These initiatives have included efforts to reduce paper usage, actions to improve energy-use efficiency, favouring of train travel for short distances, and some ‘greening’ of procurement.
Efforts have been made to determine greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from the UNFCCC process. To this end, the GHG emissions inventory for the following bienniums have been prepared:
* (PDF) 2004-2005 GHG inventory
* 2006 GHG inventory to be posted soon
Pass the caviar.
h/t Shaken
We Don’t Need No Stinking Earthquake Generators
It does my taxpayer’s heart good to know that governments all over the planet are siphoning wealth from those who produce the reliable energy that’s keeping tens of thousands from freezing to death on this frigid December night, just so they can piss it away on renewable utter failure.
The company in charge of a California project to extract vast amounts of renewable energy from deep, hot bedrock has removed its drill rig and informed federal officials that the government project will be abandoned.
A method of tapping energy from bedrock has been linked to increased earthquake activity.
The project by the company, AltaRock Energy, was the Obama administration’s first major test of geothermal energy as a significant alternative to fossil fuels and the project was being financed with federal Department of Energy money at a site about 100 miles north of San Francisco called the Geysers.
But on Friday, the Energy Department said that AltaRock had given notice this week that “it will not be continuing work at the Geysers” as part of the agency’s geothermal development program.
Related – “Ontario, Quebec say they won’t shoulder oil sands burden”
I wish I owned all the oil companies in the world right now. I’d make a surprise appearance at Copenhagen, just to announce my retirement.
h/t Dorothy
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Y2Kyoto: What Rhymes With “Bangladesh”?
‘Twas the weeks before Sweden, Fine – Denmark, I know,
I lay here asleep, my yard full of snow,
The furnace all burning, the heat ’round my bed,
Dreams of bears drowning just danced in my head.
The children were snoring, their legs all askance,
wearing pajamas emblazoned with Spongebob Squarepants.
When out on the lawn, there arose such a noise,
which comes from a moonbat who’s lost all his poise.
I peeked out the window, and shuddered with fear,
Who else would be out there but AlGoracle Sneer.
His Prius all smoked, it clunked and it shook,
For alas! His batteries were completely all cooked.
His hair was slicked back, with Grecian care,
a fixed grin on his face, with a horrible stare.
His suit all a-wrinkled, his shoes all worn down,
A VP’s dour face all lit with a frown.
Then – He spat and he roared, in maniacal glee,
A hockey stick graph soon nailed to a tree.
His disciples he called, an inferno of fire,
they crawled from the depths, all full of ire.
“You cretins! You morons!”, Algoracle yelled,
“The world now knows us as liars beheld!
Your emails, your code, I feel I must cuss,
As I toss you – no, pitch you, all under a bus!”
Mann and Jones cried, fingers all out disjoint,
“It’s all from him!”, “No, it’s FOIA’s fault!”
Algoracle glowed, he sparked and he lit,
A tree nearby soon smouldered and split.
He grabbed both those imps, and crammed them away,
To the revived Prius, who’d seen better days.
Grinned evilly to me, and lifted some wine,
And bid me adieu with a yelled “Hide the Decline!”.
– Karthanon
The Sound Of Settled Science
(It may take those of you on slower connections a few seconds to download and begin running.)
Click here for the high resolution version, and then make sure every kid you know under the age of 14 views it.
Update – There’s also a Youtube version here.
Y2Kyoto: Our Disappearing Wetlands
Saskatoon Star Phoenix – June 15, 2006
Following is the opinion of the writer, a geography professor at the University of Saskatchewan and director of the centre for hydrology. He holds a Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change.
Streams, sloughs and wetlands may not be sustainable under climate change, and the slightly milder winters anticipated under global warming may dry out the Prairies.
[…]
On June 5, the United Nations Environment Programme announced a study that shows the world’s desert and arid regions are at risk of becoming even more parched. Research at the University of Saskatchewan supports this, showing the Canadian Prairies could be drying out due to more moderate winters.
With the mercury dropping below -30C in recent days, I’ve been staying close to home. It’s as good a time as any to review my own skepticism about climate change, to open my eyes to the planet around me in the context of that warning written over three years ago.
What I found is indeed, sobering.
Along Hwy 7 between Delisle and the village of Vanscoy is a very typical prairie slough. Its proximity to the highway permits even the casual observer to witness first hand the effects that runaway climate change is bringing to the Canadian prairies.
For nearly as long as I’ve lived here, the area pictured above has been home to a rich diversity of waterfowl. Just three years ago the water rose so high that a Canada goose chose the shoulder of the highway for her nesting site. Note also that the plants in this photo include reeds and other wetland species.
The plant debris caught on the barbed wire is incontrovertible evidence of just how high the water in this prairie wetland rose.
These fence posts are approximately 4′ in height, the residue indicating that the water was at least 3 feet deep, even at this location near the edge.
Today it’s all but dry. There will be no ducks bobbing here next spring, no buttercup goslings to delight the motoring public.
Just two short years ago, life-giving water covered this spot, from the edges of the highway where I stood, all the way to the trees on the far side. Food for thought…
Y2Kyoto: “Carbon Trade” And “Organized Crime”
Not just synonyms anymore!
Europes top police body Europol, the closest thing that European Union has to the American Fbi, has exposed a massive fraud with the unions official market in carbon credits, the Emission Trading System.
The fraud is costing tax payers in a handful of European countries more than five billion euro – 7 billion dollars – and raises doubts about the effectiveness of carbon trading as a measure to curb emissions.
Europol director Rob Wainwright issued the following statement:
These criminal activities endanger the credibility of the European Union Emission Trading System and lead to the loss of significant tax revenue for governments.
Police authorities in Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom have worked together in what Europol calls a process to identify and disrupt the organised criminal structures behind these fraud schemes.
Europol report here.
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The Sound Of All Hell Breaking Loose: Kevin, Gavin, Mike – It’s Seth Again!
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
By Seth Borenstein, Raphael Satter and Malcolm Ritter, Dec 12, 2009
“E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data — but the messages don’t support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press.”
On Jul 23, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Borenstein, Seth wrote:
Kevin, Gavin, Mike,
It’s Seth again. Attached is a paper in JGR today that
Marc Morano
is hyping wildly. It’s in a legit journal. Whatchya think?
Seth
Seth Borenstein
Associated Press Science Writer
[7]sborenstein@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
The Associated Press, 1100 13th St. NW, Suite 700,
Washington, DC
20005-4076
202-641-9454
(muchas gracias)
Update – a more detailed critique of the AP conflict of interest at WUWT, along with contact information for you to register complaints.
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Y2Kyoto: What Rhymes With “Bangladesh”?
As Gore’s a name that rhymes with whore
So sells the man his name for ore.
His lies are heard as gospel lore
His carbon footprint’s forty-four.
The inconvenient truth is more
That ego drives his hollow core.
He weeps his loss in ’00 and ‘04
The dirge he sings it makes me roar.
He screams about the rising shoal
Forbids the world from burning coal
But all the while he counts his roll
And limousined he sells his soul.
– Brian
Y2Kyoto: I Say We Start By Canceling The Olympics
Further to our highly successful poll, my interview with Charles Adler is available now at CJOB’s Audio Vault. December 11th, 1:00 PM Hour. It starts at about 34 minutes in.
All that needs to be said….
….about Canada capturing foreign nationals in a foreign nation can be summed up in three clauses:
- Release them,
- Hand them over,
- Create a Canadian POW Camp in Canada.
Pick one.
I Can See Romulus From My House
The Tolerant Left
QOTW
On the Madness of Crowds;
After all, how rational is it to pass laws banning one kind of light bulb (and insisting on their replacement by ones filled with poisonous mercury vapour) in order to “save electricity”, while ploughing money into schemes to run cars on … electricity?
Y2Kyoto: Help Yourself To The Donuts
Y2Kyoto: I Miss The Northwest Passage
Fair and balanced: In the interests of “not believing your own lying eyes” a guy in a boat says all of this new ice is rotten.
PS – Oh look! The Port of Churchill is stil open! For all the good it’s going to do them.
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Y2Kyoto: What Rhymes With “Bangladesh”?
To Gore or not to Gore,
That is the question;
Whether ’tis Nobel-Prizelier in the mind to suffer
The lies and forgings of outrageous emails
Or to take ridiculous measures against a sea of non-existant melting icebergs
and by assertion, effectively discredit them.
Vice-president no more; yet by this fame to say I have
An Oscar; and the thousand UN Praises
That Narcissism’s heir to;
’tis a consumation
Gaia-ly to be wisht
To have an Oscar;
Yet in that sleep of environmentalism
What dreams may come
When we can no longer “Hide the Decline”
Would really give us pause (if we were normal)…
– Black Mamba