The Global Humanitarian Forum - former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan[s personal, Geneva-based NGO - will next week convene a conference devoted to “the significant and rapidly growing human impact of climate change.” We may be sure that Prof. Roger Pielke of the University of Colorado will not be among the invitees. That’s because he dubbed the alarmist report on which the conference is based “a methodological embarrassment and poster child for how to lie with statistics.”

The GHF report and conference are part of the relentless diplomatic push ahead of the Copenhagen meetings in December at which a successor to Kyoto is meant to be hatched. Mr. Annan predicted “mass starvation, mass migration and mass sickness” unless there is agreement.

The GHF’s report, titled “The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis,” claims that predominantly man-made climate change is already killing 300,000 people a year, and causing suffering to hundreds of millions, at an annual cost of US$125-billion. The impact is projected to get much worse, killing half a million annually by 2030.

These claims have no basis in fact or science. Read much more here.

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1984 Twenty-Five Years Later

Can Big Brother be green? Absolutely. If carbon dioxide were the planetary poison that global warming alarmists claim, then every aspect of our lives would be fair game for government control. Al Gore pushes this top down Orwellian approach here.

See larger CEI youtube video here.

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See Dr. Dewpoint reincarnated library of posts here. Latest post is El Nino in a Cold PDO - Are They Different?

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It follows that scientists worldwide have not only failed to understand anything, but the hoaxer and dreamers: the anthropogenic global warming is the most colossal forgery of the century....the biggest sham of the last 15 years...the conjecture of anthropogenic global warming should be regarded as pure speculation today- phiscally disproved by the real facts”

Read his open letter to the American Physical Society urging them to change their statement on Climate change here, suggesting very different wording. H/t Alan Siddons.  Icecap endorses Franco Battaglia’s suggestions.

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1984 Twenty-Five Years Later

Can Big Brother be green? Absolutely. If carbon dioxide were the planetary poison that global warming alarmists claim, then every aspect of our lives would be fair game for government control. Al Gore pushes this top down Orwellian approach here.

See larger CEI youtube video here.

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See Dr. Dewpoint reincarnated library of posts here.
Latest post is El Nino in a Cold PDO - Are They Different?

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Also now available some items that will gore your alarmist friends (part of the proceeds go to support Icecap) SOME NEW ITEMS:

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And “My carbon footprints are bigger than yours and plants love me for it” items here and here

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Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, today commented on the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) cost estimate for the Waxman-Markey global warming cap-and-trade bill. 

“This bill undermines President Obama’s campaign pledge to cut taxes for middle class taxpayers,” Sen. Inhofe said.  “The CBO analysis reveals that cap-and-tax legislation would destroy American jobs, lower wages, and impose a massive tax increase on middle class families over the next 10 years.  As we look to jump start the economy, the last thing Washington should do is impose the largest tax increase in history on consumers. As is always the case with cap-and-tax, the more that is exposed, the more likely the American people will reject it.”

Professor Ian Plimer, author of Heaven and Earth - Global Warming The Missing Science, with ABN Newswire’s Brian Carlton. In an extensive interview with Professor Plimer, Carlton takes the pragmatist’s chair and speaks with the author about the new book. See and hear this excellent video interview here.

Challenging the Climate Change status quo, Plimer reveals why he thinks that the new Climate Change Religion is a “load of hot air”.

“Well, I am not skeptical about climate change at all. Climates always change, they always have and they always will, and that’s in many ways the purpose of the book, that if you ignore history you come up with a conclusion that just doesn’t fit in with the evidence. And that is, that we are suddenly in a period where climates change. We’re not! Climates always change, they’ve changed much quicker and much greater than anything we measure today.”

About Professor Ian Plimer: Ian Rutherford Plimer is an Australian geologist and academic. He is a prominent critic of creationism and of the theory of anthropogenic global warming. He has authored approximately 60 academic papers over 36 years, and six books. Plimer is currently Professor of Mining Geology at the University of Adelaide. He was previously a Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He is also a prominent member of the Australian Skeptics. He was awarded the Clarke Medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2004.

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1984 Twenty-Five Years Later

Can Big Brother be green? Absolutely. If carbon dioxide were the planetary poison that global warming alarmists claim, then every aspect of our lives would be fair game for government control. Al Gore pushes this top down Orwellian approach here.

See larger CEI youtube video here.

See Embarrassment: UN IPCC ‘scientist’ Ben Santer promotes climate fears in kids video with ‘Simon the Hippo’ In it he attributes Kilimanjaro ice loss to “global warming”. He more appropriately should have used a donkey.

See Reality Check on Kilimanjaro here.
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The BBC’s environmental coverage has come under fire from a former science correspondent. Award-winning author and journalist David Whitehouse says the corporation risks public ridicule - or worse - with what he calls “an evangelical, inconsistent climate change reporting and its narrow, shallow and sparse reporting on other scientific issues.”

Whitehouse relates how he was ticked off for taking a cautious approach to apocalyptic predictions when a link between BSE in cattle ("Mad Cow Disease") and vCJD in humans was accepted by government officials in 1996. Those predictions “...rested on a cascade of debateable assumptions being fed into a computer model that had been tweaked to hindcast previous data,” he writes. “My approach was not favoured by the BBC at the time and I was severely criticised in 1998 and told I was wrong and not reporting the BSE/vCJD story correctly.”

The Beeb wasn’t alone. With bloodthirsty glee, the Observer newspaper at the time predicted millions infected, crematoria full of smoking human remains - and the government handing out suicide pills to the public. Whitehouse feels his caution is now vindicated. The number of cases traced to vCJD in the UK is now 163 - and the only suicides were farmers who had feared their livelihoods destroyed.

“Reporting the consensus about climate change...is not synonymous with good science reporting. The BBC is at an important point. It has been narrow minded about climate change for many years and they have become at the very least a cliché and at worst lampooned as being predictable and biased by a public that doesn’t believe them anymore,” he writes.

Whitehouse is a former astronomer (published academic papers listed here) who became a BBC science correspondent and Science Editor at BBC Online.

The threshold for introducing a climate change angle into an unrelated story can be pretty low - have a look at this example involving a fossilized giant snake. While activists have discovered that getting a story changed can be relatively easy - it just needs a little bullying by email.

More than two years ago we criticized how the BBC’s TV science flagship Horizon had abandoned explaining science in preference to fantasy. Many of you agreed.

As Whitehouse explains, an epidemic or a natural catastrophe is a compelling and dramatic narrative, too good to be spoiled by contradictory facts. So perhaps all the producers want to do is make movies - disaster movies. And so reporting the catastrophe turns the reporter into a dramatic actor in the narrative: one who’s guaranteed to be top of the billing, as long as the story lives.

Benny Peiser CCNet Note: You can read the essay on the CCNet list website. It’s merely a pity that he had to leave before going public with such criticism.

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1984 Twenty-Five Years Later

Can Big Brother be green? Absolutely. If carbon dioxide were the planetary poison that global warming alarmists claim, then every aspect of our lives would be fair game for government control. Al Gore pushes this top down Orwellian approach here.

See larger CEI youtube video here.

See Embarrassment: UN IPCC ‘scientist’ Ben Santer promotes climate fears in kids video with ‘Simon the Hippo’ In it he attributes Kilimanjaro ice loss to “global warming”. He more appropriately should have used a donkey.

See Reality Check on Kilimanjaro here.
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Also now available some items that will gore your alarmist friends (part of the proceeds go to support Icecap):

See full size display here.

And “My carbon footprints are bigger than yours and plants love me for it” items here and here

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"Evidence is quite clearly emerging that man is not having the impact on the climate that the EU climate alarmists claim. They have failed to note that throughout Earth’s history temperatures have exceeded today’s levels. There have been warm periods followed by cyclical cooling, as there will be again.

Ignoring the doubts, the European Commission proposes to forge ahead with eyewateringly expensive initiatives designed to mitigate climate change. Key elements of this package include the extension of the Emissions Trading System (known internationally as “Cap’n’Trade"); the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM, an international extension of ETS); a framework for carbon capture and storage (which is not yet operational on an industrial scale); strict renewables targets; and a directive on CO2 emissions from cars.

The estimated cost of these programmes is 73 billion EUs a year across the EU by 2020. In the UK, it will cost 9 billion pounds a year by 2020. It is expected to force a million more households into fuel poverty. These polices are likely to raise average domestic fuel bills by up to 200 pounds a year, while the total economic cost would average around 600 pounds per family.

So why is the EU pursuing the climate issue with such vigour? Partly it is being used to win support from the ‘green’ lobby as part of the EU’s civil society initiatives to try and gain legitimacy via its favoured NGOs rather than through democratic means such as referenda.  Climate alarmism is also an excuse for yet more power-grabs. The whole issue is being used by the EU to take more power, not only over the environment and energy, but also over other areas ranging from immigration to foreign policy.

The simple truth is that the back-bone of Britain’s energy policy needs to be coal and nuclear energy, not the fantasy of renewable energy as pushed for by the European Union. Otherwise Britain will face an energy crisis with the very real prospect of the lights going out.” Read this fine analysis here.

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1984 Twenty-Five Years Later

Can Big Brother be green? Absolutely. If carbon dioxide were the planetary poison that global warming alarmists claim, then every aspect of our lives would be fair game for government control. Al Gore pushes this top down Orwellian approach here.

See larger CEI youtube video here.

See Embarrassment: UN IPCC ‘scientist’ Ben Santer promotes climate fears in kids video with ‘Simon the Hippo’ In it he attributes Kilimanjaro ice loss to “global warming”. He more appropriately should have used a donkey.

See Reality Check on Kilimanjaro here.
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Also now available some items that will gore your alarmist friends (part of the proceeds go to support Icecap):

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And “My carbon footprints are bigger than yours and plants love me for it” items here and here

A committee chairman is threatening House leaders to either give him a role in shaping climate change legislation or risk losing every Democratic vote on his panel when the bill hits the floor.

Rep. Collin Peterson (Minn.), the outspoken Democratic chairman of the Agriculture panel, has been making it well-known that he wants his committee to have full jurisdictional authority over whatever climate change bill emerges from Chairman Henry Waxman’s (D-Calif.) Energy and Commerce Committee.
But Peterson is no longer making idle threats. Peterson earlier this week met with the 26 Democrats on his panel and emerged with a “virtually unanimous” agreement that his committee members would stand with him in opposition to a climate change bill that didn’t adequately address the concerns of the agriculture industry, according to one of those Democrats.

“We’ve thrown a pitchfork in the sand,” the Democrat said. Peterson wants a full markup to alter what he and other committee Democrats think are inadequate provisions on everything from fuel standards to renewable energy definitions to regulations governing the trading of carbon derivatives created through a cap-and-trade system, all of which have been written into the Energy and Commerce bill. “We expect the bill to be re-referred to us by the [House] parliamentarian,” Peterson said in a brief interview Wednesday. “At this point my intention is to make it prohibit derivatives from being traded on this.”

That point alone would put Peterson and Waxman worlds apart. Waxman has said that his staff is in early discussions with Peterson’s staff about the jurisdictional question - and noted he has not talked to Peterson directly. But he has also said that he believes his bill has fully addressed the concerns of the agriculture community. Agriculture Committee Democrats, though, see it differently. “There’s been some things relating to agriculture that have been put together rather sloppily by the Energy Committee,” a Democrat on the Agriculture panel said. “If they don’t address those concerns, they’re not going to have the votes to pass this.” Read more here.

And in Politico, BLUE DOGS VS GREEN ZEALOTS: WAXMAN’S PYRRHUS VICTORY

By LISA LERER & PATRICK O’CONNOR, Politico, 22 May 2009

California Rep. Henry Waxman has spent most of the year catering to the concerns of other Democrats on his Energy and Commerce Committee. Now it’s everyone else’s turn.

Waxman won a long-sought legislative victory Thursday night with committee approval of his sweeping climate-change bill. But the nimble chairman still has to get over some rocky terrain before the bill - or one like it - ever becomes law. In the House, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel is threatening to sit on the legislation until his panel approves health care reform, and Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson is leading a rebellion by rural Democrats who believe the bill would create enormous new burdens for farmers and ranchers. And the Senate is ... well, the Senate.

“This stuff is going no place in the Senate,” a frustrated Peterson told reporters on Thursday. “They can do whatever they want with this, but I can tell you, there is no way this is going to pass.”

Chairman Emeritus of Energy and Commerce Committee, John Dingell (D-MI), calls cap and trade as it is: Nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax, and its a great big one.

See full size youtube quote here.

Also Ralph Nader on climate bill: “It’s not going to work. It’s too complex. It’s too easily manipulated politically” May 11, 2009 New York Times GreenInc. Blog.

Excerpt: Question: So what’s your reaction to the Waxman-Markey climate bill now on the table, which calls for cap-and-trade?  - Nader: I’m really astonished, because I would have thought they would have gone for a carbon tax. I mean, it’s not going to work. It’s too complex. It’s too easily manipulated politically. Right now, they’re having a battle over whether they can even auction the credits off for money. The industry doesn’t want auctions for money. So, they’re already having a battle right from the takeoff. I have to call Markey and see why did he ever buy into that.” See more here. H/T Climate Depot.

See larger image here courtesy Heritage.org

See larger CEI youtube video here.

See Embarrassment: UN IPCC ‘scientist’ Ben Santer promotes climate fears in kids video with ‘Simon the Hippo’ In it he attributes Kilimanjaro ice loss to “global warming”.

See Reality Check on Kilimanjaro here.
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Also now available some items that will gore your alarmist friends (part of the proceeds go to support Icecap):

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And “My carbon footprints are bigger than yours and plants love me for it” items here and here

Chairman Emeritus of Energy and Commerce Committee, John Dingell (D-MI), calls cap and trade as it is: Nobody in this country realizes that cap and trade is a tax, and its a great big one.

See full size youtube quote here.

Also Ralph Nader on climate bill: “It’s not going to work. It’s too complex. It’s too easily manipulated politically” May 11, 2009 New York Times GreenInc. Blog.

Excerpt: Question: So what’s your reaction to the Waxman-Markey climate bill now on the table, which calls for cap-and-trade?  - Nader: I’m really astonished, because I would have thought they would have gone for a carbon tax. I mean, it’s not going to work. It’s too complex. It’s too easily manipulated politically. Right now, they’re having a battle over whether they can even auction the credits off for money. The industry doesn’t want auctions for money. So, they’re already having a battle right from the takeoff. I have to call Markey and see why did he ever buy into that.” See more here. H/T Climate Depot.

See larger image here courtesy Heritage.org

See larger CEI youtube video here.

See Embarrassment: UN IPCC ‘scientist’ Ben Santer promotes climate fears in kids video with ‘Simon the Hippo’ In it he attributes Kilimanjaro ice loss to “global warming”.

See Reality Check on Kilimanjaro here.
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Also now available some items that will gore your alarmist friends (part of the proceeds go to support Icecap):

See full size display here.

And “My carbon footprints are bigger than yours and plants love me for it” items here and here