Steve Goddard @SteveSGoddard: Progressives don't have any decent ideas, so they make up fantasies about survival of the planet depending on their mindless superstitions. 8:24 PM - 23 Mar 2015
Warner Todd Huston / John Hawkins' Right Wing News:California Democrat Claims Global Warming Will Force Women to Become Prostitutes
I wasn't going to comment for a week but this is just too rich. The clue that global warming alarmism is part of a religious belief is that it can be used to explain anything. You could rewrite this as "Our evil use of fossil fuels is forcing our women into prostitution". Instead of "God did it", we now have "Gaia did it".
March 27, 2015 Major peer-review scandal causes withdrawal of 43 published scientific papers "The peer-review system, which is supposed to serve as a quality assurance system, allowing credentialed experts to pass judgment on new research before it is published, is breaking down. The latest in a series of scandals involves 43 papers, but more are expected to follow. Most of them were written by scholars at universities in China, but.... "the Committee on Publication Ethics, a multidisciplinary group that includes more than 9000 journal editors, issued a statement suggesting a much broader potential problem. The committee, it said, “has become aware of systematic, inappropriate attempts to manipulate the peer review processes of several journals across different publishers.” Those journals are now reviewing manuscripts to determine how many may need to be retracted..." Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/03/major_peerreview_scandal_causes_withdrawal_of_43_published_scientific_papers.html#ixzz3VgQCI9nY Suggestion to committee: Given that the climategate scandal included suggestions by the warmists hoaxers to influence the peer review process, maybe they should take a closer look at some of those "peer reviewed" papers.
Obama is going to undermine the entire U.S. economy to "cure" a non-existent problem... US offer for climate treaty: Up to 28 percent emissions cut http://www.wral.com/us-offer-for-global-climate-treaty-28-percent-emissions-cut/14549927/ In a highly anticipated announcement, the United States will offer a roughly 28 percent emissions cut as its contribution to a major global climate treaty nearing the final stages of negotiation, according to people briefed on the White House's plans. The U.S. plans to announce its commitment Tuesday, the informal deadline for nations to submit their contributions to the United Nations. Although the goal of 26 percent to 28 percent by 2025 isn't new — President Barack Obama first unveiled it last year during a trip to Beijing — the U.S. proposal has drawn intense interest from the vast majority of countries that have yet to announce how deeply they'll pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions as part of the treaty. Obama's pledge constitutes the opening offer by the U.S. as world leaders strive to reach a climate deal powerful and ambitious enough to prevent the worst effects of climate change. In the works for years, the treaty is set to be finalized in Paris in December. If it's successful, it will mark the first time all nations — not just wealthier ones like the U.S. — will have agreed to do something about climate change. As part of its proposal, known to climate negotiators as an Intended Nationally Determined Contribution, the U.S. will also assert that its contribution is both ambitious and fair, said the individuals briefed on the U.S. proposal, who requested anonymity because the proposal hasn't been announced. What metrics the U.S. will use to back up that claim is not yet clear. The European Union, one of the first parties to submit its contribution, pointed to per capita reductions in emissions to show how it is cutting its carbon footprint. But emissions per capita are far higher in the U.S., making it an inconvenient measure for the U.S. to use to show progress. (More at above url)
It's all politics, not science... Kerry accused of exaggerating role as senator in early global warming hearings http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...pation-as-senator-in-early/?intcmp=latestnews Secretary of State John Kerry is taking heat for exaggerating his role as a senator in organizing the chamber’s first climate-change hearings. Questions about Kerry’s repeated assertions that he helped organize and participated in the Senate hearings roughly 27 years ago resurfaced after a March 12 speech before the Atlantic Council, in Washington, D.C. “Climate change is an issue that is personal to me, and it has been since the 1980s, when we were organizing the very first climate hearings in the Senate,” Kerry told the audience. “Al Gore, Tim Wirth and a group of us organized the first hearings in the Senate on this, 1988. We heard Jim Hansen sit in front of us and tell us it’s happening now, 1988.” The Washington Post fact-checker concluded that Kerry at least exaggerated about his involvement and -- comparing his statements to recent tall tales by anchor Brian Williams -- gave him four “Pinocchios.” (More at above url)
Did Antarctica really have its warmest day on record? 'To put this in perspective, it would be the equivalent of taking a temperature measurement in Reykjavík, Iceland, and proclaiming that this measurement is indicative of the temperature of the Arctic region, or worse.' Analysis: Warmists hype allegedly hottest temp ever in Antarctica – ‘They pick a one day reading at one location as proof of continental warming, in defiance of overwhelming evidence to the contrary’
Oh.....so it IS the warmest year on record Global mean land-ocean temperature change from 1880–2012, relative to the 1951–1980 mean. The black line is the annual mean and the red line is the 5-year running mean. The green bars show uncertainty estimates. Source:NASA GISS