Green Energy
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Gallup: Concern About Environment Down – Americans Worry Least About Global Warming CNS: (CNSNews.com) -- Americans’ concern over environmental issues such as water and air pollution and extinction of species is down from last year, and the data show...
- No, Global Warming Did Not Cause The Storms, Says One Of The Met Office's Most Senior Experts
If the Global Warming people usually made this much sense in their proclamations from on high, I might start to believe in their "science". From the Daily Mail: One of the Met Office’s most senior experts yesterday made a dramatic intervention in the...
- 95% Of Climate Models Agree: The Observations Must Be Wrong
I’m seeing a lot of wrangling over the recent (15+ year) pause in global average warming…when did it start, is it a full pause, shouldn’t we be taking the longer view, etc.These are all interesting exercises, but they miss the most important point: the...
- Leaked Copy Of U.n. Climate Change Report Shows Agency Struggling To Explain Why Global Warming Has Been Non-existant Over Last 15 Years
An unreleased draft of the U.N.’s next major climate report reportedly states that scientists are more certain than ever that man’s actions are warming the planet — even as the report struggles to explain a slow-down in warming that climate skeptics...
- A Belief In Man-made Climate Change Is A 'fundamentalist Religion'
So says Prof Ian Plimer, climate change sceptic. In my view his arguments against CO2 being the cause of global warming are the most convincing so far. 1. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has no effect on climate above 50 parts per...
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White House: About That Global Warming Thing, Maybe We Oughta Call It A Disruption
Seriously, dudes, if you're into Obama, tell me, how do you have a "disruption" in weather? Does that mean, like, there was no weather for a little while.
Cuz, if so, that must have been a real trip. Sorry I didn't notice it.
From Weasel Zippers:
(Fox News) — From the administration that brought you “man-caused disaster” and “overseas contingency operation,” another terminology change is in the pipeline.
The White House wants the public to start using the term “global climate disruption” in place of “global warming” — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is.
White House science adviser John Holdren urged people to start using the phrase during a speech last week in Oslo, echoing a plea he made three years earlier. Holdren said global warming is a “dangerous misnomer” for a problem far more complicated than a rise in temperature.
The call comes as Congress prepares to adjourn for the season without completing work on a stalled climate bill. The term global warming has long been criticized as inaccurate, and the new push could be an attempt to re-shape climate messaging for next year’s legislative session.
“They’re trying to come up with more politically palatable ways to sell some of this stuff,” said Republican pollster Adam Geller, noting that Democrats also rolled out a new logo and now refer to the Bush tax cuts as “middle-class tax cuts.”
He said the climate change change-up likely derives from flagging public support for their bill to regulate emissions. He said the term “global warming” makes the cause easy to ridicule whenever there’s a snowstorm.
“Every time we’re digging our cars out — what global warming?” he said. “(Global climate disruption is) more of a sort of generic blanket term, I guess, that can apply in all weather conditions.”
It’s unclear why Holdren prefers “global climate disruption” over “climate change,” the most commonly used alternative to “global warming.
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Gallup: Concern About Environment Down – Americans Worry Least About Global Warming CNS: (CNSNews.com) -- Americans’ concern over environmental issues such as water and air pollution and extinction of species is down from last year, and the data show...
- No, Global Warming Did Not Cause The Storms, Says One Of The Met Office's Most Senior Experts
If the Global Warming people usually made this much sense in their proclamations from on high, I might start to believe in their "science". From the Daily Mail: One of the Met Office’s most senior experts yesterday made a dramatic intervention in the...
- 95% Of Climate Models Agree: The Observations Must Be Wrong
I’m seeing a lot of wrangling over the recent (15+ year) pause in global average warming…when did it start, is it a full pause, shouldn’t we be taking the longer view, etc.These are all interesting exercises, but they miss the most important point: the...
- Leaked Copy Of U.n. Climate Change Report Shows Agency Struggling To Explain Why Global Warming Has Been Non-existant Over Last 15 Years
An unreleased draft of the U.N.’s next major climate report reportedly states that scientists are more certain than ever that man’s actions are warming the planet — even as the report struggles to explain a slow-down in warming that climate skeptics...
- A Belief In Man-made Climate Change Is A 'fundamentalist Religion'
So says Prof Ian Plimer, climate change sceptic. In my view his arguments against CO2 being the cause of global warming are the most convincing so far. 1. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has no effect on climate above 50 parts per...